Cannes 2009.

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, the Nazi-hunter saga with Brad Pitt
Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, about 1969 music fest, with Emile Hirsch
Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, an Argentine family drama with Vincent Gallo
Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant remake with Nicolas Cage
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, horror-thriller with Alison Lohman
Pete Docter’s Up, the 3D Pixar adventure with Ed Asner
Jane Campion’s Bright Star, a John Keats bio with Ben Wishaw
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, horror in the woods with Willem Dafoe & Charlotte Gainsbourg
Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric, about a troubled teen soccer fan
Johnny To’s Vengeance, a hitman-turned-chef in Hong Kong to avenge his daughter’s murder, with Johnny Hallyday
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, teen troubles with Michael Fassbender
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, about incipient fascism at a rural school in 1913
Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces, a noirish melodrama with Penelope Cruz
Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere, about Mussolini’s secret lover
Bong Joon-ho’s Mother, a thriller about a ghastly murder
Park Chan-wook’s Thirst, about a small-town priest who turns into a vampire
Lou Ye’s Spring Fever, about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings
Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death, epic about the 1937 massacre of Nanking by the Japanese army
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air Doll, about the love affair between a videostore clerk and an inflatable sex doll
Tsai Ming-liang’s Face, about a Taiwanese director in Paris to make a film about Salome, with Mathieu Amalric, Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant, Nathalie Baye, Laetitia Casta and Jean-Pierre Leaud

Thoughts? At first glance my main thought was "Yay! Pixar!" I am excited to see how the studio will follow the sheer perfection that was Wall-E. Antichrist is also an anticipated one, as seen in the above picture. I'm guessing Von Trier will be pissing off as many people as usual. What a stunning image, I hope the film lives up to it. A deeper look led to a few more interesting finds, such as Andrea Arnold's new film (if you haven't seen Red Road, watch it now!), a lot of love for Asian cinema, Almodovar's newest film with recent Oscar winner Penelope Cruz, Tarantino's return to Cannes (my dad is completely fan boy style excited for Basterds) and Herzog's baffling decision to remake Bad Lieutenant with Nicolas Cage, a man who gets more wooden with each film. I challenge you to watch the remake of The Wicker Man with a straight face. And of course Coppolla. Youth Without Youth was not well received so I wonder if he can pull a proper comeback with Tetro.