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HUF 1 000 (Free with IF PASS)
15:00 - Lumiere! The Adventure Continues
Documentary, b&w, 2024, FR, 105’ | dir: Thierry Frémaux | French with HU and ENG subtitles
The first motion pictures created in the workshop of the Lumière brothers are once again shown on the big screen marking the 130th anniversary of the birth of cinema. We set off on a journey to the earliest days of film history through 120 fascinating, funny, touching, well-known and never-seen-before shorts, narrated by Thierry Frémaux. Subjects, technical solutions and aesthetic decisions that have been with us from the first moments to the modern day and which have shaped movie culture. The film is the continuation of the documentary Lumière! The Adventure Begins that was similarly shown at Film Marathon, in 2018.
17:00 - François Truffaut, My Life, a Screenplay
Documentary, color, 2024, FR, 100’ | dir: David Teboul | French with HU and ENG subtitles
Directed by David Teboul
Screenplay by David Teboul, Serge Toubiana
Music by Grégoire Hetzel
Cast (voice): Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
François Truffaut, artist of perhaps the most intimate films of the French new wave, always planned to write (but never completed) his autobiography. This documentary tries to fill this void using Truffaut’s unpublished scripts and correspondence, while at the same time remaining faithful to the director’s vision. His entire oeuvre is determined by his experiences of childhood and early adolescence, complete with all their joys and pain. This special and moving film may not provide us with the key to Truffaut but it gets us very close to the great director and his works, which in any case are important in themselves.
19:00 - Joshua Then And Now
Comedy, color, 1985, CA, 178’ | dir: Ted Kotcheff | English with HU subtitles
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Writen by Mordecai Richler
Screenplay by Mordecai Richler
Director of photography: François Protat
Music by Philippe Sarde
Cast: James Woods, Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin
The film adapted from the novel by Mordecai Richler that is heavy with autobiographical details is the story of a Jewish writer living in Montreal. How did Joshua, the popular celebrity author, make it to the top, and how did it all collapse in a moment? Questions about vocation, sex, family, religion from the angle of a mature man and long-time celeb, sometimes philosophically, sometimes with a dash of humour. Barney’s Version, similarly written by Mordecai Richler 25 years later, is in the programme as well.
The screening will be introduced by Robert Lantos, producer.