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Friday, May 20, 2011

The Golden Palm with the largest gains.



The praise of critics is fine and good, but what the winners of the Palme wassuccessful at the box office and at Cannes?
The Golden Phoenix is the largest prize awarded in Cannes and is the director's bestfilm in the official competition section. Over 50 directors have taken home the prize since 1955, but how often has the box office «escorted" to critical acclaim?
Counts down the ten most commercially successful films that have won the Palme d'Or.



10. Wild at Heart


10. Wild at Heart (Rex Features)

  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 1990
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 14,560,247
  • Global gains: Unknown
A typical road movie of David Lynch with plenty of strange happenings and atransformation of Nicholas Cage in his eye shines in the role of illegal Seilor Ripley.

9. The Mission



9. The Mission (Rex Features)


  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 1986
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 17,218,023
  • Global gains: Unknown
Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons star in the drama of Roland Tzofe experiencesaround a Jesuit mission in South America in the 18th century. The Ennio Morriconewrote the music.

8. sex, lies and videotape


8. sex, lies and videotape (Rex Features)

  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 1989
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 24,741,667
  • Global gains: Unknown
The success of this independent film with a low budget revolutionized the Americanindependent cinema and "launched" his career Steven Sontempergk. Apart fromwinning the Golden Phoenix, James Spader also won the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.

7. Taxi Driver


7. Taxi Driver (Rex Features)

  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 1976
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 28,262,574
  • Global gains Worldwide: Unknown N / A
Directed by Martin Scorsese and a screenplay by Paul Sreinter in Taxi Driver starringRobert De Niro as a lonely and alienated Vietnam veteran who develops a verydangerous obsession with a young prostitute, who interprets the Jodie Foster. JohnHinckley was later claimed that the insistence on the role of Foster that led him toattempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981.

6. The Pianist



6. The Pianist (Rex Features)

  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 2002
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 32,572,577
  • Global gains: $ 120,072,577
Adjusted up in his autobiography Jewish-Polish musician Wladyslaw Spilman,exciting war drama by Roman Polanski starring Adrian Brody won an Oscar for BestDirector, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.

5. All that Jazz


5. All that Jazz (Rex Features)


  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 1980
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 37,823,676
  • Global gains: Unknown
The almost autobiographical musical Bob Foss, All that Jazz, describing the life of awomanizer, drug addict by choreographer-director in triumph and failure, winning fourAcademy Awards and gave Foch in the third nomination for the Oscar for BestDirection.

4.The Piano


The Piano (Rex Features)

  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 1993
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 40,157,856
  • Global gains: Unknown
This placed New Zealand drama era of Jane Campion for a deaf pianist and her daughter, she had starring Holly Hunter and Anna Pakouin, now better known than'mad' moments that goes with the vampires in True Blood. The haunting music of Michael Naim has a best selling soundtrack.

3. Apocalypse Now


3. Apocalypse Now (Rex Features)


  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 1979
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 83,471,511
  • Global gains: Unknown
To epic war film about Vietnam by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Martin Sheen,Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper, was a modern adaptation of the novel by JosephConrad, Heart of Darnkness. To film became famous in the press mainly because of the long and difficulty of production, as reflected in the Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. O Marlon Brando arrived on set overweight and MartinSheen suffered a heart attack. The production also hit by dangerous weatherdestroyed many expensive sets of the shooting. Additionally, the film's release datewas delayed several times since Coppola was keen to find an end and edits the thousands of meters of material was taken.

2. Pulp Fiction


2. Pulp Fiction (Rex Features)


  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 1994
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 107,928,762
  • Global gains: $ 213,928,762
The classic cult Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino revive the career of John Travolta,made ​​legend Samuel Jackson and reminded us all that we need to be cool like Fonzi.

1. Fahrenheit 9/11


1. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Rex Features)

  • Year who won the Palme d'Or: 2004 
  • Domestic profits of America: $ 119,194,771 
  • Global gains: $ 222,446,882 
A critical look at the presidency of George Bush, the war on terrorism and its coverage by the news media. To Fahrenheit 9 / 11 by Michael Moore his debut at Cannes in 2004 and received a twenty minute "standing ovation", the largest in the history of the festival. Is the film with the biggest profits ever in the U.S. domestic box office.

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