1980 Cannes Film Festival
Opening film | Fantastica |
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Closing film | Sono fotogenico |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or (All That Jazz and Kagemusha)[2] |
No. of films | 23 (In Competition)[3] 14 (Un Certain Regard) 9 (Out of Competition) 12 (Short Film) |
Festival date | 9 May 1980 | – 23 May 1980
Website | festival-cannes |
The 33rd Cannes Film Festival was held between 9 and 23 May 1980. The Palme d'Or went to the All That Jazz by Bob Fosse and Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa.[4][5]
The festival opened with Fantastica, directed by Gilles Carle[6][7] and closed with Sono fotogenico, directed by Dino Risi.[8] The showing of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker was interrupted by an electricians strike.[9]
Jury
[edit]The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1980 feature film competition:[10]
Feature films
- Kirk Douglas (USA) - Jury President
- Ken Adam (UK)
- Robert Benayoun (France)
- Veljko Bulajić (Yugoslavia)
- Leslie Caron (France)
- Charles Champlin (USA)
- André Delvaux (Belgium)
- Albina du Boisrouvray (France)
- Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy)
- Michael Spencer (Canada)
Official selection
[edit]In competition - Feature film
[edit]The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
- All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
- Being There by Hal Ashby
- The Big Red One by Samuel Fuller
- Breaker Morant by Bruce Beresford
- Bye Bye Brasil by Carlos Diegues
- The Constant Factor by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Dedicatoria by Jaime Chávarri
- Ek Din Pratidin by Mrinal Sen
- Fantastica by Gilles Carle
- The Heiresses by Márta Mészáros
- Jaguar by Lino Brocka
- Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa
- A Leap in the Dark by Marco Bellocchio
- The Long Riders by Walter Hill
- Loulou by Maurice Pialat
- The Missing Link by Picha
- Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais
- Out of the Blue by Dennis Hopper
- Put on Ice by Bernhard Sinkel
- Sauve qui peut (la vie) by Jean-Luc Godard
- Special Treatment by Goran Paskaljević
- La terrazza by Ettore Scola
- A Week's Vacation by Bertrand Tavernier
Un Certain Regard
[edit]The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[3]
- Ballad of Tara by Bahram Bayzai
- The Candidate by Volker Schlöndorff
- Christopher's House by Lars Lennart Forsberg
- Csontváry by Zoltán Huszárik
- Days of Dreams by Vlatko Gilić
- La femme enfant by Raphaële Billetdoux
- The Gamekeeper by Ken Loach
- Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder by Annie Tresgot
- The Rabbit Case by Jaromil Jireš
- Sitting Ducks by Henry Jaglom
- To Love the Damned by Marco Tullio Giordana
- Ways in the Night by Krzysztof Zanussi
- The Willi Busch Report by Niklaus Schilling
Films out of competition
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
- Breaking Glass by Brian Gibson
- City of Women by Federico Fellini
- I'm Photogenic by Dino Risi
- Lightning Over Water by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray
- Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King by Yan Ding Xian, Wang Shuchen and Jingda Xu
- Public Telephone by Jean-Marie Périer
- The Risk of Living by Gérald Calderon
- Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Stir by Stephen Wallace
- SuperTotò by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel
Short film competition
[edit]The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
- 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):[11]
- 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):[12]
- 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
Awards
[edit]Official awards
[edit]The following films and people received the 1980 awards:[2][5][4]
- Palme d'Or:
- Grand Prix: Mon oncle d'Amérique 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: Constans by Krzysztof Zanussi
Golden Camera
Short films
- Short Film Palme d'Or: Seaside Woman by Oscar Grillo
- Jury Prize: Canada Vignettes: The Performer by Norma Bailey & Krychle by Zdenek Smetana
Independent awards
[edit]- Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais (In competition)
- Provincial Actors (Aktorzy prowincjonalni) by Agnieszka Holland (International Critics' Week)
- Gaijin: Roads to Freedom (Gaijin - Caminhos da Liberdade) by Tizuka Yamasaki (Directors' Fortnight)
Commission Supérieure Technique
- Technical Grand Prize: Le Risque de vivre by Gérald Calderon (which was shown out of competition)
Ecumenical Jury[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Posters 1980". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Awards 1980: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Official Selection 1980: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
- ^ a b "33ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "The Ottawa Journal". May 14, 1980. 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.
- ^ "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