The official selection for entries in this year's Cannes Film Festival have just been announced.

These include: Jane Campion's BRIGHT STAR, Michael Haneke's DAS WEISSE BAND (aka The White Ribbon), Ken Loach's LOOKING FOR ERIC and Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS.

Some exciting films will also be shown out of competition includes Terry Gilliam 's THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS and Michel Gondry's L'EPINE DANS LE COEUR.

The feature film jury president this year is the ever wonderful Isabelle Huppert (our favourite actress bar none).

We have to say that it seems like a particularly strong competition this year, the festival is the highlight of the film festival calendar, and it will run this year frm the 13th to the 24th May.

Labels: Cannes, Ken Loach, Terry GIlliam

In one of the more astonishing revelations in cinema of recent years, it has come to light that former Manchester United legend Eric Cantona is to star in Ken Loach's, next movie Looking For Eric, and before you ask, it is not a martial arts movie.

Loach's trademark secrecy has meant that not too much has been let out of the bag about the project so far, but filming started last month in Manchester. What has also been revealed is that the film was based on conversations Loach and his screen writer Paul Laverty had with Cantona himself. There has also been rumours that Cantona may get involved in a some kind of production role in the movie.

Since giving up football in the late 1990s, Cantona has been carving out a career for himself as a movie actor and also a director.

All of us here at alt-flix are big fans of Loach's work, and are interested in how the film with two such genius' will finally turn out. It is just sad that Brian Glover is no longer around to star as Bobby Charlton in the film (as he did in Loach's 1968 classic Kes).

If you want to know more about Ken Loach's work go to our alt-flix Ken Loach director guide. You can also pick up his DVDs there too - if you want.

Labels: Eric Cantona, Ken Loach, Looking For Eric