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FICTIONS.Pdf Contents Films in alphabetical order of directors p.4 Index by film title p.166-170 Index by director p.172-174 Index by actor/actress p.176-178 Index by film genre p.180-185 Index of short films p.186 Index by country p.189-193 Index by decade p.195-198 Index of films available in HD p.201 Index by festivals and awards p.202-203 3 The story of harmless misfit Josie, the lonely but A like ANIMATION optimistic caretaker of a crumbling petrol station. See pages 8-11 Over the course of a summer, Josie’s world shifts. A teenager comes to work with him. Events spiral. Josie’s life is changed forever. “Calling Garage a ‘small’ film would be true Dominique ABEL, enough, but the Hope diamond, all things Fiona GORDON, Bruno ROMY considered, is awfully small as well. Both in any case, are gems.” Screen THE FAIRY (LA FÉE) HD Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, ADAM & PAUL Philippe Martz, Bruno Romy Cast: Tom Murphy, Mark O’Halloran Belgium - France / 2010 / Colour / 95’ / Drama Ireland / 2004 / Colour / 83’ / Drama Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the GIJON 2005: BEST ACTOR - MARK O’HALLORAN industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman & TOM MURPHY (ex aequo) arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is EVENING STANDARD BRITISH FILM AWARD 2006: Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him BEST SCREENPLAY three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who by then have withered into two, hapless, desperate junkies, has fallen in love with Fiona searches for her tied together by habit and necessity. Adam & Paul everywhere and eventually finds her in the follows the boys over the course of a day like any psychiatric hospital where she has been interned. other. The difference, today, is that Adam and Paul “Tati’s hand is evident in the exceptionally precise art direction and camerawork.” - already near rock bottom - have finally run out of The Hollywood Reporter luck, credit and friends. “This uncompromizing bleak comedy has an RUMBA HD impressive conviction” The Guardian Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Philippe Martz, Bruno Romy France - Belgium / 2008 / Colour / 85’ / Comedy Robert ALTMAN CANNES 2008: CRITICS’ WEEK (OPENING FILM) HD Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and KANSAS CITY Dom have a common passion: Latin dancing. One Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, night, after a glorious dance competition, there is a Harry Belafonte car accident and they see their lives turned up USA / 1996 / Colour / 118’ / Drama and down and up and down and up and down... CANNES 1996: IN COMPETITION “An old-fashioned, sweet-natured dance-based NEW YORK 1996: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR comedy debut to remember.” The Guardian (HARRY BELAFONTE) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (MIRANDA RICHARDSON) ICEBERG (L’ICEBERG) Kansas City, 1934. Blondie O’Hara, a young tele- Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, graph operator, concocts a desperate plan to Philippe Martz, Lucy Tulugarjuk kidnap Carolyn Stilton, the socialite wife of an Belgium / 2005 / Colour / 84’ / Comedy advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt. Her goal is SAN SEBASTIAN 2005: OFFICIAL SELECTION to exchange Mrs Stilton for her petty thief of a ZAGHREB 2005: GOLDEN PRAM husband, who has been caught by legendary BOGOTA 2005: BEST FILM gangster Seldom Seen. FILMTAGE TÜBINGEN 2005: JURY AWARD Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives with her family in the suburbs. In a few words, Rabah AMEUR-ZAÏMECHE Fiona is happy…till one day she gets accidentally locked into a walk-in fridge while closing up. She SMUGGLERS’ SONGS gets out in the morning, half frozen and barely alive. (LES CHANTS DE MANDRIN) HD Little by little, Fiona develops an obsession for Cast: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Abel Jafri, everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, Sylvain Roume icebergs… and one day she drops everything, France / 2011 / Colour / 97’ / Historical drama climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and LOCARNO 2011: OFFICIAL SELECTION leaves home. She wants to see a real iceberg. After the execution of Louis Mandrin, a famous out- “The wilfully eccentric Iceberg sets itself a high law and mid-18th century folk hero, his companions standard with an opening 15 minutes of the most decide to take the risk of another campaign in delicious slapstick.” Variety France’s southern provinces. Under the protection of heavily armed comrades, they set up illegal mar- kets outside rural villages, where they sell tobacco, fabrics and precious goods. They write songs in Lenny ABRAHAMSON Mandrin’s honour print them and distribute them HD to the King’s lowliest subjects… GARAGE “An unusual, enthusiastically partisan approach to Cast: Pat Shortt, Conor Ryan, Anne-Marie Duff the French Revolution.” The Hollywood Reporter Ireland / 2007 / Colour / 85’ / Drama CANNES 2007: DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT: CICAE AWARD TORINO FILM FESTIVAL 2007: BEST FILM a 4 THE FAIRY PUSAN FILM FESTIVAL 2007: OFFICIAL SELECTION 5 Jean-François AMIGUET THE LOUNGE CHAIR (LA MÉRIDIENNE) Cast: Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jérôme Angé, Sylvie Orcier Switzerland / 1987 / Colour / 100’ / Drama CANNES 1988: UN CERTAIN REGARD François has decided that this summer he will fall passionately in love with the woman of his life. But who? How will he be able to recognise Miss Right? He knows he must consider every detail in advance, and leave nothing to chance. François has in fact concocted a flawless strategy, except for one detail: his plan requires the help of his long-time friends, Marthe and Marie. Theo ANGELOPOULOS THE BEEKEEPER (O MELISSOKOMOS) Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Reggiani, Nadia Mourousi Greece / 1986 / Colour / 122’ / Drama VENICE 1986: OFFICIAL COMPETITION Spiro, the beekeeper, his truck full of beehives, starts off on his Spring rounds. However, this year, nothing is as before. The family is scattered: Spiro’s favourite daughter gets married, the mother follows the youngest boy to live in a university town, and Spiro is more excited than usual. Driving his truck from place to place, Spiro meets a young, lost girl, half punk and half Lolita. She will turn his world upside down: clinging to him and he to her, they live a violent, absurd and harrowing love story... Karl ANTON CHRISTMAS EVE (UN SOIR DE RÉVEILLON) France / 1933 / B&W / 109’ / Romance Cast: Meg Lemonnier, Henri Garat, Armand Dranem, Arletty, Lucette Desmoulins A young girl spends Christmas Eve amongst the demi-monde. There, she meets a gentleman who, thinking she is someone she is not, forces his attention upon her. After numerous twists and turns of the plot, they end up marrying. 6 THE BEEKEPER 7 A LIKE ANIMATION POPEYE BETTY BOOP 1st series in B&W Director: Dave Fleisher TOM AND JERRY Directors: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel, USA / 1933-1939 / B&W / 35 x 6’ (approx) Isadore Sparber, Dave Gordon, Dave Tendlar Directors: John Foster, Georges Stallings, Betty Boop appeared on the scene in 1930 USA / 1931-1944 / B&W / 4 x 6’ (approx) Franck Tashlin, George Ruffle with her provocative suspenders and her USA / 1920-1933 / B&W / 15 x 6’ (approx) At first the character in the comics, Popeye legendary “Boop-Boop-a-Doop”, to become Nothing to do with the famous cat and mouse appears for the first time on the big screen in the most famous pin-up in the history of duo from MGM. In the beginning of the 1930s, 1931 and becomes the star of his own series animation. Having encountered a few censor- Tom and Jerry were two young boys whose thril- two years later. The adventures of the famous ship issues, her character progressively evolved ling adventures, produced by the Van Beuren sailor and eater of spinach, of his fiancée Olive over the course of time before finally vanishing studios, and at times flirted with the fantastical. and of his eternal rival Brutus, continued on from the scene in 1939. During a whole television after its run at the cinema theatres decade, Betty appeared in around a hundred FELIX THE CAT and are up to over 450 episodes. In black and films, some co-starring her friend Bimbo, the Director: Otto Messmer white until 1944, the production of the series genius professor Grampy or her little dog Pudgy. USA / 1922-1930 / Silent with added sound / went Technicolor when the Fleischer studio shut B&W / 23 x 7’ (approx) down. MERRIE MELODIES 1st series in B&W The most famous cat on the big screen saw the POPEYE Directors: Tex Avery, Charles “Chuck” Jones, light of day in 1917, drawn by the illustrator Otto 2nd series in colour Friz Freleng Messemer. At first he was the character of a Directors: Isadore Sparber, Seymour Kneytel, USA / 1931-1933 / B&W / 20 x 6’ (approx) cartoon, but later appeared on screen from Bill Titla. The former Disney studio animators Rudolf Ising 1921 and evolved physically over the course of 22 x 6’ (approx) the series. Felix, sly as always, became the big and Hugh Harman launched the production of star of the silent cartoons until Pat Sullivan’s The cartoon character, created by Segard, Bosko in 1930 and a little later the first Merrie studio shut down in 1928, at the same time as Popeye, debuted on the screen in 1933. Melodies. Based on successful songs, these films Mickey took his very first steps. In the 1930s the tell stories of great success and were to continue character made a short reappearance in three POPEYE SPECIAL their carreer during almost 40 years. colour episodes of the Rainbow Parade series, in colour produced by the Van Beuren studios.
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