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Sep. 08, 10
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Aug. 19, 10
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Chers amis,
After Labor Day, things will start to pick up again in Boston.
First of all, we are pleased and honored to welcome lecturer Robert Darnton on September 16th. He is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard and will present a lecture in French about Google, Libraries and the Future of Books at a special session of the Cafe des Sciences, co-sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology and the Cultural Service of the French Consulate (6:30pm, Residence of the Consul Général - 194 Brattle Street – Cambridge – mandatory RSVP to adrien.bignet@diplomatie.gouv.fr).
Another great conference not to be missed: François Dosse, intellectual historian, will give a talk at Harvard, September 23rd at 6pm on the relationship and interaction between the great philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (Harvard University Senior Common Room, Kirkland House, A-entry - 85, Dunster Street Cambridge).
Please keep Sept 23rd in mind as the opening date for the Bright Family screening room, a new cinematheque at Emerson College’s Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street in Boston. They will screen the first chapter of Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma, paired with Fritz Lang’s While the city sleeps as early as Sept 25th. Later that same evening, they will also show William Brown’s tribute to Godard, En attendant Godard. Afterwards, they will screen successive chapters of the Histoire(s), paired with films referenced within throughout the remainder of 2010 and into 2011.
Speaking of cinema, there will also be Boston-area showings for the two part crime thriller about the life Mesrine (Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy #1) and for a documentary portraying the tumultuous friendship between François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Two in the wave. L’Affaire Farewell by Christian Carion and Le Concert by Radu Mihaelianu will still be showing for the first part of the month.
Finally, do not forget that some beautiful works by contemporary French visual artist Xavier Veilhan are on display until October 31st at the Mount , the luxurious residence and gardens that Edith Wharton built in Lenox (in the part of western Massachusetts known as the Berkshires) as a tribute to Italian and French architecture and decorative arts. And if you have not yet seen “Picasso looks at Degas”, the astonishing exhibition on display at the Clark Museum in Williamstown which explores Pablo Picasso’s little-known but lasting fascination with the life and work of Edgar Degas, you can still do so until September 12th.
Anne Miller, Cultural Attaché
Consulate General of France in Boston
If you want to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, please e-mail: culture@consulfrance.boston.org
First of all, we are pleased and honored to welcome lecturer Robert Darnton on September 16th. He is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard and will present a lecture in French about Google, Libraries and the Future of Books at a special session of the Cafe des Sciences, co-sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology and the Cultural Service of the French Consulate (6:30pm, Residence of the Consul Général - 194 Brattle Street – Cambridge – mandatory RSVP to adrien.bignet@diplomatie.gouv.fr).
Another great conference not to be missed: François Dosse, intellectual historian, will give a talk at Harvard, September 23rd at 6pm on the relationship and interaction between the great philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (Harvard University Senior Common Room, Kirkland House, A-entry - 85, Dunster Street Cambridge).
Please keep Sept 23rd in mind as the opening date for the Bright Family screening room, a new cinematheque at Emerson College’s Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street in Boston. They will screen the first chapter of Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma, paired with Fritz Lang’s While the city sleeps as early as Sept 25th. Later that same evening, they will also show William Brown’s tribute to Godard, En attendant Godard. Afterwards, they will screen successive chapters of the Histoire(s), paired with films referenced within throughout the remainder of 2010 and into 2011.
Speaking of cinema, there will also be Boston-area showings for the two part crime thriller about the life Mesrine (Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy #1) and for a documentary portraying the tumultuous friendship between François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Two in the wave. L’Affaire Farewell by Christian Carion and Le Concert by Radu Mihaelianu will still be showing for the first part of the month.
Finally, do not forget that some beautiful works by contemporary French visual artist Xavier Veilhan are on display until October 31st at the Mount , the luxurious residence and gardens that Edith Wharton built in Lenox (in the part of western Massachusetts known as the Berkshires) as a tribute to Italian and French architecture and decorative arts. And if you have not yet seen “Picasso looks at Degas”, the astonishing exhibition on display at the Clark Museum in Williamstown which explores Pablo Picasso’s little-known but lasting fascination with the life and work of Edgar Degas, you can still do so until September 12th.
Anne Miller, Cultural Attaché
Consulate General of France in Boston
If you want to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, please e-mail: culture@consulfrance.boston.org
Written on Sep. 02, 10
