Introducing “Viewer Guide,” your weekly peek into what’s coming up next on REEL 13, written by host Richard Peña. REEL 13 CLASSIC | SUNSET BOULEVARD Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard This week’s REEL 13 Classic is Sunset Boulevard, one of the best loved of all Hollywood film noir masterpieces, directed by Billy Wilder. By ...
The Westerner Saturday, December 9 Quad Cinema, 4:15pm Part of the series More Than Meets the Eye: William Wyler running from December 1 – December 13 Famous for his epic film Ben-Hur, director William Wyler made dozens of silent Westerns before the advent of sound in film. Wyler returned to the genre with sound ...
This week brings the start of BAMcinématek’s ninth annual BAMcinemaFest, a consistently bright spot in New York City festival programming. With an ambitious (and eclectic) lineup featuring premieres from both new and familiar figures in independent cinema, this year’s festival opened last night with Aaron Katz’s suspenseful new film, Gemini, ...
Night School Opens June 9 IFC, various times *Q&A with director Andrew Cohn Friday, June 9, 6PM; Saturday, June 10, 4:05 PM and 6PM; Sunday, June 11, 4:05 PM* If you had a second chance, would you take it even if it meant doing what seems impossible? Andrew Cohn’s new documentary Night School ...
Staff Favorite: The Films of David Lynch IFC Center March 24th- April 6th (various films and times) Starting on March 24th, the IFC Center is celebrating the director David Lynch with a retrospective of his films. Lynch’s films stay with you. He creates these scenes, these memorable moments, which linger and replay in ...
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes / The Illinois Parables Museum of the Moving Image Sunday, March 19, 6:30 PM Screening as part of New Adventures in Nonfiction Brett Story in person for The Prison in Twelve Landscapes If we were to crack open our country’s landscapes, we would find a record of human progress mixed ...
Agnès Varda is a gleaner. Like the potato-collecting subjects of her documentary The Gleaners and I (2000), Varda takes notice of otherwise discarded material and infuses it with a second life by casting her gaze toward the unobserved. What wasn’t captured in the frame of a photograph or a film? ...
By Meredith Coleman If you go on YouTube and type in “serpentine dance” in the search bar, films from the late 1800s appear, featuring dancers dancing against darkened backdrops. They move their arms as they hold onto sticks attached to the undulating fabric of their costumes. The fabric begins to rise ...
It’s always interesting to see how a book is adapted to the screen, how the characters, settings, and themes are taken out of the pages and visually depicted through the medium of film.
