1979 Toronto International Film Festival

Annual Canadian film festival 1979 Toronto International Film Festival 1979 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg Festival poster Toronto International Film Festival Group Toronto, Ontario, Canada English 1979 09 06–1979 09 15 tiff.net 1978 1980 The 4th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1979. Due to overcrowding in the prior year, the Gala presentations were moved from the 700-seat Towne Cinema to the 1,600-seat Elgin Theatre. The People's Choice Award was awarded to Best Boy by Ira Wohl, which later won Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Awards Award"TIFF Awards" https://web.archive.org/web/20120927032100/http://tiff.net/thefestival/festivalawards/awardsarchive 2012-09-27 . tiff.net, October 14, 2013.http://voices.yahoo.com/toronto-film-festival-peoples-choice-award-should-11606670.html Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award Should Set Pattern for Public Deciding Best Film at Film Festivals October 14, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20140729052710/http://voices.yahoo.com/toronto-film-festival-peoples-choice-award-should-11606670.html 2014-07-29 dead Film Director People's Choice Award Best Boy Ira Wohl Programme This year The American Nightmare retrospective on American horror films was organized by Canadian critic Robin Wood and Richard Lippe.http://tiff.net/about/tiffhistory TIFF History October 14, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131015055839/http://tiff.net/about/tiffhistory 2013-10-15 dead Brian De Palma and George A. Romero attended the retrospective as guests.http://thetfs.ca/2012/09/04/a-brief-history-of-tiff/ A brief history of TIFF October 14, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131014145209/http://thetfs.ca/2012/09/04/a-brief-history-of-tiff/ October 14, 2013 deadhttp://jam.canoe.com/Movies/Film_Festivals/Toronto/2009/about/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160126145058/http://jam.canoe.com/Movies/Film_Festivals/Toronto/2009/about/ dead January 26, 2016 Taking a look back at TIFF October 14, 2013 Also this year Industry programme trade forum was started by festival, which continued till 1991. The festival featured a special programme of films from Sweden, with Jörn Donner, the head of the Swedish Film Institute, and nine Swedish filmmakers attending. Gala Presentations An Adventure for Two by Claude LelouchVariety September 12, 1979 7 Strong Opening For Toronto Festival Adilman Sid ...And Justice for All. by Norman Jewison Black Jack by Ken LoachJay Scott, "Festival of Festivals a film bonanza". The Globe and Mail, September 1, 1979. Fish Hawk by Donald Shebib The Heritage by Anders Refn Legend of the Mountain by King Hu Linus and the Mysterious Red Brick House by Vilgot Sjöman Magicians of the Silver Screen by Jiří Menzel The Magician of Lublin by Menahem Golan A Man, a Woman, and a Bank by Noel Black The Marriage of Maria Braun by Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Onion Field by Harold Becker Orchestra Rehearsal by Federico Fellini Quadrophenia by Franc Roddam Something Short of Paradise by David Helpern The Tempest by Derek Jarmanhttp://www.indiepixfilms.com/festival/4/1979 1979 Toronto International Film Festival October 13, 2013 October 6, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141006091524/http://www.indiepixfilms.com/festival/4/1979 dead Time After Time by Nicholas Meyer Critics Choice 50/50 by Uwe Brandner Bastien, Bastienne by Michel Andrieu Drugstore Romance by Paul Vecchiali Germany in Autumn by Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos de, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka de, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé de, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert and Bernhard Sinkel Knife in the Head by Reinhard Hauff Northern Lights by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson To an Unknown God by Jaime Chávarri To Be Sixteen by Jean Pierre Lefebvre New Directions America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story by John Edwards Arthur Miller on Home Ground by Harry Rasky Blue Winter by André Blanchard Radio On by Christopher Petit The Sailor's Return by Jack Gold Scum by Alan Clarke Summer's Children by Julius Kohanyi Title Shot by Les Rose Documentaries Best Boy by Ira Wohlhttp://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/tiff-peoples-choice-2012/ TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos October 14, 2013 CBC News Chiefs by Richard Leacock Chronicle of a Summer by Jean Rouch The Drugstore by Joris Ivens The Football Incident by Joris Ivens The Handmaidens of God by Diane Létourneau Juvenile Court by Frederick Wiseman Juvenile Liaison by Nick Broomfield La La, Making It in L.A. by Frank Mouris and Caroline Mouris Salesman by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin The Snowshoers (Les Raquetteurs) by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx Solzhenitsyn's Children Are Making a Lot of Noise in Paris by Michael Rubbo This Will Do for Today by Martin Lavut Special Screenings Dinner for Adele by Oldřich Lipský Let's Talk About Love by Jean-Claude Lord Molière by Ariane Mnouchkine Stone Cold Dead by George Mendeluk Tierra y libertad by Maurice Bulbulian Buried Treasures The Confessions of Amans by Gregory Nava Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! by Russ Meyer The Friends of Eddie Coyle by Peter Yates The Green Wall by Armando Robles Godoy Night Moves by Arthur Penn Ruby by Dick Bartlett The Scenic Route by Mark Rappaport The Super Inframan by Hua Shan Who's That Knocking at My Door by Martin Scorsese Swedish Cinema The Man on the Roof by Bo Widerberg Men Can't Be Raped by Jörn Donner Near and Far Away by Marianne Ahrne One and One by Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist and Ingrid Thulin A Respectable Life by Stefan Jarl The Score by Christer Dahl Sven Klang's Combo by Stellan Olsson A Walk in the Sun by Hans Dahlberg The Walls of Freedom by Marianne Ahrne German Cinema Bye-Bye Bavaria! by Herbert Achternbusch The Expulsion from Paradise by Niklaus Schilling The Main Actor by Reinhard Hauff Moritz, Dear Moritz by Hark Bohm On the Move by Adolf Winkelmann Luce Guilbeault A tribute program to Canadian actress and filmmaker Luce Guilbeault, featuring both films in which she performed and films she directed. Denyse Benoît, comedienne by Luce Guilbeault D'abord ménagères by Luce Guilbeault Passages by Nesya Shapiro Blue Réjeanne Padovani by Denys Arcand Some American Feminists by Luce Guilbeault Marguerite Duras Films directed by Marguerite Duras. Destroy, She Said India Song The Lorry La Musica Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert References External links Official site TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012 1979 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb 1979 Category:1979 film festivals Category:1979 in Toronto Category:1979 in Canadian cinema Category:September 1979 in Canada