Tuesday, March 6
12:30 & 4pm
Le Diable probablement
The Devil Probably
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French Seventies:
Cinema After May ’68
CinémaTuesdays
March 2007
The 1970s saw the rise of a generation
of post-New Wave directors who
proposed dynamic responses to
questions about society, nation and
the future of cinema. Curated by
Jean-Michel Frodon of the celebrated
French film magazine Les Cahiers du
Cinéma, this series is produced in
conjunction with the Center for the
Humanities at the Graduate Center of
the City University of New York.
| Films are in French
with English subtitles |
Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59 Street |
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General Public $9
Students w/ ID $7 |
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 Jean-Michel Frodon's interview with The Reeler
The City's Other Rendez-Vous:
Cahiers du Cinema editor Frodon flashes back to the '70s with program in NYC
By Aaron Hillis (March 4, 2007) |
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The Devil Probably |
Tuesday, March 6 at 12:30 & 4pm
Le Diable probablement (The Devil Probably)
Robert Bresson, 1977
With Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari
Color. 95 min. In French with English subtitles
Centered on a group of young
Parisians, this film charts the
disenchantment of a 20-year-old who
rejects the compromises of elders
and peers in favor of commitment to
doubt, resistance and self-destruction.
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Monday, March 5, 6:30pm
Opening Night Event at The Graduate Center, CUNY
After ’68: French Film, History and Politics in the 1970s |
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Tuesday, March 6, 7pm
CinéTalk with Benoît Jacquot & Jean-Michel Frodon |
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Tuesday, March 13 at 12:30 & 7pm
La Gueule Ouverte (The Mouth Agape)
Maurice Pialat, 1974
With Hubert Deschamps, Monique Mélinand
Color. 82 min. In French with English subtitles
A moving and occasionally funny
story of a middle-aged woman dying
of cancer, and how this affects her
husband and son. Pialat’s third
semi-autobiographical feature.
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Joël Bion
© Sunchild Productions / Photofest Inc. |
Tuesday, March 13 at 4 & 9pm
L’assassin musicien (The Musician Killer)
Benoît Jacquot, 1976
With Joël Bion, Anna Karina
Color. 124 min. In French with English subtitles
Jacquot’s first feature focuses on an
ambitious young violin player who
moves to Paris from the provinces
and refuses to make a living.
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Themroc |
Special Monday Screening
Monday, March 19 at 12:30 & 6:30pm
Themroc
Claude Faraldo, 1973
With Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand
Color. 110 min. In French with English subtitles
After a falling out with his employer,
a house painter decides to rebel
against society and convinces his
neighborhood to follow him.
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Passe montagne |
Special Monday Screening
Double Bill
Monday, March 19 at 4 & 9pm
Octopus de Natura
Marie-Christine Questerbert, 1972
B&W. 10 min. In French with English subtitles
A single ten-minute shot of various
events which spring up, evolve from
and disintegrate into the landscape
of the Southern Alps.
Passe montagne (Mountain Pass)
Jean-François Stévenin, 1978
With Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Villeret
Color. 108 min. In French with English subtitles
After his car breaks down in the middle
of nowhere, Georges enlists the help
of small-town mechanic Serge. Their
uneasy relationship lies at the heart
of this perceptive character study.
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Molière |
Special Friday Screening
Friday, March 23 at 7pm
Molière
Ariane Mnouchkine, 1978
With Philippe Caubère, Marie-Françoise Audellent
Color. 260 min. In French with English subtitles
The life and death of the greatest
comic playwright of the French
classical tradition by one of France’s
finest contemporary stage directors.
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Le Pont du Nord |
Tuesday, March 27 at 12:30, 4 & 6:30pm
Le Pont du Nord
Jacques Rivette, 1982
With Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier
Color. 129 min. In French with English subtitles
A sixties radical is released from prison
and meets a moped-riding female
Don Quixote. The two get wrapped
up in a plot by shadowy figures bent
on world domination.
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Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun
© New Yorker Films / Photofest Inc. |
Tuesday, March 27 at 9pm
La Maman et la putain (The Mother and The Whore)
Jean Eustache, 1973
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont
B&W. 210 min. In French with English subtitles
Eustache’s epic vision of sour
relationships, linguistic vampirism
and bad times in the City of Light.
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Program and dates are subject to change.
Curated by Marie Losier with the collaboration of Jean-Michel Frodon and Sam Di Iorio.
Film programs of the French Institute Alliance Française are made possible in part with public funds
from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
Special thanks to the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
American Airlines is the official airline of the French Institute Alliance Française. |
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