Imaginary Cinematheque

In 1990, I had the occasion to meet Satyajit Ray in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and asked him his “Imaginary Cinematheque” (ses films coups-de-coeur) and was expecting some titles. He suggested I come back after two days. When back, wouaw, a list of 43 films … Some of these were shown in conjunction with a retrospective of Ray’s films in 1993, in Brussels, at the Film Museum, in parallel to an exhibition I conceived a set of 4 exhibitions: on Ray’s drawings, one on the architecture of Calcutta w/ photographs by Fabien de Cugnac, an exhibition on Portraits of Ray by Nemai Ghosh, and and and an exhibition on Henri Cartier-Bresson in India.

Alok Nandi

  • Charlie Chaplin – La ruŽe vers l’or
  • Buster Keaton – Le mécano de la GŽnŽrale
  • Robert Flaherty – L’homme d’Aran
  • Carl Dreyer – La passion de Jeanne d’Arc
  • Fr. Wilhem Murnau – Nosferatu
  • Nicola• Ekk – Le chemin de la vie
  • Alexandre Douvjenko – La terre
  • Marc Donsko• – L’enfance de Gorki
  • Jean Renoir – La règle du jeu
  • John Ford – La poursuite infernale
  • Ernst Lubitsch – Haute pègre
  • Ingmar Bergman – Cris et chuchotements
  • Vittorio De Sica – Le voleur de bicyclette
  • Michelangelo Antonioni – La nuit
  • Federico Fellini – 8 1/2
  • Max OphŸüls – Lettre d’une inconnue
  • Franck Capra – Mr. Smith au SéŽnat
  • William Wyler – La vipère
  • Billy Wilder – Assurance sur la mort
  • Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
  • John Huston – Le faucon maltais
  • Lewis Millestone – Le commando de la mort
  • Alfred Hitchcock – Fenêtre sur cour
  • Sidney Lumet – Douze hommes en colère
  • Rouben Mamoulian – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide
  • Milos Forman – Taking off
  • Roman Polanski – Chinatown
  • Stanley Kubrick 2001 – OdysséŽe de l’espace
  • Alan J. Pakula – Klute
  • Woody Allen – IntéŽrieurs
  • George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy et le Kid
  • David Lean – Les grandes espéŽrances
  • Carol Reed – Première déŽsillusion
  • Carlos Saura – Noces de sang
  • Kozintsev – Le roi Lear
  • Sergei M. Eisenstein – Ivan le Terrible
  • Georges Rouquier – Farrebique
  • Franois Truffaut – Les 400 coups
  • Akira Kurosawa – Les sept samourai•s
  • Yasujiro Ozu – Voyage à ˆTokyo
  • Kenji Mizoguchi – Contes de la lune vague après la pluie
  • Sam Wood – Une nuit ˆà l’opŽéra
  • Mark Sandrich – Top Hat

In 2016, I was contacted by La Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and they have programmed some films and set website on these films. In 1993, the Brussels Musée du Cinéma showed also number of films of this Imaginary Cinematheque, in parallel to Ray’s films, as a retrospective.