World stars are coming to the 8th Budapest Classics Film Marathon in September
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The National Film Institute Hungary (NFI) is organizing the 8th Budapest Classics Film Marathon between 16-21 September. Lead topic of this year’s movie binge featuring superb restored Hungarian and foreign pictures is Celebrating 130 Years of Cinema.
Budapest Classics Film Marathon featuring David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, and Robert Lantos
The programme packs in Károly Makk’s immortal works, epochal movies by Hollywood maverick Joe Eszterhas, works by world-famous producer Robert Lantos, films noir heavy with the whiff of cigarettes, and great pieces from Asian female artists, all projected at top venues around the capital. The festival tuning takes place in Müpa Budapest on 14 September, nfi.hu wrote.
28 December 1895. This was the date of the very first public motion picture screening by the Lumière brothers in the Grand Café, Paris. Consequently, it marked the birth of cinema. The magic of movies has lost nothing of its allure since then.
The National Film Institute Hungary extends an invitation to this celebration of art at the giant open-air cinema in Szent István Square, in Uránia National Film Theatre, Toldi cinema, Art+ Cinema, the French Institute, Budapest Music Center and, in the run-up to Film Marathon, in Müpa Budapest on 14 September with an all-day programme of puppet films, animations and film concerts.
Paying tribute
As the overture to the programme, tuning-up for Film Marathon allows young cinemagoers to enjoy puppet films by István Imre, creator of the legendary Mekk Elek, complete with music by György Ránki and György Kurtág, before the mesmerizing Saffi, the Treasure of Swamp Castle (Szaffi) from Attila Dargay. There is a series of brilliant film concerts for movie buffs, too. Győr Philharmonic Orchestra perform to the Sándor Korda silent picture The Man of Gold (Az aranyember). Film history’s most famous locomotive is also conjured up in the Bartók Béla National Concert Hall starring Buster Keaton, with the collaboration of Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra.
