The *MUST SEE* Movie Series of the Summer!!
ShareANTHOLOGY’S ANTI-BIOPIC SERIES There’s something to watch everyday this month at Anthology Film Archives. I saw Fellini’s Casanova (1976) this past evening– an excellent print on short loan from Universal, The Color of Pomegranates a few evenings before. I’ve missed Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein. I saw Straub’s Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach. I will see Cavalier’s [...]
Film Recommendation: The Color of Pomegranates
Share Still from Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova), 1968. Welcome to the dream world. One of my best friends turned me onto Sergei Parajanov. We had watched The Legend of Suram Fortress & Ashik Kerib. I was completely speechless and in shock on the first viewing. It hit really far inside my sub/unconscious. [...]
Film Recommendation: Stonewall Uprising
Share I saw this tonight and I think that if you’re a New Yorker, this is an important film. For school education, I think it’s not enough to just talk about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement; this should be included alongside the others. The current and upcoming generations of gay teenagers have [...]
Film Recommendation: A Prophet [Un prophète (2009)]
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ShareOn recommendation from Richard yesterday and a 5 star time out new york review I came across this afternoon, I decided to put today’s free time to good use, and darted out of the house to make the 5pm showing for my first time ever at the Angelika Film Center on Houston & Mercer St.. [...]
Film Recommendation: THE RED SHOES
ShareI tried to catch the 7pm showing earlier tonight but it was sold out. I waited 2.5 hours for the next showing and passed time in Washington Sq Park.. and it was so worth it. So good! http://www.filmforum.org/films/redshoes.html
Art in Review: Albert Lamorisse – Postscript to Baadeh Sabah (1970/1978)
Share I went to the well-curated arts performance venue The Kitchen for a night put on by Bidoun (biduon.com), a middle eastern arts magazine. In one of the sections, they showed this 7 minute postscript (I’ve posted that above).. and clips of “The Lover’s Wind” by filmmaker Albert Lamorisse (1922-1970). Lamorrisse is most known for [...]
Film Recommendation: Ulrike Ottinger @ Anthology Film Archives
Share My friend Richard invited me to see Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989) Sunday evening, with Q&A afterward by Ottinger herself! The plot focuses on eclectic female passengers aboard a Trans-Mongolian rail, but it’s so strange that it first starts off as a hypothetical adventure, but then transforms into an actual cultural adventure for [...]
Film Recommendation: Director Nicholas Ray!
ShareNICHOLAS RAY My Reviews: LOVE: Johnny Guitar (1954) is *SO GOOD*! It’s funny, it’s complete, it’s a western to watch! Starring Joan Crawford Rebel Without a Cause (1955) is *SO GOOD* on the big screen. I’d seen it once or twice before on television, but this viewing.. I forgot I was in a theatre and [...]
Film Recommendation: Director Aki Kaurismäki
ShareI just finished watching Alison’s recommendation of Aki Kaurismäki – shadows in paradise (1986) It was so minimal and blunt it was funny, and bleakly entertaining.
Photography: George Hoyningen-Huene: The Divers, 1930
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Art in Review: Ernesto Neto Opening night at the Park Avenue Armory
Share My video cam was low on batts so I just took one shot. I can’t wait until Ken sends me our pics from that night.. think giant playpen for adults. It was also unexpected fun running into Haans. You see those hanging sacks? They’re filled with spices/herbs.. very strong/semi-fragrant. There were probably a hundred [...]
Art in Review: Derek Jarman @ X-Initiative
ShareDEREK JARMAN EARLY FILMS (SUPER-8MM) X-Initiative: 548 West 22nd Street, 917-697-4886 March 7 – May 30, 2009 On the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors, X will present an extensive survey of the work of Derek Jarman, one of the most radical figures of British independent cinema. The exhibition will feature 18 super-8 mm films rarely [...]
Art in Review: Chekhov’s The Seagull
ShareOn December 16, 2008, I was lucky to grab rush tickets with some good friends for the evening performance of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. With 5 days before this English production of the play finished its Broadway run at the Walter Kerr Theatre, this was my most memorable December treat to date, and the best [...]
Art in Review: Caillebotte at the Brooklyn Museum
Share “Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings From Paris to the Sea” remains through July 5! :) Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park (718) 638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org By HOLLAND COTTER Published: March 26, 2009 “Poodles in Impressionism”? Now there’s an exhibition theme, and one that the stretched-thin Impressionism industry may eventually have to resort to. When [...]