Cannes Reveals Full 2013 Lineup
Coen Brothers, Soderbergh, Luhrmann, and more
By Monica Riese, 8:55AM, Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
The 66th annual Cannes Film Festival looks to be completely star-studded. Emphasis on "stud."
Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, and Leonardo DiCaprio may have been grouped together on Tumblr as some of our favorite heartthrobs, but they'll be together in a more dignified setting come opening night of Cannes on May 15. Delegate General Thierry Fremaux and President Gilles Jacob announced the full lineup at a press conference today in Paris.
They winnowed their selections from more than 1,800 submissions over the course of the past 10 months, finally settling on this impressive slate. Check it out:
Opener
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
Competition
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Grigris (Mahamet Saleh-Haroun)
Heli (Amat Escalante)
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Jeune et jolie (Francois Ozon)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin)
La Vie d’Adele (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud des Pallieres)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
Straw Shield (Takashi Miike)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
Un chateau en Italie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)
Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski)
Out of Competition
All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor)
Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet)
Un Certain Regard
Opener: The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
Anonymous (Mohammad Rasoulof)
As I Lay Dying (James Franco)
The Bastards (Claire Denis)
Bends (Flora Lau)
Death March (Adolfo Alix Jr.)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski)
La Jaula de Oro (Diego Quemada-Diez)
L’image manquante (Rithy Panh)
L’inconnu du lac (Alain Guiraudie)
Miele (Valeria Golino)
Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan (Lav Diaz)
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad)
Sarah prefere la course (Chloe Robichaud)
Midnight Screenings
Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
Monsoon Shootout (Amit Kumar)
Homage to Jerry Lewis
Max Rose (Daniel Noah)
Special Screenings
Bite the Dust (Taisia Igumentseva)
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (Stephen Frears)
Seduced and Abandoned (James Toback)
Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini)
Week End of a Champion (Roman Polanski)
Gala Screening in Honor of India
Bombay Talkies (Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar)
Closer
Zulu (Jerome Salle)
The 66th annual Cannes Film Festival runs May 15-26.
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