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“How (Not) to Make a Scene (With Words)” Conference

This event will recur Every Day until Mar. 23, 2018 Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present "How (Not) to Make a Scene (With Words)." A full conference schedule is available here. Henry James’s A Small Boy and Others features a primal scene (Urszene) of making a scene: his aunt tells his cousin Marie, who does not want to go to bed,…

Tinghir-Jerusalem

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

Film in French, with English subtitles. To RSVP, please click here. Director Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished. A Berber Muslim born in Tinghir, Morocco and raised in France, Hachkar would return to Tinghir every summer with his family, but it would be years before he discovered that the town once had a thriving Jewish community.…

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Film Faction: Effi Briest

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

Oder: Viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und Bedürfnissen und dennoch das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen. 1974. Germany. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Hannah Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, etc. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Effi Briest (1974) does not merely take up the setting, characters, and…

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