The cycle dedicated to Billy Wilder continues this March with some of the titles he wrote and directed in the first half of the 1940s. In 1941, signs with Charles Brackett the script of a Howard Hawks comedy, foc ball, with which he got an Oscar nomination for best story. In the following year, Wilder directs his first feature film alone, The oldest and the youngest, a comic farce with a rather murky subtext. with Five tombs in Cairo (1943) ix from the scope of comedy to thriller war and the film is nominated for three Oscars. His next film, nominated for seven Oscars, will establish him as a great filmmaker. It's about Perdition (1944), a timeless classic, fifth essence of film noir. The delivery wilderià of the month is completed with the short documentary film Death Mills, that is going to shoot in Germany in 1946 commissioned by the war department of the United States government, in which he documents the horrors of the Nazi death camps.
06.03.26 FRIDAY / 18.00 h
08.03.26 SUNDAY / 20.00 h
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Ball of Fire
HOWARD HAWKS. USA. 1941. VOS VALENCIA*. B/N. 111′. DCP.
Int. Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, And Duryea, Henry Travers..
Thanks to a donation, a group of university professors (all single except one, that he is a widower) they are working on the preparation of an encyclopedia of human knowledge. The unexpected visit of a cabaret dancer makes them rethink their work, because they realize they don't know anything about the real world.
