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Thursday
23Apr2009

62nd Cannes Film Festival announces lineup

Official poster for the 62nd Cannes Film FestivalAnd what a lineup we've got at the 62nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival this year! Let's dive right in. As previously announced, Pete Docter's 3D Pixar flick "Up" will open the festival and screen out of competition. The festival will open its doors May 13 and will run through May 24. The closing film will be Jan Kounen's "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky."

Here are the films fighting for the top prizes: Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds," Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock," Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric," Lars von Trier's "Antichrist," Gaspar Noe's "Enter the Void," Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces" (Los Abrazos Rotos), Jane Campion's "Bright Star," Tsai Ming-Liang's "Visage," Alain Resnais' "Les Herbes Folles," and Johnnie To's "Vengeance."

Also screening in competition are "Fish Tank" by Andrea Arnold, "Vincere" by Marco Bellocchio, "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo" by Isabel Coixet, "The White Ribbon" (Das Weisse Band" by Michael Haneke, "Un Prophete" by Jacques Audiard, "A L'Origine" by Xavier Giannoli, "Kinatay" by Brillante Mendoza, "The Time That Remains" by Elia Suleiman, and "Bak-JWI" by Park Chan-Wook.

The feature film jury this year will be presided by Isabelle Huppert. Also on-board are Asia Argento, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lee Chang-Dong, James Gray, Hanif Kureishi, Shu Qui and Robin Wright Penn.

Here are the films playing out of competition: Alejandro Amenabar's "Agora," Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" and Robert Guediguian's "L'Armee du Crime." Midnight screenings include Sam Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell."

And here is the rest of the lineup:

UN CERTAIN REGARD

"Samson & Delilah"
"Adrift"
"The Wind Journeys"
"Demain des l'aube"
"Irene"
"Air Doll"
"Independance"
"Le Pere de mes enfants"
"Dogtooth"
"Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats"
"Eyes Wide Open"
"Mother"
"The Silent Army"
"To Die Like a Man"
"Police, Adjective"
"Tales from the Golden Age"
"Tale in the Darkness"
"Tzar"
"Nymph"
"Precious"

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

"Petition"
"L'epine dans le coeur"
"Min ye"
"Jaffa"
"Manila"
"My Neighbor, My Killer"

Reader Comments (1)

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