Lost Continent (1954 film)

This article is about the 1955 documentary film. For other uses, see The Lost Continent (disambiguation).

Lost Continent

Directed by	Enrico Gras Giorgio Moser Leonardo Bonzi
Music by	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Distributed by	Lopert Pictures (US theatrical)
Release dates	1955 (Italy) 11 March 1957 (NYC)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Continente Perduto (aka Lost Continent and Continent Perdu) is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.

Awards

It has received the following awards:

1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize^[1]^[2]
5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)^[3]

Legacy

French literary critic Roland Barthes dedicates an essay to the film in his semiological work, Mythologies. He criticizes the filmmakers as perpetuating a European sense of exoticism, while also imposing their own Christian values onto the Buddhist traditions of the region.^[4]

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Lost Continent". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
↑ "BFI: Lost Continent". BFI. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
↑ "5th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
↑ Barthes, Roland, and Annette Lavers. "The Lost Continent." Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 94-96. Print.

External links

Lost Continent at the Internet Movie Database

Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize

1940s 1950s	The Battle of the Rails (1946) All About Eve (1951) We Are All Murderers (1952) Knave of Hearts (1954) Lost Continent (1955) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) Kanał (1957) The Seventh Seal (1957) Mon Oncle (1958) Stars (1959)

1960s	L'Avventura (1960) Odd Obsession (1960) Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) L'Eclisse (1962) Harakiri (1963) The Cassandra Cat (1963) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Kwaidan (1965) Alfie (1966) Z (1969)

1970s 1980s	The Falcons (1970) The Strawberry Statement (1970) Love (1971) Joe Hill (1971) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) The Invitation (1973) The Constant Factor (1980) Kharij (1983) Colonel Redl (1985) Thérèse (1986) Yeelen (1987) Shinran: Path to Purity (1987) A Short Film About Killing (1988) Jesus of Montreal (1989)

1990s	Hidden Agenda (1990) Europa (1991) Out of Life (1991) Dream of Light (1992) An Independent Life (1992) The Puppetmaster (1993) Raining Stones (1993) La Reine Margot (1994) Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995) Carrington (1995) Crash (1996) Western (1997) Class Trip (1998) Festen (1998) The Letter (1999)

2000s	Blackboards (2000) Songs from the Second Floor (2001) Divine Intervention (2002) At Five in the Afternoon (2003) Tropical Malady (2004) Shanghai Dreams (2005) Red Road (2006) Persepolis (2007) Silent Light (2007) Il Divo (2008) Thirst (2009) Fish Tank (2009)

2010s	A Screaming Man (2010) Polisse (2011) The Angels' Share (2012) Like Father, Like Son (2013) Mommy (2014) Goodbye to Language (2014) The Lobster (2015)

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