52nd Locarno Film Festival

52nd Locarno Film Festival
Opening filmEast/West directed by Régis Wargnier
Closing filmThe Legend of 1900 directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
LocationLocarno, Switzerland
Founded1946
AwardsGolden Leopard: Skin of Man, Heart of Beast directed by Hélène Angel
Artistic directorMarco Mueller
Festival dateOpening: 4 August 1999 (1999-08-04)
Closing: 14 August 1999 (1999-08-14)
WebsiteLFF

The 52nd Locarno Film Festival was held from 4 to 14 August 1999 in Locarno, Switzerland.[1] The opening film of the festival was East/West directed by Régis Wargnier.[2] The closing film was the world premiere of the Giuseppe Tornatore's re-cut and trimmed down The Legend of 1900.[2] A special section was dedicated to "Joe Dante and the 2nd Corman Generation". Most of the featured directors were on-hand and participated in Q&As throughout the festival.[3] Roger Corman, himself, was pleasantly surprised at a diner in his honor saying, "Who'd ever imagine we'd all be admired like this" and that he'd "have to do a better job of preserving" the company film library.[4]

The Leopard of Honor was awarded to three directors: Swiss director Daniel Schmid, Italian director Francesco Rosi, and French filmmaker Gerard Blain.[1] Each director had a film at the festival. The Piazza Grande section featured Schmid's The Last Days of Switzerland and Rosi's 1961 restored mafia film Salvatore Giuliano.[2][1] While, Blain's new film So be it (Ainsi soit-il) was screened out-of-competition.[1] Unfortunately for the festival, rain caused many screening on the Piazza Grande, the 7,000-seat open-air theater, to be moved inside.[4]

The festival also featured Asia Argento's directorial debt with Your Tongue on my Heart, a 4 minute short film and the gay feature-length comedy, shot without the approval of the Chinese government, Men and Women directed by Liu Bingjian.[2][3] The audience award went to Himalaya by director Eric Valli.[1]

French director Patrice Chereau resigned from the jury to promote his newest film.[5] The anticipated film Soft Fruit directed by Christina Andreef was pulled from the festival at the last minute due to a legal issues with the distributor Fox, who was unhappy with the credit sequence and stopped the production of all prints.[5]

This was long-time festival president Raimondo Rezzonico's last year at the festival, following the public disagreement with festival director Marco Mueller the year before.[6]

The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Peau D’homme, Coeur De Bête (Skin of Man, Heart of Beast) directed by Hélène Angel, which was her first feature film.[1][7][8]

Official Jury

Official International Jury

Resigned

Official Sections

The following films were screened in these sections:[10][11]

Piazza Grande

The Piazza Grande is the 7,000 seat open-air theater assembled in the town square each year.[4]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland Beresina Oder Die Letzten Tage Der Schweiz Daniel Schmid 1999 Switzerland, Germany
Bowfinger Frank Oz 1999 USA
East/West Est-Ouest Régis Wargnier 1999 France
Crazy English Fengkuang Yingyu Yuan Zhang 1999 China
Himalaya Himalaya, L'Enfance D'Un Chef Éric Valli 1999 France
Kikujiro Kikujiro No Natsu Takeshi Kitano 1999 Japan
The Legend of 1900 La Leggenda Del Pianista Sull'Oceano Giuseppe Tornatore 1999 Italia, USA
The Little Thief Le Petit Voleur Erick Zonca 1999 France
Pushing Tin Mike Newell 1999 USA
Salvatore Giuliano Francesco Rosi 1962 Italia
The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 1963 USA

International Competition

International Competition

English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country
1999 Madeleine Laurent Bouhnik 1999 France
So Be It Ainsi Soit-Il Gérard Blain 1999 France
Kisses and Hugs Baci E Abbracci Paolo Virzì 1999 Italia
Barak Valerij Ogorodnikov 1999 Russia
The Pig's Retribution Buta No Mukui Sai Yohichi 1999 Japan
The Einstein of Sex Der Einstein Des Sex:

Leben Und Werk Des Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld

Rosa von Praunheim 1999 Germany
Two Streams Dois Córregos Carlos Reichenbach 1999 Brazil
The City El Medina Yousry Nasrallah 1999 Egypt, France
The Miracle of P. Tinto El Milagro De P. Tinto Javier Fesser 1998 Spain
Fallen Angels Paradise Gannat Al Shayateen Oussama Fawzi

(Osama Fawzy)

1999 Egypt
Moonlight Whispers Gekkô No Sasayaki Akihiko Shiota 1999 Japan
Big Feelings Grosse Gefühle Christof Schertenleib 1999 Switzerland, Luxembourg
The Time of Love Il Tempo Dell Amore Giacomo Campiotti 1999 Italia, Great Britain
Life Doesn’t Scare Me La Vie Ne Me Fait Pas Peur Noémie Lvovsky 1999 France, Switzerland
Men and Women Nannan Nünü Liu Bingjian 1999 China
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast Peau D'Homme, Coeur De Bête Hélène Angel 1999 France
Before Sunset Prima Del Tramonto Stefano Incerti 1999 Italia
Simon, the Magician Simon Mágus Ildikó Enyedi 1999 Hungary, France
The Dream Catcher Ed Radtke 1999 USA
The Uprising Yi Jae-Su Eï Nan Park Kwang-su 1999 South Korea, France
The Third Page Üçüncü Sayfa Zeki Demirkubuz 1999 Türkiye

Filmmakers of the Present

Filmmakers of the Present - Out of Competition

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Amber City Jem Cohen 1999 Italia, USA
Au Champ D'Honneur Field of Honor Luc Moullet 1998 France
Belfast, Maine Frederick Wiseman 1999 USA
Chronique Vigneronne Chronicle Winegrower Jacqueline Veuve 1999 Switzerland
Condo Painting John McNaughton 1999 USA
David Cronenberg, I Have To Make The Word Be Flesh André S. Labarthe 1999 France
Delta Padano Florestano Vancini 1951 Italia
Dokomademo Ikou Migration Everywhere 1999 Japan
Due Come Noi, Non Dei Migliori Two Like Us, not the Best Stefano Grossi Italia
Escalator Over The Hill Steve Gebhardt 1999 USA
I Paisán - Parte Prima I Parentsán - PART Giuseppe Morandi Italia
I Paisán - Parte Seconda The Paisáns - Friends Giuseppe Morandi Italia
Jacques Doillon - Les Mots, L'Émotion... Jacques Doillon - Words, Emotion ... Anne Brochet, Françoise Dumas 1998 France
Jam Session - Kikujiro No Natsu Koshiki Kaizokuban Im the Sound of the Touch - The Summer of the Giro Listening To, Pirated Version Makoto Shinozaki 1999 Japan
Just In Time Lou Castel 1998 France
Kadi Jolie Hard Idrissa Ouédraogo 1999 France, Burkina Faso
Kto Bolche How Much to Say Vitali Kanevski 1999 France, Belgium
La Salamandre The Salamander Alain Tanner 1971 Switzerland
Le Dernier Plan The Last Plan Benoît Peeters 1999 Belgium
Le Plat De Sardines The Sardine Dish Omar Amiralay 1998 France
Les Étrangers Foreigners Philippe Faucon 1999 France
Lopen To Walk Mijke de Jong 1999 Netherlands
Noi E Il Duca - Quando Duke Ellington Suonò A Palermo We and the Duke - When Duke Ellington Played in Palermo Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco 1999 Italia
Paris Mon Petit Corps Est Bien Las De Ce Grand Monde Paris My Little Body is Tired of this Great World Franssou Prenant 1999 France
Philippe Garrel Françoise Etchegaray 1998 France
Qui Sait? Who Knows? Nicolas Philibert 1998 France
Rom Tour Giorgio Garini, Silvio Soldini 1999 Switzerland, Italia
Santitos Alejandro Springall 1998 Mexico
Stairway To Heaven Errol Morris 1988 USA
Takeshi Kitano L'Imprévisible Takeshi Kitano the Unpredictable Jean-Pierre Limosin 1999 France
The City Below The Line Milton Moses Ginsberg 1999 USA
Tippi Hedrens Screen Test Alfred Hitchcock 1962 USA
Too Pure Sunmin Park 1999 Korea, USA

Leopards of Tomorrow

Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani)

Leopards of Tomorrow - Special Program
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Bonne Journée, Monsieur M. Good Day, Mr. M. Samuel Guillaume, Frédéric Guillaume 1999 Switzerland
La Tua Lingua Sul Mio Cuore Your Tongue on My Heart Asia Argento 1999 Italia
Portugal
A Testemunha The Witness Fátima Ribeiro 1998 Portugal
Dois Dragões Two Dragons Margarida Cardoso 1996 Portugal
Estou Perto I'm Close Sandro Aguilar 1998 Portugal
História Sem Interesse History without Interest Wilson Siqueira 1998 Portugal
Jam Session Marina Simóes 1998 USA
Menos Nove Minus Nine Rita Nunes Portugal
O Prego The Nail João Maia 1999 Portugal
O Que Foi? What it Was? Ivo M. Ferreira 1999 Portugal
O Ralo Or Laugh Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra 1999 Portugal
Porque É Que Eu Não Disse Nada Why I Didn't Say Anything Miguel Seabra Lopes 1999 Portugal
Primavera João Tuna 1999 Portugal
Senhor Jerónimo Inês De Medeiros 1998 Portugal
Uma Voz Na Noite A VOICE in the NIGHT Solveig Nordlund 1998 Portugal
É Só Um Minuto It's Just a Minute Pedro Caldas 1998 Portugal
Portugal - Special Programs
A Caça Hunting Manoel de Oliveira 1963 Portugal
A Pousada Das Chagas The Pousada Das Chagas Paulo Rocha 1971 Portugal
Douro, Faina Fluvial Doro, Float Fluvial Manoel de Oliveira 1931 Portugal
Golpe De Asa Handle António Borges Correia 1998 Portugal
Jaime António Reis 1974
O Senhor The Lord Antonio Campos 1959 Portugal
Quem Espera Por Sapatos De Defunto Morre Descalço Who Waits for Deceased Shoes Dies Barefoot João César Monteiro 1970
Um Tesoiro A Tatter Antonio Campos 1958 Portugal
Swiss Confederation
12 X 12 Maja Zimmermann 1999 USA
Adrian Und Der Wolf Adrian and the Wolf Sylvie Lazzarini 1999 Germany
Babami Hirsizlar Caldi Babami Hireless Caldied Esen Isik 1998 Switzerland
Blush Barbara Kulcsar 1999 Switzerland
Darf Ich Mal Schreien May I Scream Jeanne Berthoud 1998 Switzerland
Douche Froide Cold Shower Julien Sulser 1999 Switzerland
Drei Wünsche Three Wishes Rudolph Jula 1999 Germany, Switzerland
Einladung Auf Dem Lande Invitation in the Country Thomas Hess 1999 Switzerland
Elysium Tobias Weber 1999 Switzerland
Gömmer Hiding Zita Bernet 1999 Switzerland
L'Appel De La Cave Call of the Cellar Mathieu Mercier 1999 Switzerland
Les Électrons Libres Free Electrons Frédéric Mermoud 1999 Switzerland
Lettre À Mon Père Letter to My Father Karine Odorici 1999 Switzerland
Lilien Lilies Oliver Rihs 1999 Switzerland
Not Registered Nello Correale 1999 Switzerland
Razor'S Edge Lorenzo Benedick 1999 USA
Sinécure Sinecure Patrick Dieth, François Limoge 1999 Switzerland
Sinécure Sinecure Patrick Dieth, François Limoge 1999 Switzerland
Suite Nuptiale Nuptial Suite François Cesalli 1999 Switzerland
The Cookie Thief Korinna Sehringer 1999 Switzerland
Trivial Killer Isabelle Vossart 1999 Switzerland

Joe Dante and the 2nd Generation Corman Directors

This section featured works from Roger Corman and the directors he worked with and brought up including Joe Dante. It included films, shorts, television episodes and commercials.[3]

Class 1970 - Joe Dante And the Second Generation Corman
English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country
A Bucket of Blood Roger Corman 1959 USA
A Star Is Hatched Friz Freleng 1938 USA
Amazing Stories - Boo! Joe Dante 1986 USA
Amazing Stories - The Greibble Joe Dante 1986 USA
Amazing Stories - The Secret Cinema Paul Bartel 1986 USA
Amazon Women On The Moon - Ventriloquist Episode Joe Dante 1986 USA
Amazon Women On The Moon Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss 1986 USA
Backdraft Ron Howard 1991 USA
Caged Heat Jonathan Demme 1974 USA
Cannonball Paul Bartel 1976 USA
Citizens Band Jonathan Demme 1977 USA
City of Hope John Sayles 1990 USA
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs Bob Clampett 1943 USA
Cockfighter Monte Hellman 1974 USA
Death Race 2000 Paul Bartel 1975 USA
Eating Raoul Paul Bartel 1982 USA
Eerie, Indiana - Foreverware Joe Dante 1991 USA
Eerie, Indiana - Heart On A Chain Joe Dante 1991 USA
Eerie, Indiana - Reality Takes A Holiday Ken Kwapis 1991 USA
Eerie, Indiana - The Hole In The Head Gang Joe Dante 1992 USA
Eerie, Indiana - The Losers Joe Dante 1991 USA
Eerie, Indiana - The Retainer Joe Dante 1991 USA
Elvis Meets Nixon Allan Arkush 1997 USA
Explorers Joe Dante 1985 USA
Falling Hare Bob Clampett 1943 USA
Fighting Mad Jonathan Demme 1976 USA
Frank Film Caroline and Frank Mouris 1973 USA
Fresh Airdale Chuck Jones 1945 USA
Get Crazy Allan Arkush 1983 USA
Gremlins - Directors Cut Joe Dante 1983 USA
Gremlins 2: The New Batch Joe Dante 1989 USA
Happy-Go-Nutty Tex Avery 1944 USA
Hellzapoppin' H. C. Potter 1941 USA
Hollywood Boulevard Allan Arkush, Joe Dante 1976 USA
House on Haunted Hill William Castle 1958 USA
I Walked with a Zombie Jacques Tourneur 1943 USA
Innerspace Joe Dante 1986 USA
It! The Terror From Beyond Space Edward L. Cahn 1958 USA
King-Size Canary Tex Avery 1947 USA
Picture Windows - Lightning Joe Dante 1995 USA
Last Embrace Jonathan Demme 1979 USA
Little Buck Cheeser Rudolf Ising 1937 USA
Little Red Walking Hood Tex Avery 1937 USA
Lone Star John Sayles 1996 USA
M&M - Mars Commercials Joe Dante USA
Mant! Featurette Joe Dante USA
Matinee Joe Dante 1993 USA
Melvin and Howard Jonathan Demme 1980 USA
Men with Guns John Sayles 1997 USA
Night Shift Ron Howard 1982 USA
Over the Edge Jonathan Kaplan 1979 USA
Piranha Joe Dante 1978 USA
Planet of the Vampires Terrore Nello Spazio / Planet Of Blood Mario Bava 1965 USA
Police Squad! - Ring Of Fear Joe Dante 1982 USA
Police Squad! - Testimony Of Evil Joe Dante 1982 USA
Private Parts Paul Bartel 1972 USA
Puss n' Booty Frank Tashlin 1943 USA
Ransom Ron Howard 1996 USA
Reckless Youth Joe Dante USA
Rock 'N' Roll High School Allan Arkush 1979 USA
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel Christian Blackwood 1977 USA
Runaway Daughters Joe Dante 1993 USA
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills Paul Bartel 1989 USA
Small Soldiers Joe Dante 1998 USA
Stanley Stanley Jonathan Kaplan USA
Starship Troopers Paul Verhoeven 1997 USA
Suburbia Penelope Spheeris 1983 USA
Targets Peter Bogdanovich 1967 USA
Tell-Tale Heart Ted Parmelee 1953 USA
The 'Burbs - Director's Cut Joe Dante USA
The 'Burbs Joe Dante 1988 USA
The Big Snooze Bob Clampett 1946 USA
The Case of the Stuttering Pig Frank Tashlin 1937 USA
The Howling Joe Dante 1980 USA
The Howling - Porn Short Joe Dante USA
The Incredible Shrinking Man Jack Arnold 1957 USA
The Intruder Roger Corman 1962 USA
The Little Shop of Horrors Roger Corman 1961 USA
The Masque of the Red Death Roger Corman 1964 USA, Great Britain
The Movie Orgy Joe Dante, Jon Davison USA
The Old Grey Hare Bob Clampett 1944 USA
The Osiris Chronicle -The Warlord: Battle For The Galaxy Joe Dante 1995 USA
The Power Of Thought Eddie Donnelly 1948 USA
The Second Civil War Joe Dante 1996 USA
The Secret Cinema Paul Bartel 1969 USA
The Student Nurses Stephanie Rothman 1970 USA
The Student Teachers Jonathan Kaplan 1973 USA
The Temptations Allan Arkush 1998 USA
The Terror Roger Corman 1963 USA
This Island Earth Joseph M. Newman 1954 USA
Truck Turner Jonathan Kaplan 1974 USA
Twilight Zone - A World Of Difference Ted Post 1960 USA
Twilight Zone - It's A Good Life James Sheldon 1961 USA
Twilight Zone - The Shadow Man Joe Dante 1985 USA
Twilight Zone: Tower Of Terror Disney Ride Joe Dante
Twilight Zone: The Movie Joe Dante, George Miller, Steven Spielberg, John Landis 1982 USA
Twilight Zone: The Movie - Episode 3 - It's A Good Life Joe Dante 1982 USA
What's Up Joe Dante? Grant Littlechild 1991 Great Britain
White Dog Samuel Fuller 1982 USA

Special Sidebar

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Elvis Meets Nixon Allan Arkush 1997 USA
Inediti Danteschi Unpublished Dante

Independent Sections

Critics Week

The Semaine de la Critique is an independent section, created in 1990 by the Swiss Association of Film Journalists in partnership with the Locarno Film Festival.[12]

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Aber Auch Ich! But Me Too! Urs Wäckerli 1999 Switzerland
Desperately Seeking Helen Eisha Marjara 1998 Canada
En Släkting Till Älvorna A Relative of the Elves Kirsi Nevanti 1998 Sweden
Genet À Chatila Genet in Chatila Richard Dindo 1999 Switzerland, France
Punitive Damage Annie Goldson 1999 New Zealand
The Hillbrow Kids Jacqueline Görgen, Michael Hammon 1999 Germany

Swiss Perspectives

Swiss Perspectives
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
An Heiligen Wassern Sacred Water Erich Waschneck 1932 Germany, Switzerland
Attention Aux Chiens Watch Out for Dogs François Christophe Marzal 1999 Switzerland
Closed Country Kaspar Kasics 1999 Switzerland
General Sutter Benny Fasnacht 1999 USA, Switzerland
Id Swiss 1999 Switzerland
La Bonne Conduite (Cinq Histoires D'Auto-École) Good Driving (Five Driving School Stories) Jean-Stéphane Bron 1999 Switzerland
La Mort De Ludovic To the Dead by Ludovic Pascal Gavillet 1998 Switzerland
La Reine Du Coq-À-L Âne The Cock Queen Donkey Donkey Jeanne Waltz 1999 Switzerland
Made In India Patricia Plattner 1998 Switzerland
Pas De Café, Pas De Télé, Pas De Sexe No Coffee, No TV, No Sex Romed Wyder 1999 Switzerland

Official Awards

Official Jury

  • Golden Leopard: Peau D’homme, Coeur De Bête (Skin of Man, Heart of Beast) directed by Hélène Angel
  • Silver Leopard, Nouveau Cinéma: Barak directed by Valerij Ogorodnikov
  • Silver Leopard, Jeune Cinéma: La Vie Ne Me Fait Pas Peur directed by Noémie Lvovsky
  • Bronze Leopard (Acting): Vera Briole in Madeleine directed by Laurent Bouhnik, Serge Riaboukine in Peau D’homme, Coeur De Bête (Skin of Man, Heart of Beast) directed by Hélène Angel
  • Special Jury Prize: El Medina directed by Yousry Nasraliah
  • Special Mention, Official Jury: El Milagro De P. Tinto directed by Javier Fesser

FIPRESCI JURY

Critics Jury

  • CRITICS WEEK PRIZE: Desperately Seeking Helen directed by Eisha Mar Jara (Canada)[1]

Source:[7][8][1]

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