Don’t Miss Tony Manero at Cinema Village
A festival hit from Cannes and the New York Film Festival, Pablo Larrain’s Tony Manero is now screening at Cinema Village. One of the more chilling and original films out in some time, this one is not to be missed.
Balancing black humor against allegorical indictment of the Pinochet regime’s oppression on narrow stack heels, striking, very offbeat period pic “Tony Manero” follows a psychotic petty criminal into the depths of his crazed obsession with John Travolta’s character in “Saturday Night Fever.” Sophomore feature by Chilean helmer Pablo Larrain (“Fuga”) continually intrigues as tone constantly shifts about, in line with unexpected plot twists. - Leslie Felperin, VARIETY
Distributed by the newly formed Lorber Films - www.lorberhtdigital.com
BURMA VJ now playing at Film Forum - Special Q&A following tonight’s show
One of the most anticipated docs of the year, ANDERS ØSTERGAARD’s Burma VJ, is now playing at Film Forum courtesy of Oscilloscope Pictures. Burma VJ has garnered awards and attention from top film festivals including IDFA, DOX, Sundance, SxSW and Hot Docs. Doc follows a courageous group of underground video journalists who risk everything to document 2007 uprising junta uprising in Burma. For more information go to:
www.filmforum.org/films/burma.html
Tonight’s 8PM screening features a Q&A with Featured Buddhist Monks
Venerable U Gawsita, Venerable U Agga Nyana & Venerable Pyinyar Zawta,
Leaders of the 2007 Uprising
Last week of Kim Longinotto documentaries at MoMA retrospective
Make sure to get out to MoMA for the last week of the Kim Longinotto retrospective and see some of the finest documentaries of the past few decades. “Longinotto is one of the pre-eminent documentary filmmakers working today, renowned for creating extraordinary human portraits and tackling controversial topics with sensitivity and compassion. Longinotto’s films have won international acclaim and dozens of premiere awards at festivals worldwide”(Women Make Movies). SISTERS IN LAW (poigniant and sometimes comedic doc following two extraordinary women in Cameroon fighting for justice) and THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET (on female gential mutilation in Kenya) will both be screening again this week amongst others.
Photo: Shinjuku Boys. 1995. Great Britain. Directed by Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams
More information: www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/947
Thursday 7:30PM THE SACRED + THE SURREAL: BRUCE LEVINGSTON and ROOFTOP FILMS IN CONCERT
Tomorrow at 7:30PM St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan (Park Ave at 50th St) will host what is sure to be a memorable Rooftop Films event, screening short films from Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, and Red Bucket Films under. Accompanying the films are scores composed by acclaimed composer Keeril Makan, performed by world renowned pianist Bruce Levingston. This event was put together in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art and Premiere Commission.
For more information visit: www.rooftopfilms.com
Don’t Miss The Cinema Eye Honors this Sunday at TheTimesCenter
Tickets are still available for the second annual Cinema Eye Awards which take place this Sunday at TheTimesCenter (242 W 41St Street). The Cinema Eye Awards have become the gold standard for honors in nonfiction filmmaking recognizing such categories as editing, producing, cinematography, as well as shorts. The were launched last year by documentary filmmaker and critic AJ Schnack in association with Danielle DiGiacomo at IndiePix (who became a presenting sponsor), John Vanco and the IFC Center, and Stranger Than Fiction’s Thom Powers. Tickets are $75 for what promises to be an amazing evening, award presenters include Laurie Anderson, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker and Morgan Spurlock. The evening features music DJ’ed by Ion Furjanic and admission includes entry and free drinks and food at the after party, Arena. There is also reports that MAN ON WIRE’s Philippe Petit will be present.
Nominees for Outstanding Achievement in NonFiction Feature Filmmaking are: James Marsh’s MAN ON WIRE, Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG, Margaret Brown’s THE ORDER OF MYTHS, Marina Zenovich’s ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED, and Ari Folman’s WALTZ WITH BASHIR.
For more information or to purchase tickets visit: www.cinemaeyehonors.com
March 26 - Dreyer’s GERTRUD at BAM and Cinemachat with Elliott Stein
Screening for one day only as part of BAM’s Carl Theodor Dreyer retrospective, Dreyer’s opus and final film Gertrud (1964) is playing Thursday. Show times are at 4:30, 6:50, and 9:30pm, with a special Cinemachat with film historian Elliott Stein following the 6:50 show which is not to be missed.
“There is no other movie like Gertrud. It exists in its own bright, one-entry category, idiosyncratic, serenely stubborn, and sublime.” –Phillip Lopate
Showing Thursday, March 26 at 4:30, 6:50, and 9:30pm at BAM.
Tuesday, March 17, 7:30PM KEN JACOBS show and Discussion at Light Industry
New York City experimental filmmaking pioneer and founder of the Millennium Film Workshop Ken Jacobs will be present at Light Industry this Tuesday to present work, Return to LH6. Following will be a conversation with Jacobs and Amy Taubin. Come out to what’s sure to be a memorable evening.
“I expanded on the Laff Movie selections so one never knew what to expect and I disapproved of introductions: students were expected to grapple, and then there’d be talk, lots of it. Assuming I still have something of my teaching chops, you’re welcome to sit in on a re-creation of cinema studies in LH6. (I would sometimes screen some of my own stuff so there just might be samplings and discussion of recent Ken Jacobs work.)” - KJ
Excerpt of Jacobs Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son
Showing Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 7:30pm at Light Industry.
Monday March 9 - Josh Weinstien and Jacqueline Goss in person for FLAHERTY NYC
Flying On One Engine - Trailer from FlyingOnOneEngine on Vimeo.
This Monday Anthology Film Archives will host its monthly screening series with the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Flaherty NYC, at 7:30PM. Jacqueline Goss will be in attendance and presenting her innovative short film STRANGER COMES TO TOWN. Also on hand is NYC based filmmaker Josh Weinstein presenting his debut doc FLYING ON ONE ENGINE which has played at festivals across the world including IDFA, South by Southwest, and Full Frame. Both docs are centered on the theme of last year’s Seminar, The Age of Migration. A special post screening discussion will be moderated by fellow NYC filmmaker Scott Nyerges.
Showing Monday, March 9 at 7:30PM at Anthology Film Archives.
Feb. 25 - Albert Serra’s BIRDSONG / EL CANT DELS OCELLS, Director in Person
Don’t miss Albert Serra’s new feature, Birdsong, opening Wednesday February 25 at Anthology Film Archives. A follow-up to the minimalist but bold Don Quixote adaptation Quixotic/Honor de Cavelleria, Serra is back with a new feature which has already garnered much acclaim on the festival circuit. Birdsong gives us Serra’s take on the biblical story of the Three Kings. Serra will be at Anthology in person for the 7PM and 9:15PM screenings Wednesday along with Mark Peranson (editor and publisher of Cinema Scope) who made the brilliant making of, Waiting For Sancho. Sancho also screens along side of Birdsong this weekend at Anthology. “Young maestro Serra excels himself in this black & white film with a very dry yet evocative representation of the journey made by the three wise men to the stable of little Jesus. Pure Cinemark by an absolute master enriched with hilarious humour.” - Rotterdam Film Festival 2009
Showing Wednesday, February 25 - Tuesday, March 3 at Anthology Film Archives.
Feb. 23 - Profit Motive and The Whispering Wind with John Gianvito present at MoMA
Come watch one of the best progressive experimental docs of the past few years this Monday evening at the Museum of Modern Art. John Gianvito will be present to present and discuss his 2007 PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND, which won Best Experimental Film by the National Society of Film Critics. Inspired by Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, this doc chronicles America’s history of rebellion through grave sites and memorials of often forgotten past figures of protest. Screens as part of MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight.
