Tuesday, February 21, 2012 (11)

Feb 21, 2012
November 24, 2011
Thursday
  • THE ARTIST

  • Nov 24, 2011 to Feb 29, 2012
  • Location: Paris Theatre
  • Description:

    Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.
     
    Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller.

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
February 1, 2012
Wednesday
  • Arne Quinze - "My Home, My House, My Stilthouse"

  • Feb 1, 2012 to Mar 31, 2012
  • Location: Chelsea
  • Description:

    The Vicky David Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of the Belgian artist Arne Quinze.

     

    The gallery will present pieces from the series "My Home, My House, My Stilthouse" which plays on the dichotomy between chaos and equilibrium. From the appearant fragility of his material emerges overflowing energy and pure beauty.  Arne Quinze dreams of an ideal society in which all individuals communicate and interact with each other. Eclectically he uses paintings, drawings, sculptures and monumental installations to develop his work in the urban movement, by focusing on the themes: Order, Disorder, Structure and Habitation.

     

    Beginning in the early 2000’s, Arne Quinze’s œuvre is the subject of many public and private installations around the world such as ("Uchronia", Nevada, USA; "Timegate", Miami, USA; "Rebirth", Paris, FRANCE; "Red Beacon", Shanghai, CHINA; "Camille", Rouen, FRANCE; "The Sequence", Brussels, BELGIUM; "The Traveller", Munich, GERMANY ; "The Visitor", Beirut, LEBANON).

    Arne Q

  • Created by: Vicky David
February 7, 2012
Tuesday
  • CinémaTuesdays in February: Carte Blanche to Agnès b.

  • Feb 7, 2012 at 1:00pm to Feb 28, 2012 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Florence Gould Hall at the French Insitute Alliance Francaise
  • Description:

    CinémaTuesdays in February: Carte Blanche to Agnès b.

     

    FIAF is thrilled to invite French fashion designer Agnès b. to curate a month-long series of films that have most influenced her life and career as a designer, photographer, and, more recently, as a fashion film producer and director.

      

    The Crime of Monsieur Lange
    Tuesday, February 7, 2012
    12:30 and 4pm

     

    Jean Renoir, 1936. B&W. 80 min.
    With René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque
    In French with English subtitles

     

    After a rogue publisher leaves town with his company’s profits, a writer bands together with his similarly swindled coworkers to seek revenge—first by starting a new publishing house and then by more devious means. A delightful film with an inspired, Capra-esque mix of whimsy and justice.

    Playing at: 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm

     

    Meet the Designer
    Agnès b. presents
    The Crime of Monsieur Lange

    Tuesday, February 7, 2012
    7:30pm


    Agnès b., the French fashion designer and guest curator of the February CinémaTuesdays series

  • Created by: FIAF
February 18, 2012
Saturday
  • Edith Piaf, alive and living in New York

  • Feb 18, 2012 at 4:30pm to Jun 21, 2012 at 6:00pm
  • Location: The Metropolitan Room
  • Description:

    Edith Piaf Alive and Living in New York

    Introducing Floanne

    Written by Floanne Ankah & Alice Jankell

    Directed by Alice Jankell

    Piano: Audrey Saint-Gil, Accordion: Kate Dunphy

    Guitar: Marcel Van Dam, Percussion: Alby Roblejo

    Saturday, Jan 21/Feb 18/Mar 17 at 9:30

    Thursday, April 19/May 17/Jun 21 at 9:30

    The Metropolitan Room

    34 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010 Tickets $20.00, 2 drinks minimum (212) 206-0440, www.metropolitanroom.com

    www.floanne.com


    French actress and singer Floanne Ankah recounts the Piaf story. This authentic ‘chanteuse’ and farm girl opens the door to her culture, by taking a closer look at the legendary ‘Little Sparrow’ —with that husky, mournful voice so popular in the 1940’ and 50’s. The performance is a culturally rich and moving presenta- tion that will make you smile, with tunes transporting you to other times and places.

    Yes, both Floanne and Edith Piaf will be attending the rendez-vous in a medley of vintage tunes from their native France... with a modern twist. She w

  • Created by: Flo Ankah
February 21, 2012
Tuesday
  • Screening "Mortem" by Eric Atlan

  • Feb 21, 2012 from 8:15am to 9:45am
  • Location: Walter Reade Theater
  • Description:

    Mortem
    Eric Atlan, 2010
    France | Format: Digital | 94 minutes


    Describing itself as “a metaphysical thriller,” Eric Atlan’s crepuscular trance film takes inspiration from Bergman’s Persona and Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., but casts an uncanny spell that’s all its own. The film begins with its protagonist, Jena (Panchenko Daria), hurtling through the countryside on a motorcycle. As night falls, a mysterious doppelgänger (Diana Rudychenko) begins to shadow her, but it’s only after Jena checks into a near-deserted hotel and finds herself unable to leave her room that this second, equally ravishing woman becomes visible to her. In the unearthly, at times erotic psychodrama that plays out between the two women (one blonde, one brunette), Jena defies her own soul as she hovers at the threshold of life and death. Shooting in black-and-white scope using the RED ONE camera, and closely collaborating with co-writer Marie-Claude Dazun, director Eric Atlan devises a precisely calibrated mise-en-scène

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 
  • Eating Pork in Paris with Pierre Birnbaum

  • Feb 21, 2012 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm
  • Location: Earl Hall Auditorium at Columbia University
  • Description:

    Lecture by Pierre Birnbaum

    This talk explores how eating pork in Paris and other cities can be read as a sign of identity crisis in French society—a way of excluding from the public space others who are different, in this case, Jews or Muslims who follow dietary laws forbidding the consumption of pork.  


    Pierre Birnbaum is an emeritus professor of political sociology at Université Paris I and currently a visiting scholar at NYU’s Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. He is an eminent authority on the political history of Jews in France, and on relations between Jews and the State in different contemporary societies. His books include The Jews of the Republic: A History of State Jews from Gambetta to Vichy (Stanford, 1996) and Paths for Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship (Princeton, 1995).

  • Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise
 
  • Screening "The Last Metro" (Le Dernier Métro) by François Truffaut

  • Feb 21, 2012 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: Walter Reade Theater
  • Description:

    THE LAST METRO (Le dernier metro) (1980) 131m

    Director: François Truffaut

    Country: France

    Representing New York Film Festival 1980

    The Film Society’s 2011 Gala honoree, Catherine Deneuve, gives one of her greatest performances as the wife of a Jewish theater director in Nazi-occupied Paris in François Truffaut’s classic wartime melodrama. While her husband takes refuge in the theater’s basement, Deneuve’s Marion takes the reigns of their latest production, in which she also stars opposite a womanizing actor, Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), who is also a member of the resistance. As the two performers grow closer, their relationship tests Marion’s ambivalent feelings about the Nazis, and the stability of her marriage. A taut, deeply romantic portrait of ordinary people caught up in the tide of extraordinary events, The Last Metro would become one of Truffaut’s biggest popular hits, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film and 10 French César awards, including Best Film, Bes

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 
  • Free Screening: Documentary MARC JACOBS & LOUIS VUITTON by Loïc Prigent

  • Feb 21, 2012 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: Katie Murphy Amphitheatre at FIT
  • Description:

    Loïc Prigent, 2007. Color. 82 min. With Marc Jacobs, Naomi Campbell, Sofia Coppola, Uma Thurman

     

    FREE!!!  RSVP via museuminfo@fitnyc.edu

    A witty portrait of Marc Jacobs balancing his roles as artistic director of his own American line and of the French house, Louis Vuitton.

     

    Followed by a Q&A with director Loïc Prigent.

     

    Part of the series REEL FASHION AT FIAF AND FIT

    Curated by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, FIAF, and The Museum at FIT.



    Trailer provided by Video Detective

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 
  • UG! COMEDY SHOW!! 3.0 (Tuesday Feb. 21st)

  • Feb 21, 2012 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: MUG Lounge: 448 East 13th st. (bet. 1st ave and ave A)
  • Description:

    UG! COMEDY SHOW!! Tuesday February 21st, 2012 ed.

    Todd Montesi and Pat Rigby present awesome comics in front of a cool supportive crowd in the epicenter of hip NYC the East Village. Featuring both established comic veterans you've seen on TV to the up and comers, UG guarantees a swell time all for FREE! We've also got tons of drink specials ($3 drafts $4 wells)! So what are you waiting for? Come down and UG! it with us!!!


    UG! COMEDY SHOW!! (Now @ MUG)


    Presented by Todd Montesi and Pat Rigby

    TUESDAYS @ MUG Lounge
    448 East 13th st. (bet. 1st and ave. A)
    showtime: 8:00PM No Cover, One Drink Min.
    ($3 drafts, $4 wells)
    For info/reservations: (646) 746-1357
    Via subway: L train to 1st ave.; or F train to 2nd ave.


    This week's guests (Tuesday February 21st, 2012 lineup):

    Jerry ‘Shake’ Shack!
    ’Hard Noggin’ Jay Nog!
    Alexander The Fossella!
    From Florida, Mr. Oni Perez!
    Iron Mike Trainor !
    Leo ‘Doc’ Martin!
    Black History’s Own Will Johnson!
    Fastboy Eddie Farrell!

    Et al.!

    Hosted by Todd Mon

  • Created by: Todd M.
 
  • Speed-friending en français pour la fête de la Saint Valentin

  • Feb 21, 2012 from 3:15pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Pearl Studios
  • Description:
    Vous êtes une femme qui aime les hommes?
    un homme qui aime les femmes?
    un homme qui aime les hommes?
    une femme qui aime les femmes?
    ou bien vous aimez tout le monde?...
    Speed-friending en français le jour de la Saint Valentin! 

    Vin et chocolat à volonté !

    Pour les Francophones et les personnes qui les aiment. 

    ENTRÉE GRATUITE:  Bring a bottle of wine or some cheese or chocolates to share

    RSVP: actfrench@gmail.com

    Cyril Azam and Anne-Lise Bighinnati
  • Created by: Manisha Snoyer - Actress/Teacher
 
  • Screening "Le sauvage" by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

  • Feb 21, 2012 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
  • Location: Walter Reade Theater
  • Description:

    Le sauvage
    Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1975
    France/Italy | Format: Digital | 107 minutes

    The Film Society’s 2012 Gala honoree Catherine Deneuve and Yves Montand co-star in this unlikely, lightning-paced screwball farce set in Venezuela, restored and presented in the 2011 Cannes Film Festival’s “Classics” section. Deneuve gives a game performance as Nelly, a runaway mafia bride and scam artist who barges into the hotel room of Martin (Montand), a self-sufficient “sauvage” who’s in Caracas to pick up supplies before returning to the seclusion of his desert-island retreat. Pursued by both her berserk, ranting fiancé Vittorio (Luigi Vannucchi), and an ex-lover (Tony Roberts!) who’s fallen victim to one of her scams, she takes advantage of Martin at every turn while he gives as good as he gets. Each outwits and turns the tables on the other until they wind up on Martin’s island, where Nelly continues to wreak havoc on his life. Montand and Deneuve’s hectic performances are winning in a slapstick

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles