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Vintage Film Festival 2024 celebrates Great Directors
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This year's Vintage Film Festival celebrates Great Directors!
What is it that makes a director a Great Director? Is it the critical or box office success of their movies? The number of Oscar or Golden Globe wins and nominations? Dominance in Hollywood? Election to auteur status by French film critics? The staying power and artistic significance of their body of work?
It can be any or all of the above, of course; and the thirteen directors we've chosen to highlight this year all check many or most of those boxes. Here are the directors, and the representative films of theirs which we plan to share:
- Robert Wise – West Side Story (1961) – starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer and Rita Moreno
- Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot (1959) – starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe
- Alfred Hitchcock – The 39 Steps (1935) – starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll
- Buster Keaton – Sherlock Jr. (1924) – starring Buster Keaton
- Yasujiro Ozu – Tokyo Story (1953) – starring Chishū Ryū and Setsuko Hara
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane (1941) – starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten
- Roman Polanski – Chinatown (1974) – starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston
- Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove (1964) – starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden
- Agnès Varda – Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) – starring Corinne Marchand and Antoine Bourseiller
- Lois Weber – The Blot (1921) – starring Claire Windsor and Louis Calhern
- John Huston – Key Largo (1948) – starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson
- John Ford – The Searchers (1956) – starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter and Vera Miles
- Preston Sturges – The Palm Beach Story (1942) – starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrae and Rudy Vallee
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VFF releases 30th Anniversary documentary
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To mark its 30th anniversary, the Vintage Film Festival worked with its friends at Two Blue Shirts Productions to produce a short video documentary that surveys the Festival’s 30-year history, and the events that led up to its establishment. The story is told through interviews with past and present VFF organizers, and illustrated by a wealth of images from the Festival’s first 29 years, and before. We’re very pleased with the result: please join us in enjoying it!
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