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First footage of Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Daniel Herrera — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:56:46 +0000

With this years Cannes Film Festival fully underway and many of this years most anticipated films having already been screened, films such as Park Chan Wook’s Thirst and UP, but today we get the first real look at the late Heath Ledger’s last performance in director Terry Gilliams The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

Thus far the film has been generating good buzz so it will be interesting what the Cannes crowd thinks of the film when its screens this week in competition.

Check out the clip below of Heath Ledger in Parnassus as well as clips from all other films being screened at the festival such as Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds,Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void, Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces and Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock to name a few.

If you do not feel like watching all of the footage which runs just shy of half an hour, the scene from Dr. Parnassus is at the 21.26 mark.

Check out the montage HERE

Source: Festival De Cannes

Cannes Film Festival lineup revealed!!

Daniel Herrera — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:55:20 +0000

One of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, has just revealed its full lineup today and rest assure it is as good as expected. In the mix are big studio releases, as well as, the smaller more intimate dramas that usually take home the big award, the Palm D’ Or. Notable screenings include the late Heath Ledger’s last film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Pixar’s UP, Park Chan-wook’s Thirst, Sam Raimi’s Drag me to Hell, and Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora.

This years lineup for the Cannes Film Festival:

OPENING
“Up,” U.S., Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

CLOSING
“Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky,” France, Jan Kounen

IN COMPETITION
“Bright Star,” Australia-U.K.-France, Jane Campion
“Spring Fever,” China-France, Lou Ye
“Antichrist,” Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy, Lars von Trier
“Enter the Void,” France, Gaspar Noe
“Face,” France-Taiwan-Netherlands-Belgium, Tsai Ming-liang
“Les Herbes folles,” France-Italy, Alain Resnais
“In the Beginning,” France, Xavier Giannoli
“A Prophet,” France, Jacques Audiard
“The White Ribbon,” Germany-Austria-France, Michael Haneke
“Vengeance,” Hong Kong-France-U.S., Johnnie To
“The Time That Remains,” Israel-France-Belgium-Italy, Elia Suleiman
“Vincere,” Italy-France, Marco Bellocchio
“Kinatay,” Philippines, Brillante Mendoza
“Thirst,” South Korea-U.S., Park Chan-wook
“Broken Embraces,” Spain, Pedro Almodovar
“Map of the Sounds of Tokyo,” Spain, Isabel Coixet
“Fish Tank,” U.K.-Netherlands, Andrea Arnold
“Looking for Eric,” U.K.-France-Belgium-Italy, Ken Loach
“Inglourious Basterds,” U.S., Quentin Tarantino
“Taking Woodstock,” U.S., Ang Lee

OUT OF COMPETITION
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” Canada-France, Terry Gilliam
“The Army of Crime,” France, Robert Guediguian
“Agora,” Spain, Alejandro Amenabar

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“A Town Called Panic,” Belgium, Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar
“Ne te retourne pas,” France-Belgium-Luxembourg-Italy, Marina de Van
“Drag Me to Hell,” U.S., Sam Raimi

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Petition,” China, Zhao Liang
“L’epine dans le coeur,” France, Michel Gondry
“Min ye,” France-Mali, Souleyumane Cisse
“Jaffa,” Israel-France-Germany, Keren Yedaya
“Manila,” Philippines, Adolfo Alix Jr., Raya Martin
“My Neighbor, My Killer,” U.S., Anne Aghion

Source: Ion Cinema

Heath Ledger’s Oscar to be given to Michelle Williams

Daniel Herrera — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:15:02 +0000

After his magnificent villainous Oscar winning performance in The Dark Knight, questions arose as to what would happen with Ledger’s Oscar after the said win. Before his presumed Oscar win, Heath Ledger’s father Kim Ledger had publicly stated that he would keep his son’s Oscar, and hand it over to Ledger’s daughter “down the line”. But according to the Academy’s rules in case of a winner’s death, the Oscar must be given to the actor’s next of kin or sold back to the Academy for 10 dollars.

Now, the L.A Times have just reported that the Oscar will now be returned to Michelle Williams, Heath Ledger’s ex, to keep until his daughter Matilda is 18, to which it would then pass on to her. The Times stated: “We expect a representative of the Ledger estate to bring the statuette in tomorrow [or soon thereafter] so that the engraved plate can be affixed,” she said. “Soon after that, we expect the statuette [with engraved plate] to be delivered to Michelle Williams.”

Actor Heath Ledger was previously nominated for an Oscar for his role in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, for which he won Best Actor at the New York Film Critics Awards.

Source: Digital Spy