Wind That Shakes The Barley
2006 Cannes Film Festival 'Palme d'Or' winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley by UK director Ken Loach has beaten the likes of Taxi Driver, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Pulp Fiction to be named the most popular Cannes winner of all time.
Figures from Lovefilm revealed that The Wind That Shakes the Barley - the critically acclaimed film about the Irish Civil War - had out-rented closest rivals such as Martin Scorsese, Michael Moore and Quentin Tarantino by more than 50 per cent.
The results set high targets for Loach's next release Finding Eric - the story of a Manchester based postman in search of his hero Eric Cantona - that will premiere at this year's Cannes festival. One of two upcoming films starring the football legend himself, Finding Eric looks set to start Cantona mania.
US directors led the top 20 winners with a total of nine films whilst UK directors were next with four films within the chart (Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Lindsay Anderson and Roland Joffé). Italian directors had two films within the top 20 followed by Romania, Bulgaria, Belgium, Denmark, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and New Zealand with one each.
The Top 20 Palme d'Or winners were (with percentage of total Cannes rentals)
1. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach - winner 2006) - 19.4%
2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese - winner 1976) - 9.1%
3. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore - winner 2004) - 7.9%
4. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino - winner 1994) - 7%
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu - winner 2007) - 5.8%
6. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola - winner 1979) - 4.7%
7. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini - winner 1960) - 4.1%
8. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh - winner 1996) - 3.1%
9. MASH (Robert Altman - winner 1970) - 2.78%
10. Elephant (Gus Van Sant - winner 2003) - 2.71%
11. Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen - winners 1991) - 2.54%
12. Underground (Emir Kusturica - winner 1995) - 2.27%
13. The Child/L'enfant (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne - winners 2005) - 2.23%
14. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola - winner 1974) - 2.12%
15. If... (Lindsay Anderson - winner 1969) - 2.08%
16. Wild at Heart (David Lynch - winner 1990) - 1.95%
17. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni - winner 1967) - 1.93%
18. The Piano (Jane Campion - winner 1993) - 1.83%
19. The Mission (Roland Joffé - winner 1986) - 1.72%
20. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier - winner 2000) - 1.55%
Films from the past couple of decades accounted for 12 films within the top 20 list followed by films from the 1970s, which held four titles.
The 1960s were next with three films whilst only one film from the 1980s made the top 20 - UK director Roland Joffé's The Mission.
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