The Fox and the Child is the next film from Luc Jacquet, director of March of the Penguins. He's getting into Jean-Jacques Annaud territory this time, making this into a clearly fictional narrative (as opposed to the not-so-clearly fictional narrative of his Penguin number).
You can download the trailer now.
This is England is the latest film from Shane Meadows. If you want, you can see Meadows play darts with Mark Kermode this Saturday night on BBC2's The Culture Show. Kermode is clearly a dangerous man - it was while he was interviewing Werner Herzog that the sniper struck. And it was during his Five Live review of March of the Penguins that I almost broke my fist, foot and teeth on the radio.
I wonder if either Kermode or Meadows will get a dart stuck in their head, like Shaun, or in their back, like my sister? I'll have to tune in and see, I suppose. Quite exciting.
The trailer for This is England has now gone online at the website for the PR company responsible for flogging this film to the UK (and you can download it with a right-click, should you desire). Wot no Paddy Considine?
Ocean's 13, Earth and The Valley of Elah are reportedly battling it out for the opening night spot at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Earth is a feature length offshoot of the BBC's Planet Earth series (What?!? Is this a remix, deleted scenes or best of compilation? Sounds like it might be a bit of a swizz) and wouldn't have existed in this form at all if all that March of the Penguins ballyhoo hadn't happened, mark my words.
Other films expected to screen include Grind House, No Country for Old Men, Mr. Lonely, Into the Wild and Paranoid Park. At least two of those weren't directed by Harmony Korine, Sean Penn or Gus van Sant, so it's not all bad.
No news on Son of Rambow yet, but I'd love to see it in competition.
