Cygnet74

The official list of films screening at the Cannes Film Festival was released today...

IN COMPETITION:
Lemming Dominik Moll
A History of Violence David Cronenberg
L'enfant Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Where The Truth Lies Atom Egoyan
Free Zone Amos Gitai
Caché Michael Haneke
The Best of our Times Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Broken Flowers Jim Jarmusch
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Tommy Lee Jones
Bashing Masahiro Kobayashi
Peindre ou faire l'amour Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu
Sin City Robert Rodriguez
Battle in Heaven Carlos Reygadas
Kilimčtre Zéro Hiner Saleem
Election Johnny To
Quando sei nato non puoi piu nasconderti Marco Tullio Giordana
Last Days Gus Van Sant
Manderlay Lars von Trier
Shanghai Dreams Wang Xiaoshuai
Don't Come Knockin' Wim Wenders

OUT OF COMPETITION:
Chromophobia Martha Fiennes
Match Point Woody Allen
Joyeux Noel Christian Carion
Star Wars: Episode III George Lucas

tofu

I'm interested to see how the Johnnie To film does. Nice to see him doing crime movies again.

Giles

too bad Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Cafe Lumiere still doesn't have a US distributor and hasn't much played the US film festival circuit.

I wasn't impressed with either Throw Down or Breaking News what other films are available and better than the aforementioned films.

I can't wait to see Manderlay - am very curious to see how Bryce Dallas Howard plays the title role of Grace Margaret Mulligan

Phyre

It's nice to see To--the hardest working and one of the most talented filmmakers today--in competition. I thought his last two movies were pretty damn good.

If you are in NYC area Cafe Lumiere is having a limited run at the Anthology Film Archives this May.

PopcornTreeCt

Star Wars being on that list makes me chuckle. I guess it's cool to see Lucas chill out with a bunch of pretentious snobby people but his movie doesn't seem to fit.

Cygnet74

you're accusing all the filmmakers on that list of being pretentious? how did you arrive at that conclusion?

FinkPish

Dudé, wé all know that using accénts ovér your Es makés you automatically préténtious.

Cygnet74

interesting. so by figuring the ratio of accented letters to non-accented, one can determine the level of undeserved self-importance a film is likely to exhibit.

Sátántángo = 30% pretentious

RyoHazuki

Is Manderlay the part II in the America Sucks trilogy?

William Fuld

Yes

FinkPish

Exactly, plus look at the poster, Black & White. It's like it's saying, "Hey, I'm too good for color. Color is for the masses."

Cygnet74

yes. the focus is on slavery this time. [trailer]

RyoHazuki

Eh. That trailer doesn't really let me know who's directing it enough.

NatrlBornThrllr

I'm really eager to see these two:

Where The Truth Lies Atom Egoyan
Last Days Gus Van Sant

I'm always captivated by Gus Van Sant, even if I don't enjoy everything he does. That is, any picture he directs is worth a watch, in my opinion. As for "Where the Truth Lies," I'm about a week past watching "The Sweet Hereafter," the only film of Egoyan's that I've ever seen...and I was so thoroughly impressed that I'm soon going to seek out anything I can find with his name attached, with hopes that it'll live up to "Hereafter."

-JP