PARNASSUS! THIRST! ANTICHRIST! VENGEANCE! Cannes Lineup Announced!
The official selections for the 2009 edition of the Cannes Festival were announced today - Director's Fortnight announcements will be coming tomorrow - and it's a pretty staggering selection, featuring new films from Sam Raimi, Ang Lee, Lars Von Trier, Johnnie To, Park Chan Wook, Gaspar Noe, Jan Kounen, Bong Joon Ho, Pen-En Ratanaruang and the proverbial more, more, more. Check the complete list below the break!
Festival de Cannes
Opening Film
"Up"
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, U.S.
Closing Film
"Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky"
Director: Jan Kounen, France
In Competition
"Bright Star"
Director: Jane Campion, Australia-U.K.-France
"Spring Fever"
Director: Lou Ye, China-France
"Antichrist"
Director: Lars von Trier, Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy
"Enter the Void"
Director: Gaspar Noe, France
"Face"
Director: Tsai Ming-liang, France-Taiwan-Netherlands-Belgium
"Les herbes folles"
Director: Alain Resnais, France-Italy
"In the Beginning"
Director: Xavier Giannoli, France
"A Prophet"
Director: Jacques Audiard, France
"The White Ribbon"
Director: Michael Haneke, Germany-Austria-France
"Vengeance"
Director: Johnnie To, Hong Kong-France-U.S.
"The Time That Remains"
Director: Elia Suleiman, Israel-France-Belgium-Italy
"Vincere"
Director: Marco Bellocchio, Italy-France
"Kinatay"
Director: Brillante Mendoza, Philippines
"Thirst"
Director: Park Chan-wook, South Korea-U.S.
"Broken Embraces"
Director: Pedro Almodovar, Spain
"Map of the Sounds of Tokyo"
Director: Isabel Coixet, Spain
"Fish Tank"
Director: Andrea Arnold, U.K.-Netherlands
"Looking for Eric"
Director: Ken Loach, U.K.-France-Belgium-Italy
"Inglourious Basterds"
Director: Quentin Tarantino, U.S.
"Taking Woodstock"
Director: Ang Lee, U.S.
Out Of Competition
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
Director: Terry Gilliam, Canada-France
"The Army of Crime"
Director: Robert Guediguian, France
"Agora"
Director: Alejandro Amenabar, Spain
Midnight Screenings
"A Town Called Panic"
Director: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Belgium
"Ne te retourne pas"
Director: Marina de Van, France-Belgium-Luxembourg-Italy
"Drag Me to Hell"
Director: Sam Raimi, U.S.
Special Screenings
"Petition"
Director: Zhao Liang, China
"L'epine dans le coeur"
Director: Michel Gondry, France
"Min ye"
Director: Souleyumane Cisse, France-Mali
"Jaffa"
Director: Keren Yedaya, Israel-France-Germany
"Manila"
Director: Adolfo Alix Jr., Raya Martin, Philippines
"My Neighbor, My Killer"
Director: Anne Aghion, U.S
Un Certain Regard
"Samson & Delilah"
Director: Warwick Thornton Australia
"Adrift"
Director: Heitor Dhalia Brazil
"The Wind Journeys"
Director: Ciro Guerra, Colombia
"Demain des l'aube"
Director: Denis Dercourt, France
"Irene"
Director: Alain Cavalier, France
"Independance"
Director: Raya Martin, Philippines-France-Germany
"Le Pere de mes enfants"
Director: Mia Hansen-Love, France-Germany
"Dogtooth"
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece
"Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats"
Director: Bahman Ghobadi Iran
Eyes Wide Open"
Director: Haim Tabakman, Israel
"Mother"
Director: Bong Joon-ho, South Korea
"The Silent Army"
Director: Jean van de Velde, Netherlands
"To Die Like a Man"
Director: Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal
"Police, Adjective"
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania
"Tales from the Golden Age"
Directors: Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru, Romania
"Tale in the Darkness"
Director: Nikolay Khomeriki, Russia
"Tzar"
Director: Pavel Lounguine, Russia-France
"Nymph"
Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand
"Precious"
Lee Daniels, U.S.
