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

With AMADEUS, Miloš Forman delivers a sensorial and razor-sharp reimagining of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This is not a traditional biopic, but a charged confrontation between uncontrollable genius and paralysing envy. Told from the perspective of Antonio Salieri, the film unfolds as a probing study of authorship, faith, and the existential terror of recognizing brilliance one can never match.

UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME dances between homage and subversion, turning the classic musical comedy into a sparkling game of desire and defiance. Angela, an exotic dancer, feels her biological clock ticking. But her boyfriend Emile isn’t ready for that next step yet. Emil’s best friend Alfred also has a romantic feelings for Angela and is more than ready to fulfil her desire to have a child. Thus starts a series of imaginative misunderstandings and quarrels.

How do you wake up from a slumber that has lasted thirty years? Kanji Watanabe is a gray civil servant who has spent decades stamping papers without ever truly living. It is only when he learns he has terminal stomach cancer that the clock actually begins to tick. With IKIRU, Akira Kurosawa—the master of samurai epics—trades the sword for a razor-sharp, human portrait of the search for meaning.