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1961 Cannes Film Festival
The 14th Cannes Film Festival was held from 3 to 18 May 1961. The Palme d'Or went to the ''Une aussi longue absence'', directed by Henri Colpi and ''Viridiana'', directed by Luis Buñuel. The festival opened with ''Che gioia vivere'', directed by René Clément. The festival also screened Shirley Clarke's debut film '' The Connection'' due to the efforts of the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. The success of the film caused the festival to create International Critics' Week the following year. Jury The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1961 competition: Feature films *Jean Giono (France) Jury President *Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union) Vice President *Pedro Armendáriz (Mexico) *Luigi Chiarini (Italy) *Tonino Delli Colli (Italy) * Claude Mauriac (France) * Edouard Molinaro (France) *Jean Paulhan (France) (author) *Raoul Ploquin (France) *Liselotte Pulver (Switzerland) *Fred Zinnemann (USA) Short films *Ion Popescu-Gopo (Romania) *Pierre Prévert (France) *Jur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palme D'Or Du Court Métrage
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 Film Festival, created to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers. It was created in 1998 by Gilles Jacob. Since then it has developed complementary ... section in 1998, a common Official Jury awards the Short Film Palme d'Or as well as the prizes for the three best films of the Cinéfondation. From 1952 to 1954 and from 1964 to 1974, the highest prize of the year for a short film was awarded as the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, commonly referred to as Grand Prix. Other short film awards Before 1952, various prizes were awarded to short films, including a Grand Prix for Documentaries in 1947, five specific prizes in 1949, and a Grand Prix for Best Scientific Film in 1951. During some year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Giono
Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France. First period Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent and his mother a laundry woman. He spent the majority of his life in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Forced by family needs to leave school at the age of sixteen and get a job in a bank, he nevertheless continued to read voraciously, in particular the great classic works of literature including the Bible, Homer's ''Iliad'', the works of Virgil, and the ''Tragiques'' of Agrippa d'Aubigné. He continued to work at the bank until he was called up for military service at the outbreak of World War I, and the horrors he experienced on the front lines turned him into an ardent and lifelong pacifist. In 1919, he returned to the bank, and a year later, married a childhood friend with whom he had two children. Following the success of his first pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoltán Fábri
Zoltán Fábri (15 October 1917 – 23 August 1994) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films '' The Boys of Paul Street'' (1969) and ''Hungarians'' (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1965 film ''Twenty Hours'' shared the Grand Prix with ''War and Peace'' at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1969 film ''The Toth Family'' was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1975 film '' 141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence'' was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival, where he won a Special Prize for Directing. Life and career Fábri wanted to become an artist from an early age on. He studied painting and graduated at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts. He began working in the Hungarian film industry in 1950 as a production designer. He directed his first film '' Vihar'' (''Storm'') in 1951. He became an internationally acclaimed director with his third feature ''Kö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brute (1961 Film)
''The Brute'' ( hu, Dúvad) is a 1961 Hungarian film directed by Zoltán Fábri. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Ferenc Bessenyei - Ulveczki Sándor * Tibor Bitskey - Gál Jani * Mária Medgyesi - Monoki Zsuzsi * Béla Barsi - Bíró * György Györffy - Balogh * Pál Nádai - Földházi * Sándor Siménfalvy Sándor is a Hungarian given name and surname. It is the Hungarian form of Alexander. It may refer to: People Given name * Sándor Apponyi (1844–1925) was a Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and great book collector *Sándor Bo ... - Monoki, Zsuzsi apja * Antal Farkas - Szûcs References External links * 1961 films 1960s Hungarian-language films Hungarian black-and-white films Films directed by Zoltán Fábri {{Hungary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Popescu-Gopo
Ion Popescu-Gopo (; 1 May 1923 – 28 November 1989) was a Romanian graphic artist and animator, but also writer, film director, and actor. He was born in Bucharest, Romania. He was a prominent personality in the Romanian cinematography and the founder of the modern Romanian cartoon school. He was, together with Liviu Ciulei and Mirel Ilieșiu, one of the few Romanian film artists who won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in the 20th century. His film, "Scurtă Istorie" (''A Brief History''), won the ''Short Film Palme d'Or'' for best short film in 1957. His 1965 film, ''The White Moor'', was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival, where he won the award for Best Director. In 1969 he was a member of the jury at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1983 he was a member of the jury at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. Ion Popescu-Gopo attended (but never gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Zinnemann
Alfred ''Fred'' Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian Empire-born American film director. He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations. He made 25 feature films during his 50-year career. He was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations and for mixing stars with civilians to give his films more realism. Within the film industry, he was considered a maverick for taking risks and thereby creating unique films, with many of his stories being dramas about lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events. According to one historian, Zinnemann's style demonstrated his sense of "psychological realism and his apparent determination to make worthwhile pictures that are nevertheless highly entertaining." Among his films were ''The Search'' (1948), '' The Men'' (1950), '' High Noon'' (1952), ''From Here to Eternity'' (1953), ''Oklahoma!'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liselotte Pulver
Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929), sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the biggest stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty and joyful laughter. Her films outside of German cinema include ''A Time to Love and a Time to Die'' (1958), ''One, Two, Three'' (1961) and '' The Nun'' (1966). Early life Pulver was born in Bern to civil engineer Fritz Eugen Pulver and his wife Germaine. From 1945 on Pulver attended commercial school. After graduating in 1948, she worked as a model and took acting classes at the Bern conservatory, now part of the Bern University of Applied Sciences. Following small parts at the Bern Theatre (Stadttheater Bern), she appeared at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. Film career Pulver's first film role was in the 1949 American-Swiss co-production '' Swiss Tour''. Her breakthrough movie role was "Vreneli", the wife of the lead in ''Uli, der Knecht'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Ploquin
Raoul Edouard Ploquin (20 May 1900 – 29 November 1992) was a French film producer, production manager and screenwriter. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film ''The Sheep Has Five Legs'' (1954). Selected filmography * ''The Girl and the Boy'' (1931) * '' About an Inquest'' (1931) * ''Court Waltzes'' (1933) * '' The Star of Valencia'' (1933) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1934) * ''Night in May'' (1934) * '' The Devil in the Bottle'' (1935) * '' The Decoy'' (1935) * ''Counsel for Romance'' (1936) * '' S.O.S. Sahara'' (1938) * '' The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (1938) * ''The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * '' The Woman Who Dared'' (1944) * ''Tuesday's Guest'' (1950) * ''Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) * ''The Sheep Has Five Legs ''The Five-Legged Sheep'' (french: Le Mouton à cinq pattes) is a 1954 French comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil. It won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Paulhan
Jean Paulhan (2 December 1884 – 9 October 1968) was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine ''Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member (Seat 6, 1963–68) of the Académie française. He was born in Nîmes (Gard) and died in Paris. Biography Paulhan's father was the philosopher Frédéric Paulhan:11 and his mother was Jeanne Thérond. From 1908 to 1910 he worked as a teacher in Madagascar, and he later translated Malagasy poems, or Hainteny, into French.''Intellectuals in History: the Nouvelle Revue Française under Jean Paulhan, 1925-1940'' by Martyn Cornick.Rodopi, 1995 Paulhan's translations attracted the interest of Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Éluard. He served as Jacques Rivière's secretary at the NRF, until 1925 when he succeeded him as the journal's editor.:13 In 1935 he, Henri Michaux, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Groethuysen and others launched a similar but more luxuriously-prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Mauriac
Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914 – 22 March 1996) was a French author and journalist. He was born in Paris, the eldest son of the author François Mauriac. Mauriac was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a cinema critic and arts person of ''Le Figaro''. He was the author of several novels and essays, and co-scripted the movie adaptation of his father's novel '' Thérèse Desqueyroux''. He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust, his wife's great-uncle. Mauriac was also a close friend of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Bibliography Journals *Le Temps immobile **''Le Temps immobile 1'', Grasset, 1974 ; Le Livre de Poche, 1983 **''Le Temps immobile 2 (Les Espaces imaginaires)'', Grasset, 1975 ; Le Livre de Poche, 1985 **''Le Temps immobile 3 (Et comme l'espérance est violente)'', Grasset, 1976 ; Le Livre de Poche, 1986 **''Le Temps immobile 4 (La Terrasse de Malagar)'', Grasset, 1977 ; Le Livre de Poche, 1987 **''Le Temps im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonino Delli Colli
Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer. Biography Cousin of Franco Delli Colli, Antonio (Tonino) Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, ''Totò a colori''. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone (''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'', ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' and ''Once Upon a Time in America''), Roman Polanski ('' Death and the Maiden'' and ''Bitter Moon''), Louis Malle (''Lacombe, Lucien''), Jean-Jacques Annaud (''The Name of the Rose''), and Federico Fellini, whose last three films he photographed. His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut ''Accattone'' (1961), ''Mamma Roma'' (1962), '' The Gospel According to St. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
