The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Auteurs Gone Wild
March 20—30, 2014 at
Anthology Film Archives
, New York
"Auteurs Gone Wild" combs the filmographies of some of the towering filmmakers of classical Hollywood - Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, George Cukor, and others - to zero in on their most atypical works. The series highlights the bizarro, stereotype-busting, seemingly flukey projects in which these artists were afforded (or demanded) the freedom to work in unfamiliar genres, to flex new stylistic muscles, or to transgress conventional studio strictures. These Halley's-comet films may not fit neatly into the rest of their bodies of work, but for precisely that reason they each represent a fascinating window into the creative sensibilities of their respective makers.
Featured Works:
Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra, 1933); You and Me (Fritz Lang, 1938); Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway, 1935); Edward, My Son (George Cukor, 1949); A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin, 1923); A Countess from Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin, 1967); Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock, 1949); Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932); The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg, 1953).