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The world's glitziest film festivalHeld annually on the French Riviera • Rich last attended Cannes in 2008 | |||
71st Cannes Film Festival8-19 May 2018 in France
Opening film: EVERYBODY KNOWS Closing film: THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE | 2 0 1 8 A W A R D S | ||
Palme d'Or: SHOPLIFTERSGrand Prix: BLACKkKLANSMAN Jury prize: CAPERNAUM Queer Palm: GIRL Camera d'Or: GIRL Director: Pawel Pawlikowski (COLD WAR) Screenplay: Alice Rohrwacher (HAPPY AS LAZZARO) and Nader Saeivar (3 FACES) Actress: Samal Yeslyamova (MY LITTLE ONE) Actor: Marcello Fonte (DOGMAN) Honorary Palme d'Or: Jean-Luc Godard (IMAGE BOOK) Chopard Trophy: Elizabeth Debicki and Joe Alwyn Carrosse d'Or: Martin Scorsese L'Oeil d'Or: SAMOUNI Fipresci - Competition: BURNING Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: GIRL Fipresci - Parallel Sections: ONE DAY Critics' Week: DIAMANTINO Rising Star: Felix Maritaud (SAUVAGE) Ecumenical Prize: CAPERNAUM Cinefondation: THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION |
Un Certain Regard: BORDERUn Certain Regard Jury Prize: THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS Un Certain Regard - Director: Sergei Loznitza (DONBASS) Un Certain Regard - Screenplay: Meryem Benm'Barek (SOFIA) Un Certain Regard - Performance: Victor Polster (GIRL) SACD - Critics' Week: WOMAN AT WAR SACD - Director's Fortnight: EN LIBERTE Label Europa Cinemas: TROPPA GRAZIA Art Cinema: CLIMAX Prix Francois Chalais: YOMEDDINE Gan Foundation: SIR Illy Award: SKIP DAY Soundtrack Award: Roma Zver & German Osipov (SUMMER) Palm Dog: DOGMAN Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize: DIAMANTINO Dogmanitarian Award: Vanessa Davies and the Patricks | ||
| S E L E C T 2 0 1 8 F I L M S | |||
10 YEARS IN THAILAND (Assara/Weerasethakul/etc)ANGEL FACE (Filho) ARCTIC (Penna) ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi) ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia) AT WAR (Brize) AYKA (Dvortsevoy) 
BIRDS OF PASSAGE (Guerra/Gallego, Col)
BLACKkKLANSMAN (Lee, US)
BORDER (Abbasi, Swe)
BURNING (Lee, Kor)
CAPERNAUM (Labaki, Leb)CARMEN Y LOLA (Echevarria)
CLIMAX (Noe, Fr)
COLD WAR (Pawlikowski, Pol)DEAD SOULS (Wang) DEAR SON (Attia)
DOGMAN (Garrone, It)DONBASS (Loznitsa) EUPHORIA (Golino) EVERYBODY KNOWS (Farhadi)
THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES (Cousins, UK)
FAHRENHEIT 451 (Bahrani, US)
GIRL (Dhont, Bel)GIRLS OF THE SUN (Husson) LE GRAND BAIN (Lellouche) O GRANDE CIRCO MISTICO (Diegues) HAPPY AS LAZARO (Rohrwacher)
THE HARVESTERS (Kallos, SA)
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Von Trier, Den) |
IN MY ROOM (Kohler)KNIFE + HEART (Gonzalez) LE LIVRE D'IMAGE (Godard)
LEAVE NO TRACE (Granik, US)LETO (Serebrennikov) LITTLE TICKLES (Bescond/Metayer) LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi) THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE (Gilliam)
MANDY (Cosmatos, Bel)
MIRAI (Hosoda, Jpn)
MY BEST FRIEND (Deus, Arg)
RAFIKI (Kahiu, Ken)
SAUVAGE (Vidal-Naquet, Fr)SEXTAPE (Desrosieres)
SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda, Jpn)
SOFIA (Benm'barek, Fr)
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (Howard, UK)SORRY ANGEL (Honore) THE SPY GONE NORTH (Yoon) THE STATE AGAINST MANDELA AND THE OTHERS (Champeaux/Porte) THREE FACES (Panahi) TO THE FOUR WINDS (Toesca) LA TRAVERSEE (Goupil) TROPPA GRAZIA (Zanasi) UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (Mitchell)
WHITNEY (Macdonald, US)
THE WILD PEAR TREE (Ceylan, Tur)
WILDLIFE (Dano, US)YOMEDDINE (Shawky) | ||
70th Cannes Film Festival17-28 May 2017 in France
| 2 0 1 7 A W A R D S | ||
Palme d'Or: THE SQUAREGrand Prix: 120 BEATS PER MINUTE Jury prize: LOVELESS Queer Palm: 120 BEATS PER MINUTE Camera d'Or: JEUNE FEMME Director: Sofia Coppola (THE BEGUILED) Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou (THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER) and Lynne Ramsay (YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE) Actress: Diane Kruger (IN THE FADE) Actor: Joaquin Phoenix (YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE) 70th Anniversary Prize: Nicole Kidman Honorary Palme d'Or: Jeffrey Katzenberg Chopard Trophy: Anya Taylor-Joy and George MacKay Carrosse d'Or: Werner Herzog Fipresci - Competition: 120 BEATS PER MINUTE Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: CLOSENESS Fipresci - Parallel Sections: THE NOTHING FACTORY Critics' Week: MAKALA Ecumenical Jury: RADIANCE Vulcain Prize: Josefin Asberg (THE SQUARE) Cinefondation: PAUL IS HERE |
Un Certain Regard: A MAN OF INTEGRITYUn Certain Regard Jury Prize: APRIL'S DAUGHTER Un Certain Regard - Director: Taylor Sheridan (WIND RIVER) Un Certain Regard - Performance: Jasmine Trinca (FORTUNATA) SACD - Critics' Week: AVA SACD - Director's Fortnight: LET THE SUN SHINE IN and L'AMANT D'UN JOUR L'Oeil d'Or: FACES PLACES Poetry of Cinema Award: BARBARA Label Europa Cinemas: A CIAMBRA Visionary Award: GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN Art Cinema: THE RIDER Prix Canal+: THE BEST FIREWORKS EVER Prix Francois Chalais: 120 BEATS PER MINUTE Gan Foundation: GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN Soundtrack Award: Oneohtrix Point Never (GOOD TIME) Palm Dog: Einstein (THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES) Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize: Lupo (AVA) Palm Dog Manitarian Award: Leslie Caron and Tchi Tchi | ||
| R E V I E W E D 2 0 1 7 F I L M S | |||
A CIAMBRA (Carpignano, It)
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL (Miike, Jpn)
THE BEGUILED (Coppola, US)
BRIGSBY BEAR (McCary, US)
BUSHWICK (Murnion/Milott, US)
THE DOUBLE LOVER [L'Amant Double] (Ozon, Fr)
FACES PLACES (Varda/JR, Fr)
FILMWORKER (Zierra, US)
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Baker, US)
A GENTLE CREATURE (Loznitsa, Rus)
GOOD TIME (Safdie/Safdie, US)
HAPPY END (Haneke, Fr)
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES (Mitchell, UK)
I AM NOT A WITCH (Nyoni, UK)
IN THE FADE (Akin, Ger)
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER (Cohen/Shenk, US)
JEUNE FEMME (Serraille, Fr)
JUPITER'S MOON (Mundruczo, Hun)
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Lanthimos, UK)
THE KING (Jarecki, US) |
LET THE SUN SHINE IN (Denis, Fr)
LOVELESS (Zvyagintsev, Rus)
THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Baumbach, US)
OKJA (Bong, Kor)
120 BEATS PER MINUTE (Campillo, Fr)
PATTI CAKE$ (Jasper, US)
THE PRINCE OF NOTHINGWOOD (Kronlund, Fr)
A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN (Sauvaire, UK)
REDOUBTABLE (Hazanavicius, Fr)
RISK (Poitras, Ger)
SICILIAN GHOST STORY (Grassadonia/Piazza, It)
THE SQUARE (Ostlund, Swe)
TEHRAN TABOO (Soozandeh, Ger)
TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL (Campion, Aus)
TWIN PEAKS (Lynch, US)
WESTERN (Grisebach, Ger)
WIND RIVER (Sheridan, US)
WONDERSTRUCK (Haynes, US)
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Ramsay, UK)* review to come | ||
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