Deadline has mimicked the Paris Match intel from this weekend — No Miyazaki and No Serebrennikov. Also, no indication of that mysterious David Lynch film showing up.
Firstly, my own intel, I’m hearing Richard Linklater’s “Hitman” is ready and could be in the mix for a competition slot.
Back to Deadline. They’re also pretty confident that Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw” is now out of the running. Oh, well. We knew that the impressive list of Cannes titles would eventually dwindle as more intel came in.
They are however saying there’s a new Wim Wenders film completed, set in Japan, that could potentially premiere on the Croisette. I doubt Wenders gets into competition — what was his last worthy fiction movie? Probably 1991’s “Until the End of the World.”
Much more intriguing is the prospect of Kitty Green’s “The Royal Hotel” being ready for a Cannes splash. Her last film was 2020’s “The Assistant” — an excellent and minimalist dissection of Harvey Weinstein Malevolence.
And how about Cristi Puiu’s “MMXX” being 2 hours and 40 minutes long? The last time the ‘Death of Lazarescu’ filmmaker premiered at Cannes was for 2016’s “Sieranevada.”
Meanwhile, Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer” is still not ready for Cannes’ submission deadline and will be sent over to Thierry Fremaux in the 11th hour. Late or not late, there’s no way he says no to this female filmmaking legend, right?
Finally, we have a film called “Kalak,” which is Swedish director Isabella Eklöf’s second film after the crime drama “Holiday”. If you haven’t seen “Holiday” then please see it ASAP, one of the most criminally underrated films of the last five years. Deadline claims to have heard “very good things” about Eklöf’s sophomore effort.
As far as we know, the noteworthy Out-of-Competition titles so far might be …
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Woody Allen’s “Coup de Chance”
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Funny Wars”
James Mangold’s “Indiana Jones 5”
There will most likely be 20-22 films in competition this year, which means you’ll have to scratch off around a dozen from the below 37 titles:
Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City”
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things”
Todd Haynes’ “May/December”
Marco Bellocchio’s “La Conversione”
Michel Franco’s “Memory”
Robin Campillo’s “Red Island”
Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer”
Abdherrane Sissako’s “The Perfumed Hill”
Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “On Barren Weeds”
Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak”
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster”
Matteo Garrone’s “The Captain”
Lisandro Alonso’s “Eureka”
Nanni Moretti’s “Il sol dell'avvenire”
Cristi Puiu’s “MMXX”
Radu Jude’s “Do Not Expect too Much”
Joachim Lafosse’s “Un Silence”
Victor Erice’s “Cerrar Los Ojos”
Miguel Gomes’ “Selavjaria”
Ethan Coen’s Untitled Road Movie
Roman Polanski’s “The Palace”
Bruno Dumont’s “The Empire”
Bertrand Bonnello’s “The Beast”
Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall”
Robert Guédiguian’s “Et la fête continue”
Léa Domenach’s “Bernadette”
Vanessa Filho’s “Le Consentement”
Jessica Hausner’s “Club Zero”
Catherine Corsini’s “Le Retour”
Maiwenn’s “Jeanne Du Barry”
Valerie Donzelli‘s “Love and Forests”
Amat Escalante’s “El estado del imperio”
Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders”
Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla”
Richard Linklater’s “Hitman”
Kitty Green’s “The Royal Hotel”