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GODARD’S GRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE

Godard expert Richard Brody and the French Institute present the newly restored GRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE D’UN PETIT COMMERCE DE CINÉMA (1986), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and previously unreleased in American cinemas.

Both a warning and a love letter to film—yet made for television—Grandeur was photographed by Caroline Champetier, and screens as part of the series CAROLINE CHAMPETIER—SHAPING THE LIGHT.

 

GRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE D’UN PETIT COMMERCE DE CINÉMA—introduction by RICHARD BRODY, Tuesday, October 31, at 7:30.

FRENCH INSTITUTE—ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE, 22 East 60th Street, New York City.

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Image credits (from top): Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company; Capricci Films.

Brody-Godard

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CAROLINE CHAMPETIER IN CONVERSATION

Caroline Champetier—the great director of photography for Godard, for Akerman and Rivette, for von Trotta and Desplechin—is in New York to present two of the films for which she served as cinematographer, and participate in a post-screening Q & A and reception.

The screenings are part of the ongoing CAROLINE CHAMPETIER—SHAPING THE LIGHT retrospective at the French Institute.

LES INNOCENTES (2016), directed by Anne Fontaine, Tuesday, October 24, at 4 pm.

HOLY MOTORS (2012), directed by Léos Carax, Tuesday, October 24, at 7:30 pm.

FRENCH INSTITUTE—ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE, 22 East 60th Street, New York City.

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SOPHIE CALLE IN TIMES SQUARE

This month, VOIR LA MER—five video portraits by Sophie Calle, shot in Istanbul—will be on view nightly just before midnight on the electronic billboards above Times Square.

This presentation is part of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) festival Crossing the Line, in conjunction with the FIAF retrospective Caroline Champetier: Shaping the Light. Champetier was Calle’s cinematographer for VOIR LA MER.

SOPHIE CALLE—MIDNIGHT MOMENT: VOIR LA MER, nightly, from 11:57 to midnight, through Tuesday, October 31.

TIMES SQUARE, Seventh Avenue and Broadway, between 42nd and 49th streets, New York City.

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Sophie Calle, Voir la mer. Image credit: Caroline Champetier.