(subject to change)

June 25th @ UnionDocs : CINEMAKITCHEN presents of LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG

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July 6th @ DCTV (730pm) : Jay Sterrenberg presents a TBD documentary

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 July 13th @ TBD ROOF (830pm) : Annie Reichert introduces Steve Hanft’s KILL THE MOONLIGHT

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 Week of July 17th @ UnionDocs : Another installment of CINEMAKITCHEN

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 July 27th @ DCTV : Gina Telaroli introduces Douglas Sirk’s A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE

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Week of August 2nd @ 60DEVOE ST. : Doriana introduces MAN BITES DOG

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 August 9th @ 60DEVOE ST. : Gina Telaroli introduces NATHALIE GRANGER

Screening 03:
730pm, Thursday, June 25 @ UNIONDOCS
322 Union Ave - Brooklyn, NY 11211

BUY TICKETS HERE : https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/70414

LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG(1964) / Directed by Jacques Demy
introduced by Gina Telaroli

Jacques Demy’s 1964 masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director’s own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Genevive Emery (a luminous Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. A completely sung movie, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is closest in form to a cinematic opera. Composer Michel Legrand composed the score, modeling it around the patterns of everyday conversation.

M E N U / by Lila Dobbs of Brooklyn Sour
(subject to change without notice and all vegetarian!)
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Market Salad
spring greens, goat cheese ’scallops’ and cider reduction

Vichyssoise
green garlic, chive oil and creme fraiche

Sourdough Baguette
confitures en tous genres
(lots of jams!)

Strawberries and Rhubarb in Phyllo
almond creme anglaise, assorted meringues and petits gateaux

MOVIE-WATCHING SNACK
Ice Cream Sandwich
brioche, michel cluizel chocolate ice cream
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all baked goods and some dairy are prepared on premise, from scratch.
drinks: surprise – you’ll get 1-2 drinks but please feel free to bring something to share!

*seating limited to 15

Field Trip on May 25th to BAM

Olivier Assayas’ SUMMER HOURS 

Join other Project Film School members at the movies!

How much or how little are we obliged to honor the wishes of our parents after they’re gone? This is the painful question posed by Olivier Assayas in his rueful and wise new film.

The marvelous Edith Scob, once the muse of director Georges Franju, is the troubled family matriarch with children scattered across the globe — one in Paris, one in New York, a third in Shanghai. She lives alone in the family’s country house and spends the bulk of her time worrying over the legacy of her uncle, a legendary artist. After her sudden death, the siblings (Charles Berling, Juliette Binoche and Jerémie Rénier) meet to discuss practical details, prompting some of the most moving passages in Assayas’s entire body of work.

Only the greatest filmmakers have found such a balance between the heaviness of loss and the lightness of time’s passage. Every moment of this wonderful film is imbued with sadness, and joy; despair, and illumination. [FSLC]

SCREENING IS AT 6:50

More Info Here = http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1309

RESOURCES

Profile of Olivier Assayas (Senses of Cinema)

Bringing Down the House, Part I: “Summer Hours” -Assayas, France (The Auteurs)

Bringing Down the House, Part II: a conversation with Olivier Assayas (The Auteurs)

May 22nd, 2009

NOW @ 8pm!!

C I N E M A K I T C H E N - a monthly dinner and a movie series

 Louis Malle’s God’s Country and a magnificent meal by Brooklyn Sour @ UNIONDOCS

Buy tickets here : https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/67421

May 11th @ DCTV

A rough cut/feedback screening of

Gina Telaroli and Meerkat Media’s A LITTLE DEATH

Set against the stark winter beauty of Nantucket, Massachusetts, A Little Death is a narrative film in which a young woman takes care of an island summer home while its occupants are gone for the season. It’s the story of a woman struggling to redefine the moral boundaries that dominate her life, while confronting the complexity of loneliness.  The film assumes a deliberate and patient pace, not only to complement the young woman’s gradual introspective journey, but also to afford the audience time to reflect upon and consider their own relationship with nature and self.

Screening @ 730 @ DCTV

Come prepared to watch with an open, active mind and to to let the filmmakers know what you think!

A Little Death Teaser from Gina Telaroli on Vimeo.

*for more information on Project Film School and how you can get involved send an email to projectfilmschool@gmail.com

May 4th @ DCTV

David Cronenberg’s DEAD RINGERS

In Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg tells the chilling story of identical twin gynecologists—suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality—who share the same practice, the same apartment, the same women. When a new patient, glamorous actress Claire Niveau, challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness. Jeremy Irons’ s tour-de-force performance—as both twins—raises disturbing questions about the nature of personal identity. [Criterion]

Screening @ 730 @ DCTV

Introduction by Gina Telaroli

Field Trip on April 27th to the FSLC

Satyajit Ray’s PRATIDWANDI (THE ADVERSARY, aka SIDDHARTA AND THE CITY)

Powerfully capturing the turmoil of the late ’60s through reactions to Vietnam and the Maoist Naxalite movement, this study of the big city’s effect on educated young men won India’s national awards for best director and best screenplay.

“Satyajit Ray’s hero is a young graduate who like thousands of others cannot get even a menial job…and who is increasingly drawn towards a radical solution.  As in Mahanagar…the social problem is fused with the romantic side of the film: tremulous at her own daring, a young girl accosts our hero in the street and asks him to come fix the fuses. Thus begins one of Ray’s tenderest love stories.”—10th New York Film Festival

More info : http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/satyajit/pratidwanditheadversaryakasiddhartaandthecity.html

Screening at 8:45pm @ The Walter Reade Theater

April 19th

CINEMAKITCHEN presents

SPARROW (Hong Kong, 2008) / directed by Johnnie To
introduced by Abe Goldfarb

The pleasures of Johnnie To begin on a purely formal level. Long lenses flattening the shot, a camera on tracks to elaborate tension and movement, those fabulous widescreen tableaux of To’s characters variously lined in the frame, the moving camera well zoomed in—To’s characters travel on very thin, narrow trajectories, slight oblique angles almost but not quite flush against the background. The look to this subtle angular movement in the compositional flatness makes cinematic lines, and the lines can be quite elegant, the more so when one can cut, move, and block as fluently as this master. Nowhere is this pleasure in graceful, subtly intersecting lines more evident than when To is having fun. And he is clearly having just that in his new, and utterly delightful film, Sparrow. [Daniel Kasman, The Auteurs]

 RESOURCES:

The Belated Auteurism of Johnnie To (Senses of Cinema)

Sparrow (To China) The Auteurs

One Country, Two Visions - An Interview with Johnnie To (Cineaste)

CINEMAKITCHEN is a monthly series that pairs the art of cinema with the art of cuisine.  Join gastronomes and film buffs as we enjoy an artfully-prepared dinner, courtesy of Today’s Special, and then digest while viewing a bit of cinema, presented by Project Film School. Discover the world of food and film with our non-formal and non-traditional approach to education. In other words - eat, drink, & see movies!

April 13th @ DCTV

Michael Arias’ Tekkonkinkreet

In the anime “Tekkonkinkreet,” two orphans of life’s storms sail through the air like birds, like superheroes, like Jackie Chan. Known as Black and White (voiced by Kazunari Ninomiya and Yu Aoi), the boys live in an atmospherically derelict and imaginary Japanese place called Treasure Town, a surreal explosion of skewed angles, leaning towers, hanging wires, narrow alleys and gaudily cute flourishes that bring to mind a yakuza cityscape by way of a Hello Kitty theme park. Beautiful and a touch bewildering, “Tekkonkinkreet” kinks up a fairly familiar story of love and loyalty with a helping of underworld crime action, the usual juvenile agonies and some fuzzy philosophy. (Manohla Dargis, New York Times)

Screening @ 730 @ DCTV

Introduction by Audrey Molinare

April 6th @ DCTV

Claire Denis’ THE INTRUDER

Claire Denis’s magnificent enigma of a film, “The Intruder,” explores the troubled soul of Louis Trebor (Michel Subor), a brooding loner with a heart condition who lives with two large white dogs in a forest near the French-Swiss border. As this rugged, ailing 68-year-old outdoorsman travels halfway around the world to begin a new life, his past, present and future, real and imagined, blend into a visually spellbinding depiction of a selfish sensualist’s quest for a longer life with a redemptive final chapter. Ms. Denis, a fearless aesthetic adventurer who lived in Africa until she was 14, has always been fascinated by stories and images of cultural imposition, exile, alienation and the contemplation of the Other. She is also one of the world’s most sensual filmmakers. Working with her brilliant cinematographer Agnès Godard, she spills onto the screen images of man and nature with an attunement to light, shadow, color, texture and mood that approaches the surreal. — (Stephen Holden, The New York Times)

Screening @ 730 @ DCTV

Introduction by David Gacs