Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodovar, and Rocketman headline this year's Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival got off to a great start this year when it revealed a zombie movie would open the high-minded French event. Jim Jarmusch, a Cannes veteran, will see his horror-comedy The Dead Don’t Die usher in the festival on May 14, and now the organizers have revealed the majority of what will follow, from its Competition entries to its Un Certain Regard, Out Of Competition, Special Screening, and Midnight Screening films. Nowhere on the list, unfortunately, is Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which, as of now at least, just isn’t ready.
What is ready are new films from Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodovar, and the Dardenne brothers, which will compete with new flicks from Snowpiercer’s Bong Joon-ho, I, Daniel Blake’s Ken Loach, and twenty-something wunderkind Xavier Dolan, among several others. Birdman and The Revenant director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, a Cannes veteran himself, will head the 2019 competition jury.
Also of the note is the premiere of splashy Elton John biopic Rocketman, as well as Werner Herzog’s latest documentary, Family Romance LLC, and Tommaso, a new Abel Ferrara film. Attendees will also be able to catch the first two episodes of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon series Too Old To Die Young. Deadline also reports that Alfonso Cuarón will present a restored version of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, which, yes.
See the full lineup below, which, as of now, highlights 13 female filmmakers, an improvement over previous years.