The ghost of creation and the creation of ghosts. This year Director’s Cut, section programmed with the help of Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, distributes the program between zones of shadow and light.
Somewhere there we find the genius (and the “bad temper”) of Helmut Berger, who one day was considered by Vogue “the most beautiful man in the universe”, but today taken by depression and madness. Helmut Berger, Actor shows April 27 (Wednesday), at 19h00, in Félix Ribeiro auditorium at Cinemateca Portuguesa.
Much less turbulent, Bruno Nuytten, one of the main cinematographers of the second half of the twentieth century, decides to abandon cinema, and to do other jobs, like installing a new floor in his house. Caroline Champetier, also a famous cinematographer, signs this reflexion about the relationship between art and craftsmanship. Nuytten/Film shows at April 29 (Friday), at 19h00, in Félix Ribeiro auditorium at Cinemateca Portuguesa.
Another creative crisis: the character played by Jean-François Stévenin in a film by Luc Béraud and with cinematography by Bruno Nuytten. A writer under the effect of a creative blockage conflicts with a woman, accusing her of being responsible for the whole situation. La tortue sur le dos, film in the section Director’s Cut in Context, shows at April 28 (Thursday), at 19h00, in Félix Ribeiro auditorium at Cinemateca Portuguesa.
Brilliantly nonconformist. We could describe like that the creator and his work that are filmed by Laura Israel, an editor that works for a long-time with the swiss photographer and filmmaker, author one of the most influential photo books in the twentieth century, The Americans. Don’t Blink – Rober Frank shows at April 20 (Wednesday), at 19h00, in Félix Ribeiro auditorium at Cinemateca Portuguesa.
To invoke the memory of cinema through spiritism. The “Canadian David Lynch”, Guy Maddin, is the main subject of filmmaker Yves Montmayeur. In the interactive project Seances some filmic souls are summoned in seances starring international actors, like Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Rampling and Maria de Medeiros. The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin shows at April 22 (Friday), at 19h00, in Félix Ribeiro auditorium at Cinemateca Portuguesa. Bring Me The Head of Tim Horton, a collective film by Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson, Evan Johson, opens the session.
From the ghosts of creation we move to the creation of ghosts. Dario Argento reinterprets the classic by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera, but here the protagonist lives in the underground and is particularly fond of rats. Il fantasma dell’opera, film of the section Director’s Cut in Context, shows at April 21 (Thursday), at 19h00, in Félix Ribeiro auditorium at Cinemateca Portuguesa.
More ghosts that haunt the essay film by Charlie Lyne. It’s a reflexion about fear through the editing of tens of film excerpts, which is something similar to what the same director did with the teen genre in Beyond Clueless. Fear Itself shows at April 21 (thursday), at 15h30, in Félix Ribeiro auditorium in Cinemateca Portuguesa. In the same screening it is shown Virgil Wildrich’s short film Back Track, about classical 3D cinema.
More cinema about cinema. Jacques Tourneur, a filmmaker that believes in the invisible and the supernatural, is honored in the documentary by Alain Mazars, Jacques Tourneur, le médium (filmer l’invisible) is screened at April 26 (Tuesday), at 15h30, in Félix Ribeiro auditorium at Cinemateca Portuguesa. Complementing, there is O cinema que vê, short film by Beatriz Saraiva about a story of gazes, exchanged between the passers and the cameraman. It will also be shown Film Noir 001 // 002 / 00, where La Ribot covers-up the classical Hollywood stars so that we stare at the extras.