CANNES I GET A BOO? – Limited Series
CANNES I GET A BOO?
at the Philadelphia Film Center
Relive the thrill of Cannes’ legendary croisette over the years as we present our favorite film debuts and prize winners along the French Riviera that were initially met with jeers from the festival’s notoriously vocal audience.
Individual Tickets
$13 | $9 for PFS Members
Seven Film Bundle
$52.50 | $48.50 PFS Members
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MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI | ITALY, FRANCE | 1960 | 144 MIN
May 20 & May 22 | Film Center
Originally met with resentment, Michael Antonioni’s cinema changing drama finds the mysterious disappearance of a woman on the Mediterranean upending the lives of her lover and best friend.

SWEETIE
JANE CAMPION | AUSTRALIA | 1989 | 97 MIN
May 21 | Film Center
Off-beat and disturbing, Jane Campion’s brilliantly assured debut finds the arrival of a rebellious and estranged sister upending the suburban ennui of a dispassionate couple.

TAXI DRIVER
MARTIN SCORSESE | USA | 1976 | 114 MIN
May 21 | Film Center
A Vietnam vet taxi driver, increasingly disillusioned by the filth of late nights in 70s NYC, decides to take matters into his own hands in Scorsese’s definitive work of the era.

THE TREE OF LIFE
TERRENCE MALICK | USA | 2011 | 139 MIN
May 22 & May 29 | Film Center
Haunted by whispers of those passed, Terrence Malick’s grand, singular foray into the spiritual and metaphysical follows a lost soul recounting his early childhood in 1950s Texas.

DAVID LYNCH | USA | 1990 | 125 MIN
May 27 & May 29 | Film Center
Madly in love and on the run, Sailor and Lula take to the yellow brick road with a wicked mother and a bevy of despicable men on their trail in Lynch’s divisive Palme d’Or winner.

MARIE ANTOINETTE
SOFIA COPPOLA | USA, FRANCE, JAPAN | 2006 | 123 MIN
May 28 | Film Center
Met with shock at its debut, France’s “It Girl” of the 18th century has her cake and eats it too in Sofia Coppola’s stylish post-punk revisionist telling of the last queen of France’s days in Versaille.

PULP FICTION
QUENTIN TARANTINO | USA | 1994 | 154 MIN
May 28 | Film Center
Just another day in sunny LA for two hitmen, a defamed boxer, and the rest of Tarantino’s memorable pop culture referencing hoodlums in the auteur’s Palme d’Or winner.