BONJOUR,

It's been a while since you have heard from us! We are already in the midst of preparing the 9th annual Sacramento French Film Festival to be held next June (18-27th, 2010) at our favorite Sacramento movie theater: The Crest Theatre!
In early 2010 we will hold our 3rd annual Winter Short Films Screening and, for the first time, next Spring we will organize a Short Film Screening for Kids - curated by 5 year-old Clément "Coco" Downs, future Director of the SFFF - at least that's his answer to "what do you want to do when you grow up?"... 7 year-old Maxence will help too!
Stay tuned. More information coming up soon.

In the meantime, here are 2 great events coming up at the Crest Theatre!
We wish you a HAPPY WINTER!

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1. SAVE THE DATE for our Special Screening of LA DANSE: LE BALLET DE l'OPERA DE PARIS by Frederick Wiseman at the Crest Theatre - Saturday evening, December 19th. Showtime TBA.
2. SPECIAL OFFER from the COEXIST? COMEDY TOUR: This Saturday, December 5th at the Crest Theatre!

1. LA DANSE: LE BALLET DE l'OPERA DE PARIS
SPECIAL SCREENING co-presented by the SFFF and the Crest Theatre - Saturday December 19th - Showtime to be announced soon!

Save the Date for a special screening of the latest film by acclaimed director
Frederick Wiseman. The screening will be followed by coffee and pastries and
a post-screening discussion led by professor Kevin Elstob.

Documentary master Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film turns his attention to one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, the Paris Opera Ballet. John Davey’s camera roams the vast Palais Garnier, an opulent 19th century pile of a building: from its crystal chandelier-laden corridors to its labyrinthine underground chambers, from its light-filled rehearsal studios to its luxurious theater replete with 2,200 scarlet velvet seats and Marc Chagall ceiling. LA DANSE devotes most of its time to watching impossibly beautiful young men and women — among them Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnès Gillot, and Agnès Letestu — rehearsing the choreography of Mats Ek, Wayne McGregor, Rudolf Nureyev and Pina Bausch. For balletomanes and the curious alike, LA DANSE serves up a scrumptious meal of delectable moments, one more glorious than the next, made even more precious by their ephemeral nature. (Film Forum)

La Danse will play at the Crest Theatre from Friday, December 18, 2009 to Thursday, December 24, 2009. Showtimes TBA.

“One of the finest dance films ever made. A feast for ballet lovers. Sumptuous in its length and graceful in its rhythm. Transfixes you with the inner workings of an institution.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times

“ Heavenly!” – V.A. Musetto, New York Post

“Frederick Wiseman remains the most prominent invisible man of American documentary film. LA DANSE… does more than offer intimate access to great dancers like Nicolas Le Riche and Agnès Letestu and choreography by Rudolph Nureyev and Pina Bausch… it also ventures beyond the stage and studios and into sewing rooms, cafeterias and administrative offices. It is above all a portrait of an institution. (Wiseman’s) movies reveal the most basic foundations of society. (His) best movies, despite the aura of vérité purity, also have the heft and intricacy of great drama.”
– Dennis Lim, The New York Times

2. SPECIAL OFFER from the COEXIST? COMEDY TOUR: Crest Theatre - Saturday December 5th at 8pm

The Coexist? Comedy Tour is the perfect holiday show,
whatever holidays you might wish to celebrate.

Featuring six hilarious comics of six different religions all coming together to savage each other in the name of unity and coexistence.
This years line up is spectacular with two new additions:
Jew - Moshe Kasher (Comedy Central, winner Best In Fest at The Aspen Comedy Festival).
Christian - Mike E. Winfield (Showtime, Comedy Central)

And returning funny persons,
atheist - Keith Lowell Jensen
Hindu - Tapan Trivedi
Buddhist - Sammy Obeid
Muslim - Tissa Hami

Director Larry Brand is coming to tape the whole affair.
Come be a part of history!

Best of all French Film Festival Fans get a discount!!! Save $5.00 by going to www.CoexistComedy.com, clicking on the buy tickets link and entering the coupon code: peace

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Spread the word! Merci.
June 18-27, 2010- Crest Theatre.
www. SacramentoFrenchFilmFestival.org