Strong Hollywood Lineup for Deauville Film Fest
August 9, 2000 - 0:0
TEHRAN The 26th Deauville Festival of American Cinema opens next month in the coastal resort of Deauville, France with a guest list likely to make organizers of the Cannes Glitzfest pale with envy, AFP reported.
Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Nick Nolte, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Lange, James Garner, Donald Sutherland and Tommy Lee Jones are only some of the talent scheduled to parade at the northern French resort from September 1 to 10.
From small beginnings, the Deauville Festival has grown steadily to become a launchpad for U.S. productions in Europe, most of the films screening for the first time outside the United States and some receiving their world premiere.
The festival features major studio productions set to invade Europe's multiplexes later in the autumn alongside a parallel "panorama" section that showcases low- to medium-budget movies from the flourishing independent sector.
In the first category come Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort Space Cowboys and the box-office hit war-movie U-571 starring Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton, while art house aficionados will head for David Mamet's State and Main or Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, glimpsed last May at the Cannes Film Festival.
The competitive section composition yet to be announced is open only to the independents and often throws up new names.
Thus last year's winner Being John Malkovich by the previously unknown Spike Jonze went on to become a major box-office success, not least in France.
This year Deauville is organizing special tributes to actors Eastwood, Samuel L. Jackson and Susan Sarandon, and to the 81-year-old Italian producer Dino de Laurentiis.
It will also stage a day-long tribute to musicals, of both the Hollywood and Broadway stage variety, and musical stars such as Joel Grey, Gregory Hines, Leslie Caron and the legendary former child actor (now nearly 80) Mickey Rooney are among the promised lineup.
In a country which boasts probably the largest number of film festivals in the world, Deauville has established itself as the premier French festival after Cannes, and with its narrow focus on American products is guaranteed to attract a strong Hollywood contingent.
Cannes has a much higher media profile and benefits from its glamorous Riviera setting. However its vocation as a showcase for world cinema and its broad preference for independent or art house movies means that it has traditionally experienced difficulty in attracting A list actors in quantities comparable to the rival events in Berlin and Venice.
Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Nick Nolte, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Lange, James Garner, Donald Sutherland and Tommy Lee Jones are only some of the talent scheduled to parade at the northern French resort from September 1 to 10.
From small beginnings, the Deauville Festival has grown steadily to become a launchpad for U.S. productions in Europe, most of the films screening for the first time outside the United States and some receiving their world premiere.
The festival features major studio productions set to invade Europe's multiplexes later in the autumn alongside a parallel "panorama" section that showcases low- to medium-budget movies from the flourishing independent sector.
In the first category come Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort Space Cowboys and the box-office hit war-movie U-571 starring Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton, while art house aficionados will head for David Mamet's State and Main or Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, glimpsed last May at the Cannes Film Festival.
The competitive section composition yet to be announced is open only to the independents and often throws up new names.
Thus last year's winner Being John Malkovich by the previously unknown Spike Jonze went on to become a major box-office success, not least in France.
This year Deauville is organizing special tributes to actors Eastwood, Samuel L. Jackson and Susan Sarandon, and to the 81-year-old Italian producer Dino de Laurentiis.
It will also stage a day-long tribute to musicals, of both the Hollywood and Broadway stage variety, and musical stars such as Joel Grey, Gregory Hines, Leslie Caron and the legendary former child actor (now nearly 80) Mickey Rooney are among the promised lineup.
In a country which boasts probably the largest number of film festivals in the world, Deauville has established itself as the premier French festival after Cannes, and with its narrow focus on American products is guaranteed to attract a strong Hollywood contingent.
Cannes has a much higher media profile and benefits from its glamorous Riviera setting. However its vocation as a showcase for world cinema and its broad preference for independent or art house movies means that it has traditionally experienced difficulty in attracting A list actors in quantities comparable to the rival events in Berlin and Venice.