37th Venice International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Atlantic City Gloria |
| Festival date | 28 August – 8 September 1980 |
| Website | Website |
The 37th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 28 August to 8 September, 1980.[1][2]
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
The following people comprised the 1980 jury:[3]
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter - Jury President
- Yûssif Châhine, 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
Main Competition
| 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 / Turn Around 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 |
Officina veneziana
- Les enfants du vent by Brahim Tsaki
- Ajándék ez a nap by Péter Gothár
- Opera prima by Fernando Trueba
- Oxalá by António-Pedro Vasconcelos
- Karel Kachyna
- Srdjan Karanovic
- Uomini e no by Valentino Orsini
- L'altra donna by Peter Del Monte
- La ragazza di via Mille lire by Gianni Serra
- Masoch by Franco Brogi Taviani
- Les nouveaux romantiques by Mohamed Benayat
- C'est la vie by Paul Vecchiali
- Guns by Robert Kramer
- The Uprising by Peter Lilienthal
- Lena Rais by Christian Rischert
- La repetition generale by Werner Schroeter
- Charlotte by Frans Weisz
- Pilgrim, Farewell by Michael Roemer
Out of Competition
- The Empire Strikes Back by Irvin Kershner
- The Black Stallion by Carroll Ballard
- Lightning Over Water by Wim Wenders
- Loulou by Maurice Pialat
- Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais
- Premier pas by Mohamed Bouamari
Official Awards
Main Competition
References
- ^ "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