Out director Francoise Ozon to debut as film fest....

Gay director Francoise Ozon ("Water Drop on Burning Rocks," "8 Women" and "Under the Sand" has been tapped to premiere his film "Angel" as the closing night film at next week’s Berlin Film Festival. The film stars Charlotte Rampling as an author who climbs to the upper echelons of British society The delicious Rampling and the superhot Ozon have previously worked together on "Sand" as well as "Swimming Pool."
I don't see my paper sending me to Berlin to interview Ozon but I do hope to meet him sometime down the film festival road.
Berlin is the first major European film festival of 2007, its program blends major Hollywood names with productions large and small from around the world. It runs Feb. 8-18. The 22 movies competing for the top Golden Bear award include De Niro's "The Good Shepherd," starring Matt Damon as an agent in the early days of the CIA, and Soderbergh's "The Good German," with George Clooney as an American journalist lured into a murder mystery in post-World War II Berlin.