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Date

1 March 2025

classics, modern and strange: Outrage

Within the cycle dedicated to the essential directors of the history of cinema, Five films are scheduled in February. Two of them will be able to be seen in a double program composed of Sol y shadra and Luz Azul. The first is one of the three unclassifiable films that Jeanne Roques (Muftore) -poet, dancer, Filmmaker actress and muse of the surrealistic movement thanks to her role in the Louis Feuillade Serial Les vampires (1915)- shot in Spain in the early 1920's. The blue light, co -directed with the theorist of Bélazs cinema, is Leni Riefenstahl's thin opera. After gaining fame as an actress in the popular Arnold Fanck mountain films, The ex -job would premiere with this love and mountain story shot in the dolomites, Before you become the official Nazi regime filmmaker with titles such as the triumph of freedom.
Dorothy Arzner was the only woman to keep a career as a director in the golden age of Hollywood. His filmography is represented in the cycle by one of his most famous movies, Towards heights, The segone in Katharine Hepburn's career. In the American cinema, Arzner's testimony would take him in the fifty Lupino, Movie actress produced by the great studies she served as a director in the independent and low budget fields. Ultraje is one of the most representative films of his way of understanding cinema.
In Spanish cinematography, The figure of Ana Mariscal has parallels with that of Lupino. Star of some great productions of the years 40 (between them, Raza, With Franco script), in 1952 founded his own production company, Bosco Films, In a time when women were relegated to the public sphere. With her she produced fourteen movies, of which he directed twelve and wrote or co -authored the script of Huit, In addition to starring in or playing some role in seven of them. The first d’Elles will be second López, Urban adventurer, that was moving away from the cinema supported by the regime (Religious Films, Melodrames Sacrificials or Bèlic-Herics) To collect the influences of both Italian neorealism and the Spanish picaresque tradition.

28.02.25 FRIDAY / 18.00 h
01.03.25 SATURDAY / 20.00 h
Outrage
Outrage
IDA LUPINO. USA. 1950. VOS SPANISH. B/N. 75′. DCP.
Int. Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Lillian Hamilton, Rita Lupino.
Una jove oficinista a punt de casar-se amb el seu nóvio és violada una nit per un home que ha intentat lligar amb ella sense èxit. Encara que el seu entorn li dóna suport, la seua angoixa va en augment quan comença a sentir-se assenyalada per la comunitat.

LOCATION

The Film Library

Pl. town hall, 17
Valencia, Valencia 46002 Spain

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