ARCHIVES 2012

International Fantastic Competition 

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Golden octopus

Sound of My Voice

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Silver Méliès

Insensibles

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Jury’s special mention

Excision

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Audience Award

Grabbers

Short Films Competition

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The Last Bus

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Silver Méliès

The Bird Spider

Le-Vivier

Price of jury

Le Vivier

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 Audience Award 

The Bird Spider

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Young jury prize

The Last Bus

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Special mention

A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences

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Special mention

The Island Keeper

Opening / Closing

Robot and Frank

Safety Not Guaranteed

International Fantastic Competition 

Antiviral

Doomsday Book

Eddie, The Sleepwalking Cannibal

Excision

Grabbers

Insensibles

Le mur invisible

Resolution

Sound of My Voice

Storage 24

The Pact

Victimes

When the Lights Went Out

Crossovers Competition

The Fourth Dimension

Jack and Diane

Jackpot

La Chispa de la Vida

Scalene

Midnight Movies

The Aggression Scale

Bag of Bones

Cockneys vs. Zombies

Game of Werewolves

Iron Sky

New Kids Nitro

V/H/S

Documentaries

Special Screenings

Elfie Hopkins

Maniac

RA.One

Le petit Gruffalo

International Competition

A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences

The Best Pickpocket in the World

The Bird Spider

Blinky™

The Captured Bird

The Halloween Kid

The Last Bus

Motorhome

La mystérieuse disparition de Robert Ebb

Tram

Made in France Competition

La Bifle

Emergence

The Island Keeper

La ville est calme

La vitesse du passé

Le vivier

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

SPLENDOR IN THE PAST

 

Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988) formed one of the most creative partnerships in cinema’s history. They worked under the banner of The Archers, founded to develop their filmmaking art without interference. Their best films were shot between 1940-1951, including, besides those in our selection, classics such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and A Canterbury Tale (1944). If Powell was in the director’s chair and Emeric generally provided stories and dialogue, their famous but little understood credit line: “Produced, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger”, testified to the intimate ties that bound every aspect of their work. Their collaboration was rooted in a fertile cross-culturing of talent between men of different backgrounds and temperaments: a discreet Hungarian Jew who fled Hitler’s Berlin and the extroverted Powell, gentleman from Kent, quintessentially English. They were maverick artists, far removed from the British realism of the times. They made films of visual magic – fantasy-filled, flamboyant, excessive – but which never overshadowed human emotion in very real stories about love, death, sacrifice and artistic creation.

But like the rainbow in the sky, The Archers could not last. For Powell, they lost their “glorious arrogance in 1953”, but their partnership was not officially dissolved until 1957, in disagreement over their independence in the new face of British production. The films, with their creators, fell into obscurity and were almost for- gotten until a series of revivals began in the 1970s. Their reputation spread to America in the 1980s, when an overwhelmingly enthusiastic Martin Scorsese brought Peeping Tom to the New York Film Festival, where it met with great critical success. Powell eventually became his advisor in America and they remained friends for life. Powell and Pressburger, filmmakers who inspired giants – Scorsese, Romero, de Palma, Coppola, Spielberg and others – rekindled and deepened their friendship until Emeric’s death in 1988.

The Thief of Bagdad

A Matter of Life and Death

Black Narcissus

The Red Shoes

The Tales of Hoffmann

Peeping Tom

Post Apocalypse

APOCALYPSE YESTERDAY

Among cinema’s vast array of themes, one which has hardly been dealt with is the kind of world we would be left with in the aftermath of an apocalypse, a term generally used to imply human extinction due to all-out nuclear war. The meaning of extinction, however, is a relative one in that the writers of our 10 revival films, cinematic conventions oblige, have left us with a few survivors roaming about in nightmarish landscapes, and who have returned to humanity’s initial state of survival-of-the-fittest, consequently more savagely aggressive than ever.

If we take a look at the stars in these films, putting aside Harry Belafonte, Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell and Michel Serrault, our eye falls upon Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. These two actors played diehard enemies in Cecil B. de Mille’s The 10 Commandants in 1956 before moving on to specialise in the Eternal with edifying Biblical roles: Heston’s Ben Hur in 1959 and Brynner’s Salomon and Sheba in the same year. Then they both recycled themselves admirably over the next two decades, playing in a few pessimistic sci-fi films, notably for Heston, The Planet of the Apes in 1968 followed by Soylant Green in 1973, and for Brynner, Westworld in 1973 and The Ultimate Warrior in 1976.

The Post-Apocalyptic revival films may well belong to the past, but their implicit warnings still ring true today. To resume: it’s time to stop playing the sorcerer’s apprentice as we have been doing over the last fifty years. Ecological meltdowns, energy shortages and pandemic death threats – all have shiny, new apocalyptic potential, making Dad’s list from yesterday a quite extendable one.

Jean Alessandrini

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

The Omega Man

The Ultimate Warrior

Malevil

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Escape from New York

Letters from a Dead Man

Nuit Post-Apocalyptique

2019 dopo la caduta di New-York

Rats: notte di terrore

Vendetta dal future

Classics

The Shining

Sleepwalkers

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Zombie Walk et Apérozombie

Aelita

Ciné Concert - Aelita, the Queen of Mars

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Rencontre avec le jury

Exposition Studio Scale

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Master Class - Musiques de film

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Cinémix

Guest of Honor

Mick Garris

Feature films jury

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Mick Garris

Pierre-Bordage

Pierre Bordage

Alan-Jones

Alan Jones

Agnes-Merlet

Agnès Merlet

Short films jury

Cedric-Bonin

Cédric Bonin

Estelle-Dalleu

Estelle Dalleu

Denis-Darroy

Denis Darroy

Luc-Engelibert

Luc Engélibert