From King Kong climbing the Empire State Building to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man lumbering through Columbus Circle, New York has been the setting for some of the most recognizable moments on film. Join filmmaker and author James Sanders for an illustrated lecture about the nexus between New York City filmmaking and New York City planning.
Robert Stern is known for creating a range of stylistically different buildings, from a Walt Disney project to a master plan for Times Square. Most recently he completed a spectacular new apartment building at 15 Central Park West.
Susan Haskins & Michael Riedel interview Bartlett Sher, director of the Tony Award-winning revival. Plus: encore of 1999 celebration of “South Pacific’s 50th Anniversary”, with Don Fellows and Ted Chapin; Features clips from both the 1949 and 2008 productions. Watch now.
This week’s Reel 13 indie feature, Cult of Sincerity, holds a unique place in the history of the internet…it was the first full-length feature film fully streaming on Youtube. …
Walking over to the shimmering New Museum to see the exhibition After Nature, SundayArts blogger Susan Yung stepped over a dead baby bird on Prince Street, and then some oily treacle running down the Bowery. It was a suitable overture to the show, which “surveys a landscape… darkened by uncertain catastrophe.” Read more…
What’s real minimalism? It’s not there at all. And that’s exactly what happened to Rhys Chatham’s eagerly awaited piece for 200 electric guitars, A Crimson Grail, on Friday night. But what about the other two performers — Beata Viscera and Manuel Göttsching? Read more…
The face of Catholic New York is being rapidly transformed by Spanish-speaking immigrants from Central and South America and the Caribbean, but many Latino Catholics are also turning away from …
The documentary about Petit’s legendary World Trade Center aerial walk opened in theaters last week; watch this post-9/11 NY Voices segment with Petit talking about art and dreams. Read more about the documentary, which opened in NYC Theaters this month.
Hosted by the International Documentary Assoc., a collection of 20 or so acclaimed docs will screen at Village East and IFC cinemas through the end of the week. A few of these docs have been previewed on Foreign Exchange. Read the full lineup here, including films about Liberia, water politics, a matador’s bio (pictured), Laos, Sudanese rap, more.
The Best Buy website has 3 songs from the Police ‘Last Concert’ encore from August 7 at Madison Square Garden, watchable online. They do “King of Pain”, “So Lonely” and “Every Breath You Take” here.
