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The History of French Cinema: 1983 |
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11/1 - |
Minister for Culture Jack Lang introduces new reforms for the cinema industry: a financial institution is created to guarantee bank loans, advances on box-office receipts are doubled, a support system is introduced for small distributors and exhibitors, and an agency is created to distribute short films. [ADD] |
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12/1 - |
Danton, Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s first French film, wins the Louis Delluc prize. Gérard Depardieu stars in the title role. [ADD] |
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20/1 - |
French stars strike in protest at a new law restricting film actors and technicians' right to collect unemployment benefits. [ADD] |
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23/1 - |
Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s The Dark Crystal wins the Grand Prix at the Fantasy Film Festival in Avoriaz. The jury’s Special Prize goes to 23-year-old Luc Besson’s Le Dernier combat (The Last Battle). [ADD] |
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27/2 - |
The eighth César award ceremony is held at the Rex in Paris on its 50th birthday. Hosted by Catherine Deneuve, it awards the Best Picture prize to Bob Swaim’s La Balance. [ADD] |
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13/3 - |
The first public screening of André Antoine's L'Hirondelle et la mésange (1920) takes place at the Chaillor Cinémathèque in Paris. Recently rediscovered, it was shown to just a few people in 1924. [ADD] |
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6/4 - |
Diane Kurys’ Coup de foudre (aka Entre nous or At First Sight) is released. Set in the 1950s, it stars Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou as friends who leave their husbands to open a dress shop together. [ADD] |
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17/5 - |
The Cannes Film Festival gets a new Festival Palace. The festival’s original home is demolished and replaced with a hotel. [ADD] |
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18/5 - |
76-year-old Robert Bresson’s L’Argent and Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia share the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Shohei Imamua's The Ballad of Narayama wins the Golden Palm. [ADD] |
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11/7 - |
A Franco-Canadian co-production accord is agreed. [ADD] |
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22/7 - |
Abel Gance's Napoléon is presented to an audience of 3,700 in Paris to musical accompaniment by an orchestra conducted by Carl Davis, who assembled the new score. The film has been reconstructed by English film historian and director Kevin Brownlow. [ADD] |
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25/10 - |
Georges Filloud, the Minister of Communication, announces the creation of a new pay-channel, Canal Plus, before the end of 1984. 40% of the new station’s output will be feature films. [ADD] |
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25/11 - |
German film historian Lotte H. Eisner dies in Paris at the age of 87. [ADD] |
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– The government establishes the Agence pour le Développement Régional du Cinéma (ADRC) to reverse the decline in the number of cinemas. [ADD] |
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Other Key French Films of 1983 |
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A nos amours (Maurice Pialat) [ADD] |
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Le Bal (Ettore Scola) [ADD] |
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La Belle Captive (Alain Robbe-Grillet) [ADD] |
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Erendira (Ruy Guerra) [ADD] |
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Mortelle Randonee (Claude Miller) [ADD] |
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Le Mur (Yilmaz Guney) [ADD] |
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Pauline a la plage (Eric Rohmer) [ADD] |
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Rue Cases-Negres (Euzhan Palcy) [ADD] |
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Sans soleil (Chris Marker) [ADD] |
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Tchao Pantin (Claude Berri) [ADD] |
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La vie est un roman (Alain Resnais) [ADD] |
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Vivement dimanche! (Francois Truffaut) [ADD] |
