Events

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of the enchanting documentary/road movie FACES PLACES (VISAGES VILLAGES,) co-directed by 89-year old Agnes Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR. A sensation at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and a selection of the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, it is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, October 6 at Lincoln Plaza and the Quad Cinemas, followed by a national roll out.

Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed and shared.  Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size portraits of them.  Their photos are prominently displayed on houses, barns, storefronts and trains revealing the humanity in their subjects, and themselves. FACES PLACES documents these heart-warming encounters as well as t

Sony Pictures Classics is proud to announce the release of HAPPY END, the latest film by Michael Haneke, Oscar® winning director of Amour, Caché, and The White Ribbon, which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. HAPPY END is scheduled to open on Friday, December 22 in New York (Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema) and Los Angeles followed by a national roll out.

“All around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind.”
A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.

HAPPY END marks the fourth time that Oscar® nominated actress Isabelle Huppert has worked with Mr. Haneke following The Piano Teacher, Time of the Wolf and Amour. The film re-teams Jean-Louis Trintignant with Mr. Haneke for the second time since Amour. The beloved French actor has performed in over 100 films, including Costa-Gavras' Z, Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman, Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, François Truffaut's Confidentially Yours, André Téchiné's Rendez-vous,

CHILDREN OF DRUM - Q&A

WORLD PRMIERE 

WED, NOV 29 @ 7:00PM

RED CARPET @ 6:00PM

Children of Drum explores the developments in South African Journalism from 1950s when Drum magazine covered the struggle against the racist Apartheid regime, to the political changes since then that have affected the current state of journalism in South Africa. Directed by  Larry Tung., USA/ South Africa , 2017, Documentary, 60 min, English.  

Q&A after the screening.

Followed by

MAMA AFRICA: MIRIAM MEKEBA 

Documents the life and work of the filmmakers associated with This powerful documentary retraces the life, music and activism of international star Miriam Makeba, one of the first African musicians to win international stardom. Miriam Makeba, whose music was always anchored in her traditional South African roots, was forced into exile in 1959. She sang for John F. Kennedy, performed with Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone, was married to Hugh Masekela and also to Stokely Carmichael.

Her life was tumultuous. She alw

CHILDREN OF DRUM - Q&A

WORLD PRMIERE 

WED, NOV 29 @ 7:00PM

RED CARPET @ 6:00PM

Children of Drum explores the developments in South African Journalism from 1950s when Drum magazine covered the struggle against the racist Apartheid regime, to the political changes since then that have affected the current state of journalism in South Africa. Directed by  Larry Tung., USA/ South Africa , 2017, Documentary, 60 min, English.  

Q&A after the screening.

Followed by

MAMA AFRICA: MIRIAM MEKEBA 

Documents the life and work of the filmmakers associated with This powerful documentary retraces the life, music and activism of international star Miriam Makeba, one of the first African musicians to win international stardom. Miriam Makeba, whose music was always anchored in her traditional South African roots, was forced into exile in 1959. She sang for John F. Kennedy, performed with Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone, was married to Hugh Masekela and also to Stokely Carmichael.

Her life was tumultuous. She alw