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Encyclopedia > 2004 Cannes Film Festival

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Feature film competition

Jury

Quentin Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Oscar-winning screenwriter. ... Emmanuelle Béart at Cannes in 2000 Emmanuelle Béart (born August 14, 1963) is a French actress. ... Edwidge Danticat (pronunciation Ed-WEEDJ Dan-tih-CAH) (b. ... Tilda Swinton Katherine Mathilda Swinton (born November 5, 1960), better known as Tilda Swinton, is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. ... Turner as private detective V.I. Warshawski Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... Benoît Poelvoorde Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor, born in Namur (Belgium) on September 22, 1964. ... Tsui Hark (Chinese: 徐克; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsü Ko) (born Tsui Man-kong (徐文光) on February 15, 1950) is a New Wave film director in Hong Kong who is also a highly influential producer, often likened to Steven Spielberg for a similar galvanizing effect on his countrys cinematic scene. ... Peter von Bagh (b. ...

Films in Competition

2046 is a Hong Kong movie (filmed in Shanghai) written and directed by Wong Kar-wai and released in 2004. ... Wong Kar-wai, (Traditional Chinese: 王家衛; Simplified Chinese: 王家卫; pinyin: Wáng Jiāwèi; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; born July 17, 1958) is a Hong Kong based film director known for his unique visual style of romantic art films. ... Movie poster of Clean Clean is a 2004 film directed by French director Olivier Assayas, starring Nick Nolte and Maggie Cheung. ... Olivier Assayas (born January 25, 1955) is a French film director and screenwriter. ... Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. ... The Edukators (German: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei; literally the fat years are past, translated within the film as the days of plenty are over) is a German-Austrian film made by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and released in 2004. ... Hans Weingartner was born in Feldkirch, Austria. ... Tony Gatlif (born September 10, 1948, Algiers, Algeria) is a French film director who also works as a scriptwriter, actor, and producer. ... Fahrenheit 9/11 is an award-winning and controversial documentary film by American filmmaker and anti-war activist Michael Moore, which had a general release in the United States and Canada on June 25, 2004 in the run up to that years presidential election. ... Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American political-activist, a film director, author, social commentator, and political humorist. ... Batou, the protagonist. ... The Ladykillers is a 1955 British film. ... Joel and Ethan Coen at Cannes 2001 Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly known as The Coen Brothers have written and directed numerous successful films, such as comedies O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski, as well as darker film noir dramas such as Fargo, Millers... The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (DVD) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers was a 2004 film about the life of Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewiss book of the same name. ... Stephen Hopkins is a film director. ... Život je čudo in Serbian, or Life is a Miracle in English, is a Serbian drama movie directed by Emir Kusturica in 2004. ... Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир Кустурица; IPA: ) (born November 24, 1954) is a Bosnian Serb filmmaker born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (today Bosnia and Herzegovina). ... Categories: 2004 films | Drama films | French films | Movie stubs ... Agnès Jaoui (born October 19, 1964 in Antony, France) is a French screenwriter, film director and actress. ... The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish title: Diarios de motocicleta) is an Academy Award-winning biographical film about the young Ernesto Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado and their travels across South America in the 1950s. ... Walter Moreira Salles Jr. ... Lucrecia Martel (Salta, Argentina, December 14, 1966 - ) is an Argentine film director. ... Nobody Knows (誰も知らない; Dare mo shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. ... Hirokazu Koreeda (是枝裕和 Koreeda Hirokazu, born in 1962 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. ... Oldboy (Hangul:올드보이) is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook based on a Japanese manga of the same name, written by Minegishi Nobuaki and Tsuchiya Garon. ... Park Chan-wook (born August 23, 1963) is a South Korean director and screenwriter. ... Shrek 2 is the 2004 sequel to the 2001 computer-animated DreamWorks Pictures film Shrek that was released in the United States on May 19, 2004. ... Andrew Adamson is a New Zealand-born film director based mainly in Los Angeles, California, USA, where he made the blockbuster animation films, Shrek and Shrek 2 for which he received an Academy Award nomination. ... Kelly Adam Asbury (born January 15, 1960 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American director, writer, actor and author. ... Conrad Vernon, born 1974, is an American director, writer, and voice actor, probably best known for his work on Shrek and Shrek 2. ... Tropical Malady (Thai: สัตว์ประหลาด or Sud pralad) is a 2004 Thai romance and psychological drama film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and produced by Fabrica. ... Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล, born July 16, 1970 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director. ... Hong Sang-soo (born 25 October 1960 in Seoul) is a contemporary and highly-regarded Korean film director. ...

Films out of Competition

Yousry Nasrallah (born 1952 in Cairo) is an Egyptian film director. ... Bad Santa is a 2003 film directed by Terry Zwigoff, produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Billy Bob Thornton as the title character and Tony Cox (best known for Friday and Me, Myself and Irene) as his partner-in-crime. ... Terry Zwigoff (born 1948 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker based in San Francisco. ... Breaking News (Chinese: ) is a 2004 Hong Kong film directed by Johnnie To. ... Johnnie To Kei-fung (杜琪峰) (born April 22, 1955) is a Hong Kong film director and producer. ... Dawn of the Dead is a loose, reimagined remake of George A. Romeros 1978 film. ... Zack Snyder. ... De-Lovely movie poster. ... Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director. ... Jacques Richard (born 7 October 1952 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada - died 8 October 2002) was a professional ice hockey centre who played in the NHL for the Atlanta Flames, Buffalo Sabres, and Quebec Nordiques. ... Abbas Kiarostami (عباس کیارستمی in Persian) (born June 22, 1940 in Tehran) is one of the most influential and controversial post-revolutionary Iranian filmmakers and one of the most highly celebrated directors in the international film community of the last decade. ... Kill Bill is the fourth film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino. ... Quentin Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Oscar-winning screenwriter. ... Bad Education (Spanish: La mala educación) is a 2004 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar about two reunited childhood friends (and lovers) in the vein of an Alfred Hitchcock murder mystery. ... Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (pronounced ) (born September 24, 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. ... Notre musique (Our Music) is a 2004 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. ... Jean-Luc Godard (photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a Franco-Swiss filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying... House of Flying Daggers (Chinese: 十面埋伏; Pinyin: shí miàn mái fú), is a 2004 action/romance movie directed by Zhang Yimou. ... Zhang Yimou (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Zhāng Yìmóu;  ) (born November 14, 1951) is an internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker and cinematographer. ... Troy is a movie that was released on May 14, 2004 about the Trojan War, which is described in Homers Iliad and other Greek myths as having taken place in Anatolia (modern Turkey) around the 13th or 12th century BC; however, the plot differs greatly from Homer (see deviations... Wolfgang Petersen Wolfgang Petersen (born March 14, 1941 in Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German film director. ... Alexandra Cassavetes (born September 21, 1965), nickname Xan, is an American actress and director. ...

Awards

Fahrenheit 9/11 is an award-winning and controversial documentary film by American filmmaker and anti-war activist Michael Moore, which had a general release in the United States and Canada on June 25, 2004 in the run up to that years presidential election. ... Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American political-activist, a film director, author, social commentator, and political humorist. ... Oldboy (Hangul:올드보이) is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook based on a Japanese manga of the same name, written by Minegishi Nobuaki and Tsuchiya Garon. ... Park Chan-wook (born August 23, 1963) is a South Korean director and screenwriter. ... Maggie Cheung in Clean Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (張曼玉; pinyin: Zhāng Mànyù; Cantonese: dzoeng1 maan6 juk9/juk2) (born September 20, 1964) is a multi award-winning actress from Hong Kong. ... Movie poster of Clean Clean is a 2004 film directed by French director Olivier Assayas, starring Nick Nolte and Maggie Cheung. ... // Personal datails Yuya Yagira (柳楽優弥 Yagira Yūya) born March 26th, 1990 in Tokyo, Japan Movies Nobody Knows (2003?, 2004) He plays the role of the 12 year old Akira. Little Randy and Shining Boy (2005) He plays the lead role in this story about friendship between a boy and an... Nobody Knows (誰も知らない; Dare mo shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. ... Tony Gatlif (born September 10, 1948, Algiers, Algeria) is a French film director who also works as a scriptwriter, actor, and producer. ... Agnès Jaoui (born October 19, 1964 in Antony, France) is a French screenwriter, film director and actress. ... Jean-Pierre Bacri (born May 24, 1951, Castiglione, Alger, France (now Bou Ismail, Algeria) is a French actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui. ... Categories: 2004 films | Drama films | French films | Movie stubs ... Tropical Malady (Thai: สัตว์ประหลาด or Sud pralad) is a 2004 Thai romance and psychological drama film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and produced by Fabrica. ... Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล, born July 16, 1970 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director. ...

See also


  Results from FactBites:
 
Cannes International Film Festival - News - Times Topics - The New York Times (980 words)
The critics in Cannes are a notoriously contentious bunch, but something close to a consensus has formed that this festival has new vitality at 60.
By MANOHLA DARGIS and A. The festival is marking its 60th incarnation with a burst of nostalgic self-congratulation.
Scott, the chief film critic for The Times, said that Michael Moore's win of the top prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival was stunning because the festival has been historically unfriendly to non-fiction work.
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