Eastwood's "Changeling" And Soderbergh's "Che" Vie For Cannes Prize

CANNES, France — With all of his Academy Awards and other Hollywood honors, Clint Eastwood is not necessarily in the market for more prizes. He'll never shy away from a contest, though, including the one at the world's most prestigious film showcase. Eastwood's missing-child drama "Changeling" was among 22 movies in the running for the top honor, the Palme d'Or, on Sunday at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Some established filmmakers choose to screen their movies out of competition at Cannes. Not Eastwood. "It seems like if you're going to come to a film festival that has a competition, you might as well be in the competition," Eastwood said. "To play it out of competition is kind of playing it safe. It's like saying, 'OK, we're above that.' I'm not above that." Among the films "Changeling" is up against are Steven Soderbergh's "Che," his two-part, four-hour-plus epic about Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, a saga that received mixed reviews; "Lorna's Silence," a drama ... (link)