Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
On a trip to Spain, Pandora, an American artist, charms all the men she meets, but none manages to move her. But one evening, she is intrigued by the presence of a sailboat in the bay and swims out to it. On board, she meets the mysterious Hendrick Van der Zee. A spellbinding retelling of the legend of the Flying Dutchman, transcended by its star duo and Jack Cardiff's stunning Technicolor photography.
Albert Lewin
Albert Lewin was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He became a drama and film critic for the Jewish Tribune until the early 1920s, when he went to Hollywood to become a reader for Samuel Goldwyn. Later he worked as a script clerk for directors King Vidor and Victor Sjöström before becoming a screenwriter at MGM in 1924. Lewin was appointed head of the studio's script department and by the late 1920s was Irving Thalberg's personal assistant and closest associate. Nominally credited as an associate producer, he produced several of MGM's most important films of the 1930s. After Thalberg's death, he joined Paramount as a producer in 1937, where he remained until 1941. He began to direct in 1942, and made six films. As a director and writer, he showed literary and cultural aspirations in the selection and treatment of his themes.
