Sat, Mar 30
|Madison
Cinémathèque : New French Restorations: Drôles de Guerres, Jean-Luc Godard
From January through April, the Cinematheque will present six French feature films, all shown in new digital restorations, that cover nearly sixty years of French cinema history, from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Time & Location
Mar 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Madison, Vilas Communication Hall, 821 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706, USA
About
30 mars à 19h à Vilas Hall:
TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS
(FILM ANNONCE DU FILM QUI N'EXISTÉRA JAMAIS: 'DRÔLES DE GUERRES')
France, Switzerland | 2023 | DCP | 20 min. | French with English subtitles
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Phony Wars, Godard’s final work, represents the legendary filmmaker’s initial attempts at adapting a 1937 novel by Charles Pilsnier. The resulting 20-minute ‘trailer’ for a film that never was is a complex collage of history, politics, and cinema constructed of paper and glue, paintings and photographs, sound and silence.
Tout le programme sur le site de la cinémathèque
Beginning with the Lumieres and the origins of motion pictures more than 130 years ago, France has remained one of the world’s leading contributors to the art of cinema. From January through April, the Cinematheque will present six French feature films, all shown in new digital restorations, that cover nearly sixty years of French cinema history, from the 1930s to the 1990s. The lineup begins with a weird and fascinating psychological thriller unknown to most American audiences, Paul Vecchiali’s The Strangler. Plus, Manon, an Henri-Georges Clouzot masterpiece made before the director’s The Wages of Fear and Diabolique; Jeunet and Caro’s cult classic, Delicatessen; Godard’s futuristic mind-melter Alphaville; and Lady Killer & The Strange Mr. Victor, two late 1930s gems by the great Jean Grémillon, subject of a 2015 Cinematheque series.