Films on the Green Festival Brings French Classics to NYC Parks

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Parent Category: Film Festivals

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Published on Monday, 06 June 2016 18:13

Written by Renzo Adler

 

Ah, summer. When the grass grows, the AC’s go on full blast, and the parks come alive with the sound of the French New Wave. At Central Park, Washington Square Park, Transmitter Park (Brooklyn), Riverside Park, Tompkins Square Park and Columbia University, the Films on the Green Film Festival will be showing free(!) French cinema on Fridays from June to September.

The festival is courtesy of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation and features films from the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Luc Besson, François Truffaut, and Céline Sciamma, blending classic French New Wave with contemporary cinema.

Films featured as part of the festival include:

• Breathless
  By Jean-Luc Godard, 1960, 1h30
  Preceded by The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse, 1956, 36min
  Tuesday, June 7, 8:30 pm, Central Park, Cedar Hill

• The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
  By Yves Robert, 1972, PG, 1h30
  Friday, June 10, 8:30 pm, Washington Square Park

• Air of Paris
  By Marcel Carné, 1954, 1h50
  Friday, June 17, 8:30 pm, Washington Square Park

• Subway
  By Luc Besson, 1985, R, 1h44
  Friday, June 24, 8:30 pm, Transmitter Park

• The 400 Blows
  By François Truffaut, 1959, 1h39
  Friday, July 1, 8:30 pm, Transmitter Park

• April and the Extraordinary World
  By Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci, 2015, 1h43
  Friday, July 8, 8:30 pm, Riverside Park, Pier I

• Un Flic
  By Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972, PG, 1h38
  Friday, July 15, 8:30 pm, Riverside Park, Pier I
  
  
• Cleo From 5 To 7
  By Agnès Varda, 1962, 1h30
  Friday, July 22, 8:30 pm, Tompkins Square Park
  
  
• Boyfriends and Girlfriends
  By Eric Rohmer, 1987, PG, 1h42
  Friday, July 29, 8:30 pm, Tompkins Square Park
  
  
• Girlhood
  By Céline Sciamma, 2014,1h52
  Thursday, Sept. 8, 7:30 pm, Columbia University

To learn more, go to: http://frenchculture.org/film-tv-and-new-media/festivals/films-green-2016

Films on the Green 2016
June 17 - September 8, 2016

Various Locations
New York, NY