The 37th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 28 August to 8 September, 1980.[1][2]
 Festival poster | |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Atlantic City Gloria |
| Festival date | 28 August – 8 September 1980 |
| Website | Website |
Italian screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winners were: Atlantic City directed by Louis Malle and Gloria directed by John Cassavetes.
Jury
editThe following people comprised the 1980 jury:[3]
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter - Jury President
- Youssef Chahine, Egyptian filmmaker
- Michel Ciment, French film critic
- Umberto Eco, Italian and philosopher
- Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian filmmaker
- Andrew Sarris, American film critic
- George Stevens Jr., American filmmaker and producer
- Margarethe von Trotta, West German filmmaker
Official Sections
editMain Competition
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age of the Earth | A Idade da Terra | Glauber Rocha | Brazil |
| Alexander the Great | Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | France, Canada | |
| Eugenio | Voltati Eugenio | Luigi Comencini | Italy |
| Gloria | John Cassavetes | United States | |
| Going in Style | Martin Brest | United States | |
| The Human Factor | Otto Preminger | United Kingdom | |
| The Little Mermaid | La petite sirène | Roger Andrieux | France |
| Long Days | Al-ayyam al-tawila | Tewfik Saleh | Iraq |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | United States | |
| Phobia | John Huston | Canada | |
| Richard's Things | Anthony Harvey | United Kingdom | |
| Story of an Unknown Man | Рассказ неизвестного человека | Vytautas Žalakevičius | Soviet Union |
| Two Lions in the Sun | Deux lions au soleil | Claude Faraldo | France |
Out of Competition
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | United States | |
| The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | ||
| First Step | Premier pas | Mohamed Bouamari | Algeria, France |
| Lightning Over Water | Wim Wenders | West Germany, Sweden | |
| Loulou | Maurice Pialat | France | |
| My American Uncle | Alain Resnais | ||
Officina veneziana
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | Frans Weisz | Netherlands | |
| Guns | Robert Kramer | France | |
| Les nouveaux romantiques | Mohamed Benayat | France | |
| Lena Rais | Christian Rischert | West Germany | |
| Love Between the Raindrops | Lásky mezi kapkami deště | Karel Kachyna | Czechoslovakia |
| Masoch | Franco Brogi Taviani | Italy | |
| Men or Not Men | Uomini e no | Valentino Orsini | Italy |
| Opera prima | Fernando Trueba | Spain | |
| The Other Woman | L'altra donna | Peter Del Monte | Italy |
| Oxalá | António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Portugal | |
| Petrijin venac | Srdjan Karanovic | Yugoslavia | |
| Pilgrim, Farewell | Michael Roemer | United States | |
| A Priceless Day | Ajándék ez a nap | Péter Gothár | Hungary |
| La ragazza di via Mille lire | Gianni Serra | Italy | |
| La répétition générale | Werner Schroeter | West Germany | |
| Sons of the Wind | Les enfants du vent | Brahim Tsaki | Algeria |
| That's Life | C'est la vie | Paul Vecchiali | France |
| The Uprising | Der Aufstand | Peter Lilienthal | West Germany |
Official Awards
editMain Competition
editReferences
edit- ↑ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1980". Retrieved October 6, 2013.
- ↑ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on September 2, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
- ↑ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996
- L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008