1979 Cannes Film Festival
 Official poster of the 32nd Cannes Film Festival, adapted from an original illustration by Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon.[1] | |
| Opening film | Hair |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Us Two |
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or: Apocalypse Now The Tin Drum |
| No. of films | 21 (In Competition)[2] |
| Festival date | 10 May 1979 – 24 May 1979 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 32nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 10 to 24 May 1979.[3] French writer Françoise Sagan served as jury president for the main competition.
The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was jointly awarded to Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (screened as a work in progress), and The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff.[4]
Sagan, raised a controversy as she complained about Robert Favre Le Bret, director of the festival, pressure on the jury for the choice of Coppola's film, while she had chose Schlöndorff's film.[5]
The festival opened with Hair by Miloš Forman,[6][7] and closed with Us Two by Claude Lelouch.[8]
Jury
[edit]Main Competition
[edit]- Françoise Sagan, French writer - Jury President[9]
- Sergio Amidei, Italian writer
- Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, Swiss
- Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker
- Maurice Bessy, French
- Paul Claudon, French producer
- Jules Dassin, American filmmaker
- Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Hungarian filmmaker
- Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet author
- Susannah York, British actress
Official selection
[edit]In Competition
[edit]The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[2]
Un Certain Regard
[edit]The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:[2]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Come and Work | Fad'jal | Safi Faye | Senegal |
| Companys, procés a Catalunya | Companys, proceso a Cataluña | Josep Maria Forn | Spain |
| Encore un Hiver (short) | Françoise Sagan | France | |
| From the Clouds to the Resistance | Dalla nube alla resistenza | Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet | Italy |
| Moments | רגעים | Michal Bat-Adam | Israel, France |
| A Nice Neighbor | A kedves szomszéd | Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács | Hungary |
| Les petites fugues | Yves Yersin | Switzerland | |
| Printemps en Février | Shei Tieli | China | |
| A Scream from Silence | Mourir à tue-tête | Anne Claire Poirier | Canada |
| Spirit of the Wind | Ralph Liddle | United States | |
| The Third Generation | Die dritte Generation | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| Ward Six | Paviljon VI | Lucian Pintilie | Yugoslavia |
Out of Competition
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[2]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Stopped at Eboli | Cristo si è fermato a Eboli | Francesco Rosi | Italy, France |
| Hair (opening film) | Miloš Forman | United States, West Germany | |
| Manhattan | Woody Allen | United States | |
| Le Musee du Louvre | Toshio Uruta | Japan | |
| Orchestra Rehearsal | Prova d'orchestra | Federico Fellini | Italy, West Germany |
| Us Two (closing film) | À nous deux | Claude Lelouch | France, Canada |
| Wise Blood | John Huston | United States, West Germany | |
Short Films Competition
[edit]The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[2]
- Barbe bleue by Olivier Gillon
- Bum by Břetislav Pojar
- La Dame de Monte Carlo by Dominique Delouche
- La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
- Harpya by Raoul Servais
- Helping Hand by John P. Taylor, Zlatko Pavlinovic
- Le Mur by Jan January Janczak
- Petite histoire un peu triste by Didier Pourcel
- Põld by Rein Raamat
- The Waltzing Policemen by Kerry Feltham
- Zwei Frauen in der Oper by Christian Veit-Attendorff
Parallel sections
[edit]International Critics' Week
[edit]The following feature films were screened for the 18th International Critics' Week (18e Semaine de la Critique):[10]
- Entends le coq by Stefan Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
- Fremd bin ich eingezogen by Titus Leber (Austria)
- Jun by Hiroto Yokoyama (Japan)
- Northern Lights by John Hanson, Rob Nilsson (United States)
- La Rabi by Eugeni Anglada (Spain)
- Les Servantes du bon dieu by Diane Létourneau (Canada)
- The Tall Shadows of the Wind (Sayehaye bolande bad) by Bahman Farmanara (Iran)
Directors' Fortnight
[edit]The following films were screened for the 1979 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[11]
- Angi Vera by Pal Gabor
- Bastien, Bastienne by Michel Andrieu
- Black Jack by Ken Loach
- Caniche by Bigas Luna
- Chrissomaloussa by Tony Lycouressis
- Cronica de um Industrial by Luis Rosemberg
- Julio Begins in July (Julio Comienza en Julio) by Silvio Caiozzi
- The Management Forgives a Moment of Madness (La empresa perdona un momento de locura) by Mauricio Walerstein
- La Mémoire Courte by Eduardo de Gregorio
- Nighthawks by Ron Peck
- Old Boyfriends by Joan Tewkesbury
- Five Evenings (Пять вечеров, Piats Vetcherov) by Nikita Mikhalkov
- Rockers by Theodoros Bafaloukos
- Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (Báječní muži s klikou) by Jiri Menzel
- Tiro by Jacob Bijl
- To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
- Zmory (Nightmares) by Wojciech Marczewski
- Short films
- Combattimento by Anna Kendall
- Idila by Aleksandar Ilić
- Panoplie by Philippe Gaucherand
- Romance by Yves Thomas
- Vereda Tropical by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Official Awards
[edit]
Main Competition
[edit]The following films and people received the 1979 Official selection awards:[12][3]
- Palme d'Or:
- Grand Prix: Siberiade by Andrei Konchalovsky
- Best Director: Terrence Malick for Days of Heaven
- Best Actress: Sally Field for Norma Rae
- Best Actor: Jack Lemmon for The China Syndrome
- Best Supporting Actress: Eva Mattes for Woyzeck
- Best Supporting Actor: Stefano Madia for Dear Father
- Honorary Award: Hommage à Miklós Jancsó[4]
- Harpya by Raoul Servais
- Jury Prize - animation: Bum by Břetislav Pojar
- Jury Prize - fiction: La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
Independent Awards
[edit]- Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (In competition)[13]
- Black Jack by Ken Loach (Directors' Fortnight)
- Angi Vera by Pál Gábor (Directors' Fortnight)
Commission Supérieure Technique
[edit]- Without Anesthesia by Andrzej Wajda[14]
- Special Mention: Arven by Anja Breien[15]
Young Cinema Award
[edit]- Prix du jeune cinéma: The Hussy by Jacques Doillon[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Posters 1979". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Official Selection 1979: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ a b "32ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ a b c "1979 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "1978-1986: A wind of change - Controversy". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "Film Festival Opens in Cannes". The New York Times. May 12, 1979. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "The opening films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "The closing films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Juries 1979: Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "18e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1979". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "Quinzaine 1979". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "Awards 1979: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1979". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "Jury Œcuménique 1979". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1979". imdb.com. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
Media
[edit]- INA: Selection of the 1979 Festival (commentary in French)
- INA: Lauren Bacall and Yves Montand special guests at the opening gala 1979 (commentary in French)
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
- 1979 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1979 Archived 2019-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1979 at Internet Movie Database