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MIDNIGHT COWBOY at the DGA in New York City

John Schlesinger’s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners, will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on Monday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in New York City.
David V. Picker, the executive-in-charge at United Artists during the making of Midnight Cowboy, will moderate an onstage discussion with Academy Award-winning producer Jerome Hellman, Academy Award-nominated (supporting) actress Sylvia Miles, actor Bob Balaban, cinematographer Adam Holender, composer John Barry, and costume designer Ann Roth.
Adapted by Waldo Salt from James Leo Herlihy’s novel, Midnight Cowboy stars [...]

Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance

Accompanying the exhibit Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance, the New York Public Library’s Library for the Performing Arts will present a series of films from March 3-April 28 highlighting the role of female costume and production designers in Hollywood films from the 1910s to the 2000s. (See schedule below.)
Curated by Joseph Yranski, the series includes:

The short Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with stage performer Hobart Bosworth and future 1920s star Bebe Daniels
The fluffy Colleen Moore vehicle Irene, which features a fashion show
The rare silent Camille, starring superstar Norma Talmadge and her soon-to-be off-screen lover Gilbert Roland
She, which features early color sequences and Helen Gahagan, best known for being smeared ("pink down to her [...]

CineKink NYC 2009

When a film festival’s community sponsors have names such as DDevious Delights, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Gay Male S/M Activists, Leather Invasion, Lesbian Sex Mafia, the film festival in question must be CineKink NYC, currently taking place at the Anthology Film Archives, at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd St. in New York City.
Among the screening films are Daryl Wein’s documentary Sex Positive, about an early AIDS activist; Robert Pratten’s horror thriller Mindflesh; a shorts program called — I kid you not — "Whips & Restraint"; the documentary Graphic Sexual Horror; and the sex-film industry parody The Auteur, which happens to be the only film among those listed that I’ve seen. (The best thing about [...]

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN at Film Forum

Leave Her to Heaven (1945) — one of the best (and brightest) of all film noirs — will be screened at New York City’s Film Forum from March 6-12.
I’ve already written about Leave Her to Heaven when it was screened in Los Angeles a couple of years ago, so I’ll just add here that this psychological thriller-melodrama should be watched on the big screen and that the stunningly beautiful Gene Tierney — as a woman who loved too (pathologically) much — was a much better actress than people give her credit for.
Call it a "woman’s film" if you wish, but in its own trash-novel style Leave Her to Heaven is cooler, tougher, and more disturbing than The Maltese Falcon, [...]

Marni Nixon at Film Forum

Marni Nixon, the voice behind, among others, Deborah Kerr in The King and I and An Affair to Remember, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, will be honored at New York City’s Film Forum on Monday, February 23 at 7:30 pm. Nixon, who turns 79 the day before the tribute, will be present for an onstage interview about her seven-decade career. The interview will be conducted by musical theater writer Stephen Cole, co-author of Nixon’s autobiography I Could Have Sung All Night, and Film Forum’s Director of Repertory Programming Bruce Goldstein. Admission is $20 ($10 for Film Forum members).
Every time Marni Nixon’s name comes up I think [...]

Gen Art Film Festival 2009

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The 14th Annual Gen Art Film Festival kicks off on April 1, 2009 in New York City. The Gen Art Film Festival (GAFF)’s unique format showcases seven features and seven shorts from emerging filmmakers which are followed by seven premiere parties. The festival allows film lovers to experience a movie premiere like a true insider. Each night of this cutting edge festival is an interactive experience, allowing filmmakers, media, and the audience to share in the excitement.  The festival will be taking place at SVA; the completely redesigned, state-of-the-art Visual Arts Theater on West 23rd Street between 8-9th Avenue.
Adding to the anticipation, the star-studded LYMELIFE is set to open the GAFF festival.  Executive produced by Martin Scorsese and [...]

Oscar 2009: Animated and Live Action Short Film Screenings in New York City

"Shorts!," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences program featuring the 2009 Oscar nominees in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories, will be presented in New York City on Saturday, February 14, at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International (111 East 59th Street). There will be two separate screenings of the nominated films, the first at noon and an encore presentation at 4 p.m.
Film historian Robert Osborne, who is a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, host of Turner Classic Movies, and author of the new book 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards, will act as host of the noon screening. Osborne will also be [...]

WERE THE WORLD MINE Trailer

 
Co-written by partners Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson (from Gustafson’s 2003 short Faeries) and directed by Gustafson, Were the World Mine tells the story of small-town teen Timothy (Tanner Cohen), who happens to be gay, ostracized, and in love with his private school’s top jock (Nathaniel David Becker). Timothy’s sole means of escape is his musico-magical world, filled with shining lights and singing athletes.
Enters a quirky English teacher (hilariously played by Wendy Robie of Twin Peaks), who decides to stage a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Timothy is cast as Puck and ends up playing the role offstage as well, using a liquid-spraying, purple pansy to spread love — of the sort that dares [...]

RASHOMON: Monday Nights with Oscar

Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the next film presented as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Monday Nights with Oscar.” The East Coast premiere of the new digitally restored print of Rashomon will take place on Monday, November 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City.
Though it revolves around the rape of a woman and the murder of her Samurai husband, Rashomon, co-adapted by Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto from Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s stories "Rashomon" and "In a Grove," is less a crime drama than an examination of the mind-boggling nature of truth. [...]

Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories

Although Bob Hope was one of the most popular American (though English-born) entertainers of the 20th century, I’ve always found him hard to swallow. So, why am I so disappointed that I won’t be in New York City this fall (Oct. 7–Nov. 25) to check out the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts‘ free screenings of the series "Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories"?
Well, how about the fact that the series, arranged by Joseph Yranski of the New York Library for the Performing Arts’ Reserve Film & Video Collection, will be screening the little-seen, British-made The Iron Petticoat (1956), which, however poorly received at the time, paired Hope with none other than Katharine Hepburn in this Ninotchka [...]

A TIME FOR BURNING: Monday Nights with Oscar

A Time for Burning, a 1967 Oscar-nominated documentary about the interactions between two segregated churches in Omaha, Nebraska, during the height of the civil rights movement, will be screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Monday Nights with Oscar" on Monday, October 20, at 8 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City.
Hosted by journalist and filmmaker Elvis Mitchell, the evening will include an onstage discussion with the film’s producer-director, William C. Jersey (right), and Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers, who is featured in it. The screening will premiere a new print from the Academy Film Archive.
As per the Academy’s press release, A Time for [...]

New York Film Festival 2008: Film Line-Up

The 45th New York Film Festival will screen 28 films at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, between Sept. 28 – Oct. 14. Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and sponsored by Sardinia Region Tourism and the New York Times, this year’s edition of the New York Film Festival also features three sidebars, three special event screenings, and a retrospective consisting of five films — not to mention numerous films screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.
The New York festival will open with Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, and Anjelica Huston. The plot revolves around three brothers who rediscover their family bonds while on [...]

B Musicals at Film Forum

New York City’s Film Forum is currently presenting an unusual film series: B musicals from the 1930s to the early 1950s.
In those films you won’t find many expensive sets (though several cheap ones are made out to look pricey), mammoth production numbers (though miracles can happen even on a tight budget), or A-list stars such as Judy Garland and Fred Astaire (though you’ll be able to see several big names either in their pre- or post-stardom days, including Alice Faye, Marilyn Monroe, Linda Darnell, Betty Grable, Mickey Rooney, Dorothy Dandridge, and Susan Hayward).

But perhaps none of that matters when you have tap-dancing dynamo Ann Miller kicking her heels in Reveille with Beverly, Thelma Todd and Ruth Etting in the [...]

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM in New York City

Frank Sinatra will do anything to escape from Eleanor Parker’s over-the-top histrionics
 
Though hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a look for two reasons: It’s quite likely the first major Hollywood motion picture — since the implementation of the moralistic Production Code in the mid-1930s — to deal with drug addiction, and it boasts what may well be Frank Sinatra’s most effective performance.
The film itself, however, is pure melodrama. As a cripple, Eleanor Parker, in particular, disappoints. Parker could be an outstanding actress — as she was in Caged, Pride of the Marines, and even in The Sound of Music – but here she is so shrewishly over the top that her [...]

B Film Noirs at Film Forum

Michael Atkinson in The Village Voice: "A[t] this late date, what we think about when we think about noir is often little more than a result of its commodification­a history that is itself a vast untold story. One of the hardiest myths, and the one most responsible for the category’s deathless cool, pertains to the definition of noir as a B movie, the cheap programmer backing up the A on a double bill. With only a fraction of an A’s studio control and budget, a B could afford to risk expressionism, nihilism, subtext, and other uncommercial indulgences."

Between May 5-June 15, New York City’s Film Forum will be screening 70 examples of the "B" film noir, including Joseph H. Lewis‘ My [...]

Isabelle Huppert at MoMA

At MoMA, a film series devoted to one of the best actresses of the last thirty years: Isabelle Huppert.
MoMA’s release describes the actress as “intense, lithe, and passionate, Isabelle Huppert is one of cinema’s greatest actresses. A beguiling shape-shifter, she inhabits her characters, providing them with a dense, distinctive biography and a memorable presence. Her ability to make silences revelatory is astonishing.”
The 25-film series, which begins inauspiciously on October 18 with the American premiere of Patrice Chéreau’s dreadful 2005 drama Gabrielle, will, however, present some of Huppert’s best work. Among them are:

Diane Kurys‘ Academy Award-nominated Coup de foudre / Entre Nous (1983), in which Huppert falls in love with an equally stunning Miou Miou;

La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher (2001), [...]

Pre-Code Paramount at Film Forum

Risque pre-Code Paramount films, including The Blue Angel, White Woman, and Trouble in Paradise, will be screened at Film Forum. Featured are Fredric March, Nancy Carroll, Jeanette MacDonald, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, and Sylvia Sidney.

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