Tag: Palme d’Or
Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: Taxi Driver, 1976
We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Taxi Driver, 1976 Palme d’Or ‘Taxi Driver’ Named…
Happy as Lazzaro – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus
Lazzaro Felice / Happy as Lazzaro Alice Rohrwacher – Italy IN A NUTSHELL Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo), is a young peasant so good that he is…
Cold War – Festival de Cannes In Competition Prospectus
Zimna wojna / Cold War Paweł Pawlikowski – Poland IN A NUTSHELL This is director Pawlikowski’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Ida. Ziimma wojna is…
To Boo Or Not To Boo: Why Do People Boo At Cannes?
Booing at something, especially a film, is usually considered rather impolite. However at the Cannes Film Festival, it’s actually fairly common. Almost every year, the…
NZIFF Review: The Square
After a satisfyingly diverse NZIFF for 2017, all eyes were on the Closing Night film, Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning satire The Square. Not only…
Masterpiece Memo: Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear)
The Fifties, that squeaky-clean decade of that saw the birth of the suburbs, strict morality and, the McCarthy era, also had the misfortune to precede…
Festival de Cannes 2017 – Winners
Cinema#Cannes2017 Are Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay both winning this evening for You Were Never Really Here? — Robin Write (@WriteoutofLA) May 28, 2017 TOLD…
