2011 Festival de Cannes announces lineup; includes new films by Takashi Miike, Pedro Almodóvar, Nicolas Winding Refn, and more
Earlier this morning, the 64th Festival de Cannes announced their full 2011 lineup. This is very exciting for GATW, as I will be covering the entire festival, thanks to our sponsor Stella Artois. Back in December we found out Terrence Malick's highly anticipated TREE OF LIFE, along with Lars von Trier's MELANCHOLIA, Wong Kar Wai's THE GRANDMASTERS, Lynne Ramsay's WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, and Paolo Sorrentino's THIS MUST BE THE PLACE will be premiering at the festival; in February, Woody Allen's MIDNIGHT IN PARIS was announced as the festival's opening night film. Everyone has been eagerly waiting the full lineup, and Cannes gave us a little more yesterday with the announcement of Gus Van Sant's RESTLESS.
Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup, and it's rather diverse. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES will be screening Out Of Competition, with Takashi Miike's DEATH OF A SAMURAI, Pedro Almodóvar's LA PIEL QUE HABITO, Nicolas Winding Refn's DRIVE, and others having their premieres in the Main Competition category; Sundance favorite MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE will be screening under the Un Certain Regard category.
Check out the full lineup after the break! And stay tuned - Stella will be sending me to cover exclusive events for your reading/viewing pleasure.
Opening film
Woody Allen: Midnight in Paris (Out of Competition)
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
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
Source Festival de Cannes
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