Cannes 2014 Poster

This morning Cannes director Thierry Fremaux announced the films which will make up the 67th Cannes Film Festival lineup.
The announcement confirmed that the opening film, Olivier Dahan’s much-anticipated Grace of Monaco, is the only cut of the film, clearing up  previous confusion on the matter. It is a strong opener, and the premiere screening of How to Train Your Dragon 2 to celebrate twenty years of Dreamworks Animation is a crowd-pleasing move certainly however it is the new films from Atom Egoyan, Jean-Luc Godard, Mike Leigh and David Cronenberg which have been warmly welcomed.

Tommy Lee Jones’ second feature film, The Homesman, plays in Compettion, up against the new Dardenne Brothers film, Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall and many more. Every year the lineup is incredibly enticing, there is so much to explore, to anticipate (not least Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River – wisely retitled from How to Catch a Monster), and to enjoy.

We’ll be there, it should be a fine year. Here is the full lineup,

OPENER
Grace of Monaco  – Olivier Dahan

COMPETITION
The Captive  – Atom Egoyan
Clouds of Sils Maria  – Olivier Assayas
Foxcatcher  – Bennett Miller
Goodbye to Language  – Jean-Luc Godard
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
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 directors
Eau argentee  – Mohammed Ossama
Maidan  – Sergei Loznitsa
Red Army  – Polsky Gabe
Caricaturistes – Fantassins de la democratie  – Stephanie Valloatto