The official poster for this year's Cannes Film Festival is graced with an image of screen legends Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Hollywood’s golden couple had a long connection to Cannes,
beginning when their first film together, The
Long Hot Summer (1958), was in competition at the festival and won Newman
Best Actor. The Effect of the Gamma
Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
(1972) and The Glass Menagerie (1987), both of which were directed by
Newman and stared Woodward, were also in competition with Woodward winning Best
Actress for the former. The festival runs May 15-26 with Steven Spielberg heading the jury. For more info, visit here.
The official poster for the 65th Cannes Film Festival has been released, and it features a familiar photo to regular readers of this blog. Yes, this is now the third time that this image of Marilyn Monroe is making an appearance here but I love it, and I love the poster. The organizers who chose Marilyn as the icon for this year's festival said "Fifty years after her death, Marilyn is still a major figure in world cinema, an eternal icon, whose grace, mystery and power of seduction remain resolutely contemporary." Indeed.
The Cannes Film Festival runs May 16-27. Filmmaker Nanni Moretti, the 2001 Palme d'Or winner for La stanza del figlio, will head the jury.
