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Cinema Duras at Anthology Film Archives March 12-18
From March 12th through the 18th, Anthology FIlm archives will be presenting a retrospective of the films of Marguerite Duras as part of the “In the Words of Duras” festival. If you’ve been reading about the great plays and lectures in this festival, which began on February 18, don’t miss out on it’s final... »
FIAF Presents Hugues de Montalembert’s “Black Sun”
“Black Sun” is a documentary- if it can be called a documentary- about the experiences of painter, filmmaker, and writer Hugues de Montalembert, who was attacked and blinded on his way home to his apartment in New York City in 1978. With humor, beauty, and an original score that perfectly sets off Montalembert’s narration,... »
La Crème de la Crème: Hottest tickets in town to French film, lectures, and theater events in New York City
For the lover of all things French, New York in January and February is alive with lectures, film, and plays from across the Atlantic. You can hear Bernard Henri Lévy discuss free speech at Columbia and listen to Sylvia Kahan dish the dirt on the American heiress and salon hostess that inspired Proust;... »
Coco Avant Chanel
On a windy afternoon in New York, I made my way to The Paris Theatre to take in a matinée of the latest French import to hit New York soil: Anne Fontaine’s “Coco Avant Chanel.” What better theatre to take in a French film than the familiar darkness of The Paris, home to slightly saggy,... »
Resnais in Retrospect: Memory in “Night and Fog” and “Hiroshima Mon Amour”
The camera sweeps over an idyllic country landscape to the sound of gentle music. It pans lower, revealing relics of barbed wire that shred the softness of the scene. This is not an image painted by impressionists, but the effect of time on the ghostly remains of Auschwitz in 1955, ten years after the Allied... »