Sunday, February 26, 2012 (8)

Feb 26, 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 24, 2012
Friday
 
  • Jean-Philippe Delhomme: Dressed for Art

  • Feb 24, 2012 at 6:00am to Apr 14, 2012 at 2:00pm
  • Location: FIAF Gallery
  • Description:

     

    This February, Fashion at FIAF extends into the Gallery with a witty collection of colorful fashion drawings and paintings by Jean-Phillipe Delhomme, one of the most delightful satirists in fashion today.

    Delhomme is a painter, writer, cultural blogger, and fashion illustrator, whose illustrations have been featured in renowned magazines such as Vogue, W, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New Yorker. In this exhibition, he explores how fashion, contemporary art, and design interact with each other and influence today’s popular culture.

     

    Free and open
    to the public

    Gallery Hours
    Tue–Fri: 11am–6pm
    Sat: 11am–5pm

  • Created by: FIAF
February 26, 2012
Sunday
  • DANCING WITH SEEDS

  • Feb 26, 2012 from 7:00am to 1:00pm
  • Location: 720 Monroe street E 408 Hoboken NJ
  • Description:

    DANCING WITH SEEDS: Paintings by Francine Demeulenaere- Music with Tariq Shaw and friends

    Monroe center for arts : Open studio tour

  • Created by: Demeulenaere francine
 
  • Screening "Almayer’s Folly" (La folie Almayer) by Chantal Akerman

  • Feb 26, 2012 from 8:00am to 10:00am
  • Location: Walter Reade Theater
  • Description:

    Almayer’s Folly
    La folie Almayer | Chantal Akerman, 2011
    Belgium/France | Format: 35mm | 127 minutes

     

    Taking Joseph Conrad’s first novel, about a Dutch fortune seeker trapped in a loveless marriage and stranded at a river trading post in the Malaysian jungle, Chantal Akerman updates the material from the late 1890s to the 1950s, and uses it as a springboard for an examination of the bankruptcy of colonialism through the struggle between a European father and Malaysian mother for possession of their daughter. In this sense the film is more about the novel than it is an adaptation of it. Conrad’s scenario remains intact: having married Zahira (Sakhna Oum), the Malaysian adopted daughter of trading post operator Lingard (Marc Barbé), in the expectation that he will inherit Lingard’s promised wealth, Almayer (Stanislas Merhar) finds himself supervising a failing enterprise while Lingard is off chasing rumors of hidden gold mines. But Akerman relegates this to the background in favor of a

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles