Events

Friday, March 2, 2012 (17)

Mar 2, 2012
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 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 29, 2012
Wednesday
March 2, 2012
Friday
 

  • Middle Eastern Music Lessons/Classes at Alwan for the Arts

  • Mar 2, 2012 to May 25, 2012
  • Location: Alwan for the Arts
  • Description:
    Alwan for the Arts is excited to announce weekly group and private Arab Music Instruction this spring. Opportunities are available for beginners and seasoned musicians of all ages to learn fundamentals of Arab music and/or study specialized topics, such as focusing on many iterations of a single Maqam throughout a few decades, learning to sing and perform many maqams and popular songs along with classical Arabic poetry, studying vocal repertoire in an all-woman setting, and learning to play and jam on Arabic percussion instruments. Private lessons are also available on traditional as well as Western instruments and voice.  

    Group Classes include:  
    Maqam theory and practice (Maqam Rast in Early 20th c. Egypt)
    Arabic Percussion
    Women's Choir (Arabic repertoire, no knowledge of Arabic necessary!)
    Iraqi Maqam (repertoire and variation)

     

    Private lessons also available on violin, 'oud, buzuq, qanun, santur, trumpet, percussion, voice (male and female).
    All other instrumentalists encouraged to stud
  • Created by: Lety ElNaggar
 

  • Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: "Free Men" (Les Hommes Libres) by Ismael Ferroukhi

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 8:00am to 10:00am
  • Location: Walter Reade Theater
  • Description:

    FREE MEN (LES HOMMES LIBRES)
    Ismael Ferroukhi, 2011, France, 99 min.


    During the German Occupation of France, an Algerian black marketeer (A PROPHET star Tahar Rahim) is coerced into spying on the denizens of the Paris Grand Mosque, whereupon he discovers a clandestine operation to provide North African Jews with fake Muslim IDs. A Film Movement release.

    Other Dates:

    Sat., March 3, 9:15pm – WRT;

    Sun., March 4, 4pm - IFC


    The 17th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films’ celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film, hits screens at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek, March 1-11. 

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • RENDEZ-VOUS+ | "Into our Own hands" (Entre nos Mains) by Mariana Otero (2010)

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 9:00am to 11:00am
  • Location: HOWARD GILMAN THEATER
  • Description:

    INTO OUR OWN HANDS
    ENTRE NOS MAINS | MARIANA OTERO, 2010
    FRANCE | FORMAT: 35MM | 87 MINUTES

    A situation that has become, sadly, all too common: factory workers are suddenly informed that the business is about to shut down. But this time, the workers, employed at the Starissima factory outside of Orleans, decide to take action. They quickly band together into a cooperative, and start to run the business themselves. Mariana Otero’s superb film carefully chronicles the entire process: the coming together of the often skeptical employees, their early successes, and later disappointments with the harsh realities of modern manufacturing. Not only a great document for our times, but also a rich, revealing drama that introduces us to a remarkable cast of characters.

    Admission: $10


    SERIES: RENDEZ-VOUS + organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: "Pater" by Alain Cavalier

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 10:45am to 12:45pm
  • Location: Walter Reade Theater
  • Description:

    PATER
    Alain Cavalier, 2011, France, 105 min.


    France’s most unpredictable filmmaker, Alain Cavalier, teams up with actor Vincent Lindon for a witty, semi-improvised look at men, power and politics, starring Cavalier himself as a fictional French President and Lindon as his newly appointed Prime Minister.

    Other dates:

    *Fri., March 2, 9:15pm – IFC;

    *Sat., March 3, 6:30pm – BAM;

    *Sun., March 4, 3:30pm - WRT


    The 17th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films’ celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film, hits screens at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek, March 1-11. 

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • RENDEZ-VOUS+ | "Life after the camps" (Après les camps la vie) by Virginie Linhart (2010)

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 11:00am to 1:00pm
  • Location: HOWARD GILMAN THEATER
  • Description:

    LIFE AFTER THE CAMPS
    APRES LES CAMPS, LA VIE | VIRGINIE LINHART, 2010
    FRANCE | FORMAT: DIGIBETA | 75 MINUTES

    Many films have attempted to deal with the victims of the Shoah, focusing on either the build-up to the deportations or the nightmare of the camps. But few films have examined the lives of the survivors in the immediate aftermath of liberation. How did they piece their lives back together while searching for friends and family?  How were they able to once again become part of a society that had so cruelly betrayed them--or at best remained silent to their fate? Virginie Linhart's important study of French survivors uses personal records, family albums and--most crucially--reminiscences by the survivors themselves to create a revealing look at the courage, strength and sometimes contradictory emotions of those who had been to hell and back.

    Admission: $10


    SERIES: RENDEZ-VOUS + organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and supported by the Cultural Services of the Fr

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • NYICFF 2012 Opening Night: "A Monster in Paris" 3D

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: DGA THEATER
  • Description:
    New York International Children Film Festival 2012 Opening Night:
    A Monster in Paris 3D
    France, Bibo Bergeron, 2010, 89 min
    Recommended Ages: 5 to Adult (In English)

    US PREMIERE - NYICFF 2012 opens with a

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • RENDEZ-VOUS+ | "Garde à Vue" by Claude Miller (1981)

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: HOWARD GILMAN THEATER
  • Description:

    GARDE À VUE
    CLAUDE MILLER, 1981
    FRANCE | FORMAT: 35MM | 86 MINUTES

    On New Year’s Eve in a small French town, a weary, hard-boiled police inspector (the great Lino Ventrua) brings in a wealthy, influential local attorney (the equally great Michel Serrault) for questioning in regard to the rape and murder of two young girls. Over the 24 hours that follow--under French law, the legally allowable period to hold someone for questioning without formally charging them with a crime--the cop puts the squeeze on the suspect, who defiantly maintains his innocence. In this clockwork, claustrophobic thriller (shot almost entirely on a single set), director Claude Miller (A Secret) never lets the audience off the hook, shifting our loyalties to and fro with each new revelation. Is Serrault guilty as charged or the victim of an overly zealous cop hellbent on leaving no loose ends? Only time will tell. With Romy Schneider as Serrault’s put-upon wife. NOT ON DVD.


    Admission: $10


    SERIES: RENDEZ-VOUS +

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: "Farewell, My Queen" (Les Adieux à la Reine) by Benoit Jacquot

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: Walter Reade Theater
  • Description:

    FAREWELL, MY QUEEN (LES ADIEUX À LA REINE)
    Benoit Jacquot, 2012, France, 97 min.


    A brilliant snapshot of the final days of Marie Antoinette, starring a terrific Diane Kruger as the ill-fated Queen and rising star Léa Seydoux (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS) as her quietly ambitious lady-in-waiting. This was the Opening Night Film, 2012 Berlin Film Festival.

    *In person: Benoit Jacquot

    Other dates:

    *Sat., March 3, 1:30pm – WRT;

    *Sat., March 3, 7pm – IFC;

    *Sun., March 4, 6pm – BAM


    The 17th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films’ celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film, hits screens at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek, March 1-11. 

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: "38 Witnesses" (38 Témoins) by Lucas Belvaux

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: IFC Center
  • Description:

    38 WITNESSES (38 TÉMOINS)
    Lucas Belvaux, 2012, France/Belgium, 104 min.


    A woman is brutally murdered in front of an apartment building, but all of the residents claim to have seen and heard nothing in this taut, haunting thriller from RAPT director Lucas Belvaux. Inspired by New York’s infamous 1964 Kitty Genovese case.

    Other dates:

    Sat., March 10, 6:15pm – WRT;

    Sun., March 11, 1:30pm – WRT


    The 17th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films’ celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film, hits screens at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek, March 1-11. 

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • RENDEZ-VOUS+ | "Michel Petrucciani" by Michael Radford (2011)

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: HOWARD GILMAN THEATER
  • Description:

    MICHEL PETRUCCIANI
    MICHAEL RADFORD, 2011
    FRANCE/GERMANY/ITALY | FORMAT: DIGIBETA | 102 MINUTES

    Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Radford (Il postino) returns to his documentary roots in this touching look at the extraordinarily gifted jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani. Born with osteogenesis imperfecta, more commonly known as “brittle bone disease,” Petrucciani barely reached 3 feet in height in adulthood, and throughout his life had to cope with the physical challenge of just trying to lead a normal life. Yet despite the pain, he developed large and loyal followings for his music on both sides of the Atlantic, earning the respect and friendship of the world’s finest jazz musicians—several of whom appear in the film to offer their tributes. Filled with Petrucciani’s music as well as details of his life—cut tragically short in 1999, when he had just turned 36—Radford’s new film celebrates the legacy of a truly inspirational artist.

    Admission: $10


    SERIES: RENDEZ-VOUS + organized

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: "17 Girls" (17 Filles) by D. and M. Coulin

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 4:15pm to 5:15pm
  • Location: Walter Reade Theater
  • Description:

    17 GIRLS (17 FILLES)
    Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, 2011, France, 90 min.


    Based on a headline-grabbing incident in the U.S., sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s provocative debut feature follows the fallout in a sleepy French coastal town when a group of teenage girls all decide to become pregnant at the same time. A Strand Releasing film. 


    Other Dates:

    *Sat., March 3, 9:30pm – IFC;

    *Sun., March 4, 1pm - WRT


    *In person: Delphine and Muriel Coulin


    The 17th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films’ celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film, hits screens at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek, March 1-11. 

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 

  • Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: "Pater" by Alain Cavalier

  • Mar 2, 2012 from 4:15pm to 6:15pm
  • Location: IFC Center
  • Description:

    PATER
    Alain Cavalier, 2011, France, 105 min.


    France’s most unpredictable filmmaker, Alain Cavalier, teams up with actor Vincent Lindon for a witty, semi-improvised look at men, power and politics, starring Cavalier himself as a fictional French President and Lindon as his newly appointed Prime Minister.

    *In person: Vincent Lindon

    Other dates:

    *Sat., March 3, 6:30pm – BAM;

    *Sun., March 4, 3:30pm - WRT


    The 17th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films’ celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film, hits screens at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek, March 1-11. 

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles