Cannes 2009: RT's 10 Most Anticipated Movies

Awesome list! I would say (1)- Up (2)- Inglorious Basterds (3)- The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (4)- Drag Me to Hell (5)- Tetro

May 10 - 08:58 AM

Joe Utichi

Inglourious tops my list, with Up a close second. These ones here are in no particular order, obviously.

May 10 - 09:02 AM

ankit jhunjhunwala

Up!

Cant wait to see if the critics will cream themselves over Pixar all over again. I hope they do!

May 10 - 09:08 AM

Dan DiCarlo

Up and Parnassus are on my must see list.

May 10 - 09:50 AM

Jason Wilkerson

Great list! I was worried you were going to forget about Thirst, it seems like the commentors here have forgotten about Park Chan-Wook's Oldboy (and I would suggest checking out his other works, he's one of my favorite directors). That, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (yet another one of my favorite directors), and Pulp Fiction are the movies I'm waiting from most on here.

May 10 - 10:14 AM

Jason Wilkerson

I meant Inglorious Basterds, sorry!

May 10 - 10:15 AM

Jason Stieber

Wow, a lot of these sound really good! I'm personally really excited for Drag Me To Hell, Inglourious Basterds, Up, And Parnassus.

May 10 - 10:29 AM

Jonn X.

Ken Loach rocks.

May 10 - 10:59 AM

Chris Bellew

inglourious basterds and drag me to hell are my most anticipated ones. where exactly is the cannes film festival anyway?

May 10 - 11:02 AM

Joe Utichi

Cannes is a seaside down on the South Coast of France.

May 10 - 11:04 AM

jack giroux

Is someone going to be covering Cannes for the site again this year?

May 10 - 11:28 AM

Joe Utichi

I'll be there! I leave on Tuesday.

May 10 - 12:00 PM

B. Hashim

Inglorious Basterds
Thirst
Drag Me To Hell
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May 10 - 12:21 PM

Jeremy W.

Hmm, when I think of Cannes, it brings to mind independent films. Up, Inglorious Basterds, Dr.Parnassus and Drag Me to Hell are bigger name studio movies. I think all of them look good though. Out of the others, Antichrist and Thirst both seem pretty cool. The rest look like the straight to video movies you only rent because you saw everything else already.

May 10 - 01:54 PM

Jason Wilkerson

Actually Dr. Parnassus is an independent film no studio will touch it for distribution until the Cannes screening because no one has seen it yet and the story is really out there. The Weinstein Company is practically and indie company so Inglorious Basterds isn't really a big studio movie either.

May 10 - 02:34 PM

jack giroux

Universal has a hand in the distribution though, not just the Weinsteins.

May 10 - 02:53 PM

Jason Wilkerson

That's distribution though, they didn't give money to make the movie, and that's what I always took to be the definition of independent: that a major studio doesn't fund the movie itself.

May 10 - 04:06 PM

Rachel Leigh

Actually, Universal footed some of the budget for Basterds.

May 15 - 04:39 PM

viz marquette

Is Cannes always infinitely way better than Sundance?

May 10 - 02:31 PM

T C

Talking about Independent %u201CI LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS%u201D, one of the biggest and most talked-about films to premiere at this year%u2019s Sundance Film Festival will be in Cannes at Director%u2019s Fortnight May 19th

I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS stars Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro and Leslie Mann. The film is the feature debut of directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, who also wrote the screenplay.

This is one movie I will see in Cannes this year !!!!

May 10 - 03:40 PM

Theresa Shell

I absolutely can't wait for The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus!

May 10 - 03:56 PM

Big Brother

I'm probably the only one, but I'm really looking forward to Looking for Eric. Not only do I love The Wind that Shakes the Barley I'm also a huge Man U fan. As for Dr. Parnassus Heath Ledger and Johnny Depp sound good, Colin Farrell and Jude Law not so much unless they're playing the douchebag portion of his character then they're perfectly cast. :)

May 10 - 04:04 PM

Richard Crismore

Most of these look pretty good. I have my fingers crossed for Tetro because I want Coppola to have at least one more great movie.

May 10 - 04:29 PM

Jonathan Groen

Willem Dafoe never ceases to amaze me. He plays Jesus in one controversial film, and now he's in another called Antichrist. This is why he is one of my favorites!

May 10 - 06:26 PM