July 10, 2008

Bastille Day - Petanque Tournament - Highly recommended for the fun

Sunday July 13th - 12pm to 10pm

Watch top players from around the world as well as Brooklyn locals fight it out in the largest Petanque Tournament in the US. Drink the famous Ricard and eat Merguez and Frites like the local petangue guy from Marseille.3bartabac
Bar Tabac
128 Smith Street
Brooklyn
718-923-0918


Also at 12pm, Tournament at Provence
718 797 0707. 263 Smith Street, Brooklyn 11231

To know more about "La Petanque a New York", article in French from Provence Magazine

Don't miss this movie - Tell No one


Tell No One

Directed by Guillaume Canet. starring François Cluzet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, Nathalie Baye, Jean Rochefort, Marina Hands
Awards:
2007 César Awards - including Best Director, Best Actor 
2007 Lumiere Awards - Best Film

Based on Harlan Coben’s international best selling thriller about pediatrician Alexandre Beck who still grieves the murder of his beloved wife Margot Beck eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to "Tell No One."

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"The kind of conspiracy-minded mystery almost no one seems capable of creating anymore. "- Stephen Holden, New York Times

"Tell everyone about Tell No One." - Kenneth Turan, LA Times

"A prime example of a first-rate, genre-jumping movie" - James Van Maanen, Greencine

"A top-drawer thriller"- Andy Klein, LA City Beat

"An intricate, intelligent, and very watchable thriller" - Andrew Pulver, The Guardian

"If you like your thrillers delivered in Hitchcockian style, this is the film for you. "- Melbourne Times

City Cinemas Cinema 1, 2, and 3 1001 3rd Avenue New York, NY 10022
Landmark's Sunshine Cinema 143 East Houston Street New York, NY 10002
http://www.moviefone.com/movie/tell-no-one-ne-le-dis-a-personne/29272/main?selectedShowDate=20080704&changeLocation=&locationQuery=&mileValue=

A Music Box Films release: http://www.musicboxfilms.com/tellnoone/

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LA FRANCE

by Serge Bozon 2007, 102 minutes, 35mm. In French with English subtitles. Starring Sylvie Testud and Pascale Greggory. Special thanks to Adam Sekuler (Northwest Film Forum) and Paul Richer (Pyramide International).

One of the most genuinely peculiar movies to emerge in many a moon, LA FRANCE is a bizarre but beautiful brew, equal parts gender-bending drama, war-film, romantic odyssey, and anachronistic folk-musical. Determined to find her husband, who has vanished into the storm of WWI, Camille (Testud) disguises herself as a man and sets off into the countryside, where she soon falls in with a band of wandering soldiers (equipped with more than the usual instruments of war) who are burdened with a secret of their own. Eschewing realism for an allegorical, fable-like tone, LA FRANCE is note-perfect, a soulful, mysterious, and poetic voyage through a landscape that is both war-torn and enchanted. Like the songs that punctuate the narrative, LA FRANCE is melancholy, strange and lovely.

Audacious in concept but superbly controlled in execution, what might easily have seemed a gender-bending stunt instead registers as a highly sensitive, inspired approach to the subject of men – and one woman – confronting the dehumanizing effects of war.” –Scott Foundas, VARIETY

“[A] WWI troop movie with the soul of a troubled nation and the heart (and tune!) of a Beach Boys album…. Bozon’s film channels the hooks and melodies of ’60s sunshine pop while evoking the frontline grit of Fuller and the formal austerity of Bresson – a work of startling originality and charm.” –Chi-hui Yang, SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Friday Jul 11 6:45 PM & 9:00 PM, Saturday Jul 12 4:30 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:00 PM, Sunday Jul 13 4:30 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:00 PM, Monday Jul 14 6:45 PM & 9:00 PM, Tuesday Jul 15 6:45 PM & 9:00 PM, Wednesday Jul 16 6:45 PM & 9:00 PM, Thursday Jul 17 6:45 PM & 9:00 PM

Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave, New York, NY  http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/

July 04, 2008

Summer Fun in French for Kids and Teens at the FIAF


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Age 5-11

Age groups: 5-6,7-8 or 9-11

Bilingual groups available as well

In the Summer Fun in French program, children are immersed in the French Language through workshops and activities designed to both educate and entertain. Through this year's theme, Le Carnaval des Animaux,  they will enter a world of discoveries, curiosities, and questions, while learning how to observe, describe, and respect nature.

In one-week, two-weeks or three-weeks sessions, children will participate in art, theatre and culinary workshop, play games and sports, and take filed trips around the city, while integrating the theme of Le Carnaval des AnimauxA1


French Institute Alliance Française
22 East 60th Street, NYC


Contact
Guitty Roustai 
646 388 6605
groustai@fiaf.org

Bal du 14 Juillet - Bastille Day's Ball

Bastille Day Ball
from 8PM to 2AM
at Spotlight Live 1604 Broadway, New York


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www.baldu14juillet.org

Street Fair with French Flair for Bastille Day on 60th Street

On Sunday, July 13, 2008 from noon to 6pm everyone is invited to be French for a day. Experience the sights, sounds, and flavors of France right in your own backyard at New York's "Street Fair with French Flair," Bastille Day on 60th Street. New this year, Bastille Day on 60th Street will include a touch of luxury with a theme of “Beauty and Personal Care." At booths throughout the festival, you will be able to experience “l’art de la beauté” with massages, mini facials, and hair and skin care treatments. Just relax and let yourself be pampered! Everyone is invited to come and share in the Bastille Day on 60th Street festivities and experience le joie de vivre à New York!

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Bastille Day on 60th Street still includes all the popular favorites that thousands of visitors look forward to each summer:  Sample the cuisine of France and other French-speaking countries, browse the French-themed market stalls, enjoy the music by DJ Indaloh, and dance in the street in our French-style "bal-musette."  Throughout the afternoon, live performers will be appearing on the festival-stage (between Madison and Park Avenues) and this year, we are very pleased to be presenting a wonderful New Orleans-style Gospel Choir as well as some emerging, young, and talented French and francophone musicians and singersandoh-la-la, Can-Can dancers.

Allons enfants! 
Don't forget to bring the kids!  Family-friendly fun abounds at Bastille Day on 60th Street.  Sports-based activities with a French twist including a stationary Tour de France Bike Race provided by New York Health and Racquet Club, and pétanque, along with Arts & Crafts activities provided by the 

FIAFLanguage Center will all help burn off the extra calories from the delicious pommes-fritesand authentic Belgian Waffles.


Vive la France!  

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July 01, 2008

New JFK-Lyon Nonstop Flight

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Starting July 17, 2008, Air France offers nonstop flights
between New York - JFK and Lyon
. Its SkyTeam partner,
 Delta, will operate this new service, following a 
very
convenient schedule
 on a comfortable Boeing 757-ER.
JFK to Lyon
Flight AF8987/DL174, departs 4:30PM and arrives 7:05AM 
no fligts on Mondays and Wednesdays
Lyon to JFK
Flight AF8992/DL175, departs 9:30AM and arrives 12:15PM 
no fligts on Tuesdays and Thursdays

June 26, 2008

Your BBQ and garden party all ready to go...

Bbq eric cut Bbq brochettes leg You are lazy or you are scared to cook for a lot of people, call Chef Delalande at Cuis'in and he will prepare your barbecue to go... Awesome !!! 

Choose your meat or seafood and Eric will create the appropriate marinades, dips and sauces.
Ready to be picked up or delivered, all you need do is fire up your grill, put on the food, and you are all set.

Cuis'in will also customize your barbecue or garden party. They will come to your house and cook for you the day of your party. Available in Manhattan, Hamptons, Westchester, New Jersey, Connecticut, Catskill... or wherever you are located ! Bbq eric brochettes


To order, call at 646-468-6159
info@nycuisin.com
www.nycuisin.com



June 16, 2008

Saturday, June 21st : la Fete de la Musique like in France

For the second time in its history, New York will be celebrating the beginning of summer, Saturday June 21, with Make Music New York (MMNY), a city-wide festival of music held as part of the worldwide Fête de la Musique!

 

First launched in France in 1982, la Fête de la Musique takes place on June 21, the day of the summer solstice, every year. During this one day, public spaces become informal musical stages for all alike, turning cities into festivals of live music-making.

 

Close to 800 concerts are scheduled this year, with performers ranging from schoolchildren to marquee names such as Roy Hargrove, the principal brass of the New York Philharmonic, and singers from the New York City Opera. Make Music New York 2008 will also include more than a dozen block parties —all-day music events on closed-off streets. 


One of the highlights :


Louise Bourgeois – Songs Remembered at the Guggenheim Museum

 

In anticipation of the Guggenheim Museum’s full-career retrospective of Paris native and artist, Louise Bourgeois, Works & Process has scoured the streets of Paris to find the most talented performer to play some of her favorite songs. Paris Metro accordionist Francois Parisi will perform French children's songs, operettas and symphonies by composers such as Claude Debussy and Aaron Copland, jazz classics by Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday and French classics. The performance will take place on the Guggenheim Museum Sidewalk, Fifth Avenue at 88th Street – 5:30pm.

 

June 09, 2008

D. Porthault - Summer Sale - The Haute Couture of Linens

D.Porthault, one of the world’s most exclusive home-couture brands, hosts its summer sale at both their New York and Dallas store locations. The finest bed, bath, and table linens will be on sale for 30-50% off.

D.Porthault’s roster of former world-renowned clients includes Audrey Hepburn, Coco Chanel, Grace Kelly, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Currently, the “Tigre” print bed linens are featured in the Malibu house of Samantha Jones in Sex and the City: The Movie.

From 6/9/08 to 6/14/08

Monday to Friday 10am-6pm


470 Park Avenue @58th. 212-688-1660 - www.dporthault.fr