Most prestigious film festival. Last year top prizes went to Tree of Life, Drive, The Artist, Take Shelter & Melancholia. This year the USA is represented by Wes Anderson, Jeff Nicols (f-ck yeah!) and Lee Daniels (WTF?!?!). Two Oceania productions set in the US, Andrew Dominik's (Chopper & The Assassination of Jesse James) Killing Them Softly and John Hillcoat (The Preposition) Lawless. Killing Them Softly was originally titled Cogan's Trade and stars Brad Pitt as an Irish Hitman. Which leads me to ask, Why the fudge would you rename a solid gangster film after a Roberta Flack sounding song. Lawless is about bootleggers in in 1920s Virginia. Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman star. And finally a French Production of Jack Kerouac's On The Road with Kristen Stewert and the guy from Tron. COMPETITION: Moonrise Kingdom, dir: Wes Anderson USA Rust & Bone, dir: Jacques Audiard Holly Motors, dir: Léos Carax Cosmopolis, dir: David Cronenberg CN The Paperboy, dir: Lee Daniels USA Killing Them Softly, dir: Andrew Dominik NZ Reality, dir: Matteo Garrone Amour, dir: Michael Haneke Lawless, dir: John Hillcoat AUS In Another Country, dir: Hong Sangsoo Taste Of Money, dir: Im Sangsoo Like Someone In Love, dir: Abbas Kiarostami The Angel’s Share, dir: Ken Loach Im Nebel, dir: Sergei Loznitsa Beyond The Hills, dir: Cristian Mungiu Baad El Mawkeaa, dir: Yousry Nasrallah Mud, dir: Jeff Nichols USA You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, dir: Alain Resnais Post Tenebras Lux, dir: Carlos Reygadas On The Road, dir: Walter Salles FR Paradis: Amour, dir: Ulrich Seidl The Hunt, dir: Thomas Vinterberg Thérèse Desqueyroux, dir: Claude Miller (closing film, out of competition) UN CERTAIN REGARD: Miss Lovely, Ashim Ahluwalia La Playa, dir: Juan Andrés Arango COL God’s Horses, dir: Nabil Ayouch Trois Monde, dir: Catherine Corsini Antiviral, dir: Brandon Cronenberg 7 Days In Havana, dirs: Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspard Noé, Laurent Cantet Le Grand Soir, dirs: Benoit Delépine, Gustave Kervern Laurence Anyways, dir: Xavier Dolan Después De Lucia, dir: Michel Franco Aimer A Perdre La Raison, dir: Joachim Lafosse Student, dir: Darezhan Omirbayev La Pirogue, dir: Moussa Toure Elefante Blanco, dir: Pablo Trapero ARG Confessions Of A Chile Of The Century, dir: Sylvie Verheyde 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, dir: Koji Wakamatsu Mystery, dir: Lou Ye Beasts Of The Southern Wild, dir: Behn Zeitlin USA http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/cannes-film-festival-lists-from-the-full-65th-anniversary-official-selection/ Some Trailers La Playa, Colombia UN CERTAIN REGARD <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gIHCFIgBDuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Rust & Bone, France Main Competition <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h4ouRNc5ek4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> On The Road, France Main Competition <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ttDIcTQpLyQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Elefante Blanco, Argentina UN CERTAIN REGARD <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tUJX1ohlcfo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>