

Pharos of Chaos
A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.
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- English
- cinema on cinema
- movie business
- besançon, france
- celebrity interview
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-13New York City, New York13 Oct 1983
- Theatrical (limited)Harvard Film Archive24 Nov 2019
AustriaAT
- PremiereVienna International Film Festival1 Nov 2019
BrazilBR
- Theatrical (limited)14IMS Paulista19 Feb 2025
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival22 Feb 1983
- Theatrical1221 Oct 1983
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Pharos of Chaos was released on 13 October 1983.
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CinemaSerf
3/28/2022
A fascinating opportunity to spend some intimate time learning about the life and career of Sterling Hayden as he lives - aged 67 (ish) - on his dilapidated Parisian barge. Unfortunately, the film allows the subject to randomly rabbit on - frequently about alcoholism, from which he clearly suffered. Without any constructive or even vaguely penetrative direction, this becomes little more than a video diary; sometimes …
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