French movies in New York

Voici la liste des films français à découvrir dans les salles obscures de New York et de ses environs...

New Releases
	The Secret of Kells | Brendan et le Secret de KellsDirected by Tomm Moore, 75 minutes, Ireland/France/Belgium, Gkids, 2009. The new animated masterpiece from the producers of Kirikou and the Sorceress and The Triplets of Belleville, The Secret of Kells film blends fantasy and mythology to create a richly detailed and striking visual landscape, folding traditionally Celtic influences into a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes. Hailed by international critics as one of the most beautiful films of the year and winner of the audience award at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival, The Secret of Kells has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Film. One-week special engagement ! IFC Center, 323 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10014, (212) 924-7771 Link
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	A Prophet | Un ProphèteDirected by Jacques Audiard, 150 minutes, France/Italy, Sony Pictures Classics, 2009. With Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and now an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, this exhilarating crime epic from director Jacques Audiard follows an illiterate French-Arab prison inmate’s six-year odyssey from new kid on the cell block to underworld kingpin. Along the way, Malik (remarkable newcomer Tahar Rahim) learns how to read not just books but people, too, as the protégé of a brutal Corsican gang leader (the electrifying Niels Arestrup), until the pupil threatens to overtake the master, playing every one of Paris’ rival gangland factions to his own advantage. Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Broadway btw. 62nd and 63rd, New York, NY 10023, (212) 757-2280 | Angelika Film Center, 18 West Houston Street New York, NY 10012, (800) 326-3264 Link
	The Girl on the Train | La Fille du RER Directed by André Téchiné, 105 minutes, France, Strand Releasing, 2009. With Emilie Duquenne, Michel Blanc, Catherine Deneuve. Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together : Louise earns her living by looking after children, and Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer whom she knew in her youth. Jeanne’s and Bleistein’s worlds are light years apart. However, they’ll be set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story of the day. Bowtie Plaza 3, 2 Railroad Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830, (203) 869-4030 Link
	The Ghost WriterDirected by Roman Polanski, 128 minutes, France/Germany/UK, Summit Distribution, 2010. With Ewan McGregor, Jon Bernthal, Kim Cattrall, Pierce Brosnan. Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level— sexual, political and literary. In a world in which nothing, and no one, is as it seems, The Ghost quickly discovers that the past can be deadly—and that history is decided by whoever stays alive to write it. Lincoln Plaza Cinemas | City Cinemas 1, 2 & 3 | Regal E-Walk 13 | Clearview Chelsea Cinemas | National Amusements Edgewater Multiplex Cinemas | Regal Cinemas Union Square | BAM Rose Cinemas | United Artists Brandon Cinemas | Clearview Tenafly Cinema 4 | Clearview Bronxville Cinemas | Regal Cinemas New Roc City | Clearview Clairidge Cinemas | Clearview Manhasset | Clearview Larchmount Playhouse | Clearview Washington Township Cinemas | CJM Maplewood Sixplex | Stampfel Movies Malverne Quad Cinemas | Cranford Theatre | White Plains National Amusements | Robert Theatres Chatham | National Amusements All Westchester Saw Mill Multiplex | Bowtie Plaza 3 Link
	LourdesDirected by Jessica Hausner, 99 minutes, France/Austria/Germany, Palisades Tartan, 2009. With Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Gilette Barbier, Gerhard Liebmann. Sylvie Testud may be the greatest French actress of her generation. As Christine, she is a young woman confined to a wheelchair, visiting the city of Lourdes in hope of a miraculous recovery — along with thousands of others. Yet the movie’s real subject is not religious belief, but human frailty. It asks us to consider how we would live life severely disabled. And if the hoped-for miracle befell someone else? City Cinemas Village East, 181 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003, (800)326-3264 Link
	The White Ribbon | Le Ruban Blanc Directed by Michael Haneke, 144 minutes, Austria/Germany/France/ Italy, Sony Pictures Classics, 2009. With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch. Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery. Lincoln Plaza Cinemas | Film Forum | Brooklyn Heights Cinema | Kew Gardens | Clearview Clairidge Cinemas |Clearview Larchmont Playhouse | Clearview Roslyn Theatre | Stampfel Movies Malverne Quad Cinemas Link
	Eyes Wide Open | Tu n'Aimeras Point Directed by Haim Tabakman, 91 minutes, Israrel/Germany/France, New American Vision, 2009. With Zohar Shtrauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell. Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he hires Ezri, a handsome twenty-two year old student, as an apprentice and soon develops feelings for him. As the relationship grows, Aaron starts to neglect his family and community life, swept away by his love--and lust--for Ezri. But a foreboding guilt, inner torment and intense condemnation from the community catch up with him, leading him to make a radical decision. Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, New York, NY 10003, (212) 924-3363 Link
	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Directed by Terry Gilliam, 122 minutes, UK/Canada/France, Sony Pictures Classics, 2009. With Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary 'Imaginarium', a traveling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Landmark's Sunshine Cinemas, 143 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10002, (212)777-3456  Link
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	The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents  : "RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA " >>> March 11th - 21st Now in its 15th year, the wildly popular series presents another exclusive panorama of contemporary French cinema, from intimate personal stories to finely crafted forays into genre filmmaking. Testifying to the continuing vitality of French film, many filmmakers are featured for the first time: Alain Guiraudie, Laurent Perreau, Riad Sattouf, Axelle Ropert, Xabi Molia, and Mona Achache. Link
	Farewell | L'Affaire Farewell Directed by Christian Carion, 113 minutes, France, NeoClassics Films, 2009. With Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara. Actor-directors Emir Kusturica and Guillaume Canet co-star in this remarkable Cold War thriller about a key event in the downfall of the Soviet Union. In the early 1980s, a disillusioned KGB colonel (Kusturica) hands over top-secret documents to an ordinary French engineer (Canet) working for the Thomson news service in Moscow, inciting an international intelligence incident that reaches all the way to the desk of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan (Fred Ward). Cloak-and-dagger skullduggery abounds, but writer-director Christian Carion keeps the focus of this little-known true story on the richly human friendship between two unlikely comrades. Opening night at Alice Tully Hall:Thursday, March 11th at 7p.m. Link
	Les Regrets Directed by Cédric Kahn, 105 minutes, France, 2009. With Yvan Attal, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Arly Jover, Philippe Katerine. In this spellbinder from director Cédric Kahn, a married Paris architect (Yvan Attal) returns to his rural hometown to visit his dying mother, whereupon he rekindles a relationship with his former high-school girlfriend (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). They then go their separate ways, but before long, their impassioned text messages—the 21st-century equivalent of love letters—draw them back into each other’s arms. Is it love or merely blind obsession? Nothing is quite as it seems in a romantic drama with the pulse of a Hitchcock thriller. Special screening at Columbia University:Thursday, March 11th at 6p.m. Link
	BAM presents  "ROTTERDAM @ BAM " >>> through March 9th It’s the Year of the Tiger! BAMcinématek is thrilled to partner with International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), one of the most influential film festivals in the world, to spotlight the films in their VPRO Tiger Awards competition, which presents work by first or second-time filmmakers. Most screenings to be followed by Q&As with the filmmakers! Link
	Life at the Ranch | La Vie au Ranch Directed by Sophie Letourneur, 86 minutes, France, 2009. With Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Eulalie Juster, Mahault Mollaret, Elsa Pierret. In her debut feature which has been compared to late French masters Rohmer and Rouch, Letourneur insightfully and humorously portrays the seemingly quite happy daily life of a small group of 20-year-old female bohemian students living together on the left bank in what they call their “Ranch“. However, they are about to face the reality of life when they must break from the group in pursuit of their own lives. Tuesday, March 9th at 6:50p.m. Link
	IFC Center presents  "LA CRÈME DU CRIME " >>> through APRIL 4th A 12-film series of French crime classics, will be presented in IFC Center's ongoing Weekend Classics program from January 1st through April 4th. The program includes works from such Gallic masters as Godard, Malle, Truffaut, Clouzot, Melville, Bresson and Becker, as well as expatriate American Jules Dassin, whose tour-de-force RIFIFI set a new standard for heist movies. Link
	Pickpocket Directed by Robert Bresson, 75 minutes, France, New Yorker Films, 1959. With Martin La Salle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri. Pickpocket was inspired by Dostoyevsky’s "Crime and Punishment", but all incidental anecdote and psychology has been stripped away. Employing few establishing shots and little camera movement, Bresson distills narrative down to a particular essence of looks, gestures, and precisely placed audio effects. (’The noises must become music,’ he wrote in his notebooks.) His mise-en-scène is as understated as his montage is aggressive—creating performances out of reaction shots, using sound to signify offscreen events. Bresson refers to this method as cinematography, opposing it to ‘the terrible habit of theater.’ From Friday, March 5th to Sunday, March 7th. Link
	IFC Center presents : 2010 Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films This program features the five films nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best Animated Short, plus three additional films named to the Academy’s shortlist. The first and the last shorts of this program are French : - French Roast Directed by Fabrice O. Joubert, 8 minutes, 2008. - Logorama Directed by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain, 16 minutes, 2009. Link
	FIAF presents  "THE WHIMSICAL WORLD OF BELGIAN CINEMA " >>> Tuesdays in March FIAF presents a selection of films that showcase some of the richness and diversity of Belgian cinema. Regardless of genre, they all share a twisted, surreal, and deadpan humor that is uniquely l’humour belge. Link
	Largo Winch Directed by Jérôme Salle, 108 minutes, France/Belgium, 2008. With Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry. A hugely successful Belgian comic book, Largo Winch now brings its trademark tales of international espionage to the screen. Sisley stars as the unjustly jailed son of a murdered billionaire who must crawl out of prison to prevent those who attacked his family from stealing a fortune. Enormous fun, and a New York premiere! Tuesday, March 9th at 12:30, 4 & 7:30p.m. Link
	ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES presents : " BLUEBEARD ON FILM " >>> March 3rd - 7th The gruesome tale of Bluebeard – first told by the French writer and father of the fairy tale, Charles Perrault, in the late-17th century – has been read as a caution against female curiosity, an anti-marriage warning, a precursor to the horror genre, or an analogy about the dangerous work of feminist criticism. Several of the most accomplished cinematic masters of strange magic (Méliès, Lubitsch, Lang, Ulmer, Chaplin, and Michael Powell) have made their own versions, a unique opportunity to compare their various interpretations, and to ask why this ambiguous and unusual myth – a fairy tale without the fantastic, a bloody love story – has attracted such a diverse group of filmmakers. Link
	Bluebeard | Barbe-Bleue Directed by Georges Méliès, 9 minutes, France, 1901. The earliest filmic display of the tale remains arguably the most clever of them all. Méliès’s 1901 adaptation – one of the highlights of his career – manages in its nine brief minutes to be witty and whimsical, haunting and liberating, and also surprisingly self-reflexive. Friday, March 5th at 7p.m. Sunday, March 7th at 7p.m. The screening will be preceeded by Michael Powell's Bluebeard's Castle (60 minutes, 1964). Link
	MoMA presents  "JIA ZHANGKE : A RETROSPECTIVE " >>> March 5th - 20th Jia Zhangke (born in 1970) has emerged as the leading figure of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers and one of international cinema’s most celebrated artists. Merging gritty realism with elegance and originality, he tackles contemporary subject matter in both documentary and fiction projects—and often fuses the two approaches to great effect. In little more than a decade he has created a body of work that reflects the enormous changes of the past fifty years of Chinese society. Link
	The World Directed by Jia Zhangke, 143 minutes, China/Japan/France, Zeitgeist Films, 2004.  With Zhao Tao, Chen Taisheng, Jing Jue. Fake landscapes contain real problems in this epic postmodern parable about China’s cultural renovation. A Las Vegas–style theme park on the outskirts of Beijing is the setting for a sort of backstage musical in which the personal dramas of a group of youthful employees play out against a background of small-scale replicas of the Eiffel Tower, the World Trade Center, and other famous landmarks. Friday, March 5th at 7p.m. The screening will be introduced by director Jia Zhangke and actor Zhao Tao. Link
	Unknown Pleasures | Plaisirs Inconnus Directed by Jia Zhangke, 113 minutes,South Korea/France/Japan/ China, New Yorker Films, 2002.  With Zhao Weiwei, Wu Qiong, Zhao Tao. Two teenage slackers drift toward tragedy in Datong, a once-vibrant industrial city. Pop culture and electronic gadgets provide their only sense of connection to the outside world—and to their own aimless lives. Working with a small high-definition camera for the first time, the director memorably tracks through the vast empty spaces of former textile mills, in stark contrast to the city’s crowded housing projects and teeming streets. Saturday, March 6th at 5p.m. The screening will be introduced by director Jia Zhangke. Link
	Platform Directed by Jia Zhangke, 155 minutes, Hong Kong/China/Japan/ France, Empire Pictures Inc., 2000. With Wang Hongwei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong. Jia’s camera follows the lives of a touring performance troupe through one of China’s most radical periods of economic and social change (1979–89). Focusing more on character and place than on any one plotline, the director follows the individual stories of the youthful cast, whose personal dreams and aspirations change as radically as the name of their troupe. Sunday, March 7th at 2p.m. The screening will be introduced by director Jia Zhangke. Link
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	After Him | Après Lui Directed by Gaël Morel, 91 minutes, France, 2007. With Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Guy Marchand, Elodie Bouchez. French cinema icon Catherine Deneuve gives one of her most unusual and startling performances as a grieving mother in this intimate and sophisticated drama from filmmaker Gaël Morel and cowriter Christophe Honoré. After her son is killed in a car accident, a bookshop owner becomes increasingly fixated on his friend, the driver in the fatal incident. It's a rare chance to see Deneuve shed her chic icy screen persona. At one point she even attends a rock concert wearing jeans, beer in hand. Saturday, March 6th at 6:40a.m. & 4p.m. Wednesday, March 10th at 6:20p.m. Link
	Poison Friends | Les Amitiés Maléfiques Directed by Emmanuel Bourdieu, 99 minutes, France, 2006. With Malik Zidi, Thibault Vinçon, Alexandre Steiger. French filmmaker Emmanuel Bourdieu presents a "brainy but twisty psychological thriller" - New York Times - set against the competitive world of literary academia. Thibault Vinçon stars as André, an erudite, fast-talking superstar graduate student who plays the role of mentor to two impressionable new students (Alexandre Steiger and Malik Zidi). However, falling under André's influence has its risks, as he is also a two-faced control freak who enjoys wielding power and manipulating the fate of others. Saturday, March 6th at 8:15a.m. & 5:45p.m. Thursday, March 11th at 8:30a.m. & 2:45p.m. Link
	In Paris | Dans Paris Directed by Christophe Honoré, 93 minutes, France/Portugal, 2006. With Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Joana Preiss. Louis Garrel and Romain Duris play contrasting adult brothers in Christophe Honoré's insightful examination of family dynamics. When not falling into bed with his many female conquests, footloose Jonathan lives with his father in a cluttered Parisan flat. As Christmas approaches, Jonathan's older brother Paul has returned home depressed and suicidal after a romantic breakup. Resurrecting the wistful spirit of '60s New Wave classics, Honoré presents a sober and often delightful tale of love, loss and healing. Thursday, March 11th at 11:10p.m. Link
	La Tourneuse de Pages  | The Page Turner Directed by Denis Dercourt, 81 minutes, France, 2006. With Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory. The brittle, competitive world of classical music is the setting for this dark tale of delayed revenge from French filmmaker Denis Dercourt. At a decisive piano recital, a judge carelessly distracts the performance of ten-year-old Mélanie, thus altering her life. Years later, Mélanie has become the trusted nanny in the upper-middle class home of the judge from her past. Tuesday, March 9th at 9a.m. & 2:30p.m. Link
	Even Pigeons Go to Heaven | Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis Directed by Samuel Tourneux, 9 minutes, France, 2007. French animator Samuel Tourneux presents a comic allegory about the likelihood of a rich man entering heaven and a diligent priest's last-minute attempt to save his soul (and divert his fortune). Nominated for a Best Animated Short Film Oscar. Saturday, March 6th at 12:50 & 5:35p.m. Monday, March 8th at 12:50 & 6:50p.m. Wednesday, March 10th at 2:20a.m. Link

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