Events Calendar

Nana; Boston Premiere!

5/25/12
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Paramount Center
Bright Family Screening Room
$10. $7.50 Member/Senior. $5 Student. FREE Emerson

Festival Focus

2011, France Winner of the Grand Prize at !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival and awarded Best First Feature at the Locarno Film Festival, Nana is "as disturbing as it is poetic, a quicksilver piece of pure cinema… [as] adventurous as any" at Locarno (Robert Koehler, MUBI). Filmed in the director's native Perche region, the film is a mysterious, intimate fable whose center is four-year-old Nana, who lives with her mostly absent mother in a country farmhouse. Left to fend for herself in a world not impervious to the surrounding forces of nature and death, Nana fills her solitude with the play and discovery of her own expansive imagination—feeding and dressing herself with an innocent fortitude depicted poignantly but without a drop of sentimentality by the camera's candid, steady gaze.

Sponsored by ArtsEmerson

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Nana; Boston Premiere!

5/26/12
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Paramount Center
Bright Family Screening Room
$10. $7.50 Member/Senior. $5 Student. FREE Emerson

Festival Focus

2011, France Winner of the Grand Prize at !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival and awarded Best First Feature at the Locarno Film Festival, Nana is "as disturbing as it is poetic, a quicksilver piece of pure cinema… [as] adventurous as any" at Locarno (Robert Koehler, MUBI). Filmed in the director's native Perche region, the film is a mysterious, intimate fable whose center is four-year-old Nana, who lives with her mostly absent mother in a country farmhouse. Left to fend for herself in a world not impervious to the surrounding forces of nature and death, Nana fills her solitude with the play and discovery of her own expansive imagination—feeding and dressing herself with an innocent fortitude depicted poignantly but without a drop of sentimentality by the camera's candid, steady gaze.

Sponsored by ArtsEmerson

For more information please contact:
ArtsEmerson Box Office
617-824-8000

Hershey Felder As George Gershwin Alone

5/30/12
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Paramount Center
Paramount Center Mainstage

From Broadway to London's West End and theatres across the U.S., this celebrated one-man play about the legendary American composer who "made a lady out of jazz" now returns to Boston! In the award-winning George Gershwin Alone, internationally-acclaimed actor, playwright and Steinway concert artist Hershey Felder renders an intimate portrait of the legendary composer that provides a personal glimpse into Gershwin's early years, his personal life and his artistic genius. The evening is packed with many of Gershwin's most famous pieces, including "I Got Rhythm," "Someone to Watch Over Me," and a complete performance of "Rhapsody in Blue."

Sponsored by ArtsEmerson

For more information please contact:
ArtsEmerson Box Office
617-824-8000

Hershey Felder As George Gershwin Alone

5/31/12
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Paramount Center
Paramount Center Mainstage

From Broadway to London's West End and theatres across the U.S., this celebrated one-man play about the legendary American composer who "made a lady out of jazz" now returns to Boston! In the award-winning George Gershwin Alone, internationally-acclaimed actor, playwright and Steinway concert artist Hershey Felder renders an intimate portrait of the legendary composer that provides a personal glimpse into Gershwin's early years, his personal life and his artistic genius. The evening is packed with many of Gershwin's most famous pieces, including "I Got Rhythm," "Someone to Watch Over Me," and a complete performance of "Rhapsody in Blue."

Sponsored by ArtsEmerson

For more information please contact:
ArtsEmerson Box Office
617-824-8000