1984 Cannes Film Festival

1984 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 37th Cannes Film Festival, adapted from an original film set by Alexandre Trauner. [1]
Opening film	Fort Saganne
Closing film	The Bounty
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or : Paris, Texas [2]
No. of films	19 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date	11 May 1984 (1984-05-11) – 23 May 1984 (1984-05-23)
Website	festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival
1985 1983

The 37th Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 to 23 May 1984. ^[4] British actor Dirk Bogarde served as jury president for the main competition.

German filmmaker Wim Wenders won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film Paris, Texas . ^{[5] [6]}

During this festival, a private group, under the patronage of the festival's authorities held a side event presenting film trailers. A French jury, presided by Saul Bass, awarded its Grand Prize to the trailer for Flashdance. ^[7]

The festival opened with Fort Saganne by Alain Corneau, ^{[8] [9]} and closed with The Bounty by Roger Donaldson. ^[10]

Juries

Main competition

• Dirk Bogarde, British actor - Jury President ^[11]
• Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer
• Michel Deville, French filmmaker
• Stanley Donen, American filmmaker and choreographer
• Istvan Dosai, Hungarian cinematographer
• Arne Hestenes, Norwegian journalist
• Isabelle Huppert, French actress
• Ennio Morricone, Italian composer and conductor
• Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer
• Vadim Yusov, Soviet cinematographer

Camera d'Or

• Bernard Jubard,French - Jury President ^[11]
• Mehmet Basutcu, Turkish
• José Luis Guarner, Spanish
• Michel Jullien, French
• Samuel Lachize, French film critic
• Serge Leroy, French
• Fee Vaillant, West-German

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or : ^[3]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Another Country		Marek Kanievska	United Kingdom
The Bounty (closing film)		Roger Donaldson
Cal		Pat O'Connor	Ireland
Day Is Longer Than Night	დღეს ღამე უთენებია	Lana Gogoberidze	Soviet Union
Diary for My Children	Napló gyermekeimnek	Márta Mészáros	Hungary
The Element of Crime	Forbrydelsens Element	Lars von Trier	Denmark
Ghare Baire		Satyajit Ray	India
Henry IV	Enrico IV	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
The Holy Innocents	Los santos inocentes	Mario Camus	Spain
Paris, Texas		Wim Wenders	West Germany, France
The Pirate	La pirate	Jacques Doillon	France
Quilombo		Carlos Diegues	Brazil
Success Is the Best Revenge	Le succès à tout prix	Jerzy Skolimowski	France, United Kingdom
A Sunday in the Country	Un dimanche à la campagne	Bertrand Tavernier	France
This Is My Country	Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim	Lino Brocka	Philippines
Under the Volcano		John Huston	Mexico, United States
Vigil		Vincent Ward	New Zealand
Voyage to Cythera	Ταξίδι στα Κύθηρα	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece
Where the Green Ants Dream	Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen	Werner Herzog	West Germany

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section: ^[3]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Abel Gance et son Napoléon		Nelly Kaplan	France
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema	Un poeta nel Cinema: Andreij Tarkovskij	Donatella Baglivo	Italy
The Border	De grens	Leon de Winter	Netherlands
Feroz		Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Spain
Le jour S...		Jean Pierre Lefebvre	Canada
Khandhar		Mrinal Sen	India
Man of Flowers		Paul Cox	Australia
A Man of Principle	Cóndores no entierran todos los días	Francisco Norden	Colombia
Maria's Day	Mária-nap	Judit Elek	Hungary
Mulleya Mulleya	여인 잔혹사 물레야 물레야	Lee Doo-yong	South Korea
El Norte		Gregory Nava	United Kingdom, United States
The Road to Bresson	De weg naar Bresson	Leo de Boer and Jurriën Rood	Netherlands
Le tartuffe		Gérard Depardieu	France
Where Is Parsifal?		Henri Helman	United Kingdom

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: ^[3]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
After the Rehearsal	Efter repetitionen	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
Beat Street		Stan Lathan	United States
Broadway Danny Rose		Woody Allen
Choose Me		Alan Rudolph
Fort Saganne (opening film)		Alain Corneau	France
Once Upon a Time in America	C'era una volta in America	Sergio Leone	Italy, United States

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: ^[3]

• Ajtó by Mária Horváth
• Bottom's Dream by John Canemaker
• Le Cheval de fer by Gérald Frydman, Pierre Levie
• Orpheus and Eurydice by Lesley Keen
• Points by Dan Collins
• Ett Rum by Mats Olof Olsson
• Het Scheppen van een koe by Paul Driessen
• Le Spectacle by Gilles Chevallier
• Chiri by David Takaichvili
• Tip Top by Paul Driessen

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 23rd International Critics' Week (23e Semaine de la Critique): ^[12]

• Argie by Jorge Blanco (Argentina)
• Bless Their Little Hearts by Billy Woodberry (United States)
• Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain (Smärtgränsen) by Agneta Elers-Jarleman (Sweden)
• Boy Meets girl by Léos Carax (France)
• Dreams of the City (Ahlam el Madina) by Mohammed Malas (Syria)
• Etienne, le roi (István, a király) by Gábor Koltay (Hungary)
• White Trash  [ de ] (Kanakerbraut) by Uwe Schrader  [ de ] (West Germany)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1984 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): ^[13]

• Atomstodin by Thorsteinn Jonsson
• The Bostonians by James Ivory
• Epílogo by Gonzalo Suarez
• Die Erben by Walter Bannert
• Everlasting Love by Michael Mak
• Ezkimo Asszony Fazik by Janos Xantus
• Flight to Berlin by Christopher Petit
• The Hit by Stephen Frears
• The House of Water (La casa de agua) by Jacobo Penzo
• Memoirs of Prison (Memórias do Cárcere) by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
• Nunca Fomos Tao Felizes by Murilo Salles
• Old Enough by Marisa Silver
• Orinoko – Nuevo Mundo by Diego Risquez
• Raffl by Christian Berger
• Revanche by Nicholas Vergitsis
• Sista Leken by Jon Lindstrom
• Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch
• Variety by Bette Gordon
• The Years of Dreams and Revolt (Les Années de rêves) by Jean-Claude Labrecque

Dirk Bogarde, Jury President

Official Awards

Wim Wenders, Palme d'Or winnerIn

In Competition

• Palme d'Or : Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders ^{[2] [14]}
• Grand Prix: Diary for My Children by Márta Mészáros
• Best Director: Bertrand Tavernier for A Sunday in the Country
• Best Screenplay: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra and Thanassis Valtinos for Voyage to Cythera
• Best Actress: Helen Mirren for Cal
• Best Actor: Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal for The Holy Innocents
• Best Artistic Contribution: Peter Biziou (cinematographer) for Another Country

Caméra d'Or

• Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch

Short Film Palme d'Or

• Le Cheval de fer by Gérald Frydman and Pierre Levie
• Premier Prix: Tchouma by David Takaichvili

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

• Memoirs of Prison by Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Directors' Fortnight) ^[15]
• Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders (In competition)
• Voyage to Cythera by Theodoros Angelopoulos (In competition)

Commission Supérieure Technique

• Technical Grand Prize: The Element of Crime by Lars von Trier

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

• Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders ^[16]
  • Special Mention: The Holy Innocents by Mario Camus ^[17]

Award of the Youth

• Foreign Film: Epílogo by Gonzalo Suárez
• French Film: Boy Meets Girl by Leos Carax

References

1. "Posters 1984". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013.
2. "Awards 1984: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014.
3. "Official Selection 1984: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013.
4. "37ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
5. "As Jury Ponders, Cannes Cuts Deals". The New York Times. 23 May 1984. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
6. "It Was U.S.A. Weekend At Cannes Film Festival". The New York Times. 21 May 1984. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
7. Vinocur, John (14 May 1984). "A Festival Of Trailers Is Featured At Cannes". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
8. Dionne Jr, E.J. (12 May 1984). "Cannes Festival Opens Without The '83 Fanfare". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
9. "The opening films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
10. "The closing films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
11. "Juries 1984: Feature film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.
12. "23e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1984". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
13. "Quinzaine 1984". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
14. "1984 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
15. "FIPRESCI Awards 1984". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
16. "Jury Œcuménique 1984". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
17. "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1984". imdb.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

External links

• 1984 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 1984
• Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1984 at the Internet Movie Database

Media

• INA: List of winners of the 1984 festival (commentary in French)