CONTOURS
CONTOURS is a monthly screening series at Paradise Theatre spotlighting films which thematize the world of visual art:painting, sculpture, sketching, and performance. Each feature is preceded by a short film and an introduction by curator and host Saffron Maeve. Maeve also writes an accompanying column for Screen Slate, which covers art films playing in New York.
Far from Manhattan
- Today, Jan 18
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Jean-Claude Biette Run Time: 80 min. Release Year: 1982 Language: French
Starring: Emmanuel Lemoine, Howard Vernon, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Laura Betti, Sonia Saviange
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why...
La Collectionneuse
- Sun, Feb 15
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 86 min. Release Year: 1967 Language: French, English Subtitles
Starring: Alain Jouffroy, Daniel Pommereulle, Haydée Politoff, Mijanou Bardot, Patrick Bauchau
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for...