41st Venice International Film Festival
Location | Venice, Italy |
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Founded | 1932 |
Festival date | 1 – 11 September 1984 |
Website | Website |
The 41st annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 1984 under the direction of Gian Luigi Rondi. No Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was assigned. The main event of this edition was, out of competition, the premiere of Heimat, an almost 16 hours-long film directed by Edgar Reitz. Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder. The retrospective was dedicated to Luis Buñuel.[1][2]
Jury[]
The following people comprised the 1984 jury:[3]
- Michelangelo Antonioni (head of jury) (Italy)
- Rafael Alberti (Spain)
- Balthus (France)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Soviet Union)
- Günter Grass (West Germany)
- Joris Ivens (Holland)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (USA),
- Erica Jong (USA)
- Erland Josephson (Sweden)
- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Italy)
- Goffredo Petrassi (Italy)
Official selection[]
In competition[]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Angela's War | Angelas Krig | Finland | |
The Annunciation | Angyali udvozlet | Hungary | |
Claretta Petacci | Claretta | Pasquale Squitieri | Italy |
Dionysos | Jean Rouch | France | |
Favorites of the Moon | Le favoris de la lune | Otar Ioseliani | France |
Full Moon in Paris | Les nuits de la pleine lune | Eric Rohmer | France |
The Future Is Woman | Il futuro è donna | Marco Ferreri | Italy |
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Hugh Hudson | UK | |
Love on the Ground | L'amour par terre | Jacques Rivette | France |
Love Unto Death | L'amour à mort | Alain Resnais | France |
Maria's Lovers | Andrei Konchalovsky | USA | |
The Mirror | Der Spiegel | Erden Kiral | West Germany |
(lit. "Snow in the glass") | La neve nel bicchiere | Florestano Vancini | Italy |
No One Twice | Ninguem duas vezes | Jorge Silva Melo | Portugal |
(lit. "The Crossing") | Paar | Goutam Ghose | India |
A Proper Scandal | Uno scandalo perbene | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Italy |
Sister Stella L. | Mike De Leon | Philippines | |
The Shore | Bereg | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Soviet Union |
Sonatine | Micheline Lanctôt | Canada | |
(aka) The Stilts | Los zancos | Carlos Saura | Spain |
The Three of Us | Noi tre | Pupi Avati | Italy |
Tukuma | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Denmark | |
Under the Bridge | Da qiao xia mian | China | |
Gavino Ledda | Italy | ||
A Year of the Quiet Sun | Rok spokojnego słońca | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
Out of competition[]
Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder.
Autonomous sections[]
Venice International Film Critics' Week[]
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:[4]
- O pokojniku sve najlepse by Predrag Antonijevic (Yugoslavia)
- Beyond The Walls (Meachorei Hasoragim) by Uri Barbash (Israel)
- Wildrose by John Hanson (USA)
- Final Call (Unerreichbare Nähe) by (West Germany)
- Strikebound by Richard Lowenstein (Austria)
- Mosquito on the 10th Floor (Jukkai no mosukîto) by Yoichi Sai (Japan)
- End of the Miracle (A csoda vége) by (Hungary)
Awards[]
- Golden Lion
- A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego słońca) by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Silver Lion
- Special Jury Prize:
- Favorites of the Moon (Le favoris de la lune) by Otar Ioseliani
- Volpi Cup
References[]
- ^ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1984". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ^ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "1st International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
- Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996
- L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008
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