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PoorhouseINTERNATIONAL from Wichita Films A NewDocumentary GODDESS LOVE THE 2 wichita films

Rita Hayworth The Love Goddess

The most glamorous screen idol of the 40s, her dancing at the Caliente Club, realized her wonderful films including two partnering Fred the top pin up girl during WWII, the typical potential, arranged a screen test and took her Astaire who later admitted that she was his product of a male dominated was under contract. In order to escape her father's favourite dance partner. She first received top in reality a woman of whom oppression she eloped with promoter Edward billing in Cover Girl and became a cultural icon rightly said “she was suffering her whole life”. The C. Judson, more than twice her age, who as a femme fatale with 's . oldest child of Eduardo Cansino, a dancer from whored her out to those who could further was her last film for Columbia. Rita a little town near , and an American her career. Men saw her as an investment. Hayworth, a sex symbol or rather a victim mother of Irish descent, having performed Then she fell for Orson Welles and their highly of the star system? Julia & Clara Kuperberg with the , Margarita publicized marriage was quickly described will follow her life story using rare interview Cansino was sexually abused by her father as the meeting of the beauty and the genius. material with Rita Hayworth and talk to Caren at a very young age. “as soon as I could stand While she, now remodeled and named Rita Roberts, screenwriter of the filmRita , film on my feet”, she recalled, “I was given dance Hayworth, was dreaming of a family life, Orson collector and specialist on Rita Hayworth. lessons”. She had appeared for a while as her Welles was wedded to his film projects, one Other participants include Budd Moss, former father’s partner when the head of Fox saw of which entitled agent of Rita Hayworth, Molly Haskell, film presented a totally critic and Tony Maietta, film historian. Hermes changed Rita. By now Pan, best known for collaborating with Fred she was the star of Astaire for his choreographies, is remembering Columbia and studio Rita Hayworth as a dancer. Clips from films boss such as , You'll Never tried to treat her as a Get Rich, , Blood and personal possession. Sand, Gilda, The Lady from Shanghai, The Affair The next marriage to of Trinidad, Salomé, Pal Joey and They Came to didn't last Cordura will underpin the filmmakers' findings. either although she bore him a daughter, Princess Jasmin Aga directed by Julia & Clara Kuperberg Khan, who should produced by Wichita Films later look after her running time 52' Shot in HD ailing mother suffering from Alzheimers. Two more marriages followed, but Rita Hayworth never found the happiness she was looking for. Her legacy are some

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 , Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray in 's The Apartment wichita films3

Tony Curtis, Marylin Monroe and Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder's Jack Lemmon Some Like it Hot Nobody is Perfect Jack Lemmon was born into a well-to-do New collaboration with Wilder stretches England family of Irish extraction. A lonely over 9 films includingThe Apartment child he sort of liberated himself by acting in and Irma La Douce. When filming school productions and decided at the age of The Fortune Cookie with Wilder he eight that he wanted to become an actor. After acts for the first time with Walter graduation from Harvard he studied acting Matthau. These two go down in film with Uta Hagen at HB Studio in , history as the comic couple par participated in radio shows and appeared on excellence with films like Grumpy Broadway. There he was spotted by a talent Old Men and The Odd Couple. With agent in a revival of Room Service in 1953 and ' Days of Wine and moved to Hollywood. gave him Roses Jack Lemmon shows his true a first role and is supposed to have advised acting power in a non-comic part. him not to overact. With 's Mister He would later say: “The movie Roberts Lemmon garnered his first Oscar for people put a label on your big toe Best Supporting Actor. In 1959 Billy Wilder cast -light comedy - and that's the only way him as Daphne in Some Like it Hot. Lemmon they think of you”. During the 70s shows the rare gift of provoking laughter when Lemmon returns more frequently living through tragic of difficult moments. The to his first love, the theatre, and appears in A Long Day´s Journey into Night, sold out for years. Save the Tiger earns him his second Oscar, this time for Best Actor. Other major prizes Other interviewees include Marc Wanamaker, include Best Actor at Cannes, Venice and Berlin Tony Maietta and Joe McBride. The following as well as two Golden Globes. Lemmon only film clips round off the portrait of an actor not once tries his hand at directing with Kotch, not like any other: The Apartment, Some Like it Hot, a commercial success but nominated for four Avanti, Cowboy, Days of Wine and Roses, Irma La Oscars. The actor dies in 2001 shortly after his Douce, It should happen to you, Maccheroni, The alter ego Walter Matthau. He was a modern April Fools, Missing, Pfffft, Save the Tiger, The Odd actor being able two break the Hollywood Couple, The China Syndrome, The Front Page, mould of type casting before the Al Pacinos The Fortune Cookie, The Big Race, The Notorious turned up. Lady and Grumpy Old Men. Clara and Julia Kuperberg have access to little known Jack Lemmon footage from the 80s directed by Julia & Clara Kuperberg talking about his life, one of the last interviews of Tony Curtis and footage with Billy Wilder to produced by Wichita Films

Catherine Deneuve and Jack Lemmon chart the progress of Jack Lemmon's career. running time 52' Shot in HD

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William Holden and in

Poster for Bridge on the River Kwai William Holden The Reluctant Star

William Franklin Beedle Jr. was born in by Billy Wilder Holden 1918. His father worked as an industrial chem- reached total stardom as J.J. ist and his mother was a schoolteacher. At Sefton which won him the the age of three the family moved to South Oscar for Best Actor. During Pasadena where Beedle Jr. became involved his third film with Wilder, in radio plays while attending Pasadena Junior Sabrina he had a short lived College. When he, age 20, appeared in an affair with . amateur play as Marie Curie's 80 year old Most movie buffs remember father he was spotted by a talent scout for him as the ill-fated pris- Paramount. A screen test was arranged, but oner, Commander Shears, the date coincided with the finals in chemistry. in 's epic The The youngster had the nerve to have the Bridge on the River Kwai. date moved. After appearing in minor roles Filming The Lion in 1962 his name was changed to Holden and he with and and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard costarred with in Golden Boy sparked Holden's playing a violinist turned boxer. The pressure of fascination with Africa that was to last to the life story using clips from the following films preparing for his part by taking lessons in violin end of his life. With the help of partners he to show the ups and downs of a great actor and boxing was too much for the young hope- created the MountTiriki Kenya Onus Game Ranch and who unfortunately drowned his self-doubt in ful who took to drinking. Columbia was on the invested in wildlife preservation. Having battled alcohol: Golden Boy, , Sunset Boulevard, verge of firing Holden when Barbara Stanwyck alcoholism and the Hollywood star system he , Sabrina, Born Yesterday, The Moon is interfered and began to coach Holden. This had a successful comeback in 1969 with Sam Blue, The world of Suzie Wong, , led to a lifelong friendship between them. His Peckinpah's . His last important The Bridges of Toko- Ri, The Country Girl, The career took off when Billy Wilder tapped him film wasNetwork in 1976 directed by Sidney Bridge on the River Kwai, The Horse Soldiers, to play a role in Sunset Boulevard which was Lumet. He died in 1981 in an accident. His , The Wild Bunch, Breezy, originally intended for who partner, the actress , set up the Network, Fedora and S.O.B. backed out of his contract. This is what Wilder William Holden Wildlife Foundation after his later had to say about the upcoming star: “Bill death. directed by Julia & Clara Kuperberg was a complex guy, a totally honorable friend. Filmmakers Clara & Julia Kuperberg rely on produced by Wichita Films He was a genuine star. Every woman was in the film historians Tony Maietta, Marc Wana- running time 52' Shot in HD love with him.” With Stalag 17, again directed maker and Joseph McBride to tell Holden's

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 witchita films 5 Witches

Above: I Married A Witch Below: The Witches of Eastwick Witches seem to be a The Wizard of Oz real phenomenon unlike zombies, vampires or werewolves. We encounter them in the

Bible, in fairytales and in Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs Is there anybody still afraid of a witch most traditional cultures today? Apparently young women proclaim themselves witches in a trend of pop feminism worldwide, notably in but their witchcraft is confined to libertine Africa and in traditional thinking. Sophie Peyrard makes her point with clips American communities. from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Wizard of Oz, I Married a Witch, Bell, Book and They are women with Candle, Bewitched, Rosemary's Baby, Carrie, The Witches of Eastwick, The Craft, Harry Potter and metaphysical powers, Maleficent. often single, living Filmmaker Sophie Peyrard, herself mainly outside the norm and interested in emancipatory questions, counter- culture and women's art, is looking at the sometimes invested changing image of the witch in feature films with knowledge about from a male point of view to the most recent ones directed by women. She will demonsrate traditional remedies: a how the evil woman image turns into the empowerment of women on the back of a danger to the established new feminism in films such as Harry Potter, order. Maleficent, The Witch and The Love Witch, not forgetting the famous television series Bewitched, doing away with the desperate housewife formula and the three witches who animate Eastwick.

directed by Sophie Peyrard produced by Wichita Films running time 52' Shot in HD

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 6zoulou compagnie & universita roma 3

Cardinale in Pink Panther at the Woman's World Awards in 2009 Claudia la Misteriosa In the world of cinema was also instrumental in shaping her career. In Marie-Dominique Montel and Christopher is Jones' documentary she for the first time talks about her professional life while her an exception. Not only biographer Anna Maria Mori gives us an idea did she last longer with of the private person and tells us about the passionate love affair with director Pasquale nearly 150 films to her Squitieri which lasted 42 years. It was also Squitieri's Claretta which garnered her the credit she was also part Nastro d'Argento for best actress in Venice of some of the most 1984. Contributors include Laurence Schifano, Jean Sorel, Jacques Perrin, Gianni Bozzachi, iconic films in the history Anna Maria Mori, Massimo Cristaldi and Denise Acabo. Film clips such as The Leopard, of world cinema. 8½, Once Upon a Time in the West and Claretta Born and raised in Tunisia and discovered demonstrate who Claudia Cardinale changed at 18, famous at twenty, she worked with the image of women on the silver screen some of the greatest directors including forever. Luchino Visconti, starring in his masterpiece Cardinale in Austerlitz The Leopard opposite Alain Delon and Burt Produced by Zoulou Compagnie and Lancaster and Fellini's 8½. It was the latter Università Roma 3 who nicknamed her Claudia the mysterious. Directed by Marie-Dominique Mantel The Pink Panther put her on the map in the Shot in HD Once Upon Running Time 52 Minutes US and England. In Sergio Leone's Cardinale and Pasquale Squitieri a Time in the West she set a new style. After some successful years in Hollywood Cardinale returned to the Italian and French cinema, as directed by Marie-Dominique Montel she tells us, “not to become a cliché”. Cardinale embodied women with a strong character, & Christopher Jones at the forefront of feminism before the term produced by Zoulou Compagnie & became popular. Università Roma 3 In life, however, the actress was restrained running time by a secret that took years to overcome with 52' Shot in HD the help of film producer Franco Cristaldi who

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 catherine hunter7

John Russel Australia's Lost Impressionist

In the Afternoon, 1891 In the Morning, Maritimes from Antibes, 1890-1

John Russel was handsome, wealthy, Brittany. The most important period of his life debonair and, being Australian, quite exotic as a painter were the 20 years he spent on in 19th century France. Yet despite his own the island. It was here he met Claude Monet accomplishments and his pivotal role in the and Henri Matisse and was visited by his friend development of modern art, his name and Auguste Rodin. The death of Russel's first wife his art have been largely gone unrecognized in 1909 saw his departure from the island and outside rarefied art circles. Catherine eventually his return to Sidney where he lived Hunter's documentary explores his legacy on in relative obscurity and died in 1930. 20th century art through his paintings and Catherine Hunter embarked on a mission Douglas and Mary friendships. to find out why this fine sea and landscapist John Russel (1858 - 1930) painted in and painter of intimate family studies is so France alongside Claude Monet, opened the little known although his work shows him to eyes of Matisse for colour and was a close be a stunning colourist of equal power with friend of Vincent van Gogh. Russel exhibited the better known Fauvists. She juxtaposes at the 1905 Salon d'Automne in Paris and his work and the environment Russel lived in, work entered the Louvre collection in 1949. talks to experts and most importantly makes Russel's portrait of Van Gogh was purchased us familiar with the best of Russel's output. by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam Contemporary artists Euan Macleod and Luke The Needles, winter sun, Belle-Île, 1903 in 1938 and is documented as Van Gogh's Seiberras travelled with the filmmaker to Belle- favourite. Ile and their impressions and work inspired by Born in Sidney to a family of successful Belle-Ile feature in the film. manufacturing engineers, Russel was expected to follow a similar career. However the death of his father in 1879 left him a fortune and freed him to pursue a career in art. In 1881 he enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Arts in and three years later moved to Paris to study at Atelier Cormon in the artistic milieu of Montmartre. Fellow students Calm Sea at Morestil Point, 1901 included Toulouse Lautrec, Emile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh also encouraged producted & directed by Catherine Russel to leave Paris after he had left himself Hunter running time 60' Shot in HD and Russel moved to Belle-Ile off the coast of Luke Seiberras

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 8 telmondis

Pierre Auguste-Lamy, Les Contes d'Hoffman

Tales of Offenbach To Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Composer

The 200th anniversary of Jacques put up with his affairs with some of the great and the reign of Napoléon III. We shall find Offenbach is a good opportunity to remind singers he was later to discover. He met her out that his music and brilliant libretti are us of the composer that Giacchino Rossini during a very successful visit to London and timeless, and clips from his major works will lovingly called the Mozart of the Champs- was allowed to marry her when he converted prove that Offenbach is as entertaining today Elysées. Our main question will be what does to Catholicism and could prove that he earned as he was in his time. Singers will discuss their Offenbach mean to us today, a nineteenth a living. parts in legendary performances, e.g. Felicity century Andrew Lloyd Webber who In 1855, after serving as conductor at the Lott on Belle Hélène. We shall discover that entertained a whole generation, often Comédie-Française and having taken some Offenbach and his librettists focussed on the with several shows running concurrently. composition lessons with Fromental Halévy, empowerment of women, warmongering, Biographical details will only come into play if Offenbach obtained a license for his own the nouveaux riches and the morals or lack they contribute to the understanding of the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiennes just in time for thereof at the court of Napoléon III and an complex personality which the Goncourt the Exposition Universelle and never looked affluent society not unlike our own. With brothers described in the summer of 1858 as back. With Orphée aux enfers he created what clips from Orphée aux enfers, a tremendous a skeleton with pince-nez who looks as if he is became known as an Offenbachiade. During success at this year's Salzburg Festival, La Belle raping a cello. the Second Empire Offenbach was the toast Hélène, the recent Barbe-bleue from Lyon and Born into the family of a Cantor in Cologne, of the town but after the Franco-Prussian War Les contes d ´Hoffmann from Bregenz and who originally hailed from Offenbach on Main, his star waned. In order to pay off his debts Paris Tales of Offenbach we will try to portray Offenbach received his first music lessons he agreed to an extremely well paid American Jacques Offenbach, the man and musician. from his father and soon developed a great tour in 1876 in celebration of American The documentary ends with Serge Dorny love for the cello. In 1833, at the age of 14, Independence. In his last years Offenbach from the Lyon Opera reading the first lines of his father took him to Paris where he thought worked feverishly to complete his Contes the poem Henri Meilhac wrote on the death his son would receive a suitable education. d´Hoffmann, a comic opera that was intended of the composer: Cherubini, then director of the conservatoire, to prove to the world that he was also capable … Est-il un seul coin sur la terre accepted him as a student after listening to the of success in the Opéra-Comique genre. He Où son nom ne soit pas connu? young Offenbach playing the cello. After a year, died, as he had predicted himself, literally with a Dans l´un et dans l´autre hémisphère Offenbach left the conservatoire to join the tune at the end of his pen in 1880. Est-il un village perdu orchestra of the Opéra-Comique. As Offenbach was a close friend of Une bourgade abandonnée In order to earn some more money he Nadar's we have stunning photographs, On n´ait dit L´Evohé d´Orphée teamed up with composer Friedrich von pictures of Paris, posters and cartoons to Et l´amour de Fortunio? … Flotow and played the Paris Salon circuit. chart the progress of the composer and first His virtuosity, which later got him the entrepreneur of musical theatre. Laurent nickname Liszt of the cello, and his own early Pelly, who has staged many of Offenbach's directed by Reiner E. Moritz compositions quickly made him popular. operettas, will reflect on the composer’s produced by Telmondis In Herminie d’Alcain he found a loyal wife satirical treatment of familiar stories, mythology, running time 58' Shot in HD who stood by him through the hard times and French subjects, contemporary society, politics

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 INA9

Les Heures Chaudes de Montparnasse

The historic footage has been newly integrated Alberto Giacometti with documentary film and coverage of the Giacometti talks about his life, his artists’ work in colour and, having originally obsessions and inhibitions and is seen working been shot on film, upgraded by INA to HD. in in his studio at 46, rue Hippolyte-Maindron. Jean-Marie Drot was one of the best We hear about his meeting with the Surrealist known writers and filmmakers in the , Group and enjoy exhibitions of his sculpture and 1980s sharing Malraux's vision of at Fondation Maeght in St. Paul de Vence the audiovisual museum, a place, or in today's and Zurich. Probably the only very complete parlance a platform, where one could find profile of the artist. Jean-Marie Drot our cultural heritage readily available. This Running Time 57' presupposes however that somebody does Between 1900 and the preserve it in one way or another. Jean- Marie Drot had the right instincts to go for Second World War, the every known and unknown artist living at Montparnasse at the time when the cultural Montparnasse quarter in activities had shifted from Montmartre to this Paris attracted a unique area buzzling with side-walk cafés, bars and bistros where you would meet a Jean-Paul and widely influential Sartre or Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller or Jean Cocteau, bump into the sculptor Zadkine community of creative at La Coupole or observe a Giacometti at Alberto Giacometti talent - artists, writers, lunch. All of the more than 170 contributors have passed away, but is it not a pleasure for Amedeo Modigliani composers and actors. In art lovers to watch a Giacometti at work, meet Man Ray, listen to Max Ernst, discover There is very little first-hand material about the early 1960s, Jean- Soutine, get an idea of what sort of a person the painter who died of an overdosis of drugs. Marie Drot, recorded Modigliani was, find out where Poulenc got His daughter Jeanne Modigliani tells us about his inspiration from or get in touch with her research into her father's life after she more than one hundred Apollinaire? INA, the repository of all French was orphaned at an early age, her mother television produced programming went out of having committed suicide. Other contributors and seventy interviews their way to restore this precious material and include Blaise Cendrars, Gino Severini and Jean make it available in high definition. Poorhouse Cocteau to name but a few. with people who had Running Time 52' is proud to have been entrusted with the contributed to or world-wide distribution rights of this series witnessed the heyday of consisting of the following thirteen titles: Montparnasse.

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 INA 10 Pablo Picasso and Moise Kisling, photo by Jean Cocteau taken in Montparnasse, 1916 Guillaume Apollinaire A profile of this important writer who was shortly arrested after the theft of La Gioconda from the Louvre and found shelter with Sonia Delaunay who tells this amusing story. Other contributors include art dealer Daniel Kahnweiler, Chagall, Fernande Olivier and Philippe Soupault. Running Time 52'

Man Ray A long interview with the painter, sculptor and photographer provides the back bone of this program. Contributors include Tristan Tzara, Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti and William Copley. Running Time 52'

Daniel Kahnweiler Kahnweiler was arguably the most farsighted art dealer of his time. He talks about his passion and his friends and clients including Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, George Braque, Pablo Picasso and others. Running Time 52' From 1900 to the Great War Léon Paul Fargue - Poet of Paris This episode focusses on Cubism and He chronicles Paris and in particular

Chaim Soutine Serge Charchoune tells us that he found a Montparnasse during his nightly walks through sort of little Russia at Montparnasse. Other the city. He follows the tradition of Le Hibou, contributors include Alexander Archipenko, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, who did the Jacques Lipchitz and Sonia Delaunay. same during the French Revolution. We hear Running Time 53' amusing stories from all walks of life as Fargue picked them up during his peregrinations. A chronicle of Montparnasse Contributors include his wife Cheriane, Joseph Kessel and Brassaï. between 1914 and 1918 Running Time 51' Gabrielle Buffet Picabia remembers the conversations between Picabia and Apollinaire. Marcel Duchamp talks about the Armory The composers of Le groupe Show in New York which he attended. We des six hear about the scandal of the ballet Parade, In a painter's studio in rue Huygens young Chaim Soutine meet Louis Aragon and have Sylvia Beach musicians met, played their music to each Childhood friends remember him from tell us about the personality of James Joyce. other and talked about life and death. The his early life in Vilnius. Grégoire Michouze Running Time 53' six were Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur talks about the importance of the Barnes Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Foundation for the artistic career of Soutine The roaring twenties Germaine Tailleferre. It was mostly friendship while Chane Orloff remembers the painter's La Coupole, La Rotonde and Le Dôme and not any esthetic manifest that united them, life, suffering and death under the German as Poulenc pointedly says. Other contributors occupation. Other contributors include were the watering holes of a society which enjoyed life after the depressing years of include Virgil Thompson and Jean Wiener. Léonard Foujita, Michel Kikoine and Pinchus Running Time 52' Kremegne. WW1. Man Ray, coming from the America Running Time 52' of the prohibition, took to French wine and enjoyed the frenzy of catching up. Other contributors include Pierre Brasseur, Thérèse And they came from the Urals Treize, Daniel Kahnweiler, Louis Aragon and and the Mississippi Elsa Triolet. Paris being the artistic capital of the world Running Time 51' at that time attracted numerous artists from Russia and America who settled in Paris Voices of the poets reflecting the free spirit of the city in their This documentary includes a homage work. Contributors include Pierre Brasseur, to Pierre Seghers. Poetry is not easy to get Kees van Dongen, Pierre Bertin, Ossip across but contributors like André Salmon, Zadkine, André Salmon and Sylvia Beach who Blaise Cendras, Joseph Kessel, Jean Cocteau, became famous as the owner of Shakespeare Mouloudji and Robert Desnos make poems Company and editor of Joyce´s Ulysses. come alive. Running Time 52' Running Time 52' Amedeo Modigiliani

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 les films du sillage11 Abou Lagraa In Search of his Roots

Dancer and Abou Lagraa has many successful we understand his artistic vision and the ways choreographies to his credit including NYA he succeeds in putting it across by breaking choreographer Abou for the Contemporary Dance Company down social and cultural boundaries, always in of Algers and El Djoudour for the festivities search of himself. Lagraa, son of Algerian around Marseille being Cultural Capital of The Ballet of the Grand Théâtre de Genève Immigrants, was Europe. In 2009 the Movimentos Festival is taking Abou Lagraa's Wahada on tour in named him best dancer and in 2016 he was 2020 together with Carmina Burana also born and raised in invited by Movimentos with his company La distributed by Poorhouse International. Baraka. This documentary follows Abou Lagraa Ardèche. He studied working between Annonay, where he works directed by Fleur Albert at the Conservatoire in a deconsecrated chapel with amateurs produced by Les Films du Sillage and semi-professional hip-hop dancers and running time 53' Shot in HD of Annonay and later Geneva, where he is creating a new work entitled Wahada which translates as The in Lyon. After dancing Promise for the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre de with Ruis Horta and Genève. While in Annonay, working on a piece entitled Tahir which is Arabic for Emancipation, the Gulbankian Ballet we follow the process of creation and transmission and experience how through he founded his own his good-humoured work and charisma the company La Baraka in personality of the young dancers expand with grace and gravity. In contrast Abou Lagraa and 1997. his wife and partner Nawai work in Geneva with professionals to create a new piece on Mozart's Mass in C Minor. Watching Abou Lagraa at work in those different circumstances

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 12lópez-li films Dancing Beethoven

With the Beethoven Year in sight it is probably a very good idea to remember Arantxa Aguirre's documentary 'Dancing Beethoven' from 2017 and make it available to television audiences after a successful has any meaning today in a world of wars and theatrical career. hatred. Zubin Mehta, conducting the Israel Philharmonic for the event, situates the 9th Over nine month the filmmaker has followed symphony the preparations of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in the and the Tokyo Ballet to have Béjart's composer's Beethoven 9 masterpiece revived by Piotr output Nardelli, an ex-Béjart dancer and associate, and is seen fifty years after its creation in Brussels to rehearsing celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Tokyo his orchestra. Ballet. Both companies mustered some 250 Malya Roman dancers and musicians to participate in the provides a event on November 8th, 2014 at the NHK surprising Hall in Tokyo which serves as the crowning ending to the end to Aguirre's film. She starts out during the documentary, preceding winter observing the Béjart Ballet which does preparing at the Maurice Béjart Foundation attract a in , moves to Tokyo in spring of Maurice Béjart younger the following year to show how the Tokyo audience to one of the greatest pieces of Ballet is getting ready for the great day. After classical music through the medium of dance. summer filming at Lausanne she then returns to Tokyo for the première. On her way she has actress Malya Roman, daughter of the Béjart directed by Arantxa Aguirre Ballet's artistic director Gil Roman talk to produced by López-Li Films dancers, ballet masters and critics to find out running time whether Beethoven's and Schiller's message 79' Shot in HD

Newsletter No49 October - December 2019 backstage 13 Robert Frank White Tower, NY, 1948 has created a unique depiction of a larger than life person and an iconic human being. The documentary and Yellowface have also been selected to be shown at the Lumière Festival in Lyon on October 18th. Congratulations!

BILL VIOLA - eye for the contradictions and injustices, the class society, consumerism and solitude, topics THE ROAD TO ST. PAUL nobody wanted to know about in the US in Poorhouse is 1954. Frank revolutionized photography with proud to have his snapshot aesthetic. With his filmCocksucker sold this unique Blues about the Rolling Stones and their way and most of life he got into trouble with the Stones and intimate look at an artist and his Franco Zeffirelli wasn't allowed to show the film more than 5 times per year and only in his presence. After way of creation the early death of both his children he more to Arthaus for FAREWELL TO or less retired from public life. Filmmaker a world-wide Gerald Fox had the good luck to be allowed home video FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI release. The stage producer, film director and designer to film the photographer and filmmaker at Franco Zeffirelli passed away in June 2019. home and in action. Poorhouse is very proud Chris Hunt fortunately managed to film some to be distributing this unique testimony. last interviews at the artist's 94th birthday and talk to many of his friends and collaborators. PROGRAMMES READY The documentary Franco Zeffirelli - Directing FOR DELIVERY: from Life was finished in 2018 including archive Yellowface - Asian Whitewashing and Racism in footage with, amongst others, Richard Burton Hollywood 54’ and Robert Powell and clips of The Taming of Romanov - The Counter Investigation 52’ the Shrew Romeo & Juliet and as well as famous The Romanov children after the Revolution opera stagings such as Carmen conducted by Carlos Kleiber and a visit to his foundation in Florence where one can also get an idea of fantastic projects Zeffirelli was not able to realize. The documentary has in the meantime sold to more than 10 broadcasters and is also available in 4K.

John Russell - Australia’s Lost Impressionist 60' Tales of Offenbach - To Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Composer 52’ Abou Lagraa - In Search of his Roots 53’ Claudia Cardinale - La Misteriosa 52’ Gary Cooper in The Texan, 1930 MIPCOM During MIPCOM Dr. Reiner Moritz and Heike GARY COOPER Connolly (mobile +44 7720 060102) will be at His daughter Maria Cooper had this to say the Creative Europe Stand P4.B1 on the release of the Wichita portrait: Gary Tel. +33 (0)4 9299 8596 or at the apartment: Robert Frank Cooper the Irresistible gives an overview of Armenonville - Entry 5, 6th floor my father that I hope speaks to the public as 9 Rond Point Duboys d'Angers much as it does to me. It shows him portraying 06400 Cannes, Tel : +33 (0)4 83 44 08 91 FAREWELL TO the wide range of characters and varieties ROBERT FRANK of our human nature in his over 100 movie Swiss born Robert Frank, one of the great roles. But it also, with well chosen clips, gives a photographers of our time passed away at the sense of who Gary Cooper was as a person age of 94. He settled in the US and worked a - a complex yet simple person who could while for Harper´s Bazaar. With a grant from relate to the Everyman as well as the more the Guggenheim Foundation he travelled sophisticated life and lifestyle. He loved his two years across the and took life, the challenge of acting and the chance to 58 Broadwick Street nearly thirty thousand snapshots. 83 made it get out into nature as much as possible. Most London W1F 7AL into his photo album The Americans which was meaningful for him were the friends he made telephone: +44 (0)20 7436 8663 prefaced by Jack Kerouac when it finally was in the acting community and those from all email [email protected] published in the US in 1959. Frank had a keen walks of life around the world. Wichita Films www.poorhouseintl.co.uk

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