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PARIS -- Helmer Roger Avary ("The Rules of Attraction") will program a carte blanche section at the 12th annual Etrange Festival (literally, "Strange Festival"). Paris event, which has honored creative mavericks and iconoclasts from Gaspar Noe to Norman Mailer, runs Sept. 1-14 at the Forum des Images.

Avary will host showings of six hand-picked films: Kevin Reynolds' 1988 Afghanistan-set antiwar drama "The Beast of War"; Robert Stevenson's 1959 tale of a chronic liar who meets a genuine leprechaun in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"; "Sorcerer," William Friedkin's 1977 remake of "The Wages of Fear"; John Boorman's 1981 take on Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere, "Excalibur"; Czech animator Jan Svankmajer's 1994 "Faust"; and Roman Polanski's 1971 "Macbeth."

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