Current & Upcoming Films
TWO IN THE WAVE
TWO IN THE WAVE
TWO IN THE WAVE:
“The French New Wave crashed onto international shores when François Truffaut’s debut feature, The 400 Blows, premiered at Cannes in 1959, followed quickly by Jean-Luc Godard’s equally thrilling Breathless, based on a Truffaut’s story. The two filmmaking rebels, great friends and fellow critics at Cahiers du Cinema, for which both wrote extensively, hailed from different sides of the tracks: Truffaut, a poor reform school boy, and Godard, a Swiss hautebourgeois. Both cast Jean-Pierre Léaud in many of their movies (for Truffaut, as his alter-ego, Antoine Doinel) and led the movement to save Henri Langlois’s job at the Cinemathèque Française in ’68. Two In The Wave poignantly melds revealing period footage of both men (and of Léaud, torn between father-figures) with scenes from some of their greatest films, as it moves inexorably toward their bitter falling-out."- Karen Cooper, Film Forum. Directed and Produced by Emmanuel Laurent Written and Narrated by Antoine de Baecque. Starring Islid Le Besco. France, color and B&W, 2009, In French with English subtitles. 93 mins.
Showing in conjuction with TWO IN THE WAVE, will be a series of films by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, all of which feature the child of the new wave, Jean-Pierre Léaud. The series includes all five episodes that make up the ‘Antoine Doinel Cycle’, which began with Truffaut’s first feature, THE 400 BLOWS, plus Godard's MADE IN THE USA, MASCULINE FEMININE, and LA CHINOISE. SHOWTIMES
Bringing up Léaud’ Schedule:
(please click on titles for program notes and ticket links)
Friday, January 21
THE 400 BLOWS (Les quatre cents coups)
6:45 & 8:45
Saturday, January 22
MADE IN U.S.A.
(3:15pm), 5:15pm, 7:15 & 9:15
Sunday, January 23
MASCULINE FEMININE
(2:45pm), 4:45pm & 9:15.
LA CHINOISE
7:15pm
Monday, January 24
STOLEN KISSES (Baisers Volés)
plays with short
ANTION ET COLETTE
6:30pm & 9:00pm
Tuesday, January 25
BED AND BOARD (Domicile conjugal)
6:45pm & 8:45pm
Wednesday, January 26
LOVE ON THE RUN (L'amour en fuite)
6:45pm & 8:45pm