2 X 50 Years of French Cinema
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Anne-marie Mieville
Michel Piccoli
C Reigher
E Grynspan
D Jacquet
P Gillieron
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Presented by legendary helmer Jean-Luc Godard and his collaborator Anne-Marie Mieville--a collection of personal views on French cinema by various noted filmmakers.
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Released in United States 1995
Released in United States May 1995
Released in United States May 1996
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (special screening) May 17-28, 1995.
"The Century of Cinema" is a series of personal documentaries commissioned by the BFI to celebrate the centenary of film. For this series, some of the world's leading filmmakers were invited to provide individual interpretations of the history and development of cinema in their countries. The result is a fascinating look at highly disparate national cinemas and 100 years of film around the globe.
The participating filmmakers include: Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson (USA), George Miller (Australia), Stephen Frears & Mike Dibb (England), Shu Kei (China), Edgar Reitz (Germany), Mrinal Sen (India), Donald Taylor Black (Ireland), Bernardo Bertolucci & Enrico Ghezze (Italy), Nagisa Oshima (Japan), Jang Sun-woo (Korea), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Latin America), Sam Neill & Julie Rymer (New Zealand).
The participating filmmakers include: Mohamed Tazi (North Africa), Pavel Lozinski (Poland), Stig Bjorkman (Scandinavia), Jean Pierre Bekolo (Sub-Saharan Africa), Sergei Selyanov (USSR/CIS) and others.
no English subtitles
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Released in United States 1995
Released in United States May 1995 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (special screening) May 17-28, 1995.)
Released in United States May 1996 (Shown in New York City (MoMA) as part of series "The Century of Cinema" May 3-4, 1996.)
