Events

This year marks the 10^th anniversary of Films on the Green, the free outdoor French film festival produced annually in New York City parks.

In its landmark 10^th year, Films on the Green will present French cinema through the eyes of 10 guest curators and some of the most creative and compelling filmmakers, actors, and artists of our time: Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, James Ivory, Saul Williams, Isabella Rossellini, Wanda Sykes, Laurie Anderson, Matthew Weiner, Matías Piñeiro, and Amy Hargreaves.

#FilmsontheGreen
Free and open to the public | Films in French with subtitles
Music by WNYU and WHCS DJs prior to the screenings!

More info: http://frenchculture.org/film-tv-and-new-media/festivals/films-green-2017

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA, master filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier’s epic, insightful, and deeply personal history of French cinema, a lifetime in the making. A selection of the Cannes, Telluride, and New York Film Festivals, MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, June 23 at the Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out.

Mr. Tavernier delves into his own vast experience, starting from the earliest films seen as a budding and passionate cinephile, as a way to revisit some of the directors,  actors, craftsmen, and composers who graced French movies between the 1930’s and 70’s, and impacted him throughout his life. With his voluminous knowledge, inexhaustible love of cinema and perspective, only matched by Scorsese’s, Tavernier knows his native cinema inside and out, from giants like Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Carné, and Jean-Pierre Melville - for whom he worked as an assistant -  to