THE PAST
- Jan 3, 2014 to Feb 28, 2014
- Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Film Forum
- Description:
Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi’s multi-layered and stirring drama THE PAST, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress Award for its star, Bérénice Béjo, and is Iran's official selection for the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is scheduled to open in NY (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Film Forum) and LA on December 20, 2013 followed by a national release.
Following a four year separation, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his estranged French wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo)'s request, in order to finalize their divorce procedure so she can marry her new boyfriend Samir (Tahar Rahim). During his tense brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet). Ahmad's efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past, and the highly charged revelations affecting every character in Mr. Farhadi's complex screenplay unfold with his trademark nua - Created by: Aimee Morris
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 (11)
Jeux Droles -"Jeux D'roles" theater workshops for kids. French, confidence & fun.
- Jan 8, 2014 at 10:30am EST to Jun 25, 2014 at 12:30pm EDT
- Location: CoucouBrooklyn
- Description:
About
"Jeux Droles" is the first acting workshop for children to learn and have fun in French - Starting in January @ CoucouBrooklynMissionTeach a language through acting, boost self-confidence and have fun.DescriptionHave fun with acting
“Jeux D’roles” means roleplay and funny games. Our approach is based on words and pronunciation, sense memory, repetition, improvisation and immersion, invented scenes or scenes from existing plays.
Learn a language
Our workshops are bilingual but mostly taught in French. Our objective is to teach children how to learn to communicate and have fun in another language. Speaking a language is not only about saying words. It is also about finding your “persona” in another language. This includes thoughts, sensations, emotions and experiences in another language that can be discovered and explored through acting. Our classes offer a trusted and safe environment that enables children to develop imagination and focus, and to build self-confidence.
A class for - Created by: Aurelie Harp
Fantastic French Art in NYC this January
- Jan 13, 2014 to Feb 4, 2014
- Location: Agora Gallery
- Description:
The original work of two French artists Isabelle Vanhecke, David W. Whitfield and Horacia Leal will be on display at Agora Gallery, NYC. The exhibition is scheduled to run from January 14, 2014 through February 4, 2014. The opening reception will be held on Thursday night, January 16, 2014 from 6-8 pm. Entrance is free and all art lovers are encouraged to attend, enjoy and meet some of the artists whose works make up this delightful show.
Event URL:
Isabelle Vanhecke - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Isabelle_Vanhecke.aspx
David W. Whitfield - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/David_W._Whitfield.aspx
About Isabelle Vanhecke
Isabelle Vanhecke was born in the Val de Marne suburbs of Paris, and from a young age has been interested in the history of portraiture as a means for bringing the underlying psychology of the subject to light. Her work is inspired by possibilities in rendering human expression, as well as paint’s relationship to the cadence and fluidity of music. Drawin - Created by: Lee Eagle
A petits pas Cooking Workshop - Les petits chefs
- Jan 15, 2014 at 10:00am EST to Mar 27, 2014 at 12:00pm EDT
- Location: FIAF Manhattan
- Description:
Wednesdays, from 3-4pm
Jan 15, Jan 22, Jan 29, Feb 5, Feb 12, Feb 19, Feb 26, Mar 5, Mar 12, Mar 19, and Mar 26Course Code: WKAPPCOOK
For ages 2–4 years, one parent/caregiver must attend with the child
Teacher: Sylvie Berger
Price: $50 per workshop
Series: $440* for all 11 workshops—a savings of $110!Take your child on a wonderful sensory adventure with FIAF's hands-on cooking workshops: Les petits chefs
In each workshop, children will discover new flavors of the season by creating different sweet or savory treats with seasonal fruits or vegetables. Children will stimulate their five senses and develop motor skills as they smell mint, taste rhubarb, shape brioche, and play with shapes and colors. Children will increase their French vocabulary, learn about utensils and ingredients, and of course, enjoy the treats they have created.
Save with a Class-Workshop Combo Package!
Speed up and enrich your toddler's French language learning by combining an 11-week à petits pas class with all 11 les p - Created by: FIAF
A petits pas Story Workshop - Mille et une histoires
- Jan 16, 2014 at 8:30am EST to Mar 27, 2014 at 11:00am EDT
- Location: FIAF Manhattan
- Description:
Winter 2014
Thursdays, from 1:30pm-3pm
Jan 16, Jan 23, Jan 30, Feb 6, Feb 13, Feb 20, Feb 27, Mar 6, Mar 13, Mar 20, and Mar 27Course Code: WKAPPSTORY
For ages 2–4, one parent/caregiver must attend with the child
Teacher: Françoise Casey
Price: $45 per workshop
Series: $396 for 11 workshops—a savings of $99!An innovative series of workshops for children designed to further inspire, excite, and encourage love of French and French culture. Each workshop will start with a story to explore different themes and different worlds followed by arts and crafts, and games. Children will increase their French vocabulary and learn new French expressions and songs.
Save with a Class-Workshop Combo Package!
Speed up and enrich your toddler's French language learning by combining an 11-week à petits pas class with all 11 Story workshops. Save 5%* on the class and $99 on the workshops!Registration
Online at fiaf.org
646 388 6612
In person at FIAF - Created by: FIAF
STRANGER BY THE LAKE
- Jan 23, 2014 to Mar 14, 2014
- Location: Angelika Film Center and Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
- Description:
Alain Guiraudie's lethally precise, eerie thriller STRANGER BY THE LAKE, winner of the Best Director Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard Section, and a selection of the New York and Sundance Film Festivals. is scheduled to open in New York (Angelika Film Center and The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center) on Friday, January 24.
Frank (Pierre Deladonchamps) spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel (Christophe Paou), an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love. When a death occurs, Frank and Michel become the primary suspects but they choose to ignore the dangers and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship. STRANGER BY THE LAKE is an erotic thriller that tests the lengths and limits of sexual desire.
Alain Guiraudie, one of French cinema’s most singular vo - Created by: Aimee Morris
The Little Prince: A New York Story at The Morgan Library & Museum
- Jan 30, 2014 at 5:30am EST to Apr 27, 2014 at 2:00pm EDT
- Location: The Morgan Library & Museum
- Description:
Le Petit Prince was born in New York.
Published in 1943, The Little Prince is one of the world's most beloved books. Author Antoine Saint-Exupery wrote and illustrated the book in New York, between Long Island and Manhattan.
"The Little Prince" tells the adventures of a boy who hails from a tiny asteroid no larger than a house. On his way to Earth, he visits other planets and meets a king, a conceited man, a drunkard, a lamplighter and a geographer. On Earth, he encounters a fox who teaches him: "What is essential is invisible to the eye." The phrase is the book's central theme and one Saint-Exupery revised 15 times, including the version "What matters cannot be seen."
“The Little Prince: A New York Story” now through April 27 at the Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street; 212-685-0008; themorgan.org
Hours
Tuesday through Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Michael TORLEN @ artlab78
- Jan 31, 2014 to Feb 16, 2014
- Location: artlab78
- Description:
venez decouvrir le travail de Michael TORLEN qui expose ses oeuvres sur les murs de ARTLAB78 dans un cadre intime.
Rencontres avec l'artiste les samedi 1 et 15 fevrier 2014 de 15 a 18 heures
Venez assister a un entretien* entre Michael Torlen et Julian Kreimer le samedi 8 fevrier a 16 heures.
*in English- Julian Kreimer is an artist and critic. He is an assistant professor of painting and theory at SUNY Purchase College, and a frequent contributor to Art in America. His most recent show was at Weeknights Gallery in Brooklyn, in February of 2013.
- Created by: Laurence Neron-Bancel
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
- Feb 4, 2014 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm EST
- Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University
- Description:
Edmund White, in conversation with Elisabeth Ladenson
When author Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving NYC in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was 43, couldn’t speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. When he returned 15 years later, he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and he’d met everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. Inside a Pearl (Bloomsbury, 2014) is a memoir that gossips and ruminates, and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture imbued with an aura of enchantment. White is the author of many critically acclaimed books, the most recent being Jack Holmes and his Friend. His previous book about Paris is The Flaneur. He is an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters and won the France-Amériques award in 2013.
Elisabeth Ladenson is Professor of French and Department Chair at Columbia.
Co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française and the Institute for Research in Women, Gender and
- Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise
Peter Brooks: Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris
- Feb 4, 2014 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST
- Location: La Maison Française of NYU
- Description:
The ruins of Paris left by the bloody repression of the Paris Commune in the spring of 1871 at once became a tourist attraction and the subject of remarkable photographic collections made for the tourist trade. Flaubert took the train from Rouen to Paris just as soon as it was possible to do so, and visited the ruins in the company of Maxime Du Camp. He linked his reaction to the ruins to the incomprehension that had met his novel of some eighteenth months earlier, L’Education sentimentale. The lecture will explore that link.
Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Yale University, where was the Founding Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, and currently Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar in the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. - Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
UG! COMEDY SHOW!! 4.0: (Tuesday Feb. 4th, 2014 @ No Fun Bar)
- Feb 4, 2014 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm EST
- Location: NO FUN BAR - 161 Ludlow st. (Corner of Stanton & Ludlow st.)
- Description:
FREE COMEDY SHOW
- Created by: Todd M.