Restored and projected on the big screen, accompanied by music, masterpieces and rarely seen silent flicks reclaim their full power and modernity with each passing edition.
Pour le centenaire de Metropolis, le chef-d’œuvre de Fritz Lang sera accompagné par la “Symphonie du Centenaire”, nouvelle partition composée et dirigée par Don Davis et interprétée par l’Orchestre national de Lyon, en première mondiale. Autre joyau de 1927, Le Coup de foudre, porté par l’irrésistible Clara Bow, accompagné à l’orgue par Gabriele Agrimonti.
En coproduction avec l’ONL - Auditorium de Lyon
2026. Metropolis is a teeming megalopolis, where the workers are slaves forced to grind away to ensure the happiness of a privileged elite... The gigantic, visionary opus constitutes the culmination of German Expressionism and is widely regarded as the absolute apex of silent film.
When a new director takes over his father’s position as the head of a department store, a young salesgirl unleashes her charm with the goal of seducing him… A bona fide icon, Clara Bow becomes the original “It girl” in film history, starring in this delicious comedy, a resounding success of the Roaring Twenties.
Plongée dans la psychanalyse chez Pabst, le mélodrame d’aventures avec La Madone des sleepings, la Russie impériale dans Tempête, la sensualité avec le sulfureux Erotikon. Quatre pépites du muet, venues d’Allemagne, de France, de Tchécoslovaquie ou des États-Unis.
After a sordid killing is committed near his home, a man (Werner Krauss) haunted by murderous dreams, consults a psychoanalyst... Pabst’s œuvre was the first film to depict Freudian theories of the unconscious through avant-garde editing.
Prince Séliman (Olaf Fjord) becomes the personal secretary of an offbeat aristocrat (Claude France) and goes off to negotiate oil concessions... A stylized adaptation featuring lavish production sets, this silent flick was a major triumph of the Roaring Twenties.
In tsarist Russia, a peasant's son who has become an officer, falls in love with a princess. She rejects him and the Revolution will seal his fate... A great melodrama led by the intensity of John Barrymore.
The daughter of a railroad crossing guard is charmed by a passing traveler; their encounter will change the course of her life… An erotic love/lust-at-first-sight story, a portrait of a woman exploring her sensuality. A grand œuvre of Czech silent cinema!
Des premiers courts métrages de Chaplin aux irrésistibles catastrophes de Laurel et Hardy, un voyage au cœur du burlesque muet, pour faire découvrir aux plus petits l’inventivité comique des pionniers du cinéma, avec une séance magistrale à la Halle Tony Garnier.
The Boxer, The Floorwalker and The Vagabond: three adventures in which Chaplin puts on full display his bag of genius tricks (stunts, chases, clumsiness and tenderness).
Wrong Again! by Leo McCarey, That's My Wife by Lloyd French, Big Business by James W. Horne, Double Whoopee by Lewis R. Foster: four shorts rife with chaotic disasters courtesy of Laurel and Hardy, the legendary twosome of American slapstick.
