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The undisputed (and pre-ordained) star of the festival was James Dickey’s Deliverance, screened to open the event. At the awards banquet, , Deliverance was given the Golden Phoenix (Best Film of the Festival), best actor and best director awards.
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(The Fifth Annual Atlanta International Film Festival put down ten days of exceptional films in what is probably the grandest across-theboard representation of the cinematic arts in recent years. From 1,500 entries in categories ranging from slick commercial films to 16mm student films, the festival literally had something for everyone. Pretty neat for a Southern town in which people still say, “Frank Capra? Isn’t he the guy who did 200 Motels?’’ Some of the outstanding films seen this year follow:
