Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “France”
Not the hit musical or a new take on Victor Hugo’s novel, but rather this year’s French Oscar nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film, Les Misérables is an explosive drama that takes us back to 2005 when a series of riots rocked the suburbs of Paris.
Ferocious, bracing and profoundly illuminating, Les Misérables showcases revolt against misery, in all its glory. –Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Hammer to Nail
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For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of Animated Shorts, plus a selection of addition shorts – HENRIETTA BULKOWSKI (USA, 16 min. featuring the voices of Chris Cooper and Ann Dowd!), THE BIRD AND THE WHALE (Ireland, 6 min.), HORS PISTE (France, 5 min.), MAESTRO (France, 2 min). Runtime: Approx. 80 mins.Read More
For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of Animated Shorts, plus a selection of addition shorts – HENRIETTA BULKOWSKI (USA, 16 min. featuring the voices of Chris Cooper and Ann Dowd!), THE BIRD AND THE WHALE (Ireland, 6 min.), HORS PISTE (France, 5 min.), MAESTRO (France, 2 min). Runtime: Approx. 80 mins.
In this autobiographical documentary, we join beloved Belgian-born French auteur Agnès Varda (CLEO FROM 5 TO 7, VAGABOND, THE GLEANERS & I, FACES PLACES) as she revisits moments from her extensive and influential body of work.
A sensuous, painterly period drama set in 18th century Brittany about the friendship that develops between two young women, a painter and her subject whose portrait she is commissioned to do without the subject’s knowledge.
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Sunday, August 11th, followed by post-screening discussion with Guillermo Fesser
Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. A powerful and poetic cautionary tale about fascism, and the dangers of forgetting the past.
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Digital disruption is all around us these days, and Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper, Summer Hours) explores this theme in his highly intelligent new examination of what technology means to our lives.
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Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, and Ricardo Darín star in this captivating tale of suspicion, money, and kin.
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From Academy Award nominated filmmakers Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Embrace of the Serpent), this stunning film charts the rise of the Colombian drug business from its pre-Escobar roots among rival Wayuú clans in the north of the country.
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For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus a selection of additional animated shorts.
(Estimated Running time: 75 mins)
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For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus a selection of additional animated shorts.
(Estimated Running time: 75 mins)
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Academy Award Nominee – Willem Dafoe (Best Actor)
Golden Globe Nominee – Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama (Willem Dafoe)
Artist/filmmaker Julian (BASQUIAT, THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS) Schnabel’s new film is a journey inside the mind of Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe in a magnificent performance), who, in the face of skepticism, ridicule, and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art..
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Wednesday, November 28th at 8:20 in Rhinebeck
Boundary-pushing cinema-provocateur Lars von Trier’s (BREAKING THE WAVES, DANCER IN THE DARK, MELANCHOLIA, ANTICHRIST, etc) latest, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, has its North American premiere Wednesday, November 28, with a special one-night-only show of the director’s cut – the version shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where the director was greeted with a 10-minute standing ovation and where the film, the tale of a serial killer, prompted many to walk out. Not for the faint-hearted.
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Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (Beau Travail, White Material).
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Three siblings reunite at their home in picturesque Burgundy to save the family vineyard in this tender tale of a new generation finding its own unique blend from acclaimed director Cédric Klapisch (L’Auberge Espagnole, When the Cat’s Away).
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With his irreverent spin on political humor, Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Veep, In the Loop) is in his element with this send-up of the Soviet dictator and his scheming inner-circle.
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Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren and two-time Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland are a runaway couple who, despite each having serious health problems and medical conditions, go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker, traveling from Boston to The Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West.
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A gripping thriller inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, the film depicts a most daring rescue mission fraught with complexity.
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With his irreverent spin on political humor, Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Veep, In the Loop) is in his element with this send-up of the Soviet dictator and his scheming inner-circle.
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Raoul (I’m Not Your Negro) Peck’s new film, set in the mid-1800s when the Industrial Revolution had already created both new prosperity as well as problems, is about the 26-year-old Karl Marx who, with his wife Jenny, embarks on the road to exile.
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Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film
A minor flare-up in the streets of Beirut accelerates into a microcosm of the contemporary tensions between Lebanese Christians and Muslim refugees from Palestine in this powerful new movie directed by Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut, The Attack).
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Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary
The late Agnès Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and the acclaimed French photographer JR teamed up to co-direct this enchanting documentary/road movie.
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4 Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Original Song
The new film by Luca (I am Love, A Bigger Splash) Guadagnino is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on an acclaimed novel and written for the screen by James Ivory.
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For the 13th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus 3 additional titles. The selections are suitable for young viewers and most would be rated G, except for GARDEN PARTY, which is suitable for children over 8 years old. Click below for information on the program.
(Running time: 83 mins)
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For the 13th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus 3 additional titles. The selections are suitable for young viewers and most would be rated G, except for GARDEN PARTY, which is suitable for children over 8 years old. Click below for information on the program.
(Running time: 83 mins)
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The Dardennes brothers – remember THE KID WITH THE BIKE, THE PROMISE, TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT – have an infallible sense of how to make cinema connect the personal with the political, and their latest, a gripping and profound moral tale is no exception.
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Catherine Deneuve, now 73, is an icon of international cinema who’s worked with many of cinema’s great directors -on film such as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Belle de Jour – Indochine – 8 Women – Dancer in the Dark – etc, and brings her formidable acting chops to this story of an unlikely friendship between two women.
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After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age.
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Director Olivier Assayas (The Clouds of Sils Maria, Summer Hours, Irma Vep) and actress Kristen Stewart reunite in this intriguing ghost story set in the fashion underworld of Paris.
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Academy Award-winning Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit collaborates with Studio Ghibli to make his first feature-length film, a tale about a man shipwrecked on a deserted island who struggles to find a place in his new world.
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Celebrate Earth Day weekend at Upstate Films! Join us Sunday April 23rd at 10am for a free benefit screening of the award-winning documentary TOMORROW (suggested donation $10). The screening will be followed by a panel discussion anchored by KayCee Wimbish from The Kingston YMCA Farm Project, Sophie D’Anieri from Bard College, PAUSE, and the Coalition Against the Pilgrim Pipeline. Presented by the ENGAGE Film Series (read more on the series below), proceeds will be donated to the groups represented on the panel.
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*Academy Award winner – Best Foreign Language Film
*Golden Globe nominee – Best Foreign Language Film
*Winner: Best Actor and Best Screenplay at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
A gripping drama by writer-director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past), The Salesman focuses on an Iranian couple whose life changes in an instant when their apartment begins to crumble around them.
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For the 12th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts – the weekend of February 10th at Upstate Films. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus 3 additional titles. The selections are suitable for young viewers until the very last film, which will be preceded by a parental-guidance title card. Click below for information on the program.
(Running time: 86 mins)
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For the 12th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of Live Action Shorts – the weekend of February 10th at Upstate Films. Click below for information on the program. (Running Time: 130 mins)
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For the 12th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts – the weekend of February 10th at Upstate Films. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus 3 additional titles. The selections are suitable for young viewers until the very last film, which will be preceded by a parental-guidance title card. Click below for information on the program.
(Running time: 86 mins)
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Poland, December 1945: the second World War is over and Mathilde Beaulieu (Lou de Laâge), a doctor with the French Red Cross, is busy treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. Meanwhile not too far away at their convent, austere Benedictine nuns sing sweetly in the quiet stillness of morning—until a piercing scream echoes through the stone hallways. Turns out, it’s coming from an extremely pregnant, young nun who’s on the verge of giving birth—and she’s not alone.
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Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, and sorcerers: Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly star in this breathtaking Baroque fantasy from the visionary director of Gomorrah.
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Vincent Lindon won this year’s French Cesar award for his role as Thierry, an unemployed everyman who submits to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals to find work in today’s neoliberal, technocratic economy.
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Actress-turned-director Melanie Laurent’s second feature is essentially “Mean Girls” for the arthouse crowd. Based on Anne-Sophie Brasme’s novel of the same name, Laurent’s film focuses on a pair of mismatched French schoolgirls who become fast friends in the kind of consuming and obsessive way that should look familiar to plenty of viewers.
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| Director Anne (COCO BEFORE CHANEL) Fontaine’s clever adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel is at once a cheeky literary mash-up, a sensuous romance, a witty feminist commentary and a heady celebration of French provincial life. | |||||||||||||
| In this vibrant re-imagining of Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her husband Charles (Jason Flemyng) move to a charming ramshackle old farmhouse in the very same Norman village where the novel was written a century earlier. Their welcoming neighbor, Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), becomes entranced with Gemma and sets out to guide her through her new surroundings. It doesn’t take long before he is drawing parallels between the literary and real life woman, while he insinuates himself into her life. As reality sets in on the fantasy of rural French domesticity, the Boverys’ marriage begins to fray and Gemma finds herself at loose ends. She soon catches the eye of a handsome young playboy and when her magnetic ex suddenly reappears, she finds herself at a crossroads and seems to be fulfilling Joubert’s worst fears that her destiny is linked to that of Flaubert’s doomed heroine. In French and English with subtitles. | |||||||||||||
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