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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Non plus ultra! Cinema and Circus
November 22, 2009-February 14, 2010 at
Filmmuseum München
, Munich
Focus on the following themes: Harry Piel, Federico Fellini, Max Ophüls, the clown, the trapeze artist, Tod Browning, circus families, Arthur Maria Rabenalt, circus travesties.
Featured Works:
The Show (Tod Browning, 1926); Was ist los im Zirkus Beely? (Harry Piel, 1926); The Circus (Charles Chaplin, 1927); The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927); Salto Mortale (Ewald André Dupont, 1931); Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932); The Bartered Bride (Die verkaufte Braut, Max Ophüls, 1932); Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen (Harry Piel, 1938); Die drei Codonas (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1939); Männer müssen so sein (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1939); You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (George Marshall, 1939); Akrobat Schööön! (Wolfgang Staudte, 1943); Zirkus Renz (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1943); The Mercury Wonder Show (Orson Welles, 1944); Parade (Jacques Tati, 1947); La ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950); The Tiger's Claw (Der Tiger Akbar, Harry Piel, 1951); The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. DeMille, 1952); The Naked Night (Gycklarnas afton, Ingmar Bergman, 1953); La strada (Federico Fellini, 1954, pictured); Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1956); Trapeze (Carol Reed, 1956); The Wrestler and the Clown (Borets i kloun, Boris Barnet and Konstantin Judin, 1957); Calder's Circus (Le cirque de Calder, Carlos Vilardebó, 1961); 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963); Salto mortale (TV, 1969, Michael Braun); I clowns (Federico Fellini, 1970); My Name Is Joker (Mera Naam Joker, Raj Kapoor, 1970); Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman, 1976); The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1996);Murnau's 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film (Janet Bergstrom, 2002); Calimucho (Eugenie Jansen, 2008)
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