Families

  • Queen Kelly

    Safeguarded by Langlois in the 1950s and restored in 1983, Queen Kelly is one of the most infamous unfinished film maudits in history.

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  • Foolish Wives

    Erich von Stroheim envisioned l'amour fou as the most powerful agent of the anti-establishment. Foolish Wives pits the lure of "night, procuress of the world, voluptuous, erotic," against that most harried of institutions, marriage.

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  • La chienne

    "What happens with great actors, and consequently with Michel Simon, is that they unmask you, bring dreams that you've had, but haven't expressed, to light” (Jean Renoir).

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  • Prix de beauté

    Living humbly in Rochester, New York, the great silent-era actress Louise Brooks was rediscovered and thrust back into the spotlight in 1955 by Langlois and George Eastman House curator James Card.

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  • Workingman’s Death

    Michael Glawogger (1959–2014) wondered if, in the digital age, heavy manual labor is disappearing, or maybe just becoming invisible.

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  • Nana

    Renoir's first full-length vehicle for his wife, Catherine Hessling, was later called by Renoir "my first film worth talking about." It is Emile Zola filtered through "a study of French gesture as reflected in the paintings of my father and the other artists of his generation," and through Erich

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  • Grey Gardens

    For over twenty years, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, relatives of Jaqueline Onassis, lived in an overgrown, run-down twenty-eight-room estate, Grey Gardens in East Hampton, Long Island, where they perfected their mother/daughter act—complete with song-and-dance routines.

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  • The Unknown

    A circus performer has his arms amputated to satisfy his lover’s strange desires in Tod Browning’s shocking tale of madness and love, one of Lon Chaney’s greatest performances and still one of the strangest films that Hollywood has ever produced.

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  • From Mayerling to Sarajevo

    In this film about the love affair of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand (played by the American John Cabot Lodge) and Czech Countess Sophie Chotek (Edwige Feuillère), who marry against the wishes of the court and are later assassinated at Sarajevo, Ophuls relishes the absurdity while delighting in the ele

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  • Early Films by Abel Gance

    The comparison between The Madness of Doctor Tube (in which the French government solicits a scientist to invent toxic substances to be used against the enemy at the beginning of WWI) and The Deadly Gases, a drama concerning the deadly threat of poison gases, enables us to appre

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