       Cinema Newsletter Sept 22, 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. The team of the Film, TV and New Media Department |
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Crossing the Line - Ariane Michel As part of the fifth edition of Crossing the Line 2011, FIAF’s annual transdisciplinary festival of contemporary arts, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) together with Van Cortlandt Park and the Anthology Film Archives, presents the North American premiere of Ariane Michel’s The Screening, a mysterious cinematic adventure, as well as the French artist and director’s acclaimed debut documentary feature Les Hommesand other recent video works. @ Anthology Film Archives: Les Hommes, September 29 and 30, at 7:30 @ Van Cortlandt Park: The Screening, September 26 at 8pm 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 : Carnage, by Roman Polanski, Sept 30, 6:30pm, 7pm, 9pm, 9:30pm For further information: click here |
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Jean Cocteau More than simply one of avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers, Jean Cocteau ranked among the century's most diversely talented artists, also enjoying success as an accomplished poet, novelist, and illustrator. Anthology Film Archives proposes four films directed by Jean Cocteau: The Blood of a Poet, October 1st, 5:30pm For further information: click here |
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Roman Polanski Roman Polanski has, over the course of a half century, become recognized as one of the great modern masters of the cinema. Many of his films are infused with a mysterious, difficult-to-define sense of dread, which is understandable given much of his early life experience. In this series, MOMA presents French coproductions: Le Locataire, September 25, 5pm, Theater 2 For further information : click here |
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Mammuth Opening September 30 at IFC Center. 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 ! Opening September 30 at IFC Center. 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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Mysteries of Lisbon Spanning three decades, Mysteries of Lisbon plunges us into a whirlwind of adventures, coincidences, revelations, vengeance, betrayals and love affairs, wrapped in a rhapsodic voyage that takes us to Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and as far as Brazil. Evoking the complex intertwined narratives of Charles Dickens, the film’s central character is Joao, the illegitimate child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and follows Joao’s quest to discover the truth of his parentage. |
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On Sundance Channel Carlos, Olivier Assayas, 2010 |
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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 CunyTV To find out about French programs shown on Cuny TV : click here On September 24, The Story of Adele H. by François Truffaut |
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On Eurocinema L'ex femme de ma vie, de Josianne Balasko, 2004 |
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• The exhibition of 95 photos of French Talent: NEW YORK MON AMOUR: A View of French Cinema by Catherine Verret-Vimont, runs through October 4 at the Furman Gallery at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theatre. • France submitted La Guerre est déclarée, directed by Valerie Donzelli, to represent it at the next year's Oscars. • French coproduction Where Do We Go Now?, directed by Nadine Labaki, won the Toronto film festival's People's Choice Award for best picture. |
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