GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

This year’s Cannes Film Festival, which is celebrating its 65th birthday, runs from May 16th to 27th, and today the official selection was revealed, which includes an interesting mix of movies, including David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share.

Also in competition are Michael Haneke’s latest Armour (Love), Alain Resnais’ Vous N’Avez Encore Rien Vu, Walter Salles’ adaptation of Kerouac’s On The Road, John Hillcoat’s Lawless and Thomas Vinterberg’s Jagten (The Hunt). Adding a bit more star power is Jeff Nichols’ Mud, which features Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoons, while McConaughey also features in Lee Daniel’s The Paperboy, alongside Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman and John Cusack.

Slightly oddly, out of competition there’ll be a screening of Madagascar 3, as well as Bertolucci’s Io E Te and Philip Kaufman’s Hemingway & Gellhorn.

Take a look below for the full list of movies screening in the various segments of the festival…

In Competition

Wes ANDERSON – MOONRISE KINGDOM (Opening Film)

Jacques AUDIARD – DE ROUILLE ET D’OS

Leos CARAX – HOLY MOTORS

David CRONENBERG – COSMOPOLIS

Lee DANIELS – THE PAPERBOY

Andrew DOMINIK – KILLING THEM SOFTLY

Matteo GARRONE – REALITY

Michael HANEKE – AMOUR (LOVE)

John HILLCOAT – LAWLESS

HONG Sangsoo – DA-REUN NA-RA-E-SUH (IN ANOTHER COUNTRY)

IM Sangsoo – DO-NUI MAT (TASTE OF MONEY)

Abba KIAROSTAMI – LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE

Ken LOACH – THE ANGELS’ SHARE

Sergei LOZNITSA – IM NEBEL (IN THE FOG)

Cristian MUNGIU – BEYOND THE HILLS

Yousry NASRALLAH – BAAD EL MAWKEAA (AFTER THE BATTLE)

Jeff NICHOLS – MUD

Alain RESNAIS – VOUS N’AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU

Carlos REYGADAS – POST TENEBRAS LUX –

Walter SALLES – ON THE ROAD (SUR LA ROUTE)

Ulrich SEIDL – PARADIES : Liebe (PARADISE : Love)

Thomas VINTERBERG – JAGTEN (THE HUNT)

Film for the Closing Ceremony

Claude MILLER – THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX (Out of Comp.)

Un Certain Regard

Ashim AHLUWALIA – MISS LOVELY

Juan Andrés ARANGO – LA PLAYA

Nabil AYOUCH – LES CHEVAUX DE DIEU (GOD’S HORSES)

Catherine CORSINI – TROIS MONDE

Brandon CRONENBERG – ANTIVIRAL

Benicio DEL TORO, Pablo TRAPERO, Julio MEDEM, Elia SULEIMAN, Juan Carlos TABIO, Gaspard NOÉ et Laurent CANTET – 7 DIAS EN LA HABANA

Benoit DELÉPINE, Gustave KERVERN – LE GRAND SOIR

Xavier DOLAN – LAURENCE ANYWAYS

Michel FRANCO – DESPUÉS DE LUCIA

Joachim LAFOSSE – AIMER À PERDRE LA RAISON

Darezhan OMIRBAYEV – STUDENT

Moussa TOURE – LA PIROGUE (THE PIROGUE)

Pablo TRAPERO – ELEFANTE BLANCO (WHITE ELEPHANT)

Sylvie VERHEYDE – CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY

Koji WAKAMATSU – 11.25 THE DAY HE CHOSE HIS OWN FATE

YOU Le – MYSTERY

Benh ZEITLIN – BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

Out of Competition

Bernardo BERTOLUCCI – IO E TE (ME AND YOU)

Eric DARNELLE, Tom MCGRATH – MADAGASCAR 3, EUROPE’S MOST WANTED

Philip KAUFMAN – HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN

Midnight Screenings

Dario ARGENTO – DARIO ARGENTO’S DRACULA

Takashi MIIKE – AI TO MAKOTO

65th Birthday

Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure – UNE JOURNÉE PARTICULIÈRE – 53′

Special screenings

Fatih AKIN – DER MÜLL IM GARTEN EDEN (POLLUTING PARADISE)

Laurent BOUZEREAU – ROMAN POLANSKI : A FILM MEMOIR

Ken BURNS, Sarah BURNS, David MCMAHON – THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE

Sébastien LIFSHITZ – LES INVISIBLES

Claudine NOUGARET, Raymond DEPARDON – JOURNAL DE FRANCE

Nelson PEREIRA DOS SANTOS – A MUSICA SEGUNDO TOM JOBIM

Gonzalo TOBAL – VILLEGAS

Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL – MEKONG HOTEL

While conventional thinking suggested stop-motion animation was pretty doomed after CG movie took off, Ardman and a new company called Laika have battled against that idea and proved it still has a place on cinema screens. Laika worked on Corpse Bride, Coraline and the upcoming ParaNorman, and now Variety reports they’re working on a movie version of Philip Reeve’s book Goblins.

The animation director from Fantastic Mr Fox, Mark Gustafson, will helm the film, although it sounds like it’s farily early days as no voice cast has been revealed.

Here’s the synopsis of the book, ‘This is a wild world of magical creatures and heroic adventure from the extraordinary imagination of Philip Reeve. The squabbling goblins who live in the great towers of Clovenstone spend their time fighting and looting. Only clever young Skarper understands that dark magic created by a vanquished sorcerer is rising again. From the lands of men come fortune-seekers – and trolls, giants, cloud-midens, boglins, swamp monsters, tree-warriors and bloodthirsty goblins are swept into a fabulous magical conflict to thrill all fantasy fans.’

Although she’s best known for writing the Twilight books, Stephenie Meyer is also very interested in film and has even set up a production company so she can usher movies onto the big screen. Now Variety reports that she’s picked up the rights to somebody else’s young adult book with the hope of turning it into a movie.

The novel is Louis Duncan’s spooky 1974 tome, Down A Dark Hall, is about a young girl named Kit Gordy who goes to a boarding school called Blackwood where she is one of only four students. While this is a bit odd to start with, the situation gets worse when Kit discovers that Blackwood is haunted by an evil curse.

Wyck Godfrey, who served as a producer on all of the Twilight movies, is currently in negotiations to produce the project as well, so it sounds like they’re looking at this as a potential new franchise to fill the gap when Twilight is over.