Thirty years ago today, Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from the window of a Lower East Side Manhattan loft. A photographer, she was prodigious and original; she had been a star pupil at the Rhode Island School of Design and a contemporary of the Surrealists in Rome. She left behind 800 negatives and 120 [...]
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The Yes Men Fix The World opens at the Film Forum
October 6, 2009 – 7:08 pm
Hell yes! Starting Wednesday, Oct 7, Film Forum presents the U.S. Premiere of The Yes Men Fix The World – a very sharp comedy documentary about the exploits of those fabled agitators, The Yes Men – for a two-week engagement. Please see this movie. The Yes Men are comedy terrorists – or freedom fighters depending [...]
An American Journey – French Documentarian Follows Robert Frank’s Tire Tracks
September 28, 2009 – 7:56 pm
In 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans was published in New York City. The magazines that reviewed the book were appalled and the art of photography was open in a new way. Traveling on a Guggenheim Fellowship between 1955 and 1956, Frank drove America in a used Ford, cutting a jagged ring around the lower 48, and [...]
Claire Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum
September 15, 2009 – 5:25 pm
Finding the most sincere of relationships can exist almost entirely on everyday rituals, which at times corresponds to a mutual comfort in silence, the characters in Claire Denis‘ new film 35 Shots of Rum rely so much on their actions and gazes that every bit of dialogue is precious. That is not to say that their [...]
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
September 11, 2008 – 10:00 am
Much like it’s subject, Patti Smith: Dream of Life — a documentary about the legendary poet, singer and performance artist directed by Steven Sebring, now on view at the Film Forum — does not follow an expected path. Accompanying the singer and her friends and family through ten years of tours and travels, Sebring offers [...]
