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Various locations around NY
Filming the Camps: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg is curated by Christian Delage.
Exhibit’s Opening Week: March 20-25
Exhibition at The Museum of Jewish Heritage: March 22–Oct 14, 2012
Dates and Tickets @ Filming the Camps
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Twelve years in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust features interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators without a snippet of archival footage.
March 25
1pm: Screening with two 15-minute breaks
6pm: Book signing (The Patagonian Hare) with Claude Lanzmann
Dates and Tickets @ BAMcinématek
On the occasion of the release of The Patagonian Hare, Claude Lanzmann will make several appearances in New York City, for more information, please click here
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Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA
ND/NF has showcased the work of emerging artists for over 40 years, and continues to celebrate the most innovative voices in filmmaking.
French films and coproductions will be screened: Donoma, Omar Killed Me, The Minister,The Rabbi's Cat, Where Do We Go Now?, 5 Broken Cameras and shorts.
This festival will take place from March 21-April 1.
Dates and Tickets @ NDNF
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Center for Jewish History & The JCC
Its goal is to present, through the medium of film, the history, literature, poetry, music, dance, customs and traditions of the Sephardic world.
French films and coproductions will be screened: Free Men, Mabul andTINGHIR-JERUSALEM: Echoes from the Mellah.
This festival will take place from March 15 -22.
Dates and Tickets @ NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
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Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, NY
The 8th annual festival of French and Francophone film is going to be an eclectic, vibrant and unique weekend of the best of contemporary French language films.
French films and coproductions will be screened, including Angele and Tony, The Assault,Unforgivable and Jo's Boy...
This festival will take place from March 23 -25.
Dates and Tickets @ Focus on French Cinema
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Film Society of Lincoln Center
An exclusive weekday matinee series of 15 treasures from the Rialto Pictures library to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the distributor.
French films and coproductions will be screened, including Breathless, Army of Shadows, Diary of a Chambermaid and DIVA...
The series will run from March 19 – 29.
Dates and Tickets @ Film Society of Lincoln Center
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Various Locations in NYC
Now in its 15th year, NYICFF is the nation's largest festival for kids and teens.
French films and coproductions will be screened: Tales of the Night and Le Tableau.
This festival will take place through March 25.
Dates and Tickets @ NYICFF
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La Délicatesse
Directed by David & Stéphane Foenkinos
108 minutes, France, 2011.
With Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini
Opening on March 14
Adapting his own eponymous best-selling novel for the screen, David Foenkinos co-directed this whimsical and romantic drama with his brother, Stéphane Foenkinos.
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La Gamin au Vélo
Directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
87 minutes, France, Belgium, Italy, 2011.
With Thomas Doret, Cécile De France, Jérémie Renier
Opening on March 16
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Film, this film powerfully delves into the emotional life of a troubled young boy—and finds hope within.
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 4:44 Last Day on Earth Directed by Abel Ferrara
85 minutes, France, Chile, USA, 2011.
With Willem Dafoe , Natasha Lyonne , Paz de la Huerta
Opening on March 23
A loving couple lives in a beautiful apartment. It's just a normal afternoon - except that tomorrow, at 4:44, the world will come to an end.
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Directed by Marcel Carné
163 minutes, France, Belgium, 1945.
With Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
France’s biggest and most expensive production to date, the culmination of France’s great pre-war movement of “poetic realism,” and the summit of the celebrated collaboration of director Carné and poet/scenarist Jacques Prévert.
Dates and Tickets @ Film Forum
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Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
100 minutes, France, 2011.
With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman.
A silent film shot entirely in black and white, the film follows dashing 1920s silent movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin).
Won 5 Oscars.
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Directed by Marie Losier
74 minutes, France, Belgium, 2011.
With Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P'Orridge
A documentary on artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the transformations the pair underwent for their Pandrogyne project.
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Directed by Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
102 minutes, France, Denmark, Sweden 2010.
With Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson
The narrative revolves around police officer Amadeus Warnebring, tone-deaf scion of a distinguished musical family, and his attempts to track down a group of six guerilla percussionists.
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Directed by Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
88 minutes, France, USA, 2011.
With Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens
Trapped inside her family's lakeside retreat, a young woman is terrorized.
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Joann Sfar
Employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that includes many of the musician’s greatest hits,Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a quintessential time capsule to ‘60’s Paris.
More information
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| ON TV |
 On Sundance Channel Change of Plans, Danièle Thompson, 2009
The Last Mistress, Catherine Breillat, 2007
Ricky, Francois Ozon, 2009
A French Gigolo, Josiane Balasko, 2008
The Good Thief, Neil Jordan, 2002
Three Monkeys, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2008
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 On TV5 Monde To find out about French programs shown on TV5 MONDE : click here
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 Eurocinema The ex-wife of my life, Josiane Balasko, 2004
White as snow, Christophe Blanc, 2010
Please, please me!, Emmanuel Mouret, 2009
Persecution, Patrice Chéreau, 2009
Stretch, Charles de Meaux, 2011
Handyman, Michel Leclerc, 2006
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 Eurochannel The Paris of Great Composers: Debussy, Anne Imbert, 2008
Julie de Carneilhan, Christopher Frank, 1990
Daft Punk
A Souvenir, Jacques Renard, 2008
The Paris of Great Composers: Mozart, Anne Imbert, 2008
The Other Woman, Christopher Frank, 1990
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| NEWS |
Selected News
The program for Tribeca 2012 is out, with 9 french films and french co-productions: 2 Days in New-York by Julie Delpy, A Better Life by Cedric Kahn,Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Ellesby Malgoska Szumowska, Headshot by Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Hysteriaby Tanya Wexler, Polisse by Maïwenn, Sleepless Night by Frederic Jardin, The Virgin, The Copts and Me by Namir Abdel Messeeh.
Distributor GKids has acquired the U.S. rights for the Blue Spirit Animation / Be-Films co-production Le Tableau (The Painting), the acclaimed CG film from French director Jean-Francois Laguionie.
This week saw the death of two monuments of French cinema: Pierre Schoendoerffer, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who was held prisoner in Indochina and chronicled the pain of war on screen and on the page, and Michel Duchaussoy, actor who played in three Chabrols and was the voice of Brando in The Godfather.
For the second year in a row, the Cannes Film Festival is opening with an American film: The festival has announced that Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will kick off the annual cinephile gathering May 16.
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