A Luchino Visconti retrospective, a series on the theme “cinema and American painting,” another dedicated to adaptations of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s works, a cinema festival for children… in November, the Cinémathèque de Nice is making quite an impression!
Luchino Visconti Retrospective
From neorealism – Ossessione, La Terra Trema, Rocco and His Brothers – to the grand historical fresco – Senso, The Leopard, Ludwig… – the Cinémathèque offers a magnificent journey through the work of an aesthete passionate about history, who also marked the early neorealism movement.
“I prefer to tell of defeats, to describe solitary souls, destinies crushed by reality. I tell stories of characters whose history I know well. Perhaps each of my films hides another one: my real film, never realized, about the Visconti of yesterday and today.” (Luchino Visconti)
Cinema and American Painting
In collaboration with the magazine Positif, celebrating its 60th anniversary and releasing a special issue “Cinema and American Painting”, the Cinémathèque offers a selection of 18 classic films to illustrate this theme.
Friday, November 9 at 6 PM: Conference by Christian Viviani, author, lecturer, editor at Positif.
Ciné Récré, the “film festival” for children
For the fourth consecutive year, Ciné Récré offers a program specially designed for the young audience aged 3 to 12 years (classic films, re-releases, and previews) at the Cinémathèque, as well as in all cinemas in Nice, on the weekends of November 17, 18, 24, and 25, 2012, as well as on Wednesday, November 21.
Passion Saint-Exupéry
In resonance with the “Passion Saint-Exupéry” symposium organized by the Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, the Cinémathèque presents a selection of films adapted from the writer’s works.
Ollivier Pourriol’s Studio-Philo
Wednesday, November 28 at 6 PM – The beauty of monsters (sequence 2) through film extracts: Monsters, Inc., Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man…
Session hosted by Ollivier Pourriol, philosopher, writer, author of the essay Cinéphilo.
Your other events in November at the Cinémathèque de Nice:
Special Session for the Hearing Impaired ● Tuesday, November 27 at 6 PM
*The Castle of My Mother* by Yves Robert
“A film that offers a tender and nostalgic look at a bygone era. (…) Everything is seen through a child’s eyes, with a naive wonder at the light of Provence and its splendid landscapes.” (Claude Bouniq Mercier, Le Guide des Films)
Silent Film of the Month ● Thursday, November 22 at 6:30 PM
*Sunrise* by F. W. Murnau
“The greatest film in the history of cinema? The question that agitated the critics about *Sunrise* continues to be posed: it is not certain that anything better has been done since 1927 than this silent film of breath-taking beauty. (…) It places its characters in shots composed like paintings, and sometimes directly inspired by certain painters, notably Edvard Munch.” (Frédéric Strauss, Télérama)
