Cannes 2012

[ianungstad]

It appears that Cosmopolis and On the Road will be screening at Cannes this year. The festival runs from May 16-May 27. Cosmopolis has it's world premiere in France on May 18 and On the Road on May 23. Could be unrelated to the festival but that seems highly unlikely.

[Cde.]

Moonrise Kingdom is likely the opener, with a May 16 French release.

["membrillo"]

[Calvin]

Nanni Moretti will be head of the jury this year, with Jean-Pierre Dardenne heading the Cinéfondation jury. Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom has been announced as the opening film but the full selection won't be announced until the 19th. However, this blog has posted what's apparently a list that was leaked on the official website.

[Jeff]

Nanni Moretti will be head of the jury this year, with Jean-Pierre Dardenne heading the Cinéfondation jury. Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom has been announced as the opening film but the full selection won't be announced until the 19th. However, this blog has posted what's apparently a list that was leaked on the official website.

Here's an English-language website's take on the list. It sounds like some are doubting its legitimacy. Surprise inclusions are Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Malick's The Burial. It seems awfully early for The Master to debut, and one always assumes that any Malick project is years away from being finished. The list is conspicuous by its absence of Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Haneke's Love, and Walter Salles' On the Road, all of which were thought to be near-certainties. It's also strange that Moonrise Kingdom is on a list labeled "in competition" when we know that it is the opening night film (usually out-of-competition). If half the list is true, it's going to be an exciting year.

[John Cope]

If that list is true, Neil Young will have to amend his odds significantly.

[ianungstad]

I also question the lack of Haneke's Love, Ken Loach's The Angel's Share and Cristian Mungiu's Place Beyond the Hills. Empire magazine also pretty much confirmed that the new Peter Greenaway and Thomas Vinterburg films will be at Cannes. (though I suppose they could be sidebar titles). Hopefully On the Road isn't getting the "Restless" slot, which would indicate it probably sucks.

[puxzkkx]

I'm a bit skeptical - mainly regarding the Haneke omission (how on earth would that happen?) but also because it gives the number of Competition titles as 24 and, IIRC, didn't Frémaux make a statement that there would be fewer Competition films this year to draw more attention to quality? Also they give the title of the German film as "Hard to Be a God" and I'm pretty sure it has since been officially renamed.

Some of these mentions are interesting, though.

[Jeff]

I also question the lack of Haneke's Love, Ken Loach's The Angel's Share and Cristian Mungiu's Place Beyond the Hills. Empire magazine also pretty much confirmed that the new Peter Greenaway and Thomas Vinterburg films will be at Cannes. (though I suppose they could be sidebar titles). Hopefully On the Road isn't getting the "Restless" slot, which would indicate it probably sucks.

The Mungiu is on there under its Romanian title. It's a lot easier for me to decipher on the list that I intended to link earlier.

[Alan Smithee]

I really doubt Dolan will be chosen over Haneke.

[puxzkkx]

Perhaps all these films are Selection titles but I find it hard to believe that this is our In Competition slate.

[ianungstad]

I personally think it's fake. Just from a quick google search:

Love (Michael Haneke) - French premiere date: May 23, 2012
Like Someone In Love (Abbas Kirostami) - French premiere date: May 17, 2012
On the Road (Walter Salles) - French premiere date: May 23, 2012
Cannes May 16-27.

EDIT: That french Cannes blog posted the list on April 2. I wonder if the person who provided the scoop of "leaked" competition titles to this blog had sent the scoop on April 1st and this is just some dumb April Fool's prank.

[alfons416]

Roy Andersson who isn't known for working fast, have stated several times the lst year that he plans to have his movie finished to Cannes 2014, so it seems odd that it would be finished in a months time.

[JPJ]

Roy Andersson who isn't known for working fast, have stated several times the lst year that he plans to have his movie finished to Cannes 2014, so it seems odd that it would be finished in a months time.

Are you sure about this?I thought the filming of Pigeon... was already completed well over a year ago?

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

This article from January says it was still shooting at that time. And according to this it was also shooting in October, with a planned 2013 completion date. You, the Living took three years to shoot and Songs from the Second Floor took four, so that's entirely plausible.

[JPJ]

Thanks for the links FN,Andersson surely takes his time.

[Duncan Hopper]

The ongoing selection cannot be found on a website; it only exists in Thierry Frémaux’s head !

[puxzkkx]

Tim Roth as been announced as the Un Certain Regard Jury president.

[Calvin]

Bérénice Bejo has been announced as the mistress of ceremonies

[puxzkkx]

The late Claude Miller's final film Thérèse Desqueyroux will close the festival.

The announcement of the Official Selection will take place in roughly 12 hours.

The short film and Cinéfondation selections hav already been announced. Unfortunately my film is not among the lists, lol!

OFFICIAL SELECTION (SHORTS)

"MI SANTA MIRADA" - Alvaro Aponte-Centeno (Puerto Rico)
"GASP" - Eicke Bettinga (Germany)
"CE CHEMIN DEVANT MOI" - Mohamed Bourokba (France)
"FALASTEIN, SANDOUK AL INTEZAR LIL BURTUQAL" - Bassam Chekhes (Syria)
"THE CHAIR" - Grainger David (USA)
"NIGHT SHIFT" - Zia Mandviwalla (New Zealand)
"CHEF DE MEUTE" - Chloé Robichaud (Canada)
"YARDBIRD" - Michael Spiccia (Australia)
"COCKAIGNE" - Émilie Verhamme (Belgium)
"SESSIZ-BE DENG" - L. Rezan Yesilbas (Turkey)


CINÉFONDATION

"DERRIÈRE MOI LES OLIVIERS" - Pascale Abou Jamra (Lebanon)
"RIYOUSHI" - Shoichi Akino (Japan)
"LES RAVISSEMENTS" - Arthur Cahn (France)
"SLUG INVASION" - Morten Helgeland (Denmark)
"TAMBYLLES" - Michal Hogenauer (Czech Republic)
"MATTEUS" - Leni Huyghe (Belgium)
"TABĂRA DIN RĂZOARE" - Cristi Iftime (Romania)
"DOROGA NA" - Taisia Igumentseva (Russian Federation)
"TERRA" - Piero Messina (Italy)
"LOS ANFITRIONES" - Miguel Angel Moulet (Cuba)
"THE BALLAD OF FINN + YETI" - Meryl O'Connor (USA)
"HEAD OVER HEELS" - Timothy Reckart (UK)
"ABIGAIL" - Matthew James Reilly (USA)
"RESEN" - Eti Tsicko (Israel)
"PUDE VER UN PUMA" - Eduardo Williams (Argentina)

[Finch]

I submitted my short film to the Director's Fortnight and Critic's Week but as neither have been in touch since the initial acknowledgement email, I imagine the film will be absent from both line-ups tomorrow. But as they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained! (Still hopeful that Edinburgh and other film festivals later this year will invite us)

[puxzkkx]

The In Competition lineup appears to be:

AFTER THE BATTLE - Yousry Nasrallah
BEYOND THE HILLS - Cristian Mungiu
BIG HOUSE - Matteo Garrone
COSMOPOLIS - David Cronenberg
HOLLY MOTORS - Leos Carax
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY - Hong Sang-soo
IN THE FOG - Sergei Loznitsa
JAGTEN - Thomas Vinterberg
KILLING THEM SOFTLY - Andrew Dominik
LAWLESS - John Hillcoat
LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE - Abbas Kiarostami
LOVE - Michael Haneke
MOONRISE KINGDOM - Wes Anderson
MUD - Jeff Nichols
ON THE ROAD - Walter Salles
PARADISE - Ulrich Seidl (I'm not sure which of the trilogy)
POST TENEBRAS LUX - Carlos Reygadas
RUST AND BONE - Jacques Audiard
THE ANGELS' SHARE - Ken Loach
THE PAPERBOY - Lee Daniels
THE TASTE OF MONEY - Im Sang-soo
YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET - Alain Resnais

VERY heavy on English-language selections.

[accatone]

Complete line up

[John Edmond]

Weerasethakul's Mekong Hotel presumably kept out of competition due its 61 minute length.

[MichaelB]

Weerasethakul's Mekong Hotel presumably kept out of competition due its 61 minute length.

And because, to quote executive producer Keith Griffiths' punctuation, it's a 'documentary'.

Griffiths has just confirmed on Facebook that the film deliberately wasn't submitted for either competition or Un Certain Regard because of these factors, and he's delighted that it was nonetheless still given a special screening slot.