FRENCH FILM SERIES

Join us for a series of classic French Films this Fall at the Nickelodeon. Matinee screenings include a light lunch from Immaculate Consumption more »

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Community Film Forum

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Columbia Jewish Film Festival

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Indie Grits Film Festival

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FRENCH FILM SERIES

We are excited to partner with our friends at Immaculate Consumption to present a special series of classic French films running all Fall. Our matinee screenings will be held at 11:30am every other Tuesday starting on September 7 and will include a light lunch from Immaculate Consumption. Select films will also have encore screenings in the evening.

Tickets to the matinee screenings are $8 each and include the light lunch.

The schedule is as follows:

Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophuls, 1953)
September 7
French master Max Ophuls’s most cherished work, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance.

400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
September 21
The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime.

Le Million (Rene Clair, 1930)
October 5
An impoverished artist discovers he has purchased a winning lottery ticket at the very moment his creditors come to collect. The only problem is, the ticket is in the pocket of his coat. . . which he left at his girlfriend’s apartment. . . who gave the coat to a man hiding from the police. . . who sells the coat to an opera singer who uses it during a performance.

Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
October 19
Robert Bresson’s incomparable tale of crime and redemption follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsion grows, however, so too does his fear that his luck is about to run out.


Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
November 2
Beauty and the Beast (La belle et la bête) is a landmark feat of cinematic fantasy in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death that have never been equaled.
Playtime (Jeacques Tati, 1967)
November 16
Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the endearingly clumsy, resolutely old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a bafflingly modernist Paris.

Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
November 30
With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, as the young maiden who died for God and France.

Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
December 7
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners.

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962)
December 21
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.