1977 Cannes Film Festival

none 1977 Cannes Film Festival CFF77poster.jpg Official poster of the 30th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Polish painter Wojciech Siudmak.http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1977/posters.html Posters 1977 festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131204093252/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1977/posters.html 4 December 2013 dmy 23 (In Competition) The Bishop's Bedroom Slap Shot Cannes, France Palme d'Or:Padre Padrone 1977 05 13 y – 1977 05 27 y 1946 festival-cannes.com/en Cannes Film Festival 1976 1978 The 30th Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 27 May 1977.http://www.cinema-francais.fr/cannes/cannes_1977.htm 30ème Festival International du Film - Cannes cinema-francais.fr fr 4 June 2017 Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini served 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.http://www.cannes-fest.com/an1977.htm 1977 - Un Festival particulier (A special Festival) cannes-fest.com fr 4 June 2017http://francofolies.over-blog.es/2014/05/festival-de-cannes-les-differentes-categories-de-selections.html Festival de Cannes: Les différentes catégories de sélections francofolies.over-blog.es 14 July 2017 The festival opened with The Bishop's Bedroom by Dino Risi,https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/50000710/ The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Page 21, article text (OCR) May 30, 1977 newspapers.com 14 July 2017http://www.vodkaster.com/listes-de-films/cannes-les-films-d-ouverture/937413 The opening films at Cannes vodkaster.com 25 May 2017 5 September 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190905134533/https://www.vodkaster.com/listes-de-films/cannes-les-films-d-ouverture/937413 dead and closed with Slap Shot by George Roy Hill.http://www.vodkaster.com/listes-de-films/les-films-de-cloture-du-festival-de-cannes/959023 The closing films at Cannes vodkaster.com 25 May 2017 5 September 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190905121804/https://www.vodkaster.com/listes-de-films/les-films-de-cloture-du-festival-de-cannes/959023 dead Juries Main Competition Roberto Rossellini, Italian filmmaker - Jury Presidenthttp://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1977/juryLongFilm.html Juries 1977: Long film festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100025/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1977/juryLongFilm.html 4 March 2016 dmy 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 In Competition The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1977/allSelections.html Official Selection 1977: All the Selection festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131226221940/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1977/allSelections.html 26 December 2013 dmy English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country3 WomenRobert AltmanUnited StatesThe American FriendDer Amerikanische FreundWim WendersWest Germany, FranceAn Average Little ManUn borghese piccolo piccoloMario MonicelliItalyBackboneKičmaVlatko GilićYugoslaviaBang!Jan TroellSwedenBlack JoyAnthony SimmonsUnited KingdomBound for GloryHal AshbyUnited StatesBudapest TalesBudapesti mesékIstván SzabóHungaryCar WashMichael SchultzUnited StatesThe DuellistsRidley ScottUnited KingdomElisa, My LifeElisa, vida míaCarlos SauraSpainGroup Portrait with a LadyGruppenbild mit DameAleksandar PetrovićWest Germany, FranceThe HuntersΟι ΚυνηγοίTheo AngelopoulosGreeceIphigenia ΙφιγένειαMichael CacoyannisJ.A. Martin PhotographerJ.A. Martin photographeJean BeaudinCanadaThe LacemakerLa dentellièreClaude GorettaFranceThe LorryLe camionMarguerite DurasThe Old Country Where Rimbaud DiedLe Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mortJean Pierre LefebvreCanada, FrancePadre PadronePaolo and Vittorio TavianiItalyThe Purple TaxiUn taxi mauveYves BoissetFrance, Italy, IrelandSolemn CommunionLa Communion solennelleRené FéretFranceA Special DayUna giornata particolareEttore ScolaItaly, CanadaWounded GameПодранкиNikolai GubenkoSoviet Union Out of Competition The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: 30em 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) A Simple Heart 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 (1977 film) de Heinrich (1977) 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 The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: 30em 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 International Critics' Week The following feature films were screened for the 16th International Critics' Week (16e Semaine de la Critique):http://archives.semainedelacritique.com/films/1977/1977_selection.php 16e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1977 archives.semainedelacritique.com 18 June 2017 30em 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 The following films were screened for the 1977 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/fr/edition/1977 Quinzaine 1977 quinzaine-realisateurs.com 18 June 2017 15 October 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171015065821/http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/qz_an/1977/ live 30em 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 30em 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 thumb|200px|Roberto Rossellini, Jury President thumb|200px|Palme d'Or winner Paolo Taviani with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro In Competition Palme d'Or: Padre Padrone by Paolo and Vittorio Tavianihttp://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1977/allAward.html Awards 1977: All Awards festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131204120809/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1977/allAward.html 4 December 2013 dmy Best Actress: Shelley Duvall for 3 Women Monique Mercure for J.A. Martin Photographer Best Actor: Fernando Rey for Elisa, vida mía Best First Work: The Duellists by Ridley Scott (Unanimously) Best Music: Norman Whitfield for Car Wash Short Film Palme d'Or The Struggle by Marcell Jankovics Jury Prize: Di Cavalcanti by Glauber Rocha Independent Awards FIPRESCI Prize Padre Padrone by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (In competition)http://www.fipresci.org/awards/1977 FIPRESCI Awards 1977 fipresci.org 30 June 2017 Kilenc hónap by Marta Meszaros (Directors' Fortnight) Commission Supérieure Technique Technical Grand Prize: Car Wash by Michael Schultz Prize of the Ecumenical Jury The Lacemaker by Claude Gorettahttp://cannes.juryoecumenique.org/palmares/article/la-dentelliere Jury Œcuménique 1977 cannes.juryoecumenique.org 30 June 2017 J.A. Martin Photographer by Jean Beaudinhttp://cannes.juryoecumenique.org/palmares/article/j-a-martin-photographe Jury Œcuménique 1977 cannes.juryoecumenique.org 30 June 2017 References Media 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 1977 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive) Official website Retrospective 1977 https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174618/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/1977/selection/in-competition-feature-films 2019-01-19 Cannes Film Festival:1977 https://web.archive.org/web/20090604043446/http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Cannes_Film_Festival/1977 2009-06-04 at Internet Movie Database Cannes Film Festival, 1977 Cannes Film Festival, 1977 Category:Cannes Film Festival by year