March 2009
o March 4th 2009
Kirikou and the Sorceress: Free screening with the director Michel Ocelot in attendance
6: 30pm
We invite you to discover or re-discover
the fabulous Michel Ocelot’s Kirikou and the Sorceress at Landmark’s Opera Plaza(601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Ca). Michel Ocelot will be presenting his film and answer your questions after the screening. The event will include a preview, ticket giveaways and other prizes from Michel Ocelot’s new film Azur & Asmar, opening March 6th
Send all you information to contact@facs-sf.org to reserve your space.
o March 5th 2009
Join Leonard Pitt in an extraordinary evening of Paris Un voyage dans le temps & Chocolate Awakening
Leonard’s new book Paris, un Voyage Dans le Temps came out last October in Paris to rave reviews. Join him in an excursion through his book to see how Paris has evolved through the years. In this Powerpoint show you’ll see Place Maubert transform, rue Beaubourg appear, Les Halles disappear and Haussmann’s plan to carve up the Marais.
“This American friend knows Paris like the back of his hand and illustrates clearly what the serious stroller would have a hard time deciphering on his own – the history that runs beneath today’s buildings.”
- Le Nouvel Observateur -
“Leonard is completely legitimate, he’s impregnated with Paris. He sees things that we don’t see.”
- Le Figaro -
www.leonardpitt.com
French Heritage Day
Sunday September 21st 2008
This year again, for the 6th consecutive year, the Consul General, Pierre-Francois Mourier, will open his home to the public from 10 am to 5 pm, to celebrate French Heritage Day. In partnership with the Academy of Arts, FACS will organize a fashion exhibit.
Visitors will be able to admire the work of young American creators who have been inspired by French fashion designers.
The exhibit will also feature a tribute to Yves Saint Laurent by Pascale Hery.
Consul General’s home
2570 Jackson Street
San Francisco 94108
Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis la. YSL
Le noir est mon refuge. YSL
Les modes passent, le style est éternel. YSL
Je ne suis pas un couturier, je suis un artisan, un fabricant de bonheur. YSL
The artist Pascale Hery
Isabelle Picasso, the Consul General of France Pierre-Francois Mourier, and Gladys Palmer
Charlotte de Turckheim
October 6th 2008 > 7:30 pm
French actress and comedian Charlotte de Turckheim presents for the first time in San Francisco her latest one-woman show “Ça va nettement mieux!” (I’m doing much better!). Her character is in her forties and is on the edge of a nervous breakdown!
All exasperates her. Starting with her two teens, Joséphine and Pierre, in perpetual crisis, her three girlfriends – Clarisse, the rich leftist who gives her lessons on Afghan politics, Babette the queen of quiet happiness who forgot a little quickly her sulfurous past in Marseille and Annabelle, the happy simpleton who makes her doubt her life and her choices. Not to forget Zoran, her gym teacher from the Balkans, who fights cellulites as if he belonged to a special unit. And finally her autistic shrink who forces her into delirious group therapy meetings with the audience. Charlotte de Turckheim offers in her show a new look on the life of French “desperate housewives”!
This one-woman show is in French.
Ticket sales:
- https://shell6.tdl.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/ftmf/tm.cgi
- Phone: 415-345-7575
Cowell Theater
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco 94123
French Cinema Now
October 8th to October 12th 2008
Over five days, we will be presenting with the San Francisco Film Society the inaugural SF Contemporary French Cinema Festival, at the Landmark’s Clay Theatre. This event will include ten feature films. All films will have their Bay Area premieres during the Festival.
This first edition, dedicated to celebrating the best in contemporary French cinema, will open with”A Chrismas Tale“. Its director, perhaps the most celebrated of contemporary French directors, Arnaud Desplechin will be in attendance. The 2008 Cannes Palme d’Or, “The Class” by director Laurent Cantet, will close the festival on October 12th.
A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noel)
by Arnaud Desplechin
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Devos, Hippolyte Girardot
Length: 152 min
Actresses (Actrices)
by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Actors: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Mathieu Amalric, Noemie Lvovsky
Length: 107 min
Alibi (Le grand alibi)
by Pascal Bonitzer
Actors: Pierre Arditi, Miou-Miou, Lambert Wilson, Anne Consigny, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Length: 93 min
Eden Log
by Franck Vestiel
Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Vimala Pons, Zohar Wexler
Length: 98 min
Lads and Jockeys (Lads et jockeys)
by Benjamin Marquet
Documentary
Length: 90 min
Life of the Dead (La vie des morts)
by Arnauld Desplechin
Actors: Thibault de Montalembert, Suzel Goffre, Andre Cellier, Elisabeth Maby, Suzanne Waters
Length: 54 min
My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument (Ma vie sexuelle)
by Arnaud Desplechin
Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Marion Cotillard, Jeanne Balibar
Length: 178 min
Six in Paris (Paris vu par)
by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Rouch, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jean Douchet, Jean-Daniel Pollet
Actors: Stephane Audran, Claude Chabrol, Barbet Schroeder, Claude Melkin, Micheline Dax
Length: 95 min
Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis)
by Dany Boon
Actors: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Line Renaud, Patrick Bosso, Michel Galabru
Length: 106 min 
The Class (Entre les murs)
by Laurent Cantet
Actors: Francois Begaudeau, nonprofessional actors in the roles of school’s students, teachers, counselors, principals and parents
Length: 128 min
Schedule
- Wednesday 8th
Christmas Tale > 6:30 pm
- Thursday 9th
Welcome to the Sticks > 6:45 pm
Actresses > 9:15 pm
- Friday 10th
Life of the Dead > 5:15 pm
Alibi > 6:45 pm
Lads and Jockeys > 9:15 pm
- Saturday 11th
My Sex Life… or how I got into an Argument > 12:30 pm
Lads and Jockeys > 4:15 pm
Six in Paris > 7:00 pm
Alibi > 9:15 pm
Eden Log > 11:59 pm
- Sunday 12th
Welcome to the Sticks > 1:15 pm
Actresses > 3:45 pm
The Class > 6:15 pm
Six in Paris > 9:30 pm
Price tickets
General Admission …………………………………………………………………………….$12.50
Senior (62+)/Student/Disable ……………………………………………………………..$11.00
SFFS Member ……………………………………………………………………………………$10.00
Cine Voucher 8-packs General …………………………………………………………….$92.00
SFFS Members ……………………………………………………………….. ………………..$72.00
Opening and closing night Film & reception (Separate admission)
General …………………………………………………………………………………………..$35.00
SFFS Members ………………………………………………………………………………….$25.00
Opening and closing night Film Only (Separate admission)
General …………………………………………………………………………………………..$15.00
SFFS Member ……………………………………………………………………………………$12.00
Tickets can be purchased: 
- Online
www.sffs.org daily until 4:00 pm the day of the screening.
- Phone
925-866-9559 Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm.
- Fax
925-866-9597 daily until 4:00 pm the day of a screening.
- Walk-up sales
Landmark’s Clay Theatre, 2261 Fillmore Street. Opens one hour before the first screening of the day.
- Will call
Opens one hour prior to the first screening October 8-12. Orders received after September 30 will be held at will call. Will call orders are held for pickup on the day of the first screening purchased. Photo ID is required.
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
2261 Fillmore Street
San Francisco 94108
San Francisco International Poetry Festival
October 10 -12 2008
The Other Words International Poetry Festival began in San Francisco in the Fall of 1999. It was organized by several consulates and cultural institutes from various European countries. They all work together with locally-based literary and arts institutions.
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Michel Abdollahi - Germany
Fabiano Alborghetti - Switzerland
Ingvild Burkey - Norwa
Jean-Michel Espitallier - France
Genny Lim - United States
Li Li - Sweden
Sulaiman Masomi - Germany
Friday October 10 > 7:30 pm
Unitarian Center
1187 Franklin Street (& Geary)
San Francisco
Saturday October 11 > 8:30 pm
Marsh Café
1070 Valencia Street (between 21st and 22nd)
San Francisco
Sunday October 12 > 5:00 pm
City Lights
261 Columbus Avenue (& Broadway)
San Francisco
French on Broadway
October 22nd 2008
This Fall celebration will bring Francophiles and French Speaking San Franciscans together at the Broadway Studios in San Francisco. French on Broadway will feature wine tasting from quality wineries from local small wineries to international growers, a wonderful trapeze show and jazzy musical interludes.
This will be a fun evening with a fabulous French touch. We sincerely hope that you will join us to share this evening that should be full of discoveries. If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact us at contact@facs-sf.org.
From 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Broadway Studios
435 Broadway St
San Francisco
CA 94133
Phone: (415) 291-0333
Reminiscence by Debra Cook Shapiro
October 24th 2008
Rsvp > debcookshapiro@aol.com
Illustrators’ Show
October 3rd to November 17th 2008
For the 4th consecutive year, several French classes of the Bay Area will host a lecture with two French illustrators. The visitors will have a chance to watch these artists at work and chat with them about the art of illustration.
Olivier Tallec
Olivier Tallec was born in 1970. After graduating from the Ecole supérieure d’Arts graphiques, he became a
designer in advertising. He now works for newspaper and magazines such as Elle, Libération, Les Inrockuptibles, and illustrates children’s books for various French publishers.
Olivier Tallec distinguishes himself once again by expressing the various nuances of one and the same word, as in an alphabet book. His gouache paintings, with their rounded shapes and warm colors highlighted by light pencil strokes, succeed in captivating the youngest readers without limiting their imaginations. A maiden voyage into the world of words, verse and rhyme, this book is in itself a whole poem that will be appreciated by both older and younger children.
Natali Fortier
Born in the United States, Natali Fortier lives and works in France. Painter and illustrator, she has also sign
more than twenty books. She’s had exhibitions in France and abroad. She has received several honors: Mention d’honneur in Bologna, Prix d’Octogone, and Prix Goncourt Jeunesse.
Today, Natali Fortier writes and illustrates books through image and sculture. She also draws for several magazines such as Le Magazine Littéraire, Lire ou encore Le Monde. The boundaries of reality and fantasy overlap through her use of colors.
From October 3rd to October 17th, the work of those two authors will be shown at the Public Library.
Come & Meet Them
- On Monday November 3rd 2008: from 7 pm to 9 pm
At the Center of the Books
300 De Haro St
San Francisco CA 94103
Phone: (415)-565-0545
- On Saturday November 8th 2008: from 2 pm to 5 pm
At the Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Phone: (415)-557-4400
- On Sunday November 9th 2008: from 1 pm to 3 pm
At the Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94105
Phone: (415)-227-8666
