Oscar nomination morning is fun, and it’s always exciting to find out what potentially major fall movies are debuting at Venice, Toronto, and the NYFF, but the day when the Cannes Film Festival titles are announced trumps them all. Still the most prestigious festival in the world, Cannes retains its reputation as the place where venerable masters of world cinema premiere their latest side-by-side with rising young filmmakers, to a gathering of critics and well-heeled cineastes who stand ready (or sit ready, more accurately) either to declare the next masterpiece or to try to boo a movie out of existence.
The Dissolve will have our favorite Cannes-goer Mike D’Angelo patrolling the Palais and filing daily reports when the festival begins on May 14th. And this morning, we have the list of movies that are going to be at the festival, in the main competition (the one that awards the Palme D’Or, given out by a jury that this year will be presided over by Jane Campion), in the Un Certain Regard section, at at other special screenings. These are just the titles and directors; we’ll know more about what some of these films actually are as the fest approaches. And later today, The Dissolve staff will pick the movies we’re most looking forward to seeing when they get released in the states.
OPENER
Grace Of Monaco, directed by Olivier Dahan
COMPETITION
Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye To Language), directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Captives, directed by Atom Egoyan
Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night), directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Foxcatcher, directed by Bennett Miller
Futatsume No Mado (Still The Water), directed by Naomi Kawase
The Homesman, directed by Tommy Lee Jones
Jimmy’s Hall, directed by Ken Loach
Kis Uykusu (Winter Sleep), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Leviathan, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev
Maps To The Stars, directed by David Cronenberg
La Meraviglie, directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan
Mr. Turner, directed by Mike Leigh
Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales), directed by Damian Szifron
Saint Laurent, directed by Bertrand Bonello
Sils Maria, directed by Olivier Assayas
The Search, directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako
OUT OF COMPETITION
Coming Home, directed by Zhang Yimou
How To Train Your Dragon 2, directed by Dean DeBlois
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Amour Fou, directed by Jessica Hausner
Bird People, directed by Pascale Ferran
La Chambre Bleu (The Blue Room), directed by Mathieu Amalric
Charlie’s Country, directed by Rolf de Heer
Dohee-ya (A Girl At My Door), directed by July Jung
Eleanor Rigby, directed by Ned Benson
Fantasia, directed by Wang Chao
Harcheck Mi Headro (Away From His Absence), directed by Keren Yedaya
Hermosa Juventud (Beautiful Youth), directed by Jaime Rosales
Incompresa (Misunderstood), directed by Asia Argento
Jauja, directed by Lisandro Alonso
Lost River, directed by Ryan Gosling
Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis
Run, directed by Philippe Lacote
The Salt Of The Earth, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Snow In Paradise, directed by Andrew Hulme
Titli, directed by Kanu Behl
Turist, directed by Ruben Ostlund
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Pyo Jeok (The Target), directed by Yoon Hong-seung (a.k.a. Chang)
The Rover, directed by David Michod
The Salvation, directed by Kristian Levring
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Caricaturistes – Fantassins De La Démocratie (Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy), directed by Stéphanie Valloatto
Eau Argentée, directed by Mohammed Ossama
Maidan, directed by Sergei Loznitsa
Les Ponts De Sarajevo (The Bridges Of Sarajevo), directed by Aida Begic, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde
Red Army, directed by Gabe Polsky