The 2014 Cannes Film Festival line up was announced this morning in Paris. The selections are intriguing. “Grace of Monaco” opens the fest, hopefully very changed from its early reports. Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” is one of two films from Sony Pictures Classics including Mike Leigh’s “Mr. Turner”; David Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars” isn’t theirs yet but feels like it. Also out there is Tommy Lee Jones’s “The Homesman” with Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep. Clips from it are generating a lot of buzz.
Of much interest is Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Search” and a directing debut from Ryan Gosling called “Lost River” with Eva Mendes. There’s also a new film from 83 year old legend Jean Luc Godard. And what would Cannes be without Ken Loach, whose films are made for his own cult followers? On the imdb they say: “Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood.” That’s an understatement! Also at the festival: “Eleanor Rigby,” a very fine film with Oscar potential from Ned Benson with Jessica Chastain and James McEvoy.
Godard, by the way, has made his first 3D movie with “Goodbye to Language.” It’s only 70 minutes, but should stir up a storm on the Croissette! Also, Cannes officials are said to in discussions with religious officials about preventing any rain this year (just kidding).
OPENING NIGHT
Grace of Monaco, Olivier Dahan
COMPETITION
Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard
The Captive, Atom Egoyan
Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas
Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller
The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones
Jimmy’s Hall, Ken Loach
La Meraviglie, Alice Rohrwacher
Leviathan, Andrei Zvyagintsev
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg
Mommy, Xavier Dolan
Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh
Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello
The Search, Michel Hazanavicius
Still the Water, Naomi Kawase
Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako
Two Days, One Night, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Wild Tales, Damian Szifron
Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
OUT OF COMPETITION
Coming Home, Zhang Yimou
How to Train Your Dragon 2, Dean DeBlois
Les Gens du Monde, Yves Jeuland
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Amour fou, Jessica Hausner
Bird People, Pascale Ferran
The Blue Room, Mathieu Amalric
Charlie’s Country, Rolf de Heer
Dohee-ya, July Jung
Eleanor Rigby, Ned Benson
Fantasia, Wang Chao
Harcheck mi headro, Keren Yedaya
Hermosa Juventud, Jaime Rosales
Incompresa, Asia Argento
Jauja, Lisandro Alonso
Lost River, Ryan Gosling
Party Girl, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis (OPENER)
Run, Philippe Lacote
The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Snow in Paradise, Andrew Hulme
Titli, Kanu Behl
Tourist, Ruben Ostlund
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
The Rover, David Michod
The Salvation, Kristian Levring
The Target, Yoon Hong-seung
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
The Bridges of Sarajevo, Various
Eau argentee, Mohammed Ossama
Maidan, Sergei Loznitsa
Red Army, Polsky Gabe
Caricaturistes – Fantassins de la democratie, Stephanie Valloatto
