Friday | May 13, 2022 9:00 pm

Witness in the City
(Un témoin dans la ville)

Directed by Édouard Molinaro.
With Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi.
France/Italy, 1959, DCP, black & white, 85 min.
French, English and Italian with English subtitles.
DCP source: Gaumont

Before becoming one of the main manufacturers of the most conventional French genre cinema, Édouard Molinaro was briefly touched by the wing of modernity. In this film noir, natural settings are used in a very realistic way—this is especially so of the streets of Paris, which are, along with the cab drivers who circulate through them, the main characters of the film.

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La rivière du hibou)

Directed by Robert Enrico.
With Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen.
France, 1961, 16mm, black & white, 28 min.
In English.
Print source: HFA

Robert Enrico, who was to become one of the most prolific directors of mainstream French cinema in the following decades, was then making his debut with undeniable virtuosity and a certain inventiveness, adapting Ambrose Bierce's short story set during the US Civil War.

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May 6 – June 19, 2022

Witness in the City
(Un témoin dans la ville)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La rivière du hibou)

Part of film series

Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La rivière du hibou)

Part of film series

Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave

Screenings from this program May 2022

Friday06May

The Olive Trees of Justice

Saturday07May

Moi, un noir

The Human Pyramid

Sunday08May

Love at Sea

Monday09May

A Simple Story

Friday13May

America as Seen by a Frenchman

Witness in the City

Saturday14May

The Doll

Moranbong

Sunday15May

A Game for Six Lovers

Monday16May

Enclosure

Friday20May

The Unvanquished AKA Have I the Right to Kill?

A King Without Distraction

Saturday21May

Adieu Philippine

Sunday22May

Mediterranean / As Long as You Get Drunk / Gala

Monday23May

The Last Vacation

Friday27May

Snobs!

Sentimental Education

Saturday28May

The Long Absence

Sunday29May

Machorka-Muff / Les enfants désaccordés / The Crimson Curtain

June 2022

Friday03June

The Punishment

Octobre à Paris

Saturday04June

The Depths

Sunday05June

Judex

Monday06June

The Ebb-Tide

Saturday11June

Le combat dans l’île

Sunday19June

Captive Feast / A Look at Madness

Screenings from this program
May 2022