Category Archives: New York Screenings / Film Events
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]