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Festival Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Le festival Rendez-vous with French Cinema revient cette année avec une programmation des plus éclectiques et un parterre de stars impressionnant. Du très remarqué L'Affaire Farewell, le thriller policier de Christian Carion, qui ouvrira le festival, à la comédie OSS 117 Rio ne répond plus de Michel Hazavanicius, un hommage à la James Bond truffé de références aux grand films d'espionnage, en passant par le cinéma social de Welcome, un film aux accents vérité qui tisse la relation entre les clandestins de Calais et la population française locale, il y en aura pour tous les goûts cette année au festival Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
Informations pratiques :
Le festival Rendez-vous with French Cinema se tiendra du 11 au 21 mars 2010. Les films seront projetés en anglais et sous-titrés en français à l'IFC Center ainsi qu'au Walter Reade Theater de New York.
Quelques temps forts
Conversation avec Vincent Lindon le dimanche 14 mars à 18 h 15 au Lincoln Center
Conversation avec Michel Gondry le lundi 15 mars à 20 h au Lincoln Center
Conversation avec Chiara Mastroianni le jeudi 18 mars à 19 h au BAM de Brooklyn, le vendredi 19 mars à 20 h 45 au Walter Reade Theater, le samedi 20 mars à 13 h 30 au Walter Reade Theater et à 17 h 30 au BAM de Brooklyn.
IFC Center :
323 Sixth Avenue et West Third Street
Tél. : (212) 924-7771
Site : www.ifccenter.com/
Walter Reade Theater :
70 West et 63rd Street
Tél. : (212) 875-5600
Site : www.filmlinc.com
Programme et réservations : www.rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com
Daily through March 21st, 2010
Location: Walter Reade Theater :
70 West et 63rd Street
IFC Center :
323 Sixth Avenue et West Third Street
Phone Number: (212) 875-560
Website: www.rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com
The Sweetes Path - The Great Flowering of French Art Song: Fauré, Bizet, Ravel, Debussy, many more
Kaufman Center and New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org) present a special non-subscription program, The Sweetest Path, on Tuesday, March 16 at 8 PM at Kaufman Center’s Merkin Concert Hall. The concert, celebrating the first great flowering of French art song, with the lush, poetic music of Fauré, Ravel, Debussy, Bizet, Gounod and many other composers, culminates the second season of Caramoor’s Vocal Rising Stars program, a week-long residency for young professionals devoted to guiding and inspiring the next generation of vocal talent.
March 16th, 2010
Hours: 8 pm
Location: Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center is at 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023.
Admission: $40-$55, with $15 student discount tickets
Phone Number: 212 501-3330
Website: www.kaufman-center.org
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Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon au Joyce Theatre
A highlight of the New York City cultural season takes place at The Joyce when the Lyon Opera Ballet performs the work of some of our most revered choreographers. This is your chance to see three glorious pieces on one program--Maguy Marin's austere and impassioned Grosse Fugue; William Forsythe's beautifully inventive Duo; and Merce Cunningham's magnificently intricate Beach Birds.
Daily through March 14th, 2010
Hours: Friday at 8pm Saturday at 2pm amd 8pm Sunday at 2pm and 7:30pm
Location: Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Phone Number: 212-691-9740
Website: www.opera-lyon.com
Les Pleurants des Ducs de Bourgogne au MET
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of the alabaster mourner figures from the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria.
Daily through May 23rd, 2010
Hours: Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays*) Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.** Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** (Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Avenue New York, NY 10028-0113
Admission: Recommended Adults $20 Seniors (65 and older) $15 Students $10* Members (Join Now) Free Children under 12 (accompanied by an adult) Free
Phone Number: 212-535-7710
Website: www.metmuseum.org
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Cocoon en concert au Poisson Rouge
Avant de se produire au célèbre festival de rock d'Austin le 18 mmars, Cocoon, groupe français d'indie folk, fait une halte au Poisson Rouge à New York le 15 mars.
March 15th, 2010
Hours: 22h30
Location: Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St, New York.
Phone Number: (212) 505-FISH (3474)
Website: lepoissonrouge.com
Emmanuelle Françoy
Yannick Noah et Angélique Kidjo en concert pour Haïti
Yannick Noah et Angélique Kidjo seront le 15 mars en concert au Fiaf à New York, afin de participer à la levée de fonds pour la reconstruction d'Haïti.
Ils partageront la scène avec Emeline Michel, la chanteuse haïtienne de renommée internationale, BélO, un chanteur-compositeur haïtien des plus prometteurs, et le chanteur et multi-instrumentiste accompli Mino Cinelu lors d’un concert de soutien pour Haïti .
March 15th, 2010
Hours: 20h
Location: FIAF – French Institute Alliance Française
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street (entre Park et Madison)
Admission: $50-150
Phone Number: 212 355 6160 (infos seulement)
Website: www.ticketmaster.com
Luc Moullet
Marguerite Duras on Film
Though Duras’s fame rests predominantly on her work as a novelist and playwright, her engagement with filmmaking was passionate and sustained. Aside from having had her work repeatedly adapted for the screen by others, she wrote original scripts for various filmmakers (most notably Alain Resnais and Georges Franju), before embarking on her own directorial career in 1967. Over the next seventeen years, she directed fourteen feature films of her own (as well as numerous shorts), including masterpieces such as Nathalie Granger and India Song. Exploring the nature and limits of the medium with the same fiercely intelligent, radically experimental approach that makes her writings so singular and important, Duras’s cinema is a crucial component of her life’s work.
In French with English subtitles
-DESTROY, SHE SAID / DÉTRUIRE DIT-ELLE
1969. With Michael Lonsdale.(March 12 at 7 PM, March 15 at 9.15 PM)
-NATHALIE GRANGER
1972. With Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Depardieu.
(March 12 at 9.15 PM, March 16 at 7 PM)
-LE NAVIRE NIGHT
1979. With Bulle Ogier and Mathieu Carrière.
(March 13 at 4.30 PM, March 16 at 9.00 PM)
-INDIA SONG
1975. With Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, and Mathieu Carrière.
(March 13 at 6.30 PM, March 17 at 9.15 PM)
-THE TRUCK / LE CAMION
1977. With Marguerite Duras and Gérard Depardieu.
(March 13 at 9 PM, March 18 at 7 PM)
-CÉSARÉE & L’HOMME ATLANTIQUE
(March 14 at 4.45 PM, March 15 at 7.30 PM)
-AGATHA ET LES LECTURES ILLIMITÉES
1981. With Yann Andréa and Bulle Ogier.
(March 14 at 6.15 PM, March 18 at 9 PM)
-LES ENFANTS & EN RACHÂCHANT
(March 14 at 8.15 PM, March 17 at 7 PM)
Daily through March 18th, 2010
Hours: $9, $7 student/senior, $6 members
Location: Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York, NY 10003
Website: www.frenchculture.org
WK Interact 99 Crosby Street
WK, BLEK LE RAT, INVADER and MISS VAN at the Jonathan Levine Gallery
Group Exhibition
February 27—March 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 27, 7pm—9pm
Jonathan LeVine Gallery will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a commemorative group exhibition featuring exceptional and exemplary new works by forty artists who are either currently represented by the gallery or who have exhibited at the gallery in the past five years.
Since 2005, Jonathan LeVine Gallery has been an important venue for Street Art (ephemeral work placed in public urban environments) and Pop Surrealism (work influenced by illustration, comic book art, and pop culture imagery). As such, the pieces in this exhibition—comprised of paintings, drawings, and sculptures—will be primarily figurative with a strong sense of narration.
Artists in this exhibition have developed prominent creative voices for themselves as individuals, while also playing valuable roles within the historical context of the larger Street Art and/or Pop Surrealism movements. All of them have been influential in shaping the gallery’s program, creating work with a unique counter-culture point of view.
In LeVine’s words: “I believe that my program represents a generational shift, and that the artists who I work with will continue to define the evolution of this genre.”
Artists in the exhibition include four French artists : WK, BLEK LE RAT, INVADER and MISS VAN.
Daily through March 27th, 2010
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm.
Location: 529 West 20th Street,
New York, NY 10011
Phone Number: 212.243.3822
Website: www.jonathanlevinegallery.com
Yves Saint Laurent par Jean-marie Périer
Exposition : Si la mode m'était contée
Four star photographers represented by Polka Galerie, Derek Hudson, Cathleen Naundorf, Jean-Marie Périer and Gérard Uféras, immortalize emblematic faces of the fashion runway and capture uniques instants from the secret world of Haute Couture, behind the scenes at Dior, Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix, Yves Saint Laurent… on fascinating photographs choosen by Polka Galerie for their quality, their truth, their strength.
Daily through April 3rd, 2010
Location: Sofitel New York
45 west 44th Street
NY 10036 New York City USA
Website: www.frenchculture.org
AIR - "So Light Is Her Footfall"
Air is two musicians (Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin) who are typically French yet altogether worldly. Many of France’s best musicians have something of this, simultaneously from yet not of France. It’s an argument that could be levelled at, say, Jean-Pierre Massiera, one of France’s misunderstood geniuses, or Saintly Serge, adored and occasionally reviled, Jacques Dutronc, who in the ‘60s had a tiger (and several other wild animals) in his guitar or Marc Moulin who was so French he was actually Belgian.
March 19th, 2010
Hours: Doors: 19:00 / Show: 20:00
Location: Terminal 5
610 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 665-3832
Admission: $37.50 advance / $42.50 day of show
Website: terminal5nyc.com
French Fairytale Play & Workshop at Galli Theater for Children
Performance Le Roi Grenouille (The Frog Prince): 11am
After-show Workshop: 12-1pm
(Performance and workshop in French)
Galli plays are modern and innovative adaptations of fable. They teach life lessons while entertaining the whole family.
After the show Galli’s Le Roi Grenouille our theater specialists engage kids in acting lessons and theater activities, including dance, games, exercises and improvisation. They get to dress up as their favorite fable character. Kids practice to speak French through role play, character work and the development of a fable play.
(ages 3-9)
March 21st, 2010
Hours: Starting at 11am
Location: The Galli Theater NY is located in midtown Manhattan, 2 blocks south of Bryant Park and just round the corner from Times Square.
38 West 38th Street
3rd floor
New York, NY 10018
Admission: Child (show only): $15, Child (show + workshop) $35 ($30 if booked in advance), Adult (show) $20
Phone Number: 212 810 6485
Website: www.gallitheaterny.com
Exhibition: Marguerite Duras par Hélène Bamberger
Du 18 février au 18 mars 2010, le travail du célèbre écrivain Marguerite Duras sera à l'honneur. Pour l'occasion, de nombreux événements seront organisés.
Hélène Bamberger took photographs of Marguerite Duras during the summers they spent together in Trouville, Normandy, from 1980 to 1994. These images tell the story of Duras and depict her haunts, her worktable, her room, the skies of Normandy, her lover Yann Andréa…
“When I first met Marguerite, I had never read any Duras. It was only afterwards that I read her. We got on so well right from the very beginning; we started our road trips in my father’s car, a rusty old Peugeot. I was the one who drove during the summer of 1980; in the years that followed it was Yann. We would go wherever she wanted. Each place had a different name and a story of its own: the bridge at Tancarville crossed the Mekong; the salt-meadows became rice-fields; we drove through “the forests of Canada”…
I took photos from the start; often she would direct my efforts and would occasionally put herself in the frame. Before I got to know her, the idea of photographing a landscape would never have entered my head, much less a puddle of water.”
Hélène Bamberger
Since the late 70s, Hélène Bamberger has worked as a photojournalist and she co-founded the Odyssey Agency in 1982. From 1980 to 1994, she made an impressive series of portraits that covers almost fifteen years of Marguerite Duras's life, representing the most thorough photographic essay on the author. Her work is regularly featured in magazines such as Elle, Marie-Claire, Le Figaro, National Geographic France, Der Spiegel...
Daily through March 18th, 2010
Hours: Monday to Friday, 11 AM to 5 PM
Location: Cultural Services of the French Embassy
972 Fifth Avenue (at 79th Street), New York, NY 10075
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary @ The Drawing Center
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary will explore the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier.
Comprised of over 60 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this will be the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included will be rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores.
Daily through April 8th, 2010
Hours: 2—4pm
Location: The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
Phone Number: (212) 219-2166
Website: www.drawingcenter.org
Alain Altinoglu fait ses débuts au Metropolitan Opera dans Carmen
Le jeune chef français Alain Altinoglu fait ses débuts au Metropolitan Opera dans Carmen.
A 34 ans, Alain Altinoglu espère modestement être « comme les bons vins rouges qui se bonifient avec l’âge », lui qui vient de faire un triomphe dans SALOME de Richard Strauss à l’Opéra Bastille. L’Opéra de Paris est « sa maison », il y a tout fait, souffleur, assistant, chef de chant, et s’est aussi formé auprès des plus grands comme Pierre Boulez et Daniel Barenboïm.
Il sait qu’il « prend beaucoup de risques » en arrivant au milieu des représentations de CARMEN, car il n’aura droit qu’à une répétition avec l’orchestre. Mais comme « le Met, c’est le luxe suprême », il y risquera tout à partir du 27 Janvier. Et se réjouit beaucoup de reprendre cette CARMEN en Avril-Mai, toujours au Met, avec des chanteurs superstars comme Angela Gheorghiu et Jonas Kaufmann.
Ceux qui l’auront raté au Met pourront le voir diriger à nouveau CARMEN au Chicago Lyric Opera en Octobre prochain puis en Mars 2011.
Entre temps, les heureux de ce monde qui assisteront cet été aux fameuses CHOREGIES d’ORANGE (Gard, France) le verront mener à la baguette la MIREIILE de Charles Gounod ( 4 et 7 août).
January 27, 30, February 1, 5, 9, 13, April 28, May 1
Daily through May 1st, 2010
Hours: 8pm
Location: Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center New York New York 10023
Phone Number: 212- 362-6000
The Invisible Dog Art Center Presents The Ant by artist Xavier Roux
We proudly presents The Ant in the main exhibition hall. Artist Xavier Roux was inspired to create the sixty-foot long sculpture by the poem written by Surrealist Robert Desnos in 1942. This touching piece consists of a giant ant symbolizing the trains transporting Jews and other nazi victims to concentration camps.The Invisible Dog Art Center www.theinvisibledog.org and Xavier Roux are deeply committed to this exhibition. We have embarked in the adventure of assembling the material such as nylon balloons, foam boards, sound systems, etc. The next step is the installation of the creature. It is fabricated from four elements, which are attached to a steel structure.
Daily through March 31st, 2010
Hours: hursday through Sunday: 1pm.-7pm - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: by appointment only
Location: The Invisible Dog, 51 bergen street, Brooklyn NY 11201 - between Smith street and Boerum place - Subway F or G, Bergen street stop
Admission: Free
Website: www.theinvisibledog.org
Yolande Moreau interprète Seraphine. DR
Back by Popular Demand : Séraphine and a selection of films by The film society of Lincoln Center
Want a second chance to see the New York Film Critics Circle Best Feature of 2009? Yearning for a little Latinbeat to warm up wintry December? Didn't get a chance to make a Rendezvous with French Cinema?
The film society of Lincoln Center is reprising the year's most popular selections in one six-day mini festival of unforgettable film.
Séraphine (Martin Provost) will be shown Dec. 30 @8.10 pm & Dec. 31 @ 4.15 pm
Daily through December 31st, 2010
Location: Walter Reade Theater, West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave, on the upper level.
Admission: $ 11, $7 members - A pass for any five films : $45 ($30 Members) -
Website: www.filmlinc.com
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention
A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer – and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker. Alias Man Ray explores the deliberate cultural ambiguity of Man Ray, who became the first American artist to be accepted by the avant-garde in Paris. It also examines the dynamic connection between Man Ray’s assimilation (few know that he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky to Russian Jewish immigrants), the evolution of his art, and his willful construction of a distinctive artistic persona. Visitors to Alias Man Ray will be privy to his endless experimentation in over 200 works including photographs, paintings, sculptures, objects, drawings, films, and a selection of his writings. This is the first major multimedia Man Ray show at a New York City museum since 1974.
Daily through March 14th, 2010
Hours: From 11am to 5.45pm
Location: The Jewish Museum, Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York, NY,
Admission: $12 adultes, $ 10 seniors, $ 7.50 étudiants, gratuit pour les - de 11 ans
Website: www.thejewishmuseum.org
Eté d'amour at the Hotel on Rivington
Join this Sunday soirée's Facebook group, and you'll gain access to the Hotel on Rivington's glass-walled penthouse for a session of French-kissed house and disco.
Every Sunday
Location: 107 Rivington St between Essex and Ludlow Sts
Phone Number: 212-475-1515
Website: wwww.hotelonrivington.com
