CinéSalon: Agnès Varda: Life as Art
- Feb 28, 2017 at 2:30pm EST to Mar 21, 2017 at 6:00pm EDT
- 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
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 (6)
The Maids by Jean Genat
- Mar 2, 2017 at 2:00pm EST to Mar 18, 2017 at 3:00pm EDT
- Location: Mama theater
- Description: Les BonnesThe 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
Tilt Kids Festival - This Isn't Trash by Hervé Tullet at Invisible Dog
- Mar 3, 2017 to Apr 15, 2017
- Location: The Invisible Dog Art Center
- Description:
Wildly imaginative illustrator Hervé Tullet—best known for the beloved children’s book Press Here—opens the 2017 Tilt Kids Festival with the first-ever exhibition of his work in New York. School tours of the exhibit will be organized over the course of its run, guided by Teaching Artist Amélie Gaulier, who was trained by Tullet.
All agesFree and open to the public
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
Tilt Kids Festival - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Kid by François Hébel at FIAF Gallery
- Mar 10, 2017 to Apr 26, 2017
- Location: FIAF Gallery
- Description:
Tilt Kids Festival goes old school with a tribute to the photobooth, precursor to the selfie, in the FIAF Gallery. Capturing the spontaneity of photography before the advent of the delete button, a hands-on workshop will teach kids how to compose a narrative in four frames.
A special jury will select workshop images to be displayed in large scale during the exhibition from March 18-April 26.
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
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
UG! COMEDY SHOW!! Now @ Exile Above 2A: Tuesday March 14th, 2017 ed.
- Mar 14, 2017 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm EDT
- Location: Exile Above 2A
- Description:
FREE COMEDY SHOW
- Created by: Todd M.