Come(dy) a cropper
LA TRANSVERSALE
This thematically based series of screenings explores one of the questions posed by film through cinematic works from many different periods and countries, with an emphasis on masterpieces or rarely-viewed creations.
Come(dy) a cropper
For many years, the world’s most well-known character was not a superhero but a short, clumsy tramp, who smoked other people’s cigarette butts, slept outside, was chased by the police and incapable of holding down a job: Charlie Chaplin’s Charlot. Beginning with this legendary figure, this series of screenings explores how comedy, that most transgressive of genres, deals with society’s outcasts, the poor, the marginalised, down-and-outs, the unemployed and other such characters who have come a cropper, in order to move them from the outskirts of society to the heart of film fiction.
THE FILMS :
The Floorwalker (Charles Chaplin, 1916, USA)
Easy Street (Charles Chaplin, 1917, USA)
A Dog’s Life (Charles Chaplin, 1918, USA)
The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, 1917, USA)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925, USA)
À nous la liberté (René Clair, 1931, France)
Boudu sauvé des eaux (Jean Renoir, 1932, France)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936, USA)
Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1938, USA)
Tobacco Road (John Ford, 1941, USA)
El Gran Calavera (Luis Buñuel, 1949, Mexico)
Miracolo a Milano (Vittorio de Sica, 1951, Italy)
Guardi & Ladri (Mario Monicelli et Steno, 1951, Italy)
La Ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963, Italy)
Macunaima (Joachim Pedro de Andrade, 1969, Brazil)
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973, USA)
Pousse Pousse (Daniel Kamwa, 1974, Cameroon)
Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (Ettore Scola, 1976, Italy)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979, UK)
La Comédie du travail (Luc Moullet, 1988, France)
La Vie de bohème (Aki Kaurismäki, 1991, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden)
Adieu, plancher des vaches ! (Otar Iosseliani, 1999, France, Switzerland, Italy)
Louise-Michel (Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, 2008, France)
Copacabana (Marc Fitoussi, 2010, France, Belgium)
Saya Zamuraï (Hitoshi Matsumoto, 2010, Japan)
Young audience : Lady and the Tramp (Walt Disney, 1955, USA)
La Cinémathèque française presents "Zéro de conduite", a ciné-concert with a selection of primitive burlesque films from its collections (Gribouille redevient Boireau, Pathé frères, 1912 ; Cochon danseur, Pathé, 1907 ; Léontine est incorrigible, Louis Z. Rollini, 1910 ; Sur un air de charleston, Jean Renoir, 1927). With the musical accompaniement of the pianist Gaël Mevel.
