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Ado Kyrou (1923 - 1985)

Lifespan: 1923 - 1985

Related: surrealism in the cinema - eroticism in the cinema - French cinema - Eric Losfeld - film criticism - Midi Minuit Fantastique

Ado Kyrou was to the French what Raymond Durgnat was to the British and Parker Tyler was to the Americans.

Le surréalisme au cinéma (1952|1963) - Ado Kyrou

"Je vous en conjure, apprenez a voir les `mauvais' films, ils sont parfois sublimes" ("I beg you, learn to see `bad' films; they are sometimes sublime"). Ado Kyrou, Le Surrealisme au cinema, 276.

They can keep their Bressons and their Cocteaus. The cinematic, modern marvelous is popular, and the best and most exciting films are, beginning with Méliès and Fantômas, the films shown in local fleapits, films which seem to have no place in the history of cinema. --Kyrou, Ado. “The Marvelous is Popular.” The Shadow and Its Shadow: Surrealist Writings on Cinema. ed. Paul Hammond. London: British Film Institute, 1978, p 68

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Adonis Kyrou (1923 - 1985) was born in Greece.

Residing in France, where he was a critic, filmmaker and author of L'age d'or de la carte postale (1966), Amour - érotisme & cinéma (1957) and Le surréalisme au cinéma (1952|1963), the last two published by Eric Losfeld's publishing house Le Terrain Vague.

He was a contributor to French film journal Positif. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis_Kyrou [Aug 2005]

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Born in Greece, resident in France, he was a critic, filmmaker and author of L'age d'or de la carte postale (1966), Amour - érotisme & cinéma (1957) and Le surréalisme au cinéma (1952|1963), the last two published by Eric Losfeld's publishing house Le Terrain Vague.

He also wrote for the French film journal Positif and possibly for Midi Minuit Fantastique, again both published by Eric Losfeld.

Filmography

--http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0477506/ [Feb 2005]

Amour - érotisme & cinéma (1957|1966) - Ado Kyrou

Ado Kyrou, Amour - érotisme & cinéma, Le Terrain Vague, 1957

335 pages, black and white

Le surréalisme au cinéma (1952|1963) - Ado Kyrou

Paris. 1953 (1963)., Le Terrain Vague., First Edition Thus. Illustrated Wrappers, 8vo, 306pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in French. This is the revised and updated 1963 edition of Ado Kyrou's classic (still untranslated into English) reference work on the history of Surrealism and Cinema. It includes such usual suspects as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel, Hans Richter & Jean Cocteau, as well as their cinematic precursors (like Georges Melies & the Fantomas serials) and kindred colleagues. --http://antiqbook.com/boox/ara/008288.shtml [Oct 2005]

Le surréalisme au cinéma (1952|1963) - Ado Kyrou [Amazon.com][FR] [DE] [UK]

First published in 1952 by Arcanes, second edition 1963, Le Terrain Vague

Ado Kyrou, Le surréalisme au cinéma, Le Terrain Vague, 1963

Le surréalisme au cinéma Ombres Blanches Editions Arcane 1953, couverture illustrée d'une photo de Man Ray, nombreuses photos in texto, 282 pp.

L'age d'or de la carte postale (1966) - Ado Kyrou

L'age d'or de la carte postale (1966) - Ado Kyrou[Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]

first published by A. Balland

Ado Kyrou (in his book "L'Age d'or de la carte postale") writes: "sending a postcard which represents the view of a landscape where you are, is an assertion of the fact that you are able to travel, and is thus a symbol of its social status". --http://deja.vu.free.fr/gb/txt/historic.htm [Feb 2005]

Le Moine/The Monk (1973) - Adonis Kyrou

The Monk is a film adaptation of Matthew Lewis's infamous book.

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)

--http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068960/ [Feb 2005]

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