Jacques Becker's Classic Films will Screen at Film Forum this August

Jacques Becker’s Classic Films will Screen at Film Forum this August

by

Jenny Hughes

August 1, 2018

In the hottest, most tourist-ridden part of the New York summer, the best thing to do is to escape to the cool darkness of an independent movie theatre for a French film series.

The newly renovated Film Forum theatre is reopening with a celebratory Jacques Becker series of his best films, from August 1 through August 16. A versatile director with films ranging from melodrama and French Noir, to prison films, and his famous “youth trilogy” (Antoine and Antoinette, Rendezvous in July, and Édouard and Caroline), Becker is a can’t-miss filmmaker for any Franco- or cinephile.

After being held in a German prisoner-of-war camp during the early years of World War II, Becker became a film director, joining the Comité de libération du cinéma français during the Nazi occupation. An assistant to Jean Renoir during his golden years in the 30s, Becker wasn’t lauded as a screenwriter and director really until after his death in 1960.

Tickets are $9 for Film Forum members and $15 for non-members. The films screening in the series are listed below,

Screenings

Rendez-vous en juillet
Year: 1949
Duration: 112 mins
August 1 @ 12:30pm and 2:40pm
August 2 @ 12:30pm and 4:55pm and 7:15pm
August 3 @ 12:30pm and 4:55pm and 7:15pm
August 4 @ 12:30pm and 7:10pm
August 5 @ 2:30pm and 8:40pm
August 6 @ 2:20pm and 8:45pm
August 7 @ 12:30pm and 2:40pm and 4:50pm
August 14 @ 2:20pm
August 16 @ 6:15pm

Antoine et Antoinette
Year: 1947
Runtime: 84 mins
August 1 @ 4:50pm
August 3 @ 2:45pm
August 5 @ 12:30pm and 6:40pm
August 6 @ 12:30pm
August 8 @ 12:30pm
August 10 @ 12:30pm
August 12 @ 8:45pm
August 14 @ 12:30pm
August 16 @ 4:30pm

Edouard et Caroline
Year: 1951
Runtime: 85 mins
August 2 @ 2:45pm
August 4 @ 4:30pm
August 5 @ 4:40pm
August 6 @ 4:40pm
August 8 @ 2:20pm
August 10 @ 2:20pm
August 14 @ 4:40pm
August 16 @ 8:30pm

Touchez-pas au Grisby
Year: 1954
Runtime: 94 mins
August 3 @ 9:30pm
August 8 @ 9:00pm
August 10 @ 8:10pm
August 11 @ 2:45pm and 9:15pm
August 13 @ 3:00pm
August 15 @ 12:30pm and 9:45pm

Casque d’Or
Year: 1952
Runtime: 94 mins
August 4 @ 2:30pm and 9:30pm
August 8 @ 7:00pm
August 10 @ 4:10pm and 10:10pm
August 13 @ 5:10pm
August 14 @ 8:30pm
August 15 @ 5:10pm
August 16 @12:30pm

Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs
Year: 1954
Runtime: 92 mins
August 6 @ 6:45pm
August 11 @ 12:30pm

Arsenes Lupin
Year: 1957
Runtime: 104 mins
August 7 @ 7:00pm

Le trou
Year: 1960
Runtime: 131 mins
August 7 @ 9:10pm
August 8 @ 4:10pm
August 13 @ 12:30pm
August 15 @ 2:30pm and 7:10pm

Falbalas
Year: 1945
Runtime: 95 mins
August 9 @ 12:40pm and 4:50pm and 9:10pm
August 11 @ 7:15pm
August 12 @ 4:15pm
August 13 @ 9:25pm
August 16 @ 2:30pm