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Can't say there are many surprises with today's list, we discussed possible spots for Jacques Rivette, Michael Moore, Werner Herzog, Michele Placido, Todd Solondz, Jaco van Dormael, Patrice Chereau, Fatih Akin, Claire Denis and John Hillcoat's The Road (yes, there is a Santa Clause) beforehand.

Richard Shepard is set to continue working in awkward comedy formulas, after The Matador and The Hunting Party he'll be taking on a remake of an Israeli film for Overture films.

For the most part, it appears that the festival is combining the old auteurs (Resnais) along with the new (Andrea Arnold), and have once again come to help out & support a filmmaker such as Lou Ye, who was banned from filmmaking in China for a couple of years for coming to Cannes with the uncensored Summer Palace (2006). This year he brings Spring Fever - about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings. Here are some thoughts on some of the announcements.

Going North: Fukunaga offers daring ride into the eye of the storm.

Following in the path of 2005's Best Foreign Picture Oscar winning director Gavin Hood (he would go from Tsosti to Rendition), it is now Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's turn to take on what will be a huge Hollywood project if Tom Cruise decides to finally make this project among his acting gigs for 2009.