Favorite Palme D'Or Winners

[QUENTIN]

We've done this with the Oscar's Best Picture winners a few times, I thought it might be fun to try it with the more prestigious, international version.

1.) Taxi Driver
2.) Pulp Fiction (my two favorite movies)
3.) Apocalypse Now
4.) Paris, Texas
5.) The Leopard
6.) The Third Man
7.) If...
8.) The White Ribbon
9.) sex, lies, and videotape
10.) The Tree of Life

The Next Ten: Rome, Open City, The Tragedy of Othello, The Wages of Fear, Black Orpheus, La Dolce Vita, Viridiana, Blow-Up, The Conversation, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, The Ballad of Narayama

Their choices since 2001 have all been great films, L'Enfant could just as easily be replaced by Fahrenheit 9/11 or 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.

For a list of all winners: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or

[Monotreme]

Great topic! Can't believe this hasn't been done before.

Anyway, these would be my picks:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Piano
5. Barton Fink
6. Elephant
7. Paris, Texas
8. The Pianist
9. L'Enfant
10. The Conversation

Runners up: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, sex lies and videotape, La Dolce Vita, Dancer in the Dark, Secrets & Lies, L'Enfant, Farenheit 9/11.

I really need to see more of these films.

[SS-Block]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Taxi Driver
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The White Ribbon
5. Kagemusha
6. The Leopard
7. The Wages of Fear
8. The Third Man
9. The Pianist
10. The Conversation

[ilovemovies]

Is there a site that lists all of the past winners?

Because I have no idea which movies have won besides the ones already mentioned here. And from those I'd say:


1. Pulp Fiction
2. Secrets & Lies
3. The Pianist
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Fahrenheit 9/11

[Natty]

I need to see alot more of these films too, but from what I have seen:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Taxi Driver
4. The White Ribbon
5. The Third Man
6. Brief Encounter
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
8. The Mission
9. If....
10. Wild at Heart

[syxxpac]

I too shall be grasping at what straws I can. I'm such an uncultured cunt...

1) Pulp Fiction
2) Taxi Driver
3) Barton Fink
4) Paris, Texas
5) M*A*S*H
6) The Third Man
7) Apocalypse Now
8) The Conversation
9) The Wind That Shakes The Barley
10) The Cranes Are Flying

[Cronos]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Kagemusha
4. If...
5. Taxi Driver
6. Fahrenheit 9/11
7. Barton Fink
8. The Pianist
9. The Mission
10. Elephant

Still have yet to see a lot of the winners.

[Lazy Boy]

1. Dancer in the Dark
2. Apocalypse Now
3. All That Jazz
4. The White Ribbon
5. Barton Fink
6. Taste of Cherry
7. L'Enfant
8. The Piano
9. Pulp Fiction
10. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

[QUENTIN]

Originally Posted by ilovemovies

Is there a site that lists all of the past winners?

Originally Posted by QUENTIN

For a list of all winners: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or

Originally Posted by syxxpac

I too shall be grasping at what straws I can. I'm such an uncultured cunt...

There are a lot I want to see too, but I don't know that anyone who's seen and appreciated Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying can really be called uncultured... cunt, I'll give you.

Originally Posted by QUENTIN

1.) Taxi Driver
2.) Pulp Fiction (my two favorite movies)
3.) Apocalypse Now

Originally Posted by Monotreme

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Taxi Driver

Originally Posted by SS-Block

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Taxi Driver
3. Pulp Fiction

Originally Posted by Natty

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Taxi Driver

Heh, I thought it was funny that out of dozens of movies, half of us rearrange the top 3 as the 3 best. Those really are some fantastic films. All the mentions of The White Ribbon too remind me I really need to make the trek to catch that in theaters soon.

[syxxpac]

Originally Posted by QUENTIN

There are a lot I want to see too, but I don't know that anyone who's seen and appreciated Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying can really be called uncultured... cunt, I'll give you.

Thank you. That's all I ask.

[Monotreme]

Originally Posted by QUENTIN

All the mentions of The White Ribbon too remind me I really need to make the trek to catch that in theaters soon.

Me too. It just started showing here this past Thursday: I'll probably catch it sometime this week.

[Fergus]

Great topic Quent.

1. The Third Man
2. Paris, Texas
3. Apocalypse Now
4. The Wages of Fear
5. MASH
6. The Conversation
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Leopard
9. Blow Up
10. sex, lies, and videotape


Runners: if…, The Tin Drum, The White Ribbon, The Lost Weekend, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Taxi Driver, The Piano, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, La Dolce Vita, The Cranes are Flying, Black Orpheus

I'm interested to see what you guys think of White Ribbon, its been on my mind all week.

[Natty]

Originally Posted by Fergus

I'm interested to see what you guys think of White Ribbon, its been on my mind all week.

My brief thoughts

Though if you meant Quentin, Monotreme and The Cunt, I too look forward to reading their opinions.

[Oxwich]

Pulp Fiction

[someguy]

Paris, Texas
Rosetta
The White Ribbon
Elephant
The Class
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
L'Enfant
Taxi Driver

[Dutchman]

10. Dancer in the Dark
9. Scarecrow
8. Taxi Driver
7. The Piano
6. La Dolce Vita
5. The Third Man
4. Barton Fink
3. Apocalypse Now
2. Paris, Texas
1. All That Jazz

I love each of these films more than any on my list of favorite Best Picture winners. Hope to attend Cannes someday.

[Monotreme]

Just wanted to bring something up: I've only seen Elephant crop up on a few of the lists, and not on as many as I would think. Does nobody else think that this is just an incredible, incredible film? It's one of my all-time favorites! Well, it's hard to call it "favorite" since its not exactly an easy watch, but I definitely consider it one of the best films of the decade, and even of all time.

[Natty]

Originally Posted by Monotreme

Just wanted to bring something up: I've only seen Elephant crop up on a few of the lists, and not on as many as I would think. Does nobody else think that this is just an incredible, incredible film? It's one of my all-time favorites!

It's one of my all time least favourites, I hate that stupid, lazy, ignorant film.

[Monotreme]

Originally Posted by Natty

It's one of my all time least favourites, I hate that stupid, lazy, ignorant film.

Oh, poo

[Natty]

Originally Posted by Monotreme

Oh, poo

Yeah...I elaborated on my thoughts in another thread but I notice a lot of the old threads have been deleted.

I may edit to explain.

[someguy]

Originally Posted by Monotreme

Just wanted to bring something up: I've only seen Elephant crop up on a few of the lists, and not on as many as I would think. Does nobody else think that this is just an incredible, incredible film? It's one of my all-time favorites! Well, it's hard to call it "favorite" since its not exactly an easy watch, but I definitely consider it one of the best films of the decade, and even of all time.

Have you seen any movies by Bela Tarr? Gus Van Sant was inspired to make his 'trilogy' (Gerry/Elephant/Last Days and now I guess Paranoid Park) after watching Satantango. I wouldn't recommend watching Satantango first though since it's about 7.5 hours long but Werckmeister Harmonies would be a great start.

[DaMovieMan]

Great topic. Good list of films to go to when I need to watch something as there's loads I haven't seen. It's getting increasingly difficult for me to number, order and rank films so for this i will put what I think is the film that stands above all I've seen from the list and then the other 9 that would in some order or other make a top 10 list.

1. The Wages of Fear

Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction
The Third Man
La Dolce Vita
The White Ribbon
The Conversation
Paris, Texas
Underground
Brief Encounter

[Le_Big_Mac]

Great topic, Quentin.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Taxi Driver
3. Apocalypse Now
4. La Dolce Vita
5. Paris, Texas
6. The Third Man
7. The Wages of Fear
8. The Conversation
9. sex, lies, and videotape
10. Marty

[Monotreme]

Originally Posted by someguy

Have you seen any movies by Bela Tarr? Gus Van Sant was inspired to make his 'trilogy' (Gerry/Elephant/Last Days and now I guess Paranoid Park) after watching Satantango. I wouldn't recommend watching Satantango first though since it's about 7.5 hours long but Werckmeister Harmonies would be a great start.

I am aware of Bela Tarr and his influence on Van Sant although, admittedly, I have not seen any of his films yet. Werckmeister Harmonies popped up on many "best of the decade" lists which piqued my interest, and I have been meaning to see it for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it. I will also probably watch Satantango at some point as well. Thanks for recommend!

[Natty]

Monotreme, if you would still like an explanation on why I would disagree that Elephant is a masterpiece:

http://www.joblo.com/forums/showpost...5&postcount=20

[Monotreme]

Originally Posted by Natty

Monotreme, if you would still like an explanation on why I would disagree that Elephant is a masterpiece:

http://www.joblo.com/forums/showpost...5&postcount=20

Well, to each his own. You seem pretty convinced, and at least you actually give an argument instead of the usual "That movie's CRAP!" "Why do you think so?" "It just IS!"

At least you liked Milk

[QUENTIN]

What about least favorite Palme D'Or winners?

I dug Elephant a lot, but I guess we've got Natty's early choice in.

The Piano and Wild At Heart are the only winners I'd call outright bad, but I'm no fan of M*A*S*H or Union Pacific either.

[Monotreme]

Originally Posted by QUENTIN

The Piano and Wild At Heart are the only winners I'd call outright bad

The Piano? That makes me sad. I think it's one of the most absolutely incredible films ever made. But again, that's just me :P I think it's a shame you don't like it, though.

Anyway, again - I haven't seen enough Cannes films to properly answer this question, but I think the only one that I can think of that I didn't really like is The Wind that Shakes the Barley. And it's not like it's a bad film - I just didn't find it particularly engaging, especially in comparison to other films that were in competition that year (Babel, Pan's Labyrinth, Volver, Days of Glory - hell, I even enjoyed Marie Antoinette more than Barley).

[Dutchman]

I haven't seen it in years, but I remember loathing The Lost Weekend.

Also, Fahrenheit 9/11. That was a weak year, and it's not a terrible film (only a terrible documentary), but that it won over Nobody Knows and Oldboy is pretty scandalous.

[Lazy Boy]

Originally Posted by QUENTIN

What about least favorite Palme D'Or winners?

For me, that list would most likely include The Tin Drum, MASH, Wild at Heart, Rosetta, and Sex, Lies and Videotape.

[Le_Big_Mac]

Wild at Heart is easily the worst of the ones I've seen. I love David Lynch to death, but that was just a piss-poor attempt by him at making a semi-Hollywood-friendly film.

[Fergus]

Wild at Heart is definitely an awful movie, agreed. Also not a big fan of The Mission or The Pianist (which is still a decent movie, just not great). Sad to see not too many MASH fans out there, love that movie. And I haven't watched The Piano in a really long time, maybe I should reevaluate.

[Monotreme]

No! Peeps, where's the Wild at Heart love? That movie may supposedly be a "piss-poor attempt to make a semi-Hollywood-friendly film", but have you SEEN the movie? It's anything BUT Hollywood friendly! It's an insane, off-the-walls, completely weird Lynch movie that takes what seems to be a Hollywood genre film and then turns it on its head, punches it in the face and drags it in the dust and in general just gives it the Lynch treatment! I've always said that that film is underrated...!

[viceus]

The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff)
if... (Lindsay Anderson)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
Elephant (Gus van Sant)
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonioni)

[viceus]

Originally Posted by Monotreme

No! Peeps, where's the Wild at Heart love?

I was in two minds on wether to put it on there, but I just don't think it's that good of a film. It's his worst behind 'Fire Walk With Me'.

[Monotreme]

Originally Posted by viceus

I was in two minds on wether to put it on there, but I just don't think it's that good of a film. It's his worst behind 'Fire Walk With Me'.

Another completely underrated Lynch mini-masterpiece, Fire Walk With Me. I LOVED it.

Have you seen Dune? Now THAT'S a mess.

[speedbeaver]

1. The Pianist
2. Elephant
3. sex, lies and videotape
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Taxi Driver
6. Fahrenheit 9/11
7. Wild at Heart

I think thats all of them that I've seen, and the last 2 are terrible...

[Le_Big_Mac]

Originally Posted by Monotreme

No! Peeps, where's the Wild at Heart love? That movie may supposedly be a "piss-poor attempt to make a semi-Hollywood-friendly film", but have you SEEN the movie? It's anything BUT Hollywood friendly! It's an insane, off-the-walls, completely weird Lynch movie that takes what seems to be a Hollywood genre film and then turns it on its head, punches it in the face and drags it in the dust and in general just gives it the Lynch treatment! I've always said that that film is underrated...!

Maybe "friendly" is the wrong word, but it feels like a Hollywood road movie, even with its many Lynchian touches.

[notchreturns]

Pulp Fiction
Blow Up
The Conversation
Taxi Driver
Barton Fink
All That Jazz
Secrets and Lies
The Leopard
The Pianist
The Third Man

[Antonio141]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Taxi Driver
3. Apocalypse Now
4. The Third Man
5. sex, lies, and videotape
6. Paris, Texas
7. La Dolce Vita