The Cannes Film Festival has announced its full line-up, which you can see below:
IN COMPETITION
24 City – Jia Zhangke
Adoration – Atom Egoyan
Changeling – Clint Eastwood
Che - Steven Soderbergh
Un Conte de noel – Arnaud Desplechin
Daydreams – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Delta – Kornel Mundruczo
Il Divo – Paolo Sorrentino
Gomorra – Matteo Garrone
La Frontiere de l'aube – Philippe Garrel
Leonera – Pablo Trapero
Linha de Passe – Daniela Thomas
La mujer sin cabeza – Lucrecia Martel
My Magic – Eric Khoo
The Palermo Shooting – Wim Wenders
Serbis – Brillante Mendoza
The Silence of Lorna – Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
Waltz With Bashir – Ari Folman
OUT OF COMPETITION
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Steven Spielberg
Kung Fu Panda – Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
The Good, the Bad, the Weird – Kim Jee-woon
Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Woody Allen
There are some good surprises there. It had been thought that Steven Soderbergh would be absent from the event, due to still finishing both his Che Guevara films. What we're not 100% sure of is whether he's showing both or just the first. It's listed as Che, but the two films are officially titled The Argentine and Guerilla (unless we've missed a title change). Hopefully, it's the pair. We'll let you know for sure as soon as we know. Update: Variety is saying that both films will be screened.
Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut should also be a hot ticket. The screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and others bows with Synecdoche, New York stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a theatre director whose autonomic functions begin to shut down during the creation of his magnum opus.
The debut of Woody Allen's next is another surprise, since he was thought to have withdrawn from the running last week. New films by Wim Wenders and Atom Egoyan are also reasons to be, well, maybe not cheerful, but very interested.
It's a shame not to see the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading and David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on the list, since both had been mentioned as strong possibilities to appear. But you can't have everything.
The festival runs from 14-25 May.
Which films on the list are you most intrigued by?