The Eagle Has Two Heads screening with
Cruel Tale
New 4K Restoration – New York Premiere
L’Aigle à deux têtes avec Conte Cruel
Schedule
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The Eagle Has Two Heads
Dir. Jean Cocteau, 1948, France, 90min, DCP
Starring Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Silvia Monfort
Undeservedly the least known of Cocteau and Marias’ collaborations, their follow-up to Beauty and the Beast has been nearly invisible in recent decades. Edwige Feuillère, the grande dame of early French cinema, here reprises the stage role Cocteau had written for her. Against a backdrop of European royalty (the two-headed eagle long a symbol of empire), Marias enters as an anarchist poet sent to assassinate the Queen. Photographed by Christian Matras (Grand Illusion, Lola Montes), and later radically adapted by Antonioni for his film The Mystery of Oberwald.
Cruel Tale
Dir. Gaston Modot, 1930, France, 34min, DCP
Silent with recorded soundtrack by Léon Rousseau
1460 in Saragossa, the Spanish Inquisition, a Jewish man is being held in a dungeon torture chamber for his refusal to convert. This is the setting where Gaston Modot, star of Buñuel’s L’Age d’or, here directing his only film, creates a miraculous play of double exposures, handheld camera and tricks of light. A work of unbelievable atmosphere and crushing dread.
Venue
Event Pricing
($3 for Advance Tickets)
(Sept-Oct or Nov-Dec)
Children under seventeen (17) years of age must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian at all times and may not attend events unattended.
Cinésalon is made possible by the generous support of BNP Paribas, Sofitel New York and Air France.
The Eagle Has Two Heads was restored in 4K by TF1 Studio, Pathé and the Cinémathèque française in 2023, with the collaboration of Institut Audiovisuel de Monaco, from two nitrate reels. The restoration work was carried out at the Hiventy (Transperfect Media France) laboratory.
With the support of CHANEL.
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