Palme D'Or

Whether you like it or not... Cinema will always have the Oscars... and Cannes (you may even include Bollywood!). Ceremonies, have to be ceremonial, so parties, outfits, drinks and chicks, will alway be around; but the awards will too. I honestly and firmly rate Cannes highly, because I always discover movies, which I would have otherwise, probably never heard of! e.g. Kolya (1996 winner, from Czechoslovakia), Todo sobre mi madre (Pedro Almodovar), Run Lola Run etc. I love the Oscars, but increasingly find them more and more antiquated as the years pass by... whereas Cannes still maintains an independent, youthful, tingly features, which even the ...  Read the complete review

Lets face it, the only award ceremony that means anything in the film industry is helds once a year in hollywood and goes by the name of the Oscars. The others are just an excuse for a party. That is exactly what Cannes has become. Its not so much a film awards as an excuse for burned out hollywood film stars to come to Europe and appear on numerous televison chat shows saying how good their new "underground" or "independant" film is. The reason that they are appearing in such films is that they are normally in the twilight of their careers and want to get noticed as hollywood has brushed them aside. true, some big movie stars still make the trip to plug a new ...  Read the complete review

I think one problem with the Cannes awards are that they are foreign and indeed seem to be more disposed towards foreign films being judged (mostly being other European countries) if you look at the list of films being judged. Now nothing wrong with this atall but really this must cut down on the number of peoples interest in the festival itself. Or rather, interest in any of the bulk of the films. Now this would explain all the interest in who is going to what party and who is seen rather than the actual films With the Oscars the actual ceremony is still seen (by the media coverage in any case) as the important thing with who is wearing ...  Read the complete review