First, a proviso: what you are going to see in this series is categorically loco. With five rarities slated, this Anthology series celebrates three of Italy's most influential independent filmmakers of the '60s and '70s. Friends who often collaborated, Carmelo Bene, Franco Brocani, and Mario Schifano dreamt up films that were fiercely original in style and omnivorous in scope. Take Bene's dazzling pop art Salomè (after Wilde's text), which sears itself into consciousness after a man nails himself onto a blinking neon cross. Other titles include Brocani's ragtag Necropolis and Schifano's experimental pièce de résistance Umano Non Umano, which features Bene, Brocani, novelist Alberto Moravia, and, yes, Mick Jagger.
Trafficjams & Tea
08 February 2010
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk has a voice that simply embeds itself in the consciousness. Tonight, the ever-experimental composer/singer goes psychoanalytic to interpret a folio from Jung's notorious Red Book. Analyst Morgan Stebbins lends his Jungian expertise to a back-and-forth conversation that's likely to touch upon her creative process, the pull of myths, and the unconscious. With Monk in the room, this looks to be an unpredictable and proper adieu to the Rubin's inspired Red Book Dialogues.
It Happened One Night
At first, newspaperman Clark Gable doesn't give a damn about affluent runaway Claudette Colbert, going as far as to erect a "Wall of Jericho" between their beds during their cross-country meet cute. But since this is Frank Capra and his brand of all's-well-that-ends-well comedy, that macho dam can't hold back the amour for long. Indeed, this screwball caper is thoroughly pleasant and charming in its depiction of a classic opposites-attract romance. Valentines can do the film before dinner, after dinner, or sans dinner, though tonight's menu advises otherwise, with first courses like lobster risotto, duck confit crepes, and a melted leek and gruyere tart.
Think Global, Cut Local: Chinese Paper Cutting for the New Year
In the nonstop hustle of Columbus Circle, MAD offers a place of calm, hosting a paper-cutting workshop as part of its dedicated series to the international craft. Traditional Chinese techniques are on the lesson plan this afternoon and there's an open door policy in effect: everyone is welcome, from the artistic or curious to the superstitious. Although most creations will be of the 2D breed, those more learned can unfold a decorative 3D lantern or perhaps even a tiger in honor of its yearlong run on calendars from here to Hong Kong.
03 February 2010
Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition
Winter Jam NYC
Miroslav Tichý
Daily Dose Pick: Paris, Texas
Harry Dean Stanton and the blue-skied expanses of the Southwest can be seen in all their splendor in Criterion’s restoration of Wim Wenders’ open-hearted look at ’80s America.
Four years after abandoning his family, a haunted, laconic Stanton mysteriously appears in the desert. Reconnecting with his precocious seven-year-old son, he sets out to find his long-gone wife in Texas. The film’s sublime effect lies in how Wenders lets the journey unfurl, unhurriedly and moodily, with his outsider’s camera taking in everything from California suburbia to middle-of-nowhere highways.
Ry Cooder’s bluesy slide guitar only adds to the melancholic and rarefied air of this 1984 masterpiece. The extras menu is also typically rich, with Super 8 home movies, one-on-one clips with Wenders, and excerpts from a 1990 documentary about the German auteur that features names as varied as Sam Fuller and Patricia Highsmith.
Oscar's Docs 1953–75: Nature and Humanityi
Andy Warhol's Kiss and Blow Job
SNØHETTA: architecture – landscape – interior
Valentine's Day 101: Why Humans Have Sex
Karen Cooper Carte Blanche: 40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Ajami
25 January 2010
Rififi
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
A Failed Entertainment: Selections from the Filmography of James O. Incandenza
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
My published Flavorpill post:
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for the surrealists, particularly its photography-happy associates. Artists like Man Ray, Brassaï, André Kertész, Jacques-André Boiffard, Dora Maar, and others tried to capture the beauty and breathlessness of the city's gallop-paced life (and its all-out facelift) using canted angles, montages, fractured perspectives, and the latest technological tricks. This look back features 150-plus such manipulations, with photographs, films, printed materials, and dope surrealist ephemera.
My Heart, My Serpent: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Word Is Out
Double Dirty Dancing 2010
21 January 2010
A Room and a Half
E.L. Doctorow
11 January 2010
Collecting Biennials
An Evening with Jonathan Demme and Neil Young Trunk Show
Segregated Spaces — On Progress w/ Hasan Elahi
SCRYING
Mission to Moscow
Dave Eggers Signing
Time of Your Life
Our Time Together
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- Winter Jam NYC
- Miroslav Tichý
- Daily Dose Pick: Paris, Texas
- Oscar's Docs 1953–75: Nature and Humanityi
- Andy Warhol's Kiss and Blow Job
- SNØHETTA: architecture – landscape – interior
- Valentine's Day 101: Why Humans Have Sex
- Karen Cooper Carte Blanche: 40 Years of Documentar...
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- Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
- A Failed Entertainment: Selections from the Filmog...
- Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Par...
- My Heart, My Serpent: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Word Is Out
- Double Dirty Dancing 2010
- A Room and a Half
- E.L. Doctorow
- Collecting Biennials
- An Evening with Jonathan Demme and Neil Young Trun...
- Segregated Spaces — On Progress w/ Hasan Elahi
- SCRYING
- Mission to Moscow
- Dave Eggers Signing
- Time of Your Life
- An Evening with Jeff Bridges
- Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
- Coffin Joe, Brazil's Horror Superstar
- Akira Kurosawa Centennial
- Penelope Umbrico: Leonards for Leonard & 5,537,594...
- L'eclisse
- The Beaches of Agnès
- Jacques Tati
- Back by Popular Demand
- The New Typography
- Short Films from Pixar
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