For Halloween, we will look at a classic horror film, "Diabolique." This thriller by legendary director Henri‑Georges Clouzot shocked audiences when it was released. It is a story of two women—the wife and the mistress of the sadistic headmaster of a boarding school—who hatch a revenge plot. The film features plot twists and terrifying images. […]
Join us at 6:30pm at the AF Center, for "Le Samourai", a neo-noir film with Alain Delon from 1967.
"Visages, Villages" (Faces, Places) follows the filmmaker Agnes Varda and the French photographer and artist JR traveling around rural France, creating portraits of the people they come across.
Join us for a screening of "Rififi Chez Les Hommes" from 1955, at 2pm.
This film starring Juliette Binoche in a haunting and beautifully photographed film, is set in the 1840s in the French departement of Saint-Pierre, off the Canadian North Atlantic coast. A convict is sentenced to death for a drunken murder, and strives to atone and redeem himself while the island awaits the arrival of a guillotine […]
Join us for "Les Tontons Flingueurs", or "Monsieur Gangster", a classic slapstick comedy from 1963.
Join us for "Chocolat" from 2000. Juliette Binoche stats as a mysterious chocolate maker who shakes up a small town in this beautiful film.
Join us for “Marius" from 1931. The first of Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy is a romance, and includes some hilarious dialogues that equal or surpass the best of Abbott and Costello. The comedy stands the test of time in this film released when sound in movies was new.
Our first film of the year is Fanny, from 1932. Part 2 of the Marseille trilogy: pregant Fanny accepts the marriage proposal of M. Panisse.
