The 14th Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — sponsored by Jane M. & Bruce P. Robert Charitable Foundation — celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. This year’s featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1990s, offering a revealing overview of French cinema.
The festival takes place Aug. 5-7, 12-14, and 19-21.
The fest annually includes significant restorations, and this year features seven such works, including a brand-new restoration of Luis Bunuel’s “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” which is part of our year-long Golden Anniversaries programming, which features films celebrating their 50th anniversaries.
In honor of St. Louis’ own Josephine Baker and her installation in France’s Panthéon on Nov. 30 of last year, the fest will present her silent film debut, “Siren of the Tropics,” with an original score and live accompaniment by the Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra.
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The festival takes place Aug. 5-7, 12-14, and 19-21.
The fest annually includes significant restorations, and this year features seven such works, including a brand-new restoration of Luis Bunuel’s “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” which is part of our year-long Golden Anniversaries programming, which features films celebrating their 50th anniversaries.
In honor of St. Louis’ own Josephine Baker and her installation in France’s Panthéon on Nov. 30 of last year, the fest will present her silent film debut, “Siren of the Tropics,” with an original score and live accompaniment by the Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra.
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- 7/21/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The seventh edition of Cinema at Citygarden – a biennial co-presentation of Cinema St. Louis (Csl) and the Gateway Foundation – invites St. Louis-area filmmakers to let their imaginations blossom by creating short works that incorporate Nature as a key element.
This juried competition will award cash prizes – $1,500 for first place, $1,000 for second place, and $500 for third place – to the top three entries. The winning shorts will then be featured as part of a program that will screen on Citygarden’s video wall starting Friday, May 28, 2021. In addition to the three cash-prize winners, other submitted works will be chosen to be part of the video-wall program, which will play on a loop from 5-10 p.m. daily and continue at Citygarden through Sunday, June 27, 2021.
Deadline for entry is Friday, April 5, 2021. A three-person jury will select the three cash-prize winners; jury members will be announced on Csl’s website. The cash-prize winners and...
This juried competition will award cash prizes – $1,500 for first place, $1,000 for second place, and $500 for third place – to the top three entries. The winning shorts will then be featured as part of a program that will screen on Citygarden’s video wall starting Friday, May 28, 2021. In addition to the three cash-prize winners, other submitted works will be chosen to be part of the video-wall program, which will play on a loop from 5-10 p.m. daily and continue at Citygarden through Sunday, June 27, 2021.
Deadline for entry is Friday, April 5, 2021. A three-person jury will select the three cash-prize winners; jury members will be announced on Csl’s website. The cash-prize winners and...
- 3/8/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Golden Anniversaries, which is co-presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) and the St. Louis Public Library, features classic films celebrating their 50th anniversaries. This fourth edition of the event will highlight films from 1971.
Because in-person screenings remain problematic during the pandemic, Cinema St. Louis will hold free online conversations on the films, with people watching the films on their own but gathering virtually to discuss them.
Film critics, film academics, and filmmakers will offer introductory remarks and then participate in discussions about the films. In addition to a fine selection of St. Louis critics, Golden Anniversaries will feature several experts from elsewhere.
The conversations will be offered as free livestreams at 7:30 Pm on the second Monday of every month in 2021 except November, when the St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) hopes to feature several in-person Golden Anniversaries selections.
The first four discussions are already scheduled:
Jan. 11: Peter Bogdanovich...
Because in-person screenings remain problematic during the pandemic, Cinema St. Louis will hold free online conversations on the films, with people watching the films on their own but gathering virtually to discuss them.
Film critics, film academics, and filmmakers will offer introductory remarks and then participate in discussions about the films. In addition to a fine selection of St. Louis critics, Golden Anniversaries will feature several experts from elsewhere.
The conversations will be offered as free livestreams at 7:30 Pm on the second Monday of every month in 2021 except November, when the St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) hopes to feature several in-person Golden Anniversaries selections.
The first four discussions are already scheduled:
Jan. 11: Peter Bogdanovich...
- 1/7/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Read my interview with Joseph Puleo, director of America’S Last Little Italy: The Hill Here
Read Jim Batts’ review of America’S Last Little Italy: The Hill Here
America’S Last Little Italy: The Hill, the award-winning documentary about one of St. Louis’ most iconic neighborhoods, is set to make its television premiere on Monday, November 30, at 7 p.m. on Nine Network PBS.
The movie, which debuted this past summer as part of the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, tells the story of The Hill, the Italian-American neighborhood founded by Italian immigrants in the late 1800s that continues to be a vibrant part of the city’s culture, mixing residential homes with businesses of all varieties, including numerous world-famous restaurants.
“We’re so excited to have America’s Last Little Italy: The Hill make its television premiere on Nine Network. Being a St. Louis story, there isn’t a better...
Read Jim Batts’ review of America’S Last Little Italy: The Hill Here
America’S Last Little Italy: The Hill, the award-winning documentary about one of St. Louis’ most iconic neighborhoods, is set to make its television premiere on Monday, November 30, at 7 p.m. on Nine Network PBS.
The movie, which debuted this past summer as part of the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, tells the story of The Hill, the Italian-American neighborhood founded by Italian immigrants in the late 1800s that continues to be a vibrant part of the city’s culture, mixing residential homes with businesses of all varieties, including numerous world-famous restaurants.
“We’re so excited to have America’s Last Little Italy: The Hill make its television premiere on Nine Network. Being a St. Louis story, there isn’t a better...
- 11/24/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
For the last five months, Film Comment — the house organ of Film at Lincoln Center, a repository for erudite film coverage, and a thought leader in specialty film — has existed in limbo. It’s not dead; while the staff was put on hiatus in March, publisher Eugene Hernandez is working to determine next steps. It’s not in print; its last physical edition was March/April. It’s not quite digital: Content for the May/June issue is available at the Film Comment site and at Zinio, but any internet consumer knows that online publications can’t survive on bimonthly updates.
From the critical brickbats of Pauline Kael vs. Andrew Sarris to defining identities for seminal filmmakers like Max Ophüls, John Huston, and Martin Scorsese, Film Comment has been at the center of a vital global film conversation for 58 years. Embraced by cinephiles and academics, it also saw the art...
From the critical brickbats of Pauline Kael vs. Andrew Sarris to defining identities for seminal filmmakers like Max Ophüls, John Huston, and Martin Scorsese, Film Comment has been at the center of a vital global film conversation for 58 years. Embraced by cinephiles and academics, it also saw the art...
- 8/24/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
For the last five months, Film Comment — the house organ of Film at Lincoln Center, a repository for erudite film coverage, and a thought leader in specialty film — has existed in limbo. It’s not dead; while the staff was put on hiatus in March, publisher Eugene Hernandez is working to determine next steps. It’s not in print; its last physical edition was March/April. It’s not quite digital: Content for the May/June issue is available at the Film Comment site and at Zinio, but any internet consumer knows that online publications can’t survive on bimonthly updates.
From the critical brickbats of Pauline Kael vs. Andrew Sarris to defining identities for seminal filmmakers like Max Ophüls, John Huston, and Martin Scorsese, Film Comment has been at the center of a vital global film conversation for 58 years. Embraced by cinephiles and academics, it also saw the art...
From the critical brickbats of Pauline Kael vs. Andrew Sarris to defining identities for seminal filmmakers like Max Ophüls, John Huston, and Martin Scorsese, Film Comment has been at the center of a vital global film conversation for 58 years. Embraced by cinephiles and academics, it also saw the art...
- 8/24/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Join Cinema St. Louis Executive Director Cliff Froehlich in their new collaboration with Shakespeare Festival St. Louis to present Shakespeare & Chill. Every Wednesday at 8pm Cliff will moderate 20-30 minute panel discussion of a Shakespeare-related movie conversations between Shakespeare aficionados and industry professionals. Stay tuned to the Cinema St. Louis Facebook page for updates on the event!
A discussion of the 1973 classic Vincent Price film Theatre Of Blood will take place between Cliff and Shakespeare and Vincent Price enthusiasts Chris Limber, Ben Ritchie, Kevin Townley, and We Are Movie Geeks own Tom Stockman Facebook on Wednesday May 13th at 8Pm. The discussion will post on the Cinema St. Louis and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Facebook pages.
In the early 1970’s Vincent Price’s career was at a high point. The Doctor Phibes films were unexpected hits. How would he capitalize on these? In 1973 he took on a role in a...
A discussion of the 1973 classic Vincent Price film Theatre Of Blood will take place between Cliff and Shakespeare and Vincent Price enthusiasts Chris Limber, Ben Ritchie, Kevin Townley, and We Are Movie Geeks own Tom Stockman Facebook on Wednesday May 13th at 8Pm. The discussion will post on the Cinema St. Louis and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Facebook pages.
In the early 1970’s Vincent Price’s career was at a high point. The Doctor Phibes films were unexpected hits. How would he capitalize on these? In 1973 he took on a role in a...
- 5/8/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
” Some of the East German police were rude and suspicious. Others were suspicious and rude. “
James Cagney in Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961) will be screening at Webster University Friday October 5th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The Film starts at 7:30 pm. There will be an intro and post-film discussion by Cliff Froehlich, Executive Director of Cinema St. Louis and Adjunct Professor of Film Studies at Webster University. A Facebook invite can be found Here
Thirty years after making his name in the iconic gangster movie The Public Enemy, Jimmy Cagney collaborated with the master Billy Wilder on this comedy, which wound up prompting Cagney to retire from acting after its completion (though he did still manage to pop up a couple more times in the remaining decades in his life). Here Cagney plays Mac, a Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin just before the Berlin Wall is constructed,...
James Cagney in Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961) will be screening at Webster University Friday October 5th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The Film starts at 7:30 pm. There will be an intro and post-film discussion by Cliff Froehlich, Executive Director of Cinema St. Louis and Adjunct Professor of Film Studies at Webster University. A Facebook invite can be found Here
Thirty years after making his name in the iconic gangster movie The Public Enemy, Jimmy Cagney collaborated with the master Billy Wilder on this comedy, which wound up prompting Cagney to retire from acting after its completion (though he did still manage to pop up a couple more times in the remaining decades in his life). Here Cagney plays Mac, a Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin just before the Berlin Wall is constructed,...
- 10/2/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“If I was a woodcutter, I’d cut. If I was a fire, I’d burn. But I’m a heart and I love. That’s the only thing I can do.”
The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988) screens at The St. Louis Public Library Central Branch (1301 Olive Street St. Louis) as part ‘Banned Book Week’. The film begins at 1pm Saturday, September 29th. A discussion with Cliff Froehlich, Executive Director of Cinema St. Louis, follows the screening. This is a Free event.
In conjunction with Banned Book Week, St. Louis Public Library is celebrating the freedom to view controversial films and discuss their cultural significance. The film selected for 2018 is Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation Of Christ. When released in August of 1988, the film was banned by some cities and one theater in France was set on fire while the film was screening. Religious groups ridiculed this film for its portrayal of Jesus Christ.
The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988) screens at The St. Louis Public Library Central Branch (1301 Olive Street St. Louis) as part ‘Banned Book Week’. The film begins at 1pm Saturday, September 29th. A discussion with Cliff Froehlich, Executive Director of Cinema St. Louis, follows the screening. This is a Free event.
In conjunction with Banned Book Week, St. Louis Public Library is celebrating the freedom to view controversial films and discuss their cultural significance. The film selected for 2018 is Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation Of Christ. When released in August of 1988, the film was banned by some cities and one theater in France was set on fire while the film was screening. Religious groups ridiculed this film for its portrayal of Jesus Christ.
- 9/18/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“When one may not have long to live, why shouldn’t one have fancies?”
Camille (1936) screens Friday April 27th at 7:30 at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) as part of its St. Louis Earth Day Film Series. This is a Free screening and is co-sponsored by Opera Theater of Saint Louis. A post-film question and answer session will be lead by Cliff Froehlich, executive director, Cinema St. Louis
One of Greta Garbo’s best performances on-screen (especially the ending) can be witnessed in the essential romance drama Camille (1936). She plays Marguerite Gautier, a kept woman (by Henry Daniell) that falls in love with another a young admirer played by the dashing Robert Taylor. Lionel Barrymore plays Taylor’s stern father; Jessie Ralph (among others) also appears. Directed by George Cukor it’s based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas’s son and features a screenplay by Zoe Akins Frances Marion and James Hilton.
Camille (1936) screens Friday April 27th at 7:30 at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) as part of its St. Louis Earth Day Film Series. This is a Free screening and is co-sponsored by Opera Theater of Saint Louis. A post-film question and answer session will be lead by Cliff Froehlich, executive director, Cinema St. Louis
One of Greta Garbo’s best performances on-screen (especially the ending) can be witnessed in the essential romance drama Camille (1936). She plays Marguerite Gautier, a kept woman (by Henry Daniell) that falls in love with another a young admirer played by the dashing Robert Taylor. Lionel Barrymore plays Taylor’s stern father; Jessie Ralph (among others) also appears. Directed by George Cukor it’s based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas’s son and features a screenplay by Zoe Akins Frances Marion and James Hilton.
- 4/23/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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