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Last week, The Festival de Cannes announced the 2014 official selection. Included in the line-up are Grace of Monaco, Foxcatcher, Mr. Turner and Jimmy’s Hall.
Nicole Kidman and Tim Roth in Grace of Monaco
The last two, Mr. Turner and Jimmy’s Hall, are helmed by British directors, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach respectively. Both Loach and Leigh are regulars at the festival and previous winners of the coveted Palme d'Or.
L-R: Ken Loach and Mike Leigh
Mr. Turner is a biopic about the British painter JMW Turner, starring Timothy Spall.
Jimmy's Hall, about a political activist deported from Ireland during the country's 'Red Scare' in the 1930s. It is expected to be Loach's last feature film, as he approaches his 78th birthday.
Leigh won the Palme d’Or in 1996 for Secrets And Lies, while another of Loach's films set in Ireland, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, won a decade later.
Tom Linay, Head of Film, Digital Cinema Media, will return to the festival to report on the event and give us his unique view on as many entrants as possible. In short, our ‘Man in Cannes’ is back for another year.
Commenting on the upcoming festival, Tom says, “The Cannes Film Festival is still the most prestigious film festival in the world and you only need to see the list of film directors who are premièring their films there to see that it is held in the highest regards by filmmakers around the world.
"New films by David Cronenberg, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and the Dardennes Brothers are just a selection of the films in the official competition, while Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut is premièring as part of the Un Certain Regard competition. Out of competition is equally as intriguing with Nicole Kidman in Grace Of Monaco providing a fitting opener, Guy Pearce in Australian thriller The Rover in the midnight screening section and one of the summer’s biggest films, How To Train Your Dragon 2 receiving its world première out of competition. As always, the Cannes Film Festival is once again all set to be film lover’s dream.”
New Zealand film-maker Jane Campion will head the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
New Zealand Film-Maker and Cannes Jury Head , Jane Campion
The director is the only woman to win the coveted Palme d'Or, for The Piano in 1993.
She also holds the distinction as the only double winner, after her short film Peel picked up the top prize in that category in 1986.
This year, the festival will commence on 14 May and run until 25 May.
The official selection for this year’s festival can be found by visiting the Festival de Cannes site.