Deauville American Film Festival Marks 50th Anniversary With Retrospective Of 50 Films That “Changed The Way We Look At The World”
France’s Deauville American Film Festival has announced a retrospective gathering 50 U.S. features that have challenged perceptions of the world to mark its 50th anniversary.
The selection ranges from D. W. Griffith’s 1916 silent epic Intolerance to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and also includes Ida Lupino’s groundbreaking 1950 rape drama Outrage as well as Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. (see full list below)
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“Cinema has always made us dream, travel, desire, fantasize, laugh, cry. But how many films have been able to shake up our certainties, question our beliefs, question our prejudices and put our own views into perspective?,” said the festival.
“The Deauville American Film Festival wanted to highlight a selection of 50 films that have changed the way we look at the world,” it continued.
Launched in 1975, the festival unfolding in the swanky Normandy beach resort of Deauville, annually fetes Hollywood talent and also supports American indie cinema through its competition focused on U.S. features by emerging talents with or seeking distribution in France.
Recent winners have included Shane Atkinson’s LaRay, Texas, Charlotte Wells’ US-produced and backed breakout Aftersun as well Annie Silverstein’s Bull and Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road.
This year’s anniversary edition is under new interim management following the suspension of the festival’s long-time director Bruno Barde last month, following accusations by seven women of sexual harassment, which he has denied.
As previously announced, Michael Douglas will be guest of honor at the 50th edition in what will be his fifth trip to the festival, for which he says he has a special affection as the place where he met his now wife Catherine Zeta Jones.
The 50th edition runs from September 6 to 15.
Full Retrospective Line-Up
1916 Intolerance, D. W. Griffith
1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
1932 Freaks, Tod Browning
1939 Gone With The Wind, Victor Fleming
1940 The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin
1941 Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
1942 Casablanca, Michael Curtiz
1942 To Be Or Not To Be, Ernst Lubitsch
1946 It’s A Wonderful Life, Frank Capra
1950 Outrage, Ida Lupino
1950 All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1955 The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton
1956 The Searchers, John Ford
1959 Anatomy Of A Murder, Otto Preminger
1959 Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks
1959 Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk
1959 Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder
1960 Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock
1961 West Side Story, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins
1967 Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
1969 Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper
1969 The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah
1970 Wanda, Barbara Loden
1972 The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola
1972 Cabaret, Bob Fosse
1973 The Exorcist, William Friedkin
1974 A Woman Under The Influence, John Cassavetes
1975 One Flew Out Of The Cuckoo Nest, Milos Forman
1976 Network, Sidney Lumet
1976 Carrie, Brian de Palma
1976 Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese
1977 Star Wars, Georges Lucas
1978 The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg
1982 Rambo, Ted Kotcheff
1984 Terminator, James Cameron
1989 Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee
1990 Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton
1992 Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood
1997 Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson
1999 Matrix, the Wachowskis
1999 Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola
2001 Mulholland Drive, David Lynch
2003 Elephant, Gus Van Sant
2007 Zodiac, David Fincher
2010 Inception, Christopher Nolan
2012 Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow
2015 Spotlight, Tom McCarthy
2019 Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
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