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May 14 - 25

Jane Campion is heading the jury.

COMPETITION OFFICELLE :
"Adieu au langage" (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)
"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)
"Two Days, One Night" (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
"Wild Tales" (Damian Szifron)
"Winter Sleep" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
"Leviathan" (Andrei Zviaguintsev)

UN CERTAIN REGARD:
"Party Girl" (Marie Amachoukeli)
"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)
"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)

That looks like a very solid competition. Most looking forward to the new films of the Dardennes and Mike Leigh.

...and Atom Egoyan

Very excited to see Godard's new film. Will be interesting to see how that plays (and if the man even shows up!).

Also, seems as though Eleanor Rigby is now one, 2-hour film instead of two separate films totaling around 3-hours. Gotta love Harvey Scissorhands!

Interesting given Campion's notorious comments a few years back that only two of the in competition films are directed by women... Do we have our winners already?

domino harvey wrote:Interesting given Campion's notorious comments a few years back that only two of the in competition films are directed by women... Do we have our winners already?

Possibly, but don't forget that the Loach is supposedly his last non-documentary film. Given how much love there is for Loach on the continent, I'd be surprised if it walked away with nothing.

If there's one thing I miss about these Cannes announcements, it's Nothing's conspiracies.

roujin wrote:If there's one thing I miss about these Cannes announcements, it's Nothing's conspiracies.

As both Loach and Leigh are in the main competition, I think we could pretty much guess his comments...

This interview with Fremaux leaves the door somewhat open for Welcome to New York. He says they've already screened it once, but Ferrara's still editing and they hope to screen it again when and if he finishes in time. He also says they've cut the competition to 18 films because the festival runs one day shorter this year, so I suppose if it does show up it'll be in one of the sidebars.

Directors' Fortnight:

Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, France) [opening film]
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz, Belgium/France)
Catch Me Daddy (Daniel Wolfe, UK)
Cold in July (Jim Mickle, U.S.)
Eat Your Bones (Jean-Charles Hue, France)
Fighters (Thomas Cailley, France)
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz, France/Israel/Germany)
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun, South Korea)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, France/U.S.)
Next to Her (Asaf Korman, Israel)
Queen and Country (John Boorman, Ireland/UK)
Refugiado (Diego Lerman, Argentina/France/Germany)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Takahata Isao, Japan)
These Final Hours (Zak Hilditch, Australia)
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur, Canada)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, U.S.)
Pride (Matthew Warchus, UK) [closing film]

Special screenings:

Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, France)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, U.S.) [4K restoration]

QUEEN AND COUNTRY should be interesting as a follow up to Boorman's HOPE AND GLORY...

Does anyone know when the Cannes Classics line-up is being announced? The website indicates that it should have been revealed on April 17th, but that is evidently not the case.

Calvin wrote:Does anyone know when the Cannes Classics line-up is being announced? The website indicates that it should have been revealed on April 17th, but that is evidently not the case.

Last year it was announced on Monday, April 29, so I'm betting that the press release comes out tomorrow.

The Last Metro and La Chienne restos announced for Cannes Classics 2014.

Info in French

Specs and provenance of La Chienne look very promising. If this comes out with an unscathed La Petite Lise this year the drinks are on me.

Joining Campion on the competition jury are Gael García Bernal, Leila Hatami, Jeon Do-yeon, Carole Bouquet, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jia Zhangke, and Sofia Coppola.

Late additions:

OUT OF COMPETITION
In the Name of My Daughter (André Téchiné)

UN CERTAIN REGARD
White God (Kornél Mundruczó)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
El Ardor (Pablo Fendrik)
Géronimo (Tony Gatlif)
Of Men and War (Laurent Bécue-Renard)
The Owners (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)

"The Cannes Classics line-up of film masterpieces, presented in restored prints, has been announced. The programme comprises 22 features and two documentaries, screened in either 2K or 4K. But for the first time no 35mm print will be screened at Cannes Classics “with regret for some or with celebration for others”, according to a statement.

Guest of honour will be Sophia Loren, who won the award for Best Actress at Cannes in 1961 and was president of the jury in 1966. She will be present at the screening of La Voce Humana (2014), directed by Edoardo Ponti, which marks her return to movies.

That same evening, a 4K restoration of 1964 film Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all’italiana) by Vittorio De Sica will be screened.

Loren has also accepted to give a masterclass - a conversation which will take place on the stage of Salle Buñuel.

• A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone (1964, 1h40)

• Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders (1984, 2h25)

• How Yukong Moved the Mountains by Marceline Loridan and Joris Ivens (1976, 1h11)

• Cruel Story of Youth by Nagisa Oshima (1960, 1h32)

• Wooden Crosses by Raymond Bernard (1931, 1h55)

• Overlord by Stuart Cooper (1975, 1h24)

• Angst by Roberto Rossellini (1954, 1h23)

• Blind Chance by Krzysztof Kieślowski (1981, 1h57)

• The Last Metro by François Truffaut (1980, 2h21)

• Dragon Inn by King Hu (1967, 1h51)

• Daybreak by Marcel Carné (1939, 1h31)

• Color of the Pomegranate by Sergei Parajanov (1968, 1h17)

• Leolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon (1992, 1h42)

• Gacious Living by Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1965, 1h30)

• Jamaica Inn by Alfred Hitchcock (1939, 1h40)

• Les Violons Du Bal by Michel Drach (1974, 1h44)

• Blue Mountains by Eldar Shengelaia (1983, 1h31)

• Lost Horizon by Frank Capra (1937, 2h12)

• The Bitch by Jean Renoir (1939, 1h35)

• Tokyo Orinpikku by Kon Ichikawa (1965, 2h)

Documentaries:

• Life Itself by Steve James (2014, 1h58)

• The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films by Hilla Medalia (2014, 1h30)

8½ (1963, 2h13) will screen as the opening film of the Cinéma de la Plage strand, the programme for which will be announced shortly."

Hope Tokyo Olympiad is cleared for more than just theatrical showings...

Looking forward to that Cannon doc, too.

Could Arrow (eventually) release that Cannon doc? Sounds intriguing and would make a good fit seeing as they're releasing quite a few films from that former studio via MGM.

For the A Fistful of Dollars restoration, any word on whether it's 2K or 4K? Perhaps it's one MGM may put out, seeing as they're re-releasing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on 4K Blu later this year.

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Fistful of Dollars is a 4K resto.

Tokyo Olympiad 2 hours? If so, cut by approx. 40 mins. from original release version.

8 1/2 will also show up in a new Gaumont resto.

Wow, a restoration of a King Hu film. Hopefully someone releases this restored Dragon Gate Inn now on home video.

does anyone know anything about this movie?

How Yukong Moved the Mountains by Marceline Loridan and Joris Ivens (1976, 1h11)

imdb has the running time at 763 minutes but the Cannes 2014 version is 1 hour 11 minutes?