----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Given (a)= the many,infuriating recent glitches of the server I use (b)= the numberof messages I get --when I do get them (c)= (a) plus (b) combined.....I cannot tell which people where kept asking who was the actor who got the main award at Cannes 1994. To apologize for my delay, I'll mention all the main awards by the main Juries, meaning the big so-called "official" jury and those of FIPRESCI and THE FRENCH CRITICS ASS'N = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Camera d'Or for best first work PETITS ARRANGEMENTS AVEC LA MORT by Pascale Ferrand Short: SYRUP by Paul (?) (can't remember lastname) and THE HERO, Mexican animation [Note: Hero has no final e, as in potatoE] Jury Prize: LA REINE MARGOT for originality of cinematography and music Script Prize (a new Award, or rather revived after 10 years): to Michel Blanc for GROSSE FATIGUE [last time this prize was given was to Theo Angelopoulos in 1986 for VOYAGE TO CYTHERA] Prix de Mise en Scene (i.e. BEST DIRECTOR although it really means Best DirecTION, a subtle difference): Nanni Moretti for DEAR DIARY BEST ACTOR: Ge You (or Yu) in TO LIVE BEST ACTRESS: Virna Lisi in LA REINE MARGOT GRAND JURY PRIZE: TO LIVE by Zhan Yimou & SOLEIL TROMPEUR (ie The Cheating Sun) by Nikita Mikhalkov GOLDEN PALM FOR BEST FILM: PULP FICTION Notes: The awards are as I noted them during the ceremony, that is, in the usual ranking of increasing importance (and production of suspense) The main surprise was Virna Lisi's prize. I had skipped that film, a standard strategy since you can pospone Big movies that will make it to the US as well as many US movies, and concentrate on what may never reach American screens.(By American I do not mean North American, since Canada is light years ahead of us in the art and scope of showing films from many countries). Bypassed films includes: HUDSCUCKER PROXY, MRS PARKER etc., EXOTICA, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT (Ripstein, Mexico), AN UNFORGETTABLE SUMMER (Lucian Pintile, Romania), BARNABO OF THE MOUNTAINS (Mario Brenta, a great Italian), THREE COLORS: RED, THE BROWNING VERSION (Mike Figgis),A PURE FORMALITY (Tornatore), THE PATRIOTS (Eric Rochant- France),LE BUTTANE (THE WHORES, Aurelio Grimaldi, Italy), and others, A mixed bag. Some were very good but youn just knew they wouldn't make it as they were not "Festival" type films, had too small a scale, like the Pintile or the Gimaldi. MRS. PARKER was, I am sure,too Algonquin & language anchored to be fully appreciated. EXOTICA riled many. The Ripstein and the Tornatore were real letdowns. The Brenta is much too subtle and in its way, stylized. It had a lot of negative reactions, several neutral, and a few praised to the skies. I was one of the latter. The Kieslowski was in general deemed not as good as his other two colors. ========================================================= THE FIPRESCI AWARDS (Int'l Federation of Film Critics): EXOTICA (Canada) by Atom Egoyan (in competition) and BAB-EL-OUED CITY (not competing) by Merzak Allouache (Algeria) THE FRENCH ASS'N OF FILM CRITICS: CLERKS by Kevin Smith (USA) and short PERFORMANCE ANXIETY by David Ewing Edwin Jahiel, Cinema Studies, University of Illinois " Le mauvais gout mene au crime" (Stendhal)