Thursday March 1, Friday March 2 : 7:30pm / Saturday March 3: 3:20pm & 7:30pm

Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Screenwriter: Jean-François Halin
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Béjo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefèbvre, Constantin Alexandrov, Saïd Amadis, Claude Brosset

A box-office sensation in France, comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, Hubert is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo...

Thursday March 1, Friday March 2: 9:30pm / Saturday March 3: 5:20pm & 9:30pm

Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Screenwriters: Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-François Halin
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Rüdiger Vogler, Alex Lutz, Reem Kherici

The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath — code named OSS 117 — has a new mission that takes him to the Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960’s. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with an embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators...

This is a double feature: your ticket admits you to BOTH films!
 

Wednesday March 14 & Thursday March 15: 8:00pm

Writer/Director: Chantal Akerman
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Chantal Akerman

In a small apartment in Brussels lives Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), a middle-aged widow, mother, homemaker, and prostitute whose existence is dominated by routine – the preparation of meals, the running of errands, visits from her clients, and evenings with her teenage son Sylvain (Jan Decorte) – until the cracks start to show. As towering a cinematic landmark as L’avventura or Weekend, Jeanne Dielman is a singular blend of feminism, modernism, and the avant-garde whose hypnotic rhythms and rigorous attention to detail make for a riveting, unforgettable experience.

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All screenings at:
New Beverly Cinema
7165 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
newbeverlycinema@mac.com
323.474.9957
Website: http://www.newbevcinema.com/

Thursday March 1 at 7:30 pm

Writer/Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod

Based on resistance leader André Devigny's account of his escape from the Nazi prison at Montlucin Occupied Lyons and on Bresson's own memories of his eighteen-month confinement in a German P.O.W. camp during the war—A Man Escaped is among the most authentic and transcendent visions of life behind bars. Condemned to death and locked up in solitary confinement, ...

Thursday March 1 at 9:20pm

Writer/Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume Des Forets, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer

Jacques, a cloistered painter, labors in his loft over semi-abstract, cool-hued canvasses and yearns for the “pure and innocent” love of medieval times. When he finds Marthe poised to jump from the Pont Neuf on one of his nightly strolls, his fantasy of Middle Age courtship appears to have sprung to life ...

Included with admission to A Man Escaped. $5 for Four Nights of a Dreamer only.

Friday March 2 at 7:30pm

Director: Jacques Tati
Screenwriters: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange
Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maïden, France Rumilly

Jacques Tati spared no expense in crafting Playtime, a languid comedy about an American tourist and her encounters with Tati’s Chaplinesque alter-ego, Monsieur Hulot, in a labyrinthine, modern metropolis. (Tati’s sets were so massive that they earned a nickname worthy of a neighborhood: Tativille.) The director’s use of high-resolution 65mm film and rich Stereophonic sound...

Friday March 9 at 7:30pm

Writer/Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély

Filmmakers as disparate as Noah Baumbach, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, Wim Wenders, and Alain Resnais all credit this comic masterpiece of social satire as among the greatest films ever made. Yet upon its release on the precipice of World War II, the film reception could not have received a more hostile reception. An angry mob tried to burn the theater where it was being ...

Friday March 9 at 9:30pm

Director: Jacques Becker
Screenwriters: Jacques Becker, Jacques Companeez
Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussiéres, Gaston Modot

Although this taut French tragedy may be set in belle epoque Paris, it etches the lines of a doomed love triangle with a hardened, Postwar sobriety—violence and hostility abound in the dark corners of every smoky dance hall and along the mossy hills of every bucolic countryside. After eyeing flaxen-haired Marie (played in a career-changing performance by an entrancing Simone Signoret), ...

Included with admission to Rules of the Game. $5 for Casque d’Or only.

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All screenings at:
Bing Theater
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
http://www.lacma.org
323 857 6010

A compilation of shorts from Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Georges Méliès, W.C. Fields and Fatty Arbuckle will be presented with live musical accompaniment.

Friday, March 16 – 7:30pm

"The Cure" - Charlie Chaplin plays "The Inebriate," a well-intentioned drunk who checks into a rehab spa and promptly turns the place upside down. (1917, 31 min)

"The Untamable Whiskers" - Watch Georges Méliès’ magical whiskers grow from a proper mustache into a Merlin-like beard. (1904, 3 min)

"The Devil and the Statue" - Georges Méliès plays a rapscallion demon of many sizes. (1901, 2 min)

"Coney Island" - Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle spend a day at the amusement park feuding over the same available young woman. Never mind that Fatty arrived with his wife! (1917, 25 min)

"Easy Street" - Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp reforms his ways when he becomes smitten with a missionary (Edna Purviance) and takes up work as a constable on the rough-and-tumble Easy Street. (1917, 19 min)

"Pool Sharks" - W.C. Fields makes his screen debut as one of two rivals playing a game of pool for the hand of a lady love - a skit Fields performed often during his career in vaudeville. (1915, 15 min)

American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Ave at 14th St
Santa Monica, CA 90403
http://www.americancinematheque.com

Friday, March 16, 7:30pm

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Screenwriters: Andrzej Zulawski & Dominique Garnier

An aspiring young actress (Valerie Kaprisky) accepts a leading role in a film version of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. Dissatisfied by her performance, the eccentric filmmaker (Francis Huster) begins a rigorous course of indoctrination, sexual domination, and acting lessons, leaving the mentally exhausted girl unable to distinguish between the real world and that of the film. (1984)

Arty, challenging, and some say over the top, the film was honored with the Special Jury Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1984.

Sunday, March 18, 5:00pm

Director/Screenwriter: Andrzej Zulawski

A turbulent, yet humorous portrait of several of the 19th Century's greatest Romantic artists, all gathered together in a countryside retreat: Frédéric Chopin, Alexandre Dumas, Georges Sand, Eugene Delacroix and Ivan Tourgueniev.  Starring Sophie Marceau and acclaimed Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak. (1991)

Saturday, March 24th, 7:00pm

Director/Screenwriter: Andrzej Zulawski

Lucas, a computer genius facing an unnamed terminal illness that causes him to lose his memory, meets Blanche, a young woman who seems unable to break free of her vicious environment. The two plunge into a brief but intense affair, understanding that their days together are numbered. This a strangely poetic and powerful film that celebrates love's victory over death and suggests that sentiment has some currency even in a pragmatic world. (1989)

Sunday, March 25, 6:30pm

Director/Screenwriter: Andrzej Zulawski

Flamboyant, epic soap opera adaptation of the classic French nove l"La Princesse de Cleves" (by Madame de la Fayette), complete with dirt bike races, hot sex, and naked hockey players. Talented Canadian photographer Clelia (Sophie Marceau) lands a financially lucrative job in Paris at a rumor-mongering tabloid called La Verite run by Rupert MacRoi (Michel Subor). Though she finds most of her coworkers to be disillusioned and perverse, she happens upon Cleve (Pascal Greggory), a bumbling middle-aged children's book publisher.  Their lives intertwine over the years in many fascinating, disturbing and erotic ways. (2000)

Thursday, March 29th, 7:30pm

Director : Andrzej Zulawski
Screenwriters:  Andrzej Zulawski & Etiennte Roda-Gil

Andrzej Zulawski’s L’Amour Braque is the story of a hideously bloody vendetta, of bonds of friendship between two men from opposite backgrounds and of love within an eternal triangle. Intended as homage to Dostoyevsky and loosely based on his novel ‘The Idiot ’, Zulawski’s postmodern existentialist adaptation is presented with an intense sense of visual style suggestive of the hyper-realistic and chaotic world of Bande-Dessinée. (1985)

Friday, March 30, 7:45pm

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Screenwriters: Andrzej Zulawski & Christopher Frank

Freelance photographer Servais meets luckless Nadine Chevalier an aging, world-weary, would-be movie star who thus far has only been able to find work in cheap exploitation movies. Trying to win her affection, Servais borrows the money from his underworld employers to launch a theatrical production of Richard III starring Nadine as Lady Anne. Though cold and skeptical at first, Nadine gradually falls in love with Servais, and eventually finds herself torn between him and her husband Jacques, to whom she feels morally obligated. Set in a world of losers and futile talents, this dark and moody drama depicts love as the only source of salvation.  Starring Fabio Testi, Romy Schneider, Jacques Dutronc and Klaus Kinski! (1975)

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All screenings at:
The Cinefamily
611 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, 90036
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/the-mad-unbelievable-genius-of-andrzej-zulawski/

March 19 to 24

6 nights, 6 movies in French with English subtitles from Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Québec, Algeria and France.

March 19: 7:00pm Opening reception
                   7:45pm "La sacrée" by Dominic Desjardins (2011)
March 20: 7:30pm  “Les filles” by Geoffrey Enthoven  (2009)
March 21: 7:30pm “Les mains en l’air” by Romain Goupil (2010)
March 22: 7:30pm “Opération Casablanca” by Laurent Nègre (2009)
March 23: 7:30pm “Le voyage à Alger” by Abdelkrim Bahloul (2009)
March 24: 7:00pm Closing reception
                   7:45pm “Starbuck” by Ken Scott (2011)

Screenings, opening night and closing night receptions are FREE  but RSVP required at: http://rsvp.trk@lyceela.org

Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
10361 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064
http://www.trk.us.com

Free parking on Pico Blvd.

American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre presents a European film history seminar: EUROPEAN FILM MOVEMENTS: 1920-2012

Thursday, March 22 – 7:30pm (180 min)

What inspires the visual and narrative construction of a Scorsese, P.T. Anderson, Miyazaki, Coen or Assayas film? The styles of today’s masters can be traced back to the European film movements.　Whether you want to understand the impulses and implications behind surrealism, German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism, Italian Neo-Realism, Dogma 95 or even today’s "mumblecore" scene, film consultant Thomas Ethan Harris will illustrate how classic film movements keep influencing artists today.

American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre
Spielberg Screening Room
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
http://www.americancinematheque.com

Open Friday, March 23 through Sunday, June 24

While serving in the French Air Force’s press corps in Indochina in the early 1950s, Raymond Cauchetier began photographing his unit’s activities, and thus began his amazing career as a photojournalist. A chance meeting in 1957 at Angkor Wat with director Marcel Camus led to Cauchetier’s decade-long career detour as a set photographer...

The Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. & Weekends, noon to 6 p.m.
Admission is free

Friday, March 23, 7:30pm

To celebrate the opening of the new Academy exhibition PHOTOS DE CINÉMA: IMAGES OF THE FRENCH NEW WAVE BY RAYMOND CAUCHETIER, The Academy will present a new 35mm print of “Breathless.” The film’s cinematographer, Raoul Coutard, supervised the process of creating this new print in 2010, for the 50th anniversary of the French release date.

The Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, California 90211

March 1- 6 2012

Fullerton College, in collaboration with the French American Cultural Exchange Council (F.A.C.E.) is pleased to announce the return of The Tournées Festival. Throughout February and March, five award-winning, contemporary French films will be screened on campus. This year’s selections include dramas, romance, and comedies. All screenings will be in French with English subtitles.

Roman de Gare: Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm
Un Baiser, S’il Vous plait (Shall We Kiss?): Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 pm –

Tickets: Admission is $6.50, and tickets will be available at the door; advance tickets can be purchased from the Campus Box Office.

Fullerton College’s Wilshire Auditorium: 315 east Wilshire Ave, Fullerton, CA 92832,  across from the main campus

For additional information, call (714) 992-7349 or visit http://foreign.fullcoll.edu

Opening Friday, March 16

Writers/Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Starring:  Thomas Doret, Cécile de France and Jérémie Renier

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, the deeply moving new film by the Dardenne brothers (L’enfant, Rosetta) delves into the emotional life of troubled 11-year-old Cyril (newcomer Thomas Doret). When his father (Jérémie Renier) abandons him, Cyril obsessively searches for his bicycle ...

THE LANDMARK
10850 West Pico at Westwood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
(310) 470-0492
http://www.landmarktheatres.com

Writer/Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle

Silence is golden in director Michel Haznavicius’ delightful black-and-white feature set in 1920s Hollywood.  As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

Laemmle’s Theaters: http://www.laemmle.com/; Landmark Theaters: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/ ; AMC Theaters: http://www.amctheatres.com/ ; ArcLight Theaters: https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ ; Krikorian Theaters: http://www.kptmovies.com/

Directed by: Wim Wenders
Choreography: Pina Bausch
Produced by: Neue Road Movies (Berlin)
Co-produced by: Eurowide (Paris)

"Dance, dance, or we are lost." Pina Bausch's final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for acclaimed director Wim Wenders' (Wings of Desire, Buena Vista Social Club) breathtaking tribute to the legendary choreographer. Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal elevated dance into brilliantly subversive new expressive realms, and in this exhilarating film Wenders captures the raw, heart-stopping intensity of the movement and in stunning 3D transforms it into a transcendent cinematic experience. Pina 3D features interviews with and performances by Bausch's beloved original company members, and offers an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance in her uncommonly rich creative life.

ArcLight Theaters: https://www.arclightcinemas.com/; Landmark Theaters: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/

WINNER - Audience Award - 2011 COL.COA + OFFICIAL SELECTION : Rendez-Vous With French Cinema (New-York) ; Berlin International Film Festival

Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Written by: Philippe Le Guay and Jérôme Tonnerre.
Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, and Carmen Maura

Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire María, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up on the sixth floor servants' quarters. Befriending a group of sassy Spanish maids, the women teach him there’s more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house ultimately transforms everyone’s life.

"Funny! A pleasure!" - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times ; “I laughed… a lot! I give it a thumbs up!” – Christy Lemire, Ebert Presents

On DVD Thusday, March 13

Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Screenplay: Rachid Bouchareb, Zoé Galeron, Olivier Lorelle
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté

Set against the backdrop of the July 7th terrorist attacks in 2005, LONDON RIVER follows Elizabeth (BAFTA winner, Academy Award® nominee Brenda Blethyn) from a small farming community in Guernsey as she travels to London in the immediate aftermath of the bombings after failing to hear from her daughter. Elizabeth is disturbed by the confusion of the metropolis and above all, by the predominantly Muslim neighborhood where her daughter lived. Her fear and prejudice escalate when she discovers her daughter was converting to Islam as she keeps crossing paths with Ousmane (Berlin’s Silver Bear winner, Sotigui Kouyaté), a West African who has come from France to find his missing son. Although they come from very different backgrounds, Elizabeth and Osumane share the same hope of finding their children alive. Putting aside their cultural differences, they give each other the strength to continue the search and maintain their faith in humanity.

“A well-drawn portrait of two lonely souls facing the shared possibility grievous loss.” - Stephen Holden, New York Times

On DVD and digital download platforms: Thusday, March 6

Please discover this month a very special music documentary by French director Olivier Taieb available on iTunes and register with us at: http://register.underthemilkyway.com

A Music Documentary directed by Olivier Taieb

For nearly an hour and a half this film shows a selection of the greatest contemporary Jazz Musicians through their music and the city which is their matrix: New York.  That it’s live says it best.  Heirs of both art and passion, they take risks by standing at the instrumental and emotional edge of their music.

Featuring music by Jason Lindner Big Band, Theo Bleckmann & Kneebody, Fieldwork & Trio, Ambrose Akinmusire 5tet, Jaleel Shaw 4tet, Chris Dave & Friends, Val Inc.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/id495947300