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Friday, October 3, 2008

160. Filmspotting?

In 2002, Jean d'Ormesson, Lia Van Leer, Raymond Chirat, Dieter Kosslick, Alberto Barbera and Férid Boughedir watched the following movies, following which they declared the first one in the list to be the winner:

Union Pacific
Boefje
The Four Feathers
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Lenin in 1918
La Loi du nord
The Wizard of Oz

What exactly was happening?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The first Cannes Film Festival which was to be held in 1939 was cancelled because of World War II. In 2002, the original selection of films of that year (mentioned above) were presented and Union Pacific was adjudged the "first" winner of the Palme D'Or.