Between the train and the cinema, it's a long story.
Since its entrance(entry) in 1895 to the station of Ciotat, the train seldom left the film …
The unpublished aesthetics of rails, the symbolic content of its continuities and its breaks, its image of power and of speed deeply inspired the cinema. This is the way(That's how) an inescapable(major) railroad iconography settled down permanently.
Today the SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY) is the company in France which receives most movies with about 200 filming in its stations and its trains. At the heart of the life of people SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY) occupies an unique(only) place(square) in the cinema Français.1 1 feature-length film on 3 of French production contain railroad stages(scenes).
We invite you as part of European Heritage Days to rediscover a selection of mythical movies on September 20th and 21st in the cinema Brady.
On Friday, September 20th at 20 h 30: Battle of the Rail (1946), conference discusses SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY) preceded by 30 years of advertising(publicity).
On Saturday, September 21st from 15 h 00: marathon of the railroad movie:
The Crime(Murder) of the Orient-Express (1974 - 15) h;
Those who love me will take the train (1998 - 17) h 20;
On board of Darjeeling Limited (2007 - 19) h 30.