       Cinema Newsletter Oct 6, 2011 |
We are delighted to bring you a cinema e-newsletter with information on the best of French cinema available in New York. Twice a month, you will find in "French screens" a selection of films newly released in theaters, repertory revivals, festivals and films shown on TV and on VoD. "Our pick of the week" is the screening of Beau Travail at FIAF and the Q&A with Agnès Godard. The team of the Film, TV and New Media Department |
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César Award-winner Agnès Godard is one of today's most extraordinary cinematographers. She is most famous for her long-running collaboration with filmmaker Claire Denis, and has also worked with Agnès Varda, Peter Handke, and Wim Wenders. FIAF presents four films: I Can't Sleep, October 11, at 12:30pm and 4pm Beau travail, October 11, at 7pm Home, October 18, at 12:30pm, 4pm and 7:30pm For further information: click here |
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New York Film Festival The 2011 New York Film Festival will take place September 30 - October 16, 2011. From September 30 to October 16, NYFF presents five French coproductions : |
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To Save and Project: The 9th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation To Save and Project, MoMA’s international film preservation festival, celebrates its ninth year with gloriously preserved masterworks and rediscoveries of world cinema. In this series, MOMA presents French coproductions: Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows), by Marcel Carné, Oct 15, 2pm, Theater 1 For further information : click here |
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Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part II This three-part film exhibition aims to map a largely unknown heritage of personal, artistic, and sometimes experimental cinema from the Arab world. The works selected for this second edition of Mapping Subjectivity reflect a diversity and richness of voices and of imaginative visual languages. In this series, MOMA presents French coproductions: Ouarzazate (Ouarzazate, the Movie), by Ali Essafi, Oct 8, 7:30pm & Oct 19, 4pm For further information : click here |
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Gaumont Presents: Jean Renoir’s FrenchCancan Each year, Gaumont presents a restoration project from its archives in France. This year, Gaumont Chairman Nicolas Seydoux and Chief Executive Officer Sidonie Dumas introduce the New York theatrical premiere of their company’s digital restoration of Jean Renoir’s French Cancan. French Cancan, by Jean Renoir, October 17, at 7pm, Theater 1 |
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New York International Children's Film Festival The New York International Children's Film Festival is the largest festival for children and teens in North America, with a paid audience of over 20,000 people. Each year the festival presents 100 animated, live action and experimental shorts and features from around the world plus gala premieres, retrospectives, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, audience voting, and the NYICFF Awards Ceremony. NYICFF presents two French Films: The Storytelling Show, by Jean-Christophe Roger, October 8, 9 and 10, at 11am For further information : click here |
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19th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival The Hamptons International Film Festival celebrates Independent film - long, short, fiction and documentary - and introduces a unique and varied spectrum of international films and filmmakers to the audience. The 19th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival will take place October 13-17, 2011. The Hamptons International Film Festival presents French films and coproductions: A Quiet Life, by Claudio Cupellini, Oct 13, 2:30pm and Oct 14, 10:30am For further information : click here |
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Weekend Opening October 7 at Film Forum. A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations. |
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The Women on the 6th Floor Opening October 7 at Paris Theatre. Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria through whom Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building’s sixth floor, the servants’ quarters. There, Jean-Louis befriends a group of sassy Spanish maids, who teach him there’s more to life than stocks and bonds, and whose influence on the house will ultimately transform everyone’s life. |
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The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch Directed by Jérôme Salle Opening October 7. Billionaire Nerio Winch is found dead, drowned. An obviously suspicious death as Nerio is the founder and majority shareholder of the powerful and sprawling W Group. Officially, Nerio had no family. But he had a secret he kept well-hidden: a son, Largo, adopted nearly thirty years before. The only problem is this young heir has just been thrown in prison deep in the Amazon. Nerio murdered. Largo in prison. What if these two events were part of a plot to take control of the Winch empire? |
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Mammuth At the age of 60, Serge Pilardosse (Depardieu) is retiring from his job at a slaughterhouse. But when he tries to claim his benefits, he discovers that several of his former employers "forgot" to declare his earnings. The only way he can get the full amount he's owed is to revisit his old workplaces and gather the missing affidavits. He mounts his vintage 1970s motorcycle and sets off on a strange journey through central France that will bring him into touch with old friends, family and even his lost first love (Adjani). |
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Benda Bilili ! Benda Bilili! follows an unlikely group of musicians in Kinshasa, capital of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. The band, Staff Benda Bilili - in English, “look beyond”- is a group of street musicians composed of four paraplegics and three able-bodied men. The core of the group is four singer/guitarists polio, who use customized tricycles to get around: Ricky, the eldest and a co-founding member; Coco, the band’s composer and co-founding member, Junana, the member most disabled by polio, yet the official choreographer; and Coude, a bass player and soprano singer. |
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My Afternoons with Margueritte It's the story of one of those improbable encounters that can change the course of one's life: the encounter, in a small public garden, between Germain, fifty and barely literate, and Margueritte, a little old lady passionate about reading. Forty years and 220 pounds separate them. One day, purely by chance, Germain sits down beside Margueritte. She'll go on to read aloud extracts from novels and thereby allow him to discover the magic of books, from which Germain imagined he was excluded for life. |
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Gainsbourg : A Heroic Life The film is based on Sfar’s best-selling graphic novel and follows the singer, born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, from his precocious childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, to his transition from painter to jazz musician to pop superstar, and through his relationships with the many women in his life including Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta), Juliette Greco (Anna Mouglalis), and Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon). Gainsbourg was as famous for his decadent life, fin-de-siecle aesthetic, and cynical wit as for his clever lyrics and musical genius, which went through several reinventions. |
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Love Crime Isabelle (Sagnier) is the young ingénue assistant, while Christine (Scott Thomas) is the older woman, a senior executive in a multinational company doing deals around the world. At first they are friendly. Christine, the able executive, is happy to pass the grunt work along to the up-and-coming Isabelle as she learns the ropes. But when Christine starts to take credit for Isabelle's ideas, and a fellow worker bee begins to fuel Isabelle's growing doubts about Christine's duplicitous "all-for-one" attitude, the ground is prepared for all out war. |
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Mozart's Sister A speculative account of Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart (Marie Feret), five years older than Wolfgang (David Moreau) and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, she has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold (Marc Barbe) tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or compose, Nannerl chafes at the limitations imposed on her gender. But a friendship with the son and daughter of Louis XV offers an alternative. |
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On Sundance Channel Paris, Cedric Klapisch, 2008 |
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On TV5 MONDE To find out about French programs shown on TV5 MONDE : click here |
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On Eurochannel To find out about French programs shown on Eurochannel : click here |
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On Eurocinema L'ex femme de ma vie, de Josianne Balasko, 2004 |
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• Kino Lorber has snapped up U.S. rights to Elles, starring Juliette Binoche and newcomers Joanna Kulig and Anais Demoustier, following its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. • MPI Media Group has picked up all North American rights to Mathieu Demy and Salma Hayek starrer Americano. • Warner Bros has acquired the remake rights to the movie Nuit Blanche (Sleepless Night) for an English-language adaptation |
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