IFCTV.com - 2003 Cannes Film Festival

Date: May 14-25, 2003
 


   Alessandro Nivola
 Lisa Cholodenko
  
  Credits  
 
Director Lisa Cholodenko
Screenplay Lisa Cholodenko
Photo Wally Pfister
Editing Steve Nelson
Decor Stephanie Gilliam
Costume
Music Craig Wedren
Cast Frances McDormand Christian Bale Kate Beckinsale.
Production Susan Stover
ANTIDOTE FILMS
 
  LAUREL CANYON
102 min, 2002, United States		  
  Synopsis
Laurel Canyon tells the story of a straight-laced PhD student who moves to Los Angeles with his conservative fiancée to stay at his mother’s house in Laurel Canyon. Complications ensue when his mother Jane, a free-spirited record producer, is there helping a band create a hit single, sleeping with the lead singer, and dancing to the beat of her own rock’n roll morality... 		 
  Review
 		  
  Director
Lisa Cholodenko was born in 1964 and has been working in films since 1990. She has been assistant editor on many films, including John Singleton’s Boyz N’ The Hood, Beeban Kidron’s Used People and Gus Van Sant’s To Die For. While studying directing and screenwriting at Columbia University, she worked with Milos Forman and directed two shorts : Souvenir, which won a prize at the London Film Festival in 1994 and was seen in many festivals, and Dinner Party, which won the BFI’s Channel 4 Prize and was distributed in Great Britain, France and Switzerland. Her first feature, High Art, was screened at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in 1998 and won the best screenplay award at the Sundance Festival. 		 
 

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