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The History of French Cinema: 1971

14/1 -

Eric Losfeld, the editor of the film magazine Positif, is fined for publishing material classified as "pornographic." [ADD]

26/2 -

Comic actor Fernandel dies of lung cancer in Paris at the age of 67. [ADD]

5/4 -

Marcel Ophuls' documentary Le Chagrin et la pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity), is released in cinemas after ORTF, the state-owned French television station declines to broadcast it.   The film was financed by Swiss and German TV companies after French TV companies withdrew from the project. [ADD]

30/4 -

The first videocassette market is held in Cannes. [ADD]

11/5 -

The widow of the murdered Greek Deputy Prime Minister Lambrakis begins legal proceedings against the producers of the film Z, who based the film’s scenario on her husband’s assassination, for breach of privacy. [ADD]

27/5 -

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, a special 25th anniversary prize is awarded to Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice.   Joseph Losey's The Go-Between wins the Grand Prix. [ADD]

Sep -

Pathé opens the Belle Epine, the country’s first cinema complex, in a Parisian suburb. [ADD]

22/10 -

Stones are thrown at the Saint-Séverin Cinema in Paris during a screening of Yves Courrières and Philippe Monnier’s documentary film, La Guerre d'Algérie. [ADD]

– 392 feature films are televised in France this year.   196 of these films were French. [ADD]

Other Key French Films of 1971

Les Assassins de l'ordre (Marcel Carné) [ADD]

Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk) [ADD]

Deux Anglaises et la continent (François Truffaut) [ADD]

Juste avant la nuit (Claude Chabrol) [ADD]

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Robert Bresson) [ADD]

Trafic (Jacques Tati) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1971

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