Crooks in Clover
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.
A former crook is given a double task by a childhood friend on the eve of his death: take care of his friend's daughter and manage a business coveted by a rival gang.
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner is a French film director and screenwriter. Drawn to comedy from the start, Lautner is best known for directing some of Michel Audiards most famous lines, their most famous collaboration remaining Les Tontons flingueurs. His career in other genres - including Le Professionnel in 1981 and La Maison assassinée in 1988 - was equally successful. He remains a major figure in French comedy from the 1960s to the 1980s.
