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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) More at IMDbPro »
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Lumière Master Classes and presentations
5 October 2011 9:26 AM, PDT | IMDb Blog - All the Latest | See recent IMDb Blog - All the Latest news »
Col Needham, our founder and CEO, held a class on the inception and future of IMDb, to a packed room of students and cinephiles. Col explained the origins of the site chronicling right up to the present day, our exciting entry into the app and smart phone world, and what IMDb thinks about for the future.
Lumière has made a very strategic decision to have notable individuals introduce the films, sometimes it’s the filmmaker themself, as Jerry Schatzberg (Scarecrow, Panic in Needle Park) presented his rediscovered work, Puzzle of a Downfall Child on Tuesday night.
Benicio Del Toro has been extremely involved and supportive of the festival. He introduced one of the most lauded films screened so far, The Naked Island, a Japanese film from director Kineto Shindo.
Bertrand Tavernier discussed silent films with historian/preservationist Kevin Brownlow at the Lumiere Institute, reeling off funny and insightful anecdotes »
- keithsim
Cannes 2011. Index
28 May 2011 6:20 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Updated through 5/28.
The titles below will take you to the roundups, that is, the coverage of the coverage of each film screening in the 2011 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Click the names after the titles for our own reviews, whether they be quick takes or longer considerations. And finally, pointers to assessments of this year's edition, made both before and after the awards are announced, will collect at the bottom of this page.
Competition
Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In.
Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance. Daniel Kasman.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike. Daniel Kasman.
Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist.
Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre. Daniel Kasman.
Naomi Kawase's Hanezu.
Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty.
Maïwenn's Poliss. Daniel Kasman.
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. »
Cannes 2011. Mubi's Rankings
25 May 2011 5:57 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Tier ?
The Tree of Life (Terence Malick)
Tier 1
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
No Man’s Land (Victor Trivas )
This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahasebi & Jafar Panahi)
Tier 2
L'apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (Bertrand Bonello)
Le gamin au vélo (Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Miss Bala (Gerardo Nananjo)
Oslo, August 31 (Joachim Trier)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg)
Le rideau cramoisi [The Crimson Curtain] (Alexandre Astruc)
Tier 3
Chatrak (Vimukthi Jayasundra)
Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn)
Impardonnables (André Téchiné)
Ninja Kids!!! (Takashi Miike)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Tier 4
L’assassino (Elio Petri)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 3D (Takashi Miike)
Tier ...
(the rest) »
Cannes 2011. Rushes: "Polisse", "Puzzle of a Downfall Child", "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
14 May 2011 8:42 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Alice de Lencquesaing, a touching young presence in year after year of French festival films (see: Summer Hours, Father of My Children), drops in on Maïwenn (Le Besco)'s Polisse and verily walks off with the film. In a movie unendingly challenged by its collage-like collection of incidents professional as well as private within a crew of the Paris Child Protection Unit—a style that disconnects each policeman's emotions from the practical continuity of a story and yields unearned emotional crests, outbursts and lulls throughout—de Lencquesaing unexpectedly shows up as another catalog card of child abuse for the film to collect, display and dispose of. But in a single scene in a hospital room playing a raped girl delivering a child in stillbirth, the actress miraculously crafts an entirely whole and extraordinarily expressive person solely from a few shots of her sitting her hospital bed loving and mourning her baby. »
Cannes Update: Trabalahar Cansa (Hard Labor), Poliss, Puzzle of a Downfall Child
14 May 2011 8:38 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Two out of the three Cannes films that Simon Abrams reviews here may never be screened for stateside art-house audiences. But one is a must-see for everyone, he writes: The restored print of Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Panic in Needle Park director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1970 debut feature, is a must-see. Cannes director Thierry Fremaux introduced the screening of Puzzle, whose star, Cannes festival poster girl Faye Dunaway, attended tonight’s screening along with Schatzberg. The film is a knockout psychodrama about the inner life of a reclusive fashion model (Dunaway) and her doomed romances with men ranging from a wealthy and obnoxious playboy (Roy Scheider) to a modest photographer (Barry Primus). If the Criterion Collection or another equally important cultural institution (perhaps the Film Society »
64th Annual Cannes Film Festival Puzzle of a Downfall Child Photocall Pictures
13 May 2011 4:37 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Fay Dunaway and Jerry Schatzberg attend 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival Puzzle of a Downfall Child photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Fay Dunaway and Jerry Schatzberg attend 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival Puzzle of a Downfall Child photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Fay Dunaway and Jerry Schatzberg attend 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival Puzzle of a Downfall Child photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Fay Dunaway and Jerry Schatzberg attend 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival Puzzle of a Downfall Child photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Fay Dunaway and Jerry Schatzberg attend 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival Puzzle of a Downfall Child photocall. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. »
- Michelle Wray
Cannes Film Festival: Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Salma Hayek and more kick things off
11 May 2011 8:38 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival kicks off in Cannes, France Wednesday, May 11 and will run until the closing awards ceremony on Sunday, May 22. Opening the festivities are actor Robert De Niro, who is the President of the jury for the international competition. Accompanying him are on the jury (and in the above photo) are actors Uma Thurman and Jude Law. The complete lineup of films can be found here.
Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas were on hand for a "Puss in Boots" photocall. The festival is debuting a sneak peek of the animated "Shrek" spinoff movie, which hits theaters Nov. 4, 2011. Banderas reprises his role as the title character and Hayek plays Kitty, his love interest.
Also arriving at the festival are stars and director of "Midnight in Paris," the newest Woody Allen film that is not in a Cannes competition, but is premiering at the 2011 festival. Rachel McAdams and Owen Wilson (pictured below, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of the Cannes Film Festival
6 May 2011 6:54 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Mathieu Ravier, who writes about movies and movie posters from down under at his blog A Life in Film, recently alerted me, via Twitter, to a wonderful collection, on the website of the French newspaper L’Express, of every festival poster of the last 64 years of the Cannes Film Festival. You can see the full collection here, but I wanted to pick out a few of my favorites.
First of all, I have to say that the poster for this year’s festival may be my favorite of them all. The festival has used beautiful black and white photographs of actresses before (Monica Vitti in 2009, Marlene Dietrich in 1992) but those posters have often been let down by their uninspired typography and layout. But this year’s poster, which uses a Jerry Schatzberg photograph of Faye Dunaway at her most gorgeous (a restored print of their wonderful 1970 film Puzzle of a Downfall Child »
Cannes Announces Classics Sidebar Lineup, Includes Five Film History Documentaries
29 April 2011 6:00 AM, PDT | CriterionCast | See recent CriterionCast news »
With each day that passes, Cannes is becoming closer and closer, and now, for those looking forward to seeing a few, let’s say, more classic features, your sidebar has just been announced.
Cannes has announced their Classics Sidebar lineup, and what a lineup it is. A few Criterion directors have found their way onto the list, including Roberto Rossellini (The Machine To Kill Bad People), Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Despair). And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The most interesting additions are both Georges Melies’ classic 1902 silent film, A Trip To The Moon, as well as Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. The festival’s jury head, Robert De Niro, will also be focused on in this sidebar, as his film A Bronx Tale will also be showing during the festival.
Personally, the film that I’m most excited to see would have »
- Joshua Brunsting
Kubrick's Restored 'Clockwork' in Cannes Classics and On Blu-ray
27 April 2011 9:04 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The Cinema de la Plage where screenings of classic films are held at 9:30 each night; click for a larger look
Photo: Brad Brevet I already mentioned how Warner Home Video would be releasing a *new* Stanley Kubrick Blu-ray collection, this time including high definition versions of Lolita and Barry Lyndon with previously released HD versions of Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut and a new 40th Anniversary Edition of A Clockwork Orange. That set hits Blu-ray on May 31, but Kubrick's now-40-year-old A Clockwork Orange will be hitting the Cannes Croisette a little bit earlier than that.
Another, late night look at the Cinema de la Plage; click for a larger look
Photo: Brad Brevet It had been previously announced, but yesterday the Cannes Film Festival made it official that A Clockwork Orange would be part of the »
- Brad Brevet
Cannes 2011. Classics Lineup
26 April 2011 2:31 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The Cannes Film Festival's unveiled its Classics program today: "Fourteen films, five documentaries, surprises, a Masterclass (Malcolm McDowell), new or restored prints: The program is based on proposals from national archives, cinematheques, studios, producers and distributors. Rare classics to discover or re-discover, they will be presented in 35mm or high definition digital prints."
The Films
The first round of descriptions comes straight from the Festival.
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès (France, 1902, 16'). "The color version of Georges Méliès most famous film, A Trip to the Moon (1902) is visible again 109 years after its release: having been long considered lost, this version was found in 1993 in Barcelona. In 2010, a full restoration is initiated by Lobster Films, Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Heritage Cinema. The digital tools of today allows them to re-assemble the fragments of 13 375 images from the film and restore them one by one. »
Cannes Classics announces lineup
26 April 2011 12:38 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
The 64th festival de Cannes announced the selection for Cannes Classics on Tuesday. The selection will present fourteen films which includes the colour version of Georges Méliès famous A Trip to the Moon. The programme also comprises five documentaries and a Masterclass by actor Malcolm McDowell.
Established in 2004, the selection showcases heritage cinema, re-discovered films, restored prints and theatrical, television or DVD releases of the great works of the past.
Mrinal Sen s Khandahar and Ritwik Ghatak’s Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas) were presented in this section in the 2010 edition of the festival.
Cannes Classics: The Films
1. A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès (France, 1902, 16′)
2. Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1971, 137′)
3. The Machine to Kill Bad People (La Macchina Ammazzacattivi) by Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1952, 80′)
4. A Bronx Tale by Robert De Niro (USA, 1993, 121′).
5. The Conformist (Il Conformista) by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy, »
- NewsDesk
Cannes Is Hooked on Classics
26 April 2011 12:35 PM, PDT | | See recent news »
Cannes Classics is a recent addition to the festival, and will enjoy its 8th instalment this year. Part of the line-up of this section of the fest is screened at Ceinema de la Plage, that’s right, on the beach. You’ve got to admit that it’s pretty cool – an open-aired screening of a classic film on the French Riviera, away from the exclusivity of the Palais, and able to be enjoyed by Panini-eating passers-by on the Croisette. There should be more of this at the festival, it’s good for the soul.
This year’s line-up of films includes work by Stanley Kubrick, Bernardo Bertolucci, Euzhan Palcy (currently being honored by MoMA in New York) and Jerry Schatzberg, whose photograph of Faye Dunaway is embedded into this year’s festival poster above.
Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal will present a screening of “A Bronx Tale” to celebrate ten »
- admin
Anticipating Cannes 2011.
13 April 2011 12:14 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
While we anxiously await tomorrow morning's announcement of the official lineup for the 64th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, running May 11 through 22, here's a quick roundup of what we know so far.
We might as well begin with today's announcement that Gus Van Sant's Restless will open Un Certain Regard. Given that Van Sant won the Palme d'Or in 2003 for Elephant, it's a respectable choice; frankly, though, the trailer doesn't hold out much promise. Back in October, Lane Brown commented at Vulture that what we have here is a film in which "a ghost-seeing teenage boy (Henry Hopper) falls for a girl (Mia Wasikowska) with a terminal disease. If he'll still be able to date her after she expires, though, then what's the big deal? Pressure's on to make this one dramatic, Van Sant." Emir Kusturica will be presiding over the Un Certain Regard jury, so the pressure's »
Story Behind The Cannes 2011 Poster
9 April 2011 3:22 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
This year, 2011, Schatzberg’s first film with Faye Dunaway will be honoured at Cannes. Schatzberg and Dunaway were both unknown in cinema when they made “The Puzzle of a Downfall Child” in 1970. The Cannes poster is based on a still photograph of Dunaway taken by Schatzberg. Both would grace Cannes as lovers in the early Seventies.
Official Poster: Cannes 2011
A film festival poster can say a lot more than the films on show. It is perhaps a reminder that an intelligent still picture can outsmart the moving image.
The Cannes 2011 poster is a very intriguing one in more ways than one, and the intrigue is a stamp of what Cannes embodies among film festivals worldwide.
The obvious disconnect is 64 for 2011. For graphic students a close look at “64” resembles the film spooling out of a can into the projector and the image magnifying outwards. That could be a testament for any festival. »
- Jugu Abraham
Bravo, Cannes 2011 Poster Makers. Bravo.
6 April 2011 4:50 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Sleek, sophisticated and classy. But enough about me… I finally have some actual Cannes Film Festival news to report that people might be interested in reading! Up until now, I’ve had to live off scraps of information- including the recently announced, but long suspected inclusion of Terrence Malick’s over-due Tree of Life, but time is ticking on and we are getting into Proper Announcement Season. The big news in the past twenty four hours was the grand reveal of the Official Festival Poster, featuring an image of Faye Dunaway, shot by 1973 Palme d’Or winner Jerry Schatzberg (whose debut film Puzzle of a Downfall Child will also play at Cannes). Aside from looking a tiny bit like someone’s had a buzz-saw at the star, the poster is a beautiful thing, and I look forward to transporting its image around the Croisette on the uber-macho man-bags they always hand out at registration. And »
- Simon Gallagher
Faye Dunaway-Jerry Schatzberg Photo: Classy Cannes 2011 Poster
4 April 2011 11:04 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Faye Dunaway, Cannes 2011 poster A photograph of Faye Dunaway taken by Jerry Schatzberg in 1970 has been transformed into the poster for the 64th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 11-22. On the Cannes Film Festival site, the image is described as a "model of sophistication and timeless elegance … [and] an embodiment of the cinematic dream that the Festival de Cannes seeks to maintain." Jerry Schatzberg, who won the 1973 Palme d’Or for Scarecrow, directed Dunaway in the 1970 drama Puzzle of a Downfall Child. Faye Dunaway has never won an acting award at Cannes, but she did win the 1976 Best Actress Oscar for Sidney Lumet's Network. Now, why would the Cannes 64 poster feature a Schatzberg-Dunaway collaboration? Well, because Puzzle of a Downfall Child has been restored by Universal Pictures and will be distributed in France in the fall. The restored print will also be [...] »
- Andre Soares
Official 64th Festival de Cannes Poster
4 April 2011 5:58 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
This photo of Faye Dunaway was taken by Jerry Schatzberg in 1970.
Model of sophistication and timeless elegance, it is an embodiment of the cinematic dream that the Festival de Cannes seeks to maintain.
Jerry Schatzberg is a filmmaker from New York who won the Palme d.Or in 1973 for Scarecrow. He began his career as a photographer and his work is quickly noticed, in particular a series of Bob Dylan photos from the 60s which ultimately are used on the cover of the legendary album Blonde on Blonde. In the early 70s Schatzberg turns to filmmaking and his first film, Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), reveals an exceptional sense of framing and lighting for a first-timer. Panic In Needle Park (1971) with newcomer Al Pacino and Scarecrow follow and are both award-winners in Cannes.
Puzzle of a Downfall Child, in which Faye Dunaway has the starring role, has been restored by Universal Pictures. »
- Michelle McCue
Cannes 2011 Poster
4 April 2011 4:14 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
The 64th Cannes Film Festival official poster has been released. A stylish poster featuring Faye Dunaway photographed by Jerry Schatzberg for his flick Puzzle of a Downfall Child.
Check out the full poster after the jump.
The poster was described on the festival’s official website:
This photo of Faye Dunaway was taken by Jerry Schatzberg in 1970.
Model of sophistication and timeless elegance, it is an embodiment of the cinematic dream that the Festival de Cannes seeks to maintain.
Jerry Schatzberg is a filmmaker from New York who won the Palme d’Or in 1973 for Scarecrow. He began his career as a photographer and his work is quickly noticed, in particular a series of Bob Dylan photos from the 60s which ultimately are used on the cover of the legendary album Blonde on Blonde. In the early 70s Schatzberg turns to filmmaking and his first film, Puzzle of a Downfall Child »
- Allan Ford
Faye Dunaway Featured on 64th Cannes Film Festival's Official Poster
4 April 2011 3:46 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Faye Dunaway? From Puzzle of a Downfall Child and Chinatown? Yep! An official poster for the 64th Cannes Film Festival, which is coming up in just a month running from May 11th to 22nd in the south of France, has been unveiled. The poster features a photo of actress Faye Dunaway that was taken by filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg in 1970. In the early 70s Schatzberg directed his first film, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, which starred Dunaway in one of her early roles. This was produced by the H5 design agency, which is also providing the graphics for the 2011 Festival. I'm excited to be returning to the festival for my third year! "Model of sophistication and timeless elegance, it is an embodiment of the cinematic dream that the Festival de Cannes seeks to maintain." Cannes also adds via their official website: "Puzzle of a Downfall Child, in which Faye Dunaway »
- Alex Billington
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