A rare screening of landmark New York place films by the great postwar photodocumentarians Rudy Burckhardt, Lionel Rogosin, Helen Levitt and James Agee. Continue reading “The New York Street — MOMA”
The Dogme Manifesto — How It Reinvented Denmark
In 1995, four Danish filmmakers led by the director Lars von Trier issued a manifesto, for film a proclamation declaring a set of aesthetic ‘rules’ for cinema.
According to author Patrick Kinsley, in his new book How To Be Danish, the Dogme manifesto inspired a renaissance in Danish culture. Continue reading “The Dogme Manifesto — How It Reinvented Denmark”
Margaret Mead Film Festival: November 29 – December 2
The 2012 Margaret Mead Film Festival of contemporary cultural storytelling will screen 29 films and host special multi-media events and performances.
Continue reading “Margaret Mead Film Festival: November 29 – December 2”
Director Lindsay Anderson on Britain’s ‘Free Cinema’
“Documentary cinema … I’m not talking about propaganda or film journalism or brilliant programs about animals or culture. I mean making films out of contemporary reality.” Continue reading “Director Lindsay Anderson on Britain’s ‘Free Cinema’”
Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues
MOMA –Thursday, Nov 15 at 7 PM . Theater 1 –
Robert Frank’s legendary, suppressed film on The Rolling Stones. Continue reading “Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues”
Film Forum
FILM FORUM —
MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, by Alex Gibney / November 16 – November 29
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE and ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM) exposes the abuse of power in the Catholic Church: and a cover-up that winds its way from the row houses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through the churches of Ireland, all the way to the highest office of the Vatican. Continue reading “Film Forum”
The Films of Jean Rouch
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES —
HERE AND ELSEWHERE: THE FILMS OF JEAN ROUCH, PART II / November 8 – November 15
Anthology Film Archives partners with the French Institute/Alliance Française (FIAF) for an extended look at the extraordinary films of anthropologist Jean Rouch, one of French cinema’s true visionaries. The selected films build their energy from the friction of unexpected encounters. Like the retrospective itself, these films pair here and elsewhere, bringing radically immediate images of contemporary life into contact with dreams, trances, flashbacks, and utopias. Continue reading “The Films of Jean Rouch”
Forest Of Bliss
UNION DOCS — BROOKLYN
“A classic of nonfiction cinema.” FOREST OF BLISS directed by Robert Gardner
“ … an unsparing but ultimately redeeming account of the inevitable griefs and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, one of the world’s most holy cities. The film unfolds from one sunrise to the next without commentary, subtitles or dialogue. It is an attempt to give anyone who sees it a wholly authentic though greatly magnified view of the matters of life and death that are portrayed.” Continue reading “Forest Of Bliss”
The New School Doc Studies 