A COLLECTION OF EARLY
FRENCH SILENT SHORT FILMS

The Library of Congress Motion Picture archive has generously loaned a collection of rare early French silent films made between 1895 and 1910. Before each evening's feature film, we will screen an unique set of shorts by cinema pioneers like Georges Melies, Louis Feuillade, Alice Guy, Ferdinand Zecca, The Lumiere Brothers, and films from the Gaumont and Pathe companies.

HUIT FEMMES
(8 Women)

Friday February 21st 7:30PM
Saturday February 22nd 4 PM

(2002, François Ozon, R, 103 min)
One morning the industrialist Marcel is found stabbed in his room. Eight women are his potential murderers. The women become stuck in a house isolated by a snowstorm, the phone is dead and one of them has to be the culprit. Mutual suspicious reveal the various secrets in their lives.

LES RIVIERES POURPRES
(The Crimson River)

Saturday February 22nd 7 & 9:15 PM
Sunday February 23rd 2PM

(2001, , not rated, 105 min)
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.

L'ANGLAISE ET LE DUC
(The Lady and the Duke)

Sunday February 23rd 4:30 & 7 PM

(2001, Eric Rohmer, PG-13, 125min)
During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

L'EMPLOI DU TEMPS
(Time Out)

Monday February 24th 8PM

(2001, Laurent Cantet, PG-13, 132 min)
The story of a French every-man who has lost his job and finds himself taken up in an increasingly large web of lies to keep the fact hidden from family and friends

UNE AFFAIRE DE GOUT
(A Matter of Taste)

Tuesday February 25th 8PM

(1999, Bernard Rapp, not rated, 90 min)
Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.

LUMUMBA

Wednesday February 26th 8PM

(2001, Raoul Peck, not rated, 115min)
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba.

NEWLY RESTORED 35mm PRINT!

LA BELLE ET LA BETE
(Beauty and the Beast)

Thursday February 27th 12 & 8PM

(1946, Jean Cocteau, not rated)
"Once upon a time..." A merchant gets lost in the forest and enters a strange castle. He picks up a rose for his daughter Beauty, causing the castle's owner, half-human, half-beast with magical powers, to appear. The Beast sentenced the merchant to death, unless Beauty takes her father's place as prisoner. She sacrifices herself for her father and goes to the castle where she discovers that the Beast is not as wild and inhuman as he looks.

Mary Bannon, Philippe Dubois, Eric Faden, and Renee Gosson

And a special thank you to The Library of Congress Motion Picture Division