If you can’t afford a ticket to Paris this summer, the French embassy is offering the next best thing: a free film festival celebrating the City of Light.
The festival takes place in various venues through the city from June 7 through September 8 (aside from the first screening, they’re all on Fridays), with four of the films being screened in and around the neighborhood. The films begin at 8:30 p.m., except the Columbia screening, which begins at 7:30.
June 7 – Central Park (79th street and Fifth Avenue): Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard, preceded with The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse
June 10 – Washington Square Park: The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe by Yves Robert
June 17 – Washington Square Park: Air of Paris by Marcel Carné
June 24 – Transmitter Park (Greenpoint, Brooklyn): Subway by Luc Besson
July 1 – Transmitter Park (Greenpoint, Brooklyn): The 400 Blows by François Truffaut
July 8 – Riverside Park, Pier I (at 70th Street): April and the Extraordinary World by Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci
July 15 – Riverside Park, Pier I (at 70th Street): Un Flic by Jean-Pierre Melville
July 22 – Tompkins Square Park: Cleo from 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda
July 29 – Tompkins Square Park: Boyfriends and Girlfriends by Eric Rohmer
Sept. 8 – Columbia University (at 116th St): Girlhood by Céline Sciamma
Of course we support West Side Rag’s Sponsors! I’m off to Salon Above today for a cut (which I desperately need). And Symphony Space heals my soul, while Broadway Exterminating rids me of moths.
P.S. JCC offers excellent film courses, too.
My favorite French films……..” Summer Hours”… “Avenue de Montaigne”
I know it’s not a full-length feature, but the 1956 French film The Red Balloon should’ve been included.
Hey Bruce,
Like on Tuesday preceding Au Bout de Souffle.