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Screen International profiles this year s Cannes contenders - click on sales company name to be taken to relevant websiteIN COMPETITIONAlexandraDir: Alexander SokurovIn Competition for three consecutive years with Telets, Russian Ark and Father And Son, Sokurov returns to Cannes with Alexandra, about an elderly woman who visits Chechnya where her grandson, a Russian army of
stanley cup ficer, is based.Int l sales: Rezo Films Int l, 33 1 42 46 46 30The BanishmentDir: Andrey ZvyagintsevRussian director Zvyagintsev picked up the Venice Golden Lion in 2003 for The Return, about a father s relationship with his sons. Zvyagintsev again focuses on family, but in his $4m The Banishmen
stanley italy t the protagonists are husband and wife. Helicotronc and Ren TV are producing.Int l sales: Intercinema, 1 7 495 255 90 52BreathDir: Kim Ki-dukKorean director Kim returns to Cannes, havi
stanley cup ng showcased The Bow in Un Certain Regard in 2005. Breath tells the story of a death-row inmate who falls in love with another man s wife. The $500,000 project was produced by Kim Ki-duk Film in association with sales agent Cineclick Asia and local distributor Sponge.Int l sales: Cineclick Asia, 82 2 538 0211Death ProofDir: Quentin TarantinoCannes favourite Tarantino has extended Death Proof, his segment of the Grindhouse double feature with Robert Rodriguez, especially for Cannes. The car-chase action movie stars Kurt Russell, Eli Roth and Rose McGowan.Int l sales: The Weinstein Company, 1 646 862 3400The Diving Bell And The B Vvot Haeberle quits board of F.A.M.E.
The argument about possessory credits and the creative heft of the screenwriter is almost as old as the fil
stanley cup m industry itself.It predates the squabble between Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles over the writing credit on Citizen Kane - which the director wanted all for himself; it underpinned the on-set shouting matches between Frances Marion the highest paid writer of the 1920s and MGM honcho Irving Thalberg; it was already bubbling under in the 1910s, when writers contracts first featured the insidious clause the studio, hereinafter referred to as the author .R
stanley cup onald Harwood, the author of The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, took up the good fight again at the recent Chelt
stanley cup enham Screenwriters Festival, stating, with some justification, that directors have an inclination to sweep away the writer, and the media buy into it .Knockout scriptI watched On The Waterfront again the other evening. I had not seen it for more than 20 years, and my memory of the film centred on Marlon Brando s performance. This time round, it was Budd Schulberg s script that stood out.In particular, I was floored by the economy of the opening. Within the first four minutes we have everything we need to carry us through the film. The setting - Hoboken docks, New Jersey - is not only presented visually but characterised as a place of poverty and corruption, where a cowed workforce is kept in place by mobster-like union bosses who are willing to murder to ensure obedience.The inciting incident kicks
