"Juno," "Michael Clayton," "The Savages," "Knocked Up" and "Lars and the Real Girl" have received WGA nominations for original screenplay, while "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Into the Wild" and "Zodiac" have taken adapted screenplay nods. Documentary noms went to "The Camden 28," "Nanking," "No End in Sight," "The Rape of Europa," "Sicko" and "Taxi to the Dark Side." Winners will be announced Feb. 9. ...
The days are long at the Cannes Film Festival. Between press conferences and short film promotions, there is always a job to be done. The warm sunny days are long and everyone who is anyone is working tirelessly. As the day wears, the sun begins to set, and evening is upon the town. Then the magic of the film festival begins, and it does so at the heart of the festival: the red carpet. Each night at the film festival, there are 3 films played in sequence, 2 of which are in the official festi...
With Zodiac, presented in Competition, David Fincher unveils one of his works in Cannes for the first time. Over ten years after the release of Seven, the director makes a second descent into the world of serial killers with an exploration of Zodiac, the criminal who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s, always managing to elude police. To accomplish this ambitious endeavor, based on the book by Robert Graysmith, the reporter who spent years tracking Zodiac, Fincher called upon three sure-...