Festival de Cannes unveils lineup

April 23, 2009 In what amounts to an auteur dream team, organizers have filled out this year's Competition section with a who's who of festival favorites, including Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Quentin Tarantino, Lars von Trier, Johnnie To, Jane Campion and Michael Haneke. Organizers can rightly point to the Critics Week and Directors' Fortnight sidebars as areas where newcomers can shine, but no one will claim the spotlight beams as brightly on those films. The Palais is where critics and journalists jam news conferences and jostle aggressively to get into screenings.

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