CANNES LINE-UP 2010 ANNOUNCED

CANNES LINE-UP 2010 ANNOUNCED Giant names in world cinema will be in attendance at this year's Cannes Film Festival, after the line-up was announced today. The already announced Robin Hood from Ridley Scott will be joined by films from Kitano, Kiarostami, Iñárritu, Leigh, Godard, Nakata and many more. While the appointment of Tim Burton as Jury president might have indicated a populist move for the Festival, the line-up of directors is defiantly light on big American names, most of which are left outside the Competition section; Doug Liman's probably the biggest American name in the selection. But there are giants of world cinema in there, with Takeshi Kitano's Outrage, Abbas Kiarostami's Copie Conforme, Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful. Out of competition, Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe will also be playing. The full list is below. The Festival runs from May 12 to 23. For more thoughts on the line-up, check out our Cannes guru Damon Wise's reactions just over here. Opening film Ridley Scott – ROBIN HOOD (Out of Competition) In Competition Mathieu Amalric – TOURNÉE Xavier Beauvois – DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX Rachid Bouchareb – HORS LA LOI Alejandro González Iñárritu – BIUTIFUL Mahamat-Saleh Haroun – UN HOMME QUI CRIE (A Screaming Man) IM Sangsoo – HOUSEMAID Abbas Kiarostami – COPIE CONFORME Takeshi Kitano – OUTRAGE Lee Chang-dong – POETRY Mike Leigh – ANOTHER YEAR Doug Liman – FAIR GAME Sergei Loznitsa – YOU. MY JOY Daniele Luchetti – LA NOSTRA VITA Nikita Mikhalkov – UTOMLYONNYE SOLNTSEM 2 Bertrand Tavernier – LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER Apichatpong Weerasethakul – LOONG BOONMEE RALEUK CHAAT (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) Un Certain Regard Derek Cianfrance – BLUE VALENTINE (1st film) Manoel De Oliveira – O ESTRANHO CASO DE ANGÉLICA (Angelica) Xavier Dolan – LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES (Heartbeats) Ivan Fund, Santiago Loza – LOS LABIOS Fabrice Gobert – SIMON WERNER A DISPARU… (1st film) Jean-Luc Godard – FILM SOCIALISME Christoph Hochhäusler – UNTER DIR DIE STADT (The City Below) Lodge Kerrigan – REBECCA H. (RETURN TO THE DOGS) Ágnes Kocsis – PÁL ADRIENN (Adrienn Pál) Vikramaditya Motwane – UDAAN (1st film) Radu Muntean – MARTI, DUPA CRACIUN (Tuesday, After Christmas) Hideo Nakata – CHATROOM Cristi Puiu – AURORA (Aurora) Hong Sangsoo – HA HA HA Oliver Schmitz – LIFE ABOVE ALL Daniel Vega – OCTUBRE (1st film) David Verbeek – R U THERE Xiaoshuai Wang – RIZHAO CHONGQING (Chongqing Blues) Out of Competition Woody Allen – YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER Stephen Frears – TAMARA DREWE Oliver Stone – WALL STREET - MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Midnight Screenings Gregg Araki – KABOOM Gilles Marchand – L'AUTRE MONDE (Blackhole) Special Screenings Charles Ferguson – INSIDE JOB Sophie Fiennes – OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW Patricio Guzman – NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ (Nostalgia For The Light) Sabina Guzzanti – DRAQUILA – L'ITALIA CHE TREMA Otar Iosseliani – CHANTRAPAS Diego Luna – ABEL (1st film)

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