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Jul 3, 1992 · “Zentropa,” originally titled “Europa,” won both the directing award and a technical prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, although both together did not satisfy Von Trier. Clearly thinking his film deserved the Palme d’Or (which went to “Barton Fink” for a film with certain similarities), he gave the jury the finger and stalked ...
- Anatomy of A Fall
- Miss Julie
- Wild at Heart
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven
- The Lost Weekend
- Taxi Driver
- Sex, Lies and Videotape
- Gate of Hell
- The Leopard
- The Piano
The most recent Palme d’Or winner is a stern procedural underpinned with a touching family dynamic. Sandra Huller stars as an author who stands accused of murdering her husband, with their partially sighted child placed at the forefront of a criminal trial and media circus. Much of the film is as icy as its foreboding Alpine backdrop, but shines mo...
Both director Alf Sjöberg and playwright August Strindberg are legends of the Swedish stage, but in 1951 the former was able to bring the Palme back to Stockholm for his second victory with this riveting adaptation of Miss Julie, powered by fine performances from Anita Björk and Ulf Palme. For the uninitiated, Miss Julie is a dramatic work from 188...
It may surprise you to hear that Lynch’s only Palme d’Or came for this wild card, rather than the more cerebral Mulholland Drive or conventional The Elephant Man. Instead the jury was most charmed with this enthralling of a life on the run that demonstrates the great surrealist director at his most energetic and unhinged. Much of the manic tone is ...
An example of Cannes using its platform to showcase progressive and socially conscious cinema, The Working Class Goes to Heaven is a rare beast of a black comedy that manages to embrace the solidarity of working class labourers and find comedy where others would place trite idealism. Director Elio Petri cut his teeth with ‘Eurocrime’ thrillers in t...
Wilder’s The Lost Weekend is one of few movies to have won both the Palme d’Or and Best Picture (most recently Parasiterepeated the trick), indicative that its undeniable quality and sobering impact of this tale of alcoholism. The drama is truly anchored by Ray Milland’s performance as a writer addled by the allure of the drink, and Jane Wyman’s eq...
Once considered the masterpiece of Martin Scorsese’s storied career, Taxi Driver has begun to take a backseat (pun intended) to his more mature, often mafia-focused, dramas in recent critical evaluations. After all, his 1976 award-winner plot has been so often imitated that the ‘angry white man driven crazy by society’ arc seems hackneyed through m...
Among the myriad accomplishments of Steven Soderbergh’s unique career in film, the fact that he became the youngest ever Palme d’Or winner in 1989 for Sex, Lies, and Videotape – the film that fully pronounced a new age of American independent cinema – seems to get overlooked. Set in the baking heat of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the film’s overriding m...
To talk about Gate of Hell, the viewer must first remove their jaw from the ground, where it has no doubt spent the last hour-and-a-half gazing at the inimitable pallet and meticulous compositions of Kinugasa’s first color feature. That a director renowned for his silent horror masterpiece A Page of Madness (1926)proved such a dab hand at a classic...
A stone-cold classic of ‘world cinema’, The Leopard debuted in America to lukewarm reviews for an edited, dubbed version, whilst the original won countless plaudits and the big prize at Cannes. This is to say that to appreciate and understand Visconti’s most famous film, you must view the full breadth and scope of his vision in all of its 3-hour gl...
Jane Campion became the first female winner of the Palme d’Or for The Piano, a searing drama that highlights her keen ability to outwardly explore feminist ideas by examining the damaged inner workings of masculinity. This is balanced with Campion’s clear preoccupation with formalist filmmaking as each shot and each movement of the camera is crafte...
Every Palme d’Or Winner from the Cannes Film Festival, Ranked. From "Pulp Fiction" to "Anatomy of a Fall," some of the greatest movies of all time have won Cannes' top prize, while others...
- Apocalypse Now. 1979. 136 votes. Apocalypse Now, a war drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, plunges its audience into the heart of darkness that is the Vietnam War.
- Triangle of Sadness. 2022. 5 votes. Triangle of Sadness is a satirical black comedy that casts a critical eye on the world of fashion, wealth, and power dynamics.
- Pulp Fiction. 1994. 136 votes. Pulp Fiction, a quintessential Quentin Tarantino piece, is a genre-defying blend of crime, drama, and black comedy. The film intricately weaves the lives of two hitmen - Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), with a washed-up boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), and a mob boss's wife Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman).
- Taxi Driver. 1976. 128 votes. Taxi Driver unfolds as a brooding psychological drama, tracing the slow descent into madness of a Vietnam War veteran turned New York City cabbie.
May 13, 2014 · During the ’90s, Zentropa’s back-to-basics Dogme 95 movement — which demanded directors shoot in digital, using only natural light and sound — hit the indie movie industry like a freight train...
All Palme d'Or (or Grand Prix du Festival) winners from 1939 to 2017. The highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival was called "Grand Prix du Festival" from 1946 to 1954 and again from 1964 to 1974.
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Jul 5, 2021 · In the first year that Cannes started calling their top prize the Palme D’Or, the Delbert Mann drama and romance based on the Paddy Chayefsky teleplay won four Oscars, including Best Picture ...
