The Pass It On Project is a documentary film by Melissa Nicolardi and Kalim Armstrong about education, race, and the relevance of the Civil Rights movement in America today. A three-year labor of love, it is finally being screened this weekend through Filmwax. There will also be a Q&A with the featured students, teachers, and filmmakers. [...]
Category Archives: Film
Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin
January 2, 2012 – 11:38 am
Tintin is a god to me. Surely this imaginary globetrotter seems real to most of us. He is also the most beloved of all comic-book heros worldwide – except in America, where he is inevitably confused with the dog, Rin Tin Tin - as well as the first literary boho “backpacker.” Too, Tintin’s second book, Tintin [...]
Matt Wolf’s Teenage
December 2, 2011 – 2:29 pm
Psychologist Erik Erikson once noted, “It is human to have a long childhood; it is civilized to have an even longer childhood. Long childhood makes a technical and mental virtuoso out of man, but it also leaves a life-long residue of emotional immaturity in him.” In other words: Youth is crucial. It’s fragile and complicated. [...]
In Conversation with Crispin Glover
November 16, 2011 – 3:40 pm
He may wear a suit and speak politely to each fan at length, but make no mistake, the well-mannered actor/director, Crispin Hellion Glover (most widely known for his role as George McFly in 1985‘s highest grossing film, Back to the Future) does not leave much room for social graces in his artistic approach to film. For [...]
Richard Kern at Anthology Film Archives
September 23, 2011 – 1:44 pm
Anthology Film Archives will be screening two programs of films by Richard Kern this weekend. Shot in the 1980′s on Super-8 and originally distributed on VHS , the films are described by Anthology as as “darkly comedic, shocking, sexy, disturbed, debauched, violent, and really quite wonderful.” They feature the likes of Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, David [...]
Wassaic Project
August 6, 2011 – 9:29 am
This weekend is the fourth annual Wassaic Project Summer Festival, which includes three days of events featuring exhibits with over 100 artists, 23 bands, dance performances, poetry readings and midnight film screenings shown in a big barn. Not only is this festival free but people are encouraged to camp on the grounds. There are so [...]
The Fist is Still Up
June 20, 2011 – 8:59 am
In conjunction with his month-long residency at The New Museum, Wu Tsang’s New York solo debut is showing at Clifton Benevento. The exhibit features work based on Tsang’s experiences with the Silver Platter, a Los Angeles bar that serves a community of predominately trans Latina women, and where Tsang also co-organized the performance night/party Wildness. He [...]
!Women Art Revolution
June 16, 2011 – 11:56 am
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson and scored by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, !Women Art Revolution traces the history and influence of modern feminist art as a collective movement, from its incubation in the 1960s to its artistic and political evolution in the following decades. Featuring interviews with and works by seminal artists, historians, curators and critics [...]
Dirty Old Town
May 24, 2011 – 9:05 am
Dirty Old Town is a fairy tale set on the Bowery, the story of a man about to lose his business and his mind. That man, William Leroy, is the curmudgeonly owner of Billy’s Antiques and Props on Houston Street, a shop within a tent that is a throwback to another New York. That Billy’s has managed to stay [...]
Zeina Durra & Elodie Bouchez
April 13, 2011 – 11:04 am
This Friday, The Imperialists are Still Alive! opens at the IFC Center. Written and directed by London-born Zeina Durra, who is of Bosnian, Palestinian, Jordanian and Lebanese descent, the film pulls from Durra’s life, focusing on a female artist of the same background, named Asya, living in New York after 9/11. Dealing with issues such [...]
