This year’s Cannes Film Festival, which is celebrating its 65th birthday, runs from May 16th to 27th, and today the official selection was revealed, which includes an interesting mix of movies, including David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share.
Also in competition are Michael Haneke’s latest Armour (Love), Alain Resnais’ Vous N’Avez Encore Rien Vu, Walter Salles’ adaptation of Kerouac’s On The Road, John Hillcoat’s Lawless and Thomas Vinterberg’s Jagten (The Hunt). Adding a bit more star power is Jeff Nichols’ Mud, which features Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoons, while McConaughey also features in Lee Daniel’s The Paperboy, alongside Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman and John Cusack.
Slightly oddly, out of competition there’ll be a screening of Madagascar 3, as well as Bertolucci’s Io E Te and Philip Kaufman’s Hemingway & Gellhorn.
Take a look below for the full list of movies screening in the various segments of the festival…
In Competition
Wes ANDERSON – MOONRISE KINGDOM (Opening Film)
Jacques AUDIARD – DE ROUILLE ET D’OS
Leos CARAX – HOLY MOTORS
David CRONENBERG – COSMOPOLIS
Lee DANIELS – THE PAPERBOY
Andrew DOMINIK – KILLING THEM SOFTLY
Matteo GARRONE – REALITY
Michael HANEKE – AMOUR (LOVE)
John HILLCOAT – LAWLESS
HONG Sangsoo – DA-REUN NA-RA-E-SUH (IN ANOTHER COUNTRY)
IM Sangsoo – DO-NUI MAT (TASTE OF MONEY)
Abba KIAROSTAMI – LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Ken LOACH – THE ANGELS’ SHARE
Sergei LOZNITSA – IM NEBEL (IN THE FOG)
Cristian MUNGIU – BEYOND THE HILLS
Yousry NASRALLAH – BAAD EL MAWKEAA (AFTER THE BATTLE)
Jeff NICHOLS – MUD
Alain RESNAIS – VOUS N’AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU
Carlos REYGADAS – POST TENEBRAS LUX –
Walter SALLES – ON THE ROAD (SUR LA ROUTE)
Ulrich SEIDL – PARADIES : Liebe (PARADISE : Love)
Thomas VINTERBERG – JAGTEN (THE HUNT)
Film for the Closing Ceremony
Claude MILLER – THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX (Out of Comp.)
Un Certain Regard
Ashim AHLUWALIA – MISS LOVELY
Juan Andrés ARANGO – LA PLAYA
Nabil AYOUCH – LES CHEVAUX DE DIEU (GOD’S HORSES)
Catherine CORSINI – TROIS MONDE
Brandon CRONENBERG – ANTIVIRAL
Benicio DEL TORO, Pablo TRAPERO, Julio MEDEM, Elia SULEIMAN, Juan Carlos TABIO, Gaspard NOÉ et Laurent CANTET – 7 DIAS EN LA HABANA
Benoit DELÉPINE, Gustave KERVERN – LE GRAND SOIR
Xavier DOLAN – LAURENCE ANYWAYS
Michel FRANCO – DESPUÉS DE LUCIA
Joachim LAFOSSE – AIMER À PERDRE LA RAISON
Darezhan OMIRBAYEV – STUDENT
Moussa TOURE – LA PIROGUE (THE PIROGUE)
Pablo TRAPERO – ELEFANTE BLANCO (WHITE ELEPHANT)
Sylvie VERHEYDE – CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
Koji WAKAMATSU – 11.25 THE DAY HE CHOSE HIS OWN FATE
YOU Le – MYSTERY
Benh ZEITLIN – BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Out of Competition
Bernardo BERTOLUCCI – IO E TE (ME AND YOU)
Eric DARNELLE, Tom MCGRATH – MADAGASCAR 3, EUROPE’S MOST WANTED
Philip KAUFMAN – HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN
Midnight Screenings
Dario ARGENTO – DARIO ARGENTO’S DRACULA
Takashi MIIKE – AI TO MAKOTO
65th Birthday
Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure – UNE JOURNÉE PARTICULIÈRE – 53′
Special screenings
Fatih AKIN – DER MÜLL IM GARTEN EDEN (POLLUTING PARADISE)
Laurent BOUZEREAU – ROMAN POLANSKI : A FILM MEMOIR
Ken BURNS, Sarah BURNS, David MCMAHON – THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE
Sébastien LIFSHITZ – LES INVISIBLES
Claudine NOUGARET, Raymond DEPARDON – JOURNAL DE FRANCE
Nelson PEREIRA DOS SANTOS – A MUSICA SEGUNDO TOM JOBIM
Gonzalo TOBAL – VILLEGAS
Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL – MEKONG HOTEL
With David O’Russell putting the finishing touches on The Silver Linings Playbook, there’s been a lot of interest in what he’ll move onto next. He’s got quite a few movies in the works, but now it appear American Bullshit has moved towards the front of the pack, with 
A year after his brother Tom’s death, Jack (Mark Duplass) is an emotionally unstable slacker. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom’s ex-girlfriend Iris (Emily Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris’ sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), a lesbian reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship who finds solace in the affable Tom’s unexpected presence, and the two bond over a long night of drinking. The blurry evening concludes with an awkward sexual incident made worse by Iris’ sudden presence at the cabin the next morning, which sets into motion a twisted tale of ever-complicated relationships. The film hits the UK on June 29th.
There were a lot of raised eyebrows when David Cronenberg cast Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis, largely because it seemed such a jump from the world of Twilight. However as people started to charge their mind when the teaser trailer debuted, and this new French trailer is likely to further convince people this will show a different side to Pattinson and it’s likely to be intense! The film, based on Don DeLillo’s book, sees R-Patz as young billionaire Eric Packer, who starts out just wanting to get a haircut, but as the day progresses and he travel around New York, he must deal with the fallout from the decisions he’s made in his life. Cosmopolis will compete at Cannes in May should be out in cinemas later this year and it look like it’s gonna be rather unusual.
It wouldn’t be Bond if the production didn’t jet all over the world (although always coming back to its UK base, of course), and Skyfall is doing just that, with a new set video just released from the film’s Shanghai location shoot. The movie will hit cinemas on October 26th, but whet your appetite with the latest behind the scene look.
I think it’s safe to say that a lot of women and gay men are looking forward to Magic Mike, if only because Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew Bomer, Matthew McConaughey and more play strippers! The trailer suggests there’s some sort of romance type plot too, but I don’t think anyone actually cares about that, or that much admired director Steven Soderbergh is behind the camera. Nope, they just want the buff blokes to get their kit off! Partly based on Tatum’s experiences as a young male stripper, the film sees him mentoring a newbie (Pettyfer) and apparently having romantic problems. The film hits UK cinemas July 13th.
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