Big Classics in Black and White
While painting masterpieces are exhibited in the major art museums, the great classics of cinema are screened at the Lumière film festival! Since you may have already seen these films, but never in these conditions (screenings introduced by special guests, projected on the big screen, in their latest restored version), the festival is offering a selection of monuments to the history of cinema…
Thanks to Carlotta Films, Ciné Sorbonne, la Cineteca di Bologna, la Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, Les Acacias, Les Films du Camélia, Mercury Films, Park Circus, SND, Tamasa
Screenings
It Happened One Night by Frank Capra (1934, 1h45)
Ellie (Claudette Colbert) runs away from her father and meets Pete (Clark Gable) on the bus to New York. He quickly understands who she is, her father having promised a reward for bringing her back to him... A comedy of manners considered a founding film of screwball comedy.
Institut Lumière (Villa) Sat 14 6:45pm & Institut Lumière (Villa) Sat 14 7pm | UGC Astoria Mon 16 9pm | UGC Confluence Tue 17 1:45pm | Pierre-Bénite Thu 19 8pm | Comœdia Sat 21 11:15am
La Bête humaine by Jean Renoir (1938, 1h40, VFSTA)
Séverine (Simone Simon) wants to leave her husband (Fernand Ledoux) after witnessing a murder he committed. She incites her lover (Jean Gabin) to kill him... Adaptation of Émile Zola's eponymous novel, a symphonic tragedy in superb black and white.
UGC Astoria Mon 16 1:30pm | Décines Wed 18 2:30pm | UGC Confluence Thu 19 1:45pm | Pathé Bellecour Fri 20 2:30pm | CinéDuchère Sat 21 8pm
Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock (1940, 2h10)
When Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) returns to his manor house with his new wife (Joan Fontaine), the castle seems haunted by Rebecca, the first Mrs. de Winter, who had died a year earlier... Gothic, eerie and para-fantastic, Alfred Hitchcock's first film in the United States.
UGC Confluence Sun 15 11:15am | UGC Confluence Mon 16 2pm | Comœdia Tue 17 10:45am | Meyzieu Sat 21 8pm | Lumière Terreaux Sun 22 5pm
Bellissima by Luchino Visconti (1951, 1h55) / Label Lumière Classics 2023
Maddalena sacrifices her marriage and her savings so that her daughter can become the next star of Cinecittà.... A critical reflection on the famous new cinema of the post-war period and an ode to the Italian neorealist legend, Anna Magnani.
Cinéma Opéra Sun 15 7pm | Pathé Bellecour Thu 19 5:45pm | UGC Confluence Fri 20 11:15am | Institut Lumière (Villa) Sat 21 4pm & Institut Lumière (Villa) Sat 21 4:15pm
Death of a Cyclist by Juan Antonio Bardem (Muerte de un ciclista, 1955, 1h24) / Label Lumière Classics 2023
After running over a worker on her bicycle, Maria José fears public scandal and worries about the insinuations of a blackmailer, Rafà… A corrosive and bitter critique of Franco's Spain, a major film of Spanish cinema of the 1950s.
Pathé Bellecour Wed 18 9:45am | Comœdia Thu 19 10:45am | UGC Confluence Fri 20 6pm | Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon Sat 21 6:30pm
Il grido by Michelangelo Antonioni (1957, 1h57) / Label Lumière Classics 2023
Aldo travels around northern Italy with his daughter, unable to forget Irma, the woman he was supposed to marry before she left him.... The portrait of a man in love plagued by torment and loneliness, filmed in the landscapes so dear to Antonioni.
Institut Lumière (Villa) Sat 14 4pm & Institut Lumière (Villa) Sat 14 4:15pm | Comœdia Sun 15 3pm | UGC Confluence Wed 18 10:45am | UGC Astoria Sat 21 11am
The Apartment by Billy Wilder (The Apartment, 1960, 2h05)
An employee lends his flat to his superiors for their lovers' rendezvous... A social and romantic masterpiece starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine that collected Academy Awards for best screenplay, film and director.
Neuville-sur-Saône Sun 15 4pm | Pathé Bellecour Tue 17 6pm | Cinéma Opéra Wed 18 9:15pm | UGC Confluence Fri 20 5:45pm | UGC Confluence Sun 22 10:45am
Persona by Ingmar Bergman (1966, 1h23)
After several months of suffering from muteness, Elizabeth (Liv Ullmann) is sent to convalesce on an island. She and her nurse, Alma (Bibi Andersson), strike up a deep but burning friendship... A sublimely aesthetic film about duplicity in the first collaboration between Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann.
Cinéma Opéra Mon 16 2pm | Pathé Bellecour Tue 17 7pm | Lumière Terreaux Wed 18 2pm | UGC Confluence Thu 19 5pm
