Every Thursday at 7:30 the Maison Francaise screens a film in the East Gallery of Buell Hall, followed by a moderated discussion in French. Attendance is free for members and Columbia University students and faculty, $7 for non-members. Films are in French with English subtitles.
Film presented and discussion moderated by Professor Phil Watts. Screened in connection with the panel discussion presented on October 17 (see above)
This is the legendary documentary about the demonstration of October 17, 1961. Made in 1962, and shown for the first time in May 1968, Octobre à Paris has not been shown since the early 1970s, and is being re-released with a new preface in Paris on October 19. Filmed clandestinely by Jacques Panijel, it retraces the preparations for, and unfolding of, the demonstration and police brutality that violently repressed it, and includes footage of the bidonvilles in Nanterre and the torture room on the Rue de la Goutte d'Or.
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