Commune Image is not easy to get to, but they’re so good at scheduling full days of fantastic, it’s worth the trip. To commemorate the upcoming Tim Burton expo and retrospective at La Cinémathèque Française next month, Commune Image invites you to L’etrange soirée de Tim Burton, e.g., a day inside Mr. Burton’s head: screenings, poetry, and “bien d’autre enchantements”. €15. 4 February from 14h30.
8, rue Godillot
93400 Saint Ouen
Métro : Porte de Clignancourt ligne 4 (take Bus166 to Godillot)
or Mairie de Saint Ouen
Only in Paris do we get to enjoy regular windfalls of free films -- you gotta love it! Etoiles Francophones gives us a whole week of eye candy at 14 cinemas in and around Paris. This year celebrates wondrous youth and looks at the world around us through they eyes of kids these days (get a haircut!). See the best of French and international film focusing on subjects our future world leaders care about: the planet, the economy, education, hip hop. Free. Now through 7 February.
Forum des Images is killing me. In addition to its awesome London Calling series (don’t miss pre-Tinker, Tailor Gary Oldman in Prick Up Your Ears, one of the best biopics ever made (that it’s about the spectacular life and shocking death of playwright Joe Orton certainly doesn’t hurt), but in the spirit of February in France, it’s also featuring an entire day of intensely revolutionary film, starting with Revoir Paris: Memoires d’Allemagnes and ending your jour de résistance with the Premiers Plan festival’s Prix du Public winner, La Terre Outragée. 7 February.
Forum des Images
Porte St Eustache, 75001
Métro: Chatelet-Les Halles
Porte St Eustache, 75001
Métro: Chatelet-Les Halles
Of course, if you don’t have your revolutionary hat on but still feel like being intense on a Tuesday night, how about a Master Class and cocktails at Rencontres Kinoma? With filmmakers Jan Kounen (Coco Chanel) and David Foenkinos (La Délicatesse), and master-in-residence Arthur Grec (Mandarin Cinéma). €5. 7 February at 17h30.
La Cité des Arts
18, rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris
Métros: Saint-Paul, Pont Marie
Valentine’s Day: poetry, romance… Dutch. Institut Néerlandais hosts a special avant-premiere of Paula van der Oest’s highly lauded Ingrid Jonker, a biopic about the South African poetesse’s tumultuous, tragic life. Paula van der Oest and lead actress Carice van Houten will be present. €8. Reservations recommended. 14 February at 20h00
Action Christine,
4, rue Christine,
75006 Paris
Métro: Saint-Michele
Plan B in case your Valentine’s Day sucks: boogie your blues away the very next day at Forum des Images! Cours de Rock wraps up the London Calling series with a live DJ, projections and general getting down. Get it on at Forum des Images, 15 January at 21h00.
Forum des Images
Porte St Eustache, 75001
Métro: Chatelet-Les Halles
Porte St Eustache, 75001
Métro: Chatelet-Les Halles
Nouvelle Vague. Cahiers du cinéma. Eric Rohmer. Centre Georges Pompidou. Need we say more?
Centre Georges Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau
Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it’s cooold! Warm yourself up with spicy Latin American cinema at Éclats et Soubresauts D’Amérique Latine at Cinéma des Cinéastes. Of note: Carnavales en Potosí, a willingly ironic and offbeat mockumentary documenting the Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia that pokes fun at what the filmmakers call the "porno-miseria" Latin American documentaries destined for the European public usually showcase. 25 February at 11h00. (Cycle runs now through 17 March.)
Cinéma des Cinéastes
7, avenue de Clichy 75017 Paris
Métro: Place de Clichy
7, avenue de Clichy 75017 Paris
Métro: Place de Clichy
VINGT Paris Film Series! We will be announcing details for February’s feature shortly – watch this space!
The VINGT Paris Film Series showcases quality feature-length fiction and documentary films from around the world. There are thousands of films made every year, but only a handful are picked up for distribution, and less than that ever make it to a theatre. VINGT Paris aims to help filmmakers and film lovers experience excellent and innovative film on the big screen.
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See you at the movies!
January 2012, Vingt Paris Magazine