José Hernández-Claire
As part of this year's programming of FotoWeek DC, The Cultural Service of the Embassy of France presents Broken Roots - Illegal Immigration into the U.S., a photography exhibition by José Hernández-Claire.
Powerful images that contain both tension and drama, this compelling selection reflects the many perils of those immigrants who struggle to cross the border into the United States.
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Transatlantic Program for Collaborative Work in the Field of Digital Humanities
The Fondation Maison des Sciences et de l’Homme (FMSH) is pleased to announce the launch of a new grant program in digital humanities. Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, FMSH will co-finance transatlantic collaborative projects in the field of the digital humanities.
read moreFrench Voice Grantees 2013
The first-ever French Voices Award ceremony will be held this January, awarding one of ten titles that have been selected to receive the French Voices Grant. We are pleased to announce the first selection of 4 works that will receive the grant this year. For the spring session, two fiction and two non-fiction projects have been chosen.
read moreLA BELLE ET LA BÊTE
As a special event to celebrate another year of films at the Cinémathèque, the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France is delighted to present La belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast), the classic film by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau in its 2013 restored version. The screening will be followed by a reception at the Embassy of France.
read moreBertrand and Amoyel in Concert
Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel form a powerful musical duo. With Bertrand as a cellist and Amoyel a pianist, both French musicians explore original works as well as the Grand Repertoire. Listening to these highly-talented and world-renowned musicians will create a truly unique and delightful experience
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Just as Marcel Proust transformed literature, Jean-Luc Godard did the same for cinematic storytelling. This fall we find ourselves remembering these two revolutionaries on the occasion of the anniversary of two monumental works: Proust's Swann's Way (1913) and Godard's Contempt (1963).
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Godard & Me
To mark the 50th anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt, and on the occasion of a major retrospective of the director's work at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Film Department at the Cultural Services is delighted to present Godard & Me, a blog dedicated to the iconic French filmmaker.
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Transatlantic Program for Collaborative Work in the Field of Digital Humanities
The Fondation Maison des Sciences et de l’Homme (FMSH) is pleased to announce the launch of a new grant program in digital humanities.
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"This guy puts everything, I mean everything in his movies.”
I came to Godard a bit late. In Dallas, where I grew up in the 1960s, foreign films played regularly. But, to be honest, the local selection slanted more toward A Man and a Woman than to Masculine Feminine. My undergraduate professors of French preferred the humanist tradition of Renoir and Truffaut. But when I arrived at the University of Chicago for graduate school in the 1970s Godard seemed to be everywhere in discussions of cinema.
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Proust the Impressionist
I must admit to having started several times before finally being able to enter the cathedral that is In Search of Lost Time, which was more like an impenetrable fortress for me at the time. Then one day, which I remember very clearly, I opened the first volume, and read it so avidly that I’ve often wondered why I had resisted for so long...
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A Nomadic Reading: Behind the Scenes
Cultural Attache and Head of the Book Department at the French Embassy, Laurence Marie, shares behind the scenes moments from Swann's Way: A Nomadic Reading, part of the Embassy's centennial celebration of the publication of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way.
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Proust the Impressionist
I must admit to having started several times before finally being able to enter the cathedral that is In Search of Lost Time, which was more like an impenetrable fortress for me at the time. Then one day, which I remember very clearly, I opened the first volume, and read it so avidly that I’ve often wondered why I had resisted for so long...
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French Voices Award | Grantees 2013 - Spring session
The first-ever French Voices Award ceremony will be held this January, awarding one of ten titles that have been selected to receive the French Voices Grant. We are pleased to announce the first selection of 4 works that will receive the grant this year. For the spring session, two fiction and two non-fiction projects have been chosen.
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Favorite Passages from Swann's Way
Over the past week, many of our Facebook fans have shared their favorite passages from Swann's Way in celebration of the centennial and as part of our Proust Centennial Custom Edition Moleskine Notebook giveaway. We have compiled all your wonderful selections below. Enjoy!
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Remember the Alamo: Proust and My Breakdown
I have always considered Marcel Proust to be the milksop of modernism. Wherefore this forever reclining and meticulously mustachioed Frenchman? Compared to Woolf, Joyce, Kafka, Musil, Conrad, Mann, what was he? A weakling, an infirm, a self-published author! And, worst of all, a waffler.
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Proust on Twitter
The first note of constructed art, or artifice, in Swann’s Way is the boy Marcel’s magic lantern. The device projects the story of Genevieve de Brabant and her nemesis Golo across the wall, and it presents, for the eponymous Marcel, “an intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room which I had succeeded in filling with my own personality until I thought no more of the room than of myself…I would begin to think and feel very melancholy things.”Visual & Performing Arts
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Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel form a powerful musical duo. With Bertrand as a cellist and Amoyel a pianist, both French musicians explore original works as well as the Grand Repertoire. Listening to these highly-talented and world-renowned musicians will create a truly unique and delightful experience.
Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel in Concert
Dec 11, 2013 | 7:30 p.m.
Embassy of France
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As part of this year's programming of FotoWeek DC, the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France presents Broken Roots - Illegal Immigration into the U.S., a photography exhibition by José Hernández Claire. Powerful images that contain both tension and drama, this compelling selection reflects the many perils of those immigrants who struggle to cross the border into the United States.
José Hernández-Claire
Nov 7 - Dec 12, 2013
La Maison Francaise - Embassy of France
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An Interview with Maurice Renoma
Maurice Renoma has a long career as a couturier and designer who transformed the way French men dressed. In the 1960s, his tailored designs were groundbreaking and over the years he expanded his creative palate into other avenues including photography and furniture. A distinguished Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Mr. Renoma will have his first retrospective photography show in New York City at the Bertrand Delacroix Gallery opening on Thursday, November 14th.
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The first retrospective exhibition in the United States, Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris features some 100 photographs throughout the prolific career of this French photographer. The selection includes his compelling city scenes and landscapes, his detailed architectural studies of Europe in the early 1850s, and his extraordinary photographs of Paris and its surroundings in the late 1870s. The exhibition will be on view at the National Gallery of Art from September 29, 2013 through January 5, 2014.
Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
Sept 29, 2013 - Jan 5, 2014
National Gallery of Art
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Le Corbusier: Interview with MoMA Curator, Jean Louis-Cohen
This past summer MoMA hosted the first major exhibition of the work of the architect Le Corbusier. CUNY TV talked to the curator of the exhibition, Jean Louis-Cohen, who explains why this show devoted to, arguably, "the greatest architect of the 20th century" was so significant. Le Corbusier, Cohen explain was the first architect to work on a truly international scale, with projects around the world.
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Paris Honors Robert Wilson
The Watermill Center is organizing a five-day trip to Paris in celebration of Robert Wilson, who has been selected by the Louvre Museum as their 2013 Grand Invité to curate three rooms of the museum, from Nov 13 - 17, 2013.Film, TV & New Media
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This year, the Jacob Burns Film Center joins the Romanian Film Initiative and the Film Society of Lincoln Center in copresenting the eighth edition of Making Waves.
Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema 2013 at Lincoln Center and Jacob Burns Film Center
Nov 29 - Dec 10, 2013
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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The Museum of Mordern Art offers the Berlin School a special series later this fall.
The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule at MoMA
Nov 20 - Dec 6, 2013
MoMA
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As a special event to celebrate another year of films at the Cinémathèque, the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France is delighted to present 'La belle et la bête' (Beauty and the Beast), the classic film by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau in its 2013 restored version. The screening will be followed by a reception at the Embassy of France.
Cocteau's LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE
Dec 9, 2013 | 7:00 p.m.
Embassy of France
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Though he was a documentarian, Chris Marker (1921–2012), was among the most idiosyncratic of filmmakers, perhaps more essayist than artist. In these films, two of his earliest and most well known works, he gives a sense of why Alain Resnais called him “the prototype of the twenty-first-century man.”
Chris Marker Program at MoMA
Dec 11, 12 & 13, 2013
MoMA
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The Returned and 5 Broken Cameras recognized at International Emmy Awards
The French TV series The Returned and the French, Palestinian and Israeli co-production 5 Broken Cameras acclaimed at the 41st International Emmy Awards
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The Cultural Service of the Embassy of France participates with the National Gallery of Art to include a series of French films as part of its fall film programming. Under Realité Tales, Young French Cinema, the selection features six non-fiction French films brought by the Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion (ACID), a Paris-based collective of independent filmmakers.
For its opening night, the film 'The Virgin, the Copts and me' will be screened at the Embassy of France on December 5th at 7:00 p.m.
THE VIRGIN, THE COPTS AND ME
Dec 5 - Dec 15, 2013
Maison Française
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