Category: Culture

“White anger” in Brussels

The social care sector is staging a major demonstration in Brussels today, to protest against increased work pressure as a result of continuing austerity measures.The demonstration is joined by people from the cultural sector and may cause disruption to public services and traffic congestion.he non-profit sector demonstration started at the Brussels North Station around 10am and was winding its way down to the centre of Brussels to come to an end in the area of the Central Station.Almost 20,000 people (police say 17,000, unions claim 20,000) travelled to Brussels on a dry and sunny autumn day in the capital – trains to the capital were packed with demonstrators this morning. Protesters from the so-called “white sector” (social care workers) target the increasing work pressure, demanding more staff and better pay. […]

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Criterion Discovery: Mon Oncle

 

Mon Oncle is a French comedy film released in 1958 by Jacques Tati. There are two Criterion versions; the first released in 2001 now out of print, and the second as part of The Complete Jacques Tati Criterion set in 2014 (Spine #729). It is one of three of Tati’s films (and the first in colour) centered on a lovable, bumbling mime-like character Monsieur Hulot. Mon Oncle is his most widely celebrated work, receiving both the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Special Prize at the Cannes Film Festival among other awards. […]

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An Evening with Jane Birkin & Charlotte Gainsbourg

Between screenings of Jacques Doillon’s La Pirate ( and Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (2009), actresses and mother-daughter duo Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg joined the Film Society’s Director of Programming Dennis Lim to discuss the two films, as well as their respective daring film careers.  [Film Society of Lincoln Center]