By MCN Editor editor@moviecitynews.com
Cannes 2012 Line-Up Announced
(Cannes website here.)
Competition
Opening Film
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson
After The Battle (Baad el mawkeaa), Yousry Nasrallah
Amour, Michael Haneke
The Angels’ Share, Ken Loach
Beyond the Hills, Cristian Mungiu
Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg
Holy Motors, Leos Carax
The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg
In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo
In the Fog, Sergei Loznitsa
Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik
Lawless, John Hillcoat
Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami
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 (Vous n’avez encore rien vu), Alain Resnais
Closing Film
Therese Desqueyroux, Claude Miller
Un certain regard
Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
Confession of a Child of the Century, Sylvie Verheyde
Despues de Lucia, Michel Franco
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, Koji Wakamatsu
Le grand soir, Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan
Les Chevaux de Dieu, Nabil Ayouch
Loving Without Reason, Joachim Lafosse
Miss Lovely, Ashim Ahluwalia
Mystery, Lou Ye
La Pirogue, Moussa Toure
La Playa, Juan Andres Arango
7 Days in Havana, Laurent Cantet, Benicio del Toro, Julio Medem, Gaspar Noé, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Pablo Trapero
Student, Darezhan Omirbayev
Trois mondes, Catherine Corsini
White Elephant (Elefante Blanco), Pablo Trapero
Out-of-Competition
Hemingway & Gellhorn, Philip Kaufman
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Me and You, Bernardo Bertolucci
Midnight
Dario Argento’s Dracula, Dario Argento
The Legend of Love & Sincerity, Takashi Miike
Special Screenings
The Central Park Five, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Journal de France, Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
Les Invisibles, Sebastien Lifshitz
Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Der Mull im Garten Eden, Fatih Akin
A musica segundo Tom Jobim, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, Laurent Bouzereau
Villegas, Gonzalo Tobal
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No PT Anderson and Malick isn’t surprising.
The absence of Woody is, however.
Very disappointed that the new Assayas and Wong Kar Wai films won’t be ready in time for Cannes.
Maybe later in the 2012 festival season?