January Film Events

Image: Susie Hollands
Text: Susie Kahlich

VINGT Paris Launches Monthly Film Series! VINGT Paris launched its monthly film series at Le Beverly Cinéma Tuesday night with Melody Gilbert’s Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness, an award-winning documentary about the urban explorer movement in the US, Scotland, France and around the world.  Did you miss it? Get on the mailing list for the next screening by sending us an email with film group in the subject line.

VINGT Paris Monthly Film Series
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Projo Collectif continues its Apéros-Projos with a whole new year of movie-going and networking at Café de Paris.  Selections from the Festival Clermont-Ferrand starts the year with off with a bang. 6 January at 21h00.

Au Café de Paris
158 rue Oberkampf 75011 Paris
Métro: Ménilmontant

 

La Cinémathèque Française continues its tribute to American directors with its retrospective of Steven Spielberg’s work beginning Monday 9 January, and a look back at Robert Altman’s oeuvre beginning 18 January.  Revisit your childhood and one of Spielberg’s two cinematic themes with E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (e.g., “Pinocchio”; the other being “Nazis are bad people”), or catch his only mature film (and get a realistic taste of 1970s Europe and Mathieu Almaric’s brilliant Polanski-esque performance) with Munich.  Pretty much anything you see by Altman will be great, so just throw a dart at the schedule and go see whatever it lands on.  Begins 9 January.

La Cinémathèque Française
51, rue de Bercy 75012
Métro: Bercy

 

Oooh, meet Daniel Sobrino, Jean Goudier et Cyril Holtz, the sound team that won the César for Best Sound in 2011 for Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) at Forum des Images on 12 January.  It takes a village to make a film, and the free Ciné-debats de la Sorbonne series aims to introduce audiences to every single village person that helps make movie magic. 12 January at 19h30.

Forum des Images
Porte St Eustache, 75001
Métro: Chatelet-Les Halles

 

Hey you Brits! This year is Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee!  Watch what could have been / may yet come to pass in Derek Jarman’s Jubilee (minus the punk rockers, because we all know that punk is dead).  At Forum des Images, 15 January at 21h00.

Forum des Images
Porte St Eustache, 75001
Métro: Chatelet-Les Halles

 

Life on Planet Manga is the theme at Centre Georges Pompidou this month, featuring animated films originally destined for adolescent audiences but, as Manga does, often blending the pedestrian and the mature in stunning imagery. Begins 18 January.

Centre Georges Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau

 

You may have heard of Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon,” but have you ever heard of Beate Klarsfeld?  She’s the woman who tracked him down, had him arrested, tried and convicted as a Nazi war criminal.  She’s also the subject of the documentary Berlin-Paris. Die Geschichte der Beate Klarsfeld (Berlin-Paris: The Story of Beate Klarsfeld) screening at the Goethe Institut on 20 January in the presence of Mme Klarsfeld and the director.  20 January at 19h30.

Goethe Institut
17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris
Métro: Iéna

 

23 January is the Chinese New Year, and the Festival de Documentaires Les Écrans de Chine marks the occasion with screenings and discussions of China’s new wave of independent filmmakers.  Faced with the challenges and rewards of China’s burgeoning economy, today’s Chinese filmmakers are tackling documentary film in a whole new way. Begins 21 January.

Festival de documentaries chinois
Various cinémas