Cultural Notes By Joelle Petit Adkins

Claude Lelouch in person in Santa Monica

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Sunday, April 20 – 7:30 PM

 

Claude Lelouch In Person! Double Feature:

       

French filmmaker Claude Lelouch is a true renaissance man of cinema: a writer, director, actor, cinematographer and editor who has worked in documentaries, shorts and narrative features. He became known around the world for his 1966 Palme d'Or winner A MAN AND A WOMAN, and in subsequent films has continued to explore romantic relationships (as well as other topics including politics and crime) with great sensitivity. Join us for a screening of Lelouch, most famous masterpiece, as well as a sneak preview of his latest film.

Sneak Preview! ROMAN DE GARE, 2008, Samuel Goldwyn Films, 110 min. Best  selling author Judith Ralitzer is researching unlikely places to find characters for her  next bestseller. As luck would have it, a serial killer with a penchant for magic tricks has just escaped from a high-security prison, providing the perfect source material for an intricately plotted, moody mystery. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, this highly anticipated new film from Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch stars Dominique  Pinon and Fanny Ardent as an unlikely pair caught up in a game with high stakes – and deadly consequences.

       

A MAN AND A WOMAN, 1966, Warner Bros., 103 min. This Oscar-winning love story is a model of simplicity and  fluidity. A young widow meets a widower at the boarding school that both of their children attend. He is a race car driver. The scenery, race car sequences and score all serve to         complement their friendship as it slowly emerges into a romance. Winner of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. With Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Discussion in between films with director Claude Lelouch. In association with COLCOA, A week of French Film Premieres in Hollywood. www.colcoa.org. Reduced ticket price for Cinematheque members to the screenings at the DGA.

American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Presents...
Movies on the Big Screen Since 1940!
1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica

Le Louvre Cinema at the Aero Theater this week

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Thursday, April 10 – 7:30 PM
LA VILLE LOUVRE (CITY LOUVRE), 1990, Kino, 83 min. French filmmaker Nicholas Philibert (IN THE LAND OF THE DEAF, TO BE AND TO HAVE) chronicles the behind-the-scenes operations of the Louvre in this fascinating documentary. From the discovery of hidden artworks to more routine matters of bureaucracy and operations, this film provides a glimpse of the "city within a city" that the public rarely sees. Discussion following with Catherine Sueur, Deputy Chief of Le Louvre.

Friday, April 11 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature:
BAND OF OUTSIDERS (BAND A PART), 1964, Rialto Pictures, 97 min. French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard told his backers he was delivering a sequel to BREATHLESS, but instead he created this offbeat meditation on politics, philosophy and the American gangster movie. Combining playful slapstick with sudden bursts of violence, this tale of three bumbling thieves (one of whom is played by Godard's then-wife and muse, Anna Karina) is one of the director's most original and entertaining works. Godard concludes the picture with the following narration: "My story ends here, like in a pulp novel, at that superb moment when nothing weakens, nothing wears away, nothing wanes." Musical score by Michel Legrand. With Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey.

BELPHEGOR, LE FANTOME DU LOUVRE, 2001, Canal Plus, 97 min. When a collection of rare artifacts is brought to the Louvre for examination, a ghostly spirit escapes from the archaeological find and enters the museum's electrical system. Before long, the evil spirit Belphegor is wreaking havoc in the famous museum in director Jean-Paul Salome's fantasy film, which stars Sophie Marceau, Michel Serrault and Julie Christie.

The Louvre Cinema 
Presented in association with Ile de France Film Commission.

Julie Dossavi at RedCat April 10-13

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present:

Compagnie Julie Dossavi:

P.I. (Pays) or Présentations intimes
Los Angeles premiere

 

 

April 10-13, 2008

At

REDCAT

The Roy and Edna Disney / Calarts Theater

                                                        631 West 2nd Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012 Box office: (213) 237-2800 or REDCAT

 

 

 

"Julie Dossavi is a priestess performing solitary rites, a mischievous child at play, an immigrant wandering through subway corridors, a warrior, a night-clubber…" Libération

 

Infusing contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street culture, the mesmerizing Julie Dossavi presents a collection of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics. The French-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract-and always alive with a distillation of human experience. Dossavi has collaborated with influential choreographers Philippe Decouflé and Joseph Nadj while also crossing over into the worlds of video and fashion through projects with Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Ricci and Angelique Kidjo.

 

This project is made possible by Cultures France, a division of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the

United States

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