Archives 2023

International Fantastic Film Competition

Golden Octopus

VINCENT MUST DIE

Audience Award

VERMIN

Silver Méliès Compétition

Silver Méliès

SWEET TOOTH

Silver Méliès

WHITE PLASTIC SKY

Crossovers Competition

Crossovers Grand Prix

THE COFFEE TABLE

Animated FIlm Competition

Silver Méliès

WHITE PLASTIC SKY

Golden Stork

BLUE GIANT

Short Films Competition

Golden Octopus

FAIRPLAY

Silver Méliès

SWEET TOOTH

Audience Award

OLGA’S EYES

The Best Animated Short Film

DRIJF

The Best Short Film Made in France

DUPLICATE

The Grand Est Student Jury Prize

SWEET TOOTH

The Show Must Go On

Television and sport have succeeded in creating entertainment that bring crowds together, even if, for ideological or commercial reasons, they have often undermined both physical and moral integrity.

Gladiators are back in the arena, and it hasn’t taken long for cinema to take up the subject. Whether a source of fantasy or a vehicle for creating anxiety, cinema has never ceased to reveal our unconscious. It confronts us with a distorting mirror. The image it reflects may be crude, but it always contains a disturbing element of truth.

From the extreme violence of spectator sport in Rollerball to the murderous urges in The Prize of Peril, filmmakers have never stopped questioning the limits of entertainment. In Videodrome and Benny’s Video, two of the world’s top directors address the power of the image. Staged murder and real death merge.

Sometimes, however, the spectacle involves not murder, but taking control of a character’s life, as happens to the protagonist in The Truman Show. Whether in cinema bis, exploitation films or repertory movies, the theme of a morbid, criminal and amoral spectacle has inspired auteurs from all backgrounds. “The Show Must Go On” retrospective presents a selection of these works that are linked by the same questions.

Carte blanche Terry Gilliam

Poe on screen

Alan Foster interviews the writer Edgar Allan Poe, who insists that all of his tales are based on true stories. The journalist is sceptical, so to prove it, Lord Blackwood dares him to spend a night at his castle, warning him that no one has ever made it out alive. Foster accepts the macabre challenge and encounters a cast of ghosts reliving their deaths. A masterpiece of gothic horror, featuring Barbara Steele as a sexy spectre.

Eccentric Night

If you’re a fan of bad taste, continuity errors and ear-splitting dubbing, this is the night for you! A fake Filipino James Bond, American revenge movies, bouts of jealousy in the prehistoric era – the menu for this new Nuit excentrique, put together by the highly esteemed Cinémathèque française, promises to be more than substantial! As always, these three fi lms will be shown on 35mm prints and will be complemented by two programmes of trailers and a breakfast for those valiant souls who have made it through the night.

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