Variety has released an early list of the films to be playing at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, which opens on May 13 and Awards Daily's Ryan Adams did a fantastic job of recapping the list.

Below are the "bigger" named films that will be hitting the French fest, but I would recommend heading to Awards Daily for the complete list.

• Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, the Nazi-hunter saga with Brad Pitt
• Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, about 1969 music fest, with Emile Hirsch
• Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro, an Argentine family drama with Vincent Gallo
• Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant remake with Nicolas Cage
• Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, horror-thriller with Alison Lohman
• Pete Docter's Up, the 3D Pixar adventure with Ed Asner
• Jane Campion's Bright Star, a John Keats bio with Ben Wishaw
• Lars von Trier's Antichrist, horror in the woods with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, about a troubled teen soccer fan
• Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces, a noirish melodrama with Penelope Cruz
• Bong Joon-ho's Mother, a thriller about a ghastly murder
• Park Chan-wook's Thirst, about a small-town priest who turns into a vampire

The Variety article does mention Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus may also make the final list.

The official selections will be announced on April 23.

Related post categories: Cannes Film Festival : Antichrist, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Drag Me to Hell, Inglourious Basterds, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Calls New Orleans, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Up

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