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And you, do you like Paris? 

In December, LaCinetek prepares the end of year festivities! 

A precocious child of the cinema, Philippe Garrel, son of the actor Maurice Garrel, made his first films in the mid-1960s. His dazzling and incandescent cine-poems are called Les Enfants désaccordés (1964), Marie pour mémoire (1967), Le Révélateur (1968, with Bernadette Lafont) or La Concentration (1968, with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Zouzou). Alongside the singer Nico, his seventies companion, his quest for an existence transcended by art became psychedelic (from La Cicatrice intérieure in 1971 to L'Enfant secret in 1979). His…

In November, LaCinetek hears voices! 

In October, LaCinetek explores the figure of the father, through a palette of intense and subtle emotions, both serious and joyful.

Her first fiction film, Saint Omer, has just won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival (Silver Lion and Lion of the Future, rewarding a first film): it is Alice Diop, our director of the month.

"The fact is that, in front of Godard, one is like in front of Picasso. He has lived through his era, embracing it completely, he is steeped in its contradictions and flashes of brilliance, he has tried everything, he has absorbed everything, he has been several filmmakers, he has had several lives, some simultaneously." - Olivier Assayas, 2006

"The sky is only blue by convention, but red in reality." -Alberto Giacometti

In September, LaCinetek pays tribute to Catherine Deneuve, who received the Golden Lion of Honour at the Venice Film Festival in August 2002.

In August, LaCinetek enters the game with 10 films dedicated to sports.

Howard Hawks - unique in every way - was able to embody with perfection the categories of Hollywood cinema, while bending these codes to his original style. 

Let's celebrate Fassbinder's legacy !

1 month - 1 theme - 10 films: In July, LaCinetek enters the geek world !

Our guest of the month is Spanish director Jonás Trueba.

LaCinetek is decked out in the colors of the rainbow and celebrating Pride Month with a selection of 30 landmark works of queer cinema.

Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa is our guest of the month.

1 month - 1 theme - 10 films: In June, LaCinetek takes you to the hotel.

A burlesque figure wearing a hat adapts with more or less success to his environment. Do you think of Jacques Tati, or Buster Keaton? This is their contemporary counterpart: Palestinian filmmaker and actor Elia Suleiman (Chronicle of a Disappearance, Divine Intervention, It Must Be Heaven...).

1 month - 1 theme - 10 films: In May, LaCinetek puts the spotlight on the Director of Photography profession. 

This month, director Claire Simon has compiled a list of films that are resolutely humanistic and that shed light on the beauty of the world as well as its dangers.

LaCinetek succumbs to the fatal genre of Hollywood film noir and its criminal variations: poisonous glamour, irresistible performers (Ava Gardner, Gloria Swanson, Burt Lancaster, Clint Eastwood) dressed to kill, deep blacks, narrative vertigo, lethal stagings signed Hawks, Wilder, Siodmak, Welles, Tarantino... 

1 month - 1 theme - 10 films: connect to the environment by discovering LaCinetek's April Selection of the month. 

LaCinetek is thrilled to welcome the king of melodrama Douglas Sirk.

In March, enter the cinephile world of Patrice Leconte. 

1 month - 1 theme - 10 films: discover LaCinetek's March Selection of the month. 

From 3 to 17 March > A Pass available for 5€

The Western genre never gets old.

In February, LaCinetek invites Cameroonian director Jean-Pierre Bekolo. Discover his influences and recommendations!

In February, those who love us will take the train!

Monica Vitti, an icon sculpted of shadow and light, an incandescent eclipse of Italian cinema in its golden age, has just left us.

New wacky comedies from the Paramount and Universal catalogues are arriving on LaCinetek! 

1 month - 1 theme - 10 films: discover LaCinetek's January Selection of the month. 

After bringing Alice Guy to light in 2020, LaCinetek is once again partnering with Lobster Films to present, within its "Hidden Treasures" section, a selection of 7 new films from the beginning of the 20th century made by women, little celebrated yet innovative. Lois Weber, Mabel Normand, Germaine Dulac or Mary Ellen Bute: so many pioneers women filmmakers whose rich filmography, almost unseen on VOD, should be (re)discovered.

Focus on the Universal Monsters, a series of horror, suspense and science fiction films produced by Universal Pictures between 1923 and 1960, which offered their first cinematographic representations of the romantic figures of Dracula, Frankenstein or the werewolf! 

This holiday season, LaCinetek comes up with a great gift: the list of Pete Docter's favourite films ! 

1 month - 1 theme - 10 films: discover LaCinetek's December Selection of the month.