events in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan

LITERARY TUESDAY's
7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC

February 13-Yura Dashevsk, an award winning screenwriter, author and documentary film-maker, reads his short stories on his encounters with “hippie Rabbi” Shlomo Carlebach, and other life-shaping experiences.

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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events

Hats and Perfume for your Valentine
Opening Reception
Friday from 6-9pm
Atlantis
351 Van Brunt Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn
Open Saturday and Sunday for your shopping pleasure!


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events—from Brooklyn to Dobbs Ferry plus Introducing a new blogger

LITERARY TUESDAY's
7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC

February 6-Chet Kozlowski’s stories have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Promethean, Fiction, Attic, Global Review and Guernica. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at The City College of New York, he has been the recipient of the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award, presented for a body of work; the Irvin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Prize and the Meyer Cohn Graduate Essay Award in Literature. He was also recognized by CCNY with a scholarship awarded by playwright Tony Kushner. Chet lives, writes and teaches in New York City, where he is currently completing his first novel.

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

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CFOW
Presents
“Sing Out For Peace”
A Benefit Concert for
“IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR”

Sunday
February 11, 2007
3:30PM
SOUTH CHURCH
343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry

Featuring One Song For Peace
By Each Of The Following Performers

Bob Campbell, Alyssa Cooper, Carol Duncan, Fred Gillen Jr,
Zach & Zoey Hart, Ahmed Kharem, Masters School Music Students
Maryellen McCabe, Frank Migliorelli, Victoria Miningham
Barbara Prisament, Gabe Shaikh & Will Berman
Golda Solomon, Stare into Space, Matt Turk, and Nate Wing
$10 at the door
for more info email:
susan@peacesistersandbrothers.org
or call 262-0914

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Introducing Jane of the Jungle, a new blogger!
Louise is a dear friend and an experienced writer, editor, and project manager of educational products. She has just posted her blog www.africajane.blogspot.com about her trip to Africa. Visit and enjoy reading Jane of the Jungle. She is looking for feedback and your comments are welcome.

Here is an excerpt:
Did you ever have one of those days?
One cold, foggy San Francisco morning I was unexpectedly asked to make coffee by my boss and I blew a fuse. But he didn’t know it. Little did I know that later that same day I would make a decision that would change my life forever.

And I swear the wine had nothing to do with it.

Thus began the wildest, most daring adventure of my life. This is a true story of mud, danger, and self-realization.
www.africajane.blogspot.com

events—Long Island City, NY

Gene Seymour introduces Jazz on a Summer’s Day,
Saturday, February 3, 2:00 p.m.
1959, 84 mins., 35mm
Directed by Bert Stern

Thelma Adams introduces The Last Waltz
Saturday, February 3, 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 4, 6:30 p.m.
1978, 117 mins., 35mm

Armond White introduces X: The Unheard Music
Post-film discussion with W. T. Morgan
Saturday, February 3, 6:30 p.m.
1986, 84 mins., New 35mm print

Jan Stuart introduces Original Cast Album–Company
Post-film discussion with D A Pennebaker
Sunday, February 4, 2:00 p.m.
1970, 58 mins., 35mm

Leah Rozen introduces East Side Story
Sunday, February 4, 4:30 p.m.
1997, 75 mins. 35mm

For more details scroll down to the January 31 posting.

events

WHAT ALICE FOUND

is now available on home video and DVD.
Ask your local video store to stock
What Alice Found and tell your friends too!

What Alice Found can be rented at
Netflix and purchased at Amazon.

Look for "What Alice Found" on the
Sundance Channel and Showtime in 2007.

Please support independent films!

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On February 2 & 3, the Museum of the Moving Image will present a weekend of great music documentaries including Original Cast Album-Company, X: The Unheard Music, The Last Waltz, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, and East Side Story as part of “Critic’s Choice: Great Documentaries.” Please consider a highlight of this eclectic exhibition of great films that celebrate music.

Presented by members of the New York Film Critics Circle, all these screenings feature special personal appearances, of which two will also be accompanied by the films’ directors. The legendary D A Pennebaker will discuss Original Cast Album-Company, the chronicle of the marathon recording session of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking Broadway musical (now enjoying a stunningly successful revival) featuring Elaine Stritch, “strung-out and hell-bent for perfection.” Also, W.T. Morgan will appear with X: The Unheard Music, a highly original, rarely shown account of the California punk group X, presented in a brand new 35mm print straight from its Sundance Film Festival screening.

All showtimes and descriptions (written by the critic who selected the film) are included below. To view the press release for the entire series, please visit www.movingimage.us/press/pdf/ny_film_critics_121906.pdf

Gene Seymour introduces Jazz on a Summer’s Day,

Saturday, February 3, 2:00 p.m.
1959, 84 mins., 35mm.
Directed by Bert Stern. With Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day. The concert film as impressionistic objet d’art; everyone caught by the cameras, whether on stage or in the audience, seems illuminated from within just because they happen to be at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. What will you take home? The image of sailboats gliding along dappled sea waters while Sonny Stitt’s sax swings in the background? The nostalgic shock of seeing Rheingold beer bottles and checkered fedoras? Or will it be Anita O’Day’s breathtaking deconstruction of “Sweet Georgia Brown”? Bert Stern and editor Aram Avakian give you plenty to absorb. –Gene Seymour, Newsday

Thelma Adams introduces The Last Waltz
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Saturday, February 3, 4:00 p.m. Introduced by Thelma Adams
Sunday,
February 4, 6:30 p.m.
1978, 117 mins., 35mm. Directed by Martin Scorsese. If the five people you want to meet in heaven are Martin Scorsese, Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, then The Last Waltz is absolutely divine. Directed by Marty in the fertile period between Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, the intimate yet festive concert film hits a genre peak and documents The Band’s farewell concert on Thanksgiving 1976 at San Francisco’s Winterland. What a cinematic dance! What a contact high! –Thelma Adams, US Weekly

Armond White introduces X: The Unheard Music

Post-film discussion with W. T. Morgan
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Saturday, February 3, 6:30 p.m.
1986, 84 mins., New 35mm print. Directed by W. T. Morgan. This highly original, rarely shown account of the California punk group X (John Doe, Exene Cervenka, DJ Bonebrake, Billy Zoom) is also an account of their brilliant lineage from 50s hipster lit, grassroots Catholicism, country blues, rockabilly, The Doors, plus genuine American punk rebellion and sexual morality. In other words, one of the all-time great bands put into perfect introductory context. Director Morgan innovated a mix of interviews while creating musical sequences that run the music-video gamut. X and Morgan make this a visual and musical thrill. –Armond White, The New York Press



Jan Stuart introduces Original Cast Album–Company

Post-film discussion with D A Pennebaker

Sunday, February 4, 2:00 p.m.
1970, 58 mins., 35mm. Directed by D A Pennebaker. When the director of Monterey Pop and Dont Look Back switched gears from the folk-and-rock world to Broadway, the result was a fly-on-the-wall experience that made musical theater seem happening all over again. This percolating account of the marathon recording session of this groundbreaking, quintessentially New York show (currently in revival) glimpses an exacting Stephen Sondheim in action. The redoubtable Elaine Stritch, strung-out and hell-bent for perfection, provides an unexpectedly gripping climax. –Jan Stuart, Newsday

Leah Rozen introduces East Side Story

Sunday, February 4, 4:30 p.m.
1997, 75 mins. 35mm. Directed by Dana Ranga. All singing, all dancing, all babushka-wearing. Well, not quite, but this delicious documentary looks at movie musicals made in Russia and other Eastern Bloc countries during the Communist era. Factory work is extolled in song, as is reaching harvest quotas. Stalin would have loved it; in fact, he did, watching Volga, Volga (clips of which are shown here) some 100 times. –Leah Rozen, People

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The Perch Cafe
LITERARY TUESDAY's
7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC

February 6-Chet Kozlowski’s stories have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Promethean, Fiction, Attic, Global Review and Guernica. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at The City College of New York, he has been the recipient of the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award, presented for a body of work;the Irvin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Prize and the Meyer Cohn Graduate Essay Award in Literature. He was also recognized by CCNY with a scholarship awarded by playwright Tony Kushner. Chet lives, writes and teaches in New York City, where he is currently completing his first novel.

February 13-Yura Dashevsk , an award winning screenwriter, author and documentary film-maker, reads his short stories on his encounters with “hippie Rabbi” Shlomo Carlebach, and other life-shaping experiences.

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.

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.

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

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STAGES, A Children's Theatre Workshop, Inc.
East Hampton, NY

Click on images to enlarge and register today!
Call STAGES at 631.329.1420

events—Long Island City, NY

Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 36 Street, Astoria, New York 11106

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (JANUARY 23, 2007)
Contact: Tomoko Kawamoto / 718.784.4520 ext. 225 / tkawamoto@movingimage.us

ACCLAIMED ASIAN-AMERICAN MOVIE MADE IN ELMHURST AND JACKSON HEIGHTS TO HAVE LOCAL PREMIERE AT THE MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE

Screening of Punching at the Sun with director Tanuj Chopra in person
Friday, February 2, 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Punching at the Sun, a gritty and poetic feature film by Columbia University graduate student Tanuj Chopra, that was filmed in Elmhurst and Jackson Heights and was shown in competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, will have its local premiere at the Museum of the Moving Image on Friday, February 2. Writer-director Tanuj Chopra will be present at the screening, which starts at 7:30 p.m., and is part of the Museum’s series Independence World Cinema Showcase.

Filmed on location in Queens, and featuring a remarkable cast of first-time film actors who were discovered at local youth and theater workshops including SAYA! (South Asian Youth Action) in Queens, Punching at the Sun follows the struggles of Mameet, a South Asian teenager, after the death of his brother during a hold-up at the family store. With its distinctive visual style, the film captures the energy and cultural diversity of Queens.

“It’s a grass-roots, community-driven film made possible by the generous donation of time and resources of friends, non-profit organizations, and the talented teenage cast that worked long film hours for nothing except the dream of creating a movie that reflected their experiences,” said Chopra. Dennis Lim, writing in The Village Voice, said that the film “has a tenderness and intimacy that recall recent small-scale NYC triumphs like Our Song and Raising Victor Vargas.” Film critic John Anderson wrote in Variety that “Punching at the Sun is a display of talents that are distinctive, original and iconoclastic.”

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Chopra moderated by Chief Curator David Schwartz. The Independence World Cinema Showcase is made possible with generous support from the Independence Community Foundation.

To schedule an interview with Tanuj Chopra or view a screener, please contact Tomoko Kawamoto at 718.784.4520 ext 225 or tkawamoto@movingimage.us

MUSEUM INFORMATION
Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)
HOLIDAY OPENINGS: Monday & Tuesday, February 19 & 20 (for Presidents’ Week), 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Film Screenings: Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings; additional as scheduled. 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

The Perch Cafe
Literary Tuesday's
followed by an open mic

January 23-Carla Gericke has lived and traveled all over the world. She is currently enrolled in the MFA program at The City College of New York, where she was honored with the $1000 Stark Award for outstanding short fiction. Her stories and essays are forthcoming or have appeared in literary journals such as Inkwell and Promethean. Before turning to writing fulltime, she practiced law in South Africa and California. Carla lives with her husband and three sad cacti in a decrepit loft in Chinatown. She is working on her first novel.

365 5th Avenue Park Slope, Brooklyn
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)

events—from Long Island City to Southampton, NY

‘YOUR CAREER IN ANIMATION’ INDUSTRY PANEL DISCUSSION 
AND BOOK SIGNING WITH AUTHOR DAVID B. LEVY



Friday, January 26, 2007

Museum of the Moving Image will present “Your Career in Animation,” a seminar featuring six animation-industry professionals, including two Academy Award nominees, sharing their secrets of success. The event on Friday, January 26, at 7:30 p.m. will include a panel discussion, screenings of the participants’ work, and a book signing by David B. Levy, author of Your Career in Animation: How to Survive and Thrive, who organized the evening. Admission is $10 adults; $7.50 college students and senior citizens; $5 children 5-18; and free for Museum members.

The panel discussion includes:
Ila Abramson, who began her career in production on Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, operates I Spy Recruiting, a company that specializes in recruiting artists for animation and design studios. Clients include companies such as Digital Domain, Blue Sky Studios, Nickelodeon, Electronic Arts, and Psyop.

Alice Cahn, vice president of programming and development for Cartoon Networks kids businesses, is responsible for discovering and cultivating a variety of new original series and specials for the network’s upcoming Tickle U, a programming block for preschoolers. Previously, Ms. Cahn was a development executive at Sesame Workshop.

Traci Paige Johnson is head designer, co-creator, and co-executive producer of Blues Clues, the popular and innovative series for preschoolers that is broadcast on Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr.

Bill Plympton, independent animator, was nominated for two Academy Awards for his short films The Face and Guard Dog. His work appears on MTV Networks. He has completed four feature length animated films, The Tune, I Married a Strange Person, Mutant Aliens, and High Hair, as well as the live action features J. Lyle and Guns on the Clackamas.

Michael Sporn, a professional animator since 1972, worked with such legendary artists as John and Faith Hubley and Richard Williams (“Raggedy Ann and Andy”) before forming his own company. His work ranges from children's book adaptations, which exactly reproduce the illustrators' styles, to wholly original creations as well as for-hire commercial jobs. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Doctor Desoto, an animated children’s short.

The discussion will be moderated by David B. Levy, an award-winning independent filmmaker and animation director for Nickelodeon's Blue’s Clues, Blue’s Room, and the Noggin Channel’s Pinky Dinky Doo. His animation has been seen on Saturday Night Live and HBO, and he is currently the supervising animation director for the Blue’s Clues spin-off show, Blues Room. He has lectured and taught at Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts, and New York University and is president of the New York chapter of Association International du Film d’Animation (ASIFA). His new book, Your Career in Animation: How to Survive and Thrive, surveys the field and shares the advice of more than one hundred professionals in the business of making animation. 


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: Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 6:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays afternoons (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. 

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.

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This Thursday, January 18,
8 pm $5
The Old Stone House
Fifth Avenue (btwn 3rd & 4th St)

Writer Adarro Minton is a survivor, who has, according to his bio, lived through “the disco era in New York City, in imagined opulent splendor at Studio 54...mescaline, blotter acid, cocaine, freebase cocaine, crack, danger sex in subway bathrooms, hunger, homelessness, and three serious suicide attempts.”

On Thursday he reads from his short story collection
Gay, Black, Crippled, Fat at Brooklyn Reading Works

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January 18, Thursday at 8:30pm
Don't Tell Mama
presents
"Evan Laurence – One Night Only"
343 West 46th Street (8th and 9th Avenues)
$10 with a two drink minimum
For Information and Reservations after 4 pm
Call 212-757-0788

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Register Today for
Stages, A Children's Theatre Workshop, Inc.
East Hampton, NY
February 26-April 9 for 8-18 year olds
For more information scroll down or
call Stages at 631.329.1420

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January 15, 2007 East Hampton, NY

Unusually warm waters and mackeral
may be to blame for Dolphin sightings in
waters on the East End of LI.

Rescue Attempt for Dolphins After Five Die
By Carissa Katz
The East Hampton Star

events— Brooklyn, NY

Literary Tuesday at The Perch Cafe

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a New Romantic known for sonnets, performance and politics. His tenth book, THE NAME POEMS, was published recently by Sisyphus. His work has been included in anthologies from Faber and Faber, Crown, Black Sparrow, Granary and Henry Holt. In addition to poetry, he also writes art criticism and poetry magazines. Recent work can be seen online at www.toolamagazine.com. He will read with Wanda Phipps, a writer living in Brooklyn, and author of 66 Morning Poems; Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets and Lunch Poems, among others. Her poetry has been published over a hundred times, in numerous journals, among them : Agni; The World; Hanging Loose; Longshot etc. She has curated several readings and a performance series at the Poetry series at St. Mark’s Church as well as other venues, and has written for the arts for Time Out New York, Paper Magazine and About.com.

The Perch Cafe
365 5th Avenue Park Slope, Brooklyn
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)

events—from Manhattan to Southampton, NY

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS HONORS MUSEUM
WITH AWARD FOR JACQUES RIVETTE RETROSPECTIVE
New York, January 12, 2007--The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC), a prestigious group of more than 50 film critics from the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines, gave the Museum of the Moving Image a Film Heritage Award for its recent retrospective The Complete Jacques Rivette. The series, which took place from November 10 through December 31, 2006, included the first U.S. showing of Out 1, Rivette’s legendary 13-hour film from 1971. This was only the second time in the group’s 40-year history that it gave an award to a non-profit film organization. 

The Film Heritage Award, which was given to the Museum as part of the NSFC’s selection of outstanding film achievements of 2006, is “for presenting the first complete U.S. retrospective of French filmmaker Jacques Rivette, including the premiere American showing of the director’s legendary Out 1.” Among the 55 members of the NSFC are critics from major papers in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and publications including Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, The Boston Phoenix, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Slate. Aside from Moving Image, the only other organization to win this award was The Museum of Modern Art in 1971 for a retrospective of Japanese films organized by Donald Richie.



The Rivette retrospective was organized for the Museum by David Schwartz, Chief Curator, and Livia Bloom, Assistant Curator. The series was made possible with the cooperation of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Film Theatre in London. The Museum of the Moving Image has helped coordinate a North American tour of Rivette films taking place from November 2006 through June 2007 in venues including the Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto), the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), the Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge), the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), and the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus). Also, due to the demand for tickets to the Museum’s sold-out screening of Out 1 in December 2006, the Museum will present an encore screening on March 3 and 4, 2007. Tickets are available by phone (718.784.4520) or online at www.movingimage.us.



Museum of the Moving Image is the only institution in the United States dedicated exclusively to the study of film, television, and digital media, and to examining their impact on American culture and society. A pioneer in its field, the Museum collects, preserves, and exhibits objects of the material culture of the moving image; presents 300 screenings each year; and hosts notable series of personal appearances, lectures, and seminars. In 2006, the Museum presented major retrospectives of the director Frank Borzage and the actress Anna May Wong. Upcoming series will include retrospectives of Edie Sedgwick, William S. Hart, and Samuel Fuller. The Museum is currently presenting Critics Choice: Great Documentaries, an annual program with the New York Film Critics Circle.


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: Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 6:30 p.m.;
Saturdays and Sundays afternoons; additional as scheduled.

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.

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Register Today!
Stages, A Children's Theatre Workshop, Inc.
East Hampton, NY

Click on images to enlarge or
call Stages at 631.329.1420
for more information.


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January 18, Thursday at 8:30pm
Don't Tell Mama
presents
"Evan Laurence – One Night Only"
Please don't forget to make a reservation (after 4pm)
for this groundbreaking one man show next week!

Don't Tell Mama
343 West 46th Street (8th and 9th Avenues)
$10 with a two drink minimum
For Information and Reservations
Call 212-757-0788

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On January 10 Clare Donahue of 121 Studios who I featured on urbanseahsell—a collection in August, 2006 forwarded information on an upcoming benefit for a screening on January 24th, 2007 hosted by The Farm on Adderly. This restaurant was written up by Adam Platt’s Where to eat in 2007, in the January 8th issue of New York Magazine under “Brooklyn Ramble” . Clare an avid fan of The Farm on Adderly can ‘vouch for how great their food is!’

EAT INDUSTRY is a feature-length film that documents the journey of this quirky husband and wife filmmaking team as they transition from the glamorous, fast-paced world of New York artists to the life of concerned parents compelled to uncover the truth behind the food they feed their family. 



Rod and Lilach’s idyllic vision of American farming is soon tarnished as they careen across the country in their rented RV. As they move through gorgeous scenery and rolling hills of fertile soil into polluted, over crowded feedlots, these everyday consumers see what their own demand for good quality, cheap eats is doing to American agriculture.



From tiny farms that struggle valiantly against the force of agribusiness to large cooperatives who channel their resources to do battle on a larger scale, Lilach and Rod meet the people behind the food they eat and discover the truths behind the food that we all put on our plates. 
On January 24th, The Farm on Adderley, hosts a benefit event for our film. The Farm on Adderley supports the mission of this film by sourcing many of its ingredients from local and sustainable farms.

My husband and I are local filmmakers working (for the past 4 years) on this documentary. So come eat, toast, and support our endeavors to finish this important film - we hope to see you all there! To watch a trailer or to buy tickets, visit our website at www.transformationfilms.com

On January 24th
Enjoy Seasonal hors d'oeuvres and organic wine...
then settle in for screening of clips from the film
followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and
chef Tom Kearney.

Tickets are available online or
by stopping in at The Farm on Adderly.
$15 before January 17th, $20 after January 17th

The Farm on Adderly
1108 Cortelyou Road
Brooklyn, NY 11218
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Clare Donahue of 121 Studios will be having one of her kitchens featured in the magazine Women's Day Kitchens & Baths, a special interest publication due on news stands in February.

At the end of last year Clare was one of two designers featured in an article entitled ‘Ask the Designers’ in New York Spaces magazine.