The official selection for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival has been announced, and it looks like a strong line-up for the world's most famous film festival. Stand out names include the opener, Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Gus Van Sant's Restless, and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. In the ever-so-slightly less worthy camp -- sorry guys -- there's also Rob Marshall's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to look forward to, as well as Jodie Foster's The Beaver, which is bound get people talking. As with almost all things Cannes, may we point you in the direction of the ultimate authority in all things film festivals-related, Damon "Damo" Wise, whose first blog you can check out here, you lucky things. So check out Damo's blog for more details, but in the meantime, here's the whole list, midnight screenings and all, for you to peruse and dissect. Opening film: Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
Main competition:
Pedro Almodóvar - La Piel que Habito
Bertrand Bonello - L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la Maison Close
Alain Cavalier - Pater
Joseph Cedar - Hearat Shulayim
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne - Le Gamin au Vélo
Aki Kaurismäki - Le Havre
Naomi Kawase - Hanezu No Tsuki
Julia Leigh - Sleeping Beauty
Maïwenn Le Besco - Polisse
Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
Radu Mihaileanu - La Source des Femmes (The Source)
Takashi Miike - Ichemei (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai)
Nanni Moretti - Habemus Papam
Lynne Ramsay - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Markus Schleinzer - Michael
Paolo Sorrentino - This Must be the Place
Lars Von Trier - Melancholia
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Un certain regard
Opening film:
Gus Van Sant - Restless
Bakur Bakuradze - The Hunter
Andreas Dresen - Halt auf Freier Strecke
Bruno Dumont - Hors Satan
Sean Durkin - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Robert Guédiguian - Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro
Oliver Hermanus - Skoonheid
Sangsoo Hong - The Day He Arrives
Cristián Jiménez - Bonsái
Eric Khoo - Tatsumi
Ki-duk Kim - Arirang
Nadine Labaki - Et Maintenant On Va Ou?
Catalin Mitulescu - Loverboy
Hong-jin Na - Yellow Sea
Gerardo Naranjo - Miss Bala
Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra - Trabalhar Cansa
Pierre Schoeller - L'exercice de L'etat
Ivan Sen - Toomelah
Joachim Trier - Oslo, August 31
Out of competition:
Xavier Durringer - La Conquête
Jodie Foster - The Beaver
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Rob Marshall - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Midnight screenings:
Peter Ho-Sun Chan - Wu Xia
Everardo Gout - Dias de Gracia
Special screenings:
Frederikke Aspöck - Labrador
Rithy Panh - Le Maître des Forges de L'enfer
Michael Radford - Michel Petrucciani
Christian Rouaud - Tous au Larzac
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