In less than a month’s time the 2012 Cannes Film Festival opens, celebrating its 65th Anniversary. In the wee hours of this morning the full line-up was announced and there’s plenty to get excited about. We have the full list for you here.
Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated Moonrise Kingdom opens the fest. Other notable films ‘In Competition’ include: David Cronenberg’s surreal looking Cosmopolis, Walter Salles’ Jack Kerouac adaptation On the Road and Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share.
Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) makes a Cannes return in the ‘Out of Competition’ section with Me and You. And I’m always interested to see what Takashi Miike (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai) brings to the cinematic table – this year it’s The Legend of Love & Sincerity. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Mekong Hotel also gets a ‘Special Screening’. You may remember that his last Cannes film, Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives, won top prize in 2010. Also David Cronenberg’s son Brandon makes it a family affair when he gets to screen his film Antiviral.
There’s a large North Amercian contingent this year, including two Matthew McConaughey films (The Paperboy and Mud). Yes, you read that right – two Matthew McConaughey films.
The festival runs from 16-27 May. We know the New Zealand International Film Festival peeps will be there, selecting the best for us to see in July/August. I can’t wait to hear what they choose. What I would do to be on that junket. Lucky so and sos.
So which films will be this year’s The Artist, The Tree of Life, Drive or Midnight in Paris? Here’s the full line-up:
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In Competition
Amour, Michael Haneke
The Angels’ Share, Ken Loach
Baad el mawkeaa, Yousry Nasrallah
Beyond The Hills, Cristian Mungiu
Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg
Holy Motors, Leos Carax
The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg
Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik
In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo
In the Fog, Sergei Loznitsa
Lawless, John Hillcoat
Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson (Opening Night Film)
Mud, Jeff Nichols
On the Road, Walter Salles
The Paperboy, Lee Daniels
Paradies: Liebe, Ulrich Seidl
Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas
Reality, Matteo Garrone
Rust And Bone, Jacques Audiard
Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo
You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Alain Resnais
Closing Night Film
Therese Desqueyroux, Claude Miller
Out of Competition
Hemingway & Gellhorn, Philip Kaufman
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Me and You, Bernardo Bertolucci
Un Certain Regard
7 Days in Havana, Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noe, Laurent Cantet
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, Koji Wakamatsu
Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
Confession Of A Child Of The Century, Sylvie Verheyde
Despues De Lucia, Michel Franco
La Pirogue, Moussa Toure
La Playa, Juan Andres Arango
Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan
Le Grand Soir, Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Les Chevaux De Dieu, Nabil Ayouch
Loving Without Reason, Joachim Lafosse
Miss Lovely, Ashim Ahluwalia
Mystery, Lou Ye
Student, Darezhan Omirbayev
Trois Mondes, Catherine Corsini
White Elephant, Pablo Trapero
Midnight Screenings
Dracula 3D, Dario Argento
The Legend of Love & Sincerity, Takashi Miike
Special Screenings
A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
The Central Park Five, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Der Mull Im Garten Eden, Fatih Akin
Journal De France, Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
Les Invisibles, Sebastien Lifshitz
Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, Laurent Bouzereau
Villegas, Gonzalo Tobal
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If you were going to Cannes, which of these films would you most want to see?
