We’re getting down to the final hours when it comes to the Cannes Film Festival. Speculating these past few months has been fun, but, when all is said and done, the official lineup announcement is set to happen on April 18th. However, a few breaking items for your convenience on this Wednesday afternoon.
Jim Jarmusch‘s “The Dead Don’t Die” will be screened and open the 2019 Cannes Film Festival (5.14 to 5.25), and in competition — a world premiere. Nothing surprising there as we had mentioned this news item a few weeks back. Again, we’re always on the ball with these sorta things.
Rumor has it that Pablo Larrain’s “Ema” will not make it to Cannes because, wait for it, the film was just bought by Netflix. Ouch.
Finally, that rumor that I had passed along a few weeks back about Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” not being ready in time for Cannes? Well, it certainly is looking a little more credible today as now Showbiz411, writer Roger Friedman may sit out the festival due to Tarantino not being done with editing the movie. The report states that “the film isn’t currently ready and may not be ready in time for the official announcement next week or even its expected premiere in mid-May, which would have marked the 25th anniversary of Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” Cannes premiere.”
For the time being, I am still including Tarantino as part of the “Best Bets” section of my predictions because I do have fate he will submit it on time.
21 SOLID BETS (only three female filmmakers, maybe Reichardt will be the fourth?)
BACURAU | Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU | Céline Sciamma
PAIN AND GLORY | Pedro Almodóvar
RADEGUND | Terrence Malick
OH MERCY | Arnaud Desplechin
ABOUT ENDLESSNESS | Roy Andersson
AHMED | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
SIBYL | Justine Trite
PARASITE | Bong Joon-ho
THE BEANPOLE | Kantemir Balagov
UNTITLED | Brillante Mendoza
SORRY WE MISSED YOU | Ken Loach
IT MUST BE HEAVEN | Elia Suleiman
FRANKIE | Ira Sachs
THE DEAD DON´T DIE | Jim Jarmusch
MANOR HOUSE | Cristi Puiu
MATTHIAS & MAXIME | Xavier Dolan
UNE FILLE FACILE | Rebecca Zlotowski
THE WHISTLERS | Corneliu Porumbuiu
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD | Quentin Tarantino
FIRE NEXT TIME | Marti Diop
NOT TOO FAR BEHIND:
JEANNE | Bruno Dumont
GLORIA MUNDI | Robert Guédiguian
LA CORDILLÈRE DES SONGES | Patricio Guzmán
THE NEST | Sean Durkin
NOMADLAND | Chloe Zhao
WICKED GAMES | Ulrich Seidl
MIENTRAS DURE LA GUERRA | Alejandro Amenabar
WENDY | Benh Zeitlin
FIRST COW | Kelly Reichardt
THE LIGHTHOUSE| Robert Eggers
WAVES | Trey Edward Shults
COOK, FUCK, KILL | Mira Fornay
GUEST OF HONOR | Atom Egoyan
ETRE VIVANT ET LE SAVOIR | Alain Cavalier
C'EST EXTRA | Guillaume Nicloux
THE THOUSAND MILES | Sylvain Chomet