Vienna Film Archive Review
Austrian Film Archive from 6 December to 8 January in Vienna. The films selected are all either by Austrian directors resident abroad or by non-Austrians and reflect the cultural traditions and social mores of this Central European country. The programme also includes a sidebar event on “Austrian Fascism in Cinema”, scheduled for 6 December.
The retrospective includes a number of rarely-seen films – some of which have never been seen in Austria. They include Ernst Neubach’s 1948 feature, Le Signal Rouge (France) starring Erich von Stroheim; Future Vedettes (1955, France) starring Brigitte Bardot as “"Wiener Mädel"; Alfred Hitchcock’s tribute to Vienna Waltzes from Vienna (1938, GB); Miklós Jancsó’s Private Vices and Public Virtues (Italy/Yugoslavia, 1975) and Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing starring Art Garfunkel, set in Vienna in the 70s. (1979, GB).
The Austrian Archive is scheduled to present a new book entitled “Austria in Image and Sound”, and has organised an exhibition of stills from Josef von Sternberg’s lost film 1929 film, The Case of Lena Smith.
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