Films byTexts by 1954
FILM
Lotte Reiniger, 1954, 10’

A tiny girl is born from a flower. A toad and a mole propose marriage, but she is rescued, first by some fish, then by a swallow, and meets the fairies, who welcome her and give her wings.

FILM
Lotte Reiniger, 1954, 10’

Wishing to take power for himself, a magician tricks his nephew, The Caliph of Baghdad, into sniffing a powder which turns him into a stork.

FILM
Otto Preminger, 1954, 108’

All-black musical based on Oscar Hammerstein’s Broadway version of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, now set in the American South during wartime.

FILM
François Reichenbach, 1954, 25’

Travel diary in the form of a series of portraits, mute and unmounted intimate images

 

“Such intense shots on Kodak Ektachrome film are quite rare even in archives.” 

Alexander Horwath 

 

FILM
George Cukor, 1954, 154’

A film star, helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

 

“I destroy everything I touch.”

Esther Blodgett

 

FILM
Nicholas Ray, 1954, 115’

Joan Crawford stars in Johnny Guitar, as Vienna, a tough and willful owner of a remote Arizona gambling saloon who dreams of becoming rich when the new railroad comes to town.