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Character actors and actresses
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In Hollywood, they are called ‘’character actors’’, but in French, there is no specific expression for the people embodying those iconic parts. From Thelma Ritter in Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953), Laura Betti in the Mario Bava films, Michael Lonsdale in Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968) to Warren Oates, Udo Kier, Michel Vuillermoz and Jean-Christophe Bouvet, the best actors and actresses used their talent and body to play those parts that constantly question the norms of society. La Transversale displays more than twenty films presented by exclusive guests, a carte blanche given to Bernard Eisenschitz to show silent films, and a John Cazale retrospective with screenings of the six films he starred in, from The Godfather to The Deer Hunter.
In collaboration with Mathieu Macheret.
Films
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Le Chemin de Rio
Robert Siodmak
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Trouble in Paradise
Ernst Lubitsch
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The Black Cat
Edgar G. Ulmer
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My Darling Clementine
John Ford
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Pickup on South Street
Samantha Fuller
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The Big Heat
Fritz Lang
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Baisers volés
François Truffaut
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Two-Lane Blacktop
Monte Hellman
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Il Rosso segno della follia
Mario Bava
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La Grande Bouffe
Marco Ferreri
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Le Fantôme de la Liberté
Luis Buñuel
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman
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Sous le soleil de Satan
Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen
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My Own Private Idaho
Gus Van Sant
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J'entends plus la guitare
Philippe Garrel
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The Big Lebowski
Joel Coen / Ethan Coen
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Les Herbes folles
Alain Resnais
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Holy Motors
Leos Carax
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Un couteau dans le coeur
Yann Gonzalez
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The American Way
Marvin Starkman
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The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola
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The Godfather: Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
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The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
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Dog Day Afternoon
Sidney Lumet
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