Sensing opportunity, Olivier de Richoufftz, the Alsatian tourism director, is banging pots about the fact that no matches will be played in Alsace; he's even sending a bright yellow bus around France to spread the word, hyping his region's clear skies, blue lakes and medieval fairs.
The director arrived in Cannes banging the drum for his countrymen back in Tehran and lobbying for the release of the dissident film-maker Jafar Panahi, who was arrested after he was reported to be planning a movie about last year's disputed elections.
Wolfe is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, a performing-arts organization, and is the associate professor of music composition at the Steinhardt School at New York University.
A highlight of the segments I heard was the post-Minimalist "Cruel Sister," by Julia Wolfe (with Mr. Gordon and David Lang, the third artistic director of Bang on a Can), inspired by an old English ballad about two sisters vying for a man's love, until the dark-haired sister pushes her fair-haired sibling into the sea.
Two months ago Bulthaup turned the company's reins over to the 37-year-old Derks, a former marketing director of Bang & Olufsen, the classy Danish maker of sound systems.
Geoff Girvitz, Director at Bang Fitness.
They need not have worried, for the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director proved the perfect partner to take Iron Man into the stratosphere at a point when other comic book sagas have traditionally taken a nosedive.
Reunited with his Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director Shane Black when Jon Favreau stepped aside after the first two Iron Man blockbusters, Robert Downey Jr has lost none of his allure in the title role.
Instead, the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director delivered the series' best instalment so far via a perfectly-pitched twist that comes about as close as the superhero genre will ever get to its very own Crying Game moment.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director Shane Black will take charge of the espionage thriller Cold Warrior, about an old school spy who comes out of retirement to help a younger colleague deal with an imminent terrorist threat orchestrated by the Russians.
