Imaginary Cinematheque
In 1990, I had the occasion to meet Satyajit Ray in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and asked him his “Imaginary Cinematheque” (ses films coups-de-coeur) and was expecting some titles. He suggested I come back after two days. When back, wouaw, a list of 43 films … Some of these were shown in conjunction with a retrospective of Ray’s films in 1993, in Brussels, at the Film Museum, in parallel to an exhibition I conceived a set of 4 exhibitions: on Ray’s drawings, one on the architecture of Calcutta w/ photographs by Fabien de Cugnac, an exhibition on Portraits of Ray by Nemai Ghosh, and and and an exhibition on Henri Cartier-Bresson in India.
Alok Nandi
- Charlie Chaplin – La rue vers l’or
- Buster Keaton – Le mécano de la Gnrale
- Robert Flaherty – L’homme d’Aran
- Carl Dreyer – La passion de Jeanne d’Arc
- Fr. Wilhem Murnau – Nosferatu
- Nicola Ekk – Le chemin de la vie
- Alexandre Douvjenko – La terre
- Marc Donsko – L’enfance de Gorki
- Jean Renoir – La règle du jeu
- John Ford – La poursuite infernale
- Ernst Lubitsch – Haute pègre
- Ingmar Bergman – Cris et chuchotements
- Vittorio De Sica – Le voleur de bicyclette
- Michelangelo Antonioni – La nuit
- Federico Fellini – 8 1/2
- Max Ophüls – Lettre d’une inconnue
- Franck Capra – Mr. Smith au Sénat
- William Wyler – La vipère
- Billy Wilder – Assurance sur la mort
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
- John Huston – Le faucon maltais
- Lewis Millestone – Le commando de la mort
- Alfred Hitchcock – Fenêtre sur cour
- Sidney Lumet – Douze hommes en colère
- Rouben Mamoulian – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide
- Milos Forman – Taking off
- Roman Polanski – Chinatown
- Stanley Kubrick 2001 – Odyssée de l’espace
- Alan J. Pakula – Klute
- Woody Allen – Intérieurs
- George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy et le Kid
- David Lean – Les grandes espérances
- Carol Reed – Première désillusion
- Carlos Saura – Noces de sang
- Kozintsev – Le roi Lear
- Sergei M. Eisenstein – Ivan le Terrible
- Georges Rouquier – Farrebique
- Franois Truffaut – Les 400 coups
- Akira Kurosawa – Les sept samourais
- Yasujiro Ozu – Voyage à Tokyo
- Kenji Mizoguchi – Contes de la lune vague après la pluie
- Sam Wood – Une nuit à l’opéra
- Mark Sandrich – Top Hat
In 2016, I was contacted by La Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and they have programmed some films and set website on these films. In 1993, the Brussels Musée du Cinéma showed also number of films of this Imaginary Cinematheque, in parallel to Ray’s films, as a retrospective.