1977 Cannes Film Festival
Opening film | The Bishop's Bedroom |
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Closing film | Slap Shot |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or: Padre Padrone[2] |
No. of films | 23 (In Competition)[3] |
Festival date | 13 May 1977 | – 27 May 1977
Website | festival-cannes |
The 30th Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 27 May 1977.[4] Italian filmmaker Roberto Rosselliniserved as jury president for the main competition.
Italian filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for their drama film Padre Padrone.
A new non-competitive section, Le Passé composé, was held only at this edition, focusing on compilations. This section, along with Les Yeux fertiles and L'Air du temps of the previous two years, were later integrated into the Un Certain Regard in 1978.[5][6]
The festival opened with The Bishop's Bedroom by Dino Risi,[7][8] and closed with Slap Shot by George Roy Hill.[9]
Juries
[edit]Main Competition
[edit]- Roberto Rossellini, Italian filmmaker - Jury President[10]
- N'Sougan Agblemagnon, author
- Anatole Dauman, French producer
- Jacques Demy, French filmmaker
- Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
- Benoîte Groult, French writer
- Pauline Kael, American journalist and film critic
- Marthe Keller, Swiss actress
- Yuri Ozerov, Soviet filmmaker
Official selection
[edit]In Competition
[edit]The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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3 Women | Robert Altman | United States | |
The American Friend | Der Amerikanische Freund | Wim Wenders | West Germany, France |
An Average Little Man | Un borghese piccolo piccolo | Mario Monicelli | Italy |
Backbone | Kičma | Vlatko Gilić | Yugoslavia |
Bang! | Jan Troell | Sweden | |
Black Joy | Anthony Simmons | United Kingdom | |
Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | United States | |
Budapest Tales | Budapesti mesék | István Szabó | Hungary |
Car Wash | Michael Schultz | United States | |
The Duellists | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom | |
Elisa, My Life | Elisa, vida mía | Carlos Saura | Spain |
Group Portrait with a Lady | Gruppenbild mit Dame | Aleksandar Petrović | West Germany, France |
The Hunters | Οι Κυνηγοί | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece |
Iphigenia | Ιφιγένεια | Michael Cacoyannis | |
J.A. Martin Photographer | J.A. Martin photographe | Jean Beaudin | Canada |
The Lacemaker | La dentellière | Claude Goretta | France |
The Lorry | Le camion | Marguerite Duras | |
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died | Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Canada, France |
Padre Padrone | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Italy | |
The Purple Taxi | Un taxi mauve | Yves Boisset | France, Italy, Ireland |
Solemn Communion | La Communion solennelle | René Féret | France |
A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | Ettore Scola | Italy, Canada |
Wounded Game | Подранки | Nikolai Gubenko | Soviet Union |
Out of Competition
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
- Aïda by Pierre Jourdan
- All This and World War II by Susan Winslow (United States)
- Beethoven - Tage aus einem Leben by Horst Seemann (East Germany)
- La Bible by Marcel Carné (France) (documentary)
- The Bishop's Bedroom (La stanza del vescovo) by Dino Risi (Italy, France)
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen by Ray Hubbard (United States)
- Bogart by Marshall Flaum (United States)
- Camelamos Naquerar (short) by Miguel Alcobendas (Spain)
- Carrara by Christian Paureilhe (France)
- Catherine by Paul Seban (France)
- The Children of Theatre Street (doc.) by Robert Dornhelm (United States)
- Cine Folies (documentary) by Philippe Collin (France)
- Un Cuore Semplice by Giorgio Ferrara (Italy)
- Dearest Executioners (Queridísimos verdugos) by Basilio M. Patino (Spain)
- Des femmes et des nanas by Jean Pierre Marchand (France)
- Il gabbiano by Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
- Ha-Gan by Victor Nord (Israel)
- Harlan County, USA (doc.) by Barbara Kopple (United States)
- Heinrich by Helma Sanders-Brahms (West Germany)
- Les Lieux d'une fugue by Georges Perec (France) (short)
- Life Goes to the Movies (doc.) by Mel Stuart (United States)
- Mais qu'est ce qu'elles veulent? (doc.) by Coline Serreau (France)
- Meanwhile Back at the Ranch by Richard Patterson (United States)
- Moi Tintin (doc.) by Gérard Valet, Henri Roanne (France, Belgium)
- Mozart - Aufzeichnungen einer Jugend by Klaus Kirschner (West Germany)
- El mundo de Pau Casals by Jean Baptiste Bellsolell (Spain)
- The Naked Civil Servant by Jack Gold (United Kingdom)
- News from Home by Chantal Akerman (France)
- One Man by Robin Spry (Canada)
- Paradistorg by Gunnel Lindblom (Sweden)
- The Passionate Industry (doc.) by Joan Long (Australia)
- The Pictures That Moved (doc.) by Paul Andersen (Australia)
- Le Portrait de Dorian Gray by Pierre Boutron (France)
- Pumping Iron (doc.) by George Butler, Robert Fiore (United States)
- Le ragioni del successo by Luca Verdone (Italy)
- Raoni (doc.) by Jean-Pierre Dutilleux (France, Belgium, Brazil)
- Rhinoceros by Tom O'Horgan (United States, United Kingdom, Canada)
- Le Roi Pelé (doc.) by François Reichenbach (France)
- San Gottardo by Villi Hermann (Switzerland)
- Scott Joplin by Jeremy Paul Kagan (United States)
- Slap Shot by George Roy Hill (United States)
- That's Action by G. David Schine (documentary) (United States)
- Torre Bela by Thomas Harlan (Italy, Portugal)
- An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano by Nikita Mikhalkov (Soviet Union)
- La vie au ralenti by Jean-Christophe Rose (France)
Short Films Competition
[edit]The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
- Arte tairona by Francisco Norden
- Di Cavalcanti by Glauber Rocha
- Envisage by Peter Foldes
- Küzdök by Marcell Jankovics
- Mao, by himself (Mao par lui-même) by René Viénet
- Rumble by Jules Engel
- Stille Post by Ivan Steiger
Parallel sections
[edit]International Critics' Week
[edit]The following feature films were screened for the 16th International Critics' Week (16e Semaine de la Critique):[11]
- Ben et Benedict by Paula Delsol (France)
- Caminandos pasos… Caminando by Federico Weingartshofer (Mexico)
- Ethnocide by Paul Leduc (Canada, Mexico)
- Liebe dans leben by Lutz Eisholz (West Germany)
- Le Meurtrier de la jeunesse by Kazuhizo Hasegawa (Japan)
- Omar Gatlato by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
- Twenty Days Without War by Aleksey German (Soviet Union)
Directors' Fortnight
[edit]The following films were screened for the 1977 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[12]
- 25 by Jose Celso Correa, Celso Luccas (Mozambique)
- Aftenlandet by Peter Watkins (Denmark)
- Ceddo by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal)
- Closet Children (Les enfants du placard) by Benoît Jacquot (France)
- The Devil Probably (Le diable probablement) by Robert Bresson (France)
- The Earth Is Flat (Erasmus Montanus Eller Jorden er flad) by Henrik Stangerup (Denmark)
- Fuera de aquí! by Jorge Sanjinés (Ecuador)
- Gizmo! by Howard Smith (United States)
- La Historia Me Absolvera by Gaetano Pagano (Sweden)
- The Hyena's Sun (Soleil des hyènes) by Ridha Behi (Netherlands, Tunisia)
- The Indians Are Still Far Away (Les indiens sont encore loin) by Patricia Moraz (France, Switzerland)
- Kilenc hónap by Marta Meszaros (Hungary)
- Living On (Continuar a Viver) (doc.) by António da Cunha Telles (Portugal)
- La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro by Nicolas Sarquis (Argentina)
- Near and Far Away (Långt borta och nära) by Marianne Ahrne (Sweden)
- Nós por cá Todos Bem by Fernando Lopes (Portugal)
- Ors Zein by Khaled Siddik (Kuwait, Sudan)
- Peking Duck Soup (Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires) (doc.) by René Vienet (France)
- Prata Palomares by André Faria (Brazil)
- Why Shoot the Teacher? by Silvio Narizzano (Canada)
- Zero Hour (Stunde Null) by Edgar Reitz (West Germany)
- Short films
- Claude Chauvy, l'art du tournage en bois by Jean-Pierre Bonneau (France)
- Eggs by John Hubley (United States)
- Hors-jeu by Georges Schwisgebel (Switzerland)
- Nights (Nyhtes) by Georges Katakouzinos (Greece)
- Sauf dimanches et fêtes by François Ode (France)
- Windy Day by John Hubley, Faith Hubley (United States)
Official Awards
[edit]In Competition
[edit]- Palme d'Or: Padre Padrone by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani[2]
- Best Actress:
- Best Actor: Fernando Rey for Elisa, vida mía
- Best First Work: The Duellists by Ridley Scott (Unanimously)
- Best Music: Norman Whitfield for Car Wash
- The Struggle by Marcell Jankovics
- Jury Prize: Di Cavalcanti by Glauber Rocha
Independent Awards
[edit]- Padre Padrone by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (In competition)[13]
- Kilenc hónap by Marta Meszaros (Directors' Fortnight)
Commission Supérieure Technique
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Posters 1977". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013.
- ^ a b "Awards 1977: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Official Selection 1977: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ "30ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ "1977 - Un Festival particulier (A special Festival)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Les différentes catégories de sélections". francofolies.over-blog.es. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Page 21, article text (OCR)". newspapers.com. May 30, 1977. 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 1977: Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "16e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1977". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- ^ "Quinzaine 1977". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1977". fipresci.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "Jury Œcuménique 1977". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "Jury Œcuménique 1977". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
Media
[edit]- INA: Opening of the 1977 festival (commentary in French)
- INA: Assessment of the 1977 Cannes festival (interview with France Roche in French)
- INA: Critics' reactions to the 1977 awards (commentary in French)
External links
[edit]- 1977 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1977 Archived 2019-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival:1977 Archived 2009-06-04 at the Wayback Machine at Internet Movie Database