Thursday, April 28, 2016 (8)

Apr 28, 2016
March 10, 2016
Thursday
  • MARGUERITE

  • Mar 10, 2016 to May 27, 2016
  • Location: Paris Theatre and Angelika Film Center
  • Description:

    Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of MARGUERITE, writer-director Xavier Giannoli’s satirical tragicomedy set in France in the 1920s, starring Catherine Frot (The Dinner Game, Family Resemblances) as Marguerite Dumont, an eccentric and exceedingly wealthy would-be Opera diva.  Nominated for 11 César Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress, the film was selected for the Venice and Telluride Fim Festivald, and is scheduled to open in New York at The Paris Theater and the Angelika Film Center on Friday, March 11 with a national roll-out to follow.

    Not far outside Paris, at the beginning of the Roaring 20s, Marguerite lives in a sumptuous mansion, spending much of her time singing famous opera arias dressed in elaborate theatrical costumes. Marguerite sings whole-heartedly, bearing her soul, but is also terribly, and comically, out of tune. When a young, provocative journalist writes a rave review of her latest private recital, Marguerite’s delusion that s

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
March 31, 2016
Thursday
  • STANDING TALL

  • Mar 31, 2016 to May 13, 2016
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinema
  • Description:

    Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of STANDING TALL, writer-director Emmanuelle Bercot’s urgent and sympathetic drama about a teenage delinquent and the tireless efforts of the juvenile judge (Catherine Deneuve,) and counselor (Benoit Magimel) assigned to his case, to save him. The Opening Night selection of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, STANDING TALL won 2 César Awards for Best Newcomer (Rod Paradot) and Best Supporting Actor (Benoit Magimel) and will open in New York on Friday, April 1 at Lincoln Plaza Cinema with a national roll out to follow.

    Sixteen-year-old Malony (Rod Paradot) is surrounded by adults both callous and supportive. On the latter side is a warm-hearted court judge Florence Blaque (Catherine Deneuve) and a devoted social worker Yann (Benoît Magimel, The Piano Teacher); on the other side stand most other authority figures. Clearly a victim of circumstances and poor parenting from his basket case of a mother (Sara Forestier, The Names of Love), he’s als

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
April 4, 2016
Monday
  • Vivre avec (Dealing with It)

  • Apr 4, 2016 at 6:00am to Apr 29, 2016 at 1:00pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description:

    This series of photographs by JEAN-ROBERT DANTOU documents a decade of ethnographic research in order to understand how people with disabilities across the life course and throughout France are able to manage using different circles of support, ranging from relatives to professionals, nursing homes to associations of all sorts.


    Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
    The Maison Française gallery is occasionally closed for daytime events; please call (212) 998-8750 to verify access.

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April 6, 2016
Wednesday
  • Painting Exhibition Laurence de Valmy O'Cabanon

  • Apr 6, 2016 at 7:00am to Jun 6, 2016 at 8:00am
  • Location: 245 W 29th Street (bet 7th & 8th av),
  • Description:

    New York, New York – Laurence de Valmy is pleased to announce an exhibition “Colors & reflections” of recent paintings at the French restaurant O Cabanon in Chelsea, NY. The exhibition will open on April 6 and will remain on view through June 6, 2016.

     

    Laurence de Valmy is a French painter who fell in love with the American movements of Contemporary Realism and Photorealism, to the point of becoming a realist painter herself. She believes that what we see influences our mood. Therefore she chooses to paint colorful and bright paintings to create happy and peaceful moments in time. 

     

    For this exhibition, curated by Emilie Boix, Manager at OCabanon, Laurence will present a body of work around the study of the light and its impact on colors and reflections. “It’s fascinating to notice how light transforms the colors or how reflections are playful. I’m very pleased of this collaboration with the team of OCabanon. The atmosphere of the restaurant is welcoming and is all about spending a good

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April 28, 2016
Thursday
  • Of Grammatology Re-translated: 40th Anniversary Edition, a Lasting Tribute

  • Apr 28, 2016 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm
  • Location: Columbia University Maison Française
  • Description:

    A panel discussion with Gayatri Spivak and invited guests

    Event Location: Teatro, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies

    RSVP at www.maisonfrançaise.org.

    In this panel discussion, speakers reflect on the importance of Jacques Derrida’s book Of Grammatology in their life and work: Benjamin Conisbee Baer (Princeton University); Eduardo Cadava (Princeton University); Mireille Calle-Gruber (Sorbonne Nouvelle — Paris 3); Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California); Avital Ronell (NYU); and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University).

    Including a piano performance by Yohann Ripert.

    This fortieth-anniversary edition of Jacques Derrida’s influential book, which Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak retranslates with greater awareness of Derrida’s legacy, also includes a new Afterword by her which supplements the original Translator’s Preface. Judith Butler has added an introduction and all references have been updated. This new release of Of Grammatology is a milestone in the history of an indispensabl

  • Created by: Joella Jones
 
  • New Perspectives on the Resistance in France

  • Apr 28, 2016 from 2:30pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description:

    OLIVIER WIEVORKA is a historian, professor, at the École normale supérieure de Cachan. He is the author of several books on World War Two and the French Resistance, including La Mémoire désunie (2010) and Histoire de la Résistance 1940-1945 (2013).

    After World War Two, the French resistance enjoyed a mythological status. It was represented as a widespread movement that united most French people, whether under the aegis of de Gaulle or that of the Communist Party. The Resistance's military contribution was said to be decisive, amounting to the equivalent of 15 army divisions, Eisenhower supposedly maintained. Now, after several decades of historical research, we can put these myths to rest. The new story of the Resistance is far more nuanced than the old, but it is no less exciting.

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