• Jun 6, 2015 at 5:00pm to Jul 9, 2015 at 8:00pm
  • Location: CUNY TV - Ch. 75 (Time Warner & Cablevision Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN), Ch. 30 (Verizon), Digital Ch. 25.3 (over the air)
  • Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019

CUNY TV’s global film series CITY CINEMATHEQUE will present Classics of French Film, premiering Saturday & Sunday, June 6 & 7 (2015) at 9 PM.  After each of the films – shown in the original French language with English subtitles – series host Jerry W. Carlson, Professor of Cinema Studies at The City College/CUNY, meets with film scholars to discuss the impact and influence of the week’s offering.

CITY CINEMATHEQUE is presented every weekend, with the same film on Saturday and Sunday nights at 9 PM, repeated again the following Friday night (early Saturday morning) at midnight.  CUNY TV is broadcast over-the-air in the New York metropolitan area (including areas of Long Island, Westchester, NJ, and CT within 35 miles of Times Square) on digital Ch. 25.3, and cablecast in the five boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Time Warner and Cablevision/Optimum Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN Cable) and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS).

Complete information about the five Classics of French Film, ranging from 1946 to 1959, is as follows:

Beauty and the Beast (1946)

Saturday 6/6 & Sunday 6/7 at 9pm; Friday 6/12 at midnight

Director: Jean Cocteau. Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Michel Auclair.

Discussion guest: Mary Ann Caws, CUNY Graduate Center.

 

Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)

Saturday 6/13 & Sunday 6/14 at 9pm; Friday 6/19 at midnight

Director: Jacques Tati. Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla.

Discussion guest: David Bellos, Princeton University.

 

The Wages of Fear (1953)

Saturday 6/20 & Sunday 6/21 at 9pm; Friday 6/26 at midnight

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli.

Discussion guest: William Luhr, St. Peter’s University.

  

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

Saturday 6/27 & Sunday 6/28; Friday 7/3 at midnight

Director: Louis Malle. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin.

Discussion guest: Krin Gabbard, Columbia University.

 

The 400 Blows (1959)

Saturday 7/4 & Sunday 7/5 at 9pm; Friday 7/10 at midnight

Director: Francois Truffaut. Cast: Jean Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier.

Discussion guest: Audrey Evrard, Fordham University.

 

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