The 23rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 3 to 18 May 1970. Guatemalan author and Nobel Prize laureate Miguel ÃÂngel Asturias served as jury president for the main competition.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the festival's main prize, was awarded to M*A*S*H by Robert Altman.
In this edition, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan (their flags were also omitted on the Croisette). He was supposedly tired of the "Slavic spectacles and Japanese samurai flicks.". The Russians took back their juror Sergei Obraztsov (head of Moscow puppet theater) and left the jury panel with only eight members.
The festival opened with The Things of Life by Claude Sautet and closed with Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel by Marc Allégret.
Juries
Main Competition
- Miguel ÃÂngel Asturias, Guatemalan author, diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate - Jury President
- Guglielmo Biraghi, Italian film critic
- Kirk Douglas, American actor
- Christine Gouze-Rénal, French producer
- VojtÃÂch Jasný, Czechoslovakian filmmaker
- Félicien Marceau, French playwright
- Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppeteer
- Karel Reisz, British filmmaker
- Volker Schlöndorff, West-German filmmaker
Short Films Competition
- Fred Orain, producer
- Jerzy PÃ
ÂaÃ
¼ewski, Polish film critic
- Vincio Delleani, Italian
Official selection
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Prix du Jury:
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 9th International Critics' Week (9e Semaine de la Critique):
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1970 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
Short films
- 20 September by Kurt Kren (France)
- Aaa by Dieter Meier (France)
- Ai Love by Takahiko Limura (France)
- All My Life by 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 by Paul Sharits (France)
- 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)
Official Awards
Main Competition
Short Films Competition
Independent Awards
Commission Supérieure Technique
References
Media
- [http://fresques.ina.fr/festival-de-cannes-en/fiche-media/Cannes00443/opening-of-the-1970-cannes-festival.html INA: Opening of the 1970 Cannes Festival] <small>(commentary in French)</small>
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