The lineup for the 2009 Festival de Cannes was released today. Many notable entries here, but I know I and at least one other Filmwell critic have been rejoicing that Pixar’s Up is opening the festival – the first animated film to ever do so.

Other fabulously notable directors with work at Cannes will be Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Jane Campion, Ken Loach, Michael Haneke and Park Chan-wook. Also, Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will play out of competition. This is the film that features Heath Ledger’s last performance, and in which Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law stepped in to share Ledger’s role and finish the film after the actor’s untimely death last year.