Cannes Line-up Revealed

So here's the line-up for this year's Cannes Film festival

IN COMPETITION:
24 City – Jia Zhangke
Adoration – Atom Egoyan
Changeling – Clint Eastwood
Che - Steven Soderbergh
Un Conte de noel – Arnaud Desplechin
Daydreams – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Delta – Kornel Mundruczo
Il Divo – Paolo Sorrentino
Gomorra – Matteo Garrone
La Frontiere de l'aube – Philippe Garrel
Leonera – Pablo Trapero
Linha de Passe – Daniela Thomas
La mujer sin cabeza – Lucrecia Martel
My Magic – Eric Khoo
The Palermo Shooting – Wim Wenders
Serbis – Brillante Mendoza
The Silence of Lorna – Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
Waltz With Bashir – Ari Folman

OUT OF COMPETITION:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Steven Spielberg
Kung Fu Panda – Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
The Good, the Bad, the Weird – Kim Jee-woon
Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Woody Allen

A lot of cool stuff there. New movies from Clint, Atom Egoyan, The Dardenne Brothers and Wim Wenders (who we still get excited about despite his often rubbish output of recent times - dude made Paris Texas which is enough for us). Woody Allen's got a new one showing out of competition, which doesn't mean much these days. His output is averaging about 1 good film in every 5 these days, though we got an early sneak-peak at Cassandras Dream starring Colin Farrell and it's not bad at all.

2 movies top our pants-wetting list though. Charlie Kaufman's debut as a director Synecdoche, New York which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a theatre director attempting to finish his masterpiece and Che Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Che Guevara starring the perfectly cast Benicio Del Toro. He is releasing the film in two parts so it's unclear whether Cannes will see both.

At the final analysis, fuck Cannes. Loads of rich people sunning themselves. And we don't get an invite. They'll be sorry!