Lynch Heads to Cannes
January 12th, 2002
Director David Lynch, riding high on the critical success of his latest film MULHOLLAND DRIVE, has been named jury president for the 55th Cannes Film Festival.
Lynch won the Palme d'Or in 1990 for his film WILD AT HEART, and shared the best director award with Ethan Coen last year.
Says Lynch: "I am at once excited, nervous, and fully aware of the responsibility that falls on me in accepting the honor of the (jury) presidency of the Festival de Cannes, the world's greatest film festival. I'll do my best to pursue the festival's great tradition of revealing and celebrating world cinema in a spirit of competition and friendship."
Gilles Jacob, the festival's president, jokes that Lynch's name was ill-fitting for an artist who disliked judging his peers. "'Lynx' would be more fitting, to illustrate his natural elegance and the acute eye of one of the leading creators in world cinema," Jacob said.
Last year's jury president was actress Liv Ullmann, who stepped in to replace Jodie Foster when the actress accepted the role in David Fincher's/David Koepp's THE PANIC ROOM (which has already been tapped for a Cannes slot this year).
Some past winners of the Palme d'Or include: LA DOLCE VITA, TAXI DRIVER, PULP FICTION, TASTE OF CHERRY, APOCALYPSE NOW and BARTON FINK.
-- Darwin Mayflower (darwinmayflower@yahoo.com)
Lynch won the Palme d'Or in 1990 for his film WILD AT HEART, and shared the best director award with Ethan Coen last year.
Says Lynch: "I am at once excited, nervous, and fully aware of the responsibility that falls on me in accepting the honor of the (jury) presidency of the Festival de Cannes, the world's greatest film festival. I'll do my best to pursue the festival's great tradition of revealing and celebrating world cinema in a spirit of competition and friendship."
Gilles Jacob, the festival's president, jokes that Lynch's name was ill-fitting for an artist who disliked judging his peers. "'Lynx' would be more fitting, to illustrate his natural elegance and the acute eye of one of the leading creators in world cinema," Jacob said.
Last year's jury president was actress Liv Ullmann, who stepped in to replace Jodie Foster when the actress accepted the role in David Fincher's/David Koepp's THE PANIC ROOM (which has already been tapped for a Cannes slot this year).
Some past winners of the Palme d'Or include: LA DOLCE VITA, TAXI DRIVER, PULP FICTION, TASTE OF CHERRY, APOCALYPSE NOW and BARTON FINK.
-- Darwin Mayflower (darwinmayflower@yahoo.com)
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