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Concerts du midi : Die Austernprinzessin

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Credits

Country :
Allemagne
Year :
1919
Director :
Ernst Lubitsch
Version :
German intertitles, English subtitles
Duration :
60 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson, Harry Liedtke
Cine-concert co-produced by the OCL and the Luxembourg City Cinémathèque | With thanks to Patricia Heckert (Murnau-Stiftung)

synopsis

Ernst Lubitsch’s 1919 comedy about modern family ties sparkles with wit. In this grotesque comedy from the early days of silent cinema, the genius Ernst Lubitsch tells the story of a millionaire who made his fortune in the oyster trade and marries his daughter to a penniless German aristocrat. Lubitsch already displays his Lubitsch touch, often copied but never equalled: a witty blend of humour and frivolity. Wonderfully grotesque and full of subtle punchlines.
 

Music & Direction

Olivier Dartevelle, Orchestre de Chambre Luxembourg

Die Austernprinzessin

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Cinémathèque LIVE

The King of Kings

Home Programme Cinémathèque LIVE The King of Kings

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1928
Director :
Cecil B. DeMille
Version :
English intertitles
Duration :
110 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, Rudolph Schildkraut, Jacqueline Logan
🎞️ General release version from 1928
With live piano accompaniment by Hughes Maréchal

synopsis

This biblical epic, the most expensive film of its time, chronicles the life of Jesus Christ, from his ministry of compassion and miracles in Jerusalem. It depicts Judas’s betrayal, the trial, and the crucifixion. The final resurrection conveys a message of hope, redemption, and faith.

Conçu pour marquer profondement l’esprit des spectateurs. Cecil B. DeMille utilise tout son savoir-faire dans des effets visuels étonnants (telle la sortie des sept peches capitaux de Marie-Madeleine) ou dans l’éclairage (Jésus est inondé de lumière de telle sorte que la lumière semble provenir de son corps) ou encore dans les scènes à grand spectacle (le tremblement de terre lors de la Crucifixion) et les grands mouvements de foule. "The King of Kings" est un film d’une grande force.

L’OEil sur l’écran

The King of Kings

Tremendous is "The King of Kings" – tremendous in its lesson, in the daring of its picturization for a commercial theatre and tremendous in its biggest scene, the Crucifixion of Christ.

Variety

With zebra races, dancing girls and a cast of thousands, this fills the screen with sensation and big images that still have the capacity to amuse and entertain.

Film4

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Ciné-concerts | Philharmonie

Blackmail

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Credits

Country :
UK
Year :
1929
Director :
Alfred Hitchcock
Version :
English intertitles
Duration :
84 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Charles Paton
Coproduction Philharmonie and Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg

synopsis

Frank Webber is a detective inspector at Scotland Yard. One day, he has an argument with his fiancée. She decides to follow a young painter to his studio, believing that with another man, her life will be different…


MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT  

The musical accompaniment is provided by the Luxembourg Philharmonic, conducted by Frank Strobel. The score is composed by Neil Brand, with orchestration by Timothy Brock.

Blackmail

I’ve seen Blackmail many times but never like that – Neil Brand’s score was amazing, it picked out so many details that you might miss without the music being there, and it really brought the film to life… this odd coincidence of people and light and chemicals trapped in this medium but somehow being conjured back to life before our eyes and ears in that performance was extraordinary.

Matthew Sweet – ‘Caught on Film’ BBC Radio 4

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The McCarey Way

The Early Genius of Leo McCarey

Home Programme The McCarey Way The Early Genius of Leo McCarey

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1924
Director :
Leo McCarey
Version :
English intertitles
Duration :
96 minutes
Format :
digital
🎹 Programme of silent short films with live piano accompaniment by Hughes Maréchal

synopsis

This programme presents a selection of silent shorts made during Leo McCarey’s formative years at Hal Roach Studios, where he began working in 1923. The films trace McCarey’s rapid ascent from gag writer to one of the studio’s key creative minds. Starting with scenario work and gag construction, he soon moved behind the camera to direct Charley Chase shorts, developing his instinct for performance, rhythm and narrative structure. By the late 1920s, he was supervising productions and shaping the work of others, most notably by bringing together Laurel & Hardy as a permanent duo and defining their comic dynamic. Seen together, these shorts reveal McCarey’s rapid development as a filmmaker — cultivating his own voice, mastering precise timing, and refining character-driven comedy within the collaborative environment of Hal Roach Studios.


Programme : 

The Poor Fish USA 1924 | Cast : Charley Chase, Beth Darlington, Sammy Brooks

Mighty Like a Moose USA 1924 | Cast : Charley Chase, Vivien Oakland, Ann Howe

Pass the Gravy USA 1928 | Fred Guiol, supervision Leo McCarey | Cast : Max Davidson, Martha Sleeper, Bert Sprotte

Wrong Again USA 1929 | Cast : Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

Liberty USA 1929 | Cast : Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

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Live Cinema

The Circus

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1928
Director :
Charlie Chaplin
Version :
English intertitles
Duration :
71 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Charlie Chaplin
Age classification :
Recommended for ages 6 and up
A production of the Cinémathèque in cooperation with the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the Philharmonie Luxembourg | Luxembourg Philharmonic under the direction of Timothy Brock
Charlie Chaplin™ © Bubbles Incorporated SA | Le Cirque © Roy Export S.A.S | Music Copyright © Roy Export Company Ltd. et Bourne Co.

synopsis

Live Cinema Family Edition with Charlie Chaplin

The Tramp, mistaken for a pickpocket, takes refuge in a circus and bursts into the ring in the middle of a performance. His arrival makes the audience laugh, and the ringmaster immediately hires him as a clown. The Tramp falls in love with the equestrienne, but his rival has him dismissed…

The Circus

Avec 'Le Cirque', les enfants plongent immédiatement dans l’univers de Chaplin : les jeunes spectateurs – comme les adultes – sont aussitôt emportés par la poésie, la drôlerie, la vivacité, la cruauté, la somme de sentiments contradictoires, du rire aux larmes tout le temps… Quand le monde intérieur chaplinesque regarde vers l’univers du cirque, lui-même porteur de multiples occasions de rêver, de rire et d’être triste, on atteint la magie.

École et cinéma

A brilliant combination of light and darkness, tenderness and violence and, yes, laughter and tears.

Andrew O’Heir

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Live Cinema

Lady Windermere’s Fan

Home Programme Live Cinema Lady Windermere’s Fan

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1925
Director :
Ernst Lubitsch
Version :
English intertitles
Duration :
88 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Irene Rich
📖 Based on the play by Oscar Wilde
A production of the Cinémathèque in cooperation with the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the Philharmonie Luxembourg | Luxembourg Philharmonic under the direction of Timothy Brock
Artist Talk : Timothy Brock in conversation with Francisco Sassetti ► Friday 23 January at 18h45

synopsis

In London high society, Lady Windermere suspects her husband of infidelity with a mysterious woman, while rumors and appearances create numerous misunderstandings.

Lady Windermere's Fan

Things are rarely exactly what they’re presented to be in a Lubitsch film – there’s always a complication, always a nuance, always another side to every story – and this tendency is at its most delicious height here, in his greatest silent film.

Cine-File

'Lady Windermere’s Fan' stands as one of the great achievements of silent film, an alignment of form and feeling that grows more impressive with each viewing.

MoMA

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Afternoon Adventures

Safety Last!

Home Programme Afternoon Adventures Safety Last!

Credits

Country :
USA
Director :
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Version :
without dialogue
Duration :
70 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
Age classification :
EA | Recommended for ages 7 and up
🎶 Live piano accompaniment by Hughes Maréchal

synopsis

A humble department store clerk, Harold lets his fiancée believe he’s part of the management team. Eager to impress his superiors, he comes up with a publicity stunt to attract customers: a daredevil scaling the store’s skyscraper. But fate has other plans…

Visuel : Safety First !

Le film le plus connu d’Harold Lloyd et un sommet du cinéma burlesque muet.

Guide des films, Éd. R. Laffont

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd – the modern guy striving for success – is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure!

Criterion

One of the best of Lloyd’s thrill-comedies, a superb example of his ability to mix suspense and slapstick.

TimeOut

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Ciné-concerts | Philharmonie

Vertigo

Home Programme Ciné-concerts | Philharmonie Vertigo

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1958
Director :
Alfred Hitchcock
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
128 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Awards :
Greatest Film of All Time, Sight & Sound poll 2012
Coproduction Philharmonie and Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg

synopsis

Vertigo is a masterclass in cinema produced in 1958 by Alfred Hitchcock. Using San Francisco and its bay as a backdrop, he captures with extraordinary mastery the dreamlike and tortuous love story between Kim Novak and James Stewart, exploring the torments of desire and guilt.

 

Musical accompaniment

The musical accompaniment is provided by the Luxembourg Philharmonic, under the direction of Ben Palmer.

Vertigo

Le chef-d’œuvre d’Hitchcock, tant par la mise en scène, absolument parfaite, que par le scénario, complètement déroutant. L’originalité de l’œuvre repose sur la double fin, puisqu’aux deux tiers du film, on connaît la clé de l’énigme et l’histoire repart vers une nouvelle direction, tout à fait inattendue. Tout le film baigne dans une atmosphère étrange, à la limite du fantastique, accompagnée par une sublime musique de Bernard Herrmann.

Guide des films, Éd. Laffont

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Dances with Wolves

Home Programme Ciné-concerts | Philharmonie Dances with Wolves

Credits

Country :
USA-UK
Year :
1990
Director :
Kevin Costner
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
181 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
Awards :
7 Oscars, dont Meilleur film et Meilleur réalisateur

synopsis

Dances with Wolves marks actor Kevin Costner’s directorial debut and also stars him in the lead role. Winner of seven Oscars, this humanist fresco set against the backdrop of the American Civil War conjures up wide open spaces, poignant fraternisation and a moving love story, the whole thing underpinned by John Barry’s grandiose score.

 

Musical accompaniment

The musical accompaniment is provided by the Luxembourg Philharmonic, under the direction of Kevin Griffiths.

Kevin Griffiths

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