Kvikmyndirnar sem verða sýndar á Cannes kvikmyndahátíðinni í byrjun Maí

Variety reports a tentative roster of films expected to be shown in Cannes, as the festival prepares to open on May 13.  Official announcement of this year’s films will be made April  23, but these titles are likely:

• 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
  (Tetro and The White Ribbon are both shot in black and white)
• 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

Rumored but unconfirmed:

• Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a fantasy with Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law