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A Film and its Era: Les Enfants du Paradis (Childre of Paradise) (Marcel Carné)

Marcel Carné’s ‘Children of Paradise’ is released in 1945. Portrait of a film: filmed during the Occupation, Marcel Carné draws out the filming so that it would be the first movie projected at the moment of Liberation. At its release, ‘Children of…
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30 mins
Prog. No.
6196

A Film and its Era: Little Odessa (James Grey)

Portrait of a film: A contract killer from New York returns to the quarter of his childhood to execute a murder but then it’s him who the local mafia wants to see dead. He reencounters his father, who had chased him from the parental home, his dying…
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30 mins
Prog. No.
6219

A Film and its Era: Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)

Once upon a time… Lost in Translation will place the movie in its historical context, when Japan’s cultural influence in the world was starting to weaken. Sofia Coppola, along with her key collaborators will retrace the making of the movie and…
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30 mins
Prog. No.
6222

A Film and its Era: Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

A series of 45*52' documentaries on classics in film history
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52 mins
Prog. No.
6808

A Film and its Era: Marius and Jeannette (Robert Guédiguian)

Portrait of a film: Marius and Jeanette is the seventh feature film by Robert Guédiguian. In the northern quarters of Marseille, Marius, security guard at an abandoned factory, meets Jeanette, an employee in a supermarket who has just been fired…
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30 mins
Prog. No.
6217

A Film and its Era: Mommy (Xavier Dolan)

The highly acclaimed Mommy is set in the fictional - and rather dystopian - year 2015, where it is legal to hospitalize your wayward kids, if you cannot cope with them. Meet Anne Dorval as she discusses her role as the Mommy, director Xavier Dolan…
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52 mins
Prog. No.
6414

A Film and its Era: Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)

In a small town deep within today's Turkey, five sisters revolt against their families and a stifling patriarchal order. Turkish-French filmmaker, Deniz Gamze Ergüven shot "Mustang", her first film, during the events in Taksim Square in Istanbul…
Length
50 mins
Prog. No.
6791

A Film and its Era: My Uncle (Jacques Tati)

Monsieur Hulot is almost a silent film: Jacques Tati prefers gestures and noise to words, which, similar to his contemporary Beckett, are reduced to a succession of incomprehensible vowel sounds.
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30 mins
Prog. No.
6190

A Film and its Era: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Notorious’ is released in 1946. Portrait of a film: after the fall of the Third Reich, the U.S. Secret Service, in order to prevent terrorist attacks, infiltrates the web of Nazi expatriates in South America. Hitchcock encrusts a…
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30 mins
Prog. No.
6197

A Film and its Era: One Flew over a Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)

Milos Forman shoots One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975. It is the first film produced by Michael Douglas. Portrait of a film: In order to escape prison, a delinquent (Jack Nicholson) manages to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. There he…
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30 mins
Prog. No.
6208