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’
“I intend to be buried here … in the 20th century!”
Vienna
“There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforward there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray.”
Jean-Luc Godard
FILM
Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954, 102’