A quick Cannes Film Festival update. We’re just 11 days away from opening night, and the schedule is starting to take shape. A tentative schedule is starting to leak and can be seen below. The only ones not 100% confirmed are Kelly Reichardt and Saeed Roustaee, but it looks like they will both be screening during the final days of the festival.
May 14: Schilinski, Loznitsa, McQuarrie
May 15: Moll, Laxe
May 16: Aster, Herzi, K. Stewart
May 17: Ramsay, Linklater, Hayakawa
May 18: Mendonça, W. Anderson
May 19: Ducournau, Saleh, S. Lee
May 20: Martone, Panahi, Zlotowski
May 21: Hermanus, Trier, Simón
May 22: Roustaee
May 23: Reichardt, Dardenne, Coen
As for Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,” it’s apparently booked to screen on May 22, but has still not been announced by Cannes. Hopefully, it passed through Chinese censors and will indeed be playing at the festival. The runtime for that film is said to be 2.5 hours.
Other than Bi Gan, all that’s left to announce is the Cannes Classics section, which is rumored to open on May 13 with a 4K restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush.”