DVD Rouben Mamoulian, l’âge d’or de Broadway et Hollywood
63 min + bonus • 20€
ROUBEN MAMOULIAN, L’ÂGE D’OR DE BROADWAY ET HOLLYWOOD.
63 min
Cinéaste d’origine arménienne, né à Tbilissi en 1898, mort en Décembre 1987, Rouben Mamoulian est l’un des pionniers du théâtre Musical de Broadway (Porgy and Bess , Okhlahoma, Carousel, Lost in the stars) et de l’âge d’or des studios d’Hollywood.
Il donna leurs plus beaux rôles à Greta Garbo (La Reine Christine), Maurice Chevalier (Love me tonight) mais aussi à Marlène Dietrich (Cantique d’Amour), Gary Cooper (City Streets), Cyd Charisse (La Belle de Moscou), créa d’étonnants Zorro et Docteur Jekyll et enrichit le cinéma naissant de ses audaces et inventions.
Grace aux tournages effectués aux USA, en Géorgie et en France, aux archives personnelles inédites du cinéaste et aux témoignages recueillis, ce film est un document rare pour l’Histoire du Cinéma.
Complément de programme
LES ARCHIVES MAMOULIAN
10 min
En 1977 , Rouben Mamoulian décide de confier l’ensemble de ses archives personnelles à la Library of Congress de Washington. Alice Lotvin Birney, responsable des manuscrits d’artistes dans cette grande institution évoque cette cession et le soin tout particulier que le cinéaste apporta à la préparation de sa future collection. De nombreux documents illustrent l’entretien.
ROUBEN MAMOULIAN LE NOVATEUR
19 min
Les audaces techniques et les apports décisifs de Rouben Mamoulian au langage cinématographique sont souvent méconnus. A travers le témoignage de Christian Viviani, historien du cinéma américain et de la comédie musicale, du cinéaste Henri Verneuil mais aussi grace aux propres archives et textes de Rouben Mamoulian, le réalisateur de La Reine Christine s’affirme comme un vrai novateur.
ROUBEN MAMOULIAN, BROADWAY AND HOLLYWOOD GOLDEN AGE. 63 min
Armenian – American director Rouben Mamoulian,who was born in Tbilissi, Georgia, in 1897, and died in Hollywood in 1987 was one of the pionners of the Broadway musical theater and the Golden Age of Hollywood.
He directed Greta Garbo (Queen Christin), Maurice Chevalier (Love me tonight), Marlène Dietrich Gary Cooper (City Streets), Rita Hayworth (Blood and sand) in some of their finest roles. He made such amazing pictures as Mark of Zorro and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide and enriched the early talkies with his daring innovations.
To mark the 20th anniversary of his death and Armenia Year in France, this film looks back at Mamoulian’s dense,complex carrer.
This document, which takes place in Tbilissi, Rochester, New York, Los Angeles but also in Paris reminds the audience about Mamoulian’s talent in having enriched the cinema with his romantic sensitiveness and imagination as many other strong personalities from central and oriental Europe such as Michaël Curtiz or Ernst Lubitsch exposed in their art.
Fill-up:
MAMOULIAN’S ARCHIVES. 10 min
In 1977, Rouben Mamoulian decided to confide all his personal archives to the Library of Congress of Washington DC.
Alice Lotvin Birney, who is responsible of the Artists manuscripts in this great institution talks about this transfer and the particular care that the film-maker gave to the preparation of his future collection . Many documents illustrate the interview.
ROUBEN MAMOULIAN, THE INNOVATOR. 19 min
Rouben Mamoulian technical darings and decisive contributions to the cinema language are often unknown.
Through various testimonies from Christian Viviani, the historian of the american cinema and musical, the film-maker Henri Verneuil but also thanks to Rouben Mamoulian own archives and texts, the director of Queen Christine is asserting himself as an innovator.
