Dogma A “Leading Contender” For Cannes…

March 29th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Robert Newhart

  • From Yahoo.com today comes a story about the shoe-ins and other likely contenders for competition in this May’s festival…And Dogma was pretty high up in that list…
…..Among the other leading contenders for the Competition are Atom Egoyan’s thriller “Felicia’s Journey,” based on a William Trevor novel; Alan Parker’s adaptation of Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes” with Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle; Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley” starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Cate Blanchett; Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” with Ben Affleck; Aleksandr Sokhurov’s “Moloch,” about Hitler and Eva Braun; Patricia Rozema’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park,” featuring Embeth Davidtz; and Jim Jarmusch’s “Ghost Dog” with Isaach de Bankole, Forest Whitaker, Damon Whitaker and Paul Diomede….

Cannes takes place from May 12-23. Deadline for entries is April the 22nd. From what we’ve heard the View Askew gang plan to have as complete a version as possible submitted by that deadline. We’ll keep our eyes open.

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