For Your Consideration... 2014 Cannes Film Festival

One of the larger film fests in the film fest circuit and the most prestigious, the Cannes International Film Festival, wrapped up this past weekend. The Turkish film, Winter Sleep, took the prestigious Palm d'Or award. The second place award, also known as the Grand Prix or Grand Prize, went to the Italian film, The Wonders. And in third place there was a tie between a Canadian and a French film, Xavier Dolan's Mommy and Jean-Luc Goddard's Goodbye to Language. The Cannes Film Festival usually highlights European films, so there is a good chance that these will be available soon to watch from home and will probably show up in many other film festivals around the world.

The stars of Red Army featuring Captain Slava Fetisov
who became a two-time NHL Stanley Cup winner.
Photo: wildbunch.biz

There is one Cannes movie that particularly caught my eye called Red Army, and it is especially appropriate now that hockey's Stanley Cup Finals are about to start. Red Army is a Russian documentary about the Soviet hockey team during the 1970s and 80s. This documentary features many of the team's stars discussing hockey, as well as the social and political issues surrounding that time period. This film sounds like a great pairing with the American film, Miracle, that features the American hockey team that went on to win the gold medal in the 1980 Olympic Games for all you hockey fans out there.