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
Friday, February 24, 2017 (5)
THE SALESMAN
- Jan 26, 2017 to Feb 24, 2017
- Location: Lincoln Plaza & Angelika Film Center
- Description:
Amazon Studios and Cohen Media Group are proud to announce the release of award-winning writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s (A SEPARATION, THE PAST, ABOUT ELLY, FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY) masterful, intimate, and suspenseful new drama THE SALESMAN, nominated for an Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. Winner of the Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) and Best Screenplay (Farhadi) awards at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and has won numerous other international awards. THE SALESMAN (a French co-production) will open in New York (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Angelika Film Center) and Los Angeles on Friday, January 27, with a national roll out to follow.
After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment. Eventually, a sudden eruption of violence linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life, and creates a simmering tension between husband and wife. A - Created by: Aimee Morris
FEBRUARY VACATION PLANS? week long camp for ages 3 to 10.
- Feb 13, 2017 at 5:00pm to Feb 24, 2017 at 11:00am EST
- Location: union square
- Description:
FEBRUARY VACATION PLANS?
Bleu Blanc Rouge offer a week long camp a day long camp
From 3 to 10 year old designed to assist working parents over February school vacation. Kids can spend the day learning new techniques and making art, visit museum, sport if the weather permit tennis basketball
Classes run from 10am-4pm
with supervised play from 8.30/ 9am to 10am and 4-5pm
cost per day 90$ sibling 10% off
supervised early $20 and late $20 both $30thank you for sharing , this camp is open to only 7 students first come first serve .
Brigitte
bleu blanc rouge director - Created by: Bleu Blanc Rouge
French artists Claude Morlot and Michael Alberon in Mélange of Milieu at Agora Gallery NYC!
- Feb 14, 2017 at 6:00am to Mar 7, 2017 at 1:00pm EST
- Location: Agora Gallery
- Description:
NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of two innovative and talented French artists Claude Morlot and Michael Alberon in Mélange of Milieu. The opening reception will be on Thursday, February 16 from 6-8 pm. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
Image: Michael Alberon,Life,Sound and Fury,Acrylic _ Oil on Canvas,36.5''x29.5''
- Created by: Lee Eagle
The French Resistance in Transnational Perspective
- Feb 24, 2017 from 5:00am to 12:30pm EST
- Location: La Maison Française of NYU
- Description:
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
Edward Berenson, New York University
Valerie Deacon, New York University
Herrick Chapman, New York University
10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Anglo-American Connections and the French Resistance
Charlotte Faucher, University of Warwick
Transnational Cultural Resistance: Free France, the British Council, and the French Cultural Institute in London
Valerie Deacon, New York University
The Transnational Nature of Escape, Evasion, and Humanitarian Resistance in France
Moderator: Edward Berenson, New York University
Discussant: Philip Nord, Princeton University
1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Resistance and the Empire
Eric Jennings, University of Toronto
The First Resistance: French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon, 1940-1943
Martin Evans, University of Sussex
Colonial Consequences: The Complex Aftermaths of World War Two Resistance and the End of French Algeria, 1945-1962
Moderator: Valerie Deacon, New York University
Discussant: Frederick Cooper, New York University - Created by: La Maison Française of NYU