Thursday-September 13-Ruth Adams Building #001-6PM $10; $9; $8
The Extraordinary Voyage - Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) Restored - Georges Melies
The visionary and ground-breaking films of Georges Melies have received richly-deserved and renewed attention, following the release of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. No original hand-colored copies of Melies’ masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), from 1902, had been known to survive until a copy was miraculously found in Spain in l993. In 2010, one of the most complex and ambitious film restoration projects was launched, to bring the film back to its original glory, 110 years after its first release. Using the most advanced digital technologies now available, the restoration team reassembled and restored the fragments of 13,375 frames. Part comedy, part science-fiction, but above all, proof of Melies’ genius as a pioneer of the moving image, the restored A Trip to the Moon is a must-see cinematic experience. As part of this special double-bill, The Extraordinary Voyage chronicles the journey of A Trip to the Moon from its creation in 1902, to the astonishing rediscovery of a color print in 1993, to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. This new documentary includes interviews with contemporary filmmakers, including Costa Gavras, Michel Gondry, Michel Hazanavicius, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Melies’s enduring significance to cinema. “The gorgeous restoration of [Melies's] masterpiece A Trip to the Moon was surely a cinematic highlight of the year, maybe the century” --A.O. Scott - The New York Times. 2011; 80 min. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA Centers)!
