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All films in original version with subtitles
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Once Upon a Time There Was Sergio Leone
To mark the 20th anniversary of his death, all the Italian director’s films (in new or restored copies) are being shown.
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Clint Eastwood guest of honour
Eastwood will be guest of honour at the Festival and patron of the retrospectives of the work of Sergio Leone and Don Siegel (both of whom he dedicated his film Unforgiven to). > > more
Don Siegel
Siegel’s classy work includes fast-paced thrillers, lively comedies and challenges to traditional morality but he’s still not very well known, especially in his own country, the US. A cheerful and energetic look at the films of the director of Dirty Harry and The Killers.
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Shin Sang-ok, "emperor of Korea"
He is one of Asia’s most striking and prolific filmmakers (nicknamed “the emperor of Korea”) and an overly western-oriented world cinema has not given him his rightful place. > > more
Eddie Muller and the art of noir
Eight “lost” films made between 1941 and 1952 by three Hollywood studios and chosen by Eddie Muller, a world expert on films noir, founder and head of the Film Noir Foundation, organiser of San Francisco’s Noir City film festival and programme chief at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theater, in Hollywood. They will be presented by Philippe Garnier. > > more
Great moments of the silent era
Carl Theodor Dreyer's first film The President (with electric guitar accompaniment by Olivier Mellano), F.W. Murnau's masterpiece Tabu (set to music by the Orchestre National de Lyon) and La Contessa Sara, by Sergio Leone's father, Roberto Roberti (also with musical accompaniment). > > more
Unearthed, restored and back on the screen
Distributors in France, the land of film-lovers, are keen on cinema heritage and are always digging up treasures from the past. > > more
Special screenings
Don't miss the many other special events being held during the Festival ! > > more
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