The Cannes Film Festival Blog

COMPETITION Feature films Huacho d'AlejandroFernández Almendras (Chili / France / Allemagne) Ordinary People de Vladimir Perisic (Serbie / France) Lost Persons Area de Caroline Strubbe (Belgique) Adieu Gary de Nassim Amaouche (France) Mal día para pescar (Bad Day to Go Fishing) d'Alvaro Brechner (Uruguay/ Espagne) Sirta la gal ba (Whisper with the Wind) de Shahram Alidi (Irak) Altiplano de Peter Brosens et Jessica Woodworth (Belgique / Allemagne / Pays-Bas) Short films Together d'Eicke Bettinga (Allemagne / Royaume-Uni) Noche adentro de Pablo Lamar (Paraguay) Runaway de Cordell Barker (Canada) C’est gratuit pour les filles de Marie Amachoukeli & Claire Burger (France) Tulum (La virée) de Dalibor Matanic (Croatie) Logorama de François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy,Ludovic Houplain (H5) (France) Slitage (Seeds of the Fall) de Patrick Eklund (Suède) SPECIAL SCREENINGS FEATURE FILMS Opening N...

This just in: "The Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola will present his latest film "Tetro" in the "Director's Fortnight" program in Cannes. Partly autobiographic, "Tetro" tells the story of a young US-Italian trying to find his brother in Argentina and features former male model Vincent Gallo in a leading role. Long-time rumored to be part of the official Festival program, Coppola chose to present his movie in this "parallel program" that was created at the end of the 60's as an alternative to the "official" program. These days, the "Director's fortnight" tries to present movies that are less "austere" than the typical selections in the official program, according the program Director. Another surprise is the presence of two Hollywood stars in the program: Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor are playing the leading roles in "I love You Philip Morris", a film that has yet to find a d...

Opening Film: Peter DOCTER - UP - Out of Comp.- 1h35 THE COMPETITION Pedro ALMODÓVAR - LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (Broken Embraces) - 2h09 Andrea ARNOLD - FISH TANK - 2h02 Jacques AUDIARD - UN PROPHÈTE - 2h35 Marco BELLOCCHIO - VINCERE - 2h08 Jane CAMPION - BRIGHT STAR - 2h00 Isabel COIXET - MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO -1h44 Xavier GIANNOLI - A L’ORIGINE - 2h30 Michael HANEKE - DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon) - 2h24 Ang LEE - TAKING WOODSTOCK -1h50 Ken LOACH - LOOKING FOR ERIC - 1h59 LOU Ye - CHUN FENG CHEN ZUI DE YE WAN (Spring Fever) - 1h55 Brillante MENDOZA - KINATAY - 1h45 Gaspar NOE - ENTER THE VOID - 2h30 PARK Chan-Wook - BAK-JWI - (Thirst) - 2h13 Alain RESNAIS - LES HERBES FOLLES - 1h36 Elia SULEIMAN - THE TIME THAT REMAINS - 1h45 Quentin TARANTINO - INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - 2h40 Johnnie TO - VENGEANCE - 1h48 TSAI Ming-liang - VISAGE (face)- 2h18 Lars VON TRIER - ANTICHRIST - 1h44 Closing Film: Jan KOUNEN - COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY - Out of Comp. - 2h00 ] UN CERT...

Just one day before the announcement of the official Cannes Film Festival program on April 23, the rumors are flying on what films will be shown. Here's a quick list of films that are expected to be shown in Cannes: "Looking For Eric" by Ken Loach "Antichrist" by Las Von Trier "Vengeance" by Johnnie To "Hadewijch" by Bruno Dumont "Les herbes folles" by Alain Resnais "The Limits of Control" by Jim Jarmush "A Serious Man" by the Coen brothers "The Informant" by Steven Soderbergh "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus" by Terry Gilliam, starring late Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell More tomorrow! Have you heard any rumors on the program? Let us know below!

Critics week program to follow on april 24

Photo: Brad Pitt by wvs - Some rights reserved Brad Pitt's new movie "Inglourious Basterds" will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, according to reports by English newspaper The Guardian and film trade magazine Variety . Directed by Quentin Tarantino, who won the Cannes Festival's highest prize "The Golden Palm" for "Pulp Fiction", the controversial movie - also starring Mike Myers of "Austin Powers" fame as well as Diane Krueger - tells the story of a group of Jewish-American soldiers in France during the second world-war and has been described by Tarantino as a "spaghetti-western but with World War II iconography".