June 20 - TIKIMENTARY at Otto's Shrunken Head
Head out to Otto’s Shrunken Head this Saturday, June 20 for an exotic, surf-themed night of cinema and music. First up is Duda Leite’s Tikimentary, a documentary about all things tiki, which shows at 7PM. Following the screening is a lineup of surf rock bands, including The Chillers, Thee Icepicks, Bongo Surf, The Octomen, and Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billys.
Dardenne Brothers Retrospecive Underway at Lincoln Center
Touted as the most extensive Dardenne retrospective ever mounted, Lincoln Center hosts a week of films from the unimitable chroniclers of Belgium’s street culture and society on the fringes. Beyond L’Enfant: The Complete Dardenne Brothers began last night and runs through June 2.
Screenings include Palme d’Or winners L’Enfant (The Child) and Rosetta, as well as exciting and hard to find early documentaries and shorts. Highlighting the series is a conversation between Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Kent Jones, tomorrow at 8:30PM at Walter Reade. For more information visit:
www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/dardenne/program.html
May 24 - A NAME IN WHITE FILM FESTIVAL at Millenium Film Workshop
Filmmaker Reuben Meltzer’s third annual A Name in White Film Festival is happening this Sunday, May 24 at Millenium Film Workshop. There are two separate programs, one at 2pm and one at 5pm, and both include a separate lineup of local New York filmmakers including Joel Schelmowitz, Karl Mendoca, Reed French, Jeff Curran, Will Lucas, Maura Feeney, Jonah Kruvant, Savros Toumanidis, Tawania Pettus, Adele Ray, Juan David Gonzalez, Paul Gennaro, Morgyanna Roach, and Cullen Gallagher. Half of the proceeds will be donated to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
Showing Sunday, May 24 at 2pm and 5pm at Millenium Film Workshop.
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
Don’t miss the second week of the Con Film Festival at Film Forum that runs through May 21st. Although a few gems have already passed there are still a handful of thrilling bad guy (and bad girl) flicks left to catch.
This Wednesday is a 2 For 1 ticket deal to see Sidney Potier and Tony Curtis escape from a prison van in The Defiant Ones and the classic Cool Hand Luke. Or catch a double-feature on Thursday with Fritz Lang’s You Only Live Once and Marion Gering’s Pick Up.
Check out the full line-up HERE.
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
May 15 - QUICKSHOTS at The Archive, Curated by Nana Seo and Leung Chi Wo
Screenshots is a new montly media and video series. Quickshots, this month’s event, occurs May 15 at The Archive in Brooklyn and is organized by curator Nana Seo and artist Leung Chi Wo, both based out of Hong Kong. The artists featured include: Chow Chun Fai (Hong Kong), David Clarke (Hong Kong), Ise Parkingproject (Malaysia), Yoshiaki Kaihatsu (Tokyo), Kwan Sheung Chi (Hong Kong), Lam Tung Pang (Beijing), Michael Lee Hong Hwee, Willam Phuan & Tan Chee Tat (Singapore), Lee Kit (Hong Kong), Alexia Mellor (Boston), Nam HyoJun (Shanghai), Huong Ngo (New York), Nguyen Quang Huy (Hanoi), Political Art Group (Hong Kong), Qiu Anxiong (Guangzhou), Gilad Ratman (New York) and Doris Wong Wai Yin (Hong Kong).
Shows at Friday, May 15 at 9:30PM at The Archive (49 Bogart Street, Brooklyn).
(image courtesy of kleebversestheworld.blogspot.com)
May 14 - Joel Schlemowitz presents NON-CAMERA FILMMAKING at The New School
Experimental filmmaker and curator Joel Schlemowitz is presenting Non-Camera Filmmaking, a collection of short films all made without the use of a physical camera. Come support twelve emerging filmmakers as they break the rules of moviemaking and explore the myriad possibilities of celluloid and projection. Among the filmmakers exhibiting their work are: Jaclyn Amor, Cassandra Colletti, Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert, Maura Feeney, Jenn Gellman, Will Lucas , Reuben Meltzer, Karl Mendonca, Marissa Mickelberg, Mary Denise Patterson, Ina Adele Ray, and Evan Walter.
Showing Thursday, May 14th at 8:00PM at The New School (66 Fifth Avenue Room 404).
May 11 - Flaherty NYC presents JOHNNY BERLIN 2 at Anthology Film Archives
Flaherty NYC is bringing director Dominic DeJoseph to Anthology Film Archives on Monday, May 11 to present his latest documentary, Johnny Berlin 2; Notes from the Dumpster, the sequel to Johnny Berlin. The latest film continues in the adventures of a train porter wh now finds himself broke in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. “Brilliantly funny and wise monologue-as-portrait of a unique American thinker,” proclaims the Sarasota Film Festival, while Snow Vandermore at El Vigilate highly recommended the film by saying, “I was hoping it would just keeping going on and on, it was that good.”
Shooting People’s Ingrid Kopp will be on hand to discuss the film with the director after the screening, and help to give away a few free special prizes!
Showing Monday, May 11 at 7:30PM at Anthology Film Archives.
Cinema 16 and Smack Mellon present - Another music and film event tonight!
Cinema 16 recreates the experience of the silent film era, as curator Molly Surno programs obscure vintage films and pairs them with contemporary New York musicians. Bands are given one month to compose a musical score in order to modernize the tradition of live music accompanying films during the 1920s.
For this incarnation of Cinema 16 at Smack Mellon (92 Plymouth St. @ Washington St., DUMBO), Lycaon Pictus will perform a live soundtrack to Pitor Kamler’s silent film Chronopolis and Joel Schlemowitz’s Bagatelle, using synthesizers, a bass guitar, drums, and other electronic and percussion instruments. Their soundtrack will be comprised of original music written for the film, combined with sections of free improvisation. The score will be a sonic exploration of Chronopolis’ themes of time, immortality, and boredom, as the band joins Kamler on his journey.” Doors at 6pm, film at 7pm.
http://www.smackmellon.org/ for more info.
