Cannes Film Festival 2010 Announces Line-up: Kiarostami! Godard! Leigh!

The Cannes Film Festival has just announced it’s film line-up for 2010, and there are several Criterion alum both in and out of competition.

Mike Leigh’s latest, Another Year, will be screening at the festival, where in 1993, his Criterion film, Naked, won both the Palm d’Or and Best Director. Abbas Kiarostami, he of Taste of Cherry (which also won the Palm d’Or), and the upcoming Criterion release: Close-Up, will be showing off his latest film: Certified Copy. Finally, the Criterion heavy weight champion, Jean-Luc Godard, will quite possibly stun us all with his latest, and rumored last film, Socialisme. This will be Godard’s first film to be shot digitally.

Other Criterion Collection names to note on the list: Kate Beckinsale (Last Days of Disco) and Benicio del Toro (Che, Traffic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) will both serving on the Competition Jury. Mathieu Amalric, of A Christmas Tale, will be screening his fourth directorial endeavor, Tournee.

Finally, one film notably absent from this list is The Tree of Life, the latest fromTerrence Malick (Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line). This film was rumored to be finished in time for the festival, but unfortunately is not on the list.

While we here at CriterionCast would love to make the hop across the pond, and cover the film festival on the ground for all of you lovely readers and listeners, we’ll be watching along with you all from here in the States.

Which of these films are you most excited about? Leave your comments below.

IN COMPETITION

Another Year, U.K., Mike Leigh*
Biutiful, Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Burnt by the Sun 2, Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
Certified Copy, France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami*
Fair Game, U.S., Doug Liman
Hors-la-loi, France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
The Housemaid, South Korea, Im Sang-soo
La nostra vita, Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
La Princesse de Montpensier, France, Bertrand Tavernier
Of Gods and Men, France, Xavier Beauvois
Outrage, Japan, Takeshi Kitano
Poetry, South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
A Screaming Man, France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Tournee, France, Mathieu Amalric*
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Spain-Thailand-Germany-U.K.-France, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
You, My Joy, Ukraine-Germany, Sergey Loznitsa

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Adrienn Pal, Hungary-Netherlands-France-Austria, Agnes Kocsis
Aurora, Romania, Cristi Puiu
Blue Valentine, U.S., Derek Cianfrance
Chatroom, U.K., Hideo Nakata
Chongqing Blues, China, Wang Xiaoshuai
The City Below, Germany-France, Christoph Hochhausler
Film Socialisme, Switzerland-France, Jean-Luc Godard*
Ha Ha Ha, South Korea, Hong Sang-soo
Les Amours imaginaires, Canada, Xavier Dolan
Life Above All, France, Oliver Schmitz
Los labios, Argentina, Ivan Fund, Santiago Loza
Octubre, Peru, Daniel Vega
Qu’est-il arrive a Simon Werner?, France, Fabrice Gobert
Rebecca H., France, Lodge Kerrigan
R U There, Taiwan, David Verbeek
The Strange Case of Angelica, Portugal, Manoel de Oliveira
Tuesday, After Christmas, Romania, Radu Muntean
Udaan, India, Vikramaditya Motwane

OUT OF COMPETITION

Robin Hood, U.S.-U.K., Ridley Scott
Tamara Drewe, U.K., Stephen Frears
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, U.S., Oliver Stone
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, U.K.-Spain, Woody Allen

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

Kaboom, U.S.-France, Gregg Araki
L’autre monde, France, Gilles Marchand

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Abel, Mexico, Diego Luna
Chantrapas, France, Otar Iosseliani
Draquila — L’Italia che trema, Italy, Sabina Guzzanti
Inside Job, U.S., Charles Ferguson
Nostalgia de la luz, France, Patricio Guzman
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Netherlands, Sophie Fiennes

COMPETITION JURY

Tim Burton, president
Alberto Barbera
Kate Beckinsale*
Emmanuel Carre
Benicio Del Toro*
Victor Erice
Shekhar Kapur
Giovanna Mezzogiorno