1963 with the cinema

Events

  • In January, the French cinematographic producers decide a stop of the production and challenge the public authorities. The medium is in declared crisis. frequentation of the rooms in France east in constant fall; the cinema lost 100 million spectators in five years. The public changes its practices, television spreads - from 683.000 television sets sold in 1957, one passes to 3.212.000 in 1962. The government aid decreases also gradually, brought to disappear in 1967 in accordance with the the Treaty of Rome founding the European Common Market in 1957.
  • September 2nd: Mostra of Venice, Louis Malle must answer of her adaptation of the Will-o'-the-wisp of Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, collaborator under the occupation and notorious anti-semite. The Italian religious newspaper, the Osservatore Romano , deplores that the minister ds cultural Affairs, André Malraux, chose this film to represent France in the selection. The realistor declares that the Church “ would have better done to deal with the anti-semitism when it killed out of the million people”.
  • September 25th: Brigitte Bardot starts a riot in London at the time of turning in outside of scenes of One charming idiot Edouard Molinaro. The film will be finally made in studio.
  • October 10th: Exit in the United Kingdom of second film of James Bond, Good kisses of Russia , with Sean Connery.
  • November 6th: Jean-Luc Godard turns celebrates it scene of opening of the Mépris in which Brigitte Bardot appears naked. This scene, not envisaged initially, is added to film under the constraint of the American distributers.
  • the December 2nd, Gaumont-Topicalities addresses to the cinemas a telegram requesting the cut of demonstrations coeds in the Latin Quarter.

Principal exits into the room in France

See also: : Category: Film left in 1963

Festivals

Cannes

Other festivals

Rewards

Oscars

Other rewards

Boxoffice

the Great escape ( The Great Escape ) from John Sturges
  • Kitchen with butter of Gilles Grangier
  • Lawrence of Arabia ( Lawrence off Arabia ) of David Lean
  • James Bond 007 against Dr. No ( Dr. No ) of Terence Young
  • 55 days of Beijing ( Fifty Five Days At Peking ) of Nicholas Ray
    • the United States:
    Cléopâtre ( Cleopatra ) of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • the Conquest of the West ( How the West Was Won ) of Henry Hathaway
  • a World insane, insane, insane, insane ( It' S.A. Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ) of Stanley Kramer
  • Tom Jones of Tony Richardson
  • Irma soft the ( Irma Soft the ) of Billy Wilder

    Principal births

    Principal deaths

    • Pál Fejós, Hungarian realizer, in New York (° 1898)

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