France’s Deauville American Film Festival has announced a retrospective gathering 50 U.S. features that have challenged perceptions of the world to mark its 50th anniversary.
The selection ranges from D. W. Griffith’s 1916 silent epic Intolerance to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and also includes Ida Lupino’s groundbreaking 1950 rape drama Outrage as well as Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. (see full list below)
“Cinema has always made us dream, travel, desire, fantasize, laugh, cry. But how many films have been able to shake up our certainties, question our beliefs, question our prejudices and put our own views into perspective?,” said the festival.
“The Deauville American Film Festival wanted to highlight a selection of 50 films that have changed the way we look at the world,” it continued.
Launched in 1975, the festival unfolding in the swanky Normandy beach resort of Deauville, annually fetes Hollywood talent and also supports American indie cinema through its competition focused on U.S. features by emerging talents with or seeking distribution in France.
Recent winners have included Shane Atkinson’s LaRay, Texas, Charlotte Wells’ US-produced and backed breakout Aftersun as well Annie Silverstein’s Bull and Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road.
This year’s anniversary edition is under new interim management following the suspension of the festival’s long-time director Bruno Barde last month, following accusations by seven women of sexual harassment, which he has denied.
As previously announced, Michael Douglas will be guest of honor at the 50th edition in what will be his fifth trip to the festival, for which he says he has a special affection as the place where he met his now wife Catherine Zeta Jones.
The 50th edition runs from September 6 to 15.
Full Retrospective Line-Up
- 1916 Intolerance, D. W. Griffith
- 1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- 1932 Freaks, Tod Browning
- 1939 Gone With The Wind, Victor Fleming
- 1940 The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin
- 1941 Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
- 1942 Casablanca, Michael Curtiz
- 1942 To Be Or Not To Be, Ernst Lubitsch
- 1946 It’s A Wonderful Life, Frank Capra
- 1950 Outrage, Ida Lupino
- 1950 All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1955 The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton
- 1956 The Searchers, John Ford
- 1959 Anatomy Of A Murder, Otto Preminger
- 1959 Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks
- 1959 Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk
- 1959 Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder
- 1960 Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock
- 1961 West Side Story, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins
- 1967 Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn
- 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
- 1969 Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper
- 1969 The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah
- 1970 Wanda, Barbara Loden
- 1972 The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola
- 1972 Cabaret, Bob Fosse
- 1973 The Exorcist, William Friedkin
- 1974 A Woman Under The Influence, John Cassavetes
- 1975 One Flew Out Of The Cuckoo Nest, Milos Forman
- 1976 Network, Sidney Lumet
- 1976 Carrie, Brian de Palma
- 1976 Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese
- 1977 Star Wars, Georges Lucas
- 1978 The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino
- 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg
- 1982 Rambo, Ted Kotcheff
- 1984 Terminator, James Cameron
- 1989 Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee
- 1990 Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton
- 1992 Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood
- 1997 Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson
- 1999 Matrix, the Wachowskis
- 1999 Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola
- 2001 Mulholland Drive, David Lynch
- 2003 Elephant, Gus Van Sant
- 2007 Zodiac, David Fincher
- 2010 Inception, Christopher Nolan
- 2012 Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow
- 2015 Spotlight, Tom McCarthy
- 2019 Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
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