Cannes. The lineup.

There it is, all streaming down one long page: the lineup for the 58th Cannes Film Festival (May 11 through 22, albeit with a Rencontre on May 10 during which the future of festivals in general will be discussed).

Following introductory remarks by fest director Gilles Jacob ("the festival continues its work as land-clearer, surveyor") and Jury President Emir Kusturica (like his Kustendorf, "the Festival de Cannes is... an international village that is devoted to sharing, dedicated to cinematopgraphic and personal encounters. The spectators always prove to be greedy, curious and demanding") are a list of events, Thierry Frémaux's handy Cannes FAQ, a note on the market (Marché du Film) and the big lists:

• The features in Compétition and Hors Compétition.
• Shorts in Compétition (no anchored link on that one, but really, there they are).
• Un Certain Regard.
• Cinéfondation (see Frémaux's FAQ).
• And for all of you lining up interviews, the press agents.

Dominik Moll's Lemming will open the Compétition, and then, the race begins:

• David Cronenberg's A History of Violence.
• Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's L'enfant.
• Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.
• Amos Gitai's Free Zone.
• Michael Haneke's Caché.
• Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Best of Our Times.
• Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers.
• Tommy Lee Jones's directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
• Masahiro Kobayashi's Bashing.
• Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu's Peindre ou faire l'amour.
• Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City (no, really).
• Carlos Reygadas's Batalla en el Cielo (Battle in Heaven).
• Hiner Saleem's Kilomètre Zéro.
• Johnny To's Election.
• Marco Tullio Giordana's Quando sei nato non puoi piú nasconderti.
• Gus Van Sant's Last Days.
• Lars von Trier's Manderlay.
• Wang Xiaoshuai's Shanghai Dreams.
• Wim Wenders's Don't Come Knockin'.

There are, of course, some very interesting films screening out of competition and in Un Certain Regard and so on, but there's a first glance.

Posted by dwhudson at April 19, 2005 8:48 AM