FIFTH ANNUAL CLASSIC FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY Co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and Webster University Film Series Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, 470 E. Lockwood Avenue June 13-16, 20-23, and 27-30, 2013 www.cinemastlouis.org Less a glass, more a display cabinet. Always Enjoy Responsibly. ©2013 Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A., Stella Artois® Beer, Imported by Import Brands Alliance, St. Louis, MO Brand: Stella Artois Chalice 2.0 Closing Date: 5/15/13 Trim: 7.75" x 10.25" Item #:PSA201310421 QC: CS Bleed: none Job/Order #: 251048 Publication: 2013 Cinema St. Louis Live: 7.25" x 9.75" FIFTH ANNUAL CLASSIC FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY Co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and Webster University Film Series The Earrings of Madame de... When: June 13-16, 20-23, and 27-30 Where: Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University’s Webster Hall, 470 E. Lockwood Ave. How much: $12 general admission; $10 for students, Cinema St. Louis members, and Alliance Française members; free for Webster U. students with valid and current photo ID; advance tickets for all shows are available through Brown Paper Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com (search for Classic French) More info: www.cinemastlouis.org, 314-289-4150 The Fifth Annual Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Four programs feature newly struck 35mm prints: the restora- Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The fea- tions of “A Man and a Woman” and “Max and the Junkmen,” tured films span the decades from the 1920s through the Jacques Rivette’s “Le Pont du Nord” (available in the U.S. for 1970s (with a particular focus on filmmakers from the New the first time), and Jean-Luc Godard’s “The Little Soldier.” Wave), offering a comprehensive overview of French cinema. Three other films will also be presented in 35mm: Max Oph- uls’ “The Earrings of Madame de ...” and Francois Truffaut’s A pair of films – Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman” “The Story of Adele H.” and “Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me.” and Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Leon Morin, Priest” – celebrate Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, the stars of The festival again explores France’s major contributions to “Amour,” last year’s Academy Award winner for Best For- the silent era and pairs the works with live music: A new- eign Film. In another nod to a recent Oscar nominee, we’re music ensemble from the Hearding Cats Artists Collective screening Raymond Bernard’s epic “Les Misérables,” widely performs with a selection of five avant-garde shorts, and the considered the finest adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel. Poor People of Paris accompany “The Ladies’ Paradise.” The fest is annually highlighted by significant restora- Every program features introductions and discussions by film tions. We’re especially pleased to present a selection of re- scholars and critics, including new Variety chief film critic Scott cently restored comedic masterpieces – the features “Yoyo” Foundas. The discussions will place the works in the contexts and “The Great Love” and two shorts – by writer-director- of both film and French history and provide close analyses. star Pierre Etaix. This year’s restored films also include “A Man and a Woman,” Claude Sautet’s “Max and the Junk- men,” and Julien Duvivier’s silent “The Ladies’ Paradise.” SPONSORS Jane M. & Bruce P. Robert WHITAKER Charitable FOUNDATION Foundation Yoyo/Yo Yo (1965) OPENING NIGHT who meet by chance at their children’s no ordinary crime film. It’s also a finely 7 P.M. THURSDAY, JUNE 13 boarding school – a romance complicated drawn character study that is fascinated The Ladies’ Paradise/ by the memories of their deceased by the nuances of personal behavior Au bonheur des dames spouses. The film – which Pauline Kael and, in Michel Piccoli and Schneider, declared “probably the most efficacious Julien Duvivier, 1930, B&W, 85 min. it had the actors to bring it to life.” make-out movie of the swinging ’60s” – With live accompaniment by is notable for its lush photography and the Poor People of Paris With an introduction and post-film memorable musical score by Francis Restoration, DVD source discussion by Scott Foundas, chief film Lai. “A Man and a Woman” won the Sponsored by the Centre Francophone critic for Variety and former programmer Palme d’Or at the 1966 Cannes Film for the Film Society of Lincoln Center Festival and Academy Awards for Best Julien Duvivier’s final silent film is (including FSLC’s annual Rendez- Foreign Language Film and Best Original a modern retelling of Emile Zola’s vous with French Cinema series). Screenplay. On its release, the New York panoramic chronicle of mid-19th-century Times’ Bosley Crowther called the film “a Parisian society, centering on a small 7 P.M. SUNDAY, JUNE 16 beautiful and sometimes breath-taking fabric shop struggling to survive in the French Avant-Garde Silent Shorts exposition of visual imagery intended to shadow of a luxury department store. With live accompaniment by the excite the emotions.” Lelouch supervised With expressionistic shades of Erich Hearding Cats Artists Collective this new restoration, which screens von Stroheim and G.W. Pabst, the film DVD source from an archival 35mm print. Print captures the rhythms of urban life and courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. creates a stinging portrait of capitalist This program of five key Dadaist/ surrealist shorts includes work by a ruthlessness, class tensions, and sexual With an introduction and post-film dazzling array of the early-20th-century’s competition. Scott Foundas in the Village discussion by Scott Foundas, chief film most important visual-arts and literary Voice calls the film “an orgy of pure critic for Variety and former programmer figures. The featured films are “Ballet cinema, from its opening train shot to for the Film Society of Lincoln Center Mécanique” (Fernand Léger, 1924, 11 its climactic visual effect of a magically (including FSLC’s annual Rendez- min.), “The Seashell and the Clergyman/ converted storefront. Filming on the vous with French Cinema series). teeming streets of Paris in and around La coquille et le clergyman” (Germaine the Galeries Lafayette, Duvivier pulls 7 P.M. SATURDAY, JUNE 15 Dulac, 1926, 31 min.), “Anémic Cinéma” (Marcel Duchamp, 1926, 6 min.), “Leave out every trick in the book – elaborate Max and the Junkmen/ Me Alone/Emak-Bakia” (Man Ray, crane and tracking shots; massive crowd Max et les ferrailleurs scenes; surreal, constructivist montages 1926, 16 min.), and “The Three-Sided Claude Sautet, 1971, color, 107 min. – for this alternately sincere and cynical Mirror/La glace à trois faces” (Jean Restoration, new 35mm print hymn to capitalist endeavor.” Elsie Epstein, 1927, 41 min.). Providing the Parker and the Poor People of Paris, live accompaniment is the Hearding Never before released in U.S. theaters, who specialize in French popular music Cat Artists Collective, whose musicians Claude Sautet’s elegant and sophisticated and jazz, provide accompaniment. include past and present members of crime drama stars the great Michel Piccoli the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The (“Belle de jour”) as a Paris detective who With an introduction and post-film program features Mike Murphy on analog poses as a wealthy banker to lure a petty discussion by Lionel Cuillé, the synthesizer, Kevin Harris on analog crook and his gang into committing a Jane and Bruce Robert professor synthesizer, Rich O’Donnell on seesaw bank robbery ... so that he can then catch percussion and digital synth, Tim Myers of French and Francophone them red-handed. But there’s one thing on trombone, and Asako Kuboki on violin. studies at Webster University. the detective doesn’t plan for: falling in love with his intended victim’s beautiful With an introduction and post-film 7 P.M. FRIDAY, JUNE 14 moll (Romy Schneider). Time Out New A Man and a Woman/ York writes: “A gleefully seedy study discussion by R D Zurick, former Un homme et une femme of lowlifes on both sides of the law, adjunct professor of film studies at Claude Lelouch, 1966, color, 102 min. Claude Sautet’s bitter 1971 policier is Webster University and St. Louis Restoration, new 35mm print all the more remarkable for having been Community College at Forest Park. Sponsored by the Jane M. and Bruce P. overlooked on this side of the Atlantic: Robert Charitable Foundation Its dark themes and murky morality fit 7 P.M. THURSDAY, JUNE 20 perfectly with the antiheroic themes that Yoyo/Yo Yo Starring Anouk Aimée and “Amour’s” were revolutionizing Hollywood at that Pierre Etaix, 1965, B&W, 96 min. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Lelouch’s time.” And the LA Times’ Kenneth Turan With short Le Cinematographe, 12 much-loved “A Man and a Woman” declares: “Because Sautet was a filmmaker min., B&W, 1966 (from four-part chronicles the budding relationship who was drawn to complex psychological feature “As Long As You’re Healthy”) between a young widow and widower situations, ‘Max and the Junkmen’ is Restoration, Blu-ray source The Great Love/Le grand amour (1969) A disciple of Jacques Tati (with whom he her apartment as they discuss love, death, Nord” stars Bulle Ogier and her daughter worked) and the great silent comedians and war – a dazzling sequence, at once Pascale (who died two years later at the – Paris Match called him “the French interrogation and seduction, during which age of 25) in an enigmatic thriller with Buster Keaton” – Pierre Etaix is receiving a Subor utters that eternal Godard maxim, many similarities to Rivette’s classic belated and deserved celebration with the ‘Cinema is truth 24 times per second.’” “Céline and Julie Go Boating.” Bulle plays restoration of all of his virtually unseen a claustrophobic just released from prison comic masterpieces.