French culture in NYC
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FRIDAY APRIL 13 / 7.30PM / SHABBAT DINNER / A multi-course meal plus special cocktail by The Gefilteria in celebration of R. Justin Stewart’s installation, Distorting (a messiah project, 13C). Mamie Kanfer Stewart will lead guests through a lively discussion of art and spirituality. Dinner will take place inside of Distorting (a messiah project, 13C). All [...] FRIDAY APRIL 21 / 8PM / CINECLUB / STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN A Matter of Life and Death (1946) is a romantic fantasy film set in World War II by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
A young boy at a Paris street-market chances upon two rolls of 9.5mm film: So begins the story of the recovery and restoration of a masterwork of French cinema. The young boy was Kevin Brownlow, and the rolls of film contained scenes from Abel Gance’s masterpiece, Napoleon . When first released, Napoleon had played in cities across Europe to great acclaim, before being bought for distribution in the US. Across the Atlantic it was cut dramatically, and then foundered and faded to oblivion in a market newly infatuated with the ’talkies’. Brownlow’s fascination with the short clips he had seen as a child led to a series of restorations: first in 1979, 1980, then in 1983, and finally in 2000, when Brownlow was able to incorporate missing footage found by the Cinémathèque Française in Paris.
French Culture
Through its rich and varied program in the areas of French culture and civilization, La Maison Française has played a major role in the flow of intellectual currents and ideas between France and the United States Just north of Washington Square , at the entrance to historic, cobblestoned Washington Mews , stands a New York landmark, La Maison Française. Since its founding in 1957, the "French House" has become the most active center of French-American cultural and intellectual exchange to be found on any American campus. La Maison Française occupies a nineteenth-century red-brick carriage house. Inside, the ample yet intimate space of the ground-floor salon has been carefully adapted to uses ranging from art exhibits and receptions to lectures and film screenings , with a seating capacity of one hundred.
