The Cannes Film Festival revealed its 2012 lineup this morning in Paris, with a competition heavy on male auteurs — and films featuring Croisette-ready stars like Robert Pattinson ( Cosmopolis ), Kristen Stewart ( On the Road ), Brad Pitt ( Killing Them Softly ), Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy ( Lawless ). Lee Daniels’s Precious follow-up The Paperboy (starring Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman) is also among the 22 films screening in competition, along with Wes Anderson’s opening night film Moonrise Kingdom . Other competition highlights include new work from veterans David Cronenberg, Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, Cristian Mungiu, Thomas Vinterberg, Walter Salles and Abbas Kiarostami. They are joined by fellow Cannes returnees Bernardo Bertolucci and Takashi Miike, who will screen their new films out of competition. And 2012 Sundance Film Festival competition winner Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin joins the festival’s Un Certain Regard lineup along with 16 other titles. Competition : Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson (Opening Film) Amour by Michael Haneke The Angels’ Share by Ken Loach After The Battle by Yousry Nasrallah Beyond the Hills by Cristian Mungiu Cosmopolis by David Cronenberg Holy Motors by Leos Carax The Hunt by Thomas Vinterberg Killing Them Softly by Andrew Dominik In Another Country by Hong Sang-soo In the Fog by Sergei Loznitsa Lawless by John Hillcoat Like Someone in Love by Abbas Kiarostami Mud by Jeff Nichols On the Road by Walter Salles The Paperboy by Lee Daniels Paradise: Love by Ulrich Seidl Post Tenebras Lux by Carlos Reygadas Reality by Matteo Garrone Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard Taste of Money by Im Sang-soo You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet by Alain Resnais Out of Competition : Thérése Desqueyroux by Claude Miller (Closing Film) Me and You by Bernardo Bertolucci Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon Hemingway & Gellhorn by Philip Kaufman Midnight Screenings: Dario Argento’s Dracula by Dario Argento Ai To Makoto by Takashi Miike 65th Birthday: Une Journée Particuliére Un Certain Regard : 7 Days in Habana by Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noe, Laurent Cantet 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate by Koji Wakamatsu Antiviral by Brandon Cronenberg Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin Confession of a Child of the Century by Sylvie Verheyde Después de Lucia by Michel Franco The Pirogue by Moussa Toure La Playa by Juan Andrés Arango Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan Le grand soir by Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern God’s Horses by Nabil Ayouch Loving Without Reason by Joachim Lafosse Miss Lovely by Ashim Ahluwalia Mystery by Lou Ye Student by Darezhan Omirbayev Trois Monde by Catherine Corsini White Elephant by Pablo Trapero Special Screenings : A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos The Central Park Five by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon Polluting Paradise by Fatih Akin Journal de France by Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon Les Invisibles by Sebastien Lifshitz Mekong Hotel by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir by Laurent Bouzereau Villegas by Gonzalo Tobal
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Cannes 2012: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Shia LaBeouf Officially Join the Competition
