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1971 Cannes Film Festival CFF71poster.jpg Official poster of the 24th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by French artist René Ferracci.http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/posters.html Posters 1971 festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141018103354/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/posters.html 18 October 2014 dmy 26 (In Competition) Gimme Shelter The Married Couple of the Year Two Cannes, France Palme d'Or:The Go-Between 1971 05 12 y – 1971 05 27 y 1946 festival-cannes.com/en Cannes Film Festival 1970 1972
The 24th Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 27 May 1971. French actress Michèle Morgan served as jury president for the main competition.24ème Festival International du Film – Cannes http://www.cinema-francais.fr/cannes/cannes_1971.htm 6 June 2017 cinema-francais.fr fr25th Cannes Film Festival http://www.ina.fr/video/CPF86609093/25eme-festival-de-cannes-video.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115004/http://www.ina.fr/video/CPF86609093/25eme-festival-de-cannes-video.html 24 December 2013 25 May 2017 ina.fr The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the festival's main prize, was awarded to The Go-Between by Joseph Losey.http://www.cannes-fest.com/pr1971.htm 1971 - Le Jury, Les Prix cannes-fest.com fr 25 May 2017
This edition paid tribute to Charlie Chaplin and honored him with the title of Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor.1971: Tribute to Charlie Chaplin http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticleActu/57899.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131224095531/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticleActu/57899.html 24 December 2013 festival-cannes.fr dmyhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44557774 Charlie Chaplin Stole the Show at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival nla.gov.au 25 May 2017
The festival opened with Gimme Shelter by David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and closed with The Married Couple of the Year Two by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.http://www.cannes.com/en/festival-de-cannes/history-of-the-cannes-film-festival/from-anecdote-to-legend.html From anecdote to legend cannes.com 25 May 2017 6 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191106104949/http://www.cannes.com/en/festival-de-cannes/history-of-the-cannes-film-festival/from-anecdote-to-legend.html dead
Juries
Main Competition
Michèle Morgan, French actress - Jury Presidenthttp://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/juryLongFilm.html Juries 1971: Long film festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100025/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/juryLongFilm.html 4 March 2016 dmy
Pierre Billard, French journalist and film critic
Michael Birkett, British producer
Anselmo Duarte, Brazilian filmmaker
István Gaál, Hungarian filmmaker
Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker
Aleksandar Petrović, Yugoslav filmmaker
Maurice Rheims, French art historian and novelist
Erich Segal, American author
Short Films Competition
Véra Volmane, Franch journalist - Jury President
Charles Duvanel, Swiss
Etienne Novella, Franch
Official selection
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/allSelections.html Official Selection 1971: All the Selection festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131226221940/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/allSelections.html 26 December 2013 dmy
English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryApokalPaul AnczykowskiWest GermanyBetween MiraclesPer grazia ricevutaNino ManfrediItalyThe Boat on the GrassLe Bateau sur l'herbeGérard BrachFranceDeath in VeniceMorte a VeneziaLuchino ViscontiItaly, FranceDrive, He SaidJack NicholsonUnited StatesFamily LifeŻycie rodzinneKrzysztof ZanussiPolandThe FlightБегAleksandr Alov and Vladimir NaumovSoviet UnionThe Go-BetweenJoseph LoseyUnited KingdomGoya, a Story of SolitudeGoya, historia de una soledadNino QuevedoSpainJoe HillBo WiderbergSweden, United StatesJohnny Got His GunDalton TrumboUnited States Lady CaliphLa CaliffaAlberto BevilacquaFrance, ItalyLootSilvio NarizzanoUnited KingdomLoveSzerelemKároly MakkHungaryThe Married Couple of the Year Two (closing film)Les mariés de l'an IIJean-Paul RappeneauFrance, Italy, RomaniaMiraFons RademakersNetherlands, BelgiumMurmur of the HeartLe souffle au cœurLouis MalleFrance, Italy, West GermanyThe Panic in Needle ParkJerry SchatzbergUnited StatesPindoramaArnaldo JaborBrazilRaphael, or The Debauched OneRaphaël ou le débauchéMichel DevilleFranceSacco & VanzettiSacco e VanzettiGiuliano MontaldoItaly, FranceSick AnimalsAnimale bolnaveNicolae BrebanRomaniaA Soul to Devils闇の中の魑魅魍魎Kō NakahiraJapanTaking OffMiloš FormanUnited StatesWake in FrightOutback Ted KotcheffAustralia, United Kingdom, United StatesWalkaboutNicolas RoegUnited Kingdom, Australia, United States
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
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Le Chasseur by François Reichenbach
The Deadly Trap (La Maison sous les Arbres) by René Clément
The Friends (Les amis) by Gérard Blain
Gimme Shelter by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
The Hellstrom Chronicle by Walon Green
Narcissus by Peter Foldes
The Sacred Fire (Le feu sacré) by Vladimir Forgency
The Trojan Women by Michael Cacoyannis
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
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Astronaut Coffee Break by Edward Casazza
Centinelas del silencio by Robert Amram
Fair Play by Bronislaw Zeman
Hans Hartrung by Christian Ferlet
I mari della mia fantasia by Ernesto G. Laura
Jardin by Claude Champion
La fin du jeu by Renaud Walter
Le coeur renverse by Maurice Frydland
Memorial by James Allen
Mixed-Double by Bent Barfod
Patchwork by Georges Schwizgebel, Claude Luyet, Daniel Suter, Manolo Otero, Gérald Poussin
Paul Delvaux, ou les femmes défendues by Henri Storck
Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
Stuiter by Jan Oonk
Une statuette by Carlos Vilardebo
Parallel Sections
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 10th International Critics' Week (10e Semaine de la Critique):http://archives.semainedelacritique.com/films/1971/1971_selection.php 10e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1971 archives.semainedelacritique.com 1 July 2017
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Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family by Morley Markson (Canada)
Bronco Bullfrog by Barney Platts-Mills (United Kingdom)
Expédition punitive by Magyar Dessö (Hungary)
I Love You, I Kill You fr Je t'aime, je te tue Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich by Uwe Brandner de (West Germany)
Loving Memory by Tony Scott (United Kingdom)
A Matter of Life (Question de vie) by André Théberge (Canada)
Le Moindre geste by Jean-Pierre Daniel, Fernand Deligny (France)
Les Passagers by Annie Tresgot (Algeria)
Trash by Paul Morrissey (United States)
Viva la muerte by Fernando Arrabal (Tunisia, France)
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1971 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/fr/edition/1971 Quinzaine 1971 quinzaine-realisateurs.com 1 July 2017 14 October 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134033/http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/qz_an/1971/ live
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Acadia, Acadia (L'Acadie, L'Acadie?!?) by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault (Canada)
Are You Afraid? (Er i bange?) (doc.) by Henning Carlsen (Denmark)
Badou Boy by Djibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
Bang Bang by Andréa Tonacci (Brazil)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni) by Juraj Jakubisko (France, Czechoslovakia)
Brother Carl by Susan Sontag (Sweden)
The Ceremony (Gishiki) by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Cleopatra by Michel Auder (United States)
The Cow (Gāv) by Dariush Mehrjui (Iran)
Cuadecuc, vampir by Pere Portabella (Spain)
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal) by Joël Séria (France)
Du Cote D'Orouet by Jacques Rozier (France)
Dziura w ziemi by Andrzej Kondratiuk (Poland)
Agnus dei (Égi bárány) by Miklós Jancsó (Hungary)
Equinox (Equinozio) by Maurizio Ponzi (Italy)
A Fable by Al Freeman Jr. (United States)
Fata Morgana by Werner Herzog (West Germany)
Festival panafricain d'Alger 1969 (doc.) by William Klein (Algeria)
La fin des Pyrénées by Jean-Pierre Lajournade (France)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un rêveur) by Robert Bresson (France)
Goin' Down the Road by Donald Shebib (Canada)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como era gostoso o meu francês) by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos (Brazil)
It Is Necessary to Be Among the Peoples of the World to Know Them (Faut aller parmi l'monde pour le savoir) by Fernand Dansereau (Canada)
Lea in Winter (Léa l'hiver) by Marc Monnet (France)
Lenz by George Moorse (West Germany)
The Machine by A. Shermann, J. Rozenberg (Switzerland)
Le Maître du temps (doc.) by Jean-Daniel Pollet (France)
Makin' It by Simon Hartog (United Kingdom)
Mare's Tail by David Larcher (United Kingdom)
Mathias Kneissl by Reinhard Hauff (West Germany)
México, la revolución congelada by Raymundo Gleyzer (Argentina)
O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil (Moi, Schizo) by Antônio Calmon (Brazil)
Ni vainqueurs, ni vaincus by A. Cabado, N. Spoliansky (Argentina)
Of Gods and the Undead (Os Deuses e os Mortos) by Ruy Guerra (Brazil)
The Past That Lives by Philo Bregstein (Netherlands)
Prea mic pentru un razboi atît de mare by Radu Gabrea (Romania)
Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los bárbaros by Edgardo Cozarinsky (Argentina)
Rape (Voldtekt) by Anja Breien (Norway)
The Salamander (La salamandre) by Alain Tanner (Switzerland, France)
Sex Jack (Seikozu) by Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
Staféta by András Kovács (Hungary)
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach) by Volker Schlöndorff (West Germany)
Los testigos by Charles Elsesser (Chile)
Those Damned Savages (Les maudits sauvages) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
THX 1138 by George Lucas (United States)
Tokyo senso sengo hiwa by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Umut by Yılmaz Güney (Turkey)
Valparaiso, Valparaiso by Pascal Aubier (France)
Voto más fusil by Helvio Soto (Chile)
W.R. - Misterije organizma by Dušan Makavejev (Yugoslavia)
Wanda by Barbara Loden (United States)
Short films
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Apotheosis by John Lennon, Yoko Ono (United Kingdom)
Cannes, 70... by Jean-Paul Jaud (France)
Essai à la mille by Jean-Claude Labrecque (Canada)
Estado de sitio by Jaime Chávarri (Spain)
Grumes by Jean-Pierre Bonneau (France)
Habitude by Dan Wolman (Israel)
La belleza by Arturo Ripstein (Mexico)
La Pierre qui flotte by Jean-Jacques Andrien (Belgium)
Le Cri by Paul Dopff (France)
Le Vampire de la Cinémathèque by Roland Lethem (Belgium)
Le voyage du Lieutenant Le Bihan by László Szabó (France)
Les bulles du cardinal by Ody Roos (Luxembourg)
Meatdaze by Jeff Keen (United Kingdom)
Mégalodrame by Alain Colas (France)
Moment by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
Monangambeee by Sarah Maldoror (Angola)
Mortem by Adam Schmedes (Denmark)
Okasareta hakui by Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
Please Don't Stand On My Sunshine by Ned McCann (Australia)
R.S.V.P. by W. Pinkston, J. Mason V. (United States)
Rosée Du Matin by Jean Dasque (France)
Sex by David Avidan (Israel)
Sur les traces de Baal by Abdellatif Ben Ammar (Tunisia)
Underground Again by Laure Guggenheim (France)
Venceremos by Pedro Chaskel (Chile)
Viva Cariri by Geraldo Sarno (Brazil)
Official Awards
thumb|180px|Michèle Morgan, Jury President
thumb|180px|Joseph Losey, Palme d'Or winner
Main Competition
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Go-Between by Joseph Loseyhttp://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/allAward.html Awards 1971 : All Awards festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194946/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1971/allAward.html 29 October 2013 dmy
Grand Prix Spécial du Jury:
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Taking Off by Miloš Forman
Best Actress: Kitty Winn for The Panic in Needle Park
Best Actor: Riccardo Cucciolla for Sacco & Vanzetti
Jury Prize:
Joe Hill by Bo Widerberg
Love by Károly Makk
Best First Work: Between Miracles by Nino Manfredi
25th Anniversary Prize: Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti
Short Films Competition
Prix spécial du Jury: Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
Special Mention:
Stuiter by Jan Oonk
Une Statuette by Carlos Vilardebó
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbohttp://www.fipresci.org/awards/1971 FIPRESCI Awards 1971 fipresci.org 2 July 2017
Commission Supérieure Technique
Technical Grand Prize: The Hellstrom Chronicle by Walon Greenhttps://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000147/1971 Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1971 imdb.com 2 July 2017 March 2024
OCIC Award
Love by Károly Makk
Other Awards
Special Mention: Lili Darvas and Mari Törőcsik, the lead actresses in Szerelem
References
Media
INA: 25th Cannes Film Festival (commentary in French)
INA: Michèle Morgan, president of the 1971 jury (commentary in French)
INA: About the film The Go-Between by Joseph Losey (interview in French and English)
External links
1971 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20190114044407/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/1971/selection/in-competition-feature-films 2019-01-14
Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1971 at Internet Movie Database
Cannes Film Festival, 1971
Cannes Film Festival, 1971
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