Imaginary Cinematheque
In 1990, I had the occasion to meet Satyajit Ray in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and asked him his “Imaginary Cinematheque” (ses films coups-de-coeur) and was expecting some titles. He suggested I come back after two days. When back, wouaw, a list of 43 films … Some of these were shown in conjunction with a retrospective of Ray’s films in 1993, in Brussels, at the Film Museum, in parallel to an exhibition I conceived a set of 4 exhibitions: on Ray’s drawings, one on the architecture of Calcutta w/ photographs by Fabien de Cugnac, an exhibition on Portraits of Ray by Nemai Ghosh, and and and an exhibition on Henri Cartier-Bresson in India.
Alok Nandi
- Charlie Chaplin – La ruée vers l’or
- Buster Keaton – Le mécano de la Générale
- Robert Flaherty – L’homme d’Aran
- Carl Dreyer – La passion de Jeanne d’Arc
- Fr. Wilhem Murnau – Nosferatu
- Nicolaï Ekk – Le chemin de la vie
- Alexandre Douvjenko – La terre
- Marc Donskoy – L’enfance de Gorki
- Jean Renoir – La règle du jeu
- John Ford – La poursuite infernale
- Ernst Lubitsch – Haute pègre
- Ingmar Bergman – Cris et chuchotements
- Vittorio De Sica – Le voleur de bicyclette
- Michelangelo Antonioni – La nuit
- Federico Fellini – 8 1/2
- Max Ophüls – Lettre d’une inconnue
- Franck Capra – Mr. Smith au Sénat
- William Wyler – La vipère
- Billy Wilder – Assurance sur la mort
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
- John Huston – Le faucon maltais
- Lewis Millestone – Le commando de la mort
- Alfred Hitchcock – Fenêtre sur cour
- Sidney Lumet – Douze hommes en colère
- Rouben Mamoulian – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide
- Milos Forman – Taking off
- Roman Polanski – Chinatown
- Stanley Kubrick – 2001 Odyssée de l’espace
- Alan J. Pakula – Klute
- Woody Allen – Intérieurs
- George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy et le Kid
- David Lean – Les grandes espérances
- Carol Reed – Première désillusion
- Carlos Saura – Noces de sang
- Kozintsev – Le roi Lear
- Sergei M. Eisenstein – Ivan le Terrible
- Georges Rouquier – Farrebique
- François Truffaut – Les 400 coups
- Akira Kurosawa – Les sept samourais
- Yasujiro Ozu – Voyage à Tokyo
- Kenji Mizoguchi – Contes de la lune vague après la pluie
- Sam Wood – Une nuit à l’opéra
- Mark Sandrich – Top Hat