• Unmade British Cinema in National Press

      The Independent covers Cine-City’s NEVERMADE programme in yesterdays paper, 18 November 2009.

      http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-best-films-never-made-1821716.html

    • HENRI GEORGES CLOUZOT INFERNO (15)

      Sun 29 Nov 6.00pm

      Duke of York’s Picturehouse

      DIRECTOR Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea. France 2009. 100mins. French With English Subtitles

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      In 1964 legendary director Henri-Georges Clouzot, dubbed the ‘French Hitchcock’ for his hugely successful 50s thrillers THE WAGES OF FEAR and LES DIABOLIQUES, began work on his cherished project, INFERNO. Starring Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani in a study of jealousy and madness, Clouzot was determined to push the boundaries of cinema. With an unlimited budget and influenced by some of the kaleidoscopic imagery he had recently seen in art galleries, Clouzot began shooting a mass of material: gorgeous monochrome location footage and stunning hallucinatory studio tests, before the production was shut down after 3 weeks. Directors Bromberg and Medrea have pieced together the long lost footage and with interviews and read-throughs of key scenes, have fashioned an intriguing and visually rich documentary about one of the great lost films.

    • BRITAIN’S LOST CINEMA: THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY

      Mon 30 Nov 6.15pm

      Sallis Benney Theatre

      FREE

      Nost.SulacoSquare

      Film historian and broadcaster Ian Christie explores some of the films that Michael Powell, David Lean and Terry Gilliam, among others, didn’t manage to make, and asks how these might have changed our image of these directors. All film-makers sufferfrom cherished projects failing to get made, after many months or years have been spent preparing them. Would they have been masterpieces – or were some perhaps better not made? And how much can we know about them? Ian Christie has published many books on Michael Powell, Gilliam on Gilliam and, most recently, The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design.

    • TWO IMPOSSIBLE FILMS

      Thu 3 Dec 8.00pm

      Sallis Benney Theatre

      Screening to complement the Mark Lewis exhibition are his TWO IMPOSSIBLE FILMS, made in 1995 and based on a pair of projects that were never made, Eisenstein’s movie of Marx’s Das Kapital and Sam Goldwyn’s fantasy of filming the works of Freud.

      Please see MARK LEWIS for ticket link.