Belgian directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, whose brilliant brotherly teamwork has been awarded two times with a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Filmfestival ('Rosetta' in 1999 and 'L'Enfant' in 2005), have been given carte blanche at the Brussels Filmmuseum in September. The Dardenne brothers have chosen some thirty movies that can be divided into two main categories. The first is a collection of movies that moulded the brothers as directors, such as the documentaries by Dutch director Johan Van Der Keuken. The other category consists of movies that evoke feelings of solidarity and identification with the brothers. The result is a diverse, original list of wonderful movies that hopefully will win the hearts of the attendant filmlovers in Brussels. Here's the complete list. For scheduling details, visit the site of the Brussels Filmmuseum.


LIBERTY
Leo McCarey, USA 1929
Oliver Hardy / b&w / 19'

CITY LIGHTS
Charles Chaplin, USA 1931
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill / b&w / 85'

POURQUOI ISRAËL
Claude Lanzmann, France 1973 / colour / 190'

HANGMEN ALSO DIE
Fritz Lang, USA 1943
Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan / b&w / 134'

STROMBOLI, TERRA DI DIO
Roberto Rossellini, Italy 1949
Ingrid Bergman / b&w / 107'

STREET OF SHAME
[Akasen chitai] Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan 1956
Machiko Kyo / b&w / 84'

STRAY DOG
[Nora-inu] Akira Kurosawa, Japan 1949
Toshiro Mifune / b&w / 122'

L' ENCLOS
Armand Gatti, France - Yugoslavia 1960
b&w / 103'

A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE
Douglas Sirk, USA 1958
John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Klaus Kinski / scope / colour / 132'

UKIGUSA
Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 1959
Ganjiro Nakamura, Mashiko Kyo / colour / 119'

ACCATTONE
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy 1961
Franco Citti / b&w / 116'

COMPARTIMENT TUEURS
Constantin Costa-Gavras, France 1965
Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin / scope / b&w / 91'

DODES'KA-DEN
Akira Kurosawa, Japan 1970
colour / 140'

QUATRE NUITS D'UN REVEUR
Robert Bresson, France - Italy 1971
Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume De Forêts / colour / 82'

L'HISTOIRE D'ADELE H.
François Truffaut, France 1975
Isabelle Adjani / colour / 97'

THE CONVERSATION
Francis Ford Coppola, USA 1974
Gene Hackman / colour / 112'

THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID
Jean Renoir, USA 1946
Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith / b&w / 86'

FAUSTRECHT DER FREIHEIT
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, DDR 1975
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab / colour / 123'

PASSE TON BAC D'ABORD
Maurice Pialat, France 1979
Sabine Haudepin / colour / 84'

BIANCA
Nanni Moretti, Italy 1984
Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante / colour / 97'

THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE
John Cassavetes, USA 1976
Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel / colour / 108'

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
Alfred Hitchcock, UK 1935
Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat / b&w / 84'

LES CINEPHILES - LE RETOUR DE JEAN
Louis Skorecki, France 1988
no subt. / 75'

LES CINEPHILES - ERIC A DISPARU
Louis Skorecki, France 1988
no subt./ 56'

DE WEG NAAR HET ZUIDEN
Johan Der Keuken, The Netherlands 1982
colour / 150'

SANS TOIT NI LOI
Agnès Varda, France - UK 1985
Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss / colour / 106'

THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL
[Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö] Aki Kaurismäki, Finland - Sweden 1990
colour / 68'

LES ROSEAUX SAUVAGES
André Téchiné, France 1994
Elodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau / colour / 113'

CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
Woody Allen, USA 1989
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Claire Bloom / colour / 103'

VIVE L’AMOUR
[Aiqing Wansui] Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan 1994
Yang Kuei-Mei / colour / 118'

PORTRAIT D'UNE JEUNE FILLE DE LA FIN DES ANNEES 60, A BRUXELLES
Chantal Akerman, France 1994
colour / 61'

SUZAKU
[Moe no suzaku] Naomi Kawase, Japan 1997
Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono / colour / 95'

S21, LA MACHINE DE MORT KHMERE ROUGE
Rithy Panh, Cambodja - France 2002
colour / 101'

L'ARGENT FAIT LE BONHEUR
Robert Guédiguian, France 1993
Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane Ascaride / colour / 92'

CASINO
Martin Scorsese, USA - France 1995
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone / scope / colour / 178'