42nd Venice International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Vagabond |
| Festival date | 26 August – 6 September 1985 |
| Website | Website |
The 42nd annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 26 August to 6 September 1985.[1][2]
Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was Vagabond directed by Agnès Varda.
Jury
The following people comprised the 1985 jury:[3]
- Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish filmmaker and producer - Jury President
- Guido Aristarco, Italian film critic and author
- Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei, Italian sociologist
- Ricardo Bofill, Spanish architect
- Frank Capra, Italian-American filmmaker
- Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist
- Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and art critic
- Kon Ichikawa, Japanese filmmaker
- Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright
- Elem Klimov, Soviet filmmaker
- Lino Miccichè, Italian film critic
- Zoran Mušič, Yugoslav painter
- John Schlesinger, British director
- Renzo Vespignani, Italian painter
Official Sections
The following films were selected to be screened:[4]
In Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dust | Marion Hänsel | Belgium, France | |
| The Empty Table | 食卓のない家 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan |
| The Feather Fairy | Perinbaba | Juraj Jakubisko | Czechoslovakia, West Germany |
| Forget Mozart | Vergeßt Mozart | Miloslav Luther | West Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| Glissando | Mircea Daneliuc | Romania | |
| The Guardian | Bekçi | Ali Özgentürk | Turkey, West Germany |
| Legend | Ridley Scott | United States | |
| Life Is Beautiful | Zivot je lep | Boro Draskovic | Yugoslavia |
| The Lightship | Jerzy Skolimowski | United States | |
| Mother Ebe | Mamma Ebe | Carlo Lizzani | Italy |
| No Man's Land | Alain Tanner | Switzerland, France, West Germany, United Kingdom | |
| Planet Parade | Парад планет | Vadim Abdrashitov | Soviet Union |
| The Lost Paradise | Los paraísos perdidos | Basilio Martín Patino | Spain |
| Police | Maurice Pialat | France | |
| Prizzi's Honor | John Huston | United States | |
| Requiem for a Spanish Peasant | Réquiem por un campesino español | Francesc Betriu | Spain |
| The Satin Slipper | O Sapato de Cetim | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France |
| Stone Years | Petrina hronia | Pantelis Voulgaris | Greece |
| The Tango of Our Childhood | Մեր մանկության տանգոն / Танго нашего детства | Albert Mkrtchyan | Soviet Union |
| Tangos, the Exile of Gardel | Tangos, el exilio de Gardel | Fernando Solanas | Argentina, France |
| Tracks in the Snow | Pervola, sporen in de sneeuw | Orlow Seunke | Netherlands, Norway |
| Vagabond | Sans toit ni loi | Agnès Varda | France |
| Woman of Wonders | La donna delle meraviglie | Alberto Bevilacqua | Italy |
Out of Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orfeo | Claude Goretta | Italy, Switzerland, Canada, France | |
| Orpheus and Eurydice | Orfeusz és Euridike | István Gaál | Hungary |
| A Passage to India | David Lean | United Kingdom | |
Venezia Giovani
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | United States | |
| Cocoon | Ron Howard | ||
| Echo Park | Robert Dornhelm | ||
| Flesh and Blood | Paul Verhoeven | United States, Netherlands, Spain | |
| Fletch | Michael Ritchie | United States | |
| Karnabal | Carles Mira | Spain | |
| Letter to Brezhnev | Chris Bernard | United Kingdom | |
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | George Miller | Australia | |
| Running Out of Luck | Julien Temple | United States | |
| Silverado | Lawrence Kasdan | ||
| Tex and the Lord of the Deep | Tex e il signore degli abissi | Duccio Tessari | Italy |
Special Events
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adultery Tree | 자녀목 | Jung Jin-woo | South Korea |
| Beethoven's Nephew | Le neveu de Beethoven | Paul Morrissey | France |
| Come and See | Иди и смотри | Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
| Death of a Salesman | Volker Schlöndorff | United States | |
| Frida Still Life | Frida, naturaleza viva | Paul Leduc | Mexico |
| George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | George Stevens Jr. | United States | |
| Mi hijo el Che - Un retrato de familia de don Ernesto Guevara | Fernando Birri | Cuba | |
| Power of Evil | Le pouvoir du mal | Krzysztof Zanussi | France, West Germany, Italy |
| Signé Renart | Michel Soutter | France, Switzerland | |
| The Runner | Davandeh | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| Queen Kelly (1929) | Erich von Stroheim | United States | |
| Shanghai Blues | 上海之夜 | Hark Tsui | Hong Kong |
Independent Sections
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:[5]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ain't Nothin' Without You | Nicht nichts ohne Dich | Pia Frankenberg | West Germany |
| The Disciples | A tanítványok | Géza Bereményi | Hungary |
| Fandango | Kevin Reynolds | United States | |
| The Record | Der Rekord | Daniel Helfer | West Germany, Switzerland |
| A Strange Love Affair | Eric de Kuyper, Paul Verstraten | Netherlands | |
| Yesterday | Radosław Piwowarski | Poland | |
| Wanderers of the Desert | El Haimoune | Nacer Khemir | Tunisia, France |
Official Awards
Main Competition
- Golden Lion: Vagabond by Agnès Varda
- Grand Special Jury Prize: Tangos, the Exile of Gardel by Fernando Solanas
- Special Jury Prize: The Lightship by Jerzy Skolimowski
- Silver Lion: Dust by Marion Hänsel
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Gérard Depardieu for Police
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: NOT ASSIGNED. (The jury deemed the best performances to be Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond) and Jane Birkin (Dust), but decided against awarding the prize as both films won major awards[6])
- Volpi Cup Special mentions:
- Sonja Savić for Life Is Beautiful
- Galya Novents for The Tango of Our Childhood
- Themis Bazaka for Stone Years
- Volpi Cup Special mentions:
Special Lion
Independent Awards
Sergio Trasatti Awards
- Manoel de Oliveira for The Satin Slipper
- Special Mention: Juraj Jakubisko for The Feather Fairy
References
- ↑ "VENICE 1985 – THE 42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ↑ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ↑ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ↑ "42. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema". labiennale.org. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ↑ "2nd International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ↑ "Venice Festival awards top prize to Varda film". New York Times. 7 September 1985.
- Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996
- L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008
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