IFC Center series includes a look at Claire Denis’s career as an assistant director on such films as Jim Jarmusch’s DOWN BY LAW and Wim Wenders’s PARIS, TEXAS
IFC Center
323 Sixth Ave. at Third St.
Through Thursday, November 18
212-924-7771
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The IFC Center is celebrating the Friday release of French writer-director Claire Denis’s WHITE MATERIAL with a retrospective that has already included screenings of such films as CHOCOLAT (1988), BEAU TRAVAIL (1999), and 35 SHOTS OF RUM (2008). The French-born auteur, who was raised in colonial Africa, trained under Costa-Gavras, Jacques Rivette, Jim Jarmusch, and Wim Wenders, and the series turns to that last relationship with Wednesday screenings of Wenders’s stunning WINGS OF DESIRE and Thursday showings of Wenders’s powerful PARIS, TEXAS, both assistant directed by Denis. Also still on the bill are VERS MATHILDE (2005), the short POUR USHARI AHMED MAHMOUD, and L’INTRUS (2004) today, the television drama U.S. GO HOME (1994) and documentary CLAIRE DENIS: LA VAGABONDE (Sébastien Lifshitz, 1996) tomorrow, and NO FEAR, NO DIE (1990) on Thursday.