8:30 pm
JEAN MITRY AWARD
to follow:
Rediscoveries and Restorations
SALLY, IRENE AND MARY (Le tre grazie) (US 1925; 76’)
by Edmund Goulding, with Joan Crawford
Pianoforte: Donald Sosin

“It is the story of three beautiful café concert singers, of whom only one will win the happiness she longs for. The plot, able to reach moments of intense drama, is very enjoyable as it reveals what goes on behind the scenes of the great New York theatres, where all that glitters is not gold and where the finest actresses must smile for the audience even when their hearts are heavy. Excellent performance by Joan Crawford (Irene), Sally O’Neil (Mary), Constance Bennett (Sally), William Haines, etc.” (La Rivista Cinematografica, 2/1928)

10:30 pm - The Canon Revisited
GARDIENS DE PHARE (The Lighthouse Keepers) (FR 1929; 82’)
by Jean Grémillon
Musical accompaniment: Günter Buchwald

A father and son bid farewell, one to his wife, the other to his fiancée, and set off in a boat for a thirty-day duty as lighthouse keepers; The son shows his father the bite inflicted by a dog during a stroll with his fiancée; in the meantime, rabies has been diagnosed in their village… Gardiens de phare is original in various ways: it has a documentary quality, recording life and work in the lighthouse, and the women who harvest seaweed on shore; it conveys the extraordinary architectural luminosity inside the lighthouse and the views of the swollen sea around it. It also has an audacious narrative, intertwining scenes in the present, the past, the anticipated future, and the nightmares of the rabies-stricken son.