France’s Deauville American Movie Competition has introduced a retrospective gathering 50 U.S. options which have challenged perceptions of the world to mark its fiftieth anniversary.
The choice ranges from D. W. Griffith’s 1916 silent epic Intolerance to Quentin Tarantino’s As soon as Upon A Time In Hollywood, and likewise contains Ida Lupino’s groundbreaking 1950 rape drama Outrage in addition to Spike Lee’s Do The Proper Factor. (see full listing under)
“Cinema has at all times made us dream, journey, want, fantasize, snigger, cry. However what number of movies have been capable of shake up our certainties, query our beliefs, query our prejudices and put our personal views into perspective?,” mentioned the competition.
“The Deauville American Movie Competition wished to spotlight a choice of 50 movies which have modified the best way we take a look at the world,” it continued.
Launched in 1975, the competition unfolding within the swanky Normandy seaside resort of Deauville, yearly fetes Hollywood expertise and likewise helps American indie cinema by its competitors centered on U.S. options by rising skills with or in search of distribution in France.
Current winners have included Shane Atkinson’s LaRay, Texas, Charlotte Wells’ US-produced and backed breakout Aftersun as properly Annie Silverstein’s Bull and Jim Cummings’ Thunder Street.
This 12 months’s anniversary version is below new interim administration following the suspension of the competition’s long-time director Bruno Barde final month, following accusations by seven ladies of sexual harassment, which he has denied.
As beforehand introduced, Michael Douglas shall be visitor of honor on the fiftieth version in what shall be his fifth journey to the competition, for which he says he has a particular affection because the place the place he met his now spouse Catherine Zeta Jones.
The fiftieth version runs from September 6 to fifteen.
Full Retrospective Line-Up
- 1916 Intolerance, D. W. Griffith
- 1927 Dawn: A Track of Two People, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- 1932 Freaks, Tod Browning
- 1939 Gone With The Wind, Victor Fleming
- 1940 The Nice Dictator, Charlie Chaplin
- 1941 Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
- 1942 Casablanca, Michael Curtiz
- 1942 To Be Or Not To Be, Ernst Lubitsch
- 1946 It’s A Fantastic Life, Frank Capra
- 1950 Outrage, Ida Lupino
- 1950 All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1955 The Evening Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton
- 1956 The Searchers, John Ford
- 1959 Anatomy Of A Homicide, Otto Preminger
- 1959 Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks
- 1959 Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk
- 1959 Some Like It Sizzling, Billy Wilder
- 1960 Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock
- 1961 West Facet Story, Robert Sensible & Jerome Robbins
- 1967 Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn
- 1968 2001: A House Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
- 1969 Straightforward Rider, Dennis Hopper
- 1969 The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah
- 1970 Wanda, Barbara Loden
- 1972 The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola
- 1972 Cabaret, Bob Fosse
- 1973 The Exorcist, William Friedkin
- 1974 A Girl Below The Affect, John Cassavetes
- 1975 One Flew Out Of The Cuckoo Nest, Milos Forman
- 1976 Community, Sidney Lumet
- 1976 Carrie, Brian de Palma
- 1976 Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese
- 1977 Star Wars, Georges Lucas
- 1978 The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino
- 1982 E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg
- 1982 Rambo, Ted Kotcheff
- 1984 Terminator, James Cameron
- 1989 Do The Proper Factor, Spike Lee
- 1990 Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton
- 1992 Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood
- 1997 Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson
- 1999 Matrix, the Wachowskis
- 1999 Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola
- 2001 Mulholland Drive, David Lynch
- 2003 Elephant, Gus Van Sant
- 2007 Zodiac, David Fincher
- 2010 Inception, Christopher Nolan
- 2012 Zero Darkish Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow
- 2015 Highlight, Tom McCarthy
- 2019 As soon as Upon A Time In… Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
