French Documentary Cinema 8-29 April 2004, National Film Theatre, London Details of the forthcoming season of French documentary films at the NFT are now available at: http://www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/frenchdocs/ This season presents a documentary history of France from the early 1900s to the present through the work of filmmakers such as Nicole Vedres, Noel Burch, Henri Storck, Marc Allegret, Georges Lacombe, Marcel Carne, Jean Renoir, Marcel Ophuls, Rene Vautier, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch, William Klein, Marielle Issartel, Charles Belmont, Agnes Varda, Jean Eustache, Jean-Louis Comolli, and Yamina Benguigui. The season is organised thematically and chronologically as follows: 1. 1900s: The 'Belle Epoque' 2. 1910s: The Great War 3. 1920s-1930s: The Empire 4. 1920s-1930s: The Left 5. 1940s: The Occupation 6. 1950s: Anti-Colonialism 7. 1960s: The New Society 8. 1970s: The Events of May 68 9. 1970s: Women's Liberation 10: 1970s: Provincial Life 11. 1980s: The Socialist Republic 12. 1990s: The People of France In addition, Saturday 17 April (10.30-15.30) is given over to screenings and discussion on the theme of 'The French Documentary Tradition'. The films to be shown are Georges Rouquier's classic study of rural French life, FARREBIQUE (1944- 45) and Denis Gheerbrant's recent enquiry into working class lives, ET LA VIE (1991). The season precedes the publication in May of THE FRENCH CINEMA BOOK, a new collective history of French cinema published by the British Film Institute: http://www.bfi.org.uk/bookvid/books/catalogue/details.php?bookid=4 53 (If this address is split over two lines, please copy and paste into browser.) ------------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by The University of Surrey Roehampton MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu