The 23rd Cannes Film Festival ran from 3 to 18 May 1970 . This year, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan (their flags were missing on the Croisette ). He was tired of the "Slavic spectacles and Japanese samurai flicks.".[4] [5]
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Nobel Prize for Literature winner Miguel Ángel Asturias was appointed as president of the jury. At the time, he was serving as ambassador from Guatemala to France. The Palme d'Or went to the MASH Robert Altman .[2] [6] Les Choses de la vie Claude Sautet and closed with Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel Marc Allégret .[7] [8]
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1970 film competition:[9] [2]
Feature films
Short films
Fred Orain (producer)
Jerzy Płażewski, critic (Poland)
Vincio Delleani (Italy)
In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:[3]
Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Prix du Jury :[3]
A Day With the Boys by Volker Schlöndorff Comme Larrons En Foire by Edmond FreessEl diablo sin dama by Eduardo CalcagnoEt Salammbo? by Jean-Pierre RichardGipsy Pentecost (The Feast of St. Sara) by Laurence BoultingKaleidoski by Jacques Ertaud L'autre silence by Nestor MatsasLight (Lumière ) by Paul CohenMagic Machines Smrtici vone (Le parfum mortel ) by Vaclav Bedrich The Epitaph by Gurucharan SinghUn temps pour la mémoire by Georges Pessis
The following films were screened for the 1970 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[11]
Short films
20 September by Kurt Kren (France)Aaa by Dieter Meier (France)Ai Love by Takahiko Limura (France)All My Life Bruce Baillie (United States)American Woman by Bruce E. Meintjies (United States)Back And Forth by Michael Snow (United States)Bartleby 1970 by Jean-Pierre Bastid (France)Béjart by Atahualpa Lichy (France, Venezuela)Berkeley by Patrick Reynolds (United States)Bliss by Gregory Markopoulos (France)Cosinus Alpha by Kurt Kren (France)Das Sonnenbad by Bernd Upnmoor (West Germany)David Perry by Albie Thoms (Australia)Dimanche Après-midi by Stéphane Kurc (France)Disson. Zeitreih by Hans Peter Kochenrath (France)Eros, O Basil by Gregory Markopoulos (France)Faces by John Moore and Takahiko Limura (France)Fenstergucker by Kurt Kren (France)Film Oder Macht by Vlado Kristl (France)Georges Albert, Aventurier by Daniel Edinger (France)In The Void by Ronald Bijlsma (Netherlands)It's So Peaceful by Fritz André Kracht (France)La Bergère En Colère by Francis Warin (France)La Cazadora Inconsciente by Rafael R. Balerdi (Spain)La Question ordinaire by Claude Miller (France)La Tête Froide by Patrick Hella (Belgium)Labyrinthe by Piotr Kamler (France)Le Coo by Paul Dopff (France)Le Voyage De M. Guitton by Pascal Aubier (France)Les Trois Cousins by René Vautier (France)Manha Cinzenta by Olney A. Sau Paulo (Brazil)Mauern by Kurt Kren (France)Messages, Messages by Steven Arnold (United States)One More Time by Daniel Pommereulle (France)Papa und Mama by Kurt Kren (France)Park Rape by Jon Beckjord (United States)Piece Mandala by Paul Sharits (France)Play 4 + 5 by Klaus Schönherr (France)Portrait D. Cor by Klaus Schönherr (France)Portraits by Gregory Markopoulos (France)S.W.B. by Gérard Pires (France)Scenes From by Stan Brakhage (France)Selbst Verst by Selbst Verst (France)Sodoma by Otto Muehl (France)Some Won't Go by Gil Toff (United States)Still Nacht by Hans Peter Kochenrath (France)Stock Exchange Transplant by Douglas Collins (United States)T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G Talla by Malcolm Le Grice (France)The Mechanical Man by Ronald Fritz (United States)Underground Explosion by Kurt Kren (France)Vite by Daniel Pommereulle (France)Work In Progress by W. Hein and G. Hein (France)Zelenka by Robert Rosen (United States)
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Jury President Robert Altman, Palme d'Or winner Official awards
The following films and people received the 1970 Official selection awards:[2] [6]
Short films
Independent awards
FIPRESCI [12] [2]
Commission Supérieure Technique [13]
Rex Reed (1970, June 21). How I went to the Cannes Film Festival and hated every minute of it. Los Angeles Times , p. o32. Retrieved June 24, 2008
