The Seats of the Alcazar + Le Fantome de Longstaff
Luc Moullet: Anarchy in the Alps
August 8 - 14, 2025
This double bill program finds Luc Moullet adapting Henry James as only he can in Le Fantome de Longstaff, as well as the all-too-personal comedy of The Seats of the Alcazar, which ranks among the most profound and insightful meditations on movie love in his eclectic filmography.
The Seats of the Alcazar / Les sièges d’Alcazar
Luc Moullet, 1991, France, 54m
French with English subtitles
Among the most moving and delightful treatments of cinephilia in Moullet’s oeuvre, The Seats of the Alcazar follows Guy, a writer for Cahiers du cinéma who, while covering a Vittorio Cottafavi retrospective, begins to suspect one of his colleagues, a critic for Positif named Jeanne, is tailing him….
Le Fantome de Longstaff
Luc Moullet, 1996, France, 20m
French with English subtitles
This free adaptation of a short story by Henry James follows an ailing American woman who travels to Rome with a friend and encounters what appears to be the ghost of a man she knew years earlier.
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