From iconic masterpieces and silent film gems to modern classics from recent film history: it’s De Cinema’s mission to present film classics as they should be experienced—restored, with live music, on 35mm,… Often contextualised with introductions, aftertalks and Q&As, or film lectures by experts and filmmakers. Our CLASSICS-series travels across continents to bring the rich history of film to the big screen.

HIGHLIGHTS

Altman based his SHORT CUTS on nine short stories and a poem by writer Raymond Carver. When a fleet of helicopters flies over to spray against a plague of medflies, we meet several locals in Los Angeles and follow them in their daily lives. The metropole is the scene for nights out and concerts, but also for deceit, estrangement and addiction. Altman follows no less than twenty-two characters, each of them connected in one way or another.

In SILK STOCKINGS, Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse meet each other in Paris in this delightful musical film adaptation of NINOTCHKA. The film producer and Soviet agent bridge their different backgrounds in this love story for the ages!

“These were perilous times, astrologically speaking, for dopers.” Thus resounds the warning raised by narrator Sortilège at the beginning of PTA’s INHERENT VICE. The mood of the film is immediately set. The black comedy and neo-noir storytelling of Thomas Pynchon’s source novel of the same name, are retained in PTA’s adaptation of the novel which was deemed unadaptable. The movie follows private investigator Larry “Doc” Sportello, a hippie stoner with epic sideburns and the tendency to get caught up in the most bizarre cases.