Wednesday, January 25, 2017 (4)

Jan 25, 2017
January 19, 2017
Thursday
  • STAYING VERTICAL

  • Jan 19, 2017 to Feb 24, 2017
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center & IFC Center
  • Description:

    Strand Releasing is proud to announce the US release of STAYING VERTICAL, French writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s new provocative and genre-defying character study about a filmmaker struggling with creativity, responsibility, fatherhood, and sexuality. A selection of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival competition and the New York Film Festival, STAYING VERTICAL is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, January 20 at The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the IFC Center, followed by a national roll out.

    Léo (Damien Bonnard), a blocked filmmaker seeking inspiration in the French countryside for an overdue script, begins an affair with a shepherdess (India Hair), with whom he almost immediately has a child. Combining the formal control of his 2013 breakthrough Stranger by the Lake with the shape-shifting fabulism of his earlier work, Alain Guiraudie’s new film, which often veers towards surreal black comedy, is a sidelong look at the human cycle of birth, procreation, and death, as well as

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
January 20, 2017
Friday
  • Julien Duvivier's PANIQUE

  • Jan 20, 2017 at 7:30am to Feb 2, 2017 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Film Forum
  • Description:

    New restoration of Julien Duvivier's classic French film noir.

    In the end-of-the-tramway-from-Paris suburb Villejuif (you do the translation), suspicion and gossip run rampant.  Immediate:  last night’s murder of an old maid in that vacant lot near the church.  Ongoing: bearded, aloof shutterbug Michel Simon’s Monsieur Hire (real name: the “foreign”-sounding Hirovitch).  Is he a peeping tom? A pervert? Not the ideal spot for back-from-the-slammer Viviane Romance to start a new life – but then there’s sleazy old flame Paul Bernard hanging around. (Did she take the rap for him?) And her very open window is just across from Hire’s – who proves to have another life, even as two blind loves take their course. Long unseen anywhere, Duvivier’s first film back in France after a WWII Hollywood stint has steadily gained stature, not least because it's that rare thing: an adaptation of Belgian crime titan Georges Simenon that’s actually darker than the original (his novel Mr. Hire’s Engagement), w

  • Created by: Shelley Farmer
January 21, 2017
Saturday
January 25, 2017
Wednesday
  • Night And Fog with Sylvie Lindeperg

  • Jan 25, 2017 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: Columbia University Maison Française
  • Description:

    *To RSVP, please click here.

    Screening and analysis by film historian Sylvie Lindeperg, moderated by Jane Gaines

    Following a screening of this 32-minute classic 1955 documentary by Alain Resnais about the Nazi death camps, Sylvie Lindeperg will present her research and analysis of the film, the subject of her book-length study, Nuit et Brouillard. Un film dans l’histoire (2007).

    Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a professor at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on history, memory and cinema, with a particular focus on the Second World War. Lindeperg has written and edited one dozen books including Les Écrans de l’ombre (1997 and 2014), Clio de 5 à 7 (2000), Univers concentrationnaire et génocide. Voir, savoir, comprendre, in collaboration with Annette Wieviorka (2008), and La Voie des images (2013).

    This event is funded by the Knapp Family Foundation. This event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Franca

  • Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise