Midcentury Productions presents GABIN 118, in tribute to French film legend Jean Gabin, with screenings of seven films starring Gabin, at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco, on Sunday & Monday, May 15-16, 2022.
Schedule
Sunday, May 15
Matinee: ZOU ZOU (1934) with Josephine Baker 12:30pm
GUEULE D'AMOUR aka LADYKILLER (1937) with Mireille Balin 2:15pm
MOONTIDE (1942) with Ida Lupino & Claude Rains 4pm
Evening: REMORQUES aka STORMY WATERS (1941) with Michèle Morgan 6:45pm
DES GENS SANS IMPORTANCE aka PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE (1956)
with Françoise Arnoul 8:30pm
Monday, May 16
MARTIN ROUMAGNAC aka THE ROOM UPSTAIRS (1946) with Marlene Dietrich 7pm
LE CAVE SE REBIFFE aka COUNTERFEITERS OF PARIS (1961)
with Martine Carol, Bernard Blier, Ginette Leclerc, Françoise Rosay 9:15pm
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Jean Gabin has been an anchor and a touchstone in world cinema for almost a century, but only a handful of his films are really known--even to ardent cinephiles. Don Malcolm's Midcentury Productions has been working hard at changing that, beginning in 2014 with its first foray into the "lost continent" of French film noir, THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT, a yearly series still ongoing at San Francisco's Roxie Theater.
"Gabin was in that first series (the film was 1958's LOVE IS MY PROFESSION, the fabled but rarely-seen film that pairs Gabin with Brigitte Bardot) and we knew he'd be a centerpiece for us every year," says Malcolm. "We've shown twelve Gabin films, and now we're thrilled to go further with seven more to celebrate his birthday."
The two-day, seven-film series, entitled GABIN 118 (Gabin was born on May 17, 1904) will open with a triple bill matinee on Sunday May 15, and will follow with evening double features that night, and again on Monday May 16. It's a wide-ranging look at Gabin's singular film presence, with films from the 30s to the 60s, including his only film with Marlene Dietrich, with whom he was romantically involved during World War II but whose romance came to a bittersweet end shortly after they worked together.
"The film they did together," Malcolm explains, "is MARTIN ROUMAGNAC, also known as THE ROOM UPSTAIRS. The story as it plays out in the film can be seen as a metaphorical biography of the Dietrich-Gabin love affair--taken, of course, to some dramatic extremes. It's fascinating to see the chemistry between them shift in the film in a way that seems analogous to what happened to them in real life."
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Schedule
Sunday, May 15
Matinee: ZOU ZOU (1934) with Josephine Baker 12:30pm
GUEULE D'AMOUR aka LADYKILLER (1937) with Mireille Balin 2:15pm
MOONTIDE (1942) with Ida Lupino & Claude Rains 4pm
Evening: REMORQUES aka STORMY WATERS (1941) with Michèle Morgan 6:45pm
DES GENS SANS IMPORTANCE aka PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE (1956)
with Françoise Arnoul 8:30pm
Monday, May 16
MARTIN ROUMAGNAC aka THE ROOM UPSTAIRS (1946) with Marlene Dietrich 7pm
LE CAVE SE REBIFFE aka COUNTERFEITERS OF PARIS (1961)
with Martine Carol, Bernard Blier, Ginette Leclerc, Françoise Rosay 9:15pm
~~~~~~~~
Jean Gabin has been an anchor and a touchstone in world cinema for almost a century, but only a handful of his films are really known--even to ardent cinephiles. Don Malcolm's Midcentury Productions has been working hard at changing that, beginning in 2014 with its first foray into the "lost continent" of French film noir, THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT, a yearly series still ongoing at San Francisco's Roxie Theater.
"Gabin was in that first series (the film was 1958's LOVE IS MY PROFESSION, the fabled but rarely-seen film that pairs Gabin with Brigitte Bardot) and we knew he'd be a centerpiece for us every year," says Malcolm. "We've shown twelve Gabin films, and now we're thrilled to go further with seven more to celebrate his birthday."
The two-day, seven-film series, entitled GABIN 118 (Gabin was born on May 17, 1904) will open with a triple bill matinee on Sunday May 15, and will follow with evening double features that night, and again on Monday May 16. It's a wide-ranging look at Gabin's singular film presence, with films from the 30s to the 60s, including his only film with Marlene Dietrich, with whom he was romantically involved during World War II but whose romance came to a bittersweet end shortly after they worked together.
"The film they did together," Malcolm explains, "is MARTIN ROUMAGNAC, also known as THE ROOM UPSTAIRS. The story as it plays out in the film can be seen as a metaphorical biography of the Dietrich-Gabin love affair--taken, of course, to some dramatic extremes. It's fascinating to see the chemistry between them shift in the film in a way that seems analogous to what happened to them in real life."
Midcentury Productions presents GABIN 118, in tribute to French film legend Jean Gabin, with screenings of seven films starring Gabin, at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco, on Sunday & Monday, May 15-16, 2022.
Schedule
Sunday, May 15
Matinee: ZOU ZOU (1934) with Josephine Baker 12:30pm
GUEULE D'AMOUR aka LADYKILLER (1937) with Mireille Balin 2:15pm
MOONTIDE (1942) with Ida Lupino & Claude Rains 4pm
Evening: REMORQUES aka STORMY WATERS (1941) with Michèle Morgan 6:45pm
DES GENS SANS IMPORTANCE aka PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE (1956)
with Françoise Arnoul 8:30pm
Monday, May 16
MARTIN ROUMAGNAC aka THE ROOM UPSTAIRS (1946) with Marlene Dietrich 7pm
LE CAVE SE REBIFFE aka COUNTERFEITERS OF PARIS (1961)
with Martine Carol, Bernard Blier, Ginette Leclerc, Françoise Rosay 9:15pm
~~~~~~~~
Jean Gabin has been an anchor and a touchstone in world cinema for almost a century, but only a handful of his films are really known--even to ardent cinephiles. Don Malcolm's Midcentury Productions has been working hard at changing that, beginning in 2014 with its first foray into the "lost continent" of French film noir, THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT, a yearly series still ongoing at San Francisco's Roxie Theater.
"Gabin was in that first series (the film was 1958's LOVE IS MY PROFESSION, the fabled but rarely-seen film that pairs Gabin with Brigitte Bardot) and we knew he'd be a centerpiece for us every year," says Malcolm. "We've shown twelve Gabin films, and now we're thrilled to go further with seven more to celebrate his birthday."
The two-day, seven-film series, entitled GABIN 118 (Gabin was born on May 17, 1904) will open with a triple bill matinee on Sunday May 15, and will follow with evening double features that night, and again on Monday May 16. It's a wide-ranging look at Gabin's singular film presence, with films from the 30s to the 60s, including his only film with Marlene Dietrich, with whom he was romantically involved during World War II but whose romance came to a bittersweet end shortly after they worked together.
"The film they did together," Malcolm explains, "is MARTIN ROUMAGNAC, also known as THE ROOM UPSTAIRS. The story as it plays out in the film can be seen as a metaphorical biography of the Dietrich-Gabin love affair--taken, of course, to some dramatic extremes. It's fascinating to see the chemistry between them shift in the film in a way that seems analogous to what happened to them in real life."
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Schedule
Sunday, May 15
Matinee: ZOU ZOU (1934) with Josephine Baker 12:30pm
GUEULE D'AMOUR aka LADYKILLER (1937) with Mireille Balin 2:15pm
MOONTIDE (1942) with Ida Lupino & Claude Rains 4pm
Evening: REMORQUES aka STORMY WATERS (1941) with Michèle Morgan 6:45pm
DES GENS SANS IMPORTANCE aka PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE (1956)
with Françoise Arnoul 8:30pm
Monday, May 16
MARTIN ROUMAGNAC aka THE ROOM UPSTAIRS (1946) with Marlene Dietrich 7pm
LE CAVE SE REBIFFE aka COUNTERFEITERS OF PARIS (1961)
with Martine Carol, Bernard Blier, Ginette Leclerc, Françoise Rosay 9:15pm
~~~~~~~~
Jean Gabin has been an anchor and a touchstone in world cinema for almost a century, but only a handful of his films are really known--even to ardent cinephiles. Don Malcolm's Midcentury Productions has been working hard at changing that, beginning in 2014 with its first foray into the "lost continent" of French film noir, THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT, a yearly series still ongoing at San Francisco's Roxie Theater.
"Gabin was in that first series (the film was 1958's LOVE IS MY PROFESSION, the fabled but rarely-seen film that pairs Gabin with Brigitte Bardot) and we knew he'd be a centerpiece for us every year," says Malcolm. "We've shown twelve Gabin films, and now we're thrilled to go further with seven more to celebrate his birthday."
The two-day, seven-film series, entitled GABIN 118 (Gabin was born on May 17, 1904) will open with a triple bill matinee on Sunday May 15, and will follow with evening double features that night, and again on Monday May 16. It's a wide-ranging look at Gabin's singular film presence, with films from the 30s to the 60s, including his only film with Marlene Dietrich, with whom he was romantically involved during World War II but whose romance came to a bittersweet end shortly after they worked together.
"The film they did together," Malcolm explains, "is MARTIN ROUMAGNAC, also known as THE ROOM UPSTAIRS. The story as it plays out in the film can be seen as a metaphorical biography of the Dietrich-Gabin love affair--taken, of course, to some dramatic extremes. It's fascinating to see the chemistry between them shift in the film in a way that seems analogous to what happened to them in real life."
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