1968 Cork Film Festival programme content

1968 Cork Film Festival programme content

Cork Film Festival, Jean Healy, Alexander Mackendrick, Zvonimir Berkovic, Judd Bernard, Paul Mareau, Liam O Laoghaire, Liam O'Leary, Sidney Lumet, Bernard McDonagh, Harry Wallace

The original 1968 programme is a slim soft card-bound programme measuring 26.5cm x 11cm. The bind is stapled and it has 60 numbered pages. The cover design, by Harry Wallace, is repeated across many editions of the festival during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The cover is signed on the inside, in pencil, with the name Jean Healy – Irish Press.

The pdf version includes profiles and images of Jury chairman Alexander Mackendrick (Scotland), Zvonimir Berkovic (Yugoslavia), Judd Bernard (USA), Paul Mareau (France), Liam O Laoghaire (Ireland). As well as programme listings the brochure includes a number of advertisements from local and national companies across all sectors of the business world. Articles include A Retrospective Programme in honour of Sidney Lumet by Bernard McDonagh (pp. 51-52). Films by Lumet screened at the festival that year included Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962) starring Katherine Hepburn; The Hill (1965); Deadly Affair (1966) starring James Mason and Simone Signoret; Twelve Angry Men (1957) starring Henry Fonda, and Bye Bye Braverman (1968).

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Harry Wallace, D&A O’Leary Ltd.

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

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Paper, 26cm x 11cm
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English, eng; Irish, gle

start=1968-09-15; end=1968-09-22;
Cork, Ireland

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