72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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George Stevens
USA
122 min.
A young man from lowly background who lonsgs for the better things in life is swept off his feet when he comes into contact with wealth and success. His love for a beautiful society girl is threatened by the factory girl he's already made pregnant. The latter wants marriage, but the boy wants out. One day he decides to free himself of his past.
Luis Buñuel
Mexico
90 min.
Buñuel adapts Emily Brontë's Wunthering Heights developing mainly the last part of the novel: Alexander returns to the house where he grew up as a child. His step sister, Catherine, with whom he shared a passionate love, has married Edward only for the sake of having a child. Yet, she does not hide her feelings for Alexandre.
Robert Mulligan
USA
150 min.
Living in one of New York's Italian quarters, we find two brothers with completely different characters. They came from a wealthy traditional middel class family. Stony, who is twenty and the eldest, is a strong and enterprising youngster. His small bother, who is weak and introvert, lives in perpetual terror of his mother. Stony discovers suddenly, shilst taking care of his brother who has suffered a shock, that his vocation id that of taking care of children. His father, though, has other plans for him; he wants him to have what he calls real man's job.
Rouben Mamoulian
USA
90 min.
Doctor Jeckyll is a young scientist that is constantly involved in research. His tenacity leads him to discover a formula that enables whoever takes it to asume a new personality. The likelyhood of not being able to control de effects of the experiment makes him hesitate before taking the ultimate test. When he finally makes up his mind, his other self threatens to destroy everything he loves.
Luis Buñuel
Mexico
100 min.
this is the story of a man of high repute and social status, admired for his courtesy and religious convictions, but who hides a terrible defect: obsessive and morbid jealousy. He and his wife try to force themselves to be free, but can attain only an approximation of the real thing.
Luis Buñuel
Mexico
91 min.
Archibald, still a child, is witness to the death of his governess whilst playing a carillon... We meet him again as an adult running with a shaving blade after the nun who takes care of him in the hospital. Her accidental death makes archibald confess to the police his fantasy life as a great criminal.
Robert Wise
USA
104 min.
Avey Bullard, president of the furniture company Tredway, has just suffered a heart attack on leaving his office. Inmediately, the five vicepresidents of the company get ready to fight for his succession. Walling, the only one that isn't interested in the post, sees with disgust that if he does not enter the fight, Shaw, one of the candidates, is going to lead the company to chaos.
George Cukor
USA
114 min.
Gregory, a charming pianist, woos and wins Paula while she is holidaying in Italy. He then suggests that they go to London and reopen a house left by her aunt, who was mysteriously murdered there some time before. Ar first they are very happy, but a series of odd happenings cause Paula to doubt her own sanity. Meanshile, a Scotland Yard detective grows suspicious as to the goings-on in the house and reopens the case of paula's aunt's unsolved murder.
Alfred Hitchcock
USA
95 min.
A German refugee, Keller, murders a lawyer named Vilette and confesses his crime to Father M. Logan, a priest. Keller wore a cassock when he commited the crime and Logan, under the secrecy of confession is unable to supply an alibi for the time of the murder.
Robert Mulligan
USA
128 min.
Daisy Clover, fifteen years old, has no one to celebrate her birthday with. Her mother, a strange and decrepit woman, forgets. While playing, Daisy tapes a song as a present to herself and for something to do, she sends a copy to Hollywood. A studio contracts Daisy and she becomes a star. However, Daisy discovers that happiness and success are not always one and the same.
William Wyler
USA
104 min.
Press, disgusted with his bride-to-be Julie who makes a fool of herself the night of their betrothal is to be officially announced, breaks his engagement and goes to Philadelphia to work. He is ready to return and marry her when she asks his forgiveness, but she does not. Three years later Julie hears that Press is returning to New Orleans and anticipating that he will now marry her plans a homecoming party. Press arrives with his wife.
George Cukor
USA
116 min.
Alexandria in 1938. Melissa escapes from the dead en life she leads in the harbour. Darley, an English teacher helps her out and she offers herself as his lover. Nessim Hosnani, a banker, reports the disappearence of his wife, whom he last saw going into the city's rough quarters. Darley meets Justina who seduces him while pretending she is looking for her kidnapped daugther. But Darley does not know that Justina and her husband Nassim are conspiring with sending weapons to the israeli terrorist of Palestine who attack the English to create a Jewish state.
John Ford
USA
97 min.
Pacifier of Wichita and Dodge City, the laconic and imperturbable sheriff of tombstone, Wyatt Earp, is joined by his two brothers, the consumptive Doc Holliday and a poker player of confront memberts of the clanton gang, legends for being part of the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral.
George Stevens
USA
118 min.
The Starret's son, Joey, sees a stranger carrying a gin with a pearl-encrusted butt riding in. Joe, Joey's father, invites him to stay in his ranch and from then on a deep friendship grown between them. But there is a storm ahead. On one side, the owner of the neightbouring ranch wants all the land of the surrounding countryside for his cattle; on the other, Joe will discover that Marian, his wife, and the stranger, are attracted to one another.
Billy Wilder
USA
120 min.
Two musicians, Joe and Jerry, are escaping from gangsters in the Chicago of the Twenties. They decide to dress up as women and to join a female-only orchestra. Eventually, a millionaire falls in love with Jerry and asks him to marry him.
Billy Wilder
USA
110 min.
Norma Desmond, an old movie star who fell to less due to the arrival of sound to the film world, and not because a loss of popularity, lives isolated from the rest of the world in her house and memories and protected by her butler Max. Norma adopts as her protege a young script witer out of work and decides to return to the movies.
William Wyler
USA
115 min.
Catherine is a sheltered, shy young woman who lives with her wealthy father, Dr. Sloper. She strives to please him, but Dr. Sloper makes it obvious that he has little regard for his plain daugther. Her only asset is financial: as Dr. Sloper's only child she will receive all his wealth. Morris Townsend, who has dissipated his own funds, sees in Catherine a chance for security. Morris wins her heart but Dr. Sloper spots him for what he is. Catherine will stand against her father.
John Ford
USA
91 min.
Dublin, 1922. during the Sinn Fein rebellion, Gypo Nolan hands his friend over to the police because he needs money to emigrate to the United States.
Robert Mulligan
USA
100 min.
In a tightly linked agricultural community, two 11 year old twins live a happy childhood. Hollan, who was born first, controls NIles, who is the one that eventually always ends up paying for his brother's tricks. One day, their father dies accidentally, and, from then on, strange and tragic events begin to take place. Their grandmother, of Russian origin, has teught the children a mysterious game, a magic form of evasion.
Robert Wise
USA
72 min.
While the spectators enter and get ready for a boxing venue between "Stocker" Thompson and "Tiger" Nelson, Tony, Stocker's manager, reassures Danny, who works for Jo the gangster, that Stocker will let "Tiger" Nelson win as they have arranged. tony hasn't actually told Stocker anything about this deal, but he isnt worried because he believes that Stocker is through in boxing and without a single chance of winning. The suprise and drama appears when Stocker gets into the ring with the conviction of walking into the most important bout of his life.
John Ford
USA
84 min.
A poor white Georgian family is forced from its land. the futile wxistence of these people reflects the decadence of the South.
Alfred Hitchcock
USA
123 min.
Scottie, an old police inspector who has been forced to retire because he suffers acute vertigo, is asked by a friend to take care of his wife, Madeleine, who because of the behaviour, is thouht capable of commiting suicide. Scottie does so, ans saves her in many occasions, but his vertigo makes it impossible for him to stop her from jumping off a belfry. He struggles against the depression this produces until one day, walking in the street, he meets a girls identical to Madeleine.
George Cukor
USA
114 min.
Gino, a widower who lives in Nevada and raises cattle, decides to marry again, to the sister of his deceased wife, Gioia. Gioia, who used to live in Italy, is slowlu getting used to her new life with Gino while she learns English with his adoptive son, Bene. Gioia, on her birthday, gets angry with Gino when she discovers that he has tamed a wild horse that she fancied. To make matters worse, Gino, while toasting to her, makes the mistake and uses his first wife's name. That same night, Gioia refuses to sleep with Gino who , angry, leaves home for two weeks. When he returns, Gioia and Bene have fallen in love.
William Wyler
USA
104 min.
Lockwood, new tenant of The Grange on the moors near the sinister old house Wuthering Heights, decides to call upon his neighbours. It is hardly the happiest of experiences. Wuthering Heights's hosts are unwelcoming; reluctantly allow him a room for the night when a storm makes his return impossible. After a terrifying night, Lockwood's housekeeper telss him the secret of Wuthering Heights.
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