Gene Kelly retro at Film Society (thru Jul 26)
July 13, 2012I'm happy again and like myself: 100 years of Gene.
“Berkeley’s most visually eruptive musical. The riotous palette evokes both dreams and hallucinations. The chirpy action involves no greater aggression than Carmen Miranda’s lipsticky kisses, but the story gives rise to wonders of erotic delirium (complete with gigantic bananas). Berkeley’s signature scans of serried ranks – whether of chorus girls on a beach or of Benny Goodman’s suited-up swingers – have a free, vertiginous swoop reminiscent of slow-motion aeronautics. Those Hollywood hysterics reflected, in gaudy kaleidoscopic paroxysms, the conjoined chaos of sex and death that defied direct representation in any art form.”
- Richard Brody, The New Yorker [Read More]
THE VIRGIN, THE COPTS AND ME
Messeeh | 2011 | Qatar | 85min
“Tribeca Film Festival”
7:00 at Chelsea Cinema
PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY
Rappmund | 2010 | US | 62m
*Q&A w/ artists & architects
“Street Views”
7:30 at Maysles
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___92YTribeca___
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___AMC Loews Village 7___
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___Anthology Film Archives___
PRICE CHECK
Michael Walker | 2012 | US | 93min
*Post-screening Q&A & afterparty
“New York Women in Film and Television”
7:00
JEAN GENTIL
Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas | DR/Mex/Ger | 2010 | 84min
*Directors in person
7:00, 9:00
___BAMCinématek___
THE DEVIL, PROBABLY
Robert Bresson | 1977 | France | 95min
“Bresson”
4:30, 9:30
NO LOOK PASS
Melissa Johnson | 2011 | US | 87min
*Q&A w/ Johnson; free
6:50
___BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center___
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___Chelsea Cinema___
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___Film Forum___
THE GANG’S ALL HERE
Busby Berkeley | 1943 | US | 103min
1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40
___Film Society of Lincoln Center___
JAR CITY
Baltasar Kormákur | 2006 | Ice/Ger/Den | 93min
“Images from the Edge: Classic and Contemporary Icelandic Cinema”
2:00
WHITE WHALES
Friðrik Thór Friðriksson | 1987 | Iceland | 73min
*Friðriksson in person
“Images from the Edge: Classic and Contemporary Icelandic Cinema”
4:00
ROGER & ME
Michael Moore | 1989 | US | 91min
*Moore in person
“50 Years of the New York Film Festival”
8:00
___IFC Center___
BREASTS
Meema Spadola | 1997 | US | 60min
*Spadola in person
“Stranger Than Fiction”
8:00
___Jacob Burns Film Center___
MABUL (THE FLOOD)
Guy Nattiv | 2011 | Can/Fra/Ger/Isr | 101min
“Westchester Jewish Film Festival”
2:30
MY BEST ENEMY
Wolfgang Murnberger | 2010 | Luxembourg/Austria | 109min
“Westchester Jewish Film Festival”
5:00
LOOKING FOR LENNY
Elan Gale | 2011 | US | 60min
*Q&A w/ comedian/author/songwriter Robert Klein
“Westchester Jewish Film Festival”
7:30
___Maysles Cinema___
PSYCHOHYDRAGRAPHY
Peter Bo Rappmund | 2010 | US | 62min
*Q&A w/ artist Sarah Oppenheimer & architects Wes Rozen & Uri Wegman, moderated by Paul Dallas
“Street Views”
7:30
___New York City College of Technology___
LAST TRAIN HOME
Lixin Fan | 2009 | Can/Chi/UK | 85min
“Fourth Annual Asian Film Series”
11:30am
___NYPL for the Performing Arts___
GEORGE WHITE’S 1935 SCANDALS
George White | 1935 | US | 84min
“The Great American Revue”
2:30
___reRun gastropub Theater___
SNOW ON THA BLUFF
Damon Russell | 2011 | US | 79min
3:00
___Roosevelt Island Library___
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Frank Capra | 1934 | US | 105min
6:00
___Spectacle Theater___
STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH
Ken Jacobs | 2004 | US | 402min
8:00
___SVA Theater___
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I'm happy again and like myself: 100 years of Gene.
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