Character actors and actresses
In Hollywood, they are called ‘’character actors’’, but in French, there is no specific expression for the people embodying those iconic parts. From Thelma Ritter in Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953), Laura Betti in the Mario Bava films, Michael Lonsdale in Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968) to Warren Oates, Udo Kier, Michel Vuillermoz and Jean-Christophe Bouvet, the best actors and actresses used their talent and body to play those parts that constantly question the norms of society. La Transversale displays more than twenty films presented by exclusive guests, a carte blanche given to Bernard Eisenschitz to show silent films, and a John Cazale retrospective with screenings of the six films he starred in, from The Godfather to The Deer Hunter.
In collaboration with Mathieu Macheret.
Films
Le Chemin de Rio
Robert Siodmak
Trouble in Paradise
Ernst Lubitsch
The Black Cat
Edgar G. Ulmer
My Darling Clementine
John Ford
Pickup on South Street
Samantha Fuller
The Big Heat
Fritz Lang
Baisers volés
François Truffaut
Two-Lane Blacktop
Monte Hellman
Il Rosso segno della follia
Mario Bava
La Grande Bouffe
Marco Ferreri
Le Fantôme de la Liberté
Luis Buñuel
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman
Sous le soleil de Satan
Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen
My Own Private Idaho
Gus Van Sant
J'entends plus la guitare
Philippe Garrel
The Big Lebowski
Joel Coen / Ethan Coen
Les Herbes folles
Alain Resnais
Holy Motors
Leos Carax
Un couteau dans le coeur
Yann Gonzalez
The American Way
Marvin Starkman
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather: Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
Dog Day Afternoon
Sidney Lumet
