Cannes: Competition Line-Up

First reaction: non-surprise. Many of the films mentioned below were tagged to be amongst the final choices – and the ones that I thought were going to break into the fest (namely a couple of American pics) look to be headed to Italy’s Venice film fest in the fall. Two films that I won’t be checking out are the ones that I’ve already seen (albeit, 10 minutes more of Deathproof could be interesting) and Zodiac a film that could have been featured apart from the comp titles. Here is the complete list below.

Opening film:

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS – WONG Kar Wai

4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days)
– Cristian MUNGIU
ALEXANDRA – Alexander SOKOUROV
AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE – Fatih AKIN
BREATH – KIM Ki Duk
LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR – Christophe HONORÉ
DEATH PROOF – Quentin TARANTINO
IMPORT EXPORT – Ulrich SEIDL
IZGNANIE (The Banishment) – Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV
THE MAN FROM LONDON – Béla TARR
MOGARI NO MORI (The Mourning Forest) – Naomi KAWASE
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN – Joel & Ethan COEN
PROMISE ME THIS – Emir KUSTURICA
LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON – Julian SCHNABEL
SECRET SUNSHINE – LEE Chang-dong
STELLET LICHT – Carlos REYGADAS
PARANOID PARK –  Gus VAN SANT
PERSEPOLIS – Marjane SATRAPI, Vincent PARONNAUD
TEHILIM – Raphaël NADJARI
UNE VIEILLE MAÎTRESSE – Catherine BREILLAT
WE OWN THE NIGHT – James GRAY
ZODIAC – David FINCHER

Out of Competition:
Michael MOORE SICKO
Steven SODERBERGH OCEAN’S THIRTEEN
Michael WINTERBOTTOM A MIGHTY HEART

Midnight Screenings:
Olivier ASSAYAS BOARDING GATE
Abel FERRARA GO GO TALES
Catherine OWENS & Mark PELLINGTON U2 3D

Special Screenings:
Leila CONNERS PETERSEN & Nadia CONNERS 11TH HOUR (Le Dernier virage)
Ken BURNS & Lynn NOVICK THE WAR (La Guerre)
Nicolas PHILIBERT RETOUR EN NORMANDIE
WANG Bing HE FENGMING (Chronicle of a Chinese Woman)

60th Anniversary Film: To Each His Own Cinema
Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan & Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yimou.

60th Anniversary Tributes:
Jane BIRKIN BOXES
Claude LELOUCH ROMAN DE GARE
Ermanno OLMI CENTOCHIODI
Volker SCHLÖNDORFF ULZHAN

Cannes Classics – Documentaries on Filmmaking:
Anne-Marie FAUX & Jean-Pierre DEVILLERS MAURICE PIALAT, L’AMOUR EXISTE
Mimi FREEDMAN, Leslie GREIF BRANDO
Mike KAPLAN LINDSAY ANDERSON, NEVER APOLOGIZE
Todd McCARTHY PIERRE RISSIENT

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION:
Mark ALBISTON RUN New-Zealand 15’
Tim Thaddeus CAHILL THE OATE’S VALOR United States 14’
Antonio CAMPOS THE LAST 15 United States 15’
Anthony CHEN AH MA Singapore 14’ (Grandma)
Olivier HEMS RÉSISTANCE AUX TREMBLEMENTS France 15’
Grzegorz JONKAJTYS ARK Poland 8’
Elisa MILLER VER LLOVER Mexico 13’
Kyros PAPAVASSILIOU TO ONOMA TOU SPOURGITIOU Cyprus 15’ (The Name of the Sparrow)
Erik ROSENLUND SPEGELBARN Sweden 5’ (Looking Glass)
Marco VAN GEFFEN HET ZUSJE Netherlands 9’ (My Sister)
YANG Hae-hoon MY DEAR ROSSETA South Korea