The 26th
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films ...
was held from 10 to 25 May
1973. The
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film went to ''
Scarecrow
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'' by
Jerry Schatzberg and ''
The Hireling'' by
Alan Bridges
Alan Bridges (28 September 1927 – 7 December 2013) was an English film and television director.
In 1967 Bridges directed a television adaptation of Charles Dickens' ''Great Expectations'' starring Gary Bond as Pip.
He won the ''Grand Pri ...
.
At this festival two new non-competitive sections were added: 'Étude et documents' and 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' (which is started by the French Film Directors' Society and runs until 1991).
The festival opened with ''
Godspell
''Godspell'' is a musical composed by Stephen Schwartz with book by John-Michael Tebelak. The show is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew, interspersed with music mostly set to lyrics from traditional hym ...
'', directed by
David Greene and closed with ''
Lady Sings the Blues'', directed by
Sidney J. Furie. ''
Swastika
The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly in various Eurasian, as well as some African and American cultures, now also widely recognized for its appropriation by the Nazi Party and by neo-Nazis. I ...
'', a documentary by
Philippe Mora, got negative reactions and caused disturbance among audience by showing
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and the ...
's daily and social life. ''
The Holy Mountain'' by
Alejandro Jodorowsky, created controversy at the festival due to its depiction of extreme violence.
Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1973 feature film competition:
Feature films
*
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.Obituary '' Variety'', 1 September 1982. With a career spanning five decades, she is ofte ...
(Sweden) Jury President
*
Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
Biography
Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a P ...
(France)
*
Lawrence Durrell (UK)
*Rodolfo Echeverría (Mexico)
*Bolesław Michałek (Poland) (critic)
*
François Nourissier (France)
*Leo Pestelli (Italy) (journalist)
*
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. For his film '' Out ...
(USA)
*
Robert Rozhdestvensky (Soviet Union) (author)
Short films
*
Robert Enrico
Robert Georgio Enrico (13 April 1931 – 23 February 2001) was a French film director and scriptwriter best known for making the Oscar-winning short ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'' (1961).
He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the nort ...
(France) President
*Samuel Lachize (France) (critic)
*Alexandre Marin
Official selection
In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:
*''
Anna and the Wolves'' (''Ana y los lobos'') directed by
Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura Atarés (born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. Along with Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be one of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career t ...
*''
Belle'' directed by
André Delvaux
André Albert Auguste Delvaux (; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Johan ...
*''
The Death of a Lumberjack'' (''La Mort d'un bûcheron'') directed by
Gilles Carle
*''
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds'' directed by
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three ...
*''
Electra Glide in Blue
''Electra Glide in Blue'' is a 1973 American action film, starring Robert Blake as a motorcycle cop in Arizona and Billy "Green" Bush as his partner. The film was produced and directed by James William Guercio, and is named after the Harley-Da ...
'' directed by
James William Guercio
*''
Fantastic Planet'' (''La Planète sauvage'') directed by
René Laloux
*''
Far West Far West may refer to:
Places
* Western Canada, or the West
** British Columbia Coast
* Western United States, or Far West
** West Coast of the United States
* American frontier, or Far West, Old West, or Wild West
* Far West (Taixi), a term us ...
'' (''Le Far-West'') directed by
Jacques Brel
Jacques Romain Georges Brel (, ; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, l ...
*''
Godspell
''Godspell'' is a musical composed by Stephen Schwartz with book by John-Michael Tebelak. The show is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew, interspersed with music mostly set to lyrics from traditional hym ...
'' directed by
David Greene
*''
La Grande Bouffe'' directed by
Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death in 1997. He is considered one o ...
*''
The Hireling'' directed by
Alan Bridges
Alan Bridges (28 September 1927 – 7 December 2013) was an English film and television director.
In 1967 Bridges directed a television adaptation of Charles Dickens' ''Great Expectations'' starring Gary Bond as Pip.
He won the ''Grand Pri ...
*''
Hospitals: The White Mafia'' (''Bisturi, la mafia bianca'') directed by
Luigi Zampa
*''
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium'' (''Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą'') directed by
Wojciech Jerzy Has
Wojciech Jerzy Has (1 April 1925, Kraków – 3 October 2000, Łódź) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Early life and studies
Wojciech Jerzy Has was born in Kraków. Has himself was agnostic. However, his fam ...
*''
The Invitation'' (''L'Invitation'') directed by
Claude Goretta
Claude Goretta (23 June 1929 – 20 February 2019) was a Swiss television producer and film director.
Life and Career
His 1973 film '' L'Invitation'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1981 film '' La prov ...
*''
Jeremy
Jeremy may refer to:
* Jeremy (given name), a given name
* Jérémy, a French given name
* ''Jeremy'' (film), a 1973 film
* "Jeremy" (song), a song by Pearl Jam
* Jeremy (snail), a left-coiled garden snail that died in 2017
* ''Jeremy'', a 1919 ...
'' directed by
Arthur Barron
*''
Love and Anarchy'' (''Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza...'') directed by
Lina Wertmüller
Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films '' Seven Beauti ...
*''
The Mother and the Whore
''The Mother and the Whore'' (french: La maman et la putain) is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun. An examination of the relationships between three characters ...
'' (''La maman et la putain'') directed by
Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, '' The Mother and the Whore'', is ...
*''
Monologue
In theatre, a monologue (from el, μονόλογος, from μόνος ''mónos'', "alone, solitary" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes a ...
'' (''Monolog'') directed by
Ilya Averbakh
Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh (russian: Илья Александрович Авербах) (July 28, 1934, Leningrad – January 11, 1986, Moscow) was a Soviet film director. His 1972 film, '' Monologue'', was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film F ...
*''
O Lucky Man!'' directed by
Lindsay Anderson
*''
One Hamlet Less
''One Hamlet Less'' ( it, Un Amleto di meno) is a 1973 Italian drama film directed by Carmelo Bene. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
Carmelo Bene is the director of a theater company that runs around various theaters in ...
'' (''Un Amleto di meno'') directed by
Carmelo Bene
*''
La otra imagen'' directed by
Antoni Ribas
Antoni Ribas i Piera (27 October 1935 – 3 October 2007) was a Catalan Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1966 and 2007. His 1973 film ''La otra imagen'' was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Fi ...
*''
Petőfi '73'' directed by
Ferenc Kardos
*''
Scarecrow
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'' directed by
Jerry Schatzberg
*''
The Vows'' (''A Promessa'') directed by
António de Macedo
António de Macedo (5 July 1931 − 5 October 2017) was Portuguese filmmaker, writer, university professor and lecturer.
He gave up filmmaking in the 1990s as he felt systematically excluded from the state support programs of the Portuguese Mi ...
*''
We Want the Colonels
''We Want the Colonels'' ( it, Vogliamo i colonnelli) is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was entered in the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. It is a satire of the attempted far-right Borghese Coup.
Cast
* Ugo Tognazzi as G ...
'' (''Vogliamo i colonnelli'') directed by
Mario Monicelli
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the '' Commedia all'Italiana'' (Comedy Italian style). He was nominated six times for an Oscar, and was a ...
Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
* ''
Cries and Whispers
''Cries and Whispers'' ( sv, Viskningar och rop, lit=Whispers and Cries) is a 1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in ...
'' (''Viskningar och rop'') directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoun ...
* ''
Day for Night
Day for night is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. It is often employed when it is too difficult or expensive to actually shoot during nighttime. Because both film stocks and digital image se ...
'' (''La Nuit Américaine'') directed by
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After a career of more th ...
* ''
A Doll's House
''A Doll's House'' ( Danish and nb, Et dukkehjem; also translated as ''A Doll House'') is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having be ...
'' directed by
Joseph Losey
Joseph Walton Losey III (; January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Blacklisted ...
* ''
Future Shock'' directed by
Alex Grasshoff
* ''
The Holy Mountain'' directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky
* ''
Lady Sings the Blues'' directed by
Sidney J. Furie
* ''
Lo Païs'' directed by
Gérard Guérin
* ''
Olivier Messiaen et les Oiseaux'' directed by
Michel Fano,
Denise Tual
* ''
Picasso, Peintre Du Siècle 1900-1973'' directed by
Lauro Venturi
* ''
Story of a Love Story
An impossible object (also known as an impossible figure or an undecidable figure) is a type of optical illusion that consists of a two-dimensional figure which is instantly and naturally understood as representing a projection of a three-dim ...
'' (''L'Impossible Objet'') directed by
John Frankenheimer
* ''
Swastika
The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly in various Eurasian, as well as some African and American cultures, now also widely recognized for its appropriation by the Nazi Party and by neo-Nazis. I ...
'' directed by
Philippe Mora
* ''
Visions of Eight'' directed by
Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (; ; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968.
Forman ...
,
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critica ...
,
Yuri Ozerov,
Mai Zetterling
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish film director, novelist and actor.
Early life
Zetterling was born in Västerås, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actor at the age of 17 at ...
,
Kon Ichikawa,
John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger (; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Midnight Cowboy'', and was nominated for the same award for two other films ('' Darling'' an ...
,
Arthur Penn,
Michael Pfleghar
Michael Pfleghar (20 March 1933 – 23 June 1991) was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1958 and 1987. He died of suicide.
Selected filmography
* '' Dead Woman from Beverly Hills'' (1964)
* '' Serenade fo ...
* ''
Wattstax'' directed by
Mel Stuart
* ''
We Can't Go Home Again
''We Can't Go Home Again'' is an experimental feature film directed by Nicholas Ray in collaboration with his film students at Binghamton University. Ray and the students play fictionalized versions of themselves.
The film was the major project o ...
'' directed by
Nicholas Ray
Short film competition
The following short films competed for the
Short Film Palme d'Or
The Short Film Palme d'Or (french: Palme d'Or du court métrage) is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. Since the creation of the Cinéfondation
La ''Cinéfondation'' is a foundation under the aegis of the Cannes ...
:
*''
Az 1812-es év'' by
Sándor Reisenbüchler
*''
Balablok'' by
Břetislav Pojar
*''Langage du geste'' by
Kamal El Sheikh
Kamal El Sheikh ( ar, كمال الشيخ; 2 February 1919 – 2 January 2004) was an Egyptian film director. He directed 28 films between 1952 and 1987, with eight of them in the Top 100 Egyptian films list.
Selected filmography
* '' Mala ...
*''La Ligne de sceaux'' by Jean-Paul Torok
*''Skagen 1972'' by Claus Weeke
*''Space Boy'' by Renate Druks
*''La Tête'' by Emile Bourget
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 12th
International Critics' Week (12e Semaine de la Critique):
* ''Le Charbonnier'' by Mohamed Bouamari (Algeria)
* ''
The Water Was So Clear'' (''Gaki zoshi'') by
Yoichi Takabayashi
was a Japanese film director.
Career
Born in Kyoto and graduating from Ritsumeikan University, Takabayashi became a pioneering independent filmmaker working in 8mm and 16mm film, earning awards at foreign festivals for his work. His 1970 film ...
(Japan)
* ''
Ganja & Hess
''Ganja & Hess'' is a 1973 American blaxploitation horror film written and directed by Bill Gunn and starring Marlene Clark and Duane Jones. The film follows the exploits of anthropologist Dr. Hess Green (Jones), who becomes a vampire after his ...
'' by
Bill Gunn (United States)
* ''Kashima Paradise'' by Yann Le Masson, Bénie Deswarte (France)
* ''
Enough Praying'' (''Ya no basta con rezar'') by
Aldo Francia
Aldo Francia (1923–1996) was a Cinema of Chile, Chilean filmmaker.
Filmography
* ''Valparaíso mi amor'' (1969)
* ''Ya no basta con rezar'' (1973)
References
External links
*
1923 births
1996 deaths
Chilean film directors
{{chile- ...
(Chile)
* ''
Vivre ensemble'' by
Anna Karina (France)
* ''Non ho tempo'' by Ansano Giannarelli (Italy)
* ''Nunta de piatră'' by
Mircea Veroiu
Mircea Veroiu (; 29 April 1941 – 26 December 1997) was a Romanian film director and screenwriter. He directed 22 films between 1968 and 1997. He was a member of the jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.
Selected filmograph ...
,
Dan Pita (Romania)
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1973
Directors' Fortnight
The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festi ...
(Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* ''
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
''Aguirre, the Wrath of God'' (; german: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes; ) is a 1972 West German epic historical drama film produced, written and directed by Werner Herzog. Klaus Kinski stars in the title role of Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, w ...
'' (''Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes'') by
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with u ...
(West Germany)
* ''
The Sparrow'' (''Al Ousfour'') by
Youssef Chahine (Egypt)
* ''
All Nudity Shall Be Punished'' (''Toda Nudez Sera Castigada'') by
Arnaldo Jabor (Brazil)
* ''
Black Holiday'' (''La villeggiatura'') by
Marco Leto
Marco Leto (18 January 1931 – 21 April 2016) was an Italian film and television director and screenwriter.
Born in Rome, Leto started his career in the 1950s as an assistant director in a large number of films. In 1965 he started a colla ...
(Italy)
* ''La città del sole'' by
Gianni Amelio (Italy)
* ''
Coup d'Etat'' (''Kaigenrei'') by
Yoshishige Yoshida (Japan)
* ''
Days of '36'' (''Meres tou '36'') by
Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
* ''Desaster'' by
Reinhard Hauff (West Germany)
* ''Drustvena Igra'' by
Srdjan Karanovic (Yugoslavia)
* ''El Cambio'' by Alfredo Joskowicz (Mexico)
* ''Farlige Kys'' by Henrik Stangerup (Denmark)
* ''Hannibal'' by
Xavier Koller (Switzerland)
* ''
History Lessons'' (''Geschichtsunterricht'') by
Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult expert, and graduate in criminal law
* Jean-Marie ...
,
Danièle Huillet (West Germany)
* ''Lovely Swine'' (''Bel ordure'') by Jean Marboeuf (France)
* ''Metamorfosis del jefe de la policía política'' by Helvio Soto (Chile)
* ''
Payday'' by
Daryl Duke (United States)
* ''
Photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is emplo ...
'' (''Fotografia'') by
Pal Zolnay (Hungary)
* ''Quem é Beta?'' by
Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos (22 October 1928 21 April 2018) was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as '' Vidas Secas'' (Barren Lives), based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.
Biography
Pereira d ...
(Brazil)
* ''
Réjeanne Padovani
''Réjeanne Padovani'' is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, written and directed by Denys Arcand and released in 1973. It was his second narrative feature film as a director, but the first for which he was also the screenwriter.
An examination of ...
'' by
Denys Arcand (Canada)
* ''
Some Call It Loving'' by
James B. Harris
James B. Harris (born August 3, 1928) is an American film screenwriter, producer, and director. Born in New York City, he attended the Juilliard School before entering the film industry. He worked with film director Stanley Kubrick as a produc ...
(United States)
* ''The Sun Rises Once a Day'' (''Słońce wschodzi raz na dzień'') by
Henryk Kluba (Poland)
* ''
Touki Bouki'' by
Djibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
* ''
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel'' (''Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel'') by
Claude Weisz (France)
* ''La vita in gioco'' by
Gianfranco Mingozzi
Gianfranco Mingozzi (5 April 1932 – 7 October 2009) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, Mingozzi got a degree in Law, then enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in ...
(Italy)
* ''
Wedding in White'' by
William Fruet
William Fruet (born January 1, 1933) is a Canadian film and television director, playwright and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the drama '' Wedding in White'' (1972), based on a play he had also written. The film won Best Picture ...
(Canada)
* ''Zwartziek'' by Jacob Bijl (Netherlands)
: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
Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult expert, and graduate in criminal law
* Jean-Marie ...
,
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
Pascal Aubier is a French actor, director, script writer, producer and editor, born in 1943 in Paris, France.
Filmography As actor
* 1958 : '' Faibles femmes''
* 1964 : ''Lucky Jo''
* 1965 : '' Pierrot le fou'' : ''Brother #2''
* 1966 : '' C ...
(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)
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1973 Official selection awards:
*
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
**''
The Hireling'' by
Alan Bridges
Alan Bridges (28 September 1927 – 7 December 2013) was an English film and television director.
In 1967 Bridges directed a television adaptation of Charles Dickens' ''Great Expectations'' starring Gary Bond as Pip.
He won the ''Grand Pri ...
**''
Scarecrow
A scarecrow is a decoy or mannequin, often in the shape of a human. Humanoid scarecrows are usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.Lesle ...
'' by
Jerry Schatzberg
*
Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: ''
The Mother and the Whore
''The Mother and the Whore'' (french: La maman et la putain) is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun. An examination of the relationships between three characters ...
'' (''La maman et la putain'') by
Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, '' The Mother and the Whore'', is ...
*
Best Actress:
Joanne Woodward for ''
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds''
*
Best Actor
Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play.
The term most often refers to the ...
:
Giancarlo Giannini for ''
Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza...''
*
Jury Prize:
**''
Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą'' by
Wojciech Has
**''
L'Invitation'' by
Claude Goretta
Claude Goretta (23 June 1929 – 20 February 2019) was a Swiss television producer and film director.
Life and Career
His 1973 film '' L'Invitation'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1981 film '' La prov ...
*Special Award: ''
La Planète sauvage'' by
René Laloux
*Best First Work: ''
Jeremy
Jeremy may refer to:
* Jeremy (given name), a given name
* Jérémy, a French given name
* ''Jeremy'' (film), a 1973 film
* "Jeremy" (song), a song by Pearl Jam
* Jeremy (snail), a left-coiled garden snail that died in 2017
* ''Jeremy'', a 1919 ...
'' by
Arthur Barron
Short films
*
Grand Prix International du Festival: ''
Balablok'' by
Břetislav Pojar
*Prix spécial du Jury: ''
Az 1812-es év'' by
Sándor Reisenbüchler
Independent awards
FIPRESCI
*
FIPRESCI Prize
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...
:
**''
La Grande Bouffe'' by
Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death in 1997. He is considered one o ...
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The Mother and the Whore
''The Mother and the Whore'' (french: La maman et la putain) is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun. An examination of the relationships between three characters ...
'' (''La maman et la putain'') by
Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, '' The Mother and the Whore'', is ...
Commission Supérieure Technique
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Technical Grand Prize: ''
Cries and Whispers
''Cries and Whispers'' ( sv, Viskningar och rop, lit=Whispers and Cries) is a 1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in ...
'' (''Viskningar och rop'') by
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoun ...
OCIC Award
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Scarecrow
A scarecrow is a decoy or mannequin, often in the shape of a human. Humanoid scarecrows are usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.Lesle ...
'' by
Jerry Schatzberg
References
Media
INA: Opening of the Cannes Film Festival(commentary in French)(interview in French and English)
External links
(web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 1973Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1973at
Internet Movie Database
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