The Official 66th Cannes Film Festival thread

[Mika00]

The Cannes Film Festival is my favorite festival of the year. Not because of the location (Cannes is a beautiful city of course) but because it always have a good flair for great movies. Thanks to the past few years (And its new president if you ask me), the movies presented on the "croisette" are better than ever and a lot of Best Picture & best foreign contenders made their way to the oscars from there (There will be blood, Midnight in Paris, The artist, Amour, Tree of life, Beasts of the southern Wild, A Prophet...).
A few movies are already nearly certain to be there (I'm looking at you James Gray & Ashgar Farhadi) but who do you think will be there?


President: Steven Spielberg

Outside the official competition:

Mobius/ Eric Rochant

The official competition:

Lowlife/James Gray
The Past/ Ashgar Farhadi
Twelve years a slave/ Steve McQueen
Mood Indigo/ Michel Gondry
Blue Jasmin/ Woody Allen
Inside Llewyn Davis/ Joel & Ethan Cohen
The young & podigious T.S Spivet/ J-P Jeunet
Nymphomaniac, Lars von Trier ?
Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn
Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan
Grigris, Mahamat Saleh Haroun
A Perfect Day for Plesiosaur, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho
Portrait of Jimmy P., Arnaud Desplechin
The Congress, Ari Folman
The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola
Bird People, Pascale Ferran
Abus de faiblesse, Catherine Breillat
Les Salauds, Claire Denis
Malavita/ Luc Besson
Mala/ Adrian Caetano
Dau/ Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Nine Minute Interval/ Corneliu Porumboiu
Goodbye to Language/ Jean-Luc Godard
Diary of a Young Boy/ Tsai Ming-Liang



Opening:

The great Gatsby ?

Closing:

Malavita/ Luc Besson ?

Midnight screening:

The Raid 2/ Gareh Evans

[Cédric]

If you're talking about the official competition I highly doubt Rochant, Jeunet and Besson make the cut.

Both James Gray's The Nightingale and Farhadi's The Past are mortal locks for a competition slot indeed.

Other very likely competition contenders are:

Nymphomaniac, Lars von Trier
Twelve Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn
Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan
Grigris, Mahamat Saleh Haroun
A Perfect Day for Plesiosaur, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho
Portrait of Jimmy P., Arnaud Desplechin
The Congress, Ari Folman
The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola
Bird People, Pascale Ferran
Abus de faiblesse, Catherine Breillat
Les Salauds, Claire Denis
Blue is a Hot Color, Abdellatif Kechiche
Venus in Fur, Roman Polanski

[Aurelius]

The explicit cut of The Nymphomaniac? Or the tame one?

[Timmer]

I thought von Trier was banned from Cannes forever after his Holocaust joke? That didn't last long?

[Mika00]

If you're talking about the official competition I highly doubt Rochant, Jeunet and Besson make the cut.

Both James Gray's The Nightingale and Farhadi's The Past are mortal locks for a competition slot indeed.

Other very likely competition contenders are:

Nymphomaniac, Lars von Trier
Twelve Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn
Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan
Grigris, Mahamat Saleh Haroun
A Perfect Day for Plesiosaur, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho
Portrait of Jimmy P., Arnaud Desplechin
The Congress, Ari Folman
The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola
Bird People, Pascale Ferran
Abus de faiblesse, Catherine Breillat
Les Salauds, Claire Denis

You are right I didn't precise, I'm talking about both.
I agree for Rochant & Besson but Jeunet could, the entire team behind the special effect is the same than "Hugo" & I'm sure nobody forgot "Amelie".

[cdmc]

I hope that Xavier Dolan finally gets a Competition slot. I think he was a bit disappointed with Laurence Anyways missing the cut.

[J2DR]

I thought von Trier was banned from Cannes forever after his Holocaust joke? That didn't last long?

Maybe he cannot attend the Festival, but the producer said last year they wanted to try Cannes again. After all, a film produced by his Production Company was in the competition line-up last year.

[Cédric]

I thought von Trier was banned from Cannes forever after his Holocaust joke? That didn't last long?

He was 'persona non grata' indeed right after the Melancholia press conf that year but he never received a life-ban, and both Frémaux and Jacob have already said numerous times over the past few months when being asked by French journalists that IF his new film is worth a competition slot, they would consider it.

[Timmer]

He was 'persona non grata' indeed right after the Melancholia press conf that year but he never received a life-ban, and both Frémaux and Jacob have already said numerous times over the past few months when being asked by French journalists that IF his new film is worth a competition slot, they would consider it.

Cool.

[Cédric]

And having read the Nymphomaniac screenplay I just fail to see how this film could end up NOT being in competition.

[erikdean]

I'll be there.

[Mika00]

And having read the Nymphomaniac screenplay I just fail to see how this film could end up NOT being in competition.

I was thinking the exact same thing. He will be there. The plot is enough. Where did you got the screenplay?

[DirkDiggler]

I really hope Mood Indigo is the return if Michel Gondry. The book was amazing.

[Cédric]

I was thinking the exact same thing. He will be there. The plot is enough. Where did you got the screenplay?

I had to read it for work last year.

[Mika00]

I had to read it for work last year.

Ok cool, you are one lucky guy!

[tootpadu]

Given its release date, I think The Great Gatsby is practically guaranteed to be the opening film.

[erikdean]

Given its release date, I think The Great Gatsby is practically guaranteed to be the opening film.

Yeah, as soon as the date change was announced this was the first thing I thought.

[kupo]

Yeah, as soon as the date change was announced this was the first thing I thought.

LMAO. I'd love for this one to get a competition slot. That would be interesting.

[tootpadu]

I'm a little surprised that we don't know the name of the jury president yet, as it is normally announced during the first half of january ...

[Rage Colored Glasses]

I'll be there.

You lucky bastard.