Cannes, 2011

Palme d'Or

The Tree of Life (2011)

Grand Prix

Once upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

The Kid with a Bike (2011)

Best Director

Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive (2011)

Best Screenplay

Joseph Cedar, Footnote (2011)

Best Actress

Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia (2011)

Best Actor

Jean Dujardin, The Artist (2011)

Jury Prize

Polisse (2011)

Un Certain Regard Prize

Arirang (2011)

Jury Prize - Un Certain Regard

Elena (2011)

Un Certain Regard Award for Best Director

Good Bye (2011)

Caméra d'or

Las Acacias (2011)

In competition

• The Artist (2011)
• Drive (2011)
• Footnote (2011)
• Hanezu (2011)
• Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
• Le Havre (2011)
• House of Tolerance (2011)
• The Kid with a Bike (2011)
• Melancholia (2011)
• Michael (2011)
• Once upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
• Pater (2011)
• Polisse (2011)
• The Skin I Live In (2011)
• Sleeping Beauty (2011)
• The Source (2011)
• This Must Be the Place (2011)
• The Tree of Life (2011)
• We Have a Pope (2011)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Un Certain Regard

• Oslo, August 31st (2011)
• Arirang (2011)
• Beauty (2011)
• Bonsái (2011)
• The Day He Arrives (2011)
• Elena (2011)
• Good Bye (2011)
• Hard Labour (2011)
• Hors Satan (2011)
• The Hunter (2011)
• Loverboy (2011)
• Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
• The Minister (2011)
• Miss Bala (2011)
• Restless (2011)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011)
• Stopped on Track (2011)
• Tatsumi (2011)
• Toomelah (2011)
• Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
• The Yellow Sea (2010)

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CFB's Top 30 Films of 1933 (2011)

1. King Kong (1933)
2. Duck Soup (1933)
3. 42nd Street (1933)
4. The Invisible Man (1933)
5. Queen Christina (1933)
6. Baby Face (1933)
7. Zéro de Conduite (1933)
8. Dinner at Eight (1933)
9. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
10. Ecstasy (1933)
11. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
12. Three Little Pigs (1933)
13. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
14. Little Women (1933)
15. Land Without Bread (1933)
16. Sons of the Desert (1933)
17. Design for Living (1933)
18. Lady for A Day (1933)
19. Snow-White (1933)
20. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
21. Flirtation (1933)
22. Bombshell (1933)
23. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
24. I’m No Angel (1933)
25. Footlight Parade (1933)
26. Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
27. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
28. Hallelujah I’m A Bum (1933)
    Outskirts (1933)
29. Woman of Tokyo(1933)

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CFB's Top 25 Obscure Films of 1933 (2011)

1. Bastille Day (1933)
2. Man’s Castle (1933)
3. Night on Bald Mountain (1933)
4. The Water Magician (1933)
5. Ganga Bruta (1933)
6. Passing Fancy (1933)
7. Little Toys (1933)
8. Building a Building (1933)
9. Daybreak (1933)
10. Lot in Sodom (1933)
11. Treno Popolare (1933)
12. Misere au Borinage (1933)
13. The Mad Doctor (1933)
14. Victory of the Faith (1933)
15. Madame Bovary (1933)
16. Midnight Mary (1933)
17. Penthouse (1933)
18. State Fair (1933)
19. Ladies They Talk About (1933)
20. Betty Boop’s Penthouse (1933)
21. Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
22. Today We Live (1933)
23. Popeye the Sailor (1933)
24. Bed Of Roses (1933)
25. Only Yesterday (1933)

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Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Paul Mazursky

Writers: Leon Capetanos, Paul Mazursky, René Fauchois

Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine

Composer: Andy Summers

Cast: Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard, Tracy Nelson, Elizabeth Peña, Evan Richards

After his loyal companion, Kerouac, leaves him for a better source of doggy snacks, Jerry, a Beverly Hills down-and-out, decides to take his own life in the swimming pool of a random millionaire, who proceeds to save him and take him in – unsurprisingly, chaos ensues, in Mazursky’s sporadically entertaining though rather over long adaptation of René Fauchois’s play, which lacks the satirical bite of Jean Renoir’s version. Iain.Stott

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A Man Escaped (1956)

Highly Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut

Director: Robert Bresson

Writers: Robert Bresson, André Devigny

Cinematographer: L.H. Burel

Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau, Roger Treherne

Based on the memoirs of André Devigny, Bresson’s engrossingly understated and largely (but for the odd burst of Mozart) beautifully low-key film follows the escape attempt of an imprisoned terrorist/resistance fighter at Fort Montluc, Lyon, in Nazi-occupied France in 1943, detailing from beginning to end his numerous feats of ingenuity and daring. Iain.Stott

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I'm Here (2010)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Short Film

Writer/Director: Spike Jonze

Cinematographer: Adam Kimmel

Composer: Sam Spiegel

Cast: Andrew Garfield, Sienna Guillory

A lonely android (Garfield) falls for a happy-go-lucky robot (Guillory), and for a while all goes well, but when she develops a habit for losing appendages in unseen accidents, a habit that he, filled with love, can’t help but remedy with his own body parts, things begin to literally fall apart, in Jonze’s distinctive, melancholy short film. Iain.Stott

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Cyrus (2010)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Directors: Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass

Cinematographer: Jas Shelton

Composer: Michael Andrews

Cast: John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener, Matt Walsh

A lonely freelance editor, whose best friend is still his seven-years-divorced ex-wife, meets, against all the odds, a seemingly perfect woman; and all goes well until he meets her clingy, jealous 22-year-old son, who takes an instant disliking to him, in the Duplass brothers’ mildly entertaining, though never all that credible, vaguely mainstream comedy-drama. Iain.Stott

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Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Josh Radnor

Cinematographer: Seamus Tierney

Composer: Jaymay

Cast: Josh Radnor, Malin Akerman, Zoe Kazan, Kate Mara, Pablo Schreiber, Tony Hale, Michael Algieri

A struggling New York writer, his alopecia-suffering best friend, and his (not really a) cousin find their love lives complicated by, respectively, a lost orphan, a persistent, picture-taking co-worker, and a potential move to Los Angeles, in Radnor’s promising directorial debut, though somewhat less promising writing debut, which benefits from an assured visual touch and some likable performances, but suffers from an overly whimsical plot and some awkward dialogue. Iain.Stott

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Young Islands (2011)

Feature Film | Drama | USA | English | 1h22m

Dir: Kevin Chenault | Scr: Kevin Chenault | Prod: Jill Nellis & Tabitha Timmons | Mus: Jesse Gallamore | Cast: Steven Hamilton, Joseph Dodd, Brooklyn Harper, Lisa Garrett, Sarah Beaven, Rick Kersting, Brittany Morris, Trena Morris, Jesse Gallamore, Steve Grey, Josh Gapinski

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Paper Man (2009)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Directors: Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney

Cinematographer: Eigil Bryld

Composer: Mark McAdam

Cast: Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Lisa Kudrow, Hunter Parrish, Kieran Culkin

A struggling middle-aged writer (along with his super-powered lifelong imaginary friend, Captain Excellent) decamps to an out-of-season seaside town to write his second novel, but instead forms an unlikely friendship with a lonely teenaged girl, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend and his wife, in Kieran and Michele Mulroney’s beautifully crafted, deftly played, and generally very affecting directorial debut. Iain.Stott

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