Wong Kar Wai's “My Blueberry Nights” will open the Cannes Film Festival, whose lineup was unveiled earlier today. Showing 22 films, the competition selection includes a number of movies by American directors, such as the Coen brothers' “No Country for Old Men,” David Fincher's “Zodiac,” James Gray's “We Own the Night,” Quentin Tarantino's “Death Proof” and Gus Van Sant's “Paranoid Park.”

Sundance Film Festival 1988: Stand and Deliver, played in Dramatic Competition as Walking on Water. Edward James Olmos received a Best Actor
Oscar nomination for playing a man in his 50s who gives up engineering to teach math in a barrio high school.

Sundance Film Fest 1987: Waiting for the Moon played in the Dramatic Competition and was released theatrically by Skouras.

Summary Card for Amongst Friends, which premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Fest, in competition, in terms of genre, setting, issues, characters, budget, distributor, release date, and commercial appeal.

Among the films selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress for 1991 are: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Battle of San Pietro, The Blood of Jesus, Chinatown, City Lights, David Holzman's Diary, and Frankenstein.