Events

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 (5)

Oct 30, 2012
October 11, 2012
Thursday

  • THE BIG PICTURE

  • Oct 11, 2012 to Nov 16, 2012
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinema and IFC Center
  • Description:

    MPI Pictures is proud to announce the release of THE BIG PICTURE, Eric Lartigau’s French thriller adapted from Douglas Kennedy’s American novel, starring Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Heartbreaker,) Marina Foïs, Neils Arestrup and Catherine Deneuve.  THE BIG PICTURE is scheduled to open in New York at Lincoln Plaza Cinema and IFC Center on Friday, October 12.

    Paul Exben (Romain Duris in an intense perfomance) is a handsome and successful thirty-something Parisian corporate lawyer with a beautiful wife, two children, and a glimmering future as a partner in the firm he co-owns with his mentor, Anne (Catherine Deneuve.) But behind this deceptively perfect bourgeois façade lies a desire for creative fulfillment, a restless spirit who despises his conformist life and envies the freedom of his neighbor Greg (Eric Ruf,) an uncompromising photojournalist.

    Greg’s unexpected death throws Paul’s life into chaos, and he makes a startling decision that pushes him into unknown territor

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
October 25, 2012
Thursday

  • THE OTHER SON

  • Oct 25, 2012 to Nov 30, 2012
  • Location: The Sunshine Cinema + Clearview Cinemas
  • Description:

    Writer-director Lorraine Lévy’s THE OTHER SON, is a moving and provocative tale – filmed in Israel and the West Bank - of two young men – one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families.

    Joseph (Jules Sitruk), an 18-year-old musician preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service, lives at home in a comfortable suburb of Tel Aviv with his parents, France-born physician Orith (Emmanuelle Devos) and Israel-born army commander Alon Silbers (Pascal Elbé). A blood test for Joseph’s military service reveals that he is not their biological son; during the Gulf War Joseph was evacuated from a clinic along with another baby; both were given back to the wrong families. While the Palestinian Joseph went to Tel Aviv with the Silbers, their actual Jewish son, Yacine (Medhi Dehbi) was brought to the West Bank by the Arab couple, Said (Khalifa Natour) and Leila (

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
October 29, 2012
Monday

  • Love is French

  • Oct 29, 2012 at 3:00pm to Nov 26, 2012 at 2:00pm
  • Location: The Metropolitan Room
  • Description:
    A new «little sparrow» has landed.  Ankah infuses her daringly dramatic evocation of Piaf’s art with a contemporary energy and rhythm.—Broadway World
    Floanne is the French Madonna—Timeout NY 
    Undeniably effective renditions—Cabaret Scenes
    Her training is evident.  Her voice has marvelous range.—Times Square Chronicles
    Trip to France: $2,000. Hotel with a view of the Eiffel tower: $600 a night. Bottle of champagne: $100.  Night in Paris in the city of New York being mesmerized and serenaded by Floanne: priceless. Treat yourself to a night in Paris without even leaving home. The French Chanteuse envelopes you with style and originality that eases you into a relaxed mood and leaves at the end of the night full of romance and forgetting where you are and where you came from… like in a Woody Allen movie.
    In her new show «Love is French», Floanne explores, rather academically… love. In a jazz cabaret show of French chanson with a a comedic flavor, a lot of personality and romantic overtones , Flo
  • Created by: Flo Ankah
October 30, 2012
Tuesday

  • The Weight of the Colonial Past on Immigration Policy in France

  • Oct 30, 2012 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall at Columbia University
  • Description:

    Lecture by Alexis Spire

    Alexis Spire discusses how French immigration policies bear the marks of a colonial past that has often been disguised or camouflaged by the French government.

    Alexis Spire is a Research Fellow with the CNRS at the University of Lille 2. He is a sociologist and a specialist of French immigration and asylum policy. His books on this topic include Etrangers à la carte : L’administration de l’immigration en France (1945-1975) (2005) and Accueillir ou reconduire : Enquête sur les guichets de l’immigration (2008).

  • Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise
 

  • Mixing it up for a cause - Haiti's students

  • Oct 30, 2012 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Kombit Bar and Restaurant,
  • Description:

    Mixing it up for a cause - Haiti's students

    The Friends of Haiti 2010 organization will hold the “Love for Haiti’s Children Networking Mixer” on Oct. 30 in Brooklyn at Kombit Bar and Restaurant, 279 Flatbush Ave., from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The event will benefit the rebuilding of Ecole d’Amitié (School of Friendship) in Ranquitte, Haiti.

    The Rev. Al Sharpton,Rep. Yvette Clarke, Rep. Charles Rangel, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Deputy Borough President Rosemonde Pierre-Louis are among the benefit”s high-powered invited guests.

    The evening begins with an hour-long open bar. Donation is $20 per person in advance tickets and $25 at the door.

    For information, call Edens Desbas  (516) 987-2416, (646) 606-6402, (347) 546-1468 or send email to event@foh2010.com. Purchase tickets online at foh2010.eventbrite.com.

    This event is sponsored by Kombit Restaurant, ToutHaiti.com, Capinord.com and Rockmasters Entertainment.

  • Created by: Magalie Theodore