Fri June 12, 2015
Dimitri Kirsanoff & Nadia Sibirskaïa Collaborations (France, 1924/1928)
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Henri Langlois championed the collaborative works of director Dimitri Kirsanoff and actress Nadia Sibirskaïa. We present the classic Ménilmontant in a rare 35mm print from the 1960 restoration prepared by La Cinémathèque française. This beautiful and surprising melodrama is an evocative portrait of two young women, orphaned sisters, who live in a working-class quarter of Paris. We pair it with Kirsanoff’s short film portraying a melancholic young woman, Autumn Mists, about which the filmmaker wrote, “I expressed anxiety through drastically changed images in which nature was losing its density and unity.”
Ménilmontant
(1924, Written by Kirsanoff, Photographed by Willy Faktorovitch, Léonce Crouan, Kirsanoff, With Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Maurice Ronsard, M. Ardouin, 42 mins, Silent without intertitles, B&W, 35mm@18fps, From La Cinémathèque française)
Autumn Mists (Brumes d’automne)
(1928, Written by Kirsanoff, Photographed by Jean de Miéville, Kirsanoff, With Nadia Sibiriskaïa, 12 mins, Music track without language, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque française)
Total running time: 54 mins
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Ménilmontant
(1924, Written by Kirsanoff, Photographed by Willy Faktorovitch, Léonce Crouan, Kirsanoff, With Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Maurice Ronsard, M. Ardouin, 42 mins, Silent without intertitles, B&W, 35mm@18fps, From La Cinémathèque française)
Autumn Mists (Brumes d’automne)
(1928, Written by Kirsanoff, Photographed by Jean de Miéville, Kirsanoff, With Nadia Sibiriskaïa, 12 mins, Music track without language, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque française)
Total running time: 54 mins
Henri Langlois championed the collaborative works of director Dimitri Kirsanoff and actress Nadia Sibirskaïa. We present the classic Ménilmontant in a rare 35mm print from the 1960 restoration prepared by La Cinémathèque française. This beautiful and surprising melodrama is an evocative portrait of two young women, orphaned sisters, who live in a working-class quarter of Paris. We pair it with Kirsanoff’s short film portraying a melancholic young woman, Autumn Mists, about which the filmmaker wrote, “I expressed anxiety through drastically changed images in which nature was losing its density and unity.”
Ménilmontant
(1924, Written by Kirsanoff, Photographed by Willy Faktorovitch, Léonce Crouan, Kirsanoff, With Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Maurice Ronsard, M. Ardouin, 42 mins, Silent without intertitles, B&W, 35mm@18fps, From La Cinémathèque française)
Autumn Mists (Brumes d’automne)
(1928, Written by Kirsanoff, Photographed by Jean de Miéville, Kirsanoff, With Nadia Sibiriskaïa, 12 mins, Music track without language, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque française)
Total running time: 54 mins
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Ménilmontant
(1924, Written by Kirsanoff, Photographed by Willy Faktorovitch, Léonce Crouan, Kirsanoff, With Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Maurice Ronsard, M. Ardouin, 42 mins, Silent without intertitles, B&W, 35mm@18fps, From La Cinémathèque française)
Autumn Mists (Brumes d’automne)
(1928, Written by Kirsanoff, Photographed by Jean de Miéville, Kirsanoff, With Nadia Sibiriskaïa, 12 mins, Music track without language, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque française)
Total running time: 54 mins
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