1980 Cannes Film Festival
 Official poster of the 33rd Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Michel Landi.[1] | |
| Opening film | Fantastica |
|---|---|
| Closing film | I'm Photogenic |
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or: All That Jazz Kagemusha |
| No. of films | 23 (In Competition)[2] |
| Festival date | 9 May 1980 – 23 May 1980 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 33rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 and 23 May 1980.[3] American actor Kirk Douglas served as jury president for the main competition. During the festival the showing of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker was notoriously by an electricians strike.[4]
The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was jointly award to All That Jazz by Bob Fosse and Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa.[5]
The festival opened with Fantastica by Gilles Carle,[6][7] and closed with I'm Photogenic by Dino Risi.[8]
Juries
[edit]Main Competition
[edit]- Kirk Douglas, American actor - Jury President[9]
- Ken Adam, British production designer
- Robert Benayoun, French film critic and author
- Veljko Bulajić, Yugoslavian filmmaker
- Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
- Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
- André Delvaux, Belgium filmmaker
- Albina du Boisrouvray, French producer
- Gian Luigi Rondi, Italian writer
- Michael Spencer, Canadian producer and filmmaker
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballad of Tara | چریکه تارا | Bahram Beyzai | Iran |
| The Candidate | Der Kandidat | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany |
| Christopher's House | Kristoffers hus | Lars Lennart Forsberg | Sweden |
| Csontváry | Zoltán Huszárik | Hungary | |
| Days of Dreams | Дани од снова | Vlatko Gilić | Yugoslavia |
| La femme enfant | Die Stumme Liebe | Raphaële Billetdoux | France, West Germany |
| The Gamekeeper | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | |
| Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder | Portrait d'un homme 'à 60% parfait': Billy Wilder | Annie Tresgot and Michel Ciment | France |
| The Rabbit Case | Causa králík | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
| Sitting Ducks | Henry Jaglom | United States | |
| To Love the Damned | Maledetti vi amerò | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| Ways in the Night | Wege in der Nacht | Krzysztof Zanussi | West Germany |
| The Willi Busch Report | Der Willi-Busch-Report | Niklaus Schilling | |
Out of Competition
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[2]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breaking Glass | Brian Gibson | United Kingdom | |
| City of Women | La città delle donne | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| I'm Photogenic (closing film) | Sono fotogenico | Dino Risi | |
| Lightning Over Water | Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray | West Germany, Sweden | |
| Nezha Conquers the Dragon King | 哪吒闹海 | Wang Shuchen, Yan Dingxian, Xu Jingda | China |
| Public Telephone | Téléphone public | Jean-Marie Périer | France |
| The Risk of Living | Le risque de vivre | Gérald Calderon | |
| Stalker | Сталкер | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union |
| Stir | Stephen Wallace | Australia | |
| SuperTotò | Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel | Italy | |
Short Films Competition
[edit]The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[2]
- Arrêt momentané by Marie-France Siegler
- The Beloved by Michel Bouchard
- The Performer by Norma Bailey
- Grandomaniya by Nikolay Todorov
- Krychle by Zdenek Smetana
- Magyar kepek by Csaba Szórády
- La Petite enfance du cinéma by Joël Farges
- Rails by Manolo Otero
- Scheherazade by Susan Casey and Nancy Naschke
- Seaside Woman by Oscar Grillo
- Sky Dance by Faith Hubley
- Z górki by Marian Cholerek
Parallel sections
[edit]International Critics' Week
[edit]The following feature films were screened for the 19th International Critics' Week (19e Semaine de la Critique):[10]
- Adrien's Story by Jean-Pierre Denis
- Babylon by Franco Rosso
- Best Boy by Ira Wohl
- Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy by Salvatore Piscicelli
- Provincial Actors by Agnieszka Holland
- The Nineteen Year-Old's Map by Mitsuo Yanagimachi
- Ticket of No Return by Ulrike Ottinger
Directors' Fortnight
[edit]The following films were screened for the 1980 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[11]
- Afternoon of War by Karl Francis
- Aziza by Abdellatif Ben Ammar
- The Blood Of Hussain by Jamil Dehlavi
- Carny by Robert Kaylor
- Gaijin: Roads to Freedom by Tizuka Yamasaki
- Gal Young Un by Victor Nuñez
- The Handyman by Micheline Lanctôt
- Hazal by Ali Ozgentürk
- Morning Undersea by Lauro Antonio
- Manoa by Solveig Hoogesteijn
- Mater Amatisima by José A. Salgot
- Oggetti Smarriti by Giuseppe Bertolucci
- Opname by Erik van Zuylen and Marja Kok
- Order by Sohrab Shahid Saless
- The Patriotic Woman by Alexander Kluge
- Pełnia by Andrzej Kondratiuk
- Prostitute by Tony Garnett
- Radio On by Christopher Petit
- Purity of Heart by Robert van Ackeren
- Sunday Children by Michael Verhoeven
- Sunday Daughters by János Rózsa
- Union City by Marcus Reichert
Short films
- Noticiero Incine by Frank Pineda and Ramiro Lacayo
- Ovtcharsko by Christo Kovatchev
- Vietnam, voyage dans le temps by Edgar Telles Ribeiro
Official Awards
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In Competition
[edit]- Palme d'Or:
- Grand Prix: My American Uncle by Alain Resnais (unanimously)
- Best Screenplay: Ettore Scola, Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli for La terrazza
- Best Actress: Anouk Aimée for A Leap in the Dark
- Best Actor: Michel Piccoli for A Leap in the Dark
- Best Supporting Actress: Milena Dravić for Special Treatment & Carla Gravina for La terrazza
- Best Supporting Actor: Jack Thompson for Breaker Morant
- Jury Prize: The Constant Factor by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Seaside Woman by Oscar Grillo
- Jury Prize: Canada Vignettes: The Performer by Norma Bailey & Krychle by Zdenek Smetana
Independent Awards
[edit]- My American Uncle by Alain Resnais (In competition)[13]
- Provincial Actors by Agnieszka Holland (International Critics' Week)
- Gaijin: Roads to Freedom by Tizuka Yamasaki (Directors' Fortnight)
Commission Supérieure Technique
[edit]- Technical Grand Prize: Le Risque de vivre by Gérald Calderon (out of competition)
References
[edit]- ^ "Posters 1980". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Official Selection 1980: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
- ^ "33ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "The Ottawa Journal". May 14, 1980. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "1980 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ Torn Sprockets (1987). The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film. ISBN 9780874131949. 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 1980: Feature film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "19e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1980". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "Quinzaine 1980". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "Awards 1980: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013.
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1980". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "Jury Œcuménique 1980". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
Media
[edit]- INA: Joint Palme d'Or to Akira Kurosawa and Bob Fosse (Dirk Bogarde and Kirk Douglas present the Palme d'Or to Akira Kurosawa for "Kagemusha" and to Bob Fosse for "All That Jazz" - commentary in French)
- INA: Chronicle of the 1980 Festival (commentary in French)
External links
[edit]- 1980 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1980 Archived 2019-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival:1980 Archived 2009-05-31 at the Wayback Machine at Internet Movie Database