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INTO THE COLD, A JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
Explorer, environmental advocate and photographer, Sebastian Copeland and partner Keith Heger venture more than 400 miles on foot through sub-zero temperatures on the frozen ice cap of the Arctic with only courage and determination to see them through a harrowing two-month journey to the North Pole.
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As part of the World Nomads festival, French Institute Alliance Française presents a month of Tunisian films curated by Dora Bouchoucha, one of Tunisia’s most successful female film producers.
Tunisia in Film at FIAF
May 7-28, 2013
French Institute Alliance Française
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Claude Autant-Lara's A Pig Across Paris (La Traversée de Paris) (1956), a rediscovered comedy/drama starring Jean Gabin (Grand Illusion) and French comedian Bourvil as blackmarketeers smuggling four valises of precious pork through the streets of Occupied Paris, will run at Film Forum from Friday, May 24 through Thursday, May 30 (one week) in a new restoration.
A Pig Across Paris at Film Forum
May 24 - 30, 2013
Film Forum
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A Video Interview with the Directors of Leviathan
Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are instructors in Harvards ‘Sensory Ethnography Lab’ which takes as a premise that artists, scientists and academics rely too heavily on words to convey ethnographic experiences.
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TIED
The Banker meets the Young Woman one spring evening. He is a man of enormous power and wealth. That night she becomes his mistress. Together they enter a world of endless erotic desire – the desire to possess and to be possessed, to be forced past all limits.
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A Drive-in Movie Theater comes to the Grand Palais
Roller-skating, a cheeseburger and fries for dinner, and a drive-in movie: it sounds like a teenager's date night circa 1955 in some American town, or for a few weeks this summer, a night out at the Grand Palais in Paris.
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The French Embassy Teams up with General Assembly
On Tuesday evening April 30, the French Embassy hosted its first “Introduction to the New York startup community” class with Matt Brimer, co-founder of General Assembly (GA). GA is an organization that aims to “transform thinkers into creators” through education and creates opportunities in technology, business, and design.
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American Film Festival in Paris
The distributor and theater manager Sophie Dulac launched the Champs-Elysées Film Festival last year hoping to gather spectactors interested in American cinema, more precisely its independent aspect.
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Cannes Festival Jury Announced
The Cannes Film Festival has just unveiled the list of jurors who will award this year's Palme d'Or, the festival's top award, on May 26th.
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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Line-Up Announced
Festival de Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has announced its official line-up which features several American and French films.
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Kim Novak, guest of honour in Cannes
American actress Kim Novak will be the guest of honour of the Cannes Film Festival this year.
