Cannes 2014 Line-Up Led By The Rover, Maps To The Stars, Foxcatcher And More

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.

The 2014 Cannes Film Festival will run from May 14th to May 25th. Check out the line-up below and let us know which films have you most excited.

Official Competition:

“Captives” (Canada) dir. Atom Egoyan – 1h43m
“Foxcatcher” (U.S.A.) dir. Bennett Miller – 2h10m
“Goodbye To Language” (France) dir. Jean-Luc Godard – 1h10m
“The Homesman” (U.S.A./France) dir. Tommy Lee Jones – 2h02m
“Jimmy’s Hall” (U.K) dir. Ken Loach – 1h46m
“Leviathan” (Russia) dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev – 2h20m
“Maps To The Stars” (Canada) dir. David Cronenberg –
“The Marvel” (Italy) dir. Alice Rohrwacher -1h50m
“Mommy” (Canada) dir. Xavier Dolan – 2h20m
“Mr. Turner” (U.K) dir. Mike Leigh – 2h29m
“Saint Laurent” (France) dir. Bertrand Bonello — 2h15m
“The Search” (France) dir. Michel Hazavanicius – 2h40m
“Sils Maria” (France) dir. Olivier Assayas – 2h03m
“Still The Water” (Japan) dir. Naomi Kawase – 1h50m
“Timbuktu” dir. Abderrahmane Sissako – 1h40m
“Two Days One Night” (Belgium) dir. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardennes – 1h35m
“Wild Tales” (Argentina) dir. Damian Szifron – 1h55m
“Winter Sleep” (Turkey) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan – 3h16m

Opening Film:

“Grace Of Monaco” (U.S.A./France) dir. Olivier Dahan – 1h43m

Out Of Competition:

“Coming Home” (China) dir. Zhang Yimou – 1h51m
“How To Train Your Dragon 2” (U.S.A.) dir. Dean DeBlois – 1h45m

Un Certain Regard:

“Amour Fou” (dir. Jessica Hausner) – 1h36m
“Bird People” (dir. Pascale Ferran) – 2h07m
“The Blue Room” (dir. Mathieu Amalric) – 1h15m
“Charlie’s Country” (dir. Rolf De Heer) – 1h48m
“Eleanor Rigby” (dir. Ned Benson) – 1h59m
“Fantasia” (dir. Wang Chao) – 1h25m
“A Girl At My Door” (dir. July Jung) – 1h59m
“Harcheck mi Headro” (dir. Keren Yedaya) – 1h35m
“Jauja” (dir. Lisandro Alonso) – 1h41m
“Lost River” (dir. Ryan Gosling) – 1h45m
“The Misunderstood” (dir. Asia Argento) – 1h43m
“Party Girl” (dir. Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis) – 1h35m
“Run” (dir. Philippe Lacote) – 1h40m
“Salt Of The Earth” (dir. Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) – 1h40m
“Snow In Paradise” (dir. Andrew Hulme) – 1h28m
“Titli” (dir. Kanu Behl) – 2h04m
“Tourist” (dir. Ruben Ostlund) – 2h
“Unhappy Youth” (dir. Jaime Rosales) – 1h40m
“Xenia” (dir. Panos Koutras) – 2h03m

Midnight Screenings:

“The Rover” (dir. David Michod) – 1h40m
“The Salvation” (dir. Kristian Levring) – 1h30m
“The Target” (dir. Chang) – 1h39m

Special Screenings:

“Bridges Of Sarajevo” (anthology film) – 1h50m
“Caricaturists: Fantasies Of Democracy” (dir. Stephanie Valloatto) – 1h46m
“Eau Argentee” (dir. Mohammed Ossana) – 1h50m
“Les Gens Du Monde” (dir. Yves Yeuland) – 25m
“Maidan” (dir. Sergei Loznitsa) – 2h
“Red Army”  (dir. Polsky Gabe) – 1h25m