CINE-CONCERTS
Creation & distribution
The Toulouse Cinematheque has always attached a great importance to music; not to fill in a silence, sometimes difficult for us to accept, but to allow the creation of sense and the transmission of emotion.
Today music is a way to bring back on the front scene the movies of yesterday. It allows us to view with a new eye the films we believed we knew.
In order to promote the distribution of recently produced cine-concerts, the Toulouse Cinematheque has issued a catalogue of its creations.
Because opening our mind to all musical and film sensibilities is one of our priorities, we offer cine-concerts of highly varied styles, from piano to electronic music, from solo to quartet.
These cine-concerts allow the musicians to experiment various approaches: improvisation, composition, performance of the original score…
GREED (Erich von Stroheim. 1924. USA. 110 min.) CONTENTS + Florent Paris, Benoît Sanchez (experimental sound effects) p. 10
90° SOUTH HAPPINESS (Aleksandr Medvedkin. 1934. USSR. 95 min.) (Herbert G. Ponting. 1914. Great Britain. 72 min. + Grégory Daltin (accordion), Raphaël Howson (piano), + éOle (violin, guitar, electronic arrangements) p. 1 Joris Vidal (tuba) p. 11
A BOY OF THE STREETS MADE FOR LOVE (Charles J. Hunt. 1927. USA. 76 min.) (Paul Soane. 1926. USA. 60 min.) + Grégory Daltin (accordion) or Mathieu Regnault (piano) p. 2 +Mathieu Regnault (piano), Pierre-Stéphane Schmidlet (violin) p. 12
AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS (Yakov Protazanov. 1924. USSR. 103min.) THE NEW BABYLON + Stéréopop Orchestra (pop rock) p. 3 (Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg. 1929. USSR. 80min.) + Hakim Bentchouala-Golobitch (piano) p. 13 BEZHIN MEADOW (Sergueï M. Eisenstein. 1937. USSR. 31 min.) + Mathieu Regnault (virtual orchestra – sound effects) p. 4 THE RING (Alfred Hitchcock. 1927. Great Britain. 97 min.) + Raphaël Howson (piano) p. 14 THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
(Robert Wiene. 1919. Germany. 78 min.) LES ROIS DU BURLESQUE + Baptiste de Chabaneix, Daniel Dumoulin (drums) p. 5 (American short films) + Grégory Daltin (accordion), Julien Duthu (double bass), Laurent Paris THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM (percussion instruments) p. 15 (Iouri Jeliaboujski. 1924. USSR.112 min.) + Charlotte Castellat (piano, cello), David Lefebvre (cimbalom, double SO THIS IS LOVE bass, guitar) p. 6 (Frank Capra. 1928. USA. 55 min.) + Grégory Daltin, Jean-Luc Amestoy (accordions) p. 16 THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF MR. WEST IN THE LAND OF THE
BOLSHEVIKS (Lev Kuleshov. 1924. USSR. 95 min.) STRIKE (Sergueï M. Eisenstein. 1924. USSR. 70 min.) + trio from the GyÖrg Projekt + Pierre Jodlowski (electro-acoustic) p. 17 (flutes, clarinets, oboe and English horn) p. 7
SUMURUN (Ernst Lubitsch. 1920. Germany. 103 min.) FOLIES BOWERS (Short films. 70 min.) + Raphaël Sibertin-Blanc (violin, klasik kemençe), Stéphane Bissières + Cie Arniphone (cello, piano, accordion, storytelling) p. 8 (piano, sound effects) p. 18
THE GENERAL LINE / OLD AND NEW THREE AGES (Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline. 1923. USA. 60 min.) (Sergueï M. Eisenstein. 1929. USSR. 90 min.) + Laurent Marode (piano), David Sauzay (saxophone) p. 19 + Grégory Daltin (accordion / bandoneon), Sébastien Gisbert (percussion instruments), Eugénie Ursch (cello), Joris Vidal (tuba) p. 9
UNDERWORLD (Josef von Sternberg. 1927. USA. 85 min.) + Daniel Dumoulin (drums) and Michel Parmentier (piano) p. 20
(Léon Poirier. 1928. France. 160 min.) + Hakim Bentchouala-Golobitch (piano) p. 21
PHOTOS p. 23
CONTACT p. 24
90° SOUTH
Herbert G. Ponting. 1914. Great Britain. 72 min. Black & white.
THE FILM
The story of an immortal adventure with Captain Robert Scott. A spellbinding chronicle of Scott's heroic and ultimately tragic race for the South Pole--not only did Amundsen reach the goal first but Scott and his entire team died on the return trip. Ponting's hauntingly beautiful images of ice caves and Antarctic wildlife are punctuated by diary entries telling of the heart-breaking last days of the doomed expedition.
THE MUSICIANS
Duo or quartet
éOle
Jérémie Siot | electric violin Camel Zekri | guitar Pierre Jodlowski and Christophe Ruetsch | sampler, keyboards, electronic effects
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A BOY OF THE STREETS
Charles J. Hunt. 1927. USA. 76 min. Black & white. Cast: Johnnie Walker, Mickey Bennett, Henry Sedley
THE FILM
One of the rarest copy of the Toulouse Cinematheque’s archive : falling into the clutches of a crooked politician, Ned Dugan is obliged to rob a safe in the home of Mary Callahan who coincidentally has sheltered Ned’s injured little brother, Jimmy Dugan. Ned is caught but Mary saves him from punishment. The young crook repays her by going straight and saving her impressionable brother from a blackmailer.
From age 6 onwards
THE MUSICIANS
Grégory Daltin | accordion or Mathieu Regnault | piano
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AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS
Yakov Protazanov. 1924. USSR. 103 min. Black & white. Cast: Igor Ilinski, Youlia Solntseva, Nicolas Tsereteli, Vera Orlova
THE FILM
The very first Soviet science-fiction movie: the story of a young man, Los, traveling to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders, with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
THE MUSICIANS
STEREOPOP ORCHESTRA Ericnemo | guitar, piano, violin, organ, balalaïka, theremin, voice Sébastien Comet | drums, microkorg, samplers, voice
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BEZHIN MEADOW
Bejine loug
Serguei M. Eisenstein. 1937. USSR. 31 min. Black & white.
THE FILM
A Soviet film famous for having been suppressed and believed destroyed before its completion. It tells the story of a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Commissioned by a Communist youth group, the film's production ran from 1935 to 1937, until it was halted by the central Soviet government, which said it contained artistic, social, and political failures. Bezhin Meadow was long thought lost in the wake of World War II bombings. In the 1960s, however, cuttings and partial prints of the film were found; from these, a reconstruction of Bezhin Meadow, based on the original script, was undertaken.
THE MUSICIAN
Mathieu Regnault | virtual orchestra – sound effects
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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari
Robert Wiene. 1919. Germany. 78 min. Black & white. Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher
THE FILM
A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes his friends to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, who can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn… One of the most influential German Expressionist films and often considered as the greatest horror movie of the silent era.
THE MUSICIANS
Baptiste de Chabaneix | drums Daniel Dumoulin | drums
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THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM
Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma
Iouri Jeliaboujski. 1924. USSR. 112 min. Black & white.
Copy restored in 2007 by the Toulouse Cinematheque at l’Immagine Ritrovata’s lab (Bologna, Italy) with the support of the Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema.
Cast: Igor Ilinski, Ioulia Solntseva, Anna Smokhovskaia
THE FILM
The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom is the story of a young girl who is "discovered" by a film crew, becomes an inept "star," and is wooed by a fumbling accountant, a dashing cinematographer, and a corpulent American businessman who is bringing "high fashion" to the Soviet Union.
THE MUSICIANS
Charlotte Castellat | piano, cello David Lefebvre | cimbalom, double bass, guitar
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THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF MR. WEST IN THE LAND OF THE BOLSHEVIKS
Neobytchainye Priklyoutchenia Mistera Vesta v Strane bolchevikov
Lev Kuleshov. 1924. USSR. 95 min. Black & white. Cast: Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Alexandra Kholkhlova, Vsevolod Poudovkine
THE FILM
A Bolshevik burlesque. An example of ironic Soviet propagandistic film from the silent era, this film chronicles the adventures of an American, "Mr. West", and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they visit the land of the horrible, evil Bolsheviks.
THE MUSICIANS
Trio from the GyÖrg PrOjekt
Armelle Cordonnier| flutes Clélia Bobichon | clarinets Agnès Demeulenaere | oboe and English horn With the collaboration of Karl Naegelen, composer
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FOLIES BOWERS
Selection of short films (approx. 70 min.)
THE FILMS
An interactive and musical tribute to Charley Bowers, master of burlesque, animated objects and incredible special effects. He was rediscovered in the 60’s by Raymond Borde, founder of the Toulouse Cinematheque. The program includes: Fatal Footstep (1926), Sleepless Night (1940), Now You Tell One (1926), Mutt and Jeff (1925). from age 6 onwards
THE MUSICIANS
Cie Arniphone Flóra Kapitány | cello Bertrand Mahé | storytelling, piano, accordion
A Toulouse Cinematheque’s production, with the collaboration of Lobster Films and the Cie Arniphone
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THE GENERAL LINE /
OLD AND NEW
General’naya Linya / Staroe i novoe
Serguei M. Eisenstein. 1929. USSR. 90 min. Black & white. Cast: Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Vassia Buzenkov
THE FILM
A poor woman persuades her fellow villagers to form a cooperative. Eisenstein’s last completed silent picture also known as Old and New. A bucolic epic about the Soviet struggle to collectivize.
THE MUSICIANS
Grégory Daltin | accordion/bandoneon Sébastien Gisbert | percussion instruments Eugénie Ursch | cello Joris Vidal | tuba
Created for the Zoom Arrière film festival (March 2012)
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GREED
Erich von Stroheim. 1924. USA. 110 min. Black & white. Cast: Gibson Growland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt
THE FILM
Based on Frank Norris' novel, McTeague, Greed tells the story of three World War I-era Californians whose friendship is destroyed by avarice after one wins a lottery jackpot. Determined to capture the novel in every detail, director von Stroheim refused to use studio lots, filming only on locations named in the book, even going so far as purchasing city blocks if necessary. The result grew into a monumental 8-hour work that was edited by studio executives. A shortened version was released to the public in 1925. Considered a masterpiece, it continues to entice, entertain, and astound.
THE MUSICIANS
Florent Paris and Benoît Sanchez | guitars and experimental sound effects
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HAPPINESS
Stchastié
Aleksandr Medvedkin. 1934. USSR. 95 min. Black & white. Cast: Petr Zinoviev, Elena Egorova
THE FILM
A hapless loser undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.
THE MUSICIANS
Grégory Daltin | accordion Raphaël Howson | piano Joris Vidal | tuba
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MADE FOR LOVE
Paul Sloane. 1926. USA. 60 min.Black & white (tinted).
Copy restored in 2009 by Les Archives françaises du film du CNC from a tinted and toned nitrate copy belonging to the Toulouse Cinematheque.
Cast: Leatrice Joy, Edmund Burns, Ethel Wales, Bertram Grassby
THE FILM
A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known. Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, this adventure film mixes romance and Ancient Egypt. It is also the occasion to see the incredible Leatrice Joy on screen, discovered in another Paul Sloane’s feature and also restored by the Toulouse Cinematheque: Eve’s Leaves.
THE MUSICIANS
Mathieu Regnault | piano Pierre-Stéphane Schmidlet | violin
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THE NEW BABYLON
Novy Vavilon
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg. 1929. USSR. 80 min. Black & white.
THE FILM
The New Babylon is a metaphorical clash of glittering surfaces and deep social cynicism that marked the climax of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's experimentations with the conventions of the Soviet silent cinema. Taking their thematic inspiration from the story of the Paris Commune of 1871, the two directors fashioned a highly conceptualized allegory of social strata under pressure that transcends its historical roots to form a sardonic comment on the human condition.
THE MUSICIAN
Hakim Bentchouala-Golobitch | piano
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THE RING
Alfred Hitchcock. 1927. Great Britain. 97 min. Black & white. Cast: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davies, Ian Hunter
THE FILM
An emblematic film for our institution, as it is supposed to be the first copy of Raymond Borde’s collection, founder of the Toulouse Cinematheque. A Hitchcock’s film without suspense, where two boxers compete for the love of a woman.
THE MUSICIAN
Raphaël Howson | piano
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LES ROIS DU BURLESQUE
American short films THE MUSICIANS
THE FILMS Grégory Daltin | accordion Julien Duthu | double bass Laurent Paris | drums One Week EDWARD F. CLINE, BUSTER KEATON 1920, 25 min. Starring Buster Keaton, Sybil Sealy, Joe Roberts The first film to be released made by Keaton on his own. Two newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates…
Never Weaken FRED C. NEWMEYER 1921, 19 min. Starring Harold Lloyd Harold is infatuated with a girl in the next office. When he hears that she is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts
Now You Tell One CHARLEY BOWERS 1926, 22 min. Starring Charley Bowers The Liars Club is holding their contest to see who can tell the most unbelievable story. Bricolo, with his extraordinary tale of universal graft, is likely to win the gold medallion.
A Toulouse Cinematheque’s production,
with the collaboration of Lobster Films
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Frank Capra. 1928. USA. 55 min. Black & white. Cast: Shirley Mason, William Collier, Johnnie Walker
THE FILM
Jerry McGuire is a dress designer who is tired of being looked upon as a wimp. He begins secretly training as a boxer to take on Spike Mullins and win the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen.
THE MUSICIANS
Jean–Luc Amestoy and Grégory Daltin | accordion
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STRIKE
Stacka
Sergueï Mikhaïlovitch Eisenstein. 1924. USSR. 70 min. Black & white. Cast: Ivan Kljuvkine, Alexandre Antonov, Gregori Alexandrov
THE FILM
Eisenstein's first full-length feature film: laborers at a locomotive factory go on strike to protest against harsh working conditions. Management rejects their demands and decides to break the strike by any means necessary.
THE MUSICIAN
Pierre Jodlowski | electro acoustic
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SUMURUN
Ernst Lubitsch. 1920. Germany. 103 min. Black & white. Cast: Pola Negri, Jenny Hasselqvist, Paul Wegener, Ernst Lubitsch
THE FILM
Inspired by the popular stage pantomime "The Arabian Nights", Sumurun is the film that encouraged Hollywood to invite Lubitsch into its fold-whereupon the director abandoned melodrama for good and all and concentrated instead on elegant sex comedies.
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
THE MUSICIANS
Raphaël Sibertin-Blanc | violin, klasik kemençe Stéphane Bissières | piano, sound effects
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THREE AGES
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline. 1923. USA. 60 min. Black & white. Cast: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Oliver Hardy
THE FILM
The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. This gut busting comedy explores love in the three ages of life - the prehistoric age, the roman age, and the modern age. Throughout the years, where love is concerned, does anything really change?
THE MUSICIANS
Laurent Marode | piano David Sauzay | saxophone
A Toulouse Cinematheque’s production,
with the collaboration of Lobster Films
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UNDERWORLD
Josef von Sternberg. 1927. USA. 85 min. Black & white. Cast: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Larry Semon
THE FILM
A powerful melodrama of primitive emotions, Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld evokes a world within the world, in this case, the urban American gangster underworld. The story is simple and basic: fatalistic Rolls Royce, a dissolute, alcoholic former lawyer taken into a gang by its leader, Bull Weed, falls in love with the latter’s girlfriend, Feathers McCoy, who reciprocates; but neither, out of decency and loyalty, will betray Weed, who in effect rescued each from the gutter.
Sternberg’s silent Underworld is the film that launched the cycle of Hollywood gangster films that accumulated (not evolved) into both an investigation of the American psyche during the Depression and an interesting leftist social critique.
THE MUSICIANS
Daniel Dumoulin | drums
Michel Parmentier | piano
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VERDUN, VISIONS
D ISTOIRE
Léon Poirier. 1928. France. 160 min. Black & white.
Copy restored in 2006 by the Toulouse Cinematheque at L’immagine Ritrovata’s lab (Bologna, Italy) with the support of the Groupama Gan Founadation for Cinema.
THE FILM
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Armistice, Léon Poirier recreates the Battle of Verdun with soldiers who took part in it. An epic film, with a true emotional strength with no “real” characters but symbolic figures instead: the French soldier, the German soldier, the mother, the young girl, the intellectual…And above all a pacifist feature…
THE MUSICIAN
Hakim Bentchouala-Golobitch | piano
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Paul Czinner. 1929. Great Britain. 89 min. Black & white. Cast: Pola Negri, Hans Rehmann, Warwick Ward
THE FILM
Considered washed up in Hollywood, silent-screen queen Pola Negri made her talkie debut in the British The Woman He Scorned.
The story of a fallen woman who tries to escape her sordid life with a lighthouse keeper.
THE MUSICIANS
Damien Poupart-Taussat | piano Jacob Fournel | tin and low whistles, eolina Josselin Fournel | bodhrán, tablas, percussion instruments Caroline Itier | double bass
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Aelita + Stereopop Orchestra © Axel A Folies Bowers + Cie Arniphone © F. Maligne
Greed + Florent Paris and Benoît Sanchez ©JJ. Ader The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom + Charlotte Castellat and David Lefebvre © JJ Ader 23
HOW TO HOST A CINE-CONCERT?
Les Rapaces + Florent Paris et Benoît Sanchez © JJ Ader
If you want to host a cine-concert or get an estimate, please contact:
Franck LOIRET Financial and administrative manager +33 5 62 30 30 16 [email protected]
Pauline COSGROVE Communications and marketing assistant The General Line +Grégory Daltin, Sébastien Gisbert, Eugénie Ursch and Joris Vidal © JJ Ader +33 5 62 30 30 10
La Cinémathèque de Toulouse 69 rue du Taur 31000 Toulouse +33 5 62 30 30 10 www.lacinemathequedetoulouse.com
Verdun, visions d’histoire + Hakim Bentchouala-Golobitch © D. Bécus
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