La Pointe Courte (1955) | An Evening with Film Critic & Author Carrie Rickey & Labyrinth Books
Schedule
Wed Oct 16 2024 at 07:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Princeton Garden Theatre | Princeton, NJ
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Film Critic Carrie Rickey will join us in the theater to celebrate the release of her new biography A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agn猫s Varda. She will be signing copies of her new book in our lobby from 7:00 - 7:30 pm. Carrie will then introduce this landmark first feature in feminist cinema and host a post-film Q&A about the movie and Varda鈥檚 larger work. 饾棜饾棽饾榿 饾棫饾椂饾棸饾椄饾棽饾榿饾榾 at princetongardentheatre.org/fashion饾棔饾槀饾槅 饾榿饾椀饾棽 饾棷饾椉饾椉饾椄:Our friends from Labyrinth Books will be on hand that night at the theater selling copies of the book.
饾棓饾棷饾椉饾槀饾榿 饾榿饾椀饾棽 饾椇饾椉饾槂饾椂饾棽: Agn猫s Varda鈥檚 debut feature film, LA POINTE COURTE, is a sharp study of a marriage on the rocks. Philippe Noiret and Silvia Monfort play a couple who visit a small fishing village to work on their deteriorating relationship. Filmed in a documentary-like style, Varda鈥檚 film is a forerunner of the French New Wave. In French w/ subtitles.
饾棓饾棷饾椉饾槀饾榿 饾榿饾椀饾棽 饾棪饾椊饾棽饾棶饾椄饾棽饾椏: Carrie Rickey is film critic emerita of The Philadelphia Inquirer. She wrote about art for Artforum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic and about film for The Village Voice, Film Comment, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Drexel University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She won a regional Emmy for producing Before Hollywood: Philadelphia and the Birth of the Movies, and an LA Press Club award for a series on female filmmakers. In August 2024, Norton published Rickey's biography, A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agn猫s Varda.
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Where is it happening?
Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ 08542-7006, United States,Princeton, New JerseyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
