Best Movies by Farr: Vintage Coop
This week, Reel 13 airs the Gary Cooper classic, Meet John Doe. To mark the occasion, John Farr suggests a trio of classic Cooper vehicles.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT:
Simple country boy Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) inherits an immense fortune from a wealthy distant relative he doesn’t even know, and must then navigate [...]
August 10th, 2010 - 10:54am
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Reel 13 Short Film Contest: A Picture is Worth 1000 Words
This week’s Reel 13 Shorts, all silent films and past Reel 13 winners, are reminders to put our PDAs on pause for a moment and really listen. Watch all three shorts and vote for your favorite. The winner will air Saturday, August 21st along with classic, “My Man Godfrey,” and French indie, “Welcome.”
August 9th, 2010 - 4:16pm
Garcia’s Hate: Gossip for Intellectuals Done Right
Leon Neyfahk on French author Tristan Garcia's novel about a dangerously charming punk, a conservative intellectual, and an AIDS prevention activist — and how they destroyed each other's lives during the 1990s.
August 9th, 2010 - 11:25am
SundayArts: City Events for the Week of August 8, 2010
Christina Ha reports on what's happening in museums, galleries, and performance spaces around town, including the paintings of Charles Burchfield at the Whitney, and four women choreographers at the Joyce Theater.
August 9th, 2010 - 10:26am
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City Portraits: The Language of Tomasz Stanko
The son of a judge who also played violin, Tomasz Stanko, the Polish jazz trumpeter, was determined at an early age to be an innovator.
“In Europe at the time, that was not typical,” the 68-year-old trumpeter, who looks like a smaller and more svelte Elvis Costello with his goatee and prominent glasses, said. “We are [...]
August 9th, 2010 - 10:00am
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Reel 13 Shorts Winner: Half Love
The winner of this week's Reel 13 Short Film contest is Bulls+Arrows' Half Love, in which images of love-gone-wrong illustrate that love is more than what we’re capable of imagining it to be. Watch Half Love now, or Saturday at 9pm between the Reel 13 Classic and Indie on THIRTEEN.
August 6th, 2010 - 2:37pm
Apocalypse Now: Give the Film Version of The Road a Chance
Overlooked at the box office, last year's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is both true to its source and brilliant in its own right.
August 6th, 2010 - 2:27pm
SundayArts: For All the World to See
Most museum exhibitions about the Civil Rights Movement tend to focus on how images, particularly photographs, documented the struggle. This exhibition at the International Center of Photography asks an entirely different question, not how images documented the struggle, but how in fact, they became agents of change in the struggle.
August 6th, 2010 - 9:21am
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Swan Songs, Debuts, and a Big Birthday
A 16th birthday symbolizes a point in one’s life when big changes are sure to follow. Less pivotal (if nonetheless a major milestone) is one’s 80th birthday, but sure enough, on this occasion for choreographer Paul Taylor, revolution is positively rife in a free, celebratory program tonight at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
August 5th, 2010 - 12:39pm
Les Savy Fav’s New LP: Meet Me in the Dollar Bin
An online leak of the Brooklyn band's latest album exposed an unexpected precious side. Thankfully, their forthcoming Root for Ruin does anything but.
August 4th, 2010 - 8:06am
