Beau travail
This end-of-year cycle is an opportunity to bring together some of the finest 35mm prints in our collections.
The criteria that led to this selection:
a) the rarity of the chosen movie on film
b) the effect of contrast (period, style, culture) between one film and the other
c) the quality of conservation of the print
Stephanie Creaghan's The Dailies is an ingenious series of very short works in which video art and cinema overlap. Nineteen titles from this series are featured in our December program as a dreamy and intimate tribute to the cinephile experience.
Stephanie Creaghan makes work about how violence inserts itself into communication, combining different pathways (like audio and video) to uncover these latent forms of manipulation to bring to light the undiscussed/repressed.
Ex-Warrant Officer Galoup remembers his good times in the Légion Etrangère and his well-orchestrated life with his men in the Gulf of Djibouti, playing war and repairing roads. It was his admiration for his superior, Commandant Bruno Forestier, and above all his hatred for the young legionnaire Gilles Sentain, of whom he was sickly jealous, that led to his downfall.
Claire Denis
Claire Denis is a French screenwriter and director. After her studies, Claire Denis became an assistant director. She worked at this time with Jacques Rivette, who had a strong influence on her future work, notably in the importance of "not betraying her characters" and of having a "moral perspective" on her work. Other great directors will mark his debut. First of all Wim Wenders, who chose her as an assistant for Paris, Texas in 1984 and for Wings of Desire in 1987. She also met Agnès Godard who was to accompany her as director of photography throughout her career. She then worked with Jim Jarmusch for Down by Law in 1986. Driven by these experiences and encouraged by Wim Wenders, Claire Denis wrote and directed her first film, Chocolat, in 1988.
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