<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>City of
Lights/City of Angels is a week-long French film festival at the Directors
Guild. Their website is <a href="http://colcoa.org/" target="_blank">colcoa.org</a>.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font size="5"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Reserve your seats!</b></span></font></font><b><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<br></span></font><font size="5"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">COLCOA MASTER CLASSES with Bertrand Blier and Pierre
Schoendoerffer <br></span></font></font></b><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Arial">in association with E.L.M.A </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <br>
</font><font face="Arial">ADMISSION
IS FREE reserved to teachers and students - RSVP required - <u>see details
below</u></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">
<br></font><font face="Arial">Location: Directors Guild of America 7920 Sunset
Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046</font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <br></font><font face="Arial"><b> </b></font><b><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font><font face="Arial">The master
classes are open to all students of a higher education institution,
including: film schools, colleges, community colleges and universities.
<br> </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">
<br></font><font face="Arial"><u>Tuesday April 12th - 2:00
PM</u></font><u><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">
</font></u><font face="Arial">West Coast Premiere of the digitally restored <u>THE
317TH PLATOON (La 317ème section) <br></u></font></b><font face="Arial">Master class with writer/director <b>Pierre Schoendoerffer</b> and
Cinémathèque Française director <b>Serge Toubiana</b></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <br></font><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">
<br></font></span><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">THE 317TH PLATOON follows a French unit trapped behind
enemy lines during the French Indochina war. Led by young second lieutenant
Torrens (Jacques Perrin, <i>Oceans</i>, <i>The Chorus</i>, <i>Donkey Skin</i>)
and adjutant Willsdorf (Bruno Cremer, <i>Under the Sand</i>, <i>A Simple
Story</i>), they move through the jungle with their Laotian allies to reach a
safe outpost, hunted down by an elusive enemy. THE 317TH PLATOON was the first
realistic account of the Vietnam war and gives an intimate look at the daily
agony of these men. Inspired by Pierre Schoendoerffer's first-hand experience of
the war</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and
shot by iconic cinematographer Raoul Coutard
(<i>Breathless</i></span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">,</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>Z</i>, <i>Jules and Jim</i>), it
won</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Best Screenplay Award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
The film was digitally restored by StudioCanal and the Cinémathèque Française
with the support of the Franco-American Cultural Fund.</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<br></span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<br></span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>PIERRE
SCHOENDOERFFER</b></span></font></font><b><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></b><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">volunteered to join the Film Department of the French
army in Indochina, where he directed his first short film in
1952 (</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">FIRST
INDOCHINA WAR RUSHES) and was taken prisoner after the fall of Diên Biên
Phú.</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> He then became war correspondent before
co-directing his first feature-length documentary with Jacques
Dupont, </span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">THE
DEVIL'S PASS</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(1958).</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i> </i></span></font></font><i><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></i><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Written by Joseph Kessel, the film screened at the
Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Bear.Among his
most critically acclaimed films are</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">THE
317TH PLATOON, THE ANDERSON PLATOON (1968 </span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Academy Award for Best Documentary) and
DRUMMER-CRAB</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">,
nominated for Best Film and Best Director at the 1978 Cesar
Awards</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>.</i></span></font></font><i><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></i><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Also a novelist, Pierre Schoendoerffer has directed
several film adaptations of his novels, including THE 317TH PLATOON.
<br></span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Arial"><b><u>Wednesday April 13th - 2:00 PM</u></b></font><b><u><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font></u><font face="Arial">West
Coast Premiere of <u>THE CLINK OF ICE (Le Bruit des glaçons)</u></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <br></font></b><font face="Arial">Master class with writer/director <b>Bertrand Blier</b> moderated by
Howard A. Rodman</font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">
<br></font><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font></span><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jean Dujardin (<i>A View of Love
</i>[COL.COA 2011], <i>OSS 117</i> [COL.COA 2008/2009]) and Albert Dupontel
(<i>The Villain</i> [COL.COA 2010], <i>Paris</i> [COL.COA 2008],
<i>Irreversible</i>) team up as patient and illness in this daring black comedy
about the triumph of love over death. Separated from his wife and son and
drinking his life away, award-winning writer Charles Faulque (Dujardin) lives
alone with his devoted, caring maid Louisa (Anne Alvaro, Best Supporting Actress
César Award for her performance). His bleak existence is interrupted by the
arrival of a strange, disturbing individual (Dupontel) who introduces himself as
Charles' cancer and settles in, following him like a shadow. When Louisa
receives a similar visit, the bond that she shares with Charles grows stronger
and disrupts the cancers' ominous plans. <b>THE CLINK OF ICE</b> opened the 2010
Venice Days and won Best European Film Award.</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<br></span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> One of France's most celebrated
iconoclasts, writer-director <b>BERTRAND BLIER</b> directed his first film in
1963, a documentary entitled HITLER - NEVER HEARD OF HIM. After a first feature
in 1967 starring his father Bernard Blier (IF I WERE A SPY), he wrote and
directed the box-office hit <i>Going Places</i> (1974), a subversive buddy movie
that defined his signature acerbic wit, sharp social criticism and penchant for
erotic themes. Confirming this success with GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS, which
won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Blier continued to venture
into risky territory with provocative films like COLD CUTS(1980 Cesar Award for
Best Screenplay - screening at COL.COA 2011), BEAU-PÈRE (1981) or MÉNAGE
(1986). Gaining a wider audience with TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU, (1989 Grand
Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and 1990 Cesar Award for Best
Director, Best Film and Best Screenplay), he later gave women a more central
role in his films, crafting strong female characters in films like MERCI LA VIE
(1991<i>)</i>, MON HOMME(1996) and HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE ME? (COL.COA
2006).</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <br></span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">
<br></font><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font><font face="Arial"><b>Professors
may reserve by sending us the following information at <a href="http://masterclass@colcoa.org/" target="_blank">masterclass@colcoa.org</a> <br>. Where they
teach <br>. Which film(s) they would like to attend</b></font><b><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <br></font><font face="Arial">. How
many students plan to attend <br><font size="5"> Students may reserve
individually by sending us their name and school information at </font><a href="http://masterclass@colcoa.org/" target="_blank"><font size="5">masterclass@colcoa.org</font></a></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial" size="5"> </font></b><font face="Arial" size="5"></font></span><br>
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