1969 Cannes Film Festival

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1969 Cannes Film Festival
CFF69poster.jpg
Official poster of the 22nd Cannes Film Festival [1]
Opening film Sweet Charity
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Grand Prix du Festival International du Film :
If.... [2]
No. of films26 (In Competition)
Festival date8 May 1969 (1969-05-08) – 23 May 1969 (1969-05-23)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 22nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 8 to 23 May 1969. Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti served as jury president for the main competition.

Contents

The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was awarded to If.... by Lindsay Anderson. [2]

At this edition a new non-competitive section called Directors' Fortnight was created, in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival. [3]

The festival opened with Sweet Charity by Bob Fosse. [4]

Jury

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film : [6]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Ådalen 31 Bo Widerberg Sweden
All My Good Countrymen Všichni dobří rodáci Vojtěch Jasný Czechoslovakia
Antonio das Mortes O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro Glauber Rocha Brazil
The Appointment Sidney Lumet United States
Calcutta Louis Malle France
Dillinger Is Dead Dillinger è morto Marco Ferreri Italy
Don't Let the Angels Fall George Kaczender Canada
Easy Rider Dennis Hopper United States
End of a Priest Farářův konec Evald Schorm Czechoslovakia
Flashback Raffaele Andreassi Italy
The Great Love Le Grand Amour Pierre Étaix France
Hunting Flies Polowanie na muchy Andrzej Wajda Poland
Hymn to a Tired Man 日本の青春 Masaki Kobayashi Japan
If.... Lindsay Anderson United Kingdom
Isadora Karel Reisz United Kingdom, France
It Rains in My Village Biće skoro propast sveta Aleksandar Petrović Yugoslavia
Love Circle Metti, una sera a cena Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Italy
Machine Gun McCain Gli intoccabili Giuliano Montaldo
Man on Horseback Michael Kohlhaas – der Rebell Volker Schlöndorff West Germany
The Man Who Thought Life Manden der tænkte tingJens RavnDenmark
Matzor מצורGilberto TofanoIsrael
My Night at Maud's Ma nuit chez Maud Éric Rohmer France
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Ronald Neame United Kingdom
Slaves Herbert Biberman United States
Spain Again España otra vez Jaime Camino Spain
Z Costa-Gavras France, Algeria

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [6]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Andrei Rublev Андрей Рублёв Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union
Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life L'Amour de la vie – Arthur Rubinstein François Reichenbach France
The Deserter and the NomadsZbehovia a pútnici Juraj Jakubisko Yugoslavia
Frozen Flashes Die gefrorenen BlitzeJános VeicziEast Germany
Sweet Charity (opening film) Bob Fosse United States
That Cold Day in the Park Robert Altman United States, Canada

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival: [6]

  • Le Ballet des Jacungos by Jean Manzon
  • Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu
  • Goldframe by Raoul Servais
  • L'Homme aux chats by Henri Glaeser
  • Moc osudu by Jiří Brdečka
  • Niebieska kula by Mirosław Kijowicz
  • La Pince à ongles by Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Red Arrows by John Edwards
  • Short Seven by Jonne Severijn
  • Su sambene non est aba by Luigi Gonzo & Manfredo Manfredi
  • Toccata by Herman van der Horst
  • El Triunfo de la muerte by José María Gutiérrez
  • Das Verräterische Herz by Paul Anczykowski
  • World of Man by Albert Fischer & Michael Collyer

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 8th International Critics' Week (8e Semaine de la Critique): [7]

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1969 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [8]

Short films
  • 5/7/35 by Jean Mazeas (France)
  • Adrien s’éloigne by Claude Guillemot (France)
  • Arrabal by Jacques Poitrenaud (France)
  • Athènes, ville sourire by Lambros Liaropoulos (Greece)
  • Black Movie by Adrian (filmmaker) (France)
  • Chinese Chekers by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
  • Einer Mädchenhaut by Klaus Schönherr (France)
  • Erin Ereinté by Jean-Paul Aubert (France)
  • Flash-Parc by Frank Cassenti (France)
  • Fuses by Carolee Schneemann (United States)
  • Galaxie by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
  • Gedanken beim Befühlen by Klaus Schönherr (France)
  • Hemingway by Fausto Canel (Cuba)
  • Jeanne et la moto by Diourka Medveczky (France)
  • Journal de séjour a Marseille by C. Lindenmeyer, Gérard Levy-Clerc (France)
  • La page dévoilée by Jim Hodgetts et Mike Marshall (France)
  • La poursuite impitoyable by J.J. Schakmundes, R. Guillon (France)
  • Le mariage de Clovis by Daniel Duval (France)
  • Le Sursitaire by Serge Huet (France)
  • Les Stabiles by Christian Lara (France)
  • Libi by Otto Muehl (France)
  • Marie et le Curé by Diourka Medveczky (France)
  • Miss Paris et le Majordome by Georges Dumoulin (France)
  • Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin by Pascal Aubier (France)
  • N.O.T.H.I.N.G. by Paul Sharits (France)
  • Naissant by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
  • On the Every Day of the Eyes of Death by Robert Beavers (France)
  • Paris des Négritudes by Jean Schmidt (France)
  • Permanence by Busioc Ionesco (Romania)
  • Que s’est-il passé en Mai? by Jean-Pierre Savignac (France)
  • Rohfilm by G. Hein (France)
  • S. Macht am Sonntag-Nachmittag keinen Film by Dieter Meier (France)
  • Scenes from Under Childhood by Stan Brakhage (France)
  • Souvenir de la nuit du 4 by Patrice Gauthier, Henry Lange (France)
  • Speak by John Latham (United Kingdom)
  • The Mysteries by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
  • Twice a Man by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
  • Untebrochene Flugverbindungen by Dieter Meier (France)
  • Versucht mit Synth. Ton by Kurt Kren (France)
  • Winged Dialogue by Robert Beavers (France)

Official Awards

Luchino Visconti, Jury President Luchino Visconti 5.jpg
Luchino Visconti, Jury President

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

Commission Supérieure Technique

References

  1. ↑ "1969 The Festival Poster". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "22ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "1969 - Année polémique (Year of controversy)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  4. ↑ Holston, Kim R. (13 December 2012). 1969 Cannes Film Festival sweet charity opening film. McFarland. ISBN   9780786492619 . Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "Juries 1969: Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 "Official Selection 1969: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "8e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1969". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "Quinzaine 1969". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "- YouTube". YouTube .
  10. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1969". fipresci.org. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

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