The official selections for the 67th Cannes Film Festival have been announced with a more mainstream than expected selection this year featuring quite a few films you've probably heard of.
New films are on over from such esteemed directors as David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Bennett Miller, Olivier Dahan, David Michod, Zhang Yimou, Atom Egoyan, Xavier Dolan, Ken Loach, Olivier Assayas, Rolf de Heer, Michel Hazanavicius, Mike Leigh, second-timer Tommy Lee Jones and first-timer Ryan Gosling.
Opening Film (Out of Competition):
"Grace of Monaco" – Olivier Dahan
Competition:
"The Captive" – Atom Egoyan
"Clouds of Sils Maria" – Olivier Assayas
"Two Days, One Night" – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes
"Foxcatcher" – Bennett Miller
"Goodbye to Language" – Jean-Luc Godard
"The Homesman" – Tommy Lee Jones
"Jimmy's Hall" – Ken Loach
"Leviathan" – Andrey Zvyagintsev
"Le Meraviglie" – Alice Rohrwacher
"Maps to the Stars" – David Cronenberg
"Mommy" – Xavier Dolan
"Mr. Turner" – Mike Leigh
"Saint Laurent" – Bertrand Bonello
"The Search" – Michel Hazanavicius...
New films are on over from such esteemed directors as David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Bennett Miller, Olivier Dahan, David Michod, Zhang Yimou, Atom Egoyan, Xavier Dolan, Ken Loach, Olivier Assayas, Rolf de Heer, Michel Hazanavicius, Mike Leigh, second-timer Tommy Lee Jones and first-timer Ryan Gosling.
Opening Film (Out of Competition):
"Grace of Monaco" – Olivier Dahan
Competition:
"The Captive" – Atom Egoyan
"Clouds of Sils Maria" – Olivier Assayas
"Two Days, One Night" – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes
"Foxcatcher" – Bennett Miller
"Goodbye to Language" – Jean-Luc Godard
"The Homesman" – Tommy Lee Jones
"Jimmy's Hall" – Ken Loach
"Leviathan" – Andrey Zvyagintsev
"Le Meraviglie" – Alice Rohrwacher
"Maps to the Stars" – David Cronenberg
"Mommy" – Xavier Dolan
"Mr. Turner" – Mike Leigh
"Saint Laurent" – Bertrand Bonello
"The Search" – Michel Hazanavicius...
- 4/17/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Cinephiles, rejoice! The Cannes Film Festival has announced its 2014 line-up today and as usual, it’s pretty damn impressive. A lot of the movies announced were already expected to play at the prestigious fest, but there are definitely a few surprises as well.
Leading the way is Nicole Kidman’s Grace of Monaco, which will be the opener. Following that we’ll have David Cronenberg’s promising Maps to the Stars and Animal Kingdom helmer David Michod’s The Rover, two films that I absolutely cannot wait to see. Joining them will be Bennett Miller’s Oscar-hopeful Foxcatcher as well as Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria. The Artist director Michel Hazavanicius will be here too with his new film The Search, and Mike Leigh returns with Mr. Turner. But that only scratches the surface, and there’s still more to come, as next week will see the announcement of the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight line-ups.
Leading the way is Nicole Kidman’s Grace of Monaco, which will be the opener. Following that we’ll have David Cronenberg’s promising Maps to the Stars and Animal Kingdom helmer David Michod’s The Rover, two films that I absolutely cannot wait to see. Joining them will be Bennett Miller’s Oscar-hopeful Foxcatcher as well as Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria. The Artist director Michel Hazavanicius will be here too with his new film The Search, and Mike Leigh returns with Mr. Turner. But that only scratches the surface, and there’s still more to come, as next week will see the announcement of the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight line-ups.
- 4/17/2014
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Cannes has announced the lineup for the Official Competition and Un Certain Regard section, as well as special screenings, for the 67th edition of the festival.
Competition
Opening Night: Grace de Monaco (Olivier Dahan)
Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
Kis Uykusu (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Deux jours, une nuit (Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
Captives (Atom Egoyan)
Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)
Futatsume no Mado (Naomi Kawase)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach)
Fox Catcher (Bennett Miller)
Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Relatos Salvajes (Damian Szifron)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Un Certain Regard
Opening Night: Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
La Chambre Bleue (Mathieu Amalric)
Incompresa (Asia Argento)
Titli (Kanu Behl)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Ned Benson)
Bird People...
Competition
Opening Night: Grace de Monaco (Olivier Dahan)
Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
Kis Uykusu (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Deux jours, une nuit (Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
Captives (Atom Egoyan)
Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)
Futatsume no Mado (Naomi Kawase)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach)
Fox Catcher (Bennett Miller)
Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Relatos Salvajes (Damian Szifron)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Un Certain Regard
Opening Night: Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
La Chambre Bleue (Mathieu Amalric)
Incompresa (Asia Argento)
Titli (Kanu Behl)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Ned Benson)
Bird People...
- 4/17/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
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...
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...
- 4/17/2014
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The full lineup of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival has been announced.
Among the movies announced at today's press conference are directorial efforts from Ryan Gosling, Tommy Lee Jones, Olivier Assayas, Atom Egoyan, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Hazanavicius, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, David Cronenberg, Wim Wenders and the Dardenne brothers.
Read the full lineup below:
Main Competition:
Adieu au Langage (Farewell to Language) by Jean-Luc Godard
Captives by Atom Egoyan
Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night) by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Foxcatcher by Bennett Miller
Futatsume No Mado (Deux Fenêtres) by Naomi Kawase
The Homesman by Tommy Lee Jones
Jimmy's Hall by Ken Loach
Kis Uykusu (Sommeil D'hiver) (Winter Sleep) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Le Meraviglie by Alice Rohrwacher
Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg
Mommy by Xavier Dolan
Mr Turner by Mike Leigh
Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) by Damian Szifron
Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello...
Among the movies announced at today's press conference are directorial efforts from Ryan Gosling, Tommy Lee Jones, Olivier Assayas, Atom Egoyan, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Hazanavicius, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, David Cronenberg, Wim Wenders and the Dardenne brothers.
Read the full lineup below:
Main Competition:
Adieu au Langage (Farewell to Language) by Jean-Luc Godard
Captives by Atom Egoyan
Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night) by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Foxcatcher by Bennett Miller
Futatsume No Mado (Deux Fenêtres) by Naomi Kawase
The Homesman by Tommy Lee Jones
Jimmy's Hall by Ken Loach
Kis Uykusu (Sommeil D'hiver) (Winter Sleep) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Le Meraviglie by Alice Rohrwacher
Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg
Mommy by Xavier Dolan
Mr Turner by Mike Leigh
Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) by Damian Szifron
Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello...
- 4/17/2014
- Digital Spy
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled in Paris.
At a press conference at the Ugc Normandie movie theatre on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux is set to reveal the 49 features from 28 countries selected for inclusion in this year’s festival, which runs from May 14-25.
As previously announced, Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, will be the opening film on May 14, out of competition.
Last week, Party Girl was named as the opening film of the Un Certain Regard strand. The debut feature is from co-directors Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis.
As previously announced, the competition jury will be presided over by New Zealand director, producer and scriptwriter Jane Campion.
Competition
Jury chair: Jane Campion
Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas
Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello
Kis Uykusu (Winter’S Sleep) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg
Deux Jours...
At a press conference at the Ugc Normandie movie theatre on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux is set to reveal the 49 features from 28 countries selected for inclusion in this year’s festival, which runs from May 14-25.
As previously announced, Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, will be the opening film on May 14, out of competition.
Last week, Party Girl was named as the opening film of the Un Certain Regard strand. The debut feature is from co-directors Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis.
As previously announced, the competition jury will be presided over by New Zealand director, producer and scriptwriter Jane Campion.
Competition
Jury chair: Jane Campion
Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas
Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello
Kis Uykusu (Winter’S Sleep) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg
Deux Jours...
- 4/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled in Paris.
At a press conference at the Ugc Normandie movie theatre on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux is set to reveal the 49 features from 28 countries selected for inclusion in this year’s festival, which runs from May 14-25.
As previously announced, Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, will be the opening film on May 14, out of competition.
Last week, Party Girl was named as the opening film of the Un Certain Regard strand. The debut feature is from co-directors Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis.
As previously announced, the competition jury will be presided over by New Zealand director, producer and scriptwriter Jane Campion.
Competition
Jury chair: Jane Campion
Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas
Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello
Kis Uykusu (Sommeil D’Hiver) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg
Deux Jours...
At a press conference at the Ugc Normandie movie theatre on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux is set to reveal the 49 features from 28 countries selected for inclusion in this year’s festival, which runs from May 14-25.
As previously announced, Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, will be the opening film on May 14, out of competition.
Last week, Party Girl was named as the opening film of the Un Certain Regard strand. The debut feature is from co-directors Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis.
As previously announced, the competition jury will be presided over by New Zealand director, producer and scriptwriter Jane Campion.
Competition
Jury chair: Jane Campion
Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas
Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello
Kis Uykusu (Sommeil D’Hiver) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg
Deux Jours...
- 4/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux sent out mixed messages in his -- very long, as usual -- preamble to announcing this year's Cannes Film Festival lineup. First he mentioned a focus on newer, fresher filmmakers, but mentioned elsewhere that "Cannes is an event for the regulars." Predictably enough, the latter statement turned out to be closer to the truth: of the 18 films competing for this year's Palme d'Or, 13 have been to the dance before. (And of the Competition virgins, Bennett Miller and Xavier Dolan are hardly unknowns.) Early on, meanwhile, Fremaux made the initially bold statement that 15 women were in the Official Selection, promising a bounty of female directors for jury president Jane Campion to consider. It turned out to be a slight manipulation of the truth: several of those women are involved in portmanteau films, while only two of them -- Naomi Kawase and surprise inclusion Alice Rohrwacher...
- 4/17/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 27 Feb 2014 - 05:54
Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2010, and another 25 overlooked gems...
By 2010, Hollywood’s obsession with 3D movies was in full swing. James Cameron’s Avatar may have given audiences a taste of what the cutting edge of stereoscope could look like, but it has to be said that the movies ushered into cinemas in its wake were a decidedly mixed bunch. Toy Story 3's 3D was extraordinarily effective, yet Clash Of The Titans looked like a blurry mess. How To Train Your Dragon came to life in its flying sequences, but the less said about the horribly murky Last Airbender, the better.
Unless we’re mistaken, none of the movies on this list were shot or released in 3D, and few of them did particularly stellar business. A few got a certain amount of critical acclaim,...
Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2010, and another 25 overlooked gems...
By 2010, Hollywood’s obsession with 3D movies was in full swing. James Cameron’s Avatar may have given audiences a taste of what the cutting edge of stereoscope could look like, but it has to be said that the movies ushered into cinemas in its wake were a decidedly mixed bunch. Toy Story 3's 3D was extraordinarily effective, yet Clash Of The Titans looked like a blurry mess. How To Train Your Dragon came to life in its flying sequences, but the less said about the horribly murky Last Airbender, the better.
Unless we’re mistaken, none of the movies on this list were shot or released in 3D, and few of them did particularly stellar business. A few got a certain amount of critical acclaim,...
- 2/26/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Clint Eastwood Western persona co-creator dead at 87: Luciano Vincenzoni (photo: Clint Eastwood in ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’) Screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni, whose nearly five-decade career included collaborations with Mario Monicelli, Pietro Germi, and Sergio Leone, died of cancer on Sunday, September 22, 2013, in Rome. Vincenzoni (born on March 7, 1926, in Treviso, near Venice) was 87. In the late ’50s, Luciano Vincenzoni co-wrote Mario Monicelli’s The Great War / La Grande guerra (1959), a humorous (if overlong) World War I comedy-drama starring Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi as reluctant conscripts that earned a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nomination and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (tied with Roberto Rossellini’s Il Generale della Rovere). Vincenzoni was also partly responsible for the screenplay of two well-regarded Pietro Germi movies: the omnibus comedy of manners The Birds, the Bees and the Italians / Signore & signori (1966), featuring Virna Lisi and Franco Fabrizi,...
- 9/26/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Producer of Pier Paolo Pasolini's early films
Though an enterprising film producer, often ahead of his times, Alfredo Bini, who has died aged 83, is best remembered for having given the poet Pier Paolo Pasolini the chance to make his debut as a film-maker with Accattone (1960), when no other film company was prepared to back it. Bini produced more than 40 films, including all the features made by Pasolini up until 1967, including Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St Matthew, 1964). Among his other films were many starring his wife, Rosanna Schiaffino.
Bini was born in Livorno, Tuscany, and, during the second world war, ran away from home to join the army. He was wounded and got a medal, but went back to finish his studies in biology. He soon gave up the idea of a scientific career and in 1945 moved to Rome, where, after taking on various jobs, he managed a theatre group.
Though an enterprising film producer, often ahead of his times, Alfredo Bini, who has died aged 83, is best remembered for having given the poet Pier Paolo Pasolini the chance to make his debut as a film-maker with Accattone (1960), when no other film company was prepared to back it. Bini produced more than 40 films, including all the features made by Pasolini up until 1967, including Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St Matthew, 1964). Among his other films were many starring his wife, Rosanna Schiaffino.
Bini was born in Livorno, Tuscany, and, during the second world war, ran away from home to join the army. He was wounded and got a medal, but went back to finish his studies in biology. He soon gave up the idea of a scientific career and in 1945 moved to Rome, where, after taking on various jobs, he managed a theatre group.
- 11/2/2010
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
Italian model and film actor, she left the cinema and joined the jet set
Rosanna Schiaffino, who has died aged 69, was one of those Italian beauty queens who began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the 1950s. She gave up the cinema in the 1970s and married the handsome playboy and steel industry heir Giorgio Falck. Their marriage and, a decade later, their break-up and divorce, had overtones of melodrama more piquant than the content of any of the 45 films in which Schiaffino had starred.
She was born in Genoa, in north Italy, into a well-off family and, although her father wanted her to pursue studies as a surveyor, her mother encouraged her showbusiness ambitions, helping her to study privately at a drama school and then to take part in beauty contests, which she usually won. These led to modelling jobs, with photographs in important magazines, including Life.
Rosanna Schiaffino, who has died aged 69, was one of those Italian beauty queens who began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the 1950s. She gave up the cinema in the 1970s and married the handsome playboy and steel industry heir Giorgio Falck. Their marriage and, a decade later, their break-up and divorce, had overtones of melodrama more piquant than the content of any of the 45 films in which Schiaffino had starred.
She was born in Genoa, in north Italy, into a well-off family and, although her father wanted her to pursue studies as a surveyor, her mother encouraged her showbusiness ambitions, helping her to study privately at a drama school and then to take part in beauty contests, which she usually won. These led to modelling jobs, with photographs in important magazines, including Life.
- 11/18/2009
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
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