The Cannes Film Festival takes great pride in unveiling the official poster each year and has increasingly relied on iconic images to set the tone for the event. For 2012′s 65th edition, Marilyn Monroe blew out a candle on a birthday cake; the year before it was Faye Dunaway shot by Jerry Schatzberg in 1970 when they made Puzzle Of A Downfall Child, and in 2009 Monica Vitti was spotted from behind in a scene from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura. This year, Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman — “a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other” — grace the affiche officielle. The shot was taken in 1963 during the filming of Melville Shavelson’s A New Kind Of Love. “It is a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark its undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favored co-star,” the festival said. Both Woodward and Newman were in Cannes in 1958, the year they got married, for the official competition selection of Martin Ritt’s The Long Hot Summer, the first film in which they appeared together. Newman’s directorial efforts in which Woodward starred, The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (1973) and The Glass Menagerie (1987), were also both in competition. Paris-based The Bronx agency is responsible for all the graphics of the 2013 festival which runs May 15-26.
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Does anyone know where to get a copy (of any kind) of “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds?” If so, please leave your answer here in the comments section. Thanks.
It was never put on video. Paul and Joanne had to search for a copy of it to show at the Westport County Playhouse in 2005. I think he said he got it from Robert De Niro. Why Mr. De Niro had it I don’t know. I met Paul and Joanne when they were making this film in May 1972 in Bridgeport, CT. Wonderful people and a good movie.
Thanks JWMarigold1972. I was also wondering where I could get this film from. It’s too bad it’s not on dvd.
You’re welcome b. Maybe someday it will be on DVD.
Thanks JW. It really is too bad it’s not available. Mr. De Niro should step forward and have copies made! I saw the film twice, once in the theatre and once on tv. Blew me away. Just brilliant. I wonder why no one made copies?
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You’re welcome DHC. The film was not a success when it was released. It was ahead of its time. I guess that’s why it was never even realeased on video. However, as a play it won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize. I occasionally see Joanne and her family so I’ll ask if anyone knows if it will ever be released on DVD. When I find out I’ll post it here. I’d like to have it on DVD too.
You’re welcome DHC. The film was not a success when it came out. The film was ahead of its time. I guess that’s why it was never released on video. However, as a play it won the 1971 Pulitzer prize. I occasionally see Joanne and her family so I will ask if anyone knows if it will ever be released on DVD. I’d like to have it on DVD too. I’ll post here when I find out the status of it.
pretty cool!!
Cannes 1992: Marlene Dietrich b&w from “Shanghai Express” – still my favorite, hanging in my hallway – my first Cannes FF
AH FESTIVAL DE CANNES
wonderful poster -