In the Special Presentations department, we have Cannes Palme D’or winner Blue is the Warmest Color, Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, Alfonso Cuarón‘s Gravity with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Glazer‘s Under the Skin with Scarlett Johansson, Devil’s Knot with Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon, Dom Hemingway starring Jude Law, Jim Jarmusch‘s Only Lovers Left Alive and Asghar Farhadi‘s The Past.
Take a look at the full list below.
GALAS
- American Dreams in China (dir. Peter Ho-Sun Chan) – Hong Kong/China
- The Art of the Steal (dir. Jonathan Sobol) – Canada
- August: Osage County (dir. John Wells) – USA
- Cold Eyes (dir. Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo) – South Korea
- The Fifth Estate (dir. Bill Condon) – USA [Opening Night Film]
- The Grand Seduction (dir. Don McKellar) – Canada
- Kill Your Darlings (dir. John Krokidas) – USA
- Life of Crime (dir. Daniel Schechter) – USA [Closing Night Film]
- The Love Punch (dir. Joel Hopkins) – France
- The Lunchbox (dir. Ritesh Batra) – India/France/Germany
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (dir. Justin Chadwick) – South Africa
- Parkland (dir. Peter Landesman) – USA
- The Railway Man (dir. Jonathan Teplitzky) – Australia/United Kingdom
- The Right Kind of Wrong (dir. Jeremiah Chechik) – Canada
- Shuddh Desi Romance (dir. Maneesh Sharma) – India
- Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon (dir. Mike Myers) – USA
- 12 Years a Slave (dir. Steve McQueen) – USA
- All Is By My Side (dir. John Ridley) – United Kingdom
- Attila Marcel (dir. Sylvain Chomet) – France
- Bad Words (dir. Jason Bateman) – USA
- Belle (dir. Amma Asante) – United Kingdom
- Blue Is the Warmest Color (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche) – France
- Burning Bush (dir. Agnieszka Holland) – Czech Republic
- Can a Song Save Your Life? (dir. John Carney) – USA
- Cannibal (Caníbal) (dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca) – Spain/Romania/Russia/France
- Dallas Buyers Club (dir. Jean-Marc Vallée) – USA
- Devil’s Knot (dir. Atom Egoyan) – USA
- The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (dir. Ned Benson) – USA
- Dom Hemingway (dir. Richard Shepard) – United Kingdom
- Don Jon (dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – USA
- The Double (dir. Richard Ayoade) – United Kingdom
- Enough Said (dir. Nicole Holofcener) – USA
- Exit Marrakech (dir. Caroline Link) – Germany
- Felony (dir. Matthew Saville) – Australia
- Gloria (dir. Sebastián Lelio) – Chile/Spain
- Going Away (Il est parti dimanche) (dir. Nicole Garcia) – France
- Gravity (dir. Alfonso Cuarón) – USA/United Kingdom
- The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) – Italy
- Hateship Loveship (dir. Liza Johnson) – USA
- Ida (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski) – Poland
- L’intrepido (dir. Gianni Amelio) – Italy
- The Invisible Woman (dir. Ralph Fiennes) – United Kingdom
- Joe (dir. David Gordon Green) – USA
- Labor Day (dir. Jason Reitman) – USA
- Like Father, Like Son (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) – Japan
- MARY Queen of Scots Thomas (dir. Imbach) – France/Switzerland
- Night Moves (dir. Kelly Reichardt) – USA
- Omar (dir. Hany Abu-Assad) – Palestine
- One Chance (dir. David Frankel) – USA
- Only Lovers Left Alive (dir. Jim Jarmusch) – USA
- The Past (Le Passé) (dir. Asghar Farhadi) – France/Italy
- Philomena (dir. Stephen Frears) – United Kingdom
- Pioneer (Pionér) (dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg) – Norway/Germany/Sweden/France/Finland
- Prisoners (dir. Denis Villeneuve) – USA
- Quai d’Orsay (dir. Bertrand Tavernier) – France
- REAL (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – Japan
- Starred Up (dir. David Mackenzie) – United Kingdom
- Third Person (dir. Paul Haggis) – Belgium
- Those Happy Years (Anni Felici) (dir. Daniele Luchetti) – Italy
- Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer) – USA/United Kingdom
- Violette (dir. Martin Provost) – France/Belgium
- Visitors (dir. Godfrey Reggio) – USA
- Walesa. Man of Hope. (Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei.) (dir. Andrzej Wajda) – Poland
- We are the Best! (Vi är bäst!) (dir. Lukas Moodysson) – Sweden
- Le Week-End (dir. Roger Michell) – United Kingdom
- You Are Here (dir. Matthew Weiner) – USA
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By: Matt Oakes
Started blogging about film in college when the university paper wouldn’t have him. Dislikes your consensus film Twitter favorites. Devotee of horror movies that make him die a little inside. Catches films at festivals when he can. Proud SFCS and OFCS member and Tomatometer-approved critic. Editor-in-chief of Silver Screen Riot.
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