From Cannes -

   Three British directors take their films into Competition. Michael
   Winterbottom's "24 Hour Party People," co-funded by the Lottery
   through The Film Consortium, lines up alongside Ken Loach's "Sweet
   Sixteen" and former Palme d'Or winner Mike Leigh with his film "All
   Or Nothing."

   Film Council co-financed 'Tomorrow La Scala!' the feature debut of
   documentary filmmaker Francesca Joseph, receives its world premiere
   in Un Certain Regard. The film follows an opera company's performance
   of Stephen Sondheim's `Sweeney Todd' in a maximum-security prison
   using a chorus of lifers. `Tomorrow La Scala!' is a Home Movies
   production and is the first film to be made under the New Cinema
   Fund's joint venture with BBC Films for BBC Two. The film which stars
   Jessica Stevenson was produced by Christopher Collins and Ruth Caleb.

Another "Todd" news is that the San Francisco Symphony's concert
production will be televised by PBS on Halloween (wink, wink).
See http://www.pbs.org/kqed/demonbarber/ for cast, etc.

When I tried to get more "Tomorrow La Scala" information from the Times,
I ran into the new policy, requiring a fee of 40 pounds to use the site.
A specter is haunting the Web - the specter of money instead of eyeballs,
and the demise of free services.  It was fun while it lasted.

Janos Gereben/SF
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