spring break events and beyond

In February '07 I introduced a long time friend, Louise Orlando, new blogger on the ‘block’o-sphere and creator of Jane of the Jungle. I remember when Louise & Andrew got their Toyota truck. What a beauty! She gave me a photo of herself standing next to Andrew, both beside the truck with the Golden Gate bridge behind them. That was the beginning of the journey Louise has so wittingly shared with us on her blog. I invite my viewers to continue reading the chapters as unfold. Comments are always welcome.

Excerpt
Chapter 3: Beans on the Manifold Zaire I am unstoppable. I dare anyone to get in my way. I am Jane of the Jungle! Seriously, I am damn cool. I cannot believe that I, mild-mannered editor and doormat, successfully operated the winch on the front of our car without loosing my head—figuratively and literally...

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The Perch Café
Literary Tuesdays
7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC
$5.00 cover

Perch Cafe offers light fare, desserts, spirits and good company.

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street
(btwn 5th and 6th St.)

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EDIE SEDGWICK RETROSPECTIVE FOCUSES ON
HER ANDY WARHOL FILMS 

March 31-April 8, 2007

Edie Sedgwick was downtown New York’s “It girl” of 1965, when she was inseparable from Andy Warhol and appeared in nearly all of his films. As Warhol said, “Edie was incredible on camera—just the way she moved. She was all energy. She didn’t know what to do with it when it came to living her life, but it was wonderful to film.” The Museum of the Moving Image will present the retrospective The Real Edie Sedgwick from March 31 through April 8, 2007, offering a rare opportunity to see all of Sedgwick’s extant films directed by Warhol, including rare double-projector screenings of the films Outer and Inner Space and Lupe. In all of the Warhol films, the camera runs continuously, capturing Sedgwick on her own, or hanging out with such members of the Warhol crowd as Gerard Malanga, Chuck Wein, and Ondine. The films are very loosely scripted, but are basically slices of life made during the heyday of the Warhol Factory scene. Among the Warhol films to be shown are Beauty #2, Space, Afternoon, Restaurant, and Kitchen. The sixteen-film retrospective also includes the U.S. premiere of footage of Sedgwick shot by documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock for a production of the opera Lulu, and the feature documentary Ciao! Manhattan, which was made shortly before Sedgwick died at the age of 28. Sedgwick was portrayed by Siena Miller in the recently released biopic Factory Girl. 
 “With her radiant beauty, and her equally charismatic and oddly eccentric personality, Edie Sedgwick was a perfect subject for Warhol’s unflinching camera,” said David Schwartz, the Museum’s Chief Curator. “There was a unique combination of presence and absence with Sedgwick, that meshed perfectly with Warhol’s sensibility.” Warhol himself had planned to organize an Edie Sedgwick retrospective in February 1966, but plans fell through when his relationship with Sedgwick cooled off. 


Organized by David Schwartz, Chief Curator. Special thanks to Callie Angell, M. M. Serra, David Weisman, and Richard Leacock, and to Anne Morra, Charles Silver, and Mary Keene of The Museum of Modern Art. 


SCHEDULE All films are 16mm, and directed by Andy Warhol, unless otherwise noted. All films by Andy Warhol are from The Museum of Modern Art.

 Poor Little Rich Girl
Saturday, March 31, 2:00 p.m. 1965, 67 mins. A two-reel documentary portrait; in the first reel, out of focus, Edie does her morning routine, applying make-up and exercising. The second reel, in focus, feels like a revelation: Edie smokes pot, tries on clothes, and talks with an off-screen Chuck Wein. 



Restaurant 

Saturday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. 1965, 34 mins. Edie Sedgwick and friends drink and talk as they await a meal. 
Followed by Screen Test Reel #10 (1964-6, 40 mins.) This reel of Warhol's Factory screen tests includes Edie Sedgwick, Jane Holzer, Lou Reed, John Ashbery, Jonas Mekas, and Paul Morrissey. 


Vinyl
Saturday, March 31, 5:00 p.m. 1965, 66 mins. Warhol's adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, filmed in a corner of the Factory, stars Gerard Malanga as Alex. But Edie Sedgwick, a non-speaking extra, steals the show.



Space
Saturday, March 31, 6:30 p.m. 1965, 66 mins. Warhol's constantly moving camera roams around its characters, in a mélange of talking, food fights, and folk singing. 
Preceded by Match Girl (1966, 25 mins. Directed by Andrew Meyer.) Sedgwick is mythologized by Vivian Kurz, who plays the self-destructive "Match Girl" in this allegorical film, narrated by Warhol. 

 Outer and Inner Space
Double-Screen Projection 
Sunday, April 1, 3:00 p.m.and 6:00 p.m.
1965, 33 mins. In this split-screen extravaganza, Sedgwick smokes and speaks about subjects including outer space, medication, and her family while seated next to her image on a television monitor. 
Preceded by Lupe (1965, 36 mins.) Loosely based on the life and death of Lupe Velez, this film, presented in its original double-screen format, shows Sedgwick as she listens to music, dances, plays with a kitten, takes pills, and eats supper. 



Kitchen
Saturday, April 7, 2:00 p.m. 1965, 66 mins. Sedgwick applies make-up, exercises her legs, is seduced by Mickey Trudeau, and discusses coffee. Written as a showcase for Sedgwick, Ronald Tavel's situational and episodic script was described by Warhol as "illogical, without motivation or character-completely ridiculous." 
Preceded by Restaurant (1965, 34 mins.) Edie Sedgwick and friends drink and talk as they await a meal. 


Afternoon

Saturday, April 7, 4:00 p.m. 1965, 105 mins. Made from footage that was cut from Chelsea Girls at Edie Sedgwick's request, Afternoon is part of Warhol's intended "Poor Little Rich Girl" saga, along with Restaurant and Face. 



Beauty #2

Saturday, April 7, 6:30 p.m. 1965, 66 mins. In her most complex, playful performance, Sedgwick flirts in bed with Gino Piserchio—and the camera—while responding to jealous insults from an off-screen Chuck Wein; Gerard Malanga looms by the bed, watching. 
Preceded by Poem Posters (1967, 24 mins. Directed by Charles Henri Ford.) Sedgwick is the life of the party in this priceless record of a star-studded art gallery opening, with appearances by William Burroughs, Jayne Mansfield, and Jack Smith. 



Horse 
Sunday, April 8, 4:30 p.m.
1965, 105 min. Sedgwick had a small part in this Western parody, her first Warhol film, which does indeed star a horse. The film is an important transition in Warhol's move towards ironic treatment of Hollywood genres. 



Ciao! Manhattan
Sunday, April 8, 6:30 p.m. 1972, 84 mins. 35mm. Directed by John Palmer and David Weisman. Sedgwick died just weeks after making this quasi-biographical film, which combines footage from her Factory days with scenes of “Susan Superstar” looking back on the ruins of her life. 
Preceded by fragment from Lulu (1967, 8 mins., video. Directed by Richard Leacock.) U.S. Premiere. This expressionistic footage of Sedgwick was filmed for an opera.

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SPRING RECESS AT MOVING IMAGE:
‘CHARLOTTE’S WEB,’ WORKSHOPS, AND
HOLIDAY OPENINGS
Please note the start time for CHARLOTTE'S WEB has been changed to
2:00 p.m. (not 1:30 p.m. as previously announced in the
printed Calendar and in the screening schedule).

Special holiday hours: Museum open every day from Monday, April 2 through Tuesday, April 10 Families are invited to spend Spring Break at the Museum of the Moving Image with weekday matinee screenings of Charlotte’s Web (2006) and workshops that focus on how E.B. White’s classic childhood story was brought to the screen.
The program will be offered every weekday from Monday, April 2 through Tuesday, April 10, 2007: workshop at 1:00 p.m. and film screening at 2:00 p.m. Both are included with Museum admission. Monday, April 2 through Friday, April 6 Monday and Tuesday, April 9 and 10
1:00 p.m

Book-to-Screen Workshop
 Children learn about storytelling and how an author’s words are brought to life on screen. After listening to a passage from E.B White’s Charlotte’s Web read aloud, children will draw their own representation of that scene. They will also view the same excerpt as reproduced in both the animated Charlotte’s Web (1973) and in the current film version. The workshop lasts 45 minutes and is recommended for children ages 6 and up. 2:00 p.m.

CHARLOTTE’S WEB
 2006, 97 mins. 35mm print courtesy Paramount Pictures. Directed by Gary Winick. With Dakota Fanning. Featuring the voices of Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, Oprah Winfrey. This quietly moving live-action adaptation of E.B. White’s classic children’s story “always strikes just the right note, honoring the spirit and humor of the novel without over-sentimentalizing its delicate themes,” writes Stephanie Zacharek in Salon.

As always, the Museum’s core exhibition, Behind the Screen, is on view, with a dynamic blend of interactive exhibits, historic artifacts, film clips, and artworks that show the process of film and television production. The exhibition Star Trek: 40 Years of Fandom, which has been extended indefinitely, explores the cultural phenomenon that has spawned six television series, ten motion pictures, and the undying love of a legion of devoted fans.

Also, in the first-floor gallery, the popular exhibition Digital Play includes video arcade games from the 1980s presented alongside contemporary home-based games--all playable.



Admission is $10 for the general public; $7.50 for senior citizens and students with ID; $5 for children 5-18; and free for Museum members. Film screenings are included in paid Museum admission. 

MUSEUM INFORMATION

Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)

Film Screenings: See above for schedule.

Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events)


Location:
35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.

Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street.
N or W trains to 36 Avenue.

Program Information:
Telephone: (718) 784-0077
www.movingimage.us 


The Museum of the Moving Image is grateful for the generous support of numerous corporations, foundations, and individuals. The Museum receives vital funding from the City of New York through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Additional government support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Natural Heritage Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation), and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Museum occupies a building owned by the City of New York, and wishes to acknowledge the leadership and assistance of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Kate D. Levin, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, Speaker of the New York City Council Christine C. Quinn, and City Council Member Eric N. Gioia.

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==UPCOMING BENEFIT: THE WORLD, EXPLAINED== April 10

826NYC, 826LA and McSweeney’s present THE WORLD, EXPLAINED An evening of erudite comedy and fact-based entertainment with JOHN OLIVER (Daily Show correspondent), DAVID RAKOFF (author of Fraud), JOSHUA DAVIS (the lightest man ever to compete in the U.S. Sumo Open) RODNEY ROTHMAN (Former Undeclared writer and author of Early Bird). The evening will be hosted by EUGENE MIRMAN. Using slides, charts, and other primary sources, our presenters will illuminate various topics, including: how to create boy bands; the reasons to hate Rent; and strategies for defeating an opponent four times your weight in a sumo arena. The event will also feature the premiere performance by FINAL FANTASY: ONLINE A.K.A. INTERNET, an indie-rock supergroup made up of DANTE DECARO and HADJI BAKARA (of Wolf Parade), NICK DIAMONDS and JAMIE THOMPSON (of Islands), AMBER WEBBER (of Black Mountain) and SYD BUTLER (of Les Savy Fav).

Symphony Space
Tuesday, April 10, 8:00 P.M.
2537 Broadway (at 95th St.),
New York Tickets: $21 advance,
$26 day of show Tickets available through:
www.symphonyspace.org or
(212) 864-5400
All proceeds go toward 826NYC’s and 826LA

==ABOUT 826NYC ==

Please consider making a donation to 826NYC. Your contribution will allow us to offer thousands of students free after-school tutoring, in-class support for local teachers, and creative evening and weekend workshops. This month alone we will: - provide free after-school tutoring to over 100 students in both our Williamsburgh and Park Slope locations - host visits from 9 different classes - work with students from the School for Democracy and Leadership to publish a collection of original stories - work with students from the Academy for College Preparation and Career Exploration to publish a collection of personal graphic narratives - work with students to create a comic book about a quest to stop an evil mastermind, choose your own adventure stories, a mockumentary film about retired superheroes, an album of original folk music, and more. Your donation will allow us to continue to offer free programs like these to New York City students and schools. To donate online, visit www.826nyc.org/about/donate To donate by mail, please make checks out to "826NYC" and send to:

826NYC Attn: Jennifer Snow
372 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215

events—Readings and Movies

The Perch Café
Literary Tuesdays
7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC

March 27-Paul Oppenheimer is the author of twelve books, three of which are poetry: Before a Battleand Other Poems (Harcourt); Beyond the Furies: New Poems (Editions Faust, Paris) and The Flame Charts: New Poems (Spuyten Duyvil Press). His poetry has appeared widely, in such places as Literary Imagination, The Quarterly Review of Literatureand, The New York Times. He teaches at The Graduate Center and The City College of The City University of New York as well as, frequently, as an exchange professor at University College London.

$5.00 cover

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)
WWW.THEPERCHCAFE.COM

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EDIE SEDGWICK RETROSPECTIVE FOCUSES ON HER ANDY WARHOL FILMS 
March 31-April 8, 2007 Edie Sedgwick was downtown New York’s “It girl” of 1965, when she was inseparable from Andy Warhol and appeared in nearly all of his films. As Warhol said, “Edie was incredible on camera—just the way she moved. She was all energy. She didn’t know what to do with it when it came to living her life, but it was wonderful to film.” The Museum of the Moving Image will present the retrospective The Real Edie Sedgwick from March 31 through April 8, 2007, offering a rare opportunity to see all of Sedgwick’s extant films directed by Warhol, including rare double-projector screenings of the films Outer and Inner Space and Lupe. In all of the Warhol films, the camera runs continuously, capturing Sedgwick on her own, or hanging out with such members of the Warhol crowd as Gerard Malanga, Chuck Wein, and Ondine. The films are very loosely scripted, but are basically slices of life made during the heyday of the Warhol Factory scene. Among the Warhol films to be shown are Beauty #2, Space, Afternoon, Restaurant, and Kitchen. The sixteen-film retrospective also includes the U.S. premiere of footage of Sedgwick shot by documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock for a production of the opera Lulu, and the feature documentary Ciao! Manhattan, which was made shortly before Sedgwick died at the age of 28. Sedgwick was portrayed by Siena Miller in the recently released biopic Factory Girl. 
 “With her radiant beauty, and her equally charismatic and oddly eccentric personality, Edie Sedgwick was a perfect subject for Warhol’s unflinching camera,” said David Schwartz, the Museum’s Chief Curator. “There was a unique combination of presence and absence with Sedgwick, that meshed perfectly with Warhol’s sensibility.” Warhol himself had planned to organize an Edie Sedgwick retrospective in February 1966, but plans fell through when his relationship with Sedgwick cooled off. 
Organized by David Schwartz, Chief Curator. Special thanks to Callie Angell, M. M. Serra, David Weisman, and Richard Leacock, and to Anne Morra, Charles Silver, and Mary Keene of The Museum of Modern Art. 


SCHEDULE All films are 16mm, and directed by Andy Warhol, unless otherwise noted. All films by Andy Warhol are from The Museum of Modern Art.


Poor Little Rich Girl
, Saturday, March 31, 2:00 p.m. 1965, 67 mins. A two-reel documentary portrait; in the first reel, out of focus, Edie does her morning routine, applying make-up and exercising. The second reel, in focus, feels like a revelation: Edie smokes pot, tries on clothes, and talks with an off-screen Chuck Wein. 

Restaurant 
Saturday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. 1965, 34 mins. Edie Sedgwick and friends drink and talk as they await a meal. 
Followed by Screen Test Reel #10 (1964-6, 40 mins.) This reel of Warhol's Factory screen tests includes Edie Sedgwick, Jane Holzer, Lou Reed, John Ashbery, Jonas Mekas, and Paul Morrissey. 


Vinyl Saturday, March 31, 5:00 p.m. 1965, 66 mins. Warhol's adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, filmed in a corner of the Factory, stars Gerard Malanga as Alex. But Edie Sedgwick, a non-speaking extra, steals the show.


Space Saturday, March 31, 6:30 p.m. 1965, 66 mins. Warhol's constantly moving camera roams around its characters, in a mélange of talking, food fights, and folk singing. 
Preceded by Match Girl (1966, 25 mins. Directed by Andrew Meyer.) Sedgwick is mythologized by Vivian Kurz, who plays the self-destructive "Match Girl" in this allegorical film, narrated by Warhol. 

Outer and Inner Space
 Double-Screen Projection 
Sunday, April 1, 3:00 p.m.and 6:00 p.m.
1965, 33 mins. In this split-screen extravaganza, Sedgwick smokes and speaks about subjects including outer space, medication, and her family while seated next to her image on a television monitor. 
Preceded by Lupe (1965, 36 mins.) Loosely based on the life and death of Lupe Velez, this film, presented in its original double-screen format, shows Sedgwick as she listens to music, dances, plays with a kitten, takes pills, and eats supper. 


Kitchen Saturday, April 7, 2:00 p.m. 1965, 66 mins. Sedgwick applies make-up, exercises her legs, is seduced by Mickey Trudeau, and discusses coffee. Written as a showcase for Sedgwick, Ronald Tavel's situational and episodic script was described by Warhol as "illogical, without motivation or character-completely ridiculous." 
Preceded by Restaurant (1965, 34 mins.) Edie Sedgwick and friends drink and talk as they await a meal. 

Afternoon
 Saturday, April 7, 4:00 p.m. 1965, 105 mins. Made from footage that was cut from Chelsea Girls at Edie Sedgwick's request, Afternoon is part of Warhol's intended "Poor Little Rich Girl" saga, along with Restaurant and Face. 

Beauty #2
 Saturday, April 7, 6:30 p.m. 1965, 66 mins. In her most complex, playful performance, Sedgwick flirts in bed with Gino Piserchio—and the camera—while responding to jealous insults from an off-screen Chuck Wein; Gerard Malanga looms by the bed, watching. 
Preceded by Poem Posters (1967, 24 mins. Directed by Charles Henri Ford.) Sedgwick is the life of the party in this priceless record of a star-studded art gallery opening, with appearances by William Burroughs, Jayne Mansfield, and Jack Smith. 

Horse 
Sunday, April 8, 4:30 p.m.
1965, 105 min. Sedgwick had a small part in this Western parody, her first Warhol film, which does indeed star a horse. The film is an important transition in Warhol's move towards ironic treatment of Hollywood genres. 


Ciao! Manhattan Sunday, April 8, 6:30 p.m. 1972, 84 mins. 35mm. Directed by John Palmer and David Weisman. Sedgwick died just weeks after making this quasi-biographical film, which combines footage from her Factory days with scenes of “Susan Superstar” looking back on the ruins of her life. 
Preceded by fragment from Lulu (1967, 8 mins., video. Directed by Richard Leacock.) U.S. Premiere. This expressionistic footage of Sedgwick was filmed for an opera. 


MUSEUM INFORMATION 
Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)
 Film Screenings: See schedule above for schedule.
 Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events)
Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.
Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36 Avenue.
Program Information: Telephone: (718) 784-0077; Website: www.movingimage.us 


Tonight at Cornelia St. Cafe—CD RELEASE PARTY: WORD RIFFS and MERGE

Poetry and Jazz: Partners in Perfect Harmony
Downstairs at The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, 212-989-9319
SUNDAY, MARCH 25th, 2007, 8:30 - 11 PM (sets at 8:30 and 9:45)
$15 ($10 students/seniors); one drink minimum per set

WORD RIFFS
GOLDA SOLOMON words
with CENTER SEARCH QUEST
CHRISTOPHER DEAN SULLIVAN bass artisan
MICHAEL T. A. THOMPSON soundrhythium
and
ERI YAMAMOTO piano
special guest SACO YASUMA saxophone

MERGE
CASSANDRA CLEGHORN poetry, voice
ERIK LAWRENCE saxophones, flutes
ALLISON MILLER drums
RENE HART acoustic bass, gadgets

”An insightful observer of the scene and narrator of a thousand hipper yesterdays, Golda Solomon lays it all out with streetwise authority on Word Riffs.” — Bill Milkowski, journalist, Jazz Times; Jazziz

“Merge is another step forward in celebrating the marriage of poetry and music”

— David Amram

“This recording is a keeper” — Mark Corroto, All About Jazz

The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
Greenwich Village, NY 10014

"a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" -- Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987

Tel: 212-989-9319 / Fax: 212-243-4207 / Web: www.corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Streets, Greenwich Village
by subway: 1 or 9 to Christopher Street - Sheridan Square;
A, C, E, B, D, F & V to West 4th St.

urbanseashell's—featured guest

Women’s History Month is in celebration of the women we know, love and admire. My next featured guest is an impressive young woman named Lori Donaudy.
Accomplished in her own right, Lori's journey was detoured by an unfortunate event which she turned around into a positive cause to educate others. Lori is a partner at the Long Island advertising agency freshbrick which she owns with her husband Don. A recent winner of the Mrs. New York State pageant has allowed her to join forces with Joe Torre’s Safe at Home Foundation. Lori is a dedicated and inspired woman (and one of my first cousins). Join me now in celebrating Lori’s accomplishments. Read the article about her in Sunday’s Long Island edition of Newsday. To help Lori put an end to domestic violence please click on her photograph and show your support. —Lisa

march-april events

Literary Tuesdays
7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC

March 20-Linsey Abrams is the author of the novels, Charting by the Stars, Double Vision and Our History in New York. Her stories have been published in such magazines as Bomb, New Directions Annual and Glimmer Train. Her work has been anthologized in Editor's Choice: Best Short Fictionand Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction. Most recently, she was a finalist for The Mississippi ReviewFiction Prize and a recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She has received many grants, among them New York State Foundation for the Arts. Linsey is founding editor of Global City Review. She directs the MFA Program at The City College. She will be reading with Ernesto-Mestre Reed, a native of Cuba, and author of The Lazarus Rumba and The Second Death of Unica Aveyano. He has received fellowships from The New York State Foundation for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn.

$5.00 cover

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)
WWW.THEPERCHCAFE.COM

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MOVING IMAGE TO LAUNCH 
‘FASHION IN FILM FESTIVAL’ IN NEW YORK
Series includes talks and screenings of Liquid Sky, Paris is Burning, Who Are You Polly Maggoo, Unzipped, Model and more

March 17-25, 2007
Museum of the Moving Image will present the inaugural New York edition of the new Fashion in Film Festival, from March 17 through 25, 2007. The wide-ranging film series includes lectures, personal appearances, and screenings of features, documentaries, silent films, video art, and newsreels. The program is a collaboration between the Museum of the Moving Image and the new London-based Fashion in Film Festival. The theme of this diverse and dynamic program, curated by a team led by the Festival’s founders, Marketa Uhlirova and Christel Tsilibaris, and organized for the Museum by Chief Curator David Schwartz, is “Between Stigma and Enigma.” The Festival investigates how the moving image has represented and interpreted fashion as a concept, industry, and cultural form. 

Among the films to be shown during the two-weekend series are: Liquid Sky, the 1982 New York independent cult favorite, a science fiction story about alien visitors set in post-punk downtown Manhattan—in a rare 35mm screening presented by director Slava Tsukerman, cinematographer Yuri Neyman, and costume designer Marina Levikova; Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s 1991 documentary about the downtown drag-queen scene; Fig Leaves, Howard Hawks’s silent comedy that transplants the story of Adam and Eve to the New York fashion world; photographer William Klein’s quintessential 1960s film Who are You, Polly Maggoo?, a highly stylized and satirical film in which a team of television reporters chronicles the life of a doll-faced model during a hiatus in her career; photographer Bruce Weber’s Chop Suey, an impressionistic and kaleidoscopic self-portrait and tour of the fashion industry; and a rare screening of David Byrne’s directorial debut True Stories.

 “Fashion has always been integral to film,” said David Schwartz, the Museum’s Chief Curator. “Both fashion and film are obsessed with visual style, modernity, and the physical expression of personality. We are very pleased to be working with the Fashion in Film Festival and its visionary curators.”

The Festival will include a series of talks in conjunction with film screenings: co-curator Marketa Uhlirova will present the opening program, “The Enigma of Clothing,” with early films by Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès, and Hans Richter and contemporary video artists; film scholar Drake Stutesman will introduce the screening of Fig Leaves; film scholar Pat Kirkham will introduce Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, and co-curator Christel Tsilibaris will present the program “Shoes, Eroticism, and Fetish,” which includes a screening of Luis Buñuel’s film Diary of a Chambermaid. 

In addition to Marketa Uhlirova and Christel Tsilibaris, the guest curators for the Fashion in Film Festival are Roger K. Burton, Alistair O’Neill, Edward Barber, and Adrian Garvey. Fashion in Film Festival in New York is supported by the British Film Institute, Czech Center New York, exposure, Fashion Institute of Technology, Film London, and University of the Arts London.

SCHEDULE FOR ‘FASHION IN FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK’


“The Enigma of Clothing” 
Illustrated talk by curator Marketa Uhlirova

Saturday, March 17, 2:00 p.m. 

The Extinct World of Gloves (1982. Imported 35mm print. Jirí Bárta.)
Ghosts before Breakfast (1928, Directed by Hans Richter)
Going to Bed under Difficulties (1900, George Méliès)
In a Hurry to Catch a Train (1901, Ferdinand Zecca)
Enfant Terrible (2000, Anna-Nicole Ziesche)
59 Positions (1992, Erwin Wurm)
One and One Now Make Two While Before It Only Made One (2000, Marie-France and Patricia Martin)
Chapels (Bernhard Willhelm) (2002, Diane Pernet)
Warner Corset Advertisement (1910, Thomas Edison)
A Week in Film (1947, Czech newsreel)
Tough Stockings (1960, British newsreel)
Total running time: 54 mins. Video and film. This program celebrates the secret life of clothes and the enigmatic qualities that emanate from the filmic treatment of their materiality. Clothes and cloth, when filmed independent of the body parts that normally give them meaning, are revealed as estranged, dreamlike, playful, and elusive—making them potent carriers of fascination, desire, emotion, and sensual pleasure.
Musical score by Karaoke Tundra/Muteme.cz.


Rear Window
With lecture by Pat Kirkham
Saturday, March 17, 4:00 p.m.
1954, 112 mins., 35mm. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With James Stewart, Grace Kelly. Lisa Fremont, Grace Kelly’s fascinating and high-powered character in Hitchcock’s classic study of voyeurism, murder, and the fear of marriage, is based on the pioneering fashion consultant Anita Colby. Bard College professor Pat Kirkham writes widely about design, fashion, and film.


Liquid Sky
Introduction by Slava Tsukerman, Yuri Neyman, and Marina Levikova
Saturday, March 17, 6:30 p.m.
1982, 112 mins., 35mm. Directed by Slava Tsukerman. In this time-capsule cult favorite, with plenty of early-1980s fashion, a pleasure-seeking alien lands in downtown New York and gets caught up in a world of casual sex and heroin abuse with androgynous hipsters Margaret and Larry (both played by Anne Carlisle). Director Slava Tsukerman, cinematographer Yuri Neyman, and production and costume designer Marina Levikova will introduce the screening.

Fig Leaves
Introduction by Drake Stutesman. Live music by Donald Sosin.
Sunday, March 18, 2:00 p.m.
1926, 68 mins. Restored 35mm print from the Museum of Modern Art. Directed by Howard Hawks. This joyful satire suggests that fashion is the Satan responsible for the fall of (wo)mankind. Temptation is found in a decadent couture salon on “rue de la Fifth Avenue,” and the climax is a parade of Adrian’s designs. Drake Stutesman, editor of Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, and author of a forthcoming book on fashion and film, will introduce the screening.

“Shoes, Eroticism, and Fetish” 

Talk by curator Christel Tsilibaris

Sunday, March 18, 4:00 p.m.

Diary of a Chambermaid
1964, 98 mins., 35mm. Directed by Luis Buñuel. With Jeanne Moreau. 
Preceded by Paris: Women's Shoes in Lafayette Galleries (1912, Pathé-Gaumont), The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903, Edwin S. Porter. Music composed by The Wolfmen), Amor Pedestre (1914, Marcel Fabre. Music composed by The Wolfmen), Shoes Talk Too (1949, La Settimana Incom)
Total running time of short films: 12 mins. Women’s shoes trigger amorous behavior and sexual fixations that can cause a breakdown in social etiquette. These films explore various routines of wearing and showing off shoes for the camera, focusing on notions of exhibition, voyeurism, and lust. In the Buñuel film, Jeanne Moreau is a maid at a country estate whose eccentric inhabitants include a boot fetishist.

Paris Is Burning
Sunday, March 18, 6:30 p.m.
1991, 71 mins. Directed by Jennie Livingston. A surprise hit when it opened in New York, this documentary reveals the downtown community of black and Latino drag queens who invented “voguing” and competed in lavish drag balls that both embraced and spoofed the world of high fashion.

Model
Saturday, March 24, 2:00 p.m.
1980, 130 mins., 16mm. Directed by Frederick Wiseman. Cinema verite pioneer Frederick Wiseman applies his cool, understated approach to examining the intersections of fashion, business, advertising, photography, television, and fantasy in the day-to-day lives of models at a New York agency.

“Assuming a Pose” (short film program)
Saturday, March 24, 4:30 p.m.
Four Beautiful Pairs (1904, Directed by A.E. Weed for American Mutoscope and Biograph.); How Mannequins Are Made (Italy, 1941,Giornale Luce); Mannequins for Sale (1938, Pathé News); School for Mannequins (1944, Pathé News); Volume (France, 2000, Jean-Pierre Khazem.); I Feel (2005, Jean-François Carly/SHOWstudio); It’s Like Being (Belgium, 2003, Marie-France and Patricia Martin), Photo Shooting (UK, 2001, Jen Wu.); Smooth with the Rough (1944, British newsreel); Shelley Fox 14 (UK, 2002, Shelley Fox/SHOWstudio); Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 16mm).
Total running time: 51 minutes. Video unless noted. Posing, dressing up, staging, and masking are at the heart of this program, which plays on cinema’s preoccupation with moments where reality meets fiction. “Posing” connotes not just a position or posture of the body, but also artificiality and pretense.

Lady with a Hat
Saturday, March 24, 5:30 p.m.
1999, 68 mins., video. Directed by Elsa Kvamme. This portrait film takes a staggering journey through the life and career of the Jewish hat-maker May Aubert, who used her millinery skills during World War II to smuggle money from Norway into Canada.

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? and Ceiling
Saturday, March 24, 7:00 p.m.
These films are powerful commentaries on 1960s fashion and cinematography; Ceiling (1962, 42 mins. Imported 35mm print. Vera Chytilová) is an introspective essay, while Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966, 102 mins., 35mm. William Klein) is an uncompromising parody. Like Antonioni’s Blow-Up, they take a critical approach to the worlds of fashion and media. Both Chytilová (a model in the early 1950s) and Klein (an on-and-off fashion photographer) were fashion-industry insiders, and thus ideally equipped to launch into a thorough investigation of the subject.

Chop Suey
Sunday, March 25, 2:00 p.m.
2001, 98 mins., 35mm. Directed by Bruce Weber. Part self-portrait, part documentary, photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber’s startling and unpredictable film about fashion and photography centers on the discovery of a young male model and includes a portrait of iconic fashion editor Diana Vreeland.

Unzipped
Sunday, March 25, 4:30 p.m.
1995, 75 mins., 16mm. Directed by Douglas Keeve. Photographed by Ellen Kuras. “Think Eskimos!” screams the outrageous, extroverted fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, looking for inspiration to revive his career after several bad seasons. The film shows how Mizrahi achieves creativity amidst the frenzy of supermodels, celebrity friends, enemies, and magazine editors, and stages a fashion show that saves his sanity and his career.

True Stories
Sunday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.
1986, 89 mins., 35mm. Directed by David Byrne. With John Goodman, Spalding Gray. In his first feature film, David Byrne used actual stories from supermarket tabloids to create an exaggerated patchwork exposé of American life. The stylized costumes play a key role in expressing Byrne’s incisive, cartoon-like vision.

MUSEUM INFORMATION

Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)

Film Screenings: See above for schedule.

Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events) 
Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.

Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36 Avenue.

Program Information: Telephone: (718) 784-0077; Website: www.movingimage.us

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Literary Tuesdays
7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC

March 27-Paul Oppenheimer is the author of twelve books, three of which are poetry: Before a Battleand Other Poems (Harcourt); Beyond the Furies: New Poems (Editions Faust, Paris) and The Flame Charts: New Poems (Spuyten Duyvil Press). His poetry has appeared widely, in such places as Literary Imagination, The Quarterly Review of Literature and The New York
Times. He teaches at The Graduate Center and The City College of The City University of New York as well as, frequently, as an exchange professor at University College London.

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events—Brooklyn and Manhattan

PRESENTS
PREVIEW SCREENING OF ‘THE NAMESAKE’
WITH
MIRA NAIR IN PERSON

Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 7:00 p.m. at the
AMC Loews Lincoln Square Theater, Manhattan

Museum of the Moving Image will present a personal appearance by Mira Nair with a preview screening of her new film The Namesake, a richly textured adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s bestselling novel. The screening, on Wednesday, March 7, at 7:00 p.m. will be followed by a discussion with Nair moderated by David Schwartz, Chief Curator. This event will take place at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square Theater, 1998 Broadway (at 68 Street), in Mahnattan. The Namesake will open theatrically on March 23.

The film will be released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Tickets are $18 public/$12 Museum members.
Visit www.movingimage.us to purchase online or call 718.784.4520. In one of her most vibrant and personal films, director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala) examines the intergenerational drama within one Bengali family who seeks a new life in America. The Namesake offers a fresh look at the universal conflict between the heritage of the old world and the allure of the new. Kal Penn, best known as the comic star of Harold & Kumar, gives a revelatory performance as a young man who grows up with the multicultural name Gogol. Bollywood actors Irfan Khan and Tabu star as his parents. (2007, 117 mins., 35mm.)

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This next event is sponsored by a friend mine from High School. We met 4 years ago at our High School reunion in Manhattan after not having seen each other since graduation, which was several years ago now. Evan, now in theatre presents the following:

Two Turtles Entertainment is proud to offer two tickets and a walk on role in "My Inner Mark Berman," May 3-21 at Theater For The New City, the new musical by Evan Laurence. If you happen to be in the biz and are an underground (or above ground) personality, you will surely be considered for a role as a sanitarium inmate and be featured as a guest star. This role will take you all of five minutes to prepare for, btw. If you are not an actor but would like to help us with our fundraising efforts, then please see our eBay advertisement below for an amazing opportunity!

eBay Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280083267425
The eBay auctions for the show are constantly ending. If you type in 'Off Off Broadway Gift Certificate' in the Search box, the offer will come up.

Have you ever wanted to show your talents in a theatrical production in New York City but don't want all those years of pesky acting lessons, just the thrill of being on stage? Well, now's your chance!

Two Turtles Entertainment is presenting the world premiere of the new absurd musical "My Inner Mark Berman," the comedic story of Mark Berman, sentenced to live his life in a sanitarium because another personality, the fabulous Cricket Santiago has taken over. Luckily the hospital has appointed the Rabbi psychiatrist Kishka Meldstein, assisted by Nurse Terry Sass-Poo who's gender is questionable. With original songs by Evan Laurence, this musical will prove to be a life weirding out experience! Not only do you get a walk on role, but you will also receive a gift certificate for two tickets to the show and your name will be mentioned at curtain call. The role and tickets are transferable if you would like to present a wonderful gift to a budding actor or actress. Professionals welcome as well!

Performances will Be May 3-21, 2007, 8pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 3pm matinees on Sundays.
All proceeds will be used for various theatrical costs such as costumes, tech and props.

Thank you so much for your help in our fundraising efforts. The more you bid, the more New York City will love you! This show contains strong language and gay content so if you are under 18-we're sorry! Please wait a few years and try again!

Viva La Off Off Broadway!










—Evan Laurence

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On my last posting, I introduced Cecilia Durkin, founder of Women’s Work. Cecilia and her company were featured in an article in the Poughkeepsie Journal on February 25, 2007.

The Fair Trade Federation is an organization based in Washington that promotes fair trade practices all over the world. Recently, the organization admitted Women's Work into its federation of certified fair trade merchants throughout the country.

Article excerpt from the Poughkeepsie Journal:
Most people think of necklaces, bracelets and earrings as fashion statements. Poughkeepsie resident Cecilia Dinio Durkin sees jewelry as a great way to help people in need.

Durkin owns Women’s Work, a store in Cold Spring that sells jewelry and other crafts. Many of her products are made by the impoverished San Bushmen tribe that live in a remote part of Botswana, a nation in southern Africa.

The jewelry from Botswana, as well as the other products in Durkin’s store. . .

Click on the link below to read the full article:

www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770224001

events— 2.27-3.11.07

Literary Tuesday’s at The Perch Café is co-curated by Pam Laskin, an accomplished writer and English professor at The City College of New York. Deidre, owner of the café, has graciously hosted Literary Tuesday’s featuring many great writers plus up and coming talents. Pam and Deidre invite you to join them on Tuesday nights for an evening out to hear amazing writers and enjoy delicious food and drink. Tell them Lisa from urbanseashell sent you. See you then!

The Perch Café
presents
LITERARY TUESDAY'S
7:30 pm
Followed by an Open Mic
$5.00 cover

February 27-Sarah Beck resides in New York City and attends City College’s graduate writing program. Ezekiel Finkelstein was born in Brooklyn, NY, and grew up swathed in his mother’s sweaters on the windswept Peninsula of Rockaway Beach, Queens. He is currently an instructor in the English Department at The City College, and completing an MFA there. Nikkiesha McLeod is the 2002 recipient of the John J. Wright Award for poetry, a finalist in the Hollin’s Poetry Festival and the 2006 co-recipient of The City College English Department’s Adrian Schwartz Award. Nikkiesha is currently pursuing Writing at The City College. Laura Modigliani is an MFA student at The City College, and an adjunct faculty member in the department. Laura’s poetry has been published in various online and print magazines, most recently in MiPOesias. Buzz Poole’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in ISM Quarterly, Kitchen Sink, Paragraph and Washington Square. He is the author of Playing Cards, a look at the graphic design of playing cards from the 1930s and 1940s.

March 6-Lillian Greene-Has had work published in The Heroic Young Woman and other publications. She has been writing since 1991, when she first moved to Brooklyn. Greene's strict upbringing led to serious subjects, including a painful autobiography. In her current work, she fictionalizes with more humor, drawing on memories, dreams, things she has heard, personal involvements. A memory of the telephone party line became the basis for a conflict between a farm renter and the owner, and an old model Studebaker became the focus of Love Affair with a Car.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 1st
6-8pm
A SMALL DREAM IN RED VOICE AND SAXOPHONE DUO
NORA McCARTHY & JORGE SYLVESTER
no cover $

THE PHOENIX GALLERY
210 Eleventh Avenue @ 25th St.
Suite 902
New York, NY 10001
212-226-8711


FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2007
8:00 pm & 9:30pm
NORA McCARTHY QU’ART’ET
Creative Music
Classic & Contemporary Jazz
Spoken Word

Nora McCarthy - voice, words, music
Jorge Sylvester - alto saxophone
Pablo Vergara - piano
Santi Debriano - bass
David Silliman - drums/percussion

Reservations Recommended
$15
212-802-0600

ENZO’S JAZZ
@ JOLLY HOTEL MADISON TOWERS
22 E. 38TH Street, NYC
(Madison @ 38th St.)

“...Her shaping of pitch often foregoes the fluid note-bending of the jazz singer in favor of the full press of a sculptor’s touch against viscous clay." RAMSEY AMEEN


MONDAY, MARCH 5
6 - 7:30 pm
Tulis McCall presents:
Monday Monologues @ The Cornelia Street Cafe
Nora McCarthy - actor/writer will be
among several other actors doing monolgues.
$6 cover

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
(between Bleecker and W. 4th Streets)
New York City, NY
212-989-9319

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In honor of Women's History Month, I would like to introduce the woman responsible for the next two events. Her name is Cecilia Durkin. Cecilia was introduced to me by Louise Orlando, the new blogger on the block I introduced on urbanseashell—a collection last month. Cecilia and her family have an amazing story resulting in their time spent living and working in Africa. Born from that experience, Cecilia formed the company Women’s Work. Her daughter Macallan has spurned her own worthy cause on MacAnimals.com. Read their amazing stories. If you contact Cecilia or attend one of her amazing events, tell her Lisa from urbanseashell referred you.

You're Invited To
Violinist Laster's First Performance to
Accompany Women's Works From Africa
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Celebrate Women's History Month with classically trained violinist Gwen Laster and her band as their music provocatively fuses with still and video images of women from Africa for the launch of this new multimedia project tentatively entitled, "Women's Work Honored" at An Afternoon at Long Island University (Kumble Theatre), starting at noon on March 7th (Admission is free).

As a violinist, Laster has worked with musical greats such as multi-platinum artists Alicia Keys, Shaggy, Angie Stone, Anthony Braxton, Jay Z, Hubert Laws, and perform live on Broadway shows like Miss Saigon, Carousel, Beauty and the Beast, with television appearances with R&B, Soul and Jazz artists Brian McKnight, Aretha Franklin, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, and Deborah Cox. Laster has been able to intertwine jazz, world, and classical stylings as a band leader and recording artist on two recordings, "Sneak Preview"(EP) and most recently "I Hear You Smiling" with a new CD to be released this Spring. Grateful for all she has accomplished in her professional career, Laster wanted to give back.

The question was, how?

Upon receiving several wedding presents from a newly opened shop called, Women's Work in her hometown of Cold Spring , NY, Laster found her answer. The owner, Cecilia Dinio Durkin and family had just moved back to the NY area after living the past three years in Botswana, Africa. While there, Dinio Durkin worked with women's groups trying to help them market their crafts in order to feed their families. The mission of the store is to provide a venue for women to sell their fairly traded crafts so they can retain their chosen/desired way of life.

After discussing the many ways Laster could help, the two women found a perfect fit. The March 7th performance of “Women’s Work Honored” taking Laster’s music and coupling it with images taken by Dinio Durkin and her husband, Peter Durkin would be the basis for a documentary Dinio Durkin had only dreamed of. But now, with Laster's pledge of donating a percentage of her CD sales and expressing an interest in writing an original score for the film, the dream is closer to becoming a reality. "With Gwen’s musical talents, strength and help, I finally feel the documentary can really happen. By preserving the women and their crafts on film would not only be preserving the history of crafts or culture in Africa , but also the roles women have played from the beginning of time." Says Dinio Durkin.

Women’s Work will be present with crafts for sale on the day of the show. Crafts include: Ostrich Eggshell Beaded Jewelry made by the San Bush Women, Hand Woven Baskets made by the Hambukushu women, Batiks and Hand Painted Bedding and Table Linens from Zimbabwe and Botswana, Marula Oil moisturizer from Botswana, and many more craft projects including those initiated by the many Peace Corps Volunteers and HIV – AIDS initiatives in Southern Africa.

For more information about the concert,
please contact Gwen Laster at
845.265.2878
www.gwenlaster.com.

For more information about Women's Work,
please contact Cecilia Dinio Durkin at
845.809.5299 or 845.518.2713
email: cecilia@womensworkbw.com
www.womensworkbw.com

AN AFRICAN TRIO!
...an educational perspective for women
Presented by
American Association of University Woman
Saturday, March 10, 2007
2 - 2:10 pm Business Meeting
2:10 - 4:30 pm Program
Friends Meeting House 249 Hooker Avenue, Poughkeepsie

We will have the unique opportunity to listen to three dynamic and informative African university graduates. Their presentation will focus on the field of study that most African women elect, the impact their education has upon their society, and the reaction of the male population to their education. Our speakers come from Senegal, Nigeria, and Egypt. Each brings different experiences and perspectives. There will be a Q & A at the end of the presentations.

Eudora Chikwendu, originally from Nigeria, received a BA in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania and her PhD in Political Science from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She continues to travel to Nigeria both to do research and to keep in touch with her family. Currently Eudora is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at SUNY, New Paltz, where she previously taught in the Black Studies Department.

Abeer Fahmy, from Egypt, obtained her BA in the linguistics and translation department of the Helwan University in Egypt. Her ultimate goal is to receive a PhD in order to become a professor in the same university. At present Abeer, recipient of a Fulbright, is in the Arabic Language Department at SUNY New Paltz for this year. She is also working on her Masters in Cognitive Stylistcs and Pragmatics.

Bintou Hinds, born in Senegal but educated primarily in Ethiopia, did cancer research in Harvard and then at Mt. Sinai. Having married an American originally from British Guyana, Bintou presently resides in Poughkeepsie and is a coordinator at Mike Arteaga's Health & Fitness Club in Poughkeepsie.

After the program, Macallam Durkin, portrayed in the Life section of the Poughkeepsie Journal on January 31, will be displaying and selling her very own designs of teeshirts, long-sleeve shirts and sweatshirts, as well as kits for bead making. The entire proceeds will be brought to impoverished children in Botswana by her mother Cecilia Durkin, owner of Women's Work, a fair trade shop in Cold Springs.

In case of serious weather conditions, the meeting will occur on Sunday, March 11. For further information, please call Gloria 845/635-1474.

Directions: From Rt 9 (N or S) turn onto Beechwood Drive. Follow Beechwood (it becomes Ferris Ln). At the end of Ferris Lane turn right on Hooker Ave. The Friends Meeting House is on the right at the 5th intersection (Whittier Blvd).

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David Schwartz is the Chief Film Curator (and friend of mine) of the Museum of the Moving Image located in Astoria, Queens. We attended college together and David supports urbanseashell—a collection by sending me listings of events at the museum. In turn I present you with the opportunity to visit this great institution. Check out the museum’s website and enjoy their online exhibitions. Then hop on the train or in your car and visit the Museum of the Moving Image. A visit you won’t soon forget! Travel directions can be found at the end of the event listings. Enjoy! —Lisa

SCREENING SCHEDULE
 MARCH 3-11

PRESENTS SCREENING OF

JACQUES RIVETTE'S LEGENDARY 12-1/2 HOUR 'OUT 1' March 3 & 4 screening to be introduced by Cahiers du Cinéma editor Jean-Michel Frodon

Museum of the Moving Image will present an encore presentation of Jacques Rivette's legendary 12-1/2 hour movie Out 1 on March 3 and 4, 2007 with an introduction by Jean-Michel Frodon, editor-in-chief of the French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma. The film had its first U.S. showing at the Museum on December 9 and 10, 2006, as part of the Museum’s complete Jacques Rivette retrospective. The Museum received a special Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics for the retrospective and the screening of Out 1.


Described by Dennis Lim in The New York Times as “the cinephile’s holy grail,” the film centers on two theater groups rehearsing Aeschylus and takes off into a complex mystery loosely adapted from Balzac. Jonathan Rosenbaum hails it as “the definitive film about the 1960s counterculture...its deliriously euphoric collective utopias, its ultimate descent into solitude, madness, and dissolution.” 



Out 1 Encore Presentation

Saturday, March 3, Episodes 1-4 (396 mins.) and Sunday, March 4, Episodes 5-8 (347 mins.)
1971. Imported 16mm print. Presented with softtitles. Dinner break at 5:30 p.m. Box-dinner will be available (advance order necessary). Directed by Jacques Rivette. With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bulle Ogier, Juliet Berto, Bernadette Lafont, Michèle Moretti. Two-day ticket: $32 public/$20 Museum members (free for sponsor-level and above). Note: Limit one ticket for individual members and two tickets for dual members.
Buy tickets online at www.movingimage.us or call 718.784.4520 to order.

To view the press release for The Complete Jacques Rivette, visit
www.movingimage.us/press/pdf/jacques_rivette_101906.pdf


Wednesday, March 7
, 7:00 p.m. (Pinewood Dialogues)

THE NAMESAKE

With Mira Nair in person
At the AMC Loews Lincoln Square Theater, 1998 Broadway at 68th Street, Manhattan
2006, 117 mins., 35mm print courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures. Directed by Mira Nair. With Tabu, Irfan Khan, Kal Penn. In Mira Nair’s vibrant, personal adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s bestselling novel, an Indian family struggles to reconcile their traditional heritage with the culture of contemporary America.
Tickets: $18 Public/$12 Museum Members. Call 718.784.4520 or order tickets online at www.movingimage.us.


PREVIEW SCREENING
Saturday, March 10, at 1:00 p.m. 

OFFSIDE
 Iran, 2006, 93 mins., 35mm. Made possible by Sony Pictures Classics. Inspired by the day when his own daughter was refused entry to a soccer stadium in Iran, Jafar Panahi’s Offside follows a group of Iranian girls who risk arrest to watch their team’s World Cup qualifying match against Bahrain. Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (2006), this richly metaphorical gem is a fictional film made in documentary style during an actual soccer match. A satirical comedy, Offside is the fourth feature from Panahi (The White Balloon, The Circle, Crimson Gold) whose cinematic style has been described as “Iranian neo-realism.” Sight and Sound called Offside, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, “comic and exuberant, bold and resilient.” 


The screening is included with Museum admission: $10 adults, $7.50 senior citizens and college students, $5 children 5-18, Free for Museum members. The screening takes place at the Museum of the Moving Image. For more information, visit www.movingimage.us or call 718.784.0077

Saturday, March 10, 
3:00 p.m. (Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima Diptych)

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
 2006, 132 mins., 35mm print courtesy Paramount Pictures. Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Ryan Phillippe. The first film released in Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed diptych about the Battle of Iwo Jima examines the cost of war and the meaning of heroism from the perspective of the soldiers who were seen raising the American flag in the famous photograph.
6:00 p.m. (Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima Diptych)

LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA 
2006, 141 mins., 35mm print courtesy Warner Bros. Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Ken Watanabe. This powerful counterpart to Flags of Our Fathers, which examines the Battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective, received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Director.

Sunday, March 11, 
2:00 p.m. (Fist and Sword)

VERSUS
 Japan, 2000, 119 mins., 35mm. Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. With Tak Sakaguchi. Packed with humor and no-holds-barred B-movie appeal, this entertaining action horror flick blends sylistic and anime-like Yakuza action and Zombie horror elements. Prisoner KSC2-303 is an escaped convict who is ordered by the guys who helped him escape to keep a girl hostage. He refuses to comply, and there's a gun fight, but soon they realize that the dead are coming back to "life" in the forest from which they can't escape.
4:30 p.m. (Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima Diptych)

LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA 
2006, 141 mins., 35mm print courtesy Warner Bros. Directed by Clint Eastwood. See Saturday, March 10, 6:00 p.m. for description.

7:30 p.m. (Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima Diptych)
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
 2006, 132 mins., 35mm print courtesy Paramount Pictures. Directed by Clint Eastwood. See Saturday, March 10, 3:00 p.m. for description.

Film Screenings: As scheduled above. Screenings are included with paid Museum admission unless otherwise noted.

Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.

Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36 Avenue.

Program Information: Telephone (718) 784-0077;
Website: www.movingimage.us

The Museum of the Moving Image is grateful for the generous support of numerous corporations, foundations, and individuals. The Museum receives vital funding from the City of New York through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Additional government support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Natural Heritage Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation), and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Museum occupies a building owned by the City of New York, and wishes to acknowledge the leadership and assistance of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Kate D. Levin, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, Speaker of the New York City Council Christine C. Quinn, and City Council Member Eric N. Gioia.

events—Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Reading Works

Thursday, 2.22.07 at 8 p.m.
Three Writers. Three Interesting Stories.

The Old Stone House
Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets
Park Slope Brooklyn

CARLA THOMPSON, an award-winning freelance writer and filmmaker, invites readers to travel the clay and paved roads of Montgomery, Alabama in her first book, a memoir, Bearing Witness: Not So Crazy in Alabama.
In Bearing Witness: Not So Crazy in Alabama, the Harlem native meets an itty bitty beauty queen, a redemptive ex-con, and a wheelchair-bound quiz kid among others and discovers that the American South is a complex intersection of race and class filled with people who go about the business of living the best way they can.

BRANKA RUZAK was born and raised in the steel and rubber belt of northeastern Ohio, the youngest daughter of Croatian and Slovenian immigrants. Her passion for words and music was sparked as a child, where she spent many hours listening to her father's stories and playing Croatian folk music in his tamburitza orchestra. Her current studies in Hindusthani classical music, as well as her enthusiasm for Indian novels, textiles and a good cup of chai have taken Branka further afield to India. Always an avid traveler, her essays and poems are journeys to different times and different places. Her essays "Hungry Heart" and "Mothballs: A Chemical Memory" is from a growing collection of writings about family, culture and travel.

MRS. CLEAVAGE, author of the blog MRS CLEAVAGE'S DIARIES, is a single mother who lives in a cluttered apartment in East New York. She is saucy, opinionated, creative, and a smarty-pants - not necessarily in that order. Her blog is her story, live and unedited from Brooklyn.

events—the week of 2.19

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February 20-June Stein is a director and actress, best-known for playing the offbeat heroines in plays by Pulitzer writers Patrick Shanley and Beth Henley. She has appeared in films directed by John Turturro, Tim Robbins and Sidney Lumet, and most recently directed the U.S. premiere of Cherish by Ken Duncum. Her poem Noon Dark appeared in the fall issue of The Bellevue Literary Review. She holds in M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and is on the faculty of Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts, Film Division.

The Perch Cafe
365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)

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“CATCH THE MOTION” WEEK
WITH DAILY MATINEES OF
‘HAPPY FEET’ AND WORKSHOPS

Special holiday hours:
Museum open every weekday from
Monday through Friday, February 19 through 23

Families are invited to “Catch the Motion” at the Museum of the Moving Image during Presidents’ Week with weekday matinee screenings of the Academy Award-nominated film Happy Feet and workshops that focus on the motion-capture technique used to make penguins dance in the film. As a special bonus, the screenings of Happy Feet will be accompanied by special, sneak-preview clips from the upcoming animated film TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). The program will be offered every day from Monday, February 19 through Friday, February 23, 2007: workshop at 1:00 p.m. and film screening at 1:30 p.m. Both are included with Museum admission. 

Monday, February 19

– Friday, February 23
, 1:00 p.m.

”Catch the Motion” Workshop

Children learn the basic principles behind how moving images move with a special emphasis on how motion-capture techniques were used to make penguins dance in Happy Feet. The workshop includes a screening of behind-the-scenes footage showing how Savion Glover’s dance moves were “mapped” onto animated penguins. Children will make their own Thaumatrope—a 19th century optical toy—to take home and will have an introduction to the Museum’s Digital Animation Stands to make their own cartoons and the new, upgraded Video Flipbook, now featuring images in color. Recommended for ages six and up.
No pre-registration required.

1:30 p.m.
HAPPY FEET 
2006, 87 mins., 35mm., Warner Bros. Pictures. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Directed by George Miller. With the voices of Meryl Streep, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Elijah Wood. With choreography by Savion Glover and songs by Prince, this animated musical about a lonely penguin with an unappreciated talent for tap-dancing combines dazzling photorealist landscapes, large-scale production numbers, and inventive direction by George Miller, whose eclectic filmography includes Mad Max, Babe: Pig in the City, and Lorenzo’s Oil.

As always, the Museum’s core exhibition, Behind the Screen, is on view, with a dynamic blend of interactive exhibits, historic artifacts, film clips, and artworks that show the process of film and television production. The latest addition to Behind the Screen is Star Trek: 40 Years of Fandom, a new exhibition exploring the cultural phenomenon that has spawned six television series, ten motion pictures, and the undying love of a legion of devoted fans. Also, in the first-floor gallery, the popular exhibition Digital Play includes video arcade games from the 1980s presented alongside contemporary home-based games--all playable.

Admission is $10 for the general public; $7.50 for senior citizens and students with ID; $5 for children 5-18; and free for Museum members. Film screenings are included in paid Museum admission. 


MUSEUM INFORMATION

Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
(Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)

Film Screenings: See above for schedule.

Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults;
$7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID;
$5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events)

Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.

Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street.
N or W trains to 36 Avenue.

Program Information:
Telephone: (718) 784-0077;
Website: www.movingimage.us


The Museum of the Moving Image is grateful for the generous support of numerous corporations, foundations, and individuals. The Museum receives vital funding from the City of New York through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Additional government support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Natural Heritage Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation), and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Museum occupies a building owned by the City of New York, and wishes to acknowledge the leadership and assistance of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Kate D. Levin, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, Speaker of the New York City Council Christine C. Quinn, and City Council Member Eric N. Gioia.