Palme ThursdayPalme Thursday is A.A. Dowd’s monthly examination of a winner of the Palme D’Or, determining how well the film has held up and whether it deserved the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.

Joy-Con Drift Is Becoming A Real Problem On The Switch

Pentagon Ordered to Tell Congress If It Weaponized Ticks And Released Them Into the Public

Dear American Airlines, I Hate You With My Whole Heart

Cannes pits Shrek against Mulholland Dr., but a gentler contender won the jury’s heart

1990 was a big year for David Lynch

Want to win Cannes? Try pissing off the pope

The Tree Of Life brought Terrence Malick boos, cheers, and a new creative direction

Jacques Cousteau throws dynamite at fish in the first documentary to win Cannes

Watergate isn’t the only frequency Francis Ford Coppola hit with The Conversation

A difficult director won Cannes, telling off the detractors booing his victory

Once upon a time, hip art movies could make big bucks in America

As the New Wave broke, a one-hit wonder topped Cannes instead

Secrets, lies, Fargo, and Lars Von Trier made for a great year at Cannes

Abbas Kiarostami shared Cannes glory with another departed master

This year’s Cannes winner won his first Palme siding with the IRA

Just about every time these brothers make a movie, it wins at Cannes

Of course Tim Burton would go for the movie with the monkey ghosts

Cannes winner The Leopard is a gloriously uneventful period piece

Steven Soderbergh began his career with wins at Sundance and Cannes

Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, and Robert Shaw turned star power into Cannes gold

In an era of lavish musicals, Cannes celebrated an opera of the everyday

One of the greatest Cannes winners is back in theaters

A Cannes winner so controversial, its director almost quit filmmaking