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1970 Cannes Film Festival
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 1970 Cannes Film Festival |
| image | CFF70poster.jpg |
| caption | Official poster of the 23rd Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by French artist René Ferracci. |
| number | 25 (In Competition) |
| opening | The Things of Life |
| closing | Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel |
| location | Cannes, France |
| awards | Grand Prix: |
| MASH* | |
| date | – |
| founded | 1946 |
| website | |
| main | Cannes Film Festival |
| previous | 1969 |
| next | 1971 |
MASH*
The 23rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 3 to 18 May 1970. Guatemalan author and Nobel Prize laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias served as jury president for the main competition.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the festival's main prize, was awarded to MASH* by Robert Altman.
In this edition, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan (their flags were also omitted on the Croisette). He was supposedly tired of the "Slavic spectacles and Japanese samurai flicks.". The Russians took back their juror Sergei Obraztsov (head of Moscow puppet theater) and left the jury panel with only eight members.
The festival opened with The Things of Life by Claude Sautet and closed with Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel by Marc Allégret.
Juries
Main Competition
- Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan author, diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate - Jury President
- Guglielmo Biraghi, Italian film critic
- Kirk Douglas, American actor
- Christine Gouze-Rénal, French producer
- Vojtěch Jasný, Czechoslovakian filmmaker
- Félicien Marceau, French playwright
- Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppeteer
- Karel Reisz, British filmmaker
- Volker Schlöndorff, West-German filmmaker
Short Films Competition
- Fred Orain, producer
- Jerzy Płażewski, Polish film critic
- Vincio Delleani, Italian
Official selection
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Alienist | O Alienista | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil |
| The Buttercup Chain | Robert Ellis Miller | United Kingdom | |
| Don Segundo Sombra | Manuel Antín | Argentina | |
| The Dreamer | התמהוני | Dan Wolman | Israel |
| Elise, or Real Life | Élise ou la vraie vie | Michel Drach | France |
| The Falcons | Magasiskola | István Gaál | Hungary |
| Fruit of Paradise | Ovoce stromu rajských jíme | Věra Chytilová | Czechoslovakia |
| Harry Munter | Kjell Grede | Sweden | |
| Hoa-Binh | Hòa Bình | Raoul Coutard | France, South Vietnam |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto | Elio Petri | Italy |
| The Land | الأرض | Youssef Chahine | Egypt |
| Landscape After the Battle | Krajobraz po bitwie | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| Last Leap | Le dernier saut | Édouard Luntz | France |
| Leo the Last | John Boorman | United Kingdom | |
| Long Live the Bride and Groom | ¡Vivan los novios! | Luis García Berlanga | Spain |
| Malatesta | Peter Lilienthal | West Germany | |
| MASH* | Robert Altman | United States | |
| Metello | Mauro Bolognini | Italy | |
| The Palace of Angels | O Palácio dos Anjos | Walter Hugo Khouri | Brazil, France |
| The Pizza Triangle | Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca) | Ettore Scola | Italy, Spain |
| A Simple Story | Une si simple histoire | Abdellatif Ben Ammar | Tunisia |
| The Strawberry Statement | Stuart Hagmann | United States | |
| Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon | Otto Preminger | United States | |
| The Things of Life (opening film) | Les Choses de la vie | Claude Sautet | France, Italy, Switzerland |
| Tulips of Haarlem | I tulipani di Haarlem | Franco Brusati | Italy |
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ball of Count Orgel (closing film) | Le Bal du comte d'Orgel | Marc Allégret | France |
| Mictlan o la casa de los que ya no son | Raúl Kamffer | Mexico | |
| The Territory of Others | Le territoire des autres | Gérard Vienne, Jacqueline Lecompte, Michel Fano, François Bel | France |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack | United States | |
| Tristana | Luis Buñuel | Spain, France, Italy | |
| The Virgin and the Gypsy | Christopher Miles | United Kingdom | |
| Voyage Chez Les Vivants | Henry Brandt | Switzerland | |
| Woodstock | Michael Wadleigh | United States |
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Prix du Jury:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Day With the Boys | Ein Tag mit den Jungen | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany |
| Comme Larrons En Foire | Edmond Freess | France | |
| The Devil Without a Lady | El diablo sin dama | Eduardo Calcagno | Argentina |
| Et Salammbo? | Jean-Pierre Richard | Tunisia | |
| Gipsy Pentecost (The Feast of St. Sara) | Laurence Boulting | United Kingdom | |
| Kaleidoski | Jacques Ertaud | France | |
| The Other Silence | L'autre silence | Nestor Matsas | Greece |
| Light | Lumière | Paul Cohen | United States |
| The Magic Machines | Bob Curtis | United States | |
| The Deadly Smell | Smrtící vůně | Václav Bedřich | Czechoslovakia |
| The Epitaph | Gurucharan Singh | India | |
| A Time for Memory | Un temps pour la mémoire | Georges Pessis | France |
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 9th International Critics' Week (9e Semaine de la Critique):
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camarades | Marin Karmitz | France | ||
| Éloge du chiac | Michel Brault | Canada | ||
| Kes | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | ||
| Mistreatment | Misshandlingen | Lars Lennart Forsberg | Sweden | |
| The Siege | O Cerco | António da Cunha Telles | Portugal | |
| We Can See It's Not You | On voit bien que c’est pas toi | Christian Zarifian | France | |
| Ramparts of Clay | Remparts d’argile | Jean-Louis Bertucelli | France, Algeria | |
| The River Schooners | Les Voitures d’eau | Pierre Perrault | Canada | |
| Oh, Sun | Soleil Ô | Med Hondo | Mauritania, France | |
| The Crows | Vrane | Gordan Mihić, Ljubiša Kozomara | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia |
| Warm in the Bud | Rudolph Caringi | United States | ||
| Ice | Robert Kramer | United States |
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1970 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
- A nous deux, France by Désiré Ecaré (Ivory Coast, France)
- The Age of the Fish by Roland Gall (West Germany)
- L'Araignée d'eau by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe (France)
- Arthur Penn: Themes, Variants, Images & Words doc.) by Robert Hughes (United States)
- [Bhuvan Shome by Mrinal Sen (India)
- Caliche sangriento by Helvio Soto (Chile)
- The Year of the Cannibals by Liliana Cavani (Italy)
- Cowards by Simon Nuchtern (United States)
- Des Christs par milliers by Philippe Arthuys (France)
- Détruisez-vous by Serge Bard (France)
- Don Giovanni by Carmelo Bene (Italy)
- ** by Werner Schroeter (West Germany)
- End Of The Road by Aram Avakian (United States)
- Entre tu et vous by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx (Canada)
- L'Escadron Volapük by René Gilson (France)
- L'Étrangleur by Paul Vecchiali (France)
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen) by Werner Herzog (West Germany)
- Un Film by Sylvina Boissonnas (France)
- Fuoricampo by Peter Del Monte (Italy)
- Give God a Chance on Sunday (Dieu existe tous les dimanches) by Henrik Stangerup (Denmark)
- Handcuffs (Lisice) by Krsto Papić (Yugoslavia)
- La Hora de los niños by Arturo Ripstein (Mexico)
- The House of Light (La Chambre Blanche) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
- The Howl (L'urlo) by Tinto Brass (Italy)
- The Inheritors (Os Herdeiros) by Carlos Diegues (Brazil)
- James ou pas by Michel Soutter (Switzerland)
- Jänken by Lars Forsberg (Sweden)
- Jutrzenka by Jaime Camino (Spain)
- Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema) by Júlio Bressane (Brazil)
- Macunaíma by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (Brazil)
- A Married Couple (doc.) by Allan King (Canada)
- Molo by Wojciech Solarz (Poland)
- My Friend Pierrette (Mon amie Pierrette) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
- L'Odyssée du général José by Jorge Fraga (Cuba)
- L'Opium et le Bâton by Ahmed Rachedi (Algeria)
- Palaver by Emile Degelin (Belgium)
- Paradise Now (doc.) by Sheldon Rochlin (United Kingdom)
- Portrait by Jérôme Hill (United States)
- Une Pulsation by Carlos Paez Vilaro and Gérard Levy-Clerc (France, Uruguay)
- Putney Swope by Robert Downey Sr. (United States)
- Q-Bec My Love by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
- Reason Over Passion by Joyce Wieland (Canada)
- Reconstituirea by Lucian Pintilie (Romania)
- Le Révélateur by Philippe Garrel (France)
- Right On by Herbert Danska (United States)
- Ruchome piaski by Władysław Ślesicki (Poland)
- School Play by Charles Rydell (United States)
- Som Natt Och Dag by Jonas Cornell (Sweden)
- Struktura kryształu by Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland)
- Sweet Hunters (Ternos caçadores) by Ruy Guerra (Panama)
- Troupe d'élite, fleur de Marie by Oimel Mai (West Germany)
- Valparaíso, mi amor by Aldo Francia (Chile)
- Wind from the East (Le Vent d'est) by Jean-Luc Godard (Italy)
- Les Yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (West Germany) :Short films
- 20 September by Kurt Kren (France)
- Aaa by Dieter Meier (France)
- Ai Love by Takahiko Limura (France)
- All My Life by Bruce Baillie (United States)
- American Woman by Bruce E. Meintjies (United States)
- Back And Forth by Michael Snow (United States)
- Bartleby 1970 by Jean-Pierre Bastid (France)
- Béjart by Atahualpa Lichy (France, Venezuela)
- Berkeley by Patrick Reynolds (United States)
- Bliss by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
- Cosinus Alpha by Kurt Kren (France)
- Das Sonnenbad by Bernd Upnmoor (West Germany)
- David Perry by Albie Thoms (Australia)
- Dimanche Après-midi by Stéphane Kurc (France)
- Disson. Zeitreih by Hans Peter Kochenrath (France)
- Eros, O Basil by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
- Faces by John Moore and Takahiko Limura (France)
- Fenstergucker by Kurt Kren (France)
- Film Oder Macht by Vlado Kristl (France)
- Georges Albert, Aventurier by Daniel Edinger (France)
- In The Void by Ronald Bijlsma (Netherlands)
- It's So Peaceful by Fritz André Kracht (France)
- La Bergère En Colère by Francis Warin (France)
- La Cazadora Inconsciente by Rafael R. Balerdi (Spain)
- La Question ordinaire by Claude Miller (France)
- La Tête Froide by Patrick Hella (Belgium)
- Labyrinthe by Piotr Kamler (France)
- Le Coo by Paul Dopff (France)
- Le Voyage De M. Guitton by Pascal Aubier (France)
- Les Trois Cousins by René Vautier (France)
- Manha Cinzenta by Olney A. Sau Paulo (Brazil)
- Mauern by Kurt Kren (France)
- Messages, Messages by Steven Arnold (United States)
- One More Time by Daniel Pommereulle (France)
- Papa und Mama by Kurt Kren (France)
- Park Rape by Jon Beckjord (United States)
- Piece Mandala by Paul Sharits (France)
- Play 4 + 5 by Klaus Schönherr (France)
- Portrait D. Cor by Klaus Schönherr (France)
- Portraits by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
- S.W.B. by Gérard Pires (France)
- Scenes From by Stan Brakhage (France)
- Selbst Verst by Selbst Verst (France)
- Sodoma by Otto Muehl (France)
- Some Won't Go by Gil Toff (United States)
- Still Nacht by Hans Peter Kochenrath (France)
- Stock Exchange Transplant by Douglas Collins (United States)
- T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G by Paul Sharits (France)
- Talla by Malcolm Le Grice (France)
- The Mechanical Man by Ronald Fritz (United States)
- Underground Explosion by Kurt Kren (France)
- Vite by Daniel Pommereulle (France)
- Work In Progress by W. Hein and G. Hein (France)
- Zelenka by Robert Rosen (United States)
Official Awards
Main Competition
- Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: MASH* by Robert Altman
- Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Elio Petri
- Best Director: John Boorman for Leo the Last
- Best Actress: Ottavia Piccolo for Metello
- Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni for The Pizza Triangle
- Jury Prize:
- The Falcons by István Gaál
- The Strawberry Statement by Stuart Hagmann
- Best First Work: Hoa-Binh by Raoul Coutard
Short Films Competition
- Prix du Jury: The Magic Machines by Bob Curtis
- Special Mention: Et Salammbo? by Jean-Pierre Richard
Independent Awards
[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prize]]
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Elio Petri
Commission Supérieure Technique
- Technical Grand Prize: Le Territoire des autres by François Bel
References
Media
- INA: Opening of the 1970 Cannes Festival (commentary in French)
References
- "Posters 1970". festival-cannes.fr.
- "23ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr.
- "1970 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com.
- Rex Reed (1970, June 21). How I went to the Cannes Film Festival and hated every minute of it. ''Los Angeles Times'', p. o32. Retrieved June 24, 2008
- McCarthy, Todd. (May 18, 2013). "Cannes: Todd McCarthy Recalls Altman and Blind Date With Margot Kidder". The Hollywood Reporter.
- "Opening of the 1970 Cannes Festival". resques.ina.fr.
- "What is Cannes for you?". resques.ina.fr.
- "Juries 1970: Long film". festival-cannes.fr.
- "Official Selection 1970 : All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr.
- "9e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1970". archives.semainedelacritique.com.
- "Quinzaine 1970". quinzaine-realisateurs.com.
- "FIPRESCI Awards 1970". fipresci.org.
- "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1970". imdb.com.
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