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France’s Deauville American Film Festival has announced a retrospective gathering 50 U.S. features that have challenged perceptions of the world to mark its 50th anniversary.
The selection ranges from D. W. Griffith’s 1916 silent epic Intolerance to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and also includes Ida Lupino’s groundbreaking 1950 rape drama Outrage as well as Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. (see full list below).
“Cinema has always made us dream, travel, desire, fantasize, laugh, cry. But how many films have been able to shake up our certainties, question our beliefs, question our prejudices and put our own views into perspective?,” said the festival.
“The Deauville American Film Festival wanted to highlight a selection of 50 films that have changed the way we look at the world,” it continued.
Launched in 1975, the festival unfolding in the swanky Normandy beach resort of Deauville, annually fetes Hollywood talent and also supports American indie cinema, through its competition focused on U.S. features by emerging talents with or seeking distribution in France.
Recent winners of the competition have included Shane Atkinson’s LaRay, Texas, Charlotte Wells’ US-produced and backed breakout Aftersun as well Annie Silverstein’s Bull and Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road.
This year’s anniversary edition is under new interim management following the suspension of the festival’s long-time director Bruno Barde, following accusations by seven women of sexual harassment, which he has denied.
In other previous Deauville announcements, Michael Douglas will be guest of honor at the 50th edition, what will be his fifth trip to the festival, for which he says he has a special affection as the place where he met his now wife Catherine Zeta Jones.
The 50th edition runs from September 6 to 15.
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