Thursday, June 28, 2012 (12)

Jun 28, 2012
April 12, 2012
Thursday
  • MONSIEUR LAZHAR

  • Apr 12, 2012 to Jun 29, 2012
  • Location: Elinor Bunin Muroe Film Center and Angelika Film Center
  • Description:

    After learning of the death of an elementary school teacher, Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, goes to the school to offer his services as a substitute teacher.  Quickly hired to replace the deceased, he finds himself thrown into an establishment in crisis, while going through his own personal tragedy. The film features exquisite performances by Fellag and the child actors playing Monsieur Lazhar’s young students coping with grief and learning to heal.

    Award-winning writer-director Philippe Falardeau’s previous works - including Congorama and It’s Not Me I Swear! - have been screened at festivals around the world including Cannes, Toronto, New Directors/New Films, Berlin and Locarno. MONSIEUR LAZHAR, his fourth feature, is an adaptation of the play “Bashir Lazhar” by Montreal playwright Evelyne de la Cheneliere.

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
May 9, 2012
Wednesday
  • "Africa" by Dominique Zinkpè at Friedman & Vallois Gallery

  • May 9, 2012 at 12:00pm to Jun 30, 2012 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Friedman & Vallois
  • Description:

    On the occasion of Tribal Art Week in New York, Friedman & Vallois will present the exhibition “Africa” from May 9 to June 30, 2012, in partnership with fine art studio Gallery - Sandra Agbessi from Brussels and Bernard Dulon Gallery from Paris.

    This exhibition will introduce in exclusivity for the first time in the United States the works of protean artist from Benin, Africa, Dominique Zinkpè. Will be exhibited 20 works in various media including sculpture and works on paper, all produced in 2010. concurrently, renown African and Tribal Art dealer Bernard Dulon will present a series of exclusive objects. 

    This event will present a perspective of contemporary and classical African Art.

    Friedman & Vallois
    May 9 - June 30, 2012
    Opening 9 May from 4 pm

    27 east 67th street
    New York, NY 10065
    t.: +1 212 517 382

    fvdeco@aol.com

    Fine Art Studio - Sandra Agbessi
    www.fineartstudio.be

    Galerie Bernard Dulon
    www.dulonbernard.fr

  • Created by: Laurence Fayard
May 17, 2012
Thursday
  • French Apéritif Thursdays in Greenpoint

  • May 17, 2012 at 1:00pm to Sep 27, 2012 at 8:00am
  • Location: Le Gamin Greenpoint
  • Description:

    French Aperitif Thursday parties at our Greenpoint location launches this coming thursday May 17th and then every Thursday for the all summer..

    Event : http://www.facebook.com/legamingreenpoint
    Where : Le Gamin Greenpoint, 108 Franklin Street, bet Oak & Noble St. in Greenpoint/Brooklyn
    « BEFORE & AFTER HOURS » will be offering unique house cocktails, wine, beers coming along with charcuterie, cheeses, vegetable dips, traditional French bites, as well as small tasting sample plates from LE GAMIN GREENPOINT new summer dinner menu.

    The concept is based on traditionnal French Aperitif, it offers moment of simple, multiple and spontaneous dégustation which brings a variety of local products on the table such as bread, cheese, cured meats, garden products, cocktails and wines.

    Please let me know if it is something you would like to cover?  We would love to have you at The restaurant on May 17th to share a glass of wine and a plate of cheese.

    I can obviously send you more info about the event, ou
  • Created by: le gamin
June 5, 2012
Tuesday
  • WALLANDER: THE REVENGE

  • Jun 5, 2012 to Jun 29, 2012
  • Location: Cinema Village
  • Description:

    Music Box Films is proud to announce the theatrical release of WALLANDER: THE REVENGE on Friday, June 1st in New York (Cinema Village) and Los Angeles.  Directed by French/Swedish director Charlotte Brandstrom, THE REVENGE is the first episode of the original Swedish WALLANDER series.   Music Box Films will release 13 WALLANDER films on VOD iTunes, Amazon and Vudu on May 25 and DVD on May 29.
     
    Before Stieg Larsson  (Millennium Trilogy) and Jo Nesbø  (Headhunters, Harry Hole novels) there was Henning Mankell. Based on an original story from immensely popular Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, WALLANDER: THE REVENGE follows the titular chief inspector Kurt Wallander (Krister Henriksson) as he investigates crimes and solves mysteries in the deceptively dark underbelly of picturesque modern Sweden.  
     
    The global sensation was also adapted into a BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector and has won numerous BAFTA TV Awards including Best Actor for Mr. Brana

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
June 7, 2012
Thursday
  • L'Atelier francophone

  • Jun 7, 2012 at 3:00pm to Jul 5, 2012 at 5:00pm
  • Location: ART- NEW YORK
  • Description:

    L'Atelier Francophone est un cours de théâtre en Français

    Nous étudions diverses scènes écrites par des auteurs contemporains francophones. 

    L'atelier Francophone est un cours de théâtre proposant des exercices sur l'imagination, le corps et la voix afin d’élaborerun jeu créatif et "réel".

    Le cours intègre des méthodes diverses d'apprentissage du jeu (Meisner, Stanislavski, Chekhov, etc.) pour que l'acteur puisse découvrir les outils les plus utiles à son répertoire.

    Aucune expérience théatrale n'est nécessaire.

    Les élèves peuvent s'inscrire au début de chaque mois. C'est un cours circulaire ayant lieu le jeudi. Le meilleur travail sera selectionné par la directrice pour des représentations au public quatre fois par an.

    Pour plus d'informations: Lea.parke@gmail.com

  • Created by: Lea Parke
June 14, 2012
Thursday
  • AMERICANO

  • Jun 14, 2012 to Jul 27, 2012
  • Location: The Sunshine Cinema
  • Description:

    The death of his mother draws a young Frenchman (Demy) back to his childhood home in Los Angeles as he prepares to wrap up his mother’s estate. Things become complicated when he discovers that she was very fond of a woman named Lola (Hayek), who appears in her will. Martin combs Los Angeles for his mother’s mysterious friend and companion, finding no trace of her.  Traumatized at the sight of his mother’s body in the morgue, he drives to Tijuana in search of Lola, thinking she should inherit his mother’s apartment. But is Lola, his childhood playmate, truly the woman who brightened his mother’s life in Los Angeles — or is she a darker femme fatale, echoing the titular screen character from one of Jacques Demy’s key works?


    AMERICANO is a deeply moving drama about inheritance and legacy that deftly mines the past of a true-life filmmaking family, while at the same time weaving a mesmerizing fictional narrative about coming to terms with unattended grief and uncomfortable pasts. The film f

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
June 21, 2012
Thursday
  • Screening "We Won't Grow Old Together" by Maurice Pialat

  • Jun 21, 2012 to Jun 28, 2012
  • Location: HOWARD GILMAN THEATER
  • Description:

    WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER
    NOUS NE VIEILLIRONS PAS ENSEMBLE | MAURICE PIALAT, 1972
    FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35MM | 110 MINUTES

    Opens June 22 for one week only! New 35mm print!

    This autobiographical film from French master Maurice Pialat (A nos amours) is the harrowing account of a relationship in breakdown starring Jean Yanne (who won the best actor award at Cannes for this role). Official Selection: New York Film Festival, 1972.

    "This austerely devastating 1972 drama about a long-running but ultimately unhappy love affair has been hard to see for some time, so don’t pass up this chance to catch it on the big screen. Be warned, though: It’s deeply upsetting, featuring the kind of emotional brutality we just don’t see in movies anymore." —New York Magazine

    "An opportunity for a new audience to discover one of the great lions of international cinema." —The Village Voice

    "A uniquely brilliant filmmaker." —Film Comment

    "Pialat’s highly economical, surprisingly form-m

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
June 28, 2012
Thursday
  • UNFORGIVABLE

  • Jun 28, 2012 to Jul 27, 2012
  • Location: IFC Center
  • Description:

    Acclaimed director André Téchiné (Wild Reeds, Les Voleurs, Witnesses, The Girl on the Train)'s UNFORGIVABLE, is a multi-layered new drama starring iconic actress Carole Bouquet (That Obscure Object of Desire), set against the beautiful backdrop of Venice. Selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight, UNFORGIVABLE is scheduled to open in NY (at the IFC Center) and LA on Friday, June 29.

    In this adaptation of Philippe Djian's best-selling novel, Francis (André Dussollier, Wild Grass, Tell No One) is a successful crime novelist who moves to Venice to start a new book.  When he meets bisexual model-turned-real-estate-agent Judith (Bouquet,) he is instantly infatuated.  The two eventually marry and move to a remote house on the island of Sant’ Erasmo but Francis’ newfound happiness hinders his writing.  Obsessing over what Judith does while at work, he hires a young ex-convict (Mauro Conte) to investigate.  As Judith’s sexual past is revealed, both men become increasingly f

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
 
  • Bike-In Movies: Screening of "Triplets of Belleville" @ Dekalb Market

  • Jun 28, 2012 from 4:00pm to 7:45pm
  • Location: Dekalb Market
  • Description:

    Dekalb Market, Rooftop Films, NYC & Company and FLAVORPILL invite you to the FREE Outdoor film & fun series with delicious foods, beers & wine, bike valet, bike tune-up, 30 ft screen, big sound system with guest DJs & unique vendors.

    Join us, right in Downtown Brooklyn, for a Rendez-Vous with THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE, the double Academy Award nominated animation that is must see fun for all, especially outdoors under the stars!

    Directed by Sylvain Chomet with an exceptional score by Benoit Charest, here’s simply how it goes:

    When her grandson, Champion, whom she trained so vigorously as a cyclist over the years, is mysteriously kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved dog Bruno come to the rescue ! They boldly travel across the Atlantic to the megalopolis of Belleville where they encounter and team up with the renowned Triplets of Belleville, the eccentric female music-hall stars from the ‘30s to rescue him from the French mafia. 

    Thanks to Bruno’s brillia

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles