_(CANNES!@

Wow, wow, wow, the official list of films which will be playing at the Festival de Cannes 2009 which will take place from the 13th to 19th of May has been released. So many interesting filmmakers have new films coming up, Pedro Almodóvar, Michael Haneke, Park Chan-Wook, Isabel Coixet, the list goes on and on. Which of these films will be tremendously good and which will dissapoint, will there be any big surprises? I'm excited. If only I could be there to watch them all :(


In Competition

* Pedro Almodovar - Broken Embraces
* Andrea Arnold - Fish Tank
* Jacques Audiard - Un Prophete
* Marco Bellocchio – Vincere
* Jane Campion - Bright Star
* Xavier Giannoli – A L’Origine
* Isabel Coixet – Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
* Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon
* Ang Lee – Taking Woodstock
* Ken Loach – Looking for Eric
* Lou Ye - Spring Fever
* Brillante Mendoza – Kinatay
* Gaspar Noe – Enter The Void
* Park Chan-Wook – Thirst
* Alain Resnais – Les Herbes Folles
* Elia Suleiman – The Time That Remains
* Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
* Johnnie To – Vengeance
* Tsai Ming-liang – Face
* Lars Von Trier – Antichrist

Un Certain Regard

* Bong Joon Ho - Mother
* Alain Cavalier - Irene
* Lee Daniels - Precious
* Denis Dercourt- Demain Des L’Aube
* Heitor Dhalia - Adrift
* Bahman Ghobadi - Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats
* Ciro Guerra - The Wind Journeys
* Mia Hansen-Love - Le Pere De Mes Enfants
* Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Propescu and Ioanna Uricaru - Tales From The Golden Age
* Nikolay Khomeriki - Tale In The Darkness
* Yorgos Lanthimos -Dogtooth
* Pavel Lounguine - Tzar
* Raya Martin - Independencia
* Corneliu Porumboiu - Police, Adjective
* Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - Nymph
* Joao Pedro Rodrigues - To Die Like A Man
* Haim Tabakman - Eyes Wide Open
* Warwick Thornton - Samson & Delilah
* Jean Van De Velde - The Silent Army
* Hirokazu Kore-Eda - Air Doll

Closing Film

* Jan Kounen – Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Out of Competition

* Robert Guediguian - L’Armee Du Crime
* Alejandro Amenabar - Agora
* Terry Gilliam The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus

Midnight Screenings

* Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar - A Town Called Panic
* Sam Raimi - Drag Me To Hell
* Marina De Van – Ne Te Retourne Pas

Special Screenings

* Anne Aghion - My Neighbor, My Killer
* Adolfo Alix Jr and Raya Martin - Manila
* Souleymane Cisse - Min Ye
* Michel Gondry - L’Epine Dans Le Coeur
* Zhao Liang - Petition
* Keren Yedaya - Jaffa