National Film & Sound Archive Cinémathèque – A Band of Outsiders: the Cinematic Underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville
Electric Shadows Cinemas, City Walk, Canberra, admission by subscription
Unless noted, all films 18+ only
NFSA Cinémathèque at Electric Shadows Cinemas screens a new season of works in July, A Band of Outsiders: the Cinematic Underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville. Iconic French director Melville made 13 films across his 25-year career. Most famous is his series of richly mannered 'Serie noirs' and 'Policer' French genre films, but Melville's work also included a number of powerful and moving non-genre films, based on his own involvement in the French Resistance.
NFSA Cinémathèque will screen Army of the Shadows, Melville’s dream-like, semi-autobiographical film transposing his gangster-noir to a Resistance setting; Les Enfants terribles, a claustrophobic drama about the relationship between two siblings, based on Jean Couteau's famous novel; Le Doulos - Melville directs Jean-Paul Belmondo in a noir tale of self-defined morality in the criminal underworld; and The Samurai, Melville’s tour-de-force and one of the most influential works of crime cinema, starring Alain Delon.
ARMY OF THE SHADOWS (unclassified 18+) screens 8 July, 2.00pm
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (PG) screens 15 July, 2.00pm
LE DOULOS (unclassified 18+) screens 22 July, 2.00pm
THE SAMURAI (PG) preceded by JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE: PORTRAIT IN NINE POSES (unclassified 18+) screens 29 July, 2.00pm
Presented in association with the Sydney International Film Festival and the Melbourne Cinémathèque.
The full program is now online at: www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/cinematheque.
Unless noted, all films 18+ only
NFSA Cinémathèque at Electric Shadows Cinemas screens a new season of works in July, A Band of Outsiders: the Cinematic Underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville. Iconic French director Melville made 13 films across his 25-year career. Most famous is his series of richly mannered 'Serie noirs' and 'Policer' French genre films, but Melville's work also included a number of powerful and moving non-genre films, based on his own involvement in the French Resistance.
NFSA Cinémathèque will screen Army of the Shadows, Melville’s dream-like, semi-autobiographical film transposing his gangster-noir to a Resistance setting; Les Enfants terribles, a claustrophobic drama about the relationship between two siblings, based on Jean Couteau's famous novel; Le Doulos - Melville directs Jean-Paul Belmondo in a noir tale of self-defined morality in the criminal underworld; and The Samurai, Melville’s tour-de-force and one of the most influential works of crime cinema, starring Alain Delon.
ARMY OF THE SHADOWS (unclassified 18+) screens 8 July, 2.00pm
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (PG) screens 15 July, 2.00pm
LE DOULOS (unclassified 18+) screens 22 July, 2.00pm
THE SAMURAI (PG) preceded by JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE: PORTRAIT IN NINE POSES (unclassified 18+) screens 29 July, 2.00pm
Presented in association with the Sydney International Film Festival and the Melbourne Cinémathèque.
The full program is now online at: www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/cinematheque.