Cannes Film Festival 2017: Film Lineup – THE BEGUILED, OKJA, TWIN PEAKS, & More
Cannes Film Festival 2017 Official Film Lineup
The official selection (Competition, Out-of-competition, Un Certain Regard, Midnight, and Special screenings) film lineup for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival has been announced. The 70th Annual Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes), ”founded in 1946, is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France…The President of the Jury is American actor Robert De Niro.”
This year’s Cannes Film Festival is coming up in a few months. With that in mind, Cannes has released the official film festival linup. Among the competition films, Sofia Coppola‘s The Beguiled remake wrangled my attention immediately with its star power and all of the twists and turns in its narrative.
Bong Joon-ho‘s Okja has been a film that I have had an eye on for some time. The first trailer for the upcoming science fiction film played its cards pretty close to the chest. The Host was one of my favorite films of 2006. Because of that film, I have complete confidence that Bong can produce A-grade monster film.
David Lynch‘s Twin Peaks event television series will have its premiere at the Cannes 2017. That was a surprise as the festival is traditionally heavily focused on films.
I am a big fan of the short film medium. We have an entire category dedicated to the genre on FilmBook. Actress Kristen Stewart is making her directorial debut with the short film Come Swim at the 2017 film festival.
The full listing of the Official Selection for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival is below:
Competition
Ismael’s Ghosts – Arnaud Desplechin (opening film)
Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Good Time – Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay
A Gentle Creature – Sergei Loznitsa
Jupiter’s Moon – Kornél Mundruczó
L’Amant Double – François Ozon
The Killing of a Sacred Deer – Yorgos Lanthimos
Radiance – Naomi Kawase
The Day After – Hong Sang-soo
Le Redoutable – Michel Hazanavicius
Wonderstruck – Todd Haynes
Rodin – Jacques Doillon
Happy End – Michael Haneke
The Beguiled – Sofia Coppola
120 Battements Par Minute – Robin Campillo
Okja – Bong Joon-ho
In the Fade – Fatih Akin
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) – Noah Baumbach
Un Certain Regard
Barbara – Mathieu Amalric
The Desert Bride – Cecilia Atan and Valeria Pivato
Closeness – Kantemir Balagov
Beauty and the Dogs – Kaouther Ben Hania
L’Atelier – Laurent Cantet
Lucky – Sergio Castellitto
April’s Daughter – Michel Franco
Western – Valeska Grisebach
Directions – Stephan Komandarev
Out – Gyorgy Kristof
Before We Vanish – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Nature of Time – Karim Moussaoui
Dregs – Mohammad Rasoulof
Juene Femme – Léonor Serraille
Wind River – Taylor Sheridan
After the War – Annarita Zambrano
Out of Competition:
Blade of the Immortal – Takashi Miike
How to Talk to Girls at Parties – John Cameron Mitchell
Visages, Villages – Agnès Varda & JR
Midnight Screenings
The Villainess – Jung Byung-Gil
The Merciless – Byun Sung-Hyun
Special Screenings
An Inconvenient Sequel – Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk
12 Jours – Raymond Depardon
They – Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Clair’s Camera – Hong Sang-soo
Promised Land – Eugene Jarecki
Napalm – Claude Lanzmann
Demons in Paradise – Jude Ratman
Sea Sorrow – Vanessa Redgrave
Special Screenings – Events
Twin Peaks – David Lynch (first two episodes)
24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami
Come Swim – Kristen Stewart
Top of the Lake: China Girl – Jane Campion, Ariel Kleiman
Carne y arena – Alejandro González Iñárritu
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