Newport Beach Film Festival
The Newport Beach Film Festival is celebrating its 11th year of bringing the best in independent cinema to Orange County. Showing over 350 films, the Newport Beach Film Festival presents a unique blend of Features, Documentaries, International Spotlighted films, Youth, Action Sports and short films in one program!
The evening of Tuesday April 27th 2010, come to Newport Beach Film Festival, French Spotlight and after party.
For more French Spotlight Film and Ticketing information about this event visit the Newport Beach Film Festival Website.
April 22 - April 27, 2010
Location: Fashion Island
601 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Website: www.newportbeachfilmfest.com
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS
In 2006, this forgotten treasure of musical theater was rediscovered in New York, and now it returns triumphantly to Los Angeles where it hasn't been seen in years. The genius of Jacques Brel is beautifully captured in this brilliant collection of timeless songs -- songs of passionate desire and heartbreak, of youthful exuberance and world-weariness, of joyful hope and forgotten dreams. As fresh and poignant as ever, Jacques Brel reflects the full scope of what it means to be alive, where every song is a story.
April 7 - May 9, 2010
Location: The Colony Theater
555 North 3rd Street
Burbank, CA 91502
Website: www.colonytheatre.org
AIR
French electronic pop duo AIR returns to Los Angeles for their first tour in three years, in support of their new record – Love 2. Don’t miss this unique event in the inspiring ambience of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Special guest AM opens the show.
March 28th, 2010
Hours: 8:00 PM
Location: Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Admission: From $42.75 to $63.25
Website: www.laphil.com
Petites pièces françaises (student play) IN FRENCH!
Le Club d'Art Dramatique du Lycée Français de Los Angeles, composé d'élèves de Seconde, Première et Terminale, présente des sketches et pièces en un acte de divers dramaturges français.
Un moment de théâtre plein d'humour et de poésie où l'extravagance côtoie le burlesque et l'absurde.
Mise en scène Pierre Leloup.
April 30 - May 1, 2010
Location: Theatre Raymond Kabbaz — Le Lycée Français de Los Angele 10361 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90064
Admission: Adults: $10 / Students: $5 - Tickets online
A week of French language cinema
Screening of 5 francophone movies presented by the consulates of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and Quebec Government Office, in partnership with le Lycée Français de Los Angeles, Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz. All movies, In French with English subtitles.
Opening Reception on March 15, at 7:00 pm. Wine and cheese pre reception, on other days.
List of Films
March 15: Dans la Vie | Two Ladies Director : Philippe Faucon France, 2007, 73 minutes
March 16: Complices Director : Frédéric Mermoud Switzerland, 2010, 93 minutes
March 17: Le divan du monde Director : Dominique desjardins Canada, 2009, 76 minutes
March 18: Panique au village Directors : Stephane Aubier et Vincent Patar Belgium, 2009, 75 minutes
March 19: Les Doigts Croches Director : Ken Scott Quebec, 2009, 108 minutes
Daily through March 19th, 2010
Location: Theatre Raymond Kabbaz — Le Lycée Français de Los Angele
10361 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Admission: FOR FREE SCREENINGS RSVP trk@lyceela.org or call (310) 286 0553 indicate number of seats and day(s) ie France, Belgium, Canada, Swiss, or Quebec night(s)
Walnut Wine & Truffle Groves, a discovery of Dordogne region
Please join us for the first presentation of a French Region: the Dordogne, by a member of the Alliance Board of Directors. The presentation will be illustrated by the signing of the book Walnut Wines & Truffle Groves written by Kimberley Lovato.
We hope you will enjoy navigating the back roads of this beautiful rural part of France, through the presentation and the menus and descriptions of the local markets. France as it should be visited : one bite at a time.
A buffet typical of the Dordogne region will follow.
Good food, good wine, good conversation and book signing.
Reservations required. To RSVP, send us an e-mail at adminafdela@gmail.com
April 7th, 2010
Hours: From 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm
Location: Alliance Francaise de Los Angeles, 10390 Santa Monica blvd, Suite 120 - Los Angeles, CA 90025
Admission: Free entrance. Please note that a separate cost of 10$ will be asked for the food (foie gras, charcuterie and bread, typical dessert and wine)
Website: www.learnhowtospeakfrench.org

LACMA
Renoir in the 20th Century
Renoir in the 20th Century focuses on the last three decades of Renoir’s career, when, following his rupture with impressionism, he turned to an art that was decorative, classical, and informed by a highly personal interpretation of the Great Tradition. Renoir’s paintings from this period, which have never been studied and shown as such, are often misunderstood as they do not fit comfortably into the history of high modernism. This exhibition is the first monographic study dedicated to Renoir since the comprehensive retrospective of 1985 at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris, and the first one ever mounted by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Offering an unprecedented look at Renoir through the lens of modernism, the exhibition bridges the divide that exists in many people’s minds between art of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.
Daily through May 9th, 2010
Hours: 12-8 M/T/Th • Closed Wednesday • 12-9 F • 11-8 S/S
Location: 5905 Wilshire Blvd • Los Angeles California 90036
Admission: $20 You must purchase tickets for a specific date AND time
Phone Number: 323-857-6000
Website: www.lacma.org
Ingres at the Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum presents an exceptional exhibition of Ingres’ portraits. The exhibition includes the Comtesse d’Haussonville, on loan from the Frick Collection, through January 5 only.
“Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres” honors the master painter whose works constitute the apogee of French portraiture. The exhibition will give insight into the particular aspects of this genre, its history and its specificities as an art form.
Revealing of the development of modern art itself, portraits are projector of images. “Gaze” invites you to take that journey starting from and with Ingres.
The exhibition highlights an exceptional loan from the Frick Collection, Ingres’s Comtesse d’Haussonville that will only be on display until January 5, 2010.
Daily through April 5th, 2010
Location: Norton Simon Museum / 411 West Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91105-1825
Phone Number: 626.449.6840
Website: www.nortonsimon.org