French movies in New York

Et voici la sélection des productions cinématographiques françaises à New York. Faites nous part de vos coups de coeur !

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	Oceans | Océans Directed by Jacques Perrin & Jacques Cluzaud, 100 minutes, France/Switzerland/Spain/Monaco, Disneynature, 2009. Disneynature, the studio that presented last year’s record-breaking film Earth , brings Oceans to the big screen on Earth Day, 2010. Featuring spectacular, never-before-seen imagery captured by the latest underwater technologies, Oceans offers an unprecedented look beneath the sea in this powerful yet enchanting motion picture. Two-time Academy Award nominee Jacques Perrin and César nominee Jacques Cluzaud dive deep into the very waters that sustain all of mankind and cover nearly three quarters of the earth’s surface, exploring the playful splendor and the hard reality of the weird and wonderful creatures that live within. Theatre premiere on Thursday, April 22nd! For showtimes and tickets, click here. Link
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	A Prophet | Un Prophète Directed 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 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. ImaginaAsian, 239 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022, (212) 371-6682 | Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Broadway Between 62nd and 63rd, New York, NY 10023, (212) 757-2280 | Angelika Film Center, 18 W. Houston Street, New York, NY 10012,  (800) 326-3264 | Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207, (718) 596-7070 | Cedar Lane Cinemas, 503 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, NJ 07666, (201) 836-3334 Link
	The Secret of Kells | Brendan et le Secret de Kells Directed 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. City Cinemas Village East, 181 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003, (800)326-3264 | Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207, (718) 596-7070 Link
	Vincere Directed by Marco Bellocchio, 128 minutes, Italy/France, IFC Films, 2009. With Giovanna Mezziogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi. Italian master Marco Bellocchio’s stunning political melodrama tells the virtually unknown story of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s (Filippo Timi) secret first marriage. An ambitious and ruthless young man, he woos and then abandons the woman who launched his career—and gave him his first child — as he plots his rise to power. Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Broadway btw. 62nd and 63rd, New York, NY 10023, (212) 757-2280 | IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10014, (212)924-7771 | Cinemart Cinemas, 106-03 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375, (718) 261-2244 | Northshore Towers Twin Cinemas, 272-40 Grand Central Parkway, Floral Park, NY 11001, (718) 229-7702 Link
	Chloe Directed by Atom Egoyan, 96 minutes, USA/Canada/France, Sony Pictures Classics, 2009. With Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Max Thieriot. Catherine and David, she a doctor, he a professor, are at first glance the perfect couple. Happily married with a talented teenage son, they appear to have an idyllic life. But when David misses a flight and his surprise birthday party, Catherine's long simmering suspicions rise to the surface. Suspecting infidelity, she decides to hire an escort to seduce her husband and test his loyalty. Catherine finds herself 'directing' Chloe's encounters with David, and Chloe's end of the bargain is to report back, the descriptions becoming increasingly graphic as the meetings multiply. City Cinemas 1, 2 & 3, 1001 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10022, (800) 326-3264 | AMC Theatres Empire 25, 234 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, (888) 262-4386 | AMC Loews Village 7, 66 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10003, (888) 262-4386 | Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207, (718) 596-7070 | Cinemart Cinemas, 106-03 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375, (718) 261-2244 | Cedar Lane Cinemas, 503 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, NJ 07666, (201) 836-3334 | Clearview Soundview, 7-9 Soundview Market Place, Port Washington, NY 11050, (516) 944-3900 Link
	The Ghost Writer Directed 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 | Regal Cinemas Union Square | BAM Rose Cinemas | Kew Gardens | Frank Theatres Bayonne | Pelham Picture House | Clearview Clairidge Cinemas | Clearview Washington Township Cinemas | Clearview Roslyn Theatre | Stampfel Movies Malverne Quad Cinemas | Clearview Mamaroneck Playhouse | Atrium Cinemas Staten Island | Cranford Theatre | Clearview Cinemas White Plains | Clearview Summit | National Amusements All Westchester Saw Mill Multiplex | Bowtie Plaza 3 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. Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011, (212) 255-8800 | Clearview Squire Cinemas, 115 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck, NY 11020, (516) 466-2020 Link
	Green Zone Directed by Paul Greengrass, 115 minutes, France/USA/Spain/UK, Universal Pictures, 2010. With Igal Naor, Said Faraj, Matt Damon. United 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran's literary exposé of the same name. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was present as American forces attempted to set up a provisional government on the grounds surrounding former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's opulent palace. In this fictional thriller set during the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad, director Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland use Chandrasekaran's novel as the foundation for the story of an officer who joins forces with a senior CIA officer to unearth evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Regal E-Walk 13, 247 West 42nd St, New York, NY 10036, (800) 326-3264 | AMC Theatres 19th Street East, 890 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, (888) 262-4386 | Cinemart Cinemas, 106-03 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375, (718) 261-2244 Link
>>> Revivals, Classics, Festivals…
	BAM presents a JEAN RENOIR series > > > April 9th - May 11th Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes of individual liberty and universal fraternity. His poetic visual style, a graceful blend of naturalism and artifice, and incalculable influence on world cinema led Orson Welles to declare him “the greatest of all directors.” This 21-film retrospective includes every film Jean Renoir directed in Hollywood exile as well as his early masterpieces and late Technicolor spectacles. Link
	La Marseillaise Directed by Jean Renoir, 132 minutes, France, 1938. With Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive. Made as Léon Blum's Popular Front government was on the brink of collapse and in the shadow of German re-armament, Renoir's historical epic employs "a heroically romantic interpretation of the events leading up to the French Revolution" (Time Out London) as a call for French citizens to unite once again behind a call for liberty, equality, and fraternity. From the fall of the Bastille to the deposition of Louis XVI (played with striking humanity by Renoir's brother Pierre), the film follows a battalion of citizen soldiers who march from Marseille to Paris while humming a powerful hymn of revolt. Friday, April 16th at 4, 6:50 & 9:30p.m. Link
	Boudu Saved from Drawning | Boudu Sauvé des Eaux Directed by Jean Renoir, 85 minutes, France, The Criterion Collection, 1932. With Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska. A bourgeois bookseller saves the life of a tramp and expects to be thanked; instead the tramp takes over his home and seduces his wife. Renoir’s direction is flawless, but the film is unimaginable without Simon giving one of cinema’s greatest performances as a whirlwind of shabbiness and loose morality. Saturday, April 17th at 6 & 9p.m. Sunday, April 18th at 3, 6 & 9p.m. The film will be preceeded by Renoir's short A Day in the Country (40 minutes, 1936). Link
	The Lower Depths | Les Bas-Fonds Directed by Jean Renoir, 90 minutes, France, The Criterion Collection, 1936. With Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim. Renoir's first collaboration with the legendary Jean Gabin is a pivotal work of French poetic realism adapted from a proletarian play by Maxim Gorky (and which, also, provided the source material for Akira Kurosawa's film of the same name). Jouvet is an aristocrat whose descent into poverty lands him in the slums of Paris where he confronts the realities of destitution and society's underbelly. Renoir relocates Gorky's work—described by the director as "the poetry of the loss of dignity"—to France to create a rallying cry for the working class and emerging Popular Front. Monday, April 19th at 6:50 & 9:15p.m. Link
	The Southerner Directed by Jean Renoir, 92 minutes, USA, United Artists, 1945. With Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish. Commenting on his time in America, Renoir called The Southerner “the most interesting film I’ve made here.” Texas cotton picker Sam Tucker (Scott), seeking a better life for his family, endeavors to grow his own cotton crop. Yet he must fight the elements to eke out a living in this clear-eyed depiction of one family’s hardships. Tuesday, April 20th at 6:50 & 9:15p.m. Link
	The Diary of a Chambermaid Directed by Jean Renoir, 92 minutes, USA, United Artists, 1945. With Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish. Renoir's interest in class stratification is given full expression in this delirious satire that is "in its own strange way, even more genuinely surreal than Buñuel's later version of Mirabeau's novel about a keyhole-peeking chambermaid whose arrival in the household of a decadent and eccentric aristocratic family wreaks havoc" (Time Out London). The director employs theatrical, patently artificial sets to create an off-kilter environment in which to deconstruct upper-class social mores in this biting mixture of comedy and drama, which André Bazin called a "burlesque tragedy." Wednesday, April 21st at 6:50 & 9:15p.m. Link
	FIAF presents  " CINEMA ACCORDING TO V É RA BELMONT " > > > Tuesdays in April FIAF is proud and honored to welcome the heralded film producer and filmmaker Véra Belmont, a true force in French cinema. The series is dedicated to the many hats that Belmont wears, and is divided by themes to showcase her varied talents as both a producer and filmmaker. She is a great supporter and creator of film and through the years has sought out new talent, producing the first films by Maurice Pialat and André Téchiné. Link
	Farinelli Directed by Gérard Corbiau, 111 minutes, Belgium/France/Italy/USA, Sony Pictures Classics, 1994. With Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Jeroen Krabbé. Farinelli was the greatest castrato of the 18th century—a distinction that proved to be a gift and curse. Through this sumptuous spectacle of a film, Corbiau explores the complicated relationships Farinelli maintained with his family and, particularly, the scores of women who loved him. Tuesday, April 20th at 12:30 & 7:30p.m. Link
	Marquise Directed by Véra Belmont, 120 minutes, France/Italy/Spain/Switzerland, 1997. With Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit. Though she started as an actress and later became a producer, Belmont has also found success as a director. With Marquise , Belmont vibrantly recreates 17th-century France to tell the story of the young woman who romanced Racine and performed with Molière. In the title role, Sophie Marceau is entirely winning. Tuesday, April 20th at 4p.m. Link
	Anthology Film Archives presents : THE FILMS OF ALAIN TANNER > > > through April 22nd The man who put Swiss cinema on the international film cultural map with The Salamander (1971) and Jonah who Will be 25 in 2000 (1976), Alain Tanner remains one of Europe’s greatest living filmmakers. Dramatizing the struggle of individuals to transform their societies, his work reflects on their desire to do so but also on the difficulties they face, both political and personal. Along with his masterpieces from the 60s and 70s, this long-overdue retrospective will feature several very-rarely-screened later works, including the impressionistic documentary Men of the Port and the mysterious and beautiful Lisbon-set Requiem . Link
	The Middle of the World | Le Milieu du Monde Directed by Alain Tanner, 120 minutes, France/Switzerland, New Yorker Films, 1974. With Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto, Olimpia Carlisi. Tanner’s 1974 film is an attempt to reconcile the emotional amplitude of a classic movie romance with the ideological demands of a post-‘68 consciousness. Léotard is an aspiring politician, married to one woman but in love with an Italian waitress. When he offers to ‘do the right things’ – to leave his wife, abandon his career, and run off with the waitress – she breaks off the relationship. Romantic love, for her, is a revolution that changes nothing. The film is a delicate blend of intelligent analysis and graceful lyricism, filled with Tanner’s habitual precision and compassion. Friday, April 16th at 7p.m. Monday, April 19th at 9p.m. Link
	Messidor Directed by Alain Tanner, 130 minutes, France/Switzerland, New Yorker Films, 1979. M essidor is based on a crime story which hit the headlines in France in the 1970s, concerning two adolescent girls who went on a criminal spree which resulted in their deaths. On the face of it, this would seem unlikely subject matter for Tanner, given his instinctual aversion to filming physical violence: of all Tanner’s films, Messidor is the only one in which someone dies of non-natural causes. It is also Tanner’s most somber work, characterized by a despair unmitigated by his usual verbal and situational humor. What interests him is the desecration of a seemingly peaceful landscape. Over the course of the film, the idyllic Swiss countryside transmutes into its opposite: the heavy police presence weighs on everything, killing all desire. Friday, April 16th at 9:30p.m. Monday, April 19th at 6:30p.m. Link
	A Flame in my Heart | Une Flamme dans mon Coeur Directed by Alain Tanner, 110 minutes, France/Switzerland, Roxie Releasing, 1987. After a stormy relationship with a tyrannical lover, Mercedes throws herself into a new affair with a journalist, but her longing for the ultimate experience is frustrated by the ordinariness of her companion. Flame bears much in common with The Salamannder : it presents a similar portrait of a free, almost feral woman – engine of desire in a world without desire – and ends on a similar note of solitude. The difference between the two characters is that while Rosemonde embodied a joyful, triumphant freedom, Mercedes is a resistance fighter in a desperate world. Saturday, April 17th at 4:30p.m. Tuesday, April 20th at 9p.m. Link
	Jonas who will be 25 in the Year 2000 | Jonas qui aura 25 Ans en l'An 2000 Directed by Alain Tanner, 110 minutes, France/Switzerland, New Yorker Films, 1976. With Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, Jaques Denis, Roger Jendly, Dominique Labourier, Myriam Mézières, Miou-Miou. The film which has fixed Tanner’s directorial style in the consciousness of the public: a mixture of seriousness and humor against a backdrop of social criticism, a sweet-and-sour utopia of characters given over to their thoughts and fantasies in a world which is not always designed with them in mind. The eight characters featured in the film fight with their own weapons, which are rarely political but derive from their childhood, an area of boundless freedom and playfulness which the system cannot tame. Saturday, April 17th at 7p.m. Wednesday, April 21st at 9p.m. Link
	Men of the Port | Les Hommes du Port Directed by Alain Tanner, 64 minutes, France/Switzerland, 1995. Returning after 40 years to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old, Tanner made this documentary depicting the rough world of the dockworkers, a trade that has undergone fundamental changes as a result of recessions, modernization, and liberalization. The film will be followed by Pierre Maillard's documentary portrait of Alain Tanner (56 minutes, 2007). Sunday, April 18th at 3:45p.m. Wednesday, April 21st at 6:30p.m. Link
	Requiem Directed by Alain Tanner, 100 minutes, France/Switzerland/Portugal, 1998 With Francis Frappat, André Marcon, Alexandre Zloto. Requiem is set in Lisbon on the last Sunday in July, between midday and midnight. The hottest day of the year, it is also a day that engenders hallucinations and fantastic encounters, in which past and present merge into one. In the footsteps of the poet Fernando Pessoa, in a desolate Lisbon, between dream and reality, people from the present and ghosts from the past converse in a manner both grave and light-hearted, and shrug off their burden of regret. Sunday, April 18th at 8:45p.m. Tuesday, April 20th at 7p.m. Link
	MoMA presents : " AN AUTEURIST HISTORY OF FILM " > > > Ongoing This two-year screening cycle is intended to serve as both an exploration of the richness of the Museum’s film collection and a basic introduction to the emergence of cinema as the predominant art form of the twentieth century. The auteurist approach to film—articulated by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and brought to America by Andrew Sarris—contends that, despite the collaborative nature of the medium, the director is the primary force behind the creation of a film. This exhibition takes this theory as its point of departure, charting the careers of several key figures not in order to establish a formal canon, but to develop one picture of cinematic history. Link
	The French Avant-Garde of the 20s Featuring : - Le Retour à la Maison (Directed by Man Ray, 2 minutes, France, 1923) - Ballet Mécanique (Directed by Fernand Léger, 11 minutes, France, 1924) - Entr'acte (Directed by René Clair, 15 minutes, France, 1924) and more... Running parallel to the development of narrative cinema and actuality filmmaking was an experimental track. Influenced by the trick cinema of Georges Méliès and his rivals, it was particularly prominent in France during the Surrealist period. Many of the experimenters gradually moved into mainstream commercial cinema, while other artists ceased dabbling in the movies at all. This program provides a sampler of their work. Friday, April 16th at 1:30p.m. Link

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