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Closed for work until spring 2026, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse begins its programming outside the walls, this Tuesday, at the Pathé Wilson with “Galaxie Kubrick” and next Thursday at the Musée des Abattoirs with “Films à (p) art”. A whole program…
While renovation, redevelopment and construction work on a third projection room has just begun on rue du Taur, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse is beginning its screenings outside the walls. They will take place at the Pathé Wilson, from Tuesday to Thursday and at the Musée des Abattoirs, from Friday to Sunday, as well as one Thursday per month as part of Jeudis des Abattoirs. Screenings for young audiences: film club, toddler screenings, will also take place at Abattoirs on Saturdays and Sundays.
Starting this Tuesday, October 15, the Pathé Wilson cinema is hosting “Galaxie Kubrick” until December 19. On the program, three of his cult films: “2001, A Space Odyssey”, “Doctor Strangelove” and “A Clockwork Orange”. To complete the galaxy, films inspired by Kubrick’s three universes will be screened in parallel. “2001, a Space Odyssey” will echo “Irréversible” by Gaspar Noé. “A Clockwork Orange” to Matsumoto’s “Funeral of the Roses”, the film that is said to have inspired Kubrick. “Doctor Strangelove” will be associated with “The Party” by Blake Edwards. And so on with other films responding to Kubrickian opuses: “Solaris”, Tarkovsky’s response to “2001”, or even “Limit Point” by Sidney Lumet, a realistic version of nuclear madness.
Taking a key filmmaker, choosing three films from their filmography, and drawing through lines between these films and others, this is the playing field that the Cinémathèque de Toulouse will occupy during this season at Pathé Wilson.
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From Pathé Wilson to Abattoirs
Then Thursday, head to the left bank and the Musée des Abattoirs for the start of the “Films at (p)art” cycle. “Taking up residence at the Toulouse Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is not trivial,” believes Franck Lubet, responsible for programming at the Cinémathèque. “Remember that yes, cinema is also an art… And it has several strings to its art. Hence the parenthesis in the title of this programming proposal. Because it will not be so much a question of defining in what way it is an art, or from what limit one’s ticket for art would no longer be valid, but rather to take it by the singularity of films which do not really have to do with each other, but which have something to do with cinema as an artistic approach to the world, or quite simply because they redefine the codes of a cinematographic genre: from chambara (Japanese sword film) to documentary.
Among these films apart, in their production, in their way of leading the story, by their place in the history of cinema, we can see “M” by Joseph Losey, “La Rabbia” by Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Wanda” by Barbara Loden or even “Europa” by Lars Von Trier, in particular.
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As part of its “Thursdays of the Abattoirs” program, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse will present once a month a film echoing the current exhibition at the museum. “Blow Up”, October 17 at 6:30 p.m., “All the Beauty and Spilled Blood”, November 14 and “Alice in the Cities”, December 12, will resonate with the dedicated “Opening Your Eyes” exhibition. to photography.
