French Film Night
(presented by L'Alliance Francaise, North Texas)
(free and open to the public)
Mercredi 28 Avril , 19h au MAC
De : Yves Robert
Avec: Philippe Caubere, Nathalie Roussel, Therese Liotard
Couleur - France – 1990 - 1 h 50
For more information on the film or on the organization, go to www.afdallas.org
recent screenings:
Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:00pm
Watch the Trailer: in English - in French
Synopsis in English
Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver and aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport - and pay a hefty price to Fabio and Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality.
Synopsis in English
Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver and aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport - and pay a hefty price to Fabio and Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality.
RIDICULE
Thursday, June 10, 2010 7:00 PM
The French Short Film Festival in Dallas
"Les Lutins"
English subtitles for all movies
Thursday May 20th 7pm
LA UNE AFFAIRE DE GOUT (A Matter of Taste)
De : BERNARD RAPP
Avec: Bernard Giraudeau, Florence Thomasson , Charles Berling
Couleur - France - 2000 - 90'
In French (English caption)
Mercredi 28 Avril , 19h au MAC
Wednesday April 28, at 7pm, at the MAC
LA GLOIRE DE MON PERE
(My Father's Glory)
De : Yves Robert
Avec: Philippe Caubere, Nathalie Roussel, Therese Liotard
Couleur - France – 1990 - 1 h 50
In French (w/ English subtitles)
Jeudi 25 mars , 19h au MAC
Thursday March 25, at 7pm, at the MAC
For more information on the film or on the organization, go to www.afdallas.org
images online at www.toutlecine.com
Synopsis in English: A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in Provence.
Synopsis in French:
Marcel Pagnol raconte son enfance, sa naissance à Aubagne et les origines de ses parents. Joseph Pagnol, instituteur, est nommé à l'école du Chemin des Chartreux et la famille s'installe à Marseille. C'est là que Rose, la soeur d'Augustine la mère de Marcel rencontre l'oncle Jules qui se fait passer auprès de l'enfant pour le propriétaire du parc Borely.
Tout semble opposer l'instituteur anticlérical et antialcoolique du truculent Jules, pourtant les deux familles décident de louer une maison de campagne dans la garrigue, la Bastide Neuve pour y passer les vacances d'été. Après un long trajet dans les chemins, derrière la mule tirant les meubles et les provisions nécessaires au séjour, ils parviennent à cette petite villa située aux Bellons après le village de la Treille. Ces vacances sont une révélation pour le jeune Marcel qui tombe amoureux des collines, de sa végétation sauvage et de ses massifs de roche.
Synopsis in French:
Marcel Pagnol raconte son enfance, sa naissance à Aubagne et les origines de ses parents. Joseph Pagnol, instituteur, est nommé à l'école du Chemin des Chartreux et la famille s'installe à Marseille. C'est là que Rose, la soeur d'Augustine la mère de Marcel rencontre l'oncle Jules qui se fait passer auprès de l'enfant pour le propriétaire du parc Borely.
Tout semble opposer l'instituteur anticlérical et antialcoolique du truculent Jules, pourtant les deux familles décident de louer une maison de campagne dans la garrigue, la Bastide Neuve pour y passer les vacances d'été. Après un long trajet dans les chemins, derrière la mule tirant les meubles et les provisions nécessaires au séjour, ils parviennent à cette petite villa située aux Bellons après le village de la Treille. Ces vacances sont une révélation pour le jeune Marcel qui tombe amoureux des collines, de sa végétation sauvage et de ses massifs de roche.
the previous film:
"Ètre et Avoir"
(To Be and to Have)
"To Be and to Have" from Nicolas Philibert.
was cancelled due to February snow! reschedule date will be posted soon!
Alias Betty
Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269329/
Hoping to bring her daughter, novelist Betty Fisher, grieving after the death of her young son, out of her dark depression, a mother arranges a kidnapping of another child. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts the boy as her new son. Meanwhile, the boy's mother is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend and some of his criminal cohorts.
Director: Claude Miller
December 16th, 7pm
“The Triplets of Belleville”
The Great Animation Cult Classic
Wed Dec 16 7pm - 9pm
Black Box
Les triplettes de Belleville (2003)
Directed by Sylvain Chomet. With Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau, Michèle Caucheteux
Avec : Isabelle Adjani & Gerard Depardieu
Long métrage - Couleur - France – 1989 - 158 mn
In French (with English subtitles)
Black Box
Les triplettes de Belleville (2003)
Directed by Sylvain Chomet. With Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau, Michèle Caucheteux
Saturday, November 21, 2:00pm
"Camille Claudel"
Avec : Isabelle Adjani & Gerard Depardieu
Long métrage - Couleur - France – 1989 - 158 mn
In French (with English subtitles)
*Wednesday*, October 28, 7:00pm
MA SAISON PREFEREE 
De : Andre TechineAvec : Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil & Marthe Villalonga
Long métrage - Couleur - France – 1993 - 122 mn In French (with English subtitles) 
Long métrage - Couleur - France – 1993 - 122 mn In French (with English subtitles)
Ma Saison Preferee is about relationships and communication. It's about sacrifice and misunderstandings. And, above all, it's about the ties of family and how the passage of time constantly distorts and re-invents our relationships with those we are closest to. Techine's masterful story probes these issues, constantly digging deeper to uncover hidden motivations.
Wednesday, September 30th @ 7pm
COMME UNE IMAGE
(Look At Me)
De : Agnes Jaoui
Avec : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Marilou Berry & Agnes Jaoui
Long métrage - Couleur - France - 2004
110 min - In French (with English captions)
Rated: PG-13
Synopsis in English: A talented woman struggles to get out from under the shadow of her father in this comedy. Lolita is the 20-year-old daughter of Étienne Cassard, a ealthy and well-known editor and writer, and most of the people she meets seem to be more interested in her dad than in her; her zaftig figure doesn't help her self-esteem much, either.ious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.
Synopsis in French: Lolita Cassard, vingt ans, en veut au monde entier, parce qu'elle ne ressemble pas aux filles des magazines, et aimerait tellement se trouver belle, au moins dans le regard de son père, trouver son regard tout simplement.
Avec : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Marilou Berry & Agnes Jaoui
Long métrage - Couleur - France - 2004
110 min - In French (with English captions)
Rated: PG-13
Synopsis in English: A talented woman struggles to get out from under the shadow of her father in this comedy. Lolita is the 20-year-old daughter of Étienne Cassard, a ealthy and well-known editor and writer, and most of the people she meets seem to be more interested in her dad than in her; her zaftig figure doesn't help her self-esteem much, either.ious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.
Synopsis in French: Lolita Cassard, vingt ans, en veut au monde entier, parce qu'elle ne ressemble pas aux filles des magazines, et aimerait tellement se trouver belle, au moins dans le regard de son père, trouver son regard tout simplement.
Wednesday, August 26th
AVENUE MONTAIGNE
De : Daniele Thompson
Avec : Cecile de France, Albert Dupontel & Claude Brasseur
Saturday, June 27, 2009
DANS PARIS
De : Christophe Honore
Avec : Romain Duris, Louis Garrel & Guy Marchand
Long métrage - Couleur - France – 2006 - 1h30
In French (English caption) - Rated: R 
May 21 - May 24th
Next Screening!
TBA
The MAC Black Box Theater
Tickets for HMC and MAC members $6.00, for nonmembers $10.00
Avec : Romain Duris, Louis Garrel & Guy Marchand
Long métrage - Couleur - France – 2006 - 1h30
In French (English caption) - Rated: R
recent film festivals:
Les Lutins
French Short Film Festival
May 21 - May 24th
Hungarian Film Screening
(presented by Hungarian Multicultural Center)Next Screening!
TBA
The MAC Black Box Theaterfilm title TBARSVP if you are coming to bszechy@yahoo.com
Tickets for HMC and MAC members $6.00, for nonmembers $10.00
recent screenings:
Saturday, October 3, 2009 3:00 pm
The MAC Black Box Theater
"Overnight"
Cast: Viktor Bodó, Ervin Nagy, Kata Peto, "Eniko" Eszenyi, Gábor Máté
2007; 92 min; Hungarian with English subtitles
RSVP if you are coming to bszechy@yahoo.com
Tickets for HMC and MAC members $6.00, for nonmembers $10.00
Saturday afternoon, April 18, 3:00 pm
Hungarian wanderer :: Magyar vándor
Director: Gábor Herendi
Writer: Gábor Harmat
104" (1h-44m)
2007
Hungarian, subtitled English
PAST SPECIAL EVENTS @ The MAC
The Writer’s Garret
presents
Texas Writers’ Month
with John Phillip Santos, Susannah Charleson & Njoki McElroy
Friday, May 21, 7:30 PM
POETRY READING
Christopher Soden and Carol Nace
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
7:00 - 8:00 PM
The MAC Black Box Theater
Christopher Soden and Carol Nace
Please join us for a Special Event @ The MAC
A Reading with Robin Hemley & Bruce Bond
Friday, October 16, 7:30 – 8:30pm
The MAC Heldt/Hall Theater
$5 Members / $8 Others
Join us for an exciting evening with Robin Hemley, author of the hilarious Do-Over, and award winning poet, Bruce Bond. Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!. He has published seven books, and his stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA. Bruce Bond is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas. He has received many fellowships including ones from the Breadloaf Writers Conference, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and Yaddo. He has also received many awards for his works of poetry including: The Throats of Narcissus, Radiography, The Anteroom of Paradise, and Independence Days. His poetry has appeared in The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, The Ohio Review, The Georgia Review, and other journals.
Saturday, October 3, 5:00 pm
The MAC Black Box Theater
Renowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, takes to the Heartland in September and October to present a program of his recent mutli-projector films as part of a 6-week US tour.
In his recent films, Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors-running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously-not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of "expanded cinema." The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films "The Strip Mall Trilogy" and "TB TX DANCE" to the more elaborate three-projector meditation on Las Vegas, "Money Changes Everything," and on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space "Last Light of a Dying Star." These films are simultaneously performance films (as they can only be screened with Beebe actually running the projectors-and running from projector to projector), technological demonstrations (with a parade of different modes of image making and presentation-16mm and super 8mm film alongside video and digital formats), and significant aesthetic works in their own right. Tickets: $5 MAC members; $7 non-members
For more information, visit: http://writers.meetup.com/438/calendar/11307629/ more information from Writers Garret about other Robin Henley events.
Saturday, October 3, 5:00 pmThe MAC Black Box Theater
FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS:
mutli-projector experimental shorts by Roger BeebeRenowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, takes to the Heartland in September and October to present a program of his recent mutli-projector films as part of a 6-week US tour.
In his recent films, Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors-running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously-not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of "expanded cinema." The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films "The Strip Mall Trilogy" and "TB TX DANCE" to the more elaborate three-projector meditation on Las Vegas, "Money Changes Everything," and on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space "Last Light of a Dying Star." These films are simultaneously performance films (as they can only be screened with Beebe actually running the projectors-and running from projector to projector), technological demonstrations (with a parade of different modes of image making and presentation-16mm and super 8mm film alongside video and digital formats), and significant aesthetic works in their own right. Tickets: $5 MAC members; $7 non-members
for more information visit http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/films/fall09tour.pdf
The MAC is pleased to host the Silent Auction of
"My Very Own Book"
Saturday December 12th.
My Very Own Book Reception and Art Silent Auction
My Very Own Book Press Release - Artists Support Literacy Programs
http://myveryownbook.org/
My Very Own Book is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that was established to run reading incentive programs in elementary schools in low-income neighborhoods in North Texas school districts. This 2009-2010 school year is our first program year.
My Very Own Book Press Release - Artists Support Literacy Programs
http://myveryownbook.org/
My Very Own Book is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that was established to run reading incentive programs in elementary schools in low-income neighborhoods in North Texas school districts. This 2009-2010 school year is our first program year.
