Events

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,

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR WINTER 2018  FRENCH AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM AT SMITH STREET WORKSHOP !!!

French courses and tutoring for all levels (beginners French, intermediate French, bilinguals and French native speakers)

• La Mini-Art Session : 1.5 - 2.5 yrs - Tuesday 9:30-10:15am
• Le Petit Workshop : 2.5 - 4 yrs - Thursday 9:30-10:15am
• Music and Movement in French : 4 - 7 yrs - Monday 3:30-4:30pm
• Le Petit Atelier : 4 - 7 yrs - Tuesday 3:30-4:30pm
• Beginners French : 6-10 yrs - Friday 3:30-4:30pm
• La Fabrique de L'Art : 7 - 11 yrs - Thursday 3:30-4:30pm
• Ici on parle français (Advanced French oral expression) : 10 - 12 yrs - Monday 4:30-5:30pm
• Atelier d'écriture créative (Advanced French composition) : 6-8th grade - Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm
• Club de débat : 6-8th grade : Thursday 4:30-5:30pm

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Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of Lebanese director Ziad ("The Attack”) Doueiri’s gripping political drama, THE INSULT is shortlisted for the 2018 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film and scheduled to open in New York on Friday, January 12 (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and The Quad), and Los Angeles on Friday, January 19 followed by a national roll out.

In today’s Beirut, a civilian dispute blown out of proportion finds Tony (Adel Karam), a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser (Venice Film Festival Best Actor winner Kamel El Basha), a Palestinian refugee, facing off in court. As the media circus surrounding the case threatens a social explosion in divided Lebanon, Tony and Yasser reconsider their values and beliefs as revelations of trauma complicate their understanding of one another.

After leaving Lebanon during its Civil War, Ziad Doueiri moved to the US to study film at San Diego State University. He went on to work as a camera operator on Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoi

Discover art and artists from Paris to New York!

In these workshops, you will have the opportunity to discover the fascinating life and art in cafés, theaters, studios and galleries of Paris and NYC during the « années folles » by looking at the works of Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Kiki de Montparnasse, Hemingway, Josephine Baker, and Marcel Duchamp, among others. You will not only watch videos and other media in class but you will also visit galleries and other cultural centers to see these works in person.

These workshops are for you if you are curious not only about art history but also about the French way of life, and if you want to improve your communication skills outside of the typical classroom experience.

By the end of these workshops, you will be able to better understand short texts and videos, to talk about your feelings and experiences, and to produce a simple and well organized speech. You will also be able to write short articles about artworks you analyzed in class and in

Discover art and artists from Paris to New York!

In these workshops, you will have the opportunity to discover the fascinating life and art in cafés, theaters, studios and galleries of Paris and NYC during the « années folles » by looking at the works of Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Kiki de Montparnasse, Hemingway, Josephine Baker, and Marcel Duchamp, among others. You will not only watch videos and other media in class but you will also visit galleries and other cultural centers to see these works in person.

These workshops are for you if you are curious not only about art history but also about the French way of life, and if you want to improve your communication skills outside of the typical classroom experience.

By the end of these workshops, you will be able to better understand short texts and videos, to talk about your feelings and experiences, and to produce a simple and well organized speech. You will also be able to write short articles about artworks you analyzed in class and in

I am happy to announce that Django, the biopic about Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (brilliantly interpreted by Reda Kateb who was just nominated for his performance in the Best Actor category at this year’s Cesar Awards) is coming to Itunes  Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sony and local platforms on February 6th (next Tuesday!).

"Played to Perfection" - Indiewire

“One of the Best Scores” - The Hollywood Reporter

“Musically, (…), the film is a treat” - Screen Daily

Django is the toast of 1943 Paris, thrilling audiences with his distinctive brand of “hot jazz” and charming his admirers including his muse played by Cécile de France (Hereafter, Chinese Puzzle). But even as the rise of Nazism forces Reinhardt - whose music is considered degenerate under the Third Reich - to make a daring escape from Paris, he refuses to be silenced as his music becomes a form of protest.If you missed it in the theaters, now is your chance to see this critically acclaimed film at home!

The decades-long friendship between Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous intensified around the time their archives were created in the 1990’s and 2000’s, when their exchanges dovetail around intimacy, survival, and legacy. This talk tracks the manuscripts of Voiles and Circonfession as they travel between Derrida, Cixous, and their archives, showing how the writers’ attempts to put the manuscripts back together can be seen as a form of reparative reading. Their practice of sharing manuscripts offers new perspectives on notions of provenance and life writing.

LAURA HUGHES, visiting assistant professor in the Department of French Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU, specializes in contemporary French literature and thought and archive studies. Her first book manuscript Archival Afterlives: Cixous and Derrida beyond Matter shows the importance of friendship in both writers’ archive theories and practice. Her writing on manuscripts, literary partnerships, and survival has appeared or is for

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