1983 Toronto International Film Festival Explained

The 8th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 17, 1983. This year, the festival introduced Contemporary World Cinema programme.^[1] The festival also shone light on Paul Verhoeven's work.^[2] The festival also held a retrospective in honor of David Cronenberg, first time for a Toronto-reared director. The censor board insisted that the censored version of Cronenberg's film The Brood, approved in 1979 be used.^[3]

The Big Chill by Lawrence Kasdan was selected as the opening film. It won the People's Choice Award at the festival,^[4] and later got nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTAs and the Golden Globes.^[5]

Awards

Award[6] [7]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	The Big Chill	Lawrence Kasdan
International Critics' Award	The Fourth Man	Paul Verhoeven

Programme

Gala Presentations

• The Big Chill by Lawrence Kasdan^[8]
• Carmen by Prosper Mérimée^[8]
• Educating Rita by Lewis Gilbert^[8]
• Entre Nous by Diane Kurys^[8]
• Heart Like a Wheel by Jonathan Kaplan^[8]
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence by Nagisa Ōshima^[8]
• Moon in the Gutter by Jean-Jacques Beineix^[8]
• Streamers by Robert Altman^[8]
• The Tin Flute by Claude Fournier^[8]
• Vertigo (1983 reissue) by Alfred Hitchcock^[8]

Contemporary World Cinema

• Alsino and the Condor by Miguel Littín^[8]
• Angelo My Love by Robert Duvall^[8]
• L'Argent by Robert Bresson^[8]
• Au clair de la lune by André Forcier^[8]
• La Balance by Bob Swaim^[8]
• The Ballad of Narayama by Shōhei Imamura^[8]
• Bella Donna by Peter Keglevic^[8]
• Beyond Forty by Anne Claire Poirier^[9]
• Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? by Henry Jaglom^[8]
• Danton by Andrzej Wajda^[8]
• Le Dernier Combat by Luc Besson
• Deserters by Jack Darcus^[10]
• Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Mirra Bank, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer^[8]
• Eréndira by Ruy Guerra
• Experience Preferred... But Not Essential by Peter Duffell^[8]
• The Eyes, the Mouth by Marco Bellocchio^[8]
• Fists in the Pocket by Marco Bellocchio^[8]
• The Fourth Man by Paul Verhoeven^[8]
• The Go Masters by Junya Sato and Jishun Duan^[8]
• The Leopard by Luchino Visconti^[8]
• My Brother's Wedding by Charles Burnett
• The South by Víctor Erice
• The State of Things by Wim Wenders^[8]
• Strangers Kiss by Matthew Chapman^[8]

Documentaries

• Comfort and Indifference by Denys Arcand
• Falasha: Exile of the Black Jews by Simcha Jacobovici^[8]
• Return Engagement by Alan Rudolph^[8]
• The Shimmering Beast by Pierre Perrault^[8]
• To the Rhythm of My Heart by Jean Pierre Lefebvre^[11]
• We're Not the Jet Set by Robert Duvall^[8]

David Cronenberg retrospective

• Stereo (1969)
• Crimes of the Future (1970)
• Shivers (1975)
• Rabid (1977)
• Fast Company (1979)
• The Brood (1979)
• Scanners (1981)
• Videodrome (1983)

External links

• Official site
• TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012
• 1983 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb

Notes and References

1. Web site: TIFF History. October 18, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131015055839/http://tiff.net/about/tiffhistory. October 15, 2013.
2. Web site: Taking a look back at TIFF. October 18, 2013. https://archive.today/20131012155556/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Film_Festivals/Toronto/2009/about/. 2013-10-12. usurped.
3. Web site: Censoring the Toronto International Film Festival. October 18, 2013.
4. Jay Scott, "Festival of Festivals: Big Chill the big winner". The Globe and Mail, September 19, 1983.
5. News: TIFF: A history of opening nights. October 18, 2013 . CBC News.
6. http://tiff.net/thefestival/festivalawards/awardsarchive "TIFF Awards"
7. News: TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos. October 16, 2013 . CBC News.
8. [Jay Scott]
9. [Jay Scott]
10. [Jay Scott]
11. "World premieres set for festival". The Globe and Mail, September 7, 1983.