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Dir: Werner Herzog A portrait of 56 year-old Fini Straubinger who became both blind and deaf as a child and was then bedridden for thirty years. She helps others in Bavaria who are similarly afflicted. The intensity of the lives of people such as Fini, condescendingly treated by society as 'cripples', questions the notion of normality, a theme of other Herzog films such as Kaspar Hauser
Dir: Werner Herzog
A portrait of 56 year-old Fini Straubinger who became both blind and deaf as a child and was then bedridden for thirty years. She helps others in Bavaria who are similarly afflicted. The intensity of the lives of people such as Fini, condescendingly treated by society as 'cripples', questions the notion of normality, a theme of other Herzog films such as Kaspar Hauser
Dir: Werner Herzog The story was actually inspired by the life of Bruno S. who plays Stroszek. Bruno and his two friends form an oddly assorted trio who escape from Berlin's low-life to Wisconsin in search of an 'American dream' which quickly turns sour. What begins as a low-life melodrama with a realistic edge becomes an absurdist road movie then a metaphysical quest.
The story was actually inspired by the life of Bruno S. who plays Stroszek. Bruno and his two friends form an oddly assorted trio who escape from Berlin's low-life to Wisconsin in search of an 'American dream' which quickly turns sour. What begins as a low-life melodrama with a realistic edge becomes an absurdist road movie then a metaphysical quest.
Dir: Robert Bresson There is a radical simplicity in Bresson's wholly unsentimental telling of the story of a peasant girl living in a personal social and metaphorical prison in provincial France. The physical reality which encloses her is harsh with an intensity generated by the way Bresson isolates objects without ever making them symbolic and the way he uses sound, not as a prop, but as an independent element in structuring and intensifying the images.
Dir: Robert Bresson
There is a radical simplicity in Bresson's wholly unsentimental telling of the story of a peasant girl living in a personal social and metaphorical prison in provincial France. The physical reality which encloses her is harsh with an intensity generated by the way Bresson isolates objects without ever making them symbolic and the way he uses sound, not as a prop, but as an independent element in structuring and intensifying the images.
Dir: Preston Sturges A famous conductor believes that his young wife is unfaithful and plans retribution while conducting Rossini, Wagner and Tschaikovsky. The script by Sturges was originally conceived for Lubitsch to direct. It combines sophisticated satire with slapstick and is realised through an inventive blend of music, fast-paced dialogue and visuals.
Dir: Preston Sturges
A famous conductor believes that his young wife is unfaithful and plans retribution while conducting Rossini, Wagner and Tschaikovsky. The script by Sturges was originally conceived for Lubitsch to direct. It combines sophisticated satire with slapstick and is realised through an inventive blend of music, fast-paced dialogue and visuals.
Dir:Jaques Tourner At the centre is the noir theme of a man's destructive obsession with a femme fatale. The possibility of redemption is offered by the presence in a pastoral retreat of the safe, undemanding woman. This film's special hallucinatory quality has its bases in Mitchum's restrained playing and narration as the fated hero. Tourneur brings a downbeat, tragic other-worldliness to the complex flashback structure in which the past gradually overtakes the present.
Dir:Jaques Tourner
At the centre is the noir theme of a man's destructive obsession with a femme fatale. The possibility of redemption is offered by the presence in a pastoral retreat of the safe, undemanding woman. This film's special hallucinatory quality has its bases in Mitchum's restrained playing and narration as the fated hero. Tourneur brings a downbeat, tragic other-worldliness to the complex flashback structure in which the past gradually overtakes the present.
Dir: Jaques Tourner In this adaptation of M.R. James's 'Casting the Runes', a sceptical American psychologist abroad investigates a mysterious death. His scepticism is tested as fantasy assumes a sinister reality turning confidence into panic. Although the producer's insistence on an early appearance of the demon is quite effective in itself, it was at odds with Tourneur's subtle, atmospheric location of horror in the intangible meeting of the imagination and the occult.
Dir: Jaques Tourner
In this adaptation of M.R. James's 'Casting the Runes', a sceptical American psychologist abroad investigates a mysterious death. His scepticism is tested as fantasy assumes a sinister reality turning confidence into panic. Although the producer's insistence on an early appearance of the demon is quite effective in itself, it was at odds with Tourneur's subtle, atmospheric location of horror in the intangible meeting of the imagination and the occult.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa A humble civil servant, learning that he is dying of cancer, discover the meaning of existence - when one lives, one must live entirely.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa
A humble civil servant, learning that he is dying of cancer, discover the meaning of existence - when one lives, one must live entirely.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Through exaggerated coincidence and accompanying catastrophe, the mark of melodrama, a playboy becomes a surgeon and secret devotee of a form of Christianity as he seeks to atone for the death of a philanthropic doctor and the subsequent blindness of the doctor's wife, indirect results of events for which he is responsible.
Dir: Douglas Sirk
Through exaggerated coincidence and accompanying catastrophe, the mark of melodrama, a playboy becomes a surgeon and secret devotee of a form of Christianity as he seeks to atone for the death of a philanthropic doctor and the subsequent blindness of the doctor's wife, indirect results of events for which he is responsible.
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The Chauvel Cinémathèque acknowledges the assistance of the National film and Video Lending Service and the National Film & Sound Archive in creating this program.