1973 Cannes Film Festival

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1973 Cannes Film Festival
CFF73poster.jpg
Official poster of the 26th Cannes Film Festival [1]
Opening film Godspell
Closing film Lady Sings the Blues
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Grand Prix :
Scarecrow and The Hireling
No. of films24 (In Competition) [2]
Festival date10 May 1973 (1973-05-10) – 25 May 1973 (1973-05-25)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 26th Cannes Film Festival took place from 10 to 25 May 1973. Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman served as jury president for the main competition. [3]

Contents

The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was jointly awarded to American filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg for Scarecrow and British filmmaker Alan Bridges for The Hireling .

During this edition two new non-competitive sections were added: Étude et documents and Perspectives du Cinéma Français (which was started by the French Film Directors' Society and ran until 1991). [4]

This edition was is notoriously by the controversy around Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain screening due to its depiction of extreme violence. [5] While British documentary Swastika by Philippe Mora caused disturbance among the audience by showing Adolf Hitler's daily and social life. [6]

The festival opened with Godspell by David Greene, [7] and closed with Lady Sings the Blues by Sidney J. Furie. [8]

Jury

Main Competition

Short Films Competition

Official Selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival: [2]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Ana and the Wolves Ana y los lobos Carlos Saura Spain
Belle André Delvaux Belgium, France
The Death of a Lumberjack La Mort d'un bûcheron Gilles Carle Canada
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Paul Newman United States
Electra Glide in Blue James William Guercio
Le Far West Jacques Brel Belgium, France
Godspell (opening film) David Greene United States
La Grande Bouffe Marco Ferreri Italy, France
The Hireling Alan Bridges United Kingdom
Hospitals: The White Mafia Bisturi, la mafia bianca Luigi Zampa Italy
The Hourglass Sanatorium Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą Wojciech Has Poland
The Invitation L'Invitation Claude Goretta Switzerland
Jeremy Arthur BarronUnited States
Love and Anarchy Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza... Lina Wertmüller Italy, France
The Mother and the Whore La maman et la putain Jean Eustache France
Monologue Монолог Ilya Averbakh Soviet Union
O Lucky Man! Lindsay Anderson United Kingdom
One Hamlet Less Un Amleto di meno Carmelo Bene Italy
La otra imagen Antoni Ribas Spain
Petőfi '73 Ferenc Kardos Hungary
Scarecrow Jerry Schatzberg United States
The Vows A Promessa António de Macedo Portugal
We Want the Colonels Vogliamo i colonnelli Mario Monicelli Italy

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [2]

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [2]

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 12th International Critics' Week (12e Semaine de la Critique): [11]

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1973 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [12]

Short films
  • Ein Leben by Herbert Schramm (West Germany)
  • El hombre que va a misa by Bernardo Borenholtz (Argentina)
  • Ermitage by Carmelo Bene (Italy)
  • Fil a fil by Christian Paureilhe (France)
  • Grey City by Farshid Meshgali (Iran)
  • Introduction a la musique d'accompagnement by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet (West Germany)
  • L'audition by Jean-François Dion (France)
  • La version originelle by Paul Dopff (France)
  • Le lapin chasseur by Thomas Lehestre (France)
  • Le soldat et les trois sœurs by Pascal Aubier (France)
  • Le travail du comédien by Atahualpa Lichy (France)
  • Le ventriloque by Carmelo Bene (Italy)
  • Moc by Vlatko Gilic (Yugoslavia)
  • Pourquoi by Jean-Denis Berenbaum (France)
  • Rendez-vous romantique by Michka Gorki (France)
  • Simplexes by Claude Huhardeaux (France)
  • Take Off by Gunvor Nelson (United States)
  • Zastave by Zoran Jovanovic (Yugoslavia)

Official Awards

In Competition

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

Commission Supérieure Technique

OCIC Award

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References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1973". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Official Selection 1973: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "26ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "1973 - Les magnifiques (The Magnificent)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "The Holy Mountain". ifccenter.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "College Screens Disturbing Images of 'Swastika'". Los Angeles Times. 7 February 1992. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "'Godspell' Opens Cannes Festival". nytimes.com. May 12, 1973. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "France: Paul Newman and Diana Ross among stars at Cannes Film Festival prizegiving". itnsource.com. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "Juries 1973: Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "Website about Renate Druks". Archived from the original on 2020-08-27. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  11. ↑ "12e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1973". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "Quinzaine 1973". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "1973 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  14. ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1973". fipresci.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  15. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1973". imdb.com. Retrieved 30 June 2017.

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