This week's edition of Film Weekly comes to you from the 62nd Cannes film festival, where British director and Cannes legend Ken Loach tells Jason Solomons about how his new film, Looking For Eric, came about. Loach tells Jason about being in the running for the Palme d'Or for the 10th time, directing Eric Cantona and why he can't stop working.
It is perhaps Loach's funniest film to date, in part due to the great performances he draws from Steve Evets, who plays (little) Eric Bishop to (big) Eric Cantona. Evets tells Jason about landing the role of a lifetime and how he'll deal with world attention at Cannes.
Then, Xan Brooks joins Jason to review the Disney/Pixar film Up, the first animation to open Cannes in its six decades, and to look forward to the battle of the auteurs as the likes of Pedro Almodóvar, Jane Campion and Lars von Trier fight for the Palme d'Or.
It's not all Cannes, though, as Jason also meets Charlie Kaufman, the scriptwriter behind such innovative films as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Kaufman discusses his ambitious directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, the importance of exploration, and why Synecdoche is a comedy to him.
