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#Culture.- The emblematic series Classics on the Big Screen returns to the screens of the Cineteca Nacional México to present a selection of films that pay tribute to Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), poet of the gloomy and macabre, creator of obsessive and tormented characters, inventor of the detective genre.

Allan Poe is an inspiration in numerous film adaptations throughout the history of the seventh art. Poems like The Raven and stories like The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher are horror classics of the big screen.

As a tribute, the Cineteca Nacional México has prepared a special selection of 18 films that include silent works, films from the golden age of Universal Pictures horror, as well as Roger Corman’s long-running series and the screening of La mansión de la locura (Juan López Moctezuma, Mexico, 1973), a remastered classic of Mexican cinema.

There will also be musical screenings of the classics The Avenging Conscience (David W. Griffith, USA, 1914) and The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, France, 1928). There will also be special screenings with live music by pianist and composer Deborah Silberer.

The screenings of the Cineteca Nacional’s Classics on the Big Screen series will take place on weekends from March to July 2025 at the Xoco venue.

PROGRAM:

March 15* and 16: The Avenging Conscience (David W. Griffith, USA, 1914).

March 22 and 23: Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, EU, 1932)

March 29 and 30: The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA, 1934)

5 and 6 April: Phantom of the Rue Morgue (Roy Del Ruth, USA, 1954)

April 12 and 13: The Dreadful House of Usher (Roger Corman, USA, 1960)

18 and 20 April: The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman, USA, 1961)

26 and 27 April: Tales of Terror (Roger Corman, USA, 1962)

May 3 and 4: The Premature Burial (Roger Corman, USA, 1962)

May 10* and 11: The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, France, 1928)

May 17 and 18: The Raven (Roger Corman, USA, 1963)

May 24 and 25: The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman, USA, 1963)

May 31 and June 1: The Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman, USA, 1964)

7 and 8 June: The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, USA, 1964)

June 14 and 15: When Witches Burn (Michael Reeves, USA, 1968)

June 21 and 22: The Sinister Box (Gordon Hessler, USA, 1969)

June 28 and 29: A Night with Edgar Allan Poe (Kenneth Johnson, USA,1971)

5 and 6 July: Murders in the Rue Morgue (Gordon Hessler, USA, 1971)

July 12 and 13: The Mansion of Madness (Juan López Moctezuma, Mexico, 1973)

*Live music by pianist Deborah Silberer.

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