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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: Tarantino, Lee line up for Cannes film festival AFP - Friday, April 24 PARIS (AFP) - - Johnnie To's new thriller, a wartime saga by Quentin Tarantino and a trip to Woodstock with Ang Lee are among the 20 films competing in this year's Cannes film festival, organisers said Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT Asian and European heavyweights, from New Zealand's Jane Campion to Spain's Pedro Almodovar, dominate the lineup for the coveted Palme d'Or to be awarded at the Riviera festival running from May 13 to May 24. Tarantino is the sole US contender with his World War II saga "Inglourious Basterds" (sic), packing star power with lead roles for Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger. "There are lots of Asian films, lots of European films and fewer American and Latin American movies," the festival's artistic director Thierry Fremaux told a news conference in Paris. Fremaux suggested the Hollywood screenwriters' strike that ended in February last year may have prevented many American directors from wrapping up production in time for Cannes . Heath Ledger's last movie -- the much-awaited "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" by US director Terry Gilliam -- will get its world premiere at an off-competition screening, organisers confirmed. The movie could bring a raft of A-list stars to Cannes -- including Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law -- who stepped in to play parts of Ledger's role after the actor died last year. The Middle East also gets a look in with Elia Suleiman's "The Time That Remains," the story of a Palestinian family catapulted from the 1940s to the present day and the director's first work since 2002. French actress Isabelle Huppert , a two-time best actress winner, heads the eight-member jury for the 62nd edition of the film industry's biggest annual fest. Directors from Asia and Europe are to dominate the race for Cannes gold, taking place over 12 frenzied days of showbiz parties, red-carpet screenings and wheeling-and-dealing. New Zealander Jane Campion, who in 1992 became the first woman director to take home the palme for "The Piano," returns with a movie about romantic poet John Keats, "Bright Star." French rock icon Johnnie Hallyday takes the lead role in "Vengeance," the new crime flick by Hong Kong's To, while Korea's Park Chan-wook, whose "Old Boy" wowed Cannes in 2004, is back with a vampire tale called "Thirst." Controversial Chinese film-maker Lou Ye, at odds with China's censors over his last film "Summer Palace," is in the running with an erotic tale of three-way love, titled "Spring Fever." Festival goers will get a taste of the heady 1960s with Lee's latest offering, "Taking Woodstock," set during the epoch-defining US rock festival. Malaysia's Tsai Ming-liang drew on an all-star French cast for his entry "Face." On the European front, Oscar-winning Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar is back with his just-completed "Broken Embraces," a multi-strand drama starring Penelope Cruz. Denmark's Lars von Trier will present "Antichrist," a horror film starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple who retreat to a forest cabin after their son's death. They join Britain's Ken Loach, a Cannes regular competing with "Looking for Eric", starring the footballer Eric Cantona, and "Fish Tank" by young British director Andrea Arnold. Austria's Michael Haneke is in the running with "The White Ribbon," a search for the seeds of fascism in early 20th-century Europe, while Italy's Marco Bellocchio presents "Vincere", a film on Benito Mussolini's illegitimate son. Host country France has four films in competition, including Jacques Audiard's "The Prophet" and Alain Resnais with "Les Herbes Folles." Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Entertainment & Lifestyle Avon launching first-ever informercialAP - 28 minutes ago US-ENTERTAINMENT SummaryReuters - 48 minutes ago Blagojevich says judge saved him from eating bugsAP - 1 hour 9 minutes ago EU parliament seeks to extend music rightsAFP - 1 hour 34 minutes ago Crisis provides inspiration for Mexico art fairAFP - 1 hour 38 minutes ago Enlarge Photo Johnnie To's new thriller, a wartime saga by Quentin Tarantino, seen here in 2008, and a trip to Woodstock with Ang Lee are competing for the top prize at this year's Cannes film festival, organisers said Thursday. 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