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Brooklyn 30 Lafayette Avenue BAM RoseCinemas Academy Brooklyn NY 1217-1486 Pressand Promotions of Telephone: 718.636.4111 Molly B. Gross Music Fax: 718.857.2021 718.636.4129 x3 [email protected] News Release BAMcinematek Presents Movie Love, A Tribute to Pauline Kael (1919-2001)

Series features ten of influential film critic Kael's favorite films, including Intolerance, Nashville, Mean Streets, Pennies from Heaven, and Blow Out

Michael Almereyda, Jonathan Demme, David Denby, David Edelstein, Craig Seligman, Charles Taylor, Armond White, Stephanie Zacharek and other special guests to introduce fi~s ·

Brooklyn, December 18, 2001-From February 11 to March 12, 2002, BAMcinematek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue), presents Movie Love: A Tribute to Pauline Kaelin honor of the late Pauline Kael (1919-2001), whose strident, irreverent, yet heartfelt movie reviews for The New Yorker and other publications made her one of the nation's most widely read and respected film critics. The series, which takes its name from Kael's 1991 book of collected reviews, features ten films that won the critic's admiration during her 3 5- year career.

Kael ·s reviews-sometimes caustic, frequently witty, and invariably insightful-combined a sincere enthusiasm for movies with a keen understanding of their impact on society and culture . ...\natole Broyard of The New York Times once asserted, "Reading a Pauline Kael reviev, gives you a pretty good idea of the current state of our morality, our esthetics, [and] our politics ... Very few pictures are worth 1,000 of her words." Kaers self-described "gift for effrontery" attracted both admiration and ire from readers and fellow journalists, but her influence as a cultural commentator was unquestioned. "The manner of appreciation she invented has become the standard manner of popular culture criticism in America," Louis Menand observed in The New York Review of Books.

Movie Love: A Tribute to Pauline Kael, an eclectic collection of films with Kael's praise as their only link, reflects the unpredictable nature of Kael's partiality. The tribute begins February 11 with Intolerance (1916), D.W. Griffith's epic meditation on discrimination throughout human history; Kael described it as "perhaps the greatest movie ever made and the greatest folly in movie history." Other highlights include Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), which Kael called "the funniest epic version of America ever to reach the screen" (February 18); Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets

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General admission tickets to BAM Rose Cinemas are $9. Tickets are $6 for students (with valid I.D. Monday Thursday, except holidays), seniors, BAM Cinema Club members, and children under 12. Tickets are available at the BAM Rose Cinemas box office, by phone at 718.777.FILM (order by "name of movie" option), or online at ww,v.bam.org. A dinner and movie package on Friday-Saturday nights at BAMcafe is available for only $30 (at the box office only). For more information, call the BAMcinematek hotline at 718.636.,4100 or visit www.bam.org.

About Pauline Kael

Born in 1919, Pauline Kael studied philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley; afterward, she dabbled in experimental filmmaking and playwriting, managed two Berkeley movie theaters, and held other odd jobs. Kael began publishing film criticism in small niche publications in 1953, but did not gain national attention until I Lost It at the Movies, a best-selling collection of her articles and essays, was published in 1965. Its success compelled her to move to New York, where she wrote for publications like Life, Holidav, and Mademoiselle; she also held a full-time, tumultuous, short-lived appointment at McCall's (in which her famously scathing review of The Sound of Music, entitled "The Sound of Money," appeared). Kael became The New Yorker film critic in 1968, retiring in 1991. Her many writings include the books Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Going Steadv, Deeper Into Movies, Reeling, When the Lights Go Down, and Hooked, as well as countless essays and reviews. In 2000, the National Book Critics Circle honored Kael with the Ivan Sandorof Lifetime Achievement Award. Kael died on September 2, 2001, at the age of 82.

Movie Love. A Tribute to Pauline Kael schedule

February 11 at 7:30pm* Intolerance (l 916), 180 min, Archival print Directed by D.W. Griffith With ·Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, and Robert Harron D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking epic is an exploration of intolerance in all its forms, spanning nearly 2,500 years of human history. Kael raved, "It is charged with visionary excitement about the power of movies to combine music, dance, narrative, drama, painting, and photography-to do alone what all the other arts together had done." *Screening will be accompanied by Donald Sosin on the piano and introduced by David Edelstein

February 12 at 4:30, 6:50*, 9:10pm Rules of the Game (1939), 110 min Directed by Jean Renoir With Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, and Mila Parely Kael esteemed Jean Renoir's film about the moral bankruptcy of the wealthy as "perhaps the most influential of all French films, and one of the most richly entertaining." The film depicts a party at an opulent manor house, during which the superficiality of each guest is mercilessly exposed. Kael summarized, "Renoir's legendary butchered and-then-restored masterpiece is a farce about a large house party, gathered for a hunt, where the servants and masters begin to chase and shoot each other." *Screening will be introduced by Michael Almereyda

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February 18 at 4:30, 6:50*, 9:30pm Melvin & Howard (1980), 95 min Directed by Jonathan Demme With Paul LeMat, Jason Robards, and Mary Steenburgen Based on a true story, Melvin & Howard is Jonathan Demme's offbeat comedy about a down-on-his-luck worker whose chance encounter with billionaire Howard Hughes leads to an unexpected inheritance upon Hughes' death. Kael wrote, "This lyrical comedy ... is an almost flawless act of sympathetic imagination. Demme and [screenwriter Bo] Goldman have entered into the soul of American blue-collar suckerdom ... and they have made us understand how it was that when something big-something legendary-touched his life, nobody could believe it." * 6:50pm screening to be introduced by Jonathan Demme

February 19 at 5, 8:30pm* Nashville (1975), 159 min Directed by Robert Altman With Keith Carradine, Henry Gibson, and Lily Tomlin Robert Altman takes a candid look at American culture- through the lens of the country-western business-in this contemporary classic. "Altman's movie is at once a Grand Hotel-style narrative, with 24 linked characters; a country-and-western musical; a documentary essay on Nashville and American life; a meditation on the love affair between performers and audiences; and an Altman party," Kael wrote. *Special guest introduction

February 25 at 4:30, 6:50*, 9:10pm Loving (1970), 90 min Directed by Irvin Kershner With George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, and Sterling Hayden Loving is a bittersweet comedy about a middle-aged man's struggle with his marriage and his sense of self. Kael called Loving "a beautifully sustained piece of moviemaking by Irvin Kershner ... It looks at the failures of middle class life without despising the people; it understands that they already despise themselves. There's a decency almost a tenderness-in the way that Kershner is fair to everyone; he never allows us to feel superior to the characters." *6:50pm screening to be introduced by Armond White

February 26 at 4:30, 6:50*, 9:10pm Mean Streets (1973), 110 min Directed by Martin Scorsese With Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, and David Proval Mean Streets-a brutal depiction of street savagery and one of Martin Scorsese's earliest films-features Harvey Keitel as a man who is beholden to a loan shark in Little Italy. "This picture about the experience of growing up in New York's Little Italy has an unsettling, episodic rhythm and it's dizzyingly sensual," Kael ·wrote. "[Scorsese] shows us a thicker-teJ1.1:uredrot than we have ever had in an American movie, and a riper sense of evil." *6:50pm screening to be introduced by Craig Seligman

March 4 at 4:30, 6:50*, 9:10pm Pennies from Heaven ( 1981), 107 min, Archival print Directed by Herbert Ross With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken Set in Chicago during the Depression, the movie-musical Pennies from Heaven features Steve Martin as a down and-out salesman of sheet music who seduces a naive schoolteacher (Bernadette Peters). Kael reveled in the fact that "When the characters can't say how they feel, they open their mouths, and the voices on hit records of the 30s come out of them. As they lip-sync the lyrics their obsessed eyes are burning bright ... There's something new going on-something thrilling-when the characters in a musical are archetypes yet are intensely alive." *6:50pm screening to be introduced by Stephanie Zacharek more ... Movie Love: A Tribute to Pauline Kael, 4

March 5 at 7pm only* The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963), 205 min, in Italian with English subtitles, Archival print Directed by Luchino Visconti With Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, and Alain Delon The Leopard-which Kael described as "a sweeping popular epic, with obvious similarities to Gone with the Wind, and with an almost Chekhovian sensibility"-is widely considered Luchino Visconti's greatest film. Set in the ''New Italy" of the 1860s, The Leopard follows an aging aristocrat as he seeks a place for himself and his values in a changing society. Kael observed, ''We couldn't be any closer to [Burt] Lancaster's Prince if we were inside his skin ... We see what he sees, feel what he feels, and, in the last hour ... we' re inside his mind as he relives his life, experiences regret, and accepts the dying of his class and his own death. It's one of the greatest of all passages in movies." *Special guest introduction

March 11 at 4:30, 6:50*, 9:10pm Blow Out (1981 ), I 07 min Directed by Brian De Palma With John Travolta, Nancy Allen, and John Lithgow Brian De Palma's thriller Blow Out stars John Travolta as a movie sound man who stumbles upon a murder plot when he rescues a woman from a car crash (Nancy Allen). Kael wrote of the film, "It's hallucinatory, and it has a dreamlike clarity and inevitability, but you'll never make the mistake of thinking it's only a dream .. .It's as if De Palma had finally understood what technique is for; this is the first film he has made about the things that really matter to him." *6:50pm screening to be introduced by David Denby

March 12 at 4:30, 6:50*, 9: 10pm Night of the Shooting Stars (La Notte di San Lorenzo) (1982), 107 min, in Italian with English subtitles Directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani With Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, and Miriam Guidelli Set in the Tuscan countryside during the post-World War II conflict between Italian fascists and peasants, Night of the Shooting Stars presents a potent combination of historical events and autobiographical elements. A young girl observes the evacuation of her village and sees the extremes of human nature, from the horrors of war to the tenderness of romantic love. Kael observed, "this film ... may rank close to Renoir's bafflingly beautiful Grande Illusion ... The full fresco treatment ... is based on [the directors'] own wartime experiences as adolescents, and on the accounts of others; it's this teeming, fecund miA'ture, fermenting in their heads for almost 40 years, that produces the film's giddy, hallucinatory realism." *6:50pm screening to be introduced by Charles Taylor

Credits

BAMcinematek is made possible through the leadership support of The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust. The BAM Rose Cinemas are named in recognition of a major gift in honor of Jonathan F.P. and Diana Calthorpe Rose. BAM Rose Cinemas would also like to acknowledge the generous support of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Richard B. Fisher and Jeanne Donovan Fisher, the Brooklyn Borough President, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, HSBC Bank USA, The Liman Foundation, Bloomberg Radio AMI 130, Coca-Cola Enterprise of New York. and Bowne of New York.

BAA1cinemarek would like to offer special thanks to Gina James, David Edelstein, David Denby. the New Yorker, John Kirk/MGM-UA, Emma Merrigan/BF!, Bill Robens/WB, Caroline Yeager and Stacey Vandenburgh/GER, Michael Schlesinger/Columbia Repertory, Jodie Gwydir/Paramount, Jeff Reichert/CowboyPictures, Martin Scorsese and Mark McElhatten/Cappa Production.

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BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, BAMcafe, and Shakespeare & Co. BAMshop are located in the main building at 30 Lafayette Avenue (Lafayette and Ashland) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and Rockwell) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn's only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. J.A.M Catering Services provides food and beverages at BAMcafe, which features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music on Friday and Saturday nights as well as Sounds of Praise (live gospel music with a soul-food buffet) on selected Sunday afternoons. A package including dinner in BAMcafe and a movie ticket to BAM Rose Cinemas is available for only $30 (at the box office only). BAMcafe is open Friday-Saturday from 5-10:30pm and Sundays from noon-8pm. Additionally, dinner is served from 5-7:30pm on all Monday-Thursday mainstage performance nights.

Subway: 1, 2, 4, 5, Q Local (formerly D), and Q Express (formerly Q) to Atlantic Avenue* W (formerly B), M, N, R to Pacific Street*; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush Avenue Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM.

* Please note the Manhattan Bridge service changes affecting the former B/D/Q trains. For more information on these changes and others resulting from the recent World Trade Center disaster, call the MTA's Hotline, 718.521.3333, or visit www.mta.nyc.ny.us.

For ticket and BAMbus information, call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100, or visit www.bam.org.

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Music Fax: 718.857.2021 718.636.4129 x3 [email protected] News Release

BAMcinematek Presents The Next Director: Ulrich Seidl, First New York Retrospective of the Provocative Austrian Filmmaker's Work

Series includes five New York premieres, and screens in conjunction with BAM's 20th Next Wave Festival

Seidl will participate in Q&As following screenings of Dog Days (Hum/stage) on October 17 and Animal Love (Tierisc/ie Liebe) on October 19

Brooklyn, August 27, 2002- From October 17-20, BAMcinematek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue), will present the first New York retrospective of works by Ulrich Seidl, the award-winning and controversial Austrian filmmaker, featuring six New York premieres. International film critics have hailed Seidl's sexy, violent, sadistic, and humorous films as eccentric yet extraordinary works of cinema. His documentaries and narrative works most of which focus on unconventional, often-taboo subjects-are '·a wild blend of staged and 'authentic· details, of the imaginary and the 'real'," according to Film Conunent.

The series opens October 17 with Seidl's '•vibrantly inventive, aesthetically rigorous" (Varietv) Dog Days (Hundstage) (2001), which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. Seidl will participate in a special Q&A following the 6:20pm screening of the film. Other highlights include the controversial documentary Animal Love (Tierische Liebe) (1995), described as '·a detem1inedly uncham1ing look at pet owriers and their aberrations" by The Guardian (U.K.), followed by another Q&A with Seidl (October 19): Models (1999), a scathingly candid look at the modeling industry (October 19): and Good News~Von Kolporteuren. toten Hunden und andered Wienern (1990), a semi-documentary examining the Asian-immigrant experience in Austria (October 20).

The complete schedule for The Next Director: Ulrich Seidl follows.

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BAMcinematek and the 20th Ne\.iWave Festival

In addition to the NextNext CinemaS!am, BAMcinematek presents three special programs saluting the spirit of independence, creativity, and innovative artistry embodied by the Next Wave Festival. An Independent Spirit (October 10-13) features three films by Victor Erice, the Spanish filnunaker known for both his eye for composition and his umYil!ingness to compromise. The Next Director (October l 7-20) presents the films of Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, which explore odd slices of the human experience. Reno\'med curator Mark McElhatten has designed a December program featuring some of the best New York avant-garde films of the past five years, entitled Avant-Garde New York. Separate press release ,Yill be available for each program.

General admission tickets to BAM Rose Cinemas are $9. Tickets are $6 for students (with valid I.D. Monday Thursday, except holidays), seniors, BAM Cinema Club members, and children under twelve. Tickets are available at the BAM Rose Cinemas box office, by phone at 718. 777 .FILM (order by '·name of movie" option), or online at www.bam.org. A di1mer and movie package on Friday and Saturday nights at BAMcafe is available for only $30 (at the box office only). For more infonnation. call the BAMcinematek hotline at 718.636.4100 or visit ,,,,w.bam.org.

About Ulrich Seidl

Over the past decade, Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl has gained recognition in Europe and acclaim for his strange yet insightful films, many of which explore perverse subjects and themes. His provocative documentaries integrate semi-staged, hyper-realistic elements in addition to organic ones. '·It vrns never my intention to make so called documentaries," says Seidl in a recent interview ,,·ith the Globe & Mail (Canada). ''From the first moment I was fascinated by the tension benveen two different processes: the process of pure documentation and the process of staging. The decision to start with documentaries was a question of freedom, to make films the way I imagined them.·'

Born in 1952 in Vie,ma, Seidl studied at the Viennese Film Academy. He created his first documentary, Einsvierzig, in 1980, followed by The Ball (Der Ball) in 1982. Other documentaries include Loss Is To Be Expected (Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen) (1992); Animal Love (Tierische Liebe) (1995): and Models (1998). His works for television include Die letzten Manner ( 1994 ), Bilder einer Ausstellung ( 1996), Der Busenfreund (1997), and Fun withollf Limits (Spass ohne Grenzen) (1998). The award-wi1ming Dog Days (Hundstage) (2001) marked Seidl"s debut as a feature filmmaker.

The Next Director.· Ulrich Seidl schedule All films are New York premieres except Dog Days, and all are in Gennan \\'ith English subtitles.

October 17 at 6:20*, 9:30pm Dog Days (Hund~toge) (2001), 121 min With Maria Hofstatter, Christine Jirku, and Victor Hennemann Dog Days, Seidl"s first fictional feature and wi1mer of the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, is reminiscent of the filnunaker's earlier, bmtally honest documentaries. Dog Days satirizes middle class ideals with a vvicked sense of humor by loosely interweaving six distinct stories. The film· s graphic depictions of the sex, violence, and sadism that take place in an Austrian suburb over the course of a hot weekend led Elvis Mitchell in The New York Times to write, ··Mr. Seidl has done something that sits in your head: his movie feels both flamboyant and deadpan. With Dog Days, which achieves a verisimilitude that most directors would envy, he has made an engrossing and disturbing film." * A Q&A with director Ulrich Seidl will follow the 6:20pm screening.

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October 18 at 6:50, 9: l Opm Loss Is To Be Expected (Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen) (l 992), 118 min Loss Is To Be Expected contrasts two distinct townships by documenting a retired man· s attempts to \Yin the love of a woman; he lives in a prosperous Gennan city. while she lives a fe,,-miles mvay in a poor Czech village across the border. Breaking with documentary tradition, Seidl creates absurd situations for his subjects and records their reactions to it, while laying bare their emotions. The film received the Special Jury Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.

October 19 at 4:15, 9:30pm Models (l 999), 118 min With Vivian Bartsch, Lisa Grossman. and Tanja Petrovsky Seidl follo,Ys the lives of several aspiring models in Austria as they attend photo shoots_ pursue love affairs, and race to endless nightclubs and parties. Focusing his lens on potential jealousies and backstabbing, Seidl creates surprising portraits of these unusually guarded women and their attempts to succeed in a world rife with objectification. superficiality, and sexism.

October 19 at 2, 6:30pm* Animal Love (Tierische Liebe) (1995), 120 min Animal Love, perhaps Seidl's most controversial film, portrays modem life as one so lonely that humans must turn to pets for affection-at times in very intimate ways. According to the Village Voice, ·The subjects of Animal Love are a group of Vie1mese pet owners, nearly all of,,hom have given up on human beings and are obsessed-at times erotically-by their four-legged pals. Filnu11aker Werner Herzog said of the film, ··1 have never looked so directly into hell in the cinema." * A Q&A with Ulrich Seidl follows the 6:30pm screening.

October 20 at 2, 6:30pm Good News-Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden um/ andered Wienern (1990), 126 min Good News is a semi-documentary about Asian inm1igrants who come to Austria looking for a new life, finding work as street cleaners and newspaper vendors. According to Seidl, --For every image of a well-dressed Viennese lady walking through the streets with her pampered dog. I presei1t two of the underbelly of Vie1mese guestworkers. ,.

October 20 at 4:30, 9:30pm The Bosom Friend (Der Busenji-eund) ( 1997), 60 min The Bosom Friend is a bizarre portrait of a math teacher in a small tov,11who is obsessed ,Yith women ·s breasts. He lives with his mother who he finds flat-chested and is obsessed with the actress, sex-symbol Santa Berger. In this oddly captivating film, Seidl displays his exceptional ability to discover and document the lives of outsider personalities.

Credits

BAMcinematek is made possible through the leadership support of The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust. BAM Rose Cinemas is named in recognition of a major gift in honor of Jonathan F _p_and Diana Calthorpe Rose. BAM Rose Cinemas would also like to acknowledge the generous support of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Richard B. Fisher and Jea.ime Donovan Fisher, James Ottaway, Jr., Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, HSBC Bank USA, Bloomberg Radio AMl 130, and Bowne Enterprise Solutions. French films a.re supported by The Florence Gould Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York. Russian and Eastern European Films are supported by The Trust for Mutual Understanding. Additional support is provided by The Grodzins Fund and Coca-Cola Enterprise of New York. Support for The Next Director: Ulrich Seidl is provided by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

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BA.\lcinematekwould like to offer special thanks to Ulrich Seidl. Veronika Franz, Martin Schweighofer/Austrian Film Commission, Gabrielle Demeestere/The Coproduction Office. Karin.Girsch/ Allegro Film. Monika Lendl/Lotus Film. Hans Selikovsky. Dr. Herbert Pichler/Austrian Cultural Forum, and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

General information

BAM Ho\\'ard Gilman Opera House. BAM Rose Cinemas. BAMcafe. and Shakespeare & Co. BAMshop are located in the main building at 30 Lafayette Avenue (Lafayette and Ashland) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located at 651 Fulton Street (between Ash.land and Rock,Yell) in Fort Greene. Brooklyn. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn·s only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. J.A.M Catering Services provides food and beverages at BAMcafe. which feah1res an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music on Friday and Saturday nights as well as Sounds of Praise (live gospel music with a soul-food buffet) on selected Sunday afternoons. A package including dinner in BAMcafe and a movie tic,ket to BAM Rose Cinemas is available for only $30 (at the box office only). BAMcafe is open Friday-Sahlfday from 5-10:30pm and Sundays from 2-8pm. Additionally. dinner is served from 5-7:30pm on all Monday-Wednesday mainstage performance nights.

l. 2. -l. 5. Q Local. and Q Express to Atlantic Avenue W. M. N. R to Pacific Street: G to Fulton Street: C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush A\'enue Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM.

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NewsRelease BAMcinematek Presents CinemaSlam: NextNext Films, October 31

Do-It-Yourself marathon film screening

Brooklyn, October 6, 2002- On October 3 I from 7-11 :30pm, BAMcinematek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue), opens its screens to amateur and up-and-coming filmmakers when it presents its first-ever CinemaS!am: NextNext Films program. CinemaS!am is part of the NextNext series, which reflects the pioneering spirit of BAM"s 20th Next Wave Festival and features cutting-edge music, film, and visual arts.

In the tradition of poetry slams and open mies, CinemaSlam will feature a four-and-a-half-hour amateur screening jam featuring homegrown videos. CinemaSlam celebrates the independent director and the technology that fuels these artists as it showcases shorts from the Do-It Yourself filmmaking generation.

Unlike the growing film festival scene in New York, CinemaSlam is unique in that there is no curatorial force at work. None of the films are judged, and there is no competition. The goal is simply to screen as many works as possible and to give artists the opportunity to present their films on the big screen.

Everyone who submits a Beta SP videotape and an entry form on Friday, October 25 from 5- 10pm and Saturday, October 26 from 4-8pm in the main lobby of BAM gets up to five minutes to thrill the crov,d, and see their vvork on the big screen. The marathon screening takes place on Halloween from 7-l l:30pm Rules and entry forms are available at wwv.-.bam.org.For press information, contact Tamara McCmY at 718.636.4129 x5 or [email protected].

General admission tickets to BAM Rose Cinemas are $9. Tickets are $6 for students (with valid I.D. Monday-Thursday, except holidays), seniors, BAM Cinema Club members, and children under twelve. Tickets are available at the BAM Rose Cinemas box office, by phone at 718. 777.FILM (order by '·name of movie" option), or online at \vww.bam.org. For more information, call the BAMcinematek hotline at 718.636.4100 or visit www.bam.org.

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Generalinformation

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. BAM Rose Cinemas, BAMcafe. and Shakespeare & Co. BAMshop are located in the main building at 30 Lafayette A,·enue (Lafayette and Ashland) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and Rockwell) in Fort Greene. Brooklyn. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn· sonly moyie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. J.A.M Catering SerYices provides food and beverages at BAMcafe. which features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music on Friday and Saturday nights as well as Sounds of Praise (live gospel music with a soul-food buffet) on selected Sunday afternoons. A package including dinner in BAMcafe and a movie ticket to BAM Rose Cinemas is aYailable for only $30 on Friday and Saturday eyenings (at the box office only). BAMcafe is open Friday-Saturday from 5-10:30pm and Sundays from 2-8pm (noon-8pm on mainstage performance days). Additionally. BAMcafe is open from 5-7:30pm on all mainstage perfonnance nights and two hours prior to curtain for all matinee performances. Prior to mainstage eYening performances. BAM's Diker Gallery will be home to a new Tapas Bar. Open from 5:30-7:30pm. the eatery will offer unlimited beer. wine. sangria and Tapas for $2-+ (including tax and tip).

Subway: I. 2. -+.5. Q Local. and Q Express to Atlantic AYenue W. M. N. R to Pacific Street G to Fulton Street: C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush AYenue Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM.

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