Source: CRI
04-23-2009 10:06
BEIJING, April 23 -- Ang Lee's new film, "Taking Woodstock," is high on the media's shortlist for the top gong at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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| The first poster of "Taking Woodstock." (Photo: CRIENGLISH.com) |
The jury panel will announce the final lineup for Cannes' main competitions - including such major honors as Best Picture and Best Director - on Wednesday, French local time. Ang Lee has not yet confirmed any nomination for his film, a second homosexual-themed picture following his Oscar-winning success, "Brokeback Mountain" in 2005.
Lee's Woodstock film is based on the book, "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life" - a memoir by Elliot Tiber, the man who enabled the Woodstock music festival to take place in 1969. The three-day Woodstock event not only changed Tiber's life, but became a turning point in American culture.
The director is also in talks to direct the film adaptation of "Life of Pi," a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel, telling the story of an Indian boy, Pi, who survived almost 300 days on a boat with a Bengal tiger in the Pacific ocean after a shipwreck.
