The association Les Méduses is organizing a “Retro Pin Up” evening as part of its Cinenasty sessions on Saturday, March 17 at the Mercury Cinema in Nice. Film enthusiasts in Nice will be able to rediscover two cult films on the big screen: Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero followed by Grease by Randal Kleizer.
The girls we label as “seductive women,” the golden age of pin-ups was in the 1940s and 1950s, primarily in the United States.
The GIs would pin up drawings or photos of their starlets on the walls of their barracks… Also called “Cheesecake,” from the expression to talk about an attractive woman “better than cheesecake,” pin-ups appeared on magazines, newspapers, posters, calendars, or “art cards” sold in vending machines in shopping galleries. The most famous ones are: Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Ann Sheridan, Marilyn Monroe, as well as Marlene Dietrich and Ava Gardner.
To accompany this double-session as deadly as it is glamorous, Cinenasty teams up with So Nice Pin Up, the shop Le Ruban Noir, and American Music &
Custom Côte d’Azur for a plethora of activities between the screenings, consider this: pin-up parade, exhibition of American cars, exhibition of cult posters, cinema quiz, cinema usherettes, etc.
Saturday, March 17 at Mercury Cinema (16 Place Garibaldi)
at 7:40 PM – NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD by George A. Romero
35mm – subtitles – 96 minutes – 1967
Every year, Barbara and Johnny go to lay flowers on their father’s grave. The journey is long, the cemetery surroundings are deserted. Not inclined to pray, Johnny recalls when he was a child and would amuse himself by scaring his sister by saying in a deep voice: “They’re coming to get you, Barbara.”
at 9:40 PM – GREASE by Randal Kleizer 35mm – subtitles – 110 minutes – 1978
A cult musical comedy featuring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, based on the lives of students in an American senior high school in the late ’50s (somewhat akin to the film American Graffiti).
