Museum of the Moving Image (Venue Partner)
36-01 35 Avenue
718.777.6888
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Still from Bob Le Flambeur
- When
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Saturday July 11, 2009 (2pm)
Sunday July 12, 2009 (2pm)
- Where
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Directions: R, M to Steinway Street (exit station at 34 Ave). N, W to 36 Ave.
- Price
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$11 per film / $7 for members of Museum of the Moving Image or MAD
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FRENCH NEW WAVE ESSENTIALS
AT THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
BOB LE FLAMBEUR
July 11 & 12, 2 PM
1956, 98 mins. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
With Roger Duchesne. French director Jean-Pierre Melville, who adopted the surname of his favorite author, Herman Melville, as his own, drew on the distinctly American genres of pulp fiction and film noir for his influential movie about a gambler’s planned heist. Set between dusk and dawn, the film’s lustrous black-and-white photography captures a lost Paris with a sense of street poetry that strongly influenced the directors of the French New Wave.
This series marks the first collaboration between the Museum of Arts and Design and Museum of the Moving Image. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the French New Wave, this series will showcase some of the most influential films of this period, many being presented with recently restored 35mm prints. Films will be presented in MAD's 145-seat theater (first built in 1964 and restored and reopened last September). Organized by 
David Schwartz, chief curator of Museum of the Moving Image.
Museum of Arts and Design is located at 2 Columbus Circle at 59th Street. Tickets are $11 per film/$7 for members of Museum of the Moving Image or MAD. No reservations, seating is first come, first served.
For more information, contact 212.299.7717 or visit http://www.movingimage.us/site/calendar/index.html
