Nick's Flick Picks: The Cannes Film Festival

<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" leftmargin="35" rightmargin="35"> <table width=680><tr><td> <br> <TABLE cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=60% valign=center><Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399" Size=+3><b>Cannes Film Festival 1990</b></Font><br> <B><Font Color="#660066">Jury President:</Font> Bernardo Bertolucci</b><br> <Font Color="#660066">Other Jurors:</Font> Fanny Ardant, Bertrand Blier, Aleksei German, Fran&#231oise Giroud, Christopher Hampton, Anjelica Huston, Mira Nair, Sven Nykvist, Hayao Shibata</TD> <TD width=40% align=right valign=center><img src=cannes90tab.jpg></TD></TR></TABLE> <hr> <br> <TABLE cellpadding=3> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Palme d'Or:</b></Font></TD><TD width=66%><a href=wldheart.html><b>Wild at Heart</b></a>, USA, dir. David Lynch</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Grand Jury Prize:</b></Font></TD><TD width=66%><Font Color="#003399"><i>The Sting of Death</i></Font>, Japan, dir. K&#244hei Oguri<br> <a href=tilai.html><i>Tila&#239</i></a>, Burkina Faso, dir. Idrissa Ouedraogo</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Jury Prize:</b></Font></TD><TD width=66%><Font Color="#003399"><i>Hidden Agenda</i></Font>, UK, dir. Ken Loach</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Best Director:</b></Font></TD><TD width=66%><Font Color="#003399"><i>Taxi Blues</i></Font>, Pavel Lounguine</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Best Actress:</b></Font></TD><TD width=66%><Font Color="#003399"><i>The Interrogation</i></Font>, Krystyna Janda</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Best Actor:</b></Font></TD><TD width=66%><Font Color="#003399"><i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i></Font>, G&#233rard Depardieu</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Best Artistic Contribution:</TD><TD width=66%></b></Font> <Font Color="#003399"><i>Mother</i></Font>, Gleb Panfilov, director</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Technical Grand Prize:</TD><TD width=66%></b></Font> <Font Color="#003399"><i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i></Font>, Pierre Lhomme, cinematographer</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>FIPRESCI/International<br>     Critics Prize:</TD><TD width=66%></b></Font> <Font Color="#003399"><i>The Sting of Death</i></Font>, Japan, dir. K&#244hei Oguri</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:</b></Font></TD><TD width=66%><Font Color="#003399"><i>Everybody's Fine</i></Font>, Italy, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore</TD></TR> <TR><TD width=33%><Font Color="#003399"><b>Camera d'Or (first feature):</TD><TD width=66%></b></Font> <Font Color="#003399"><i>Freeze, Die, Come to Life</i></Font>, USSR, dir. Vitali Kanevsky</TD></TR> </TABLE> <hr> <br> <img src=cannes90t.jpg align=right width=200 height=75><Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066" Size=+1><b>Competition Films I Have Seen:</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><b>Ranked in order of preference</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-2>  <br></Font> <Font Color="#003399"><b>My Palme d'Or</b></Font><br> <a href=tilai.html><i>Tila&#239</i></a> <Font Face="Arial Narrow">(Burkina Faso, dir. Idrissa Ouedraogo)</Font> - Coolly shot tale of adultery manages a casual friskiness and an inexorable sense of tragedy. A deceptively expansive vision. </Font><br> <br> <a href=wldheart.html><i>Wild at Heart</i></a> <Font Face="Arial Narrow">(USA, dir. David Lynch)</Font> - A strange, discombobulated, boldly colored art-object with only minimal interest in coherence, for better and worse (<a href=wldheart.html>full review</a>) </Font><br> <br> <hr> <br> <img src=cannes90m.jpg align=right><Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066" Size=+1><b>Sidebar Selections I Have Seen:</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><b>Ranked in order of preference</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-2>  <br></Font> <a href=metroplt.html><i>Metropolitan</i></a> <Font Face="Arial Narrow">(Directors' Fortnight: USA, dir. Whit Stillman)</Font> - A highwire act of capturing a hoity-toity, relentlessly self-conscious milieu without getting infected. Delicious. </Font><br> <br> <a href=toslwang.html><i>To Sleep with Anger</i></a> <Font Face="Arial Narrow">(Directors' Fortnight: USA, dir. Charles Burnett)</Font> - Pitch and momentum a bit erratic, but a justly famous, beguilingly weird fable of trouble come home to roost </Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#003399"><i>The Comfort of Strangers</i></Font> <Font Face="Arial Narrow">(Out of Competition: USA, dir. Paul Schrader)</Font> - Spindly, sexy, atmospheric mystery survives rhythmic lapses and abandonment of sense. Walken, Mirren great. </Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#003399"><i>The Little Mermaid</i></Font> <Font Face="Arial Narrow">(Out of Competition: USA, dirs. John Musker and Ron Clements)</Font> - Infectious songs, appealing side-kicks, all of which the gal's prepared to toss for lame prince. Great villain. </Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#003399"><i>Longtime Companion</i></Font> <Font Face="Arial Narrow">(Un Certain Regard: USA, dir. Norman Ren&#233)</Font> - Full-hearted, well-intended drama about early years of AIDS yields some good performances, but it's a bit airy </Font><br> <br> <hr> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066"><b>Competition Films I'm Curious to See:</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><b>Ranked in order of interest; more on this year's lineup <a href="http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1990/allSelections.html" target="_new">here</a></b> (opens in a new window)</Font><br> <Font Size=-2>  <br></Font> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099902/"><i>Ju Dou</i></a>, China, dir. Zhang Yimou<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100274/"><i>Nouvelle vague</i></a>, Switzerland, dir. Jean-Luc Godard<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084548/"><i>The Interrogation</i></a>, Hungary, dir. Ryszard Bugajski<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131012/"><i>The Sting of Death</i></a>, Japan, dir. K&#244hei Oguri<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100928/"><i>White Hunter, Black Heart</i></a>, USA, dir. Clint Eastwood<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099768/"><i>Hidden Agenda</i></a>, UK, dir. Ken Loach<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097848/"><i>Mother</i></a>, USSR, dir. Gleb Panfilov<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099334/"><i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i></a>, France, dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066498/"><i>The Ear</i></a>, Czechoslovakia, dir. Karel Kachyna<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099341/"><i>Daddy Nostalgia</i></a>, France, dir. Bertrand Tavernier<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100508/"><i>Rodrigo D.: No Future</i></a>, Colombia, dir. Victor Manuel Gaviria<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099218/"><i>Captive of the Desert</i></a>, France, dir. Raymond Depardon<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100757/"><i>Taxi Blues</i></a>, USSR, dir. Pavel Lounguine<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099291/"><i>Come See the Paradise</i></a>, USA, dir. Alan Parker<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100681/"><i>Everybody's Fine</i></a>, Italy, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore<br> <br> <TABLE border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5><TR><TD valign=top><Font Color="#660066" Size=-1>Also in Competition</Font>:</TD><TD> <Font Size=-1> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100440/"><i>The King's Whore</i></a>, France, dir. Axel Corti<br> </Font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <hr> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066"><b>Sidebar Films I'm Curious to See:</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><b>Listed alphabetically; more on this year's lineup <a href="http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1990/allSelections.html" target="_new">here</a></b> (opens in a new window)</Font><br> <Font Size=-2>  <br></Font> <TABLE border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8><TR><TD valign=top><Font Color="#660066">Un Certain Regard</Font>:</TD><TD> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101003/"><i>Freeze, Die, Come to Life</i></a>, Russia, dir. Vitali Kanevsky<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099927/"><i>Song of the Exile</i></a>, Hong Kong/Taiwan, dir. Ann Hui<br> </TD></TR> <TR><TD valign=top><a href="http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/archives/1990/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new"><Font Color="#660066">Directors' Fortnight</Font></a>:</TD><TD> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099858/"><i>Alexandria, Now and Forever</i></a>, Egypt, dir. Youssef Chahine<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100389/"><i>Open Doors</i></a>, Italy, dir. Gianni Amelio<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099995/"><i>Swan Lake: The Zone</i></a>, Canada/USA/Ukraine, dir. Yuri Ilyenko<br> </TD></TR> <TR><TD valign=top><a href="http://www.semainedelacritique.com/EN/films/1990/1990_selection.php" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new"><Font Color="#660066">Critics' Week</Font></a>: </TD><TD> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123097/"><i>H2 Worker</i></a>, USA/Jamaica, dir. St&#233phanie Black<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100315/"><i>Overseas</i></a>, France, dir. Brigitte Ro&#252an<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100469/"><i>The Reflecting Skin</i></a>, UK, dir. Philip Ridley<br> </TD></TR> <TABLE border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8><TR><TD valign=top><Font Color="#660066">Out of Competition</Font>:</TD><TD> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202245/"><i>Artificial Paradise</i></a>, Yugoslavia, dir. Karpo Acimovic-Godina<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099329/"><i>Cry-Baby</i></a>, USA, dir. John Waters<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100998/"><i>Dreams</i></a>, Japan, dir. Akira Kurosawa<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099949/"><i>Korczak</i></a>, Poland, dir. Andrzej Wajda<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100269/"><i>No, or the Vainglory of Command</i></a>, Portugal, dir. Manoel de Oliveira<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100650/"><i>The Sun Also Shines at Night</i></a>, Italy, dirs. Paolo & Vittorio Taviani<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098606/"><i>The Voice of the Moon</i></a>, Italy, dir. Federico Fellini<br> </TD></TR></TABLE> <hr> <Font Face=Garamond> <table cellpadding=12><tr> <td>Trackbacks:</b></td> <td><b><a href=cannes90.html target="_top">Permalink</a></b></td> <td><b><a href=cannes.html target="_top">Cannes Page</a></b></td> <td><b><a href=movies90.html target="_top">1990</a></b></td> <td><b><a href=movarchs.html target="_top">Home</a></b></td> <td><b><a href="http://blog.nicksflickpicks.com" target="_new">Blog</a></b></td> <td><b><a href=email.html target="_top">E-Mail</a></b></td> </tr></table> </Font> </center> </body>