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PeterJay Sharp Building BAM RoseCinemas Academy 30 LafayetteAvenue Press of Brooklyn NY l 1217-1486 Molly B. Gross Music Telephone: 718 636.4100 718.636 4129 x3 Fax 718.636.4179 mgross(g)BAM .org News Release

BAMcinematek launches BAMcinemaFEST, a sixteen-day festival of new independent films and repertory favorites, June 17-July 2

BAMcinemaFEST opens with Cruz Angeles' Don't Let Me Drown and Opening Night Party, includes fourteen New York premieres, a Shorts Sunday, and two outdoor screenings

BAMcinematek's Tenth Anniversary Sidebar includes repertory classics and An Evening with Arnaud Desplechin, June 27-July 2

Centerpiece event includes Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) with live accompaniment by 3epkano & an all-night movie marathon, June 27

BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave.) Tickets for BAMcinemaFEST are on sale Monday, May 25 Tickets will be available online at BAM.org/BAMcinemaFEST For all general film tickets: $11 per screening for adults; $8 for seniors 65 and over. children under twelve. and $8 Jar students 2 5 and under with valid I.D. Monday-Thursday, except holidays; $7 BAM Cinema Club members Tickets for Opening Night, General audience: $20; Members:$ I 0 Tickets for 3epkano Performs Fritz Lang's Metropolis, General audience: $15; Members: $11 Tickets for BAMcinematek All Night, General audience: $ I 5

Brooklyn, April 17, 2009-From June 17-July 2 BAMcinematek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, presents the first BAMcinemaFEST, a new film festival in Brooklyn.

BAMRose Cinemas More ... BAMcinemaFEST, 2 This festival launch celebrates the tenth anniversary ofBAMcinematek-BAM's repertory film program that began on July 1, 1999. BAMcinemaFEST is a new festival presenting eighteen new features and documentaries in a festival atmosphere including filmmaker Q&As, outdoor screenings, an all-night movie marathon, and other special events. The BAMcinematek Sidebar will honor ten years of repertory film screenings at BAM, highlighting some of the films and filmmakers that defined our first decade.

"As a programmer, it is a pure joy to have the freedom and the platform to present such a diverse range of films and events under one banner," said Florence Almozini, BAMcinematek's Program Director. "I am excited about films like Everything Strange and New, and Bronson which were big discoveries at Sundance, and Beeswax that continues to display the range and talent of director Andrew Bujalski. And then there's a documentary like Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same, a thought provoking and visually stunning portrait of the controversial artist. Of course, considering BAMcinematek's history, it is wonderful to be able to highlight some past successes and bring back classic audience favorites, like Marketa Lazarova and The Leopard'

"We will also have some really cool special events--an evening with Arnaud Desplechin who is going to talk about two of his favorite films and a performance by 3epkano - a fantastic band from Ireland that sold out several shows at BAM Rose Cinemas in the past. They are returning to play their original score to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. And, personally, I am already committed to staying up for the all night film marathon. There's nothing like seeing Millennium Mambo in the middle of the night and then coming out onto the streets of Brooklyn at Sam."

For press inquiries, please contact Molly Gross at 718.636.4129 x3, [email protected]

more ... BAMcinemaFEST, 3 EIGHTEEN (18) NEW DRAMATIC FEATURE AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS INCLUDES THE NEW YORK PREMIERES OF:

• Beeswax, ( dir. Andrew Bujalski) - An intimate story of twin sisters set in Austin by the director of Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation. • Big Fan, (dir. Robert Siegel)-The culture of celebrity is challenged in Siegel's (writer of The Wrestler) debut film about a hardcore New York Giants fan. • Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same, (dir. Jody Lee Lipes) - A provocative doc follows a N. Y. artist as he prepares a video installation for his first solo show in a Manhattan gallery • Bronson, (dir. Nicholas Winding Refn)-This film is Refn's (Pusher Trilogy) stylized portrait of Britain's most notorious prisoner brilliantly incarnated by Tom Hardy • Children of Invention, ( dir. Tze Chun) - A compelling drama about a young Chinese American family and their elusive search for the American Dream by the director of the short Windowbreaker. • Opening Night: Don't Let Me Drown, (dir. Cruz Angeles)-A tale of young love between Latino Brooklyn teens in a post-9-11 world. • Everything Strange and New, ( dir. Frazer Bradshaw) - An intimate portrait of personal crisis within the framework of the American family. • Humpday, (dir. Lynn Shelton) - The ultimate indie film take on the bromantic comedy follows two straight friends who, on a dare, decide to have sex and film it. • Prom Night in Mississippi, (dir. Paul Saltzman) - An eye-opening documentary about a high school's first integrated prom in 2008. • Sorry, Thanks, (dir. Dia Sokol) - Sakai's debut film about young love and loss in San Francisco. • The Square, (dir. Nash Edgerton)-Australian stunt-man and director Edgerton's tense take-the-money-and-run noir. Edgerton directed the short Spider. • William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, (dirs. Sarah and Emily Kunstler) - An unconventional and personal portrait of William Kunstler, the prominent civil rights lawyer, made by his daughters Sarah and Emily. • What's On Your Plate?, (dir. Catherine Gund) -A compelling food-justice documentary seen through the eyes of two pre-teen girls. • You Won't Miss Me, (dir. Ry Russo-Young)-Russo-Young's second feature, co-written by lead actress Stella Schnabel, follows the days and struggles of an intense young actress.

Other new film highlights: • The Exploding Girl, (dir. Bradley Rust Gray) - This film is a quietly resonant indie character study. • Reporter, (dir. ) - Metzgar tracks New York Times journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Kristof investigates the humanitarian crises. • In the Loop, (dir. ) - A wry British comedy with . • The Glass House, (dir. Hamid Rahmanian) -A searing doc about troubled teenage girls in Iran.

OUTDOOR SCREENINGS: Thursday, June 25 & Saturday, June 27

• William Kunst/: Disturbing the Universe (2009) co-presented with Rooftop Films in the GGMC Parking Lot, (June 25) [The lot is on Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place, diagonally across from BAM's Peter Jay Sharp Building.]

• What's On Your Plate? (2009) co-presented with Afro-Punk in Fort Greene Park (June 27) more ... BAMcinemaFEST, 4 CENTERPIECE: Saturday, June 27 A live performance by Irish ambient rock collective 3epkano accompanies Fritz Lang's Metropolis and will be followed by an all-night movie marathon on all four BAM Rose Cinema screens.

• 3epkano Performs Fritz Lang's Metropolis Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece Metropolis (1927) With live performance of original score by Irish ambient rock collective 3epkano

• BAMcinematek All Night An all-night movie marathon on all of BAM Rose Cinemas' four screens: Diana Ross Coming Out, Before They Were Scientologists, Stoner Comedies, and BAMcinematek Favorites

BAM CINEMA TEK SIDEBAR: June 27-July 2 BAMcinemaFEST celebrates ten years ofBAMcinematek, the repertory film program at BAM with six nights of repertory classics and An Evening with Arnaud Desplechin.

• Repertory classics celebrating BAMcinematek's tenth anniversary include Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995), Visconti's The Leopard (fl Gattopardo, 1963), Frantisek Vlacil 's Marketa Lazarova (1967), and Yuen Chor's Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Ai Nu, 1972)

• An Evening with Arnaud Desplechin, July 1 Arnaud Desplechin, director of Kings and Queen and A Christmas Tale, presents two personal favorites: 's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) followed by a conversation with film critic Kent Jones; and then Desplechin will introduce the next screening, Franc;;ois Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid (La Sirene du Mississippi, 1969)

SHORTS SUNDAY, Sunday, June 28 A complete Media Advisory of titles and times will be released in the coming days.

• Shorts Program 1: • Shorts Program 2 • Shorts Program 3 • Shorts Program 4

more ... BAMcinemaFEST, 5 OPENING NIGHT Film and Party, Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30pm Co-presented with Sundance Posse, the alumnae organization of Sundance Institute

Don't Let Me Drown, U.S., 2008, 102min, in English and Spanish with English subtitles Director: Cruz Angeles Producers: Ian McGloin, Virgil Price, Jamie Mai, Charlie Ledley (executive), Maria Topete, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, James Lawler, Ben Howe With E.J. Bonilla, Gleendilys Inoa, Damian Alcazar, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Gina Torres, Yareli Arizmendi Lalo's father, formerly a janitor at the World Trade Center, now works at Ground Zero cleaning up debris. Stefanie's family moved back to Brooklyn after her sister was killed in the attacks. Lalo and Stefanie meet at a birthday party, and although they start off on the wrong foot, the ice melts, and their budding friendship becomes a clandestine romance. Don't Let Me Drown features an elegantly simple story, layered characters, and standout performances, notably from its young leads. Angeles' approach feels intuitive and brings a refreshing spontaneity to the story. He clearly knows everything about his characters and creates an authentic story that radiates emotion and humor. Festivals: Sundance Film Festival -John Cooper, Director of Sundance Film Festival

Followed by an opening night party at BAM, in the BAMcafe and central lobby.

BAMcinemaFEST NEW FILMS

• There will be director Q&As for all screenings unless otherwise noted.

• All prints are 35mm or HD CAM and in English unless otherwise noted. • All screenings take place in BAM Rose Cinemas unless noted as an outdoor event. • All screenings are ticketed unless noted as a free screening.

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Beeswax, U.S., 2009, 100 min, NY Premiere Director: Andrew Bujalski Producers: Dia Sokol, Ethan Vogt, Houston King, Gary Stewart With Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky Andrew Bujalski's (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation) latest is a well-observed, character-driven story set in Austin about twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren, played by real-life siblings. Jeannie, a paraplegic since youth, owns a vintage clothing store with a friend who is increasingly absent from work. As tensions rise and Jeannie begins to believe her co-owner may sue her, she enlists the help of ex-boyfriend Merrill, a law student cramming for the bar exam, to sift through her legal agreements. The two hook up and Merrill becomes increasingly involved in the sisters' lives. Opens at Film Forum on August 7, 2009. Sunday, June 21 at 6:15pm Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival, SXSW

more .. BAMcinemaFEST,6 Big Fan, U.S., 2008, 91 min, NY Premiere Director: Robert Siegel Producers: Jen Cohn (executive), Jean Kouremetis, Elan Bogarin With Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto Paul is a 35-year-old toll booth operator from Staten Island who lives and dies by his beloved New York Giants. When a chance encounter brings him into contact with Giants linebacker Quantrell Bishop, things go horribly wrong and Paul takes a brutal beating at the hands of his idol-an act that tests the limits of his allegiance to the team he loves. As Paul, comedian Patton Oswalt delivers a heartbreaking, layered performance in this pitch- that reveals the disturbing side of obsessive fandom. This is the directorial debut of Robert Siegel, screenwriter of The Wrestler and former Editor-in-Chief of The Onion. Friday, June 19 at 6:30pm & Monday, June 22 at 9:30pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival

Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same, U.S., 2009, 80min, NY Premiere DOCUMENTARY Director: Jody Lee Lipes Producers: Kyle Martin, Jody Lee Lipes In this provocative documentary, artist Brock Enright and his girlfriend create a video installation for his first solo show in Manhattan. Lipes----cinematographer of Antonio Campos' Afterschool (2008)-was granted full access to Enright, creating an intimate portrait of an artist whose uncompromising work challenges what is acceptable behavior. Enright often incorporates scatological, violent, and sexually graphic material into his installations and performances. Brock Enright is a blurring of reality and art as the artist puts himself, friends, and family in uncomfortable scenarios, and then we watch as he turns on his camera to document the outcome. Thursday June 18 at 9:30pm & Wednesday, June 24 at 6:30pm Festivals: SXSW, Sarasota Film Festival, Hot Docs Film Festival Awards: Special Jury Prize/or Cinematography in a Documentary at Sarasota Film Festival

Bronson, U.K., 2008, 92 min, NY Premiere Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Producers: Rupert Preston, Danny Hansford With Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance, Kelly Adams, Amanda Burton Director of the explosive and acclaimed crime films The Pusher Trilogy, Refn overturns the overly­ sanitized biopic formula with this stylized portrait of Britain's most notorious prisoner: a former bare­ knuckle boxer who has spent over 34 years behind bars, including three decades in solitary confinement. Tom Hardy inhabits Bronson utterly, from the formidable physical details to the persona of a man who is polite and vulnerable, yet brutal and sadistic. Propelled by a soundtrack of Verdi, Wagner, New Order, and Pet Shop Boys, Bronson confronts mainstream cinematic depictions of violence. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Opens in October, 2009. Sunday, June 21 at 9pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, London Film Festival

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7,) I I BAMcinemaFEST,7 Children of Invention, U.S., 2008, 86 min, NY Premiere Director: Tze Chun Producers: Dan Cogan (executive), Mynette Louie, Trevor Sagan With Cindy Cheung, Michael Chen, Crystal Chiu Single mom Elaine Cheng struggles working several jobs to support her two first-generation American children. When they are evicted from their home and forced to squat in a model apartment, Elaine is lured into a crooked pyramid scheme with promises of easy money. Soon a series of events unfold that leave the Cheng children to their own devices and pursuing their own dreams of wealth and prosperity. Building on his short Windowbreaker (Sundance Institute at BAM, 2007), Tze Chun crafts a sobering, yet playful portrait of immigrants' quest for shortcuts to that elusive American Dream. Thursday, June 18 at 6:30pm & Saturday, June 20 at 3:15pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco International Asian America Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Philadelphia Cinefest, AF! Dallas International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Ashland Festival; Awards: Special Jury Award at San Francisco International Asian America Film Festival, Special Jury Prize at Sarasota Film Festival

Everything Strange and New, U.S., 2009, 84 min, NY Premiere Director: Frazer Bradshaw Producers: Stephen Bannatyne, Marcia Carver, Willie Mae Webb (all executive), Laura Techera Francia, A.D. Liano With Jerry McDaniel, Beth Lisick, Luis Saguar, Rigo Chacon Jr. In his directorial debut, accomplished cinematographer Frazier Bradshaw reveals not only a gift for framing prosaic scenes in a way that pins you to your seat, but also a narrative style at once mysterious and familiar, beautiful and hazy, riveting yet tranquil. Confronting the American Dream ideal-marriage, family, home, a steady job-Bradshaw quietly needles common notions without affording us the opportunity to blink. Sunday, June 21 at 3:30pm & Tuesday, June 23 at 9:30pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival

The Exploding Girl, U.S., 2009, 79 min Director: Bradley Rust Gray Producers: Karin Chien, So Yong Kim, Ben Howe With Zoe Kazan, Mark Rendall, Maryann Urbano This moving new work by Bradley Rust Gray (Salt) is a quiet masterpiece-a delicate portrait of gestures, body language, and things left unsaid. Actress Zoe Kazan is the cherubic Ivy, a young woman spending a college break at home in Brooklyn. Through the course of the week she struggles to connect with her boyfriend-a distance that widens through awkward cell phone conversations-while deepening her intimacy with childhood friend Al. Abetted by Eric Lin's gorgeous cinematography, Gray incisively details romantic awakening not by crafting a conventional love story, but by focusing on the richness of his characters and the subtleties of emotional communication. Courtesy of Memento Films. Thursday, June 25 at 6:30pm Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival

more ... BAMcinemaFEST, 8 The Glass House, U.S./Iran, 2008, 92 min, DOCUMENTARY Director: Hamid Rahmanian Producer: Melissa Hibbard This heart wrenching documentary offers unprecedented access into the lives of lower-class teenage Iranian girls dealing with sexual abuse, drug addiction, and broken families in a society that places little value on their success. Finding refuge at a rehabilitation center devoted to getting troubled young women back on their feet, some blossom while others struggle. Monday, June 22 at 6:30pm Festivals: International Festival Amsterdam, Sundance Film Fes1ival, Philadelphia Film Festival, Milan Festival of African, Asian, and Latin American Cinema, Doc a Tunis

Humpday, U.S., 2009, 92 min, NY Premiere Director: Lynn Shelton Producer: Lynn Shelton COP: Jennifer Maas, Steven Schardt With Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard Director Lynn Shelton slyly subverts the "" of Apatow and ilk with this incisive comedy about Ben and Andrew, two straight best friends who, on a dare, decide to have sex ... and film it. This take on contemporary masculinity features pitch-perfect performances from Duplass and Leonard and was a huge hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Opens July I 0, 2009. Saturday, June 20 at 6:30pm Sunday, June 21 at 12:30pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, SXSW; Awards: Sundance prize winner-Special Jury Prize for "Spirit of Independence"

In the Loop, U.K., 2008, 109 min Director: Armando Iannucci Producers: Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy With Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Steve Coogan, Tom Hollander, David Rashe, Gina McKee, Chris Addison, Anna Chulmsky, Mimi Kennedy, Zack Woods Set in the period leading up to the outbreak of an unidentified war in the Middle East, this razor-tongued, excruciatingly funny satire follows the political fall-out that results when a bumbling British cabinet minister, Simon Foster, publicly states that war is "unforeseeable," sending the Prime Minister's potty­ mouthed Director of Communications (Capaldi) into a tailspin. Director Armando Iannucci expands on his award-winning BBC comedy series The Thick of It with this quick-paced farce following the shenanigans of those who walk the corridors of power. Courtesy of IFC Films. Opens July 24, 2009 in theaters and video on demand. Saturday, June 20 at 9pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival

Prom Night in Mississippi, Canada, 2008, 90 min, NY Premiere DOCUMENTARY Director: Paul Saltzman Producers: Paul Saltzman, Patricia Aquino In 2008 (um, the same year Barack Obama was elected president), Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi if the students agreed to discontinue their segregated proms and have one integrated event with both students. This film follows the day-to-day discussions and drama among the various factions of Charleston High as they struggle with generational prejudices, class and racial divisions, and conflicts among friends and families. more ... BAMcinemaFEST,9 Friday, June 26 at 6:30pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, Hot Docs, Cleveland International Film Festival

Reporter, U.S., 2008, 90 min, DOCUMENTARY Director: Eric Daniel Metzgar Producers: (executive) and Mikaela Beardsley, Steven Cantor Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Nicholas Kristof has spent years trying to spotlight global poverty and human rights abuses in his New York Times column. Reporter follows him on a 2007 journey to the Congo where he once again focuses on the injustices and inequalities of the human condition. The film is a deft exploration of how journalists like Kristof grapple with effectively communicating such unimaginable tragedies to an audience reading about it over Sunday brunch. Friday, June 26 at 9:30pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, True/False, Full Frame, Martha's Vineyard, Hof Docs, and One World International Film Festival

Sorry, Thanks, U.S., 2009, 93min, NY Premiere Director: Dia Sokol Producer: Lauren Veloski With Wiley Wiggins, Kenya Miles, Andrew Bujalski, Ia Hernandez Set in San Francisco, this wryly observant story of two 20-somethings dealing with the aftermath of their one-night-stand is a sharp on the perils of post-millennial romance. As Max, a lovable loser stuck in a humdrum job as an intern coordinator for a senator, Wiley Wiggins ("the freshman" from Dazed and Confused) dead-pans his way through an understated performance. The film depicts the beautiful and smart Kenya Miles and Ia Hernandez vying for schlubby Max's attention, perhaps begging the question of why women are drawn to man-boys who resist growing up tooth and nail. Look for Beeswax director Andrew Bujalski in one of his most amusing roles to date as Max's painfully honest buddy. Sorry, Thanks is Brooklyn-based director Dia Sokol's first feature after working as a producer on Bujalski's films. Courtesy of Visit Films. Wednesday, June 24 at 9:30pm Festivals: SXSW, Sarasota Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival Awards: Adrienne Shelly Director's Grant (part of IFP 's Independent Film Week), Nashville Film Festival

The Square, Australia, 2009, I 05min, NY Premiere Preceded by Spider (2008), 9min Director: Nash Edgerton Producer: Nicole O' Donohue With Nash Edgerton, Mirrah Foulkes, Chum Ehelepola, Bruno Xavier, Tony Lynch, Joel Edgerton While the actors playing the beleaguered characters in Nash Edgerton's 2007 short film Spider (Sundance Institute at BAM, 2008) may have walked away unscathed, many of those watching the film are still reeling from the film's bolt of horror and excitement. Edgerton is back with his first feature, a stylish noir thriller with jaw-crunching suspense, and a rollercoaster of adventure that had audiences at SXSW yelling back at the screen. The Square stars the director's brother Joel Edgerton, and the duo has been compared to the for their inventive and darkly humorous storytelling and singular cinematic vision. Thursday, June 25 at 9:30pm Festivals: SXSW; Awards: Nominations for Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Direction, Original Screenplay, Lead Actor, and Supporting Actor more... BA Mc:inemaFEST, l 0 William Kunst/er: Disturbing the Universe, U.S., 2009, 90 min, NY Premiere, DOCUMENTARY Directors: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler Producers: Vanessa Wanger (executive) and Jesse Moss, Susan Korda William Kunstler's fingerprints are on many of the most crucial cases in American history-from fighting for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. to defending the Chicago Eight, from supporting the Attica prison uprising to defending the leaders of the standoff at Wounded Knee. Directed by his daughters, this film is not only a portrait of the epic battle against our government's racism and squelching of dissent, but also a story of a lawyer who represented some of the most reviled defendants of the time-rapists, cop­ killers, and terrorists-and the effect those choices had on his family. Courtesy of ArtHouse Films. *Saturday, June 20 at 12:30pm & **Thursday, June 25 at 9pm *Q&A moderated by radio host Amy Goodman **This is an outdoor screening. Please see more information about time and place below. Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, Nola Human Rights Film Festival, Minneapolis St. Paul Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, lndie Film Festival, Full Frame; Awards: Honorable Mention for Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award at Full Frame

You Won't Miss Me, U.S., 2009, 81 min, NY Premiere Director: Ry Russo-Young Producer: Ry Russo-Young With Stella Schnabel, Simon O'Connor, Carlen Altman, Rene Ricard, Sarah Ball, Donald Eric Cumming At the center of Ry Russo-Young's (Rocco in Hannah Takes the Stairs) absorbing character study is the startlingly raw performance from Stella Schnabel as Shelly, a 23-year-old emotionally unbalanced aspiring actress who drifts through a series of meaningless sexual encounters, failed auditions, and public breakdowns, repeatedly lashing out at the world she struggles to comprehend. Playing like an updated version ofCassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence, You Won't Miss Me astutely taps into the psychology of a frustrated generation-privileged and talented but, for all its potential, unfulfilled. Mixing video and film, Russo-Young has created a film that nails the zeitgeist. Courtesy of Visit Films. Friday, June 19 at 9:30pm & Tuesday, June 23 at 6:30pm Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, SXSW; Awards: Stella Schnabel won the "Time Warner Cable Geraldine Page Award for Best Actress" in a at Method Fest.

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OUTDOOR SCREENINGS, June 25 & 27

• William Kunst/er: Disturbing the Universe, Thursday, June 25 at 9pm GGMC Parking Lot, (June 25) [The lot is on Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place, diagonally across from BAM's Peter Jay Sharp Building.] Tickets are $11 and will also be available at BAM.org/BAMcinemaFEST starting May 25 Rain Date: Tuesday, June 30

• What's On Your Plate?, Saturday, June 27 at 9pm Fort Greene Park, This is a free screening Rain Date: Sunday, June 28

Thursday, June 25 at 9pm GGMC Parking Lot, [The lot is on Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place, diagonally across from BAM's Peter Jay Sharp Building.] This screening is co-presented with Rooftop Films. Tickets are $11 and will also be available at BAM.org starting May 25 William Kunst/er: Disturbing the Universe, U.S., 2009, 90 min, DOCUMENTARY Directors: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler This special outdoor screening about famed civil-rights lawyer William Kunstler-made by his daughters Emily and Sarah Kunstler-is presented in conjunction with Rooftop Films. For a complete description see BAMcinemaFEST descriptions above.

Saturday, June 27 at 9pm Fort Greene Park This is a free screening "'This screening is co-presented with The Afro-Punk Festival. What's On Your Plate?, U.S., 2009, 73min, DOCUMENTARY Director: Catherine Gund Producers: Catherine Gund, Tanya Selvaratnam With Sadie Hope-Gund, Safiyah Riddle You've read Omnivore's Dilemma and Fast Food Nation and you try to buy local and organic produce at your neighborhood farmer's market. But do you really know how what you' re eating ended up on your table? Through the eyes of two intelligent and inquisitive eleven-year-old girls from , we follow the many paths, the conflicting economics, and the disparate decision makers who all play a part in what we eat. Ideal for families to watch together. the film presents a variety of perspectives on how food reaches our urban community and its associated challenges. Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival

*What's On Your Plate? is presented in conjunction with The Afro-Punk Festival, which takes place this year from July 3-8. In 2009 The Afro-Punk Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary of films curated in conjunction with BAMcinematek's Associate Curator Jake Perlin.

more ... BAMcinemaFEST, 12 CENTERPIECE, June 27

• 3epkano Performs Fritz Lang's Metropolis, at 5:30 and 9pm

• BAMcinematek All Night, starting at 11: I Spm. Last film begins at 3: 15am

3epkano Performs Fritz Lang's Metropolis One of the essential discoveries of BAMcinematek's ten years, ambient rock collective 3epkano were first introduced to New York audiences at BAM in 2007 with their intense performance to G.W. Pabst's silent masterpiece Pandora's Box. They returned to BAM in 2008 with a sold-out, equally transcendent score to F.W. Murnau's Sunrise. This seven piece band composes original music for some of the masterpieces in silent film, paying respect to the tone and dynamics of the image on screen, resulting in a transcendent visual and aural experience.

Metropolis (1927), 124min, Germany, in Gennan with English subtitles Directed by Fritz Lang With Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich For this special performance, 3epkano takes on Metropolis, Fritz Lang's towering masterpiece set in a mechanized, dystopian future in which society has been divided into two groups: thinkers and laborers. When a young man resolves to break out of this rigid social structure, the city is thrown into chaos. Featuring a singular performance by Brigitte Helm as a lecherous robotic woman and some of the most spectacular sets ever designed, Metropolis still stands as a film ahead of its time.

BAMcinematek All Night, 11: l 5pm-5am Following the Metropolis performances by 3epkano, there will be an all-night movie marathon on BAM Rose Cinemas' four screens. The first films begin at 11: l Spm. The final screening starts at 3:] Sam. See the attached BAMcinematek schedule for exact times.

DIANA ROSS COMING OUT Music, glamour, and 70s schmaltz collide in this pair of films featuring superstar Diana Ross. This double feature will have you in rapture from the moment the words "gowns designed by Diana Ross" hit the screen. Films include: Mahogany (1975), 109 min, U.S., Directed by Berry Gordy, with Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins; The Wiz (1978), 134 min, U.S., Directed by Sidney Lumet, with Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, and .

BEFORE THEY WERE SCIENTOLOGISTS BAMcinemaFEST presents three of your favorite stars as you might like to remember them ... before the couch jumping, the Jenny Craig commercials and, er, Battlefield Earth. Films include: Look Who's Talking Too (1990), 81 min, U.S., Directed by Amy Heckerling, with John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Bruce Willis, Roseanne Barr; Staying Alive (I 983), 93min, U.S., Directed by Sylvester Stallone, with John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes; Top Gun (1986), 1 l0min, U.S., Directed by Tony Scott, with Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer

more ... BAMcinemaFEST,13 ALL NIGHT BONG BAMcinemaFEST presents three fine examples of the stoner comedy. Films include: Friday (1995), 91 min, U.S., Directed by F. Gary Gray, with Ice Cube, Chris Tucker; Pineapple Express (2008), 111 min, U.S., Directed by , with Seth Rogen, James Franco; Smiley Face, (2007), 88 min, U.S., Directed by Gregg Araki, with Anna Faris, John Krasinski

BAMcinematek FAVORITES Among the hundreds of films BAMcinematek has shown over the past ten years, these three hold a special place in our pantheon (not to mention our hearts). We feel that they make an incredible triple feature. Films include: Demon/over (2002), 115 min, France, Director: Olivier Assayas, with Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon, Chloe Sevigny, Charles Berling; , (2000), 98 min, Hong Kong; Director: Wong Kar-wai, with Tony Leung, ; Millennium Mambo (2001), 119 min, Taiwan, Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien, with Qi Shu, , Chun-hao Tuan, Yi-Hsuan Chen.

BAMCINEMATEK SIDEBAR, June 27-July 2 BAMcinemaFEST celebrates ten years of BAMcinematek, the repertory film program at BAM with five nights of repertory classics and An Evening with Arnaud Desplechin.

About BAMcinematek The four-screen BAM Rose Cinemas (BRC) opened in 1998 to offer Brooklyn audiences alternative and independent films that might not play elsewhere in the borough, making BAM the only performing arts center in the country with two mainstage theaters and a multiplex cinema. In July of 1999, beginning with a series celebrating the work of Spike Lee, BAMcinematek was born as Brooklyn's only daily year-round repertory film program. BAMcinematek presents new and rarely seen contemporary films, classics from cinema history, work by local artists, and festivals of films from around the world, often with special appearances by directors, actors, and other guests.

Entering its I 0th year, BAMcinematek has not only presented major retrospectives by well-known filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Shohei Imamura, Manoel de Oliveira, and Luchino Visconti, but it has also introduced New York audiences to contemporary artists such as Pedro Costa and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In addition BAMcinematek programmed the first U.S. retrospective of directors Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Arnaud Desplechin, and Hong Sang-soo. Recently BAMcinematek co­ curated a three-year summer collaboration of new feature/documentary/short films with Sundance Institute, 2006-2008.

Repertory Classics:

Dead Man (I 995), 121 min, U.S., screened within BAMcinematek 's Village Voice: Best of the 90s (June 2000) and part of our Jim Jarmusch Retrospective (December 2004) Directed by Jim Jarmusch With Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Gabriel Byrne, Crispin Glover, Robert Mitchum A BAMcinematek audience favorite that screened to full houses in both our Jim Jarmusch and Johnny Depp retrospectives, Jarmusch's enigmatic stars Depp as William Blake, an accountant who travels West from Cleveland in hopes of landing a job. Hauntingly photographed in black and white and featuring a plaintive score by Neil Young, Dead Man inverts a familiar , reconfiguring the desolate Western landscape as a backdrop for existential exploration. Thursday, July 2 at 6:30pm

more ... BAMcinemaFEST, 14 Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972), 86min, Hong Kong, New remastered 35mm print Directed by Yuen Chor With Lily Ho, Betty Pei Ti, Hua Yueh Originally shown at BAMcinematek as part of a restrospective of the Shaw Brothers (the legendary Hong Kong studio that turned out classic martial arts films) Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan is a quintessential . Part samurai epic, rape revenge tale, and skin flick, it tells the story of Ainu, a beautiful young woman who is kidnapped and forced into a life of prostitution. After being raped, however, she begins exacting gruesome revenge on the men who took advantage of her. © Licensed by Celestial Pictures Limited. Thursday, July 2 at 9:30pm

The Leopard (1963) 185 min, in Italian with English subtitles, screened within BAMcinematek 's Tribute to Pauline Kael (February 2002) and in the Visconti Retrospective (December 2004) Directed by Luchino Visconti With Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale BAMcinemaFEST looks back at BAMcinematek's landmark 2004 Visconti retrospective with this special screening of his masterpiece, one of the most significant uses of CinemaScope in the history of cinema. In this lavish recreation of 19th -century Sicily, Lancaster plays Prince Salina, a member of the aristocracy that is decaying under Garibaldi's revolution. Their slow fade from glory through marriage-between the lovely Cardinale and the dashing Delon-is illustrated at the climactic ballroom scene, one of the greatest set-pieces in cinema. Tuesday, June 30 at 8pm

Marketa~ova(l967) 162min, in Czech with English subtitles, Rare Archival Print Directedby Frantisek Vlacil With Magda Vasaryova, JosefKemr As part ofBAMcinematek's ongoing commitment to bringing Czech film to New York audiences, this rarely seen landmark of Czech cinema has been screened here in the program's ten-year history, including during a rare Vlacil retrospective in 2002. A portrait of Europe at the crossroads of Paganism and Christianity, it's a haunting, surreal, and deliriously strange work of art that recalls the work of Bergman, Kurosawa, and Tarkovsky while also managing to be unlike any other film. In a 1998 poll of the Czech and critics, Marketa Lazarova was named the almost unanimous choice for Best Czech Film of all time. Presented in collaboration with the Czech Center, New York, the National Film Archives, Prague, and Georges Gund III. Monday, June 29 at 7:30pm

more ... BAMcinemaFEST, 15 Sorelle (Sisters) (2006) 70 min, in Italian with English subtitles, U.S. Premiere Directed by Marco Bellocchio With Donatella Finocchiaro, Elena Bellocchio, Pier Giorgio Bellochio, Letizia Bellocchio, Maria Luisa Bellocchio Ever since his debut Fists in the Pocket, Marco Bellocchio has observed the family unit in compelling, politically-subversive dramas that are shot through with ironic humor. As a tribute to BAMcinematek's April 2004 Bellocchio retrospective, we are screening his most recent film, Sisters. Elena lives with her two older sisters and young brothers while their actress mother is frequently absent on tour. When Elena's mother returns and urges her to move with her to Milan, she struggles to come to terms with how this will affect her life. Divided into three episodes, each separated by a few years, Sisters was conceived as a collaborative project for a young filmmaker's training course which Bellocchio leads every summer. Tuesday, June 30 at 6:15pm

An Evening with Arnaud Desplechin, July I One of the most exciting contemporary French directors, Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, Kings and Queen) received his first U.S. retrospective at BAM in April 2005. We've invited him back to celebrate BAMcinematek's 10th anniversary by asking him to select two of his favorite films: Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums and Franc;;oisTruffaut's Mississippi Mermaid.

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 109min Directed by Wes Anderson. With Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson Pastel colors, eyeliner, and track jackets rule in this quirky comedic drama from Wes Anderson about a family of prodigies each with his or her own set of hang-ups. With this instant classic of American independent cinema, Anderson's delightfully offbeat sensibility has informed a generation of indie comedies. Wednesday, July I at 6:15pm This screening will be followed by a with discussion with director Arnaud Desplechin and film critic Kent Jones.

Mississippi Mermaid ( 1969) 123 min, in French with English subtitles Directed by Franc;;ois Truffaut. With Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo When isolated tobacco farmer Louis (Belmondo) meets his mail-order bride Julie (Deneuve), he's unsure this beautiful woman is the same one he has been corresponding with by letter and only seen in photographs. Ignoring his doubts, he falls head over heels for her and the two begin a life together ... until the day the mysterious Julie disappears with a large portion of Louis' assets. Based on a book by William Irish entitled Waltz Into Darkness (also the source writer for Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black), this tale of sexual obsession and betrayal unfolds in the lush tropical landscape of Africa's Island. Truffaut draws on themes and conventions of American noir, while peppering Mississippi Mermaid with eclectic allusions to film and literature-Renoir, Ray, Balzac. BAMcinematek will screen Mississippi Mermaid in a week-long run from July 10-16. This film is courtesy of The Film Desk. Wednesday, July lat 9:30pm

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National Grid is the Leadership sponsor for BAMcinemaFEST, with additional support provided by the Irene Diamond Fund and The New York Times Community Affairs Department.

The BAMcinemaFEST Chair is Jeanne Donovan Fisher. Support is provided by Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Barry Fox, Dan Klores, and Jonathan F.P. & Diana V.C. Rose.

Major Support for Metropolis is provided by the Frederick Loewe Foundation, in recognition of Loewe's early career as an accompanist for silent films.

Leadership support for BAMcinematek is provided by Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust.

The BAM facilities are owned by the City of New York and benefit from public funds provided through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate D. Levin; The New York City Council including Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Cultural Affairs Committee Chair Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., the Brooklyn Delegation of the Council, and Councilwoman Letitia James; and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.

BAM Rose Cinemas are named in recognition of a major gift in honor of Jonathan F.P. and Diana V.C. Rose. BAM Rose Cinemas would also like to acknowledge the generous support of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Estate of Richard B. Fisher, Jim & Mary Ottaway, 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, Bloomberg, and Time Warner Inc.

Special thanks to all the filmmakers and John Cooper and Lisa Odgie/Sundance Institute, Matt Cowal/Magnolia Pictures, Erin Owens/Arthouse Films, Sam Sibble/The Film Sales Company, Ryan Wemer/IFC Films, Aida LiPeira/Visit films, Tanya Selvaratnam/Aubin Pictures, James Spooner, James Malanga/Stick Figure Productions, Houston King, Tony Liano/Blue Rain, Karin Chien, Ben Howe and Marion Klotz/Memento Films, Kyle Martin, Mynette Louie, Michael Tully, Lucas Joaquin and Jay Van Hoy, and Dan Nuxoll/Rooftop Films, Florence Faure/Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Charles Pignal/Mezzanine Films, Orly Ravid/New American Vision, Olivier Berlemont/ Les Films de Long Cours, Violaine Huisman, Sonia Pachmayer/Focus, Paul Ginsburg/Universal, Dan Johnson/First Look, Jared Sapolin/Sony, Brian Block/Criterion, Mary Tallungan/Buena Vista, Kate Brennan/Paramount, Alison Matheis/Miramax, Marilee Womack/Wamers, Cindy Banach/Palm Pictures, Irena Kovarova, Marcel Sauer/Czech Center, NY, Vladimir Opela/NFA, Prague, Georges Gund III, Eric Chung/Celestial, and Kent Jones.

General Information

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, BAMcafe, and Brownstone Books at BAM are located in the Peter Jay Sharp building at 30 Lafayette Avenue (between St Felix Street and Ashland Place) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located two blocks from the main building at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and Rockwell Places). BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn's only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. BAMcafe, operated by Great Performances, is open for dining prior to Howard Gilman Opera House performances. BAMcafe also features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music for BAMcafe Live on Friday and Saturday nights with a special BAMcafe Live menu available starting at 8pm.

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BAMcinematek Tenth Anniversary in 2009

BAM Rose Cinemas "offers one of the most civilized movie-going experiences in the city." -The New York Times

"One of the ten cultural institutions ... that weren't around ten years ago that we can't live without now."-Time Out

"Unquestionably the best multiplex in Brooklyn."-The Village Voice

The four-screen BAM Rose Cinemas (BRC) opened in 1998 to screen alternative and independent films that might not otherwise be seen in Brooklyn. And in the summer of 1999, BAMcinematek, the repertory program, was inaugurated to add retrospective screenings and festivals to the mix. BAMcinematek is a program for new and rarely seen contemporary work, a presenter of classic films from cinema history, and a platform for community groups, local screenings, and festivals.

Some highlights of BAMcinematek programming from 2007-2008 include: New Crowned Hope I Bela Tarr Trilogy I Generation Garre! I Pimps, Prostitutes, and Pigs: Shohei Imamura 's Japan I Ball of Fire: Barbara Stanwyck Centennial I Yugoslavian Black Wave I The Cinema of Max Ophuls I Tomu Uchida: Discovering a Japanese Master I The Cinematography of Ed Lachman I Director's Fortnight at 40 I The Talking Pictures of Manoel de Oliveira I All the Real Americans: The World of David Gordon Green I Elliott Gould: Star for an Uptight Age I Sexy, Scary, and Often Naked: Asia Argento I Mad Obsessions: The Films of Barbet Schroeder I Punk 'n 'Pie (Films.from and about the UK. punk/post-punk music scene)

BAMcinematek has also presented week-long theatrical releases including Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-up ( 1966); Milos Forman 's Loves of a Blonde (Lasky jedne plavovlasky) ( 1965) and The Firemen's Ball (Hori, ma panenko) (1967); Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot lefou ( 1965); Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's Zidane: A 21'11 Century Portrait (Zidane, Un Portrait du XX!e Siecle) (2006); Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt (2006); Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie) (1965),Werner Herzog's The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen a/le AKA Every man for Himself and God Against All) (1974); Shohei Imamura' s Vengeance Is Mine (Fukushu suruwa wareniari) ( 1979); Otar Iosseliani 's Farewell, Home Sweet Home (Adieu, plancher des vaches!) (1999); Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying (Letycazhuravlt)(1957); Wong Kar-Wai's As Tears Go By (Wong gok ka moon) (1988) and Fallen Angels (Duo luo tian shi) (1995); Dusan Makavejev's WR.: Mysteries of the Organism (WR. -Misterije organizma) (1971 ); Max Ophuls' Letterfrom an Unknown Woman ( 1948); Sergei Parajanov' s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini zabutykh predkiv) ( 1964); Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating (Celine et Julie vont en bateau)( 1974); and Hiroshi Teshigahara's Antonio Gaudi(l984).

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BAMcinematek has ongoing series with the following festivals, most spanning the last eight years: African Diaspora Film Festival; African Film Festival; The New York Korean Film Festival; Afro-Punk Festival; and Pordenone Silent Film Festival. We also program annual series of New French Films and New Czech Films-2009 will be the 10th anniversary of New Czech Films. From 2000-2007 BAMcinematek screened an annual Best of the Year/Best Undistributed series with film writer Dennis Lim/The Village Voice (Lim/indieWIRE in 2007). And BAMcinematek co-curated a three year summer collaboration of new feature/documentary/short films with the Sundance Institute, 2005-2008.

Each fall BAMcinematek screens films by emerging directors in its The Next Director program that has highlighted the work of Marc Recha (2007), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2005), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2004), and Hong Sang­ Soo (2003). Some of the highlighted programs over our ten-year history include: The Vision that Changed Cinema: Michelangelo Antonioni (2006), The Leading Men of French Cinema (2006); In the Company of Arnaud Desplechin (2005); Gena Rowlands: An Independent Spirit (2005); The Films of Luchino Visconti (2004); Films of Wong Kar-Wai (2004); Kaurismaki Goes America (2003); The Feature Films of Ken Loach (2002); An Independent Spirit: Victor Erice (2002); Nanni Moretti: I Am Self-Sufficient (2001 ); Young, Beautiful, and Totally F***ed Up: The Films of Gregg Araki (2001 ); Love and Perdition: The Past and the Present in Portuguese Cinema (a month-long survey, which included Pedro Costa's first NY screening) (2001 ); Movie Love: A Tribute to Pauline Kael (2001 ); and Everyday Courage: Czech Film from Gustav Machaty and Beyond to the 60s (2000).

BAMcinematek also curates film for BAM's Takeover events, all-night open house parties. Programs have included "Lindsay Lohan Mid-Career Retrospective" featuring Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, The Parent Trap, I Know Who Killed Me ; "Up All Night in 1985" featuring The Last Dragon, Fright Night, Perfect, and classic 1985 trailers; "When Animals Hug" featuring The Cat from Outer Space, Jacques Cousteau's World Without Sun, and trailers and shorts starring animals; The Pusher Trilogy featuring Nicholas Winding Refn's Pusher, Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands, Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death; and "Burning Down the House" featuring movies that rock including Gimme Shelter, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The Filth & the Fury, and Stop Making Sense.

BAMcinematek Programmers:

Florence Almozini

BAMcinematek Program Director Florence Almozini, a native of France, is a founding member of Ocularis, a Brooklyn-based organization dedicated to presenting work by local film and video artists, where she was the feature film curator from 1997 until 200 l. Since joining BAMcinematek as a curator when it opened in 1999, Almozini has brought a multitude of repertory programs to New York audiences, from retrospectives of directors Robert Altman and Wong Kar-Wai to annual surveys of contemporary Czech cinema and the year's best undistributed international films.

Many of the programs Almozini has initiated have toured North America, including complete retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, and Aki Kaurismaki, as well as a centennial retrospective of Manoel de Oliveira in 2008. She was also responsible for programming new narrative features, documentaries, and shorts from the U.S. and around the world for the popular annual showcase Sundance Institute at BAM from 2005-2008. Almozini has sat on the juries of the IFP Gotham Awards, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the McKnight Foundation Fellowships for Filmmakers.

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JacobPerlin

BAMcinematek Programming Associate Jacob Perlin has been a curator at BAM since 2003. He has presented film programs and lectured at the Human Rights Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia and Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain, and has organized film series for Cinema Tropical, French Institute Alliance Fran~aise (FIAF), and Light Industry in New York. Perlin also contributes to Film Comment magazine and will be producing the DVD supplement for the The Believer magazine's 2009 Film Issue.

Some of the series he has programmed or co-programmed include Afro-Punk, various horror series (Bloody Hell: British Horror, Fright Nights: International Horror, and Some Kind of Horror Show, a selection of the , the forgotten, and the rarely screened), and retrospectives of Gena Rowlands, Elliott Gould, Philippe Garre!, Monte Hellman, John Boorman, , Shirley Clarke, and special tributes to Jean Vigo and Susan Sontag.

Adrienne Mancia

BAMcinematek Curator-at-Large Adrienne Mancia was a curator at the Museum of Modem Art (MoMA) from 1964 to 1998. She co-founded New Directors/New Films, the annual showcase co-presented by MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and sits on the programming committee of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. In 1998 she joined BAMcinematek, where she has worked on programs such as From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War on Film; Andy Warhol: I Don't Know What I'm Doing; Pordenone Silent Film Weekend; and Master of : Teuvo Tulia, among others.

BAM Rose Cinemas

BAM is unique among American cultural institutions in that it is the only performing arts center in the country with two mainstage theaters and a four-screen multiplex cinema on its campus. The internationally renowned architectural firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates designed the theaters. A voiding the typical shoe-box feel of many contemporary multiplexes, BAM Rose Cinemas retains the character of the original Carey Playhouse, making use of the theater's wood paneling, arched entry vaults, ornate plaster work, and other key architectural elements.

Highlights from Special Events 2005-2008:

Since its inception, BAMcinematek has welcomed guest artists including Spike Lee, Harvey Keitel, Todd Haynes, Bill Murray, John Turturro, Cate Blanchett, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Buck Henry, Ken Bums, Milos Forman, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, James Ivory, Ed Pressman, Annette Insdorf, Abel Ferrara, Roger Ebert, David Byrne, Danny Glover, , James Toback, Annie Pressman, Peter Brook, , Jo Anders, Willem Dafoe, , Rossellini, Frank Serpico, Bruce Campbell, John Sayles, Pedro Costa, Han if Kureishi, Terence Stamp, , , Vincent D'Onofrio, Emily Watson, , Philip Seymour Hoffman, , Paul Morrissey, Holly Woodlawn, Marc Recha, Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray, Omelia Muti, Manoel de Oliveira, Ed Lachman, Larry Clark, Paul Schrader, Jerome Bonnell, Michel Spinoza, Louis Garre!, Christophe Honore, J. Haberman, Jan Svankmajer, Jiri Menzel, Jan Hfebejk, David Ondricek, Bibi Andersson, Pernilla August, D.A. Pennebaker, Karpo Godina, Marco Tullio Giordana, , Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg, Byron Hurt, Craig Zobel, Marco Williams, Julien Temple, Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine, , Sacha Gervasi, Courtney Hunt, Melissa Leo, Margaret Brown, Ernie Gehr, James Nares, Bulle Ogier, Ruby Dee, Elliott Gould, David Gordon Green, and Barbet Schroeder.

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EVENT GUESTS

Do the Right Thing Rosie Perez The Squid and the Whale Noah Baumbach, Peter Newman Wanda Isabelle Huppert Full Metal Jacket Matthew Modine A Woman Under the Influence Gena Rowlands, Peter Bogdanovich Smoke Paul Auster, Jonathan Lethem Little Fish Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving Lonesome Jim Steve Buscemi Innocent Blood John Landis Journey to Jerusalem Albert Maysles The Offence Sidney Lumet Romance & Cigarettes John Turturro Twelve Disciples of Nelson Thomas Allen Harris Mandela Reflections in a Golden Eye Agnes b. Ride in the Whirlwind Monte Hellman The Best of Youth Marco Tullio Giordana Angel Rodriguez Jim McKay Life Support Nelson George Lunacy Jan Svankmajer I Served the King of England Jifi Menzel The Bishop's Bedroom Omelia Muti Persona Bibi Andersson Fanny and Alexander Pemilla August August Days Marc Recha Margot at the Wedding Noah Baumbach Love Songs Louis Garre!, Christophe Honore Christopher Columbus, The Manoel de Oliveira Enigma Ernie Gehr Program Ernie Gehr, J. Haberman Jimi Plays Monterey/Shake.· D.A. Pennebaker Otis at Monterey/Chiefs True Stories David Byrne, Ed Lachman Light Sleeper Paul Schrader, Ed Lachman Ken Park Larry Clark, Ed Lachman The Salamander Bulle Ogier Pineapple Express David Gordon Green Up Tight! Ruby Dee Little Murders I The Long Elliott Gould Goodbye Momma'sMan Azazel Jacobs Inju, the Beast in the Shadows/ Barbet Schroeder General !di Amin Dada The Country Teacher Bohdan Slama Revolutionary Road Sam Mendes The Firemen's Ball Milos Forman

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BAMcinematek presents Shorts Sunday on June 28

Shorts Sunday is a part of BAMcinemaFEST, the sixteen-day festival of new independent films and repertory favorites, June 17-July 2

BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave.) Tickets for BAMcinemaFEST are on sale Monday, May 25 Tickets will be available online at BAM.org/BAMcinemaFEST For all general film tickets: $11 per screening for adults; $8 for seniors 65 and over, children under twelve, and $8 for students 25 and under with valid I.D. Monday-Thursday, except holidays; $7 BAM Cinema Club members

Brooklyn, May 15, 2009-On Sunday, June 28, BAMcinemaFEST celebrates the short film with Shorts Sunday at BAM Rose Cinemas: four programs with a total of 29 new American and international shorts, including animation, narrative, documentary, and experimental work. Q&As with a selection of the filmmakers follow each program.

BAMcinemaFEST: From June 17-July 2 BAMcinematek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, presents the first BAMcinemaFEST, a new film festival in Brooklyn.This festival launch celebrates the tenth anniversary of BAMcinematek-BAM's repertory film program that began on July 1, 1999. BAMcinemaFEST is a new festival presenting eighteen new features and documentaries in a festival atmosphere including filmmaker Q&As, outdoor screenings, an all-night movie marathon, and other special events. The BAMcinematek Sidebar will honor ten years of repertory film screenings at BAM, highlighting some of the films and filmmakers that defined our first decade. Go here for BAMcinemaFEST's full press release and complete schedule: BAMcinemaFEST press release.

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SHORTS SUNDAY schedule

12:30pm: SHORTS PROGRAM 1: ANIMATION, 90min

Hot Dog, Director: Bill Plympton, U.S., 2008, 6min A loveable pup struggles to get more recognition from his firefighter pals.

Dear Beautiful, Director: Roland Becerra, U.S., 2007, 15min A married couple confronts their own relationship issues as well as external challenges

From Burger It Came, Director: Dominic Bisignano, U.S., 2008, 7min A boy eats a hamburger of unknown origins and fantasizes about the horrific consequences.

Out of Control, Director: Sofia Carrillo, Mexico, 2008, 11 min Dark, beautiful, and ethereal musings on solitude.

Western Spaghetti, Director: PES, U.S., 2008, 2min Common household objects metamorphose into familiar food items.

This Way Up, Directors: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith, U.K., 2008, 9min Two undertakers encounter unexpected adventures as they try to transport a recently deceased customer.

Good: Internet Censorship, Directors: Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie, Jason Jones, U.S., 2008, 3min A whirlwind survey of global internet regulatory practices.

The Real Place, Director: Cam Christiansen, Canada 2008, 5min A spirited telling of the life of playwright John Murrell.

GOOD: Atomic Alert, Director: Max Joseph, U.S., 2007, 4min A film about the state of nuclear weapons in the world, and the supposed effects of a nuclear attack on New York.

Keith Reynolds Can't Make It Tonight, Director: Felix Massie, U.K., 2007, 7min Keith Reynolds leaves his hat in his car; this isn't the only mistake he makes today.

I Am So Proud of You, Director: Don Hertzfeldt, U.S., 2008, 22min A follow-up to Sundance Jury Prize Winner, Everything Will Be Ok. In this installment Bill tries to deal with some family issues.

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3:15pm: SHORTS PROGRAM 2, 93min

Acting for the Camera, Director: Justin Nowell, U.S., 2008, 15min What is the process by which an actor can convincingly feign an orgasm ... on screen?

Abbie Cancelled, Director: Dumb Bunny, U.S., 2008, 16min Agitated hosts and reticent guests are not the formula for dinner party success in Brooklyn.

Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall, Directors: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano U.S., 2009, 13min Does a huge mall in one of the world's most densely populated countries equal retail success?

Lessons from the Night, Director: Adrian Francis, Australia, 2008, 9min A woman working as an overnight janitor in a foreign country expounds on human nature.

My Friends, Director: Louis Garrel, France, 2008, 26min Three twenty-somethings in Paris discuss life and love.

Jerrycan, Director: Julius Avery, Australia, 2008, 14min Boy bullies, adolescent egos, pyromania, go-carts, and a heart-pounding soundtrack.

6pm: SHORTS PROGRAM 3, 91min

Netherland Dwarf, Director. David Michod, Australia, 2008, 15min A single father tries to brighten his son's day by purchasing the bunny the boy has been yearning for.

Crocodiles and I, Director: Marcela Arantes, Brazil, 2008, 18min A coming of age tale about a teenaged girl deals with the social perils of her antagonistic older brother and his obnoxious friends.

Littleminx Exquisite Corpse: She Walked Calmly Disappearing Into the Darkness, Dir. Malik Hassan Sayeed, U.S., 2008, 10min A shooting in the numinous darkness of the city causes confusion.

Instead of Abracadabra, Director: Patrick Eklund, Sweden, 2008, 22min An aspiring magician and a bloody mistake. Chimay!

The Blindness of the Woods, Director: Martin Jalfen, Javier Lourenco, Argentina, 2008, 11 min Lady Chatterley meets the Muppets.

Love You More, Director: Sam Taylor-Wood, U.K., 2008, 15min The latest single from the Buzzcocks leads to a steamy after-school romp. BAMcinemaFEST: Shorts Sunday, 4

9pm: SHORTS PROGRAM 4, 81min

No Idle Hands, Director: Sabrina Gshwandtner, U.S., 2008, 9min Part travelogue, part Surrealist narrative, this three-part film takes us on a symbolic tour through the history of knitting.

Memorias de una familia cubana, Director: Yan Vega, France, 2007, 16min A fictional short-film created out of the photo album of a Cuban family, whose destiny is weaved together with the history of the Revolution from 1959 to today.

Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa, Director: Gary Huggins, U.S., 2008, 6min Illumination comes to a young boy at his grandfather's 95th birthday.

575 Castro Street, Director: Jenny Olsen, U.S., 2008, 8min Set to the original audio cassette recorded by Harvey Milk in November 1977 to be played "in the event of my death by assassination", and photographed on the reconstruction of Milk's photography store used in Gus Van Sant's recent film Milk.

Le Feu, le Sang, Les Etoiles, Director : Caroline Deruas, France, 2008, 16min Left-wing youth react the day after an election, from feeling helpless to startled, then to tears and anger. How to cope with it, or where to flee? Maurice Garre! co-stars in this short.

Out of Ourminds, Director: Tony Stone, U.S., 2008, 28min Featuring original music by Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins), the film depicts a fantasy world where a Viking heart, a car crash, and a bleeding forest connect.

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BAMcinematek screens What's on Your Plate? within BAMcinemaFEST and in conjunction with Afro-Punk

Catherine Gund's food justice documentary What's on Your Plate? screens in Fort Greene Park on June 27

BAMcinemaFEST is a sixteen-day festival of new independent films and repertory favorites, running from June 17-July 2

Brooklyn, June 3, 2009-BAMcinemaFEST, in conjunction with Afro-Punk, will be presenting a free outdoor screening of Catherine Gund's food justice documentary, What's On Your Plate? in Fort Greene Park, June 27.

The event includes a live musical performance, and will be introduced by the filmmakers.

What's on Your Plate documents the journey of Sadie Hope-Gund and Safiyah Riddle, two intelligent and inquisitive eleven-year-old girls from Lower Manhattan, as they explore their place in the food chain. Through the course of the film, the girls address questions regarding the origins of the food they eat, how many miles it travels from the harvest to their plate, how it's prepared, and the effect it all has on their bodies and the environment.

In search of answers, the girls visit local farmers, greenmarkets, and supermarkets, and review the New York City Board of Education's school lunch program. They find solutions for healthier more environmentally responsible ways of eating, and begin to understand the economic impact of the way we eat.

With child obesity rampant, and public concern for the environment at a fever pitch, this film could not come at a better time. Ideal for families to watch together, What's on Your Plate? presents a variety of perspectives on how food reaches our urban community and its associated challenges.

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What's On Your Plate?, U.S., 2009, 73min, DOCUMENTARY Director: Catherine Gund Producers: Catherine Gund, Tanya Selvaratnam With Sadie Hope-Gund, Safiyah Riddle

About Director Catherine Gund

Catherine Gund, is an Emmy Award-nominated producer, director, writer and organizer. Her media work-which focuses on arts and culture, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, and other social justice issues-has screened around the world in festivals and theaters, on PBS and the Sundance Channel, at community-based organizations, universities, and museums. As a filmmaker who has worked in all aspects of production for 20 years, her interest is in telling stories and finding the details that educate and inspire.

Gund's productions include Motherland Afghanistan (AFI Fest Official Selection; PBS broadcast); A Touch of Greatness (Best Documentary Award, Hamptons Film Festival, Ohio Film Festival, and Denver International Film Festival; PBS broadcast; Emmy nomination); Making Grace (theatrical release); On Hostile Ground (Sundance Channel broadcast); Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance (Best Documentary Award, Chicago Festival); When Democracy Works; Positive: Life with HIV; and Keep Your Laws Off My Body; as well as work with the collectives DIVA TV (co-founder) and Paper Tiger Television. She co-founded the Third Wave Foundation and was on the founding board of Working Films. She has served on the advisory council for MediaRights.org and as a consultant for the Robeson Fund.

About BAMcinemaFEST

BAMcinematek launches BAMcinemaFEST, June 17-July 2, a sixteen-day festival of new independent films and repertory favorites. Go here to view the complete program: BAMcinemaFEST

The festival celebrates ten years of repertory screenings at BAM. This year's line up features fourteen New York premieres as well as nineteen repertory screenings and more.

About BAMcinematek

BAM Rose Cinemas "offers one of the most civilized movie-going experiences in the city" -The New York Times

The four-screen BAM Rose Cinemas (BRC) opened in 1998 to offer Brooklyn audiences alternative and independent films that might not play in the borough otherwise, making BAM the only performing arts center in the country with two mainstage theaters and a multiplex cinema. In July of 1999, beginning with a series celebrating the work of Spike Lee, BAMcinematek was born as Brooklyn's only daily year-round repertory film program. BAMcinematek presents new and rarely seen contemporary films, classics from cinema history, work by local artists, and festivals of films from around the world, often with special appearances by directors, actors, and other guests.

Entering its 10th year, BAMcinematek has not only presented major retrospectives by well-known filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Shohei Imamura, Manoel de Oliveira, and Luchino Visconti, but it has also introduced New York audiences to contemporary artists such as Pedro Costa and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In addition BAMcinematek programmed the first U.S. retrospective of directors Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Arnaud Desplechin, and Hong Sang-soo. Recently BAMcinematek co-curated a three year summer collaboration of new feature/documentary/short films with the Sundance Institute, 2006-2008.

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