CANNES 2001 BUZZ

Click on the titles to see what the critics said  about the films of the 54th Cannes Film Festival. For a list of past winners of the festival click here.
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Here's a list of the 23 films in competition and other films showing.

Competition
"Moulin Rouge," Baz Luhrmann, Australia (opening film)
"Distance," Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
"Mulholland Drive," David Lynch, United States
"The Pledge," Sean Penn, United States
"The Man Who Wasn't There," Joel Coen, United States
"Shrek," Andrew Adamson and Victoria Jenson, United States
"Taurus," Alexander Sokourov, Russia
"I'm Going Home," Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal
"The Son's Room," Nanni Moretti, Italy
"Eloge de l'Amour," Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland
"Replay," Catherine Corsini, France
"La Chambre des Officiers," Francois Dupeyron, France
"Roberto Succo," Cedric Kahn, France
"Va Savoir!" Jacques Rivette, France
"Desert Moon," Shinji Aoyama, Japan
"The Piano Teacher," Michael Haneke, Austria
"Millennium Mambo," Hsiao-hsien Hou, Taiwan
"Warm Water Under a Red Bridge," Shohei Imamura, Japan
"Kandahar (Sun Behind the Moon)," Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran
"The Profession of Arms," Ermanno Olmi, Italy
"Pau and His Brother," Marc Recha, Spain
"No Man's Land," Danis Tanovic, Bosnia
"What Time is it Over There?" Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan

Un Certain Regard
"R-Xmas", Abel Ferrara (opening film)
"My Father's Words", Francesca Comencini (closing film)
"The Chimp", Aktan Abdykalykov
"La Libertad", Lisandro Alonso
"Domani, (Demain)", Francesca Archibugi
"Clement", Emmanuelle Bercot
"Ganhar A Vida", João Canijo
"No Such Thing", Hal Hartley
"Lovely Rita", Jessica Hausner
"The Man Who Walks on Snow", Masahiro Kobayashi
"Late Marriage", Dover Kosashvili
"Atanarjuat The Fast Runner", Zacharias Kunuk
"Pulse", Kyoshi Kurosawa
"Lu Yu", Stanley Kwan
"The Anniversary Party", Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming
"A Dog's Day", Murali Mair
"The Road", Darehzan Omirbaev
"Tears of The Black Tiger", Wisit Sasanatieng
"Hijack Stories", Oliver Schmitz
"Storytelling", Todd Solondz
"H-Story", Nobuhiro Suwa
"Nothing but The Two of Us",  Alexandre Veledinski
"Amour D'enfance", Yves Caumon
"Due West",  Jacques Doillon

Director's Fortnight
"Big Bad Love", Arliss Howard, United States
"Glass Tears", Lai Miu-suet, Hong Kong
"This is My Body", Rodolphe Marconi, France 
"Chelsea Walls", Ethan Hawke, United States
"The Deep End", Scott McGehee and David Siegel, United States
"Fatma", Khaled Ghorbal, Tunisia-France
"Hush!", Hashiguchi Ryosuke - Japan
"Gilded Youth", Zaïda Ghorab-Volta - France
"Made in The USA", Sólveig Anspach and Cindy Babski- France / Belgium
"Stuff & Dough", Cristi Puiu - Rumania
"Martha... Martha", Sandrine Veysset - France
"A Place on Earth", Artur Aristakisjan - Russia
"Mirror Image", Hsiao Ya-chuan - Taiwan
"The Years of Our Lives", Daniele Gaglianone - Italy
"Workers, Peasants", Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub - Italy / France
"The Orphan of Anyang", Wang Chao - China
"Pauline & Paulette", Lieven Debrauwer - Belgium / France / The Netherlands
"Queenie in Love", Amos Kollek - France / United States
"Rain", Christine Jeffs - New Zealand
"Slogans", Gjergj Xhuvani - France / Albania
"The Crossing", Sébastien Lifshitz - France

Critic's Week
"Almost Blue", Alex Infascelli - Italy
"Bolivia", Adrian Caetano, Argentina
"Ephemeral Town", Giorgos Zafiris, Greece
"The Woman who Drinks", Bernard Ermond, Canada
"The Pornographer", Betrand Bonello, France
"Unloved", Kunitoshi Manada, Japan
"Under The Moonlight", Reza Mirkarimi - Iran

Special Screenings
"Amelie From Montmarte", Jean-Pierre Jeanet
"Apocalypse Now, Redux",  Francis Ford Coppola
"CQ", directed by Roman Coppola
"Human Nature",  Michel Gondry
"Avalon",  Mamoru Oshii
"The Center of the World", Wayne Wang
"Trouble Every Day", Claire Denis
"Les Mes Fortes", Raoul Ruiz
"ABC Africa," Abbas Kiarostami - Iran
"Il mio viaggio in italia," Martin Scorsese - Italy, USA
Blurbs I
Blurbs II
Blurbs III
Blurbs IV
Blurbs V
Festival Roundup Articles
Los Angeles Time Article
The Guardian of London Article
Village Voice Article I
Village Voice Article II
Indiewire Article
LA Weekly Article
Article on the Inuit film that won the Camera' d'Or "Atanajuart The Fast Runner"