Comments on: The 10 Biggest Cannes Palme d’Or Blunders

By: jrose

jrose — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

You could pick a number of years for this.

How about 1996? Mike Leigh's good but, in retrospect, not great "Secrets and Lies" beat out both "Breaking the Waves" and "Fargo."

I haven't seen 1975's "Chronicles of the Year of Fire" – in fact I never heard of it before – but it beat Scorsese's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," Herzog's "Kaspar Hauser," and Antonioni's "The Passenger."

By: yer

yer — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

David Cronenbergâs âThree Burials Of Melquiades Estrada,â

lol do you guys ever proofread??

By: Marshall

Marshall — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

Melquiades Estrada was directed by Tommy Lee Jones! (Not David Cronenberg)

By: owdl114

owdl114 — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

'Arguably his best film'? I've never heard that argument about The Wind That Shakes The Barley. To my knowledge Kes (my vote), Land and Freedom, Sweet Sixteen and My Name is Joe are held in higher regard in his oeuvre. Thoughts?

By: Nathan Duke

Nathan Duke — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

I sorta agree with most of these, with the exception of "L'Enfant," which may have not been my choice out of the selections, but is still a great movie. On the other hand, I wouldn't have minded if another film had taken top prize over the Dardennes' 1999 Palm d'Or winner, "Rosetta," which I think is their most overrated. And, personally, I would have rather seen "Woman in the Dunes" or "Pasazerka" win over "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," which I liked but not as much as the aforementioned other two, in 1964.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

Uh, to call Wong Kar Wei's "2046" a "misstep" is pretty misguided.

By: AAAanaya

AAAanaya — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

I was hopeing to see Wild at Heart on here, but I guess I really am the only person who hates that movie.

By: MDL

MDL — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

This is sort of a hindsight is 20/20 list. You should have considered who was on each jury and what the political situation was at the time. These are reasons certain films win. 'Barton Fink' won in part because Polanski was the jury president and the film almost an homage to his work. The year Taste of Cherry won [1997] it was a last minute entry that was snuck out of the country so the jury felt duty bound to give it the Palm. Same with Fahrenheit 9/11. Also the buzz on a film can carry it to the win. Certain films don't get talked about until years later.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

L'Enfant in a list of the worst Palme D'Or winners?

Yet another reminder why I never read reviews by the staff.

By: sreekant

sreekant — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

"But Ken Loach doesn't scream Palme D'Or to us" then why did they nominate Ken Loachâs âMy Name Is Joeâ???? they write just because they can….

By: Mia

Mia — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

Babel is pure crap.

By: Stella

Stella — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

It's "Angelopoulos" not "Angelopolous".

By: Ivan CasajÃºs

Ivan CasajÃºs — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

Don't remember where I've read it, but Tarantino struggled to make 'OldBoy' the winner but he had some pression from the Weinstein to vote for Moore's flick(?)

By: Grego

Grego — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

Yes, some of these are interesting, but some of your choices here really make me question why I read you guys. Notably, the 2004 entry. 2046 a misstep? Not Wong's best film, maybe, but a misstep? Which finished #2 on the Village Voice poll that year…ok. And to say Oldboy is a better film than Tropical Malady is just, well, to put it one way, not very pretentious, and to put it another way, just incorrect.

By: inderweltsein

inderweltsein — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

Removing the Palme from 'Eternity and A Day' is strange, it is one of the greatest films of the last 30 or 40 years…

By: Whodatninja

Whodatninja — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

Well these are like just your opinions man. Except the bit about Moore. That seems spot on.

By: alp

alp — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

That's it. After yet another boneheaded "our opinion is fact" piece where the opinions are envy-based hipster-tripe, I am finally inspired to create my own opinion-based blog. See yall at the Pulitzer ceremony. PEACE

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:26:15 +0000

Just for fun, because why not.

My Ten Worst / Most Undeserving Palm winners, and what I'd replace them with for that year.

2004: Fahrenheit 9/11 —> Tropical Malady
2001: The Son's Room (not terrible, but not too strong) —> In Praise of Love or Mulholland Dr.
2000: Dancer in the Dark —> Yi Yi or In the Mood for Love
1994: Pulp Fiction —> Three Colors: Red
1990: Wild at Heart —> Nouvelle Vague
1986: The Mission —> The Sacrifice
1982: Missing / The Way —> Passion or Moonlighting (note: this was a really weak year)
1980: All That Jazz / Kagemusha —> Mon Oncle d'Amerique
1966: A Man and a Woman / The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians —> Chimes at Midnight
1957: Friendly Persuasion —> A Man Escaped