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

Music Box Films is proud to announce the release of THE MIDWIFE, starring Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot in their first on screen appearance together in a moving drama about unlikely friendships, forgiveness, and the need for change, written specifically for them by director Martin Provost (Séraphine, Violette). THE MIDWIFE is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, July 14 (Paris Theatre and Angelika Film Center) followed by a national roll out.

Claire (Catherine Frot-Marguerite) is a talented but tightly wound midwife and single mother on the cusp of losing her job as her small maternity clinic can’t compete with the nearby big hospital.  Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), is the estranged, free-spirited but broken-down mistress of Claire’s deceased father looking for redemption.  Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two women come to rely on each other to cope with the unusual circumstances that brings them together.  

Writer-director Martin Provost began his career a

AU HASARD BALTHAZAR

Directed by Robert Bresson
Starring Anne Wiazemsky

(1966) A little donkey is suckled by its mother, then baptized “Balthazar;” a girl and boy say goodbye at the end of summer: a vision of paradise. Years pass and the now-teenaged Marie (Anne Wiazemsky, later Godard’s wife and star, and today a celebrated author) finds herself drifting into more and more destructive situations, including involvement with a local juvenile delinquent; while Balthazar moves from owner to owner, some kind, some cruel, some drunkenly careless. But as critic J. Hoberman pointed out, “this is the story of a donkey in somewhat the way that Moby Dick is about a whale.” God, as ever in the work of legendary filmmaker Bresson, is in the details: the elliptical editing, with its abrupt cuts, off-screen space, and as much focus on the hands of the non-pro cast as on their faces; sound design alternating between classical music and natural sounds; the accumulation of cruelties endured by Marie and B

Dance, All the way, Across the Styles

MIXED BILL -Face to Face Series
on August 15, 2017
at 7:30pm
at Mark Morris Dance Center - Duffy Studio (3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Tickets: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=mixA35

Our selection of Classics and Contemporary Creations is presented in the intimacy of our Studio settings for the “Face to Face Series” and affords the audience a close-up to the performers and the opportunity to speak with Artistic Director Chiara Ajkun and the Ajkun Ballet Theatre Dancers following the performance. The program interlaces excerpts from Carmen and Contemporary Dance providing unrivaled entertainment to the worldly and the first-time theatergoers, alike.
All proceeds of this Event benefit "Stars of the World" a program designed to support Dance Education for extraordinarily gifted Young Dancers.

FREE COMEDY SHOW