Cannes: The Official Slate
Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 9:00AM It's afternoon in Paris but bright and early here in NYC and the official Cannes lineup has been announced. In 28 days Baz Luhrmann and his undoubtedly enormous Bazmark posse will be hitting the Croisette for the opening night film The Great Gatsby. Immediately following that debut reactions will explode chaotically all over the web with unvariably less art-directed beauty than the fireworks in the film.
But here's what'll actually be competing for the Palme D'Or and assorted main jury prizes.
IN COMPETITION
- Behind The Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
- Borgman (Alex Van Warmerdam)
- Un Chateau En Italie (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)
- La Grande Bellezza (Paolo Sorrentino)
- Grisgris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
- Heli (Amat Escalante)
- The Immigrant (James Gray)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Jeune Et Jolie (Francois Ozon)
- Jimmy P (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud Despallieres)
- Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
- Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
- The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
- Soshite Chichi Ni Naru (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- Tian Zhu Ding (Zhangke Jia)
- Venus In Fur (Roman Polanski)
- La Vie D'Adele (Abdellatif Kechiche)
- Wara No Tate (Takashi Miike)
Which of those films are you bullish on for prizes and/or your own impending fandom? Out of competition and more after the jump...
For those keeping score the James Gray picture The Immigrant, which stars Marion Cotillard, was once Untitled and then it was Lowlife but at least now we know it's finished.
CLOSING FILM
- Zulu (Jérôme Salle)
OUT OF COMPETITION
- All Is Lost (J.C Chandor)
- Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet)
It'll be interesting to see if JC Chandor can capitalize on the success of his Margin Call debut. But why is Caunet, a popular director/actor in France (and Ms Cotillard's significant other) outside the competition in his homeland?
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Also frequently known as "The Section Which Often Houses The Best Films Which Then Prompt "Why Wasn't It In The Main Slate?" Griping
- Anonymous (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof)
- As I Lay Dying (James Franco)
- Bends (Flora Lau)
- The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
- Death March (Adolfo Alix Jr)
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
- Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski)
- L'Image Manquante (Rithy Panh)
- L'Inconnu Du Lac (Alain Guiraudie)
- La Jaula De Oro (Diego Quemada)
- Miele (Valeria Golino)
- Norte, Hangganana Ng Kasaysayan (Lav Diaz)
- Omar (Hany Abu-Assad)
- Les Salauds (Claire Denis)
- Sarah Prefere La Course" (Chloe Robichaud)
MIDNIGHT
- Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
- Monsoon Shootout (Amit Kumar)
SPECIAL SCREENING
- Max Rose (Daniel Noah)
- Weekend Of A Champion (Roman Polanski)
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (Stephen Frears)
- Stop The Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini)
- Seduced & Abandoned (James Toback)
- Otdat Konci (Taisia Igumentseva)
- Bombay Talkies (Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar)
Which films are you most anxious to see? No fair saying "all of the above"
Reader Comments (30)
The Bling Ring and Nebraska. Only God Forgives coming into a close third.
I will always be excited by the mention of a new movie by Desplechin, the Coens, Denis, Farhadi, Kechiche and Winding Refn.
Though I'm very confused as to why Claire Denis is relegated to Un Certain Regard.
Ozon and Farhadi first and foremost. The Immigrant is interesting as well. James Gray is a good filmmaker who has flirted with greatness at times. He's especially good with actors. I would love for this to be a home run.
the past, definitely.
I hope we get more "don't show, tell" from asghar farhadi (just came up with that, but I guess it sort of clumsily explains what I loved about his three previous pictures).
The Farhadi and Refn have to be top of the list! And the Liberace biopic.
I'm interested and anxious and excited to see/hear about Venus in Fur. I wish they got Nina Arianda to play Vanda but it sounds like they went in a whole new direction. I'll be keeping my eye out for it.
Inside Llewyn Davis which looks moody and lovely, Nebraska which should be a return to form for one of my favorite directors, and Venus in Fur (even though I am skeptical that Mrs. Polanski can match the amazing performance of Nina Arianda) because I lurrrrved that play.
Afraid that I'm not as aware of the non-English language films in competition.
Cengiz, you beat me to the Venus in Fur punch just by a few seconds!
Farhadi and Refn of course.
Every time I read Venus in Fur the song begins to play.
Canet is out of comp because any serious french cinephile knows that he's a terrible director, but the event of a local boy wonder directing US stars + his Oscar winning girlfriend in an english speaking film co-written by James Gray is just too big to ignore.
Rumor has it that Gray accepted to co-write Canet's film to secure the presence of Cotillard in his own film.
I don't know, the list isn't overly exciting to me. I guess Toronto has become the big destination.
I'm really excited about the new movies from Kore-eda and Johnnie To. Can't wait to catch up with those on the fall festival circuit.
Not sure what's not to be excited about. Lots of heavy hitters in the lineup.
Awesome line-up. Pretty refreshing to see so few Oscary/Hollywood titles in the mix (whether in comp or out).
Also hoping the rumor of Nicole Kidman joining the jury is true.
Death March (Adolfo Alix Jr)
Norte, Hangganana Ng Kasaysayan (Lav Diaz)
GO PHILIPPINE CINEMA!
Hoping The Immigrant is good and that Marion Cotillard can win Best Actress!
Of course it'll be good. It is directed by James Gray, the best thing that happened to American movies since Gus Van Sant.
I must be out of the loop completely, did not know at all that As I Lay Dying was being made into a movie! Definitely excited for that even though I don't care for James Franco.
Behind The Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
-Shame few will ever get to see this on THE BIG SCREEN.
La Grande Bellezza (Paolo Sorrentino)
-Sorrentino's always interesting and off-beat
The Immigrant (James Gray)
-Cotillard is the immigrant and Jeremy Renner and Joaquin Phoenix are magicians competing for her heart. In!
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
-In. It looks beautiful.
Jeune Et Jolie (Francois Ozon)
-Ozon gets an emphatic, 'Oui!' from me.
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
-Y'all need to understand that Bruce Dern is atop my all-time favorite actors. Also Payne going back home to the Midwest is a plus.
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
-I like Nicolas Winding Refn movies fine, they are not classics or anything Michael Mann if he still wanted to do neon, pop movies could not do years ago but I am not too bullish on this. KST may be the driving force that gets me to see it. I am just really too enthralled with Ryan Gosling as an actor and this role looks even less believable than his Drive character.
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
-YUP.
Venus In Fur (Roman Polanski)
-I really liked Carnage a good deal and this play is good. Not soon if these were the two French actors I would first imagine for this but I can understand Polanski's choices.
Wara No Tate (Takashi Miike)
-Miike's Harakiri remake ranked up there with Prometheus as one of my great disappointments of 2012. That movie was not worth half of the $17 I shelled out to watch dull 3-D that is only useful for no more than 10 minutes of its 2 hr. runtime. Hopefully this gets him back on track and away from melodrama.
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
-Mm-hmm!
Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
-I had no idea this was happening. YES!
As I Lay Dying (James Franco)
-WUT? Curious with caution.
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
-Interesting this goes from Sundance to Cannes. I really am rooting for this movie but I feel like if this gets an even bigger reception at Cannes it could easily get deflated when it gets distributed in the States.
Les Salauds (Claire Denis)
-Mm-hmm!
Only God Forgives, Jimmy P, and The Past.
Why hasn't Claire Denis been in the Official Competition since her debut film? Is she not well liked in Europe?
Polanski OMFG! :)
Denis hors-concours is ridiculous. Isn't she a world class auteur?
Such a great line-up!
My most anticipated movie is "The Immigrant". The idea of a James Gray movie with Marion Cotillard as lead has to be one of the most exciting project of the year.
I'm disappointed that neither Sofia not Claire Denis (or Catherine Breillat for that matter) is in the main competition
I just love how it takes Baz to bring out the hotness in Leo. He's been looking out an aging Charlie Brown for the past couple of years, but in every Gatsby still and trailer image so far he is super tasty.
I'm excited for ...
The Immigrant (I think Marion has a good chance at best actress)
Only God Forgives (!)
Blood Ties (after Oz I'm dying for Mila to go back to her Black Swan level acting and prove she's good again)
The Bling Ring
Fruitvale (Octavia Spencer post-Oscar! And it was an audience fav at Sundance)
Was it last year that they didn't have any women directors in the line-up? And this year they have one (?) in the competitive section? And Claire Denis is in A Certain Regard, out of competition? It will be interesting to see what the films are actually like, maybe that will illuminate their decision processes.
At the top of mi list:
ONLY GOD FORGIVES...anything works for me: fm the poster, the look of the film and GOSLING AND SCOTT THOMAS directed by WINDIGN REFN...it´ll sure de this year´s winner!
THE PAST...I became a fan of FARHADI since A SEPARATION which was an exquisite drama and for the look of the trailer, this one seems another knockout...plus it also stars that yummy hunk fm A PROPHÉT!!
THE BLING RING....that teaser trailer sold it for me and now the poster has sold it entirely. It looks like a winner for me.
THE IMMIGRANT...love COTILLARD!!! will she finally win best actress at CANNES???
and finally
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA....looks like a guilty pleasure for me but who knows right?? I thought the same bout MAGIC MIKE but the only pleasure I got was fm the deleted scene with MATTHEW BOMER as the Ken doll
"As I lay dying" James Franco
"The Bling Ring" Sofia Coppola
"The Immigrant" James Gray