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Today in our Theatres
LEDOUX LEDOUX
Friday 01.07
19:00
ledoux
Regard ⁄ Close up : Fanny Ardant
Vivement dimanche ! ⁄ black and white ⁄ 110' ⁄ ST-OND: NL
Francois Truffaut, France 1983, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
21:00
Ledoux
Heists and Robberies
Drive ⁄ color ⁄ 100' ⁄ ST-OND: FR-NL
Nicolas Winding Refn, United States of America 2011, Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston
PLATEAU PLATEAU
Friday 01.07
18:00
plateau
The Act of Breathing, Kinshasa-Brussels
Ce magnifique Gâteau ! + Paul Panda Farnana, un Congolais qui dérange
20:00
plateau
Vrije anthologie ⁄ Anthologie libre
Le Dernier Rivage / On the Beach ⁄ black and white ⁄ 134' ⁄ TIT: EN ⁄ ST-OND: FR-NL
Stanley Kramer, United States of America 1959, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire
CINEMATEK@FLAGEY
Place Sainte-Croix, 1050 Bruxelles 02 641 10 20

CAMERAS FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
02.06 > 27.08
African cinema has the power to seduce with its clarity of vision; it goes straight to the heart of the matter. It also counteracts preconceptions and prejudices by dealing with social problems without resorting to exotic clichés or poverty porn. To mark the re-release of the restored version of La Vie est Belle, we present a selection of films that give a voice to the peoples of this great continent.
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Library

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The library has a rich collection of books, specialized magazines, press clippings, photos and posters about film and cinema. Consult the online catalogue.
Our Collections

Chantal Akerman Collection
CINEMATEK not only conserves all the films of this masterful director, but also manages her entire archive.
Exhibitions

Wunderkammer
In the Wunderkammer, the history of film is brought to life through various interactive showcases, starting from the Chinese shadow play to the cinematograph of the Lumière brothers.

Jacques Ledoux
“Jacques Ledoux has been memorialized in a lovely multilingual book that gathers reminiscences by Ledoux’s colleagues. There are memoirs by Noël Desmet, Clementine Deblieck, Jean-Paul Dorchain, Hilde Delabie, and Gabrielle Claes, Ledoux’s successor as director. Bernard Eisenschitz, Eric De Kuyper, and P. Adams Sitney offer illuminating appreciations of Ledoux’s contributions. (Sitney’s very full account of Knokke doings is a crucial document in the history of the American avant-garde.) Ledoux’s own voice is represented by a program note for a 1968 science-fiction series. There are many wonderful illustrations–photos, posters, correspondence (Cocteau, Lenica, Akerman).”
David Bordwell

Thierry Zéno: on DVD and on Avila
Thierry Zéno is a forerunner in the history of Belgian cinema, both in terms of international recognition and in terms of brilliant craftsmanship and absolute daring. Add his 3 defining films, carefully restored by CINEMATEK, to your DVD collection: Wedding Trough, Of the Dead and Bouche sans fond ouverte sur les horizons.
Published in collaboration with the CINEMATHÈQUE DE LA FÉDÉRATION WALLONIE-BRUXELLES.