Film - Think

As a follow-up to a previous post on Interfilm and others, here is a list of all the Cannes Ecumenical Jury award winners, which coincidentally has many of my favorite films. It would be worth slacking off on all other film watching to put together even just short reviews of all these, as the list serves as such a rich resource of films "that stand out due to their artistic quality: that show human attitudes or expressions of the Gospel or prompt a discussion, and which sensitize viewers to spiritual and social questions and values." (And the Ecumenical Jury Prize is one of more than a dozen they give out every year at a wide array of different festivals, all of which can be perused at www.inter-film.org. There is an English version of the site, click the Britspeak flag in the upper right hand.)

1974 Angst essen Seel auf (Fear Eats the Soul) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1975 Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (Kaspar Hauser) - Werner Herzog
1976 The Ecumenical Jury did not give an award
1977 J.A. Martin, photographe - Jean Beaudin/La dentellière (The Lacemaker) - Claude Goretta
1978 L’albero degli zoccoli (The Tree with the Wooden Clogs) - Ermanno Olmi
1979 Bez znieczulenia (Without Anesthesia) - Andrzej Wajda
1980 Stalker - Andreï Tarkovski/Constans (Constancy) - Krzysztof Zanussi
1981 Czlowickz zelaza (Man of Iron) - Andrzej Wajda
1982 La Notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of San Lorenzo) - P. et V. Taviani
1983 Nostalghia - Andreï Tarkovski
1984 Paris Texas - Wim Wenders
1985 La historia oficial (The Official History) - Luis Puenzo
1986 Offret (The Sacrifice) - Andreï Tarkovski
1987 Pokayaniye (Repent) - Tenguiz Abouladze
1988 A World Apart - Chris Menges
1989 Jésus de Montréal - Denys Arcand
1990 Stanno tutti bene (Everybody's Fine) - Guiseppe Tornatore
1991 La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
1992 Il ladro di bambini (The Stolen Children) - Gianni Amelio
1993 Libera me - Alain Cavalier
1994 Huo Zhe (To Live) - Zhang Yimou/Outlomlionnye Solntsem (Burnt by the Sun) - Nikita Mikhalkov
1995 Land and Freedom - Ken Loach
1996 Secrets and Lies - Mike Leigh
1997 The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
1998 Mia eoniotita ke mia mera (Eternity and one Day) - Theo Angelopoulos
1999 Todo sobre mi madre (All about my Mother) - Pedro Almodovar
2000 Eureka - Aoyama Shinji
2001 Safar e Gandehar (Kandahar) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
2002 Mies vailla menneeisyyttä (The Man without a Past) - Aki Kaurismäki
2003 Panj é Asr (At Five in the Afternoon) - Samira Makhmalbaf
2004 Diarios de motocicleta (Motorcycle Diaries) - Walter Salles
2005 Caché (Hidden) - Michael Haneke
2006 Babel - Alejandro González Iñárritu
2007 The Edge of Heaven - Fatih Akin
2008 Adoration - Adam Egoyan