ALAIN CAVALIER (b.1931)

Fire and Ice (Le Combat dans l’Île) 1961 Ages 15+
35MM, 104 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, LIVE SUBTITLING
Cavalier’s first feature responds to the political context of the war in Algeria with a tale of love, betrayal and right-wing terrorism, censored before it was released.
Sat 10 Nov 2.00pm / Cinema A

Lola 1960 Ages 15+
35MM, 90 MINS, B. & W., MONO, ITALY/FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘With Lola I wanted to make a film about the search for happiness, for love in the modern world. It's difficult to summarise the story: the themes crisscross one another and the film, set in the countryside in June 1960, is constructed around chance meetings and coincidence. That's why I chose three different moments in the life of three characters; Lola, the young cabaret singer and dancer, and a little girl and her mother, who represent her when she's 14 and 38 years old . . . I was thinking of Max Ophuls’ Le Plaisir when I wrote Lola and dedicated the film to him. Maybe this fable belongs to the same tradition as the work of Prévert and Queneau.’ Jacques Demy, 1961
Wed 14 Nov 4.00pm / Cinema A
Sun 25 Nov 12.30pm / Cinema A

Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges) 1962 Ages 15+
35MM, 79 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘In Malle, Truffaut, Vadim, and Losey (and in a somewhat more complex way in Antonioni), Moreau has always been the sensual woman, whose wrinkles, circles, and bags were the physical manifestation of a particularly active sex life. Bardot is an invitation to sex. Moreau reveals its most prosaic effects. In Demy’s film it’s gambling and not love that possesses her.’ Michel Ciment, 1963
Thu 15 Nov 12 noon (with The Riveria — Today’s Eden) / Cinema A

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) 1963 Ages 15+
35MM, 91 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE/WEST GERMANY, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Demy’s colour-saturated laughter-through-tears musical brought this director on the fringes of the New Wave to an international audience. The budding romance between Geneviève and Guy is broken asunder when Guy leaves for the war in Algeria; Geneviève finds that she is carrying his child.
Wed 14 Nov 6.00pm / Cinema A
Sun 25 Nov 2.30pm / Cinema A

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Le Père Noël a les Yeux Bleus) 1966 Ages 15+
35MM, 47 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, LIVE SUBTITLING
‘Eustache made his second film with 35mm black-and-white stock left over from Godard’s Masculin, Féminin and also used that film’s star, Jean-Pierre Léaud. Set in the provinces of Eustache’s youth, the film focuses on the character of Daniel, an unemployed young man who spends most of his time unsuccessfully trying to meet girls and dreaming up money-making scams. One day, needing a new coat, he takes a job as a street-corner Santa Claus and in this role suddenly finds himself able to cope with the opposite sex.’ Harvard Film Archive
Thu 11 Oct 12 noon (with Bad Company) / Cinema A

The Little Soldier (Le Petit Soldat) 1960 Ages 18+
35MM, 88 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Censored for its exposure of right-wing terrorism during the Algerian war and only released in 1963, The Little Soldier tells the story of army deserter Bruno Forestier engaged to kill a journalist sympathetic to the Algerian National Liberation Front. The attack fails and he is captured by Liberation Front members.
Wed 26 Sep 4.00pm / Cinema A

My Life to Live (Vivre sa Vie) 1962 Ages 15+
35MM, 83 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘This hauntingly beautiful film is simultaneously Jean-Luc Godard’s love letter to Anna Karina and an allusion to some of cinema’s great female performances, notably The Passion of Joan of Arc’s Maria Falconetti and the iconic Louise Brooks. A lonely would-be movie star drifts into prostitution in a story focusing on the everyday exchange of sex and money. Based on Emile Zola’s Nana.’ Melbourne Cinémathèque
Sat 22 Sep 12 noon / Cinema A

Les Carabiniers 1963 Ages 15+
16MM, 80 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE/ITALY, FRENCH, SUBTITLED / PRINT SOURCE: NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE, CANBERRA
‘This image of contemporary war is much more striking than a reconstruction of the years 1940–45 would have been, with its old front-wheel drives and orthopedic shoes. The horrors of war and its monstrous stupidity are even more shocking because the fusillades, rapes, massacres, Resistance fighters, and fires, belong to our time and not some epoch in a distant and historic past. The story is told in a deadpan manner with that black humour so characteristic of Godard.’ Georges Sadoul, 1963
Wed 26 Sep 6.00pm / Cinema A

Band of Outsiders (Bande à Part) 1964 Ages 15+
16MM, 97 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘Godard’s joyous realisation of the ‘girl and a gun’ theory follows three students (Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur) killing time and playing at crime. Transcending its noir genre with endless superb vignettes — the mad dash through the Louvre, the dance sequence, both paid homage to by Bernardo Bertolucci and Hal Hartley in recent years — the film features crisp photography by Raoul Coutard and a memorably jazzy score by Michel Legrand.’ Melbourne Cinémathèque
Fri 28 Sep 6.00pm / Cinema A
Wed 3 Oct 4.00pm / Cinema A

Two or Three Things I Know about Her (Deux ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais d’Elle) 1965 Ages 15+
35MM, 90 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘Punctuated by looming Scope close-ups of soap boxes and everyday items — the “cosmos in a coffee cup” sequence is legendary — Godard’s vision of a world in which “dead objects are always alive and live people are already dead” focuses on the daily routine of a housewife-cum-prostitute who moves between husband, pimp and john, kitchen, café and whorehouse with studied indifference. The “her” of the title is also Paris, which was undergoing traumatic “urban renewal” at the time.’ Cinémathèque Ontario
Fri 28 Sep 8.00pm / Cinema A
Wed 3 Oct 6.00pm / Cinema A

Masculin, Féminin 1965 Ages 15+
35MM, 103 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE/SWEDEN, FRENCH/SWEDISH/ENGLISH, SUBTITLED
‘Godard’s critique of the children of Marx and Coca-Cola is notionally based on two Guy de Maupassant stories and stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as a young Parisian intellectual trying to reconcile his political beliefs with his love for a superficial pop singer (real-life French pop chanteuse Chantal Goya).’ Melbourne Cinémathèque
Thu 13 Sep 12 noon / Cinema A

Pierrot le Fou 1965 Ages 15+
35MM, 110 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE/ITALY, FRENCH/ENGLISH, SUBTITLED
‘After abandoning his wife at a Parisian party, bored Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) flees his bourgeois existence with his babysitter and ex-lover, Marianne (Anna Karina). Taking it on the lam to the south of France, the couple becomes an existential Bonnie and Clyde, battling gunrunners, gas station attendants, and American tourists as they come face to face with their own roles as characters in a pop-cultural landscape. A profound turning point in Godard’s cinema, Pierrot le Fou recalls the gangster cool of Breathless and Band of Outsiders while also pointing towards the increasingly essayistic, apocalyptic visions of Two or Three Things I Know About Her and Weekend.’ Janus Films
Wed 17 Oct 7.00pm / Cinema A

Made in USA 1966 Ages 15+
35MM, 90 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘An oblique response to the suspicious arrest and disappearance (in Paris) of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka in 1965, Made in USA is the unseen link between the frivolity of Godard’s early features and the violent pop imagery of La Chinoise and Week-end. ‘Walt Disney plus blood’ is the formula here as Paula Nelson uncovers a conspiracy.’ National Film Theatre
Fri 19 Oct 6.00pm / Cinema A

Week-end 1967 Ages 15+
35MM, 105 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE/ITALY, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘Off for a weekend in the country, a couple drives into the clutches of the National Front for the Liberation of the Seine-et-Oise region. Godard puts Gaulist France under the microscope and ushers in May ’68.’ Gérard Langlois, CinémAction
Fri 19 Oct 8.00pm / Cinema A

Sympathy for the Devil 1968 Ages 15+
35MM, 100 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, UK, ENGLISH
‘Stylistically comparable to the formal experimentation of La Chinoise and Week-end, Sympathy for the Devil is classic anti-establishment Godard and also an exciting insight into both The Rolling Stones and the creative process.’ The Brighton Film Festival, 2006
Fri 30 Nov 6.00pm / Cinema A

The Lovers (Les Amants) 1958 Ages 15+
35MM, 90 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, LIVE SUBTITLING
‘Louis Malle has made the film that everybody carries around in his heart and dreams of turning into a reality: the detailed story of lightning striking, the burning ‘contact of two skins’ which only much later will reveal itself as ‘the exchange between two fantasies’ . . . During the second half of the film — which is to the act of love what the holdup in Rififi was to stealing — Jeanne Moreau is either in a nightgown or completely nude without any of those special indirect effects, such as having her silhouette cut off by a light.’ François Truffaut, 1958
Sun 2 Sep 12.30pm (with The Misfits) / Cinema A

Zazie in the Subway (Zazie dans le Métro) 1960 Ages 15+
35MM, 89 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘Mixing slapstick and surrealism, Malle’s crazy classic is a wildly inventive, whimsically experimental New Wave romp through an Alice in Wonderland Paris. Catherine Demongeot is foul-mouthed, precocious Zazie, a preteen come to the French capital to spend a few days with her drag-queen uncle — and thwarted, by a strike, in her burning desire to ride on the Paris Métro. The film is based on a pun-filled, word-playing novel by Raymond Queneau, for which Malle found wonderfully wacky visual equivalents.’ Pacific Cinémathèque
Sun 7 Oct 1.00pm / Cinema A
Wed 10 Oct 4.00pm / Cinema A

The Fire Within (Le Feu Follet) 1963 Ages 15+
35MM, 108 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE/ITALY, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Venice in 1963, Malle’s film chronicles the final twenty-four hours in the life of a suicide. Maurice Ronet plays Alain, an alcoholic writer and roué at the end of his rope. Released from treatment at a Versailles clinic, he makes the round of old friends and hangouts in Paris, hoping to find a reason to keep living. Malle, who also wrote the screenplay, tells his dark tale with a Bresson-like precision and assurance; the film is based on a 1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, a prominent French fascist and Nazi collaborator who killed himself in 1945.’ Melbourne Cinémathèque
Sun 7 Oct 3.00pm / Cinema A
Wed 10 Oct 6.00pm / Cinema A

Statues Also Die (Les Statues Meurent Aussi) 1953 Ages 15+
16MM, 22 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED / W/ ALAIN RESNAIS
‘This collaborative film, banned for more than a decade by French censors as an attack on French colonialism (and now available only in shortened form), is a deeply felt study of African art and the decline it underwent as a result of its contact with Western civilization. Marker’s characteristically witty and thoughtful commentary is combined with images of a stark formal beauty.’ Harvard Film Archive
Sat 17 Nov 12 noon (with Description of a Struggle) / Cinema A

La Jetée 1962 Ages 15+
16MM, 28 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, GERMAN, SUBTITLED
A ‘photo-novel’ made up of still images, La Jetée is Chris Marker’s cult science fiction masterpiece. After the next atomic war, a man subjected to scientific experimentation is sent through time to find the secret of humanity’s survival. Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys 1995 was inspired by La Jetée.
Wed 7 Nov 4.30pm (with The Astronauts) / Cinem A
Fri 9 Nov 6.00pm (with The Astronauts) / Cinema A

The Lovely Month of May (Le Joli Mai) 1963 Ages 15+
16MM, 165 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, LIVE SUBTITLING / PRINT SOURCE: NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE, CANBERRA
‘This grand-scale, beautifully photographed study of Paris and its people during the month that marked the end of the Algerian War presents interviews with an assortment of citizens and then broadens out to consider the physical setting and political context in which they live. The film has been compared to Jean Rouch’s cinéma vérité classic, Chronicle of a Summer, made the year before.’ Harvard Film Archive
Wed 12 Sep 6.00pm / Cinema A

Far from Vietnam (Loin du Vietnam) 1967 Ages 15+
35MM, 115 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE/USA, FRENCH, SUBTITLED / J IVENS, W KLEIN, C LELOUCH, C MARKER, A RESNAIS, A VARDA, J-L GODARD
‘Seven of France’s leading directors contributed to this essay-film, assembled by Chris Marker, “to assert sympathy with the Vietnamese people fighting against aggression — namely, the USA, waging a rich man’s war.” All the film, whether shot in Hanoi, Saigon, or Cuba, faces the question: How do we in Europe, in Paris, in the United States, live our lives in the context of this war?’ Cinémathèque Ontario
Sat 17 Nov 2.30pm / Cinema A

Guernica 1950 Ages 15+
16MM, 13 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, LIVE SUBTITLING / W/ ROBERT HESSENS / PRINT SOURCE: NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE, CANBERRA
‘Resnais made a number of creative documentaries on art in the late 1940s. This small but powerful film opens with a photograph of the destroyed town of Guernica, a casualty of the Spanish Civil War, and uses fragments of Picasso’s epic painting, together with other works by the artist and a passionate poetic text by Paul Éluard, to create a moving protest against war and a hymn to the possibilities of humanity. Characteristic elements of Resnais’s style are already in evidence in this early work: the use of editing to project a new vision of reality and the subtle and surprising interplay of images with a literary text.’ Harvard Film Archive
Sun 9 Sep 2.00pm (with Night and Fog + Hiroshima Mon Amour) / Cinema A

Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) 1955 Ages 15+
16MM, 32 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Alain Resnais’s ground-breaking documentary juxtaposes stills from the end of the war with contemporary colour footage of the remains of the concentration camps and points to the impossibility of representing the Holocaust. Written and narrated by former inmate Jean Cayrol, with a haunting score by Hanns Eisler, Night and Fog is as much about memory and responsibility as the reality of the camps. MC
Sun 9 Sep 2.00pm (with Guernica + Hiroshima Mon Amour) / Cinema A

Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Ages 15+
35MM, 90 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE/JAPAN, FRENCH/JAPANESE, SUBTITLED
‘Resnais’s first feature film is greatly indebted to Marguerite Duras’s screenplay and is considered one of the finest films of the early French New Wave. Using a radically novel approach to expressing temporality through associative cuts that bridge the past and the present, Resnais presents the subjective point of view of a French woman who, haunted by her past during the war and filming an historical recreation of the atomic blast in Hiroshima, falls in love with a Japanese man.’ Harvard Film Archive
Sun 9 Sep 2.00pm (with Guernica + Night and Fog) / Cinema A

Last Year at Marienbad (L’Année Dernière à Marienbad) 1961 Ages 15+
35MM, 100 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
In a vast baroque mansion a man tries to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before, despite a succession of defeats every time her husband appears. Rejecting chronology, Alain Resnais’s mingling of memory and imagination, past and present, is one of cinema’s most haunting and erotic poems. The cryptic ciné-roman (photo-novel) by Alain Robbe-Grillet, the organ music and Sacha Vierny’s precise, luminous compositions are all unforgettable. MC
Thu 27 Sep 12 noon / Cinema A

Muriel, or the Time of Return (Muriel, ou le Temps d’un Retour) 1963 Ages 18+
16MM, 115 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE/ITALY, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
In this follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad, Hélène invites her lover of 20 years earlier to stay with her. Muriel features rhythmic dialogue and overlapping sound, visionary use of colour and a fragmented, prismatic narrative. Hans Werner Henze’s ethereal modernist score complements Sacha Vierny’s crisp cinematography. MC
Sun 18 Nov 12 noon / Cinema A

The War Is Over (La Guerre est Finie) 1966 Ages 15+
35MM, 121 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE/SWEDEN, FRENCH, LIVE SUBTITLING
‘One of Resnais’s most stylistically accessible and politically committed films, La Guerre est finie tells of an aging Spanish leftist who travels between Paris and Spain as part of a clandestine group dedicated to the overthrow of the Franco regime. Emotionally torn between his long-established mistress and a young student and challenged by younger revolutionaries to realize that the center of the political struggle has moved away from him, he is forced to make choices about his life and his political ideals.’ Harvard Film Archive
Sun 18 Nov 2.30pm / Cinema A

The Nun (La Religieuse) 1965 Ages 15+
35MM, 135 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘Based on the acclaimed eighteenth-century novel by Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot, Rivette’s second feature stars Anna Karina as Suzanne Simonin, a free-spirited young woman who is forced by her parents to enter a convent. Within this cloistered world she encounters church leaders who abuse their positions of power and others who question their calling to serve their faith.’ Harvard Film Archive
Sat 13 Oct 2.00pm / Cinema A

Mad Love (L’Amour Fou) 1967 Ages 15+
16MM/35MM, 252 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘A study of disintegrating personal relationships, L’Amour Fou focuses on a theater group preparing to stage Racine’s Andromaque while being filmed by a television crew. During the rehearsal, the play’s director replaces his wife in the lead with his former mistress. The film, shot in both 16mm and 35mm, was developed from ideas of the cast and technicians and improvised during filming. Its extreme length is integral to its meaning and texture.’ Harvard Film Archive
Sun 14 Oct 12.30pm / Cinema A
Thu 1 Nov 12 noon / Cinema A

Suzanne’s Career (La Carrière de Suzanne) 1963 Ages 18+
16MM, 54 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Two hapless university students meet Suzanne, a young career woman, in a café. One of the boys begins a mean-spirited relationship with her while the other, more timid boy observes, recounting his misguided comprehension of the situation in voiceover. Things get more complicated when Suzanne takes charge of the game. The second of Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales succinctly reveals the gap between intentions and actions. MC
Sat 27 Oct 2.30pm (with The Baker of Monceau + Nadja à Paris) / Cinema A

La Collectionneuse 1967 Ages 15+
16MM, 89 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, LIVE SUBTITLING
‘La Collectionneuse is Haydée, a sweetly free-and-easy girl who sleeps with a different boy every night and, in a summery St Tropez villa, causes some disarray in two men who feel that it is their duty to resist being added to her collection. The literary reference behind their machinations is Choderlos de Laclos (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), demonstrating the emotional sterility of the thinking man’s dandyism when faced with the simplicity of instinct (as advocated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau).’ National Film Theatre
Wed 31 Oct 4.00pm / Cinema B

My Night with Maud (Ma Nuit chez Maud) 1969 Ages 18+
35MM, 110 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a Catholic engineer smug in his beliefs who has his faith, morality and ideas of love tested by a meeting with an attractive, free-spirited and seductively argumentative divorcee. Regarded as Rohmer’s masterpiece, this sophisticated and philosophical third entry in the Six Moral Tales was undoubtedly his breakthrough film and one of the emblematic works of 1960s French cinema. MC
Wed 31 Oct 6.00pm / Cinema B

Jaguar 1954–67 Ages 15+
16MM, 110 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED / PRINT SOURCE: NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE, CANBERRA
‘Jaguar’ was the name given to fashionable men on the make in 1950s and 1960s West Africa. Rouch’s fictionalised documentary about seasonal migration from Niger to the Gold Coast (Ghana) follows Illo, a fisherman, Lam, a shepherd, and the charming Damouré, who improvise roles as would-be ‘jaguars’.
Sun 9 Sep 11.00am / Cinema A

Moi, un Noir (I, a Black) 1959 Ages 15+
16MM, 70 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, LIVE SUBTITLING
Oumarou Ganda plays Edward G Robinson, a young émigré from Niger to the Ivory Coast, in this energetic, slice-of-life film that combines documentary and drama. The use of hand-held camera and improvised acting and narration influenced Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.
Sat 1 Sep 12 noon / Cinema A

Chronicle of a Summer (Chronique d’un Été) 1960–61 Ages 15+
16MM, 85 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED / W/ EDGAR MORIN
Shot in 16mm with a new system of synchronised sound recording, Chronicle of a Summer takes the temperature of Paris in the summer of 1960, as the war in Algeria seemed to be drawing to a close, through the eyes of a disparate cast of characters.
Wed 12 Sep 4.00pm / Cinema A

Adieu Philippine 1962 Ages 15+
35MM, 106 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE/ITALY, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
‘Jacques Rozier’s first film, Adieu Philippine, is the clearest success of this new cinema where spontaneity is all the more powerful when it is the result of long and careful work . . . Its poetry could not emerge clearly from looking at rushes; it arises from any number of perfect harmonies between images and words, sounds and music . . .’ François Truffaut, 1963
Sat 10 Nov 12 noon / Cinema A

The Misfits (Les Mistons) 1957 Ages 15+
16MM, 18 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED / PRINT SOURCE: NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE, CANBERRA
A group of teenage boys — the ‘misfits’ of the title — spend their summer pursuing Bernadette, the object of their adolescent obsession. Truffaut’s impressive début saw him switch from theory to practice in a nostalgic short film about male sexual awakening in 1950s provincial France, with nods to the Lumière brothers and to Jean Cocteau. JH
Sun 2 Sep 12.30pm (with The Lovers) / Cinema A

Shoot the Pianist (Tirez Sur le Pianiste) 1960 Ages 15+
35MM, 92 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Film noir meets melodrama in Truffaut’s adaptation of David Goodis’s novel. Iconic singer Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a former classical pianist whose life is turned upside down following his wife’s suicide. Charlie plays piano in a Paris bar and tries to rebuild his life through his relationship with waitress Léna while being drawn into the world of his small-time gangster brothers. JH
Fri 21 Sep 6.00pm / Cinema A
Sat 6 Oct 12 noon / Cinema A

Jules et Jim 1962 Ages 15+
35MM, 105 MINS, B. & W., FRANCE, FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, SUBTITLED
Best friends, virile Frenchman Jules and introspective German Jim, fall for the enigmatic Catherine. Jules marries her before World War One, separating the two friends. The three reconnect after the armistice, developing a ménage à trois, which will last years before drawing to its tragic conclusion. JH
Fri 21 Sep 8.00pm / Cinema A
Sat 6 Oct 2.00pm / Cinema A

The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce) 1964 Ages 15+
16MM, 113 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE/PORTUGAL, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Married academic Pierre falls for air hostess Brigitte en route to Lisbon where he is giving a lecture on Balzac. An affair ensues when Pierre meets Brigitte in Paris and takes her to Reims on a business trip. When Pierre’s wife Nicole discovers the affair, Pierre seeks a divorce but Nicole refuses, with the impasse leading to an abrupt and shocking finale. JH
Sun 23 Sep 12.30pm / Cinema A

Fahrenheit 451 1966 Ages 15+
35MM, 112 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, UK, ENGLISH
Fahrenheit 451 is Truffaut’s troubling adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction landmark. In a futuristic society where books have been banned, fire officer Montag — in charge of enforcing book burning — meets Clarisse who resembles his wife Linda. Unlike conformist Linda, however, Clarisse questions society’s conventions, and her influence leads Montag to secretly read books himself. JH
Fri 9 Nov 8.00pm / Cinema A

Stolen Kisses (Baisers Volés) 1968 PG
35MM, 90 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
The third in Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle, Stolen Kisses sees eternal adolescent Antoine leave military prison to reconnect with the prim Christine. Antoine embarks on a series of jobs, notably as a detective hired by a shoe shop proprietor to discover whether his wife, the enigmatic Fabienne Tabard, is having an affair. Naturally, Antoine falls for Fabienne, who comes to play an important role in his sentimental education. JH
Sun 23 Sep 3.00pm (with Antoine and Collette) / Cinema A

L’Opéra-Mouffe 1958 Ages 15+
16MM, 16 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
A sensual, subjective diary of life in Paris’s iconic rue Mouffetard — the winding cobble-stoned street bustling with shoppers and open air markets — as experienced by a young, pregnant woman. Varda (expecting a child herself at the time) spent several days perched above the street with her camera, blending in with her surrounds, to bring to life the fresh sensations of the district in this neo-realist reflection on life and nature in urban settings. JH
Wed 5 Sep 4.00pm (with The Short Point) / Cinema A

The Riviera — Today’s Eden (Du Côté de la Côte) 1958 Ages 15+
35MM, 25 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Varda’s irreverent documentary on the French Riviera is all the more remarkable for being commissioned by the French Tourist Office. Varda’s love of nature, the colourful, and the absurd are all rendered with a detached humour through the marriage of striking, singular images and witty commentary. An ode to the quest for an illusory Eden, Varda’s film is an original and fascinating essay on tourism. JH
Thu 15 Nov 12 noon (with Bay of Angels) / Cinema A

Salut les Cubains 1963 Ages 15+
35MM, 30 MINS, B. & W., MONO, FRANCE/CUBA, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Varda created this period gem from the 1800 photographs she took in Cuba, adding her commentary on Castro, socialism, modern life and music.
Thu 20 Sep 12 noon (with Happiness + Black Panthers) / Cinema A

Happiness (Le Bonheur) 1964 Ages 15+
35MM, 79 MINS, COLOUR, MONO, FRANCE, FRENCH, SUBTITLED
Young carpenter François, his wife Claire and their children live an idyllic lifestyle close to nature just outside of Paris. One day, François meets postal worker Emilie who, in many ways, resembles his wife. Rather than hide the affair, François tells Claire about it, explaining that it adds ‘happiness to happiness’. Varda surprises with this highly original and gently parodic portrait of marriage and relationships set to the joyous strains of Mozart. JH
Thu 20 Sep 12 noon (with Salut les Cubains + Black Panthers) / Cinema A

Black Panthers (Huey) 1968 Ages 15+
35MM, 47 MINS, B. & W., MONO, USA, ENGLISH
This riveting film made for French television about the Black Panther movement documents one of the many rallies held in solidarity with Huey Newton, one of the Panthers’ founders arrested for the alleged murder of a police officer. This film is a monument to the hope and enthusiasm embodied by the movement in turbulent 1960s America. JH
Thu 20 Sep 12 noon (with Salut les Cubains + Happiness) / Cinema A