Tuesday, March 14, 2017 (6)

Mar 14, 2017
February 28, 2017
Tuesday
  • CinéSalon: Agnès Varda: Life as Art

  • Feb 28, 2017 at 2:30pm to Mar 21, 2017 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Florence Gould Hall
  • Description:

    Pioneering filmmaker Agnès Varda has spent more than 50 years making radical films and art installations at the intersection of fiction, documentary, and autobiography. This March, join us at CinéSalon for a special tribute to her perpetually influential and inventive work.

    On February 28, in lieu of CinéSalon, Agnès Varda will be at FIAF for a special talk about her recent turn toward visual artist in advance of her first-ever exhibition in NYC. View Details

    The rest of March will be dedicated to some rarely-screened works from her œuvre. The series will conclude with Jacques Demy’s—her late husband—debut film Lola, featuring an original song by Varda.

    Please note, there will be no regular CinéSalon screenings on February 28 due to the special talk.

    Films in French with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.

  • Created by: FIAF
March 2, 2017
Thursday
  • The Maids by Jean Genat

  • Mar 2, 2017 at 2:00pm to Mar 18, 2017 at 3:00pm
  • Location: Mama theater
  • Description:
    Les Bonnes
    The Maids by Jean Genet
    in French, with English titles.

    Directed by Oliver Henzler
    Featuring Helene Godec, Laura Lassy Townsend* & Cloe Xhauflaire

    March 02 - March 19, 2017
    Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30PM
    Sunday at 2PM

    First Floor Theatre | 74a East 4th Street

    25$ Adults 
    20$ seniors/students/groups
    Tickets @ lamama.org/maids/
  • Created by: Hélène Godec
March 3, 2017
Friday
March 10, 2017
Friday
March 14, 2017
Tuesday
  • FRANTZ directed by Francois Ozon

  • Mar 14, 2017 to Apr 28, 2017
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Film Forum
  • Description:

    Music Box Films is proud to announce the US release of FRANTZ, acclaimed French writer/director Francois Ozon’s elegiac and haunting tale of love and remembrance, starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent) and rising star Paula Beer.  Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the 2017 César Awards, and a selection of the 2016 Venice, Telluride, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, FRANTZ is scheduled to open in New York on Wednesday, March 15 at Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema, followed by a national roll out.

    Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), FRANTZ recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war’s “lost generation”: Anna (21 year-old Paula Beer in a breakthrough performance), a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien (Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent), a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, p

  • Created by: Aimee Morris