June 15, 2019 – September 1, 2019
The Parisian Belle Époque period (roughly 1871-1914) was one of great innovation and pure entertainment, leaving an artistic legacy that included the Moulin Rouge and perhaps more importantly, the birth of popular cinema. Taking inspiration from the Portland Art Museum’s Paris 1900 exhibition (on view June 8-September 8), we are pleased to present a cinematic exploration of this most thrilling period, both through films made contemporaneously and through those looking back for inspiration and nostalgia. All screenings are free to members of the Portland Art Museum.
Paris 1900 (Paris mil neuf cent)
Directed by Nicole Védrès, Pierre Braunberger
Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 1947 and lying in relative obscurity until it was restored recently, Paris 1900 …
Moulin Rouge
Directed by John Huston
Legendary Hollywood director John Huston moved beyond the confines of gritty America with Moulin Rouge, a biopic of artist Henri …
French Cancan
Directed by Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir’s return to France in the early 1950s, following more than a decade of self-exile, culminated in his first …
Workers Leaving the Factory Shorts Program
Directed by Various
The Lumiére Brothers’ 1895 Workers Leaving the Lumiére Factory—considered the first motion picture—forms the basis for this shorts program in …
Georges Méliès Shorts Program
Directed by Georges Méliès
One of the fathers of the motion pictures, Méliès made hundreds of films with an often fantastic bent, in sharp …
The Earrings of Madame De…,
Directed by Max Ophüls
Ophüls’ masterpiece skewers upper-class mores, following an aristocratic woman (Danielle Darrieux) who has fallen on hard times and becomes forced …
Jules and Jim
Directed by François Truffaut
One of the French New Wave’s great period pieces and one of Truffaut’s greatest love stories, Jules and Jim offers …