THIS IS OUR LAND
- Apr 18, 2018 at 10:00am to May 1, 2018 at 5:30pm EDT
- Location: Film Forum
- Description:
Marine Le Pen was defeated in the French election that brought Emmanuel Macron to power, but her far right-wing party, with its nationalist, anti-immigrant platform, lives on to feed the fear and resentment that begot Donald Trump’s election. THIS IS OUR LAND is a fictionalized story of an attractive working-class single mother in the North of France who naively agrees to run for mayor, representing the Patriotic Bloc. Lucas Belvaux, who previously directed RAPT, a terrific thriller about a French politician’s kidnapping, deals with another type of kidnapping here: With the help of a charming André Dussollier as the town’s esteemed physician, the Populists’ rhetoric seizes control of the minds of the electorate. With Catherine Jacob as the blonde-bobbed leader who never met an angry crowd she couldn’t make angrier.
FRANCE / BELGIUM • 2017 • 117 MINS. • IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
DISTRIB FILMS2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30
Wednesday, April 18 - Tuesday, May 1
Tue, May 1: No 7:00 show
- Created by: Cole Messina
Sunday, April 29, 2018 (4)
Henri-Georges Clouzot's LE CORBEAU
- Apr 20, 2018 at 10:00am to May 1, 2018 at 3:00pm EDT
- Location: Film Forum
- Description:
(1943) Fish-out-of-watered in a provincial town, coolly suave Parisian doctor Pierre Fresnay (Grand Illusion, Marius in Pagnol’s Marseilles trilogy) finds himself the target of poison pen letters from “Le Corbeau” (the “Raven” or “Crow”) — but then, slowly but surely, so does everyone else, even as an unknowingly terminal patient gets the bad news, the postmaster confiscates one addressed to his own wife, and letters literally float out of the air in public places. Hysteria and finger-pointing rule, with a suspect’s panicky flight through deserted cobble-stoned streets to the tune of an off-screen lynch mob an unnerving highlight. Made by a German production company during the — never mentioned — Occupation, though from a pre-war original script, Corbeau got Clouzot banned from the French film industry for two years post-Liberation. 4K DCP restoration. Approx. 91 min.
Restored in 4K by Studiocanal, with the support of the CNC.
Presented with support from The George Fasel Memorial Fund fo
- Created by: Cole Messina
Ernest Oliveri
- Apr 25, 2018 to May 31, 2018
- Location: Stuyvesant High School
- Description:
French/German Languages Search
New York’s preeminent STEM school wishes to expand its French and German language programs with one person, qualified in both. Teacher certification required. Candidates should email their resumes by May 31 to Ernest Oliveri, Asst. Principal of World Languages, Stuyvesant High School, New York City. Eoliver2@schools.nyc.gov
- Created by: Ernest Oliveri
Foreign Body
- Apr 29, 2018 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm EDT
- Location: Teachers College, Columbia University
- Description:
Seeking refuge from her Islamist radical brother whom she informed on, a young woman arrives in France illegally following Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution and discovers a new world of both hope and danger, in the fourth feature from writer-director Raja Amari (Satin Rouge, Buried Secrets). France, Tunisia | 2016 | 92 minutes | Arabic and French with English subtitles | Raja Amari.
- Created by: NY ADIFF