Cannes. Lineup.

First, click and take a look at that poster. If that doesn't put a smile on your face...

Anyway, the lineup. The buzz was in tune: Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights will indeed open the Cannes Film Festival (May 16 through 27).

Also lined up:

• Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite.

• Catherine Breillat's Une Vieille Maitresse.

Updated through 4/23.

• Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men.

• Abel Ferrara's Go Go Tales.

• David Fincher's Zodiac.

• James Gray's We Own the Night.

• Christophe Honore's Les Chansons d'amour.

• Naomi Kawase's Mogari No Mori.

• Kim Ki-duk's Breath.

• Emir Kusturica's Promise Me This.

• Lee Chang-Dong's Milyang (Secret Sunshine).

• Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days.

• Raphael Nadjari's Tehilim.

• Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis.

• Carlos Reygadas's Luz silenciosa (Silent Light).

• Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park.

• Julian Schnabel's Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).

• Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export.

• Aleksandr Sokurov's Alexandra.

• Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.

• Béla Tarr's The Man from London.

• Andrey Zvyagintsev's Izgnanie (The Banishment).

And Denys Arcand's L'Âge des ténèbres will wrap the festivities.

Screening out of competition: Michael Moore's Sicko, Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Thirteen and Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart.

The feature films jury: Stephen Frears (prez), Maggie Cheung, Toni Collette, Maria de Medeiros, Sarah Polley, Marco Bellocchio, Orhan Pamuk, Michel Piccoli and Abderrahmane Sissako.

CineÌ?fondation and short films jury: Jia Zhang-ke, Niki Karimi, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, JMG Le Clezio and Dominik Moll.

Un Certain Regard:

• Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's Le Rêve de la nuit d'avant (Bad Habits).

• Carmen Castillo's Calle Santa Fe (Santa Fe Street).

• Chung Lee Isaac's Munyurangabo (Liberation Day).

• Lola Doillon's Et toi t'es sur qui?.

• CeÌ?sar Charlone and Enrique Fernandez's El Baño del Papa.

• Eran Kolirin's Bikur Hatizmoret.

• Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely.

• Kadri Kousaar's Magnus.

• Li Yang's Mang Shan (Blind Mountain).

• Daniele Luchetti's Mio Fratello é Figlio Unico (My Brother Is An Only Child).

• Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) - California Dreamin' (Endless).

• Jaime Rosales's La Soledad (Fragments of Loneliness).

• Barbet Schroeder's L'Avocat de la Terreur.

• CeÌ?line Sciamma's Les Pieuvres.

• Robert Thalheim's Am Ende kommmen Touristen (And Along Come Tourists).

• Ekachai Uekrongtham's Kuaile Gongchang (Pleasure Factory).

More titles, more events, more sections: indieWIRE.

Comments and notations so far: Boyd van Hoeij at european-films.net.

Updates, 4/20: The Guardian's Xan Brooks: "British cinema was effectively shut out of the Cannes film festival with the announcement that no domestic titles are to feature in this year's competition."

Simon Crerar's headline in the London Times: "Americans dominate Cannes line-up."

Deutsche Welle (in English) on Fatih Akin's entry: "His film tells the story of six people whose lives take unexpected turns. As he did in Head-On, Akin explores the often emotionally laden points where Turkish and German culture intersect."

"[W]ith due respect to a very good film festival, it seems anxious to become more irrelevant to the American marketplace every year." David Poland explains.

Jeffrey Wells hears why Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream won't be at Cannes - and a bit more about the film, too.

Geoffrey Macnab picks out the films to look forward to... "But why - Winterbottom aside - the absence of Brits? Given that Ken Loach won the Palme d'Or last year, this perhaps shouldn't be a cause for concern. Then again, it is always at least a slight embarrassment for the UK film industry when there are no local movies to cheer on."

Updates, 4/21: Nathaniel R comments on every film lined up for the Competition.

Glenn Kenny's got notes on some of those films - and on the films he thought might make it but didn't.

Update, 4/23: Fabien Lemercier has a quick overview of other goings on during the festival at Cineuropa.

Posted by dwhudson at April 19, 2007 5:33 AM