Variety has released an early list of the films to be playing at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, which opens on May 13 and Awards Daily‘s Ryan Adams did a fantastic job of recapping the list.
Below are the “bigger” named films that will be hitting the French fest, but I would recommend heading to Awards Daily for the complete list.
- Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, the Nazi-hunter saga with Brad Pitt
- Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, about 1969 music fest, with Emile Hirsch
- Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, an Argentine family drama with Vincent Gallo
- Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant remake with Nicolas Cage
- Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, horror-thriller with Alison Lohman
- Pete Docter’s Up, the 3D Pixar adventure with Ed Asner
- Jane Campion’s Bright Star, a John Keats bio with Ben Wishaw
- Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, horror in the woods with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric, about a troubled teen soccer fan
- Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces, a noirish melodrama with Penelope Cruz
- Bong Joon-ho’s Mother, a thriller about a ghastly murder
- Park Chan-wook’s Thirst, about a small-town priest who turns into a vampire
The Variety article does mention Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus may also make the final list.
The official selections will be announced on April 23.
