With photos from his films
12 September - 10 November 2009

Inauguration preview
Friday 11 September, 18:30
by the railings of the Department headquarters > more

See the stars who're attending the Festival. Here are photos of some of them, including Claudia Cardinale, who was at the screening of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.
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Satrapi has always dreamed of being Eastwood's character Dirty Harry because, she says, there're a quite a few people she might've been tempted to kill... She was interviewed by the Lyon daily paper Le Progrès. > more

"With Once Upon a Time in the West, I said 80% of what I wanted to. With Once Upon a Time in America, it was 100%." -- Sergio Leone. The latter film is a long-underestimated masterpiece that embraces all of Leone's universe. Walter Salles will introduce its screening in Oullins and Marjane Satrapi in Lyon. > more

The Killers was made for television but the TV companies turned it down because of its supposed amorality and violence. It became a cult B-film from the start and revolutionised the thriller genre with its humour and directness. Starring Lee Marvin, John Cassevetes and one Ronald Reagan, with a dramatic score by John Williams. > more

Rediscover Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou at the Festival. Studio Canal and the Cinémathèque française have joined to restore this historic film to all its original beauty, in colour and sound. > more

Exterior Night, Jacques Bral’s third feature film, revealed splendid new actors such as Christine Boisson and Gérard Lanvin, and had a great role for the better-known André Dussolier.
It was filmed entirely at night and is a major work of cinematography and lighting. How to direct and film a story and characters at night? How to reproduce the magical ambiance? The film has just been restored, displaying all its initial splendour and nighttime beauty. > more