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28th Venice International Film Festival
The 28th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 26 August to 8 September 1967. Jury * Alberto Moravia (Italy) (head of jury) * Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) * Juan Goytisolo (Spain) * Erwin Leiser (West Germany) * Violette Morin (France) * Susan Sontag (USA) * Rostislav Yurenev (Soviet Union) Films in competition Awards * Golden Lion: **'' Belle de Jour'' (Luis Buñuel) * Special Jury Prize: **''La Chinoise'' ( Jean-Luc Godard) **'' China is Near'' (Marco Bellocchio) *Volpi Cup: ** Best Actor - Ljubiša Samardžić (''Jutro'') ** Best Actress - Shirley Knight ('' Dutchman'') *Best First Work **'' Lust for Love'' (Edgar Reitz) *Best Short Film **''From One to Eight'' (Hristo Kovachev) *FIPRESCI Prize **'' China is Near'' (Marco Bellocchio) **''Samurai Rebellion'' (Masaki Kobayashi) *OCIC Award **''O Salto'' (Christian de Chalonge) *Pasinetti Award **'' Belle de Jour'' (Luis Buñuel) **Parallel Sections - ''Mouchette'' (Robert Bresson) *Golden Rudder **'' Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity editing, continuity, film sound, sound, and cinematography, camerawork. His most acclaimed films include ''Breathless (1960 film), Breathless'' (1960), ''Vivre sa vie'' (1962), ''Contempt (film), Contempt'' (1963), ''Bande à part (film), Band of Outsiders'' (1964), ''Alphaville (film), Alphaville'' (1965), ''Pierrot le Fou'' (1965), ''Masculin Féminin'' (1966), ''Weekend (1967 film), Weekend'' (1967), and ''Goodbye to Language'' (2014). During his early career as a film critic f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Kachyňa
Karel Kachyňa (1 May 1924 – 12 March 2004) was a Czech film director and screenwriter. His career spanned over five decades. Early life He was born on May 1, 1920, in Vyškov, Czechoslovakia. His father was a government officer. His mother was an art teacher. After spending first 4 years of his life in Vyškov, he moved with his family to Dačice and then Kroměříž. Kachyňa studied at Baťa School of Art in Zlín. During the WWII he was forced to work in a German factory Walter Georgi in Bernsbach. After the war he was able to finish high school and work on commercials at the Baťa film studios in Zlín. Kachyňa was then accepted at newly founded Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) to study cinematography and directing. His fellow students were Vojtěch Jasný, Zdeněk Podskalský and Antonín Kachlík. Career After the graduation he directed socialist realist propaganda documentaries with Jasný. Throughout the 1950s they both worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nun's Night
''The Nun's Night'' ( cs, Noc nevěsty) is a 1967 Czechoslovak film directed by Karel Kachyňa adapted from a novel by Jan Procházka. Set in a Moravian village in the early 1950s, a time of collectivisation as well as mass closures of monasteries and convents by the Stalinist regime, the film is an evocative critique of religious fanaticism and political ideology. Cast *Jana Brejchová as Nun * Mnislav Hofmann as Chairman Picin * Gustáv Valach as Village idiot Ambrož *Josef Kemr as Priest * Josef Elsner as Farmer Jan Šabatka *Čestmír Řanda as Farmer Alois Skovajs *Jaroslav Moučka as Farmer Vitásek *Josef Větrovec as Farmer Josef Bařina * Valerie Kaplanová as Filipa, Picin's wife *Libuše Havelková Libuše Havelková (11 May 1924 – 6 April 2017) was a Czech actress. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italy, influential both as an artist and a political figure. A controversial personality due to his straightforward style, Pasolini's legacy remains contentious. Openly gay and an avowed Marxist, he voiced strong criticism of petty bourgeois values and the emerging consumerism in Italy, juxtaposing socio-political polemics with a critical examination of taboo sexual matters. A prominent protagonist of the Roman cultural scene of the post-war period, he was an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. Pasolini's unsolved murder at Ostia in November 1975 during an altercation with a young male prostitute prompted an outcry in Italy, and its circumstances continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oedipus Rex (1967 Film)
''Oedipus Rex'' (''Edipo re'') is a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini adapted the screenplay from the Greek tragedy '' Oedipus Rex'' written by Sophocles in 428 BC. The film was mainly shot in Morocco. It was presented in competition at the 28th Venice International Film Festival. It was Pasolini's first feature-length color film, but followed his use of color in "The Earth Seen from the Moon" episode in the portmanteau film '' The Witches'' (1967). Plot A son is born to a young couple in pre-war Italy. The child opens his eyes for the first time to see his loving mother and suckles on her breast. The father is motivated by jealousy, and believes the child will take away the love of his wife and send him back into the void. The soldier takes the baby into the desert to be abandoned, at which point the film's setting changes to the ancient world of Greece. The child is rescued and taken to the King of Corinth Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth and raised a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Clayton
Jack Isaac Clayton (1 March 1921 – 26 February 1995) was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen. Overview Starting out as a teenage studio "tea boy" in 1935, Clayton worked his way up through British film industry in a career that spanned nearly sixty years. He rapidly rose through a series of increasingly important roles in British film production, before shooting to international prominence as a director with his Oscar-winning feature film debut, the drama '' Room at the Top'' (1959). This was followed by the much-lauded horror film '' The Innocents'' (1961), based on Henry James' ''The Turn of the Screw''. Clayton looked set for a brilliant future, and he was highly regarded by peers and critics alike, but a number of overlapping factors hampered his career. He was a notably 'choosy' director, who by his own admission "never made a film I didn't want to make", and he repeatedly turned down films (including ''Alien'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Mother's House
''Our Mother's House'' is a 1967 British drama thriller film directed by Jack Clayton. It nominally stars Dirk Bogarde (who only appears in the film's second half) and principally features a cast of seven juvenile actors, including Pamela Franklin, Phoebe Nicholls and Mark Lester, with popular British actress Yootha Joyce in a supporting role. The screenplay was written by Jeremy Brooks and Haya Harareet, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Julian Gloag. Plot The seven Hook children, whose ages range from five to fourteen, live in a dilapidated Victorian house in suburban London. The older children help to care for their invalid single mother, whose chronic illness has led to her to convert to fundamentalist religion and refuse all medical help. When their mother dies suddenly, the children realise that they may be split up and sent to orphanages, so they decide to conceal their mother's death and carry on with their daily routine as if she were still alive. They secretly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Morning (film)
''The Morning'' (original title ''Jutro'') is a 1967 Yugoslav film directed by Mladomir Puriša Đorđević. It is the third part of a wartime tetralogy by Đorđević.Jelena Batinić ''Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance'' 1107091071 - 2015 "One of the most innovative, poetic, and controversial takes on the war and its aftermath was provided by Puriša Đorđevic8's film Morning (Jutro), 1967, the third part of his wartime tetralogy; the remaining three were Girl (Devojka), 1965; Dream (San, 1966), Morning (]utro, 1967), and Noon (Podne, 1968), beginning with a tragic wartime tale, followed by a poetic meditation about partisan warfare, a somber study of a peacetime dawn, and a reflection, in the full light of noon, on the break with Moscow." The film entered in competition at the 28th Venice International Film Festival and Ljubiša Samardžić won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his role. Cast * Ljubiša Samardžić as Mali * Neda Arnerić as De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Reitz
Edgar Reitz (born 1 November 1932) is a German filmmaker and Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (State University of Design) in Karlsruhe. He is best-known for his internationally acclaimed '' Heimat film series'' (1984-2013). Early life and education Reitz was born in Morbach, Hunsrück. His father Robert was a watchmaker and his business in Morbach was later taken over by Reitz's brother Guido. Reitz's interest in acting and producing plays began in his school years in Simmern, where he was encouraged by his German teacher Karl Windhäuser. After taking his Abitur, he studied German studies, journalism, art history and theatre studies in Munich from 1952. His first experiences in film-making however were not theoretical; he worked as a camera, editing, and production assistant from 1953. His interests in the advancement of new developments in film went as far as he cooperated with Wolfgang Georgsdorf and his '' Osmodrama'' in 2016 which led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lust For Love (1967 Film)
''Lust for Love'' () is a 1967 West German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz, starring Heidi Stroh and Georg Hauke. It tells the story of the marriage and subsequent crisis of a young female photographer and a medical student. It was the director's first fiction film. The film premiered in West Germany on 21 March 1967. It was shown in competition at the 28th Venice International Film Festival The 28th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 26 August to 8 September 1967. Jury * Alberto Moravia (Italy) (head of jury) * Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) * Juan Goytisolo (Spain) * Erwin Leiser (West Germany) * Violette Mor ..., where it won the award for Best First Work. Cast References External links * 1967 films 1967 drama films Films directed by Edgar Reitz German drama films 1960s German-language films West German films 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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