July-August, 2013 2046 Museum of the Moving Image has a The Museum also recently received major We have been successful because we have milestone birthday coming up this grants for its online initiatives. Sloan always been a Museum that looks forward, September, and I am pleased to report Science on Film, a dynamic website with while celebrating the past. But there is that we are entering our second quarter- short films, news items, feature articles, also plenty going on in the present, as century with a lot of momentum. A major and more, all contributing to the public you will see in these pages. Our summer gift of $3 million from the Sumner M. understanding of science through the schedule is filled with spectacular movies, Redstone Foundation was a tremendous use of film and television, will receive including big-screen American epics in vote of confidence in the Museum’s great continued, generous support from The our beloved series See It Big!, a complete track record and, more importantly, its Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. And the Wong Kar-wai retrospective highlighted promising future. In recognition, we are Museum’s acclaimed online publication, by a special screening of his eagerly very proud to name our showcase venue Moving Image Source, has received awaited new film The Grandmaster, and the Sumner M. Redstone Theater. We renewed support from the National Fun City, a series of New York City films are also thrilled to announce the naming Endowment for the Arts. from the 1960s and 1970s, guest curated of our brand new George S. Kaufman by film critic J. Hoberman. In our galleries, Courtyard. A strikingly modern, beautifully Although our major renovation and you’ll see two new exhibitions: PERSOL landscaped space, the Kaufman expansion is complete, with the opening MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: 30 stories Courtyard is an inviting and comfortable of the Kaufman Courtyard, we continue to of craftsmanship in film, highlighting the place to enjoy during a Museum visit. We grow and transform in many ways, like our work of meticulous and accomplished are very grateful for the contributions subject matter. Thanks to an extremely filmmakers and actors, and Cut Up, a of George S. Kaufman, the visionary generous donation of hundreds of artifacts thoughtful and delightful selection of developer of the Kaufman Astoria Studios, from the Jim Henson family, and a capital video works that re-edit and re-imagine who donated $1 million, and the City of grant from the City of New York, plans popular movies and television programs. New York, which donated $1.25 million, are now underway for the creation of a thanks to the efforts of New York City permanent gallery devoted to the work and As always, there is a lot going on here. So Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer in legacy of Jim Henson. Mayor Bloomberg, come spend some of your summer with partnership with the NYC Department of Miss Piggy, and members of the Henson us, and we also hope to see you again in Cultural Affairs. family were here in May for a memorable the fall, to celebrate our 25th anniversary! press conference announcing the Jim Henson donation and gallery.
Carl Goodman Executive Director
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SINGLE STREAM 5
PERSOL: 6 MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS 30 stories of craftsmanship in film See It Big! 7 CUT UP 4 Wong Kar-wai 10
Rural Route Film Festival 12
Fun City 14
Sholay 3-D 16
Changing the Picture 17
Fist and Sword 18 PERSOL DVD Dead Drop 18 MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS Behind the Screen 19 SEE IT BIG! 7 6 Focus on the Collection 20
Summer Media Camp 21
Become a Member 22
Our Supporters 23
Host Your Event 24
Daily Schedule 25
Museum Information 26 RURAL ROUTE FILM FESTIVAL 12 FUN CITY 14
3 IN THE AMPHITHEATER GALLERY
JUNE 29–SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
Organized by Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media
From supercuts to mashups to remixes, Cut Up celebrates the practice of re-editing popular media to create new work, presenting contemporary videos by self-taught editors and emerging artists alongside landmarks of historic and genre-defining reappropriation.
Easy access to editing tools and distribution platforms now gives more people than ever before the opportunity to respond to the commercial products that shape our cultural dialogues. By plumbing a vast shared vocabulary of image and sound, audiences can express affiliation, criticize, or construct entirely new content using popular media as raw material. Re-edited videos are created and shared online daily by publics that spend increasing amounts of social time in front of networked screens. As the distinction between consumer and participant becomes ever more fluid, re-editing popular media has emerged as a common way of participating in a shared cultural conversation.
The exhibition presents a selection of short- form video works that take movies, music videos, television series, and news broadcasts as their source material, focusing on genres and techniques that have emerged online over the past decade and their on- and offline precedents.
4 Image courtesy of the artists IN THE LOBBY
JULY 3–NOVEMBER 3, 2013
Organized by Rachael Rakes and Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media
SINGLE STREAM by Pawel Wojtasik, Toby Lee, and Ernst Karel, explores a zero-sort recycling center in Charlestown, Massachusetts where hundreds of tons of refuse are sorted and processed every day. Blurring the line between observation and abstraction, SINGLE STREAM plunges the viewer into the steady flow of the plant, capturing the complex and fascinating processes devised to treat the enormous amount of waste Americans produce every day. As it moves among criss-crossing conveyor belts, industrial paper shredders, and glass-smashing drums, SINGLE STREAM examines the significant material consequences of our society’s culture of excess.
5 IN THE CHANGING EXHIBITIONS GALLERY PERSOL MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: 30 stories of craftsmanship in film JULY 11–NOVEMBER 10, 2013 Guest curator: Michael Connor
The third and final installation in a series of three exhibitions,PERSOL MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: 30 stories of craftsmanship in film, uncovers ten powerful stories of obsessive workmanship within filmmaking. It offers a unique opportunity to view rarely seen artifacts from acclaimed films, as well as behind-the-scenes research notes, sketches, and materials used in the development process by some of the world’s best-known filmmakers.
Among the craftspeople featured are Johnny Depp, who undertook extensive research to prepare for his role as Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Theadora Van Runkle, who created detailed illustrations to design the distinctive costumes for Bonnie and Clyde and The Thomas Crown Affair; the legendary editor/sound designer Walter Murch, who revolutionized the use of sound in film in Apocalypse Now; and Jennifer Connelly, who started making her own clothes in preparation for her part as the aspiring fashion designer Marion in Requiem for a Dream.
The exhibition also looks at the work of director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon); costume designers Eiko Ishioka (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) and Julie Weiss (Frida, Twelve Monkeys); cinematographer Sławomir Idziak (Three Colors: Blue); production designer Jeannine Oppewall (Catch Me If You Can), and director Spike Jonze / screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich).
Publicity still from The Thomas Crown Affair. Courtesy of MGM Media Licensing / Core collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences persol.com
6 JULY 5–28, 2013
Organized by Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, and Chief Curator David Schwartz
What bigger subject is there for American filmmakers than the story of America itself? The grandeur of the American dream and the harsh realities faced in the effort to attain it; the terror and promise of the open landscape of the American West; the teeming diversity of urban life; the never-ending tension between ambition and greed; the battle between idealism and compromise—all of these themes and more are on view in the epic films in this distinctly American edition of See It Big, which includes some of the greatest movies ever made.
The Right Stuff
7 Citizen Kane The Grapes of Wrath (Twentieth Century Fox) Imitation of Life SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2:00 P.M.
Dir. Douglas Sirk. 1959, 125 mins. 35mm. With Lana Turner, John Gavin, Susan Kohner, Juanita Moore. This is the most thematically ambitious and powerful movie from Douglas Sirk, crafter of impeccable Hollywood weepies that contained searing social commentary. On the surface, Imitation of Life seems to be a sudser about the romantic and professional travails of a struggling actress. But as her woes are paralleled with the heartbreaking story of her black maid’s struggles with an ashamed daughter, it is revealed as a stealth portrait of racism in America.
Do the Right Thing The Grapes of Wrath SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2:00 P.M.
Dir. John Ford. 1940, 129 mins. 35mm. With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine. In the heart of the Great Depression, Tom Joad (a finely weathered Henry Fonda) and his family are pushed off their Oklahoma homestead and forced to head down Highway 66 toward California, in search of something, anything better. In the hands of John Ford and ace cinematographer Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane), this Oscar-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic became an unforgettable, mythopoetic elegy for the promise of America.
El Norte SUNDAY, JULY 7, 5:00 P.M. Citizen Kane Sunrise Greed Do the Right Thing Dir. Gregory Nava. 1983, 140 mins. 35mm. With FRIDAY, JULY 5, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2:00 P.M. With live music by SATURDAY, JULY 13, 4:45 P.M. Makia Matsumara Ernesto Gómez Cruz, David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Dir. Orson Welles. 1941, 119 mins. Dir. F. W. Murnau. 1927, 94 mins. SATURDAY, JULY 6, 5:00 P.M. Gutiérrez. Nava’s Oscar-nominated portrait of the Dir. Spike Lee. 1989, 120 mins. 35mm. With Spike Lee, 35mm. With Orson Welles, Joseph Restored 35mm print with arduous journey of a Guatemalan brother and sister Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro. One of the Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. Here original soundtrack. With Janet Dir. Erich von Stroheim. 1924, 140 as they flee persecution to emigrate to America was a most aesthetically accomplished and intentionally it is: the big one. For decades Gaynor, George O’Brien. After mins. Imported 35mm print from groundbreaking art-house smash. Roger Ebert called incendiary American films, Spike Lee’s full-throttle consistently ranked by critics and establishing himself as one of the British Film Institute. With this beautifully shot, wrenching human epic, which mixes portrait of a particularly eventful, hot summer day filmmakers around the world as the the most important German Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean dreamlike imagery with a gripping realism, “a Grapes of in the life of a Bed-Stuy neighborhood in Brooklyn is greatest movie of all time, Welles’s expressionist filmmakers Hersholt. The story behind Von Wrath for our time.” a remarkable and ambivalent dramatization of race perversely grandiose portrait of a (Nosferatu, The Last Laugh), Stroheim’s legendary silent epic is El Norte (Janus Films) relations in America. The phenomenal cast (including newspaper tycoon loosely based Murnau came to America and a thing of myth: reportedly almost Aiello as pizza man Sal, Lee as delivery boy Mookie, on William Randolph Hearst is a used the best of Hollywood’s eight hours in its original edit, it and Davis as an apartment-stoop prophet), the dazzling work of art that ushered resources to create Sunrise, which was taken away from its visionary endlessly inventive visuals, and the charged political in a new era in virtuosic filmmaking is widely regarded as his greatest director by the studio and cut down discussion made this an epochal cultural moment that and fragmented cinematic achievement and one of the high to size against his wishes. Most retains its power to this day. narratives. With one stunningly points in silent cinema. This of that footage is lost, but what composed image—and sound— exquisite story of love, marriage, remains of this primal story—about Reds after another, this tale about the temptation, and the lure of the big a San Francisco dentist and his wife SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2:00 P.M. seductive, corrupting nature of city is so bursting with glorious undone after she wins the lottery— power in America isn’t really seen visual poetry that one can easily is undeniably brilliant and a major Dir. Warren Beatty. 1981, 195 mins., plus until it’s seen big. see why it won Best Unique and touchstone of silent cinematic craft. intermission. 35mm. With Beatty, Diane Keaton, Artistic Production at the first ever Jack Nicholson, Maureen Stapleton. Director Beatty Academy Awards ceremony. and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro won Oscars for this immense film based on the true story of
8 SEE IT BIG! American journalist John Reed, caught up in the heady heartbreaking performance by Stanton) wanders back There Will Be Blood There Will Be Blood (Paramount Pictures) excitement of the Russian Revolution. Reds is one of into the titular hamlet and tries to pick up where he SATURDAY, JULY 27, 5:30 P.M, the last major epics made in the classic Hollywood left off years ago, which includes reconnecting with his SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1:00 P.M. mold. The film’s grand scale never overwhelms young son and tracking down his runaway wife (Kinski). Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson. 2007, 158 mins. DCP. With the even grander passions at the heart of this German movie icon Wim Wenders’s journey into the Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds. A jewel of superb production, featuring one of Keaton’s best heart of a strange and beautiful American landscape contemporary American filmmaking, Anderson’s rich performances as journalist Louise Bryant. is a superb, emotional glimpse at this country from and terrifying evocation of the “weird old America” an outsider’s perspective, photographed by the great follows the fortunes and travails of prospector Daniel The Right Stuff cinematographer Robby Müller. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2:00 P.M. Plainview (Day-Lewis, in a snarling, Oscar-winning Paris, Texas (Janus Films) performance), who strikes oil in turn-of-the-century Dir. Philip Kaufman. 1983, 193 mins., plus intermission. California. The result is a spellbinding, meticulously 35mm. With Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Sam crafted epic about the intersections of money and Shepard. Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom religion—a powerful metaphorical work that builds to Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of a wallop of a climax. NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Part satire of American The Night of the Hunter gung-ho machismo, part reverent dramatization of the Introduced by film critic Peter Rainer, followed by mission that would change the world, The Right Stuff is a book signing in the Moving Image Store a dazzlingly mounted production that effortlessly mixes SUNDAY, JULY 28, 4:30 P.M. comedy and drama. Shepard is a particular standout in a Dir. Charles Laughton. 1955, 93 mins. 35mm. With Robert poignant subplot as sound-barrier breaker Chuck Yeager. Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish. Acting legend The Big Trail Laughton’s sole screen directorial credit is perhaps cinema’s most remarkable one-off. Creepy preacher Nashville Henry Powell (a never-more-menacing Mitchum) offers SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2:00 P.M. naive widow Willa Harper (Winters) a fresh start, but her Dir. Robert Altman. 1975, 159 mins. DCP. With Keith kids rightly worry his intentions are less than pure. Part Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Henry Gibson, Lily horror film, part fairy tale, The Night of the Hunter is an Tomlin. The high point of Altman’s prolific career was idiosyncratic, dazzlingly shot cinematic wonder that feels this panoramic view of American life circa 1975, set like nothing else. Film critic Peter Rainer, who has had an in the nation’s country-music capital. Cramming his illustrious 30-year career as film critic for publications super-wide screen with the comings and goings of a including New York magazine and The Christian Science 24-character ensemble, Altman creates an incredible Monitor, will introduce the film, which he writes about cacophonous entertainment, equal parts comedy and in his new book Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Writing tragedy, which features terrific original songs and About Film in a Turbulent and Transformative Era The Big Trail an unforgettable ending. The film seems brilliantly (Santa Monica Press, 2013). SUNDAY, JULY 21, 4:00 P.M. prophetic in its portrayal of the link between American Dir. Raoul Walsh. 1930, 121 mins. Digital projection. entertainment and politics. The Night of the Hunter (Park Circus) With John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power Sr. One of the earliest films ever shot in widescreen (in Nashville (Photofest) Fox’s short-lived “Grandeur” process), The Big Trail is a stunningly inventive movie landmark, a vibrant piece of Americana that portrays the American melting pot and the stunning Western landscape. A remarkably youthful Wayne stars, in his first leading role, as a trail guide leading a wagon train, which encounters both the dangers and pleasures of the wide-open, uncharted territory.
Paris, Texas SUNDAY, JULY 21, 7:00 P.M.
Dir. Wim Wenders. 1984, 147 mins. Restored 35mm print from the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & TV Archive. With Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell. A mute drifter (a
9 SEE IT BIG! Ashes of Time Redux WONG KAR-WAI JULY 12–AUGUST 24, 2013
Wong Kar-wai is one of the most influential film directors of his generation. His impressionistic, evocative movies capture the fleeting nature of time and love and the chaotic swirl of contemporary life. With his eagerly awaited new movie, The Grandmaster, he reinvents the martial arts genre while reuniting Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi, the stars of his science- fiction epic 2046. The New York premiere of The Grandmaster, with Wong Kar-wai in person, is the centerpiece of this complete retrospective, including all ten of the director’s feature films. These millennial-defining works are among the most celebrated and critically significant films of the Hong Kong Second Wave. The series will be accompanied with an online symposium on Reverse Shot.
Special thanks to The Weinstein Company and Kino Lorber.
All films directed by Wong Kar-wai.
Chungking Express FRIDAY, JULY 12, 7:00 P.M.
1994, 98 mins. 35mm. With Takeshi (Tony Leung) with playful and Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony quirky Faye (Faye Wong) in Lan Kwai screenplay, and filmed in the same Leung Chiu-Wai. With all the speed Feng, both linked by the sensational claustrophobic spaces of Tsim Happy Together and polyphony of the mega-city, piercing, revelatory rumination fast food stand, the “Midnight Sha Tsui. Fallen Angels is a thrilling SUNDAY, JULY 14, 6:00 P.M. Chungking Express is a definitive on loneliness, self-destruction, Express.” With some of Chris Doyle’s ride into the nocturnal doomed Ashes of Time Redux and sui-generis millennial city- 1997, 96 mins. 35mm. With Leslie and amour fou. Emboldened by most intoxicating cinematography love lives of a few solipsistic SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2:00 P.M. symphony. Shot on location with a Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. Chris Doyle’s lush cinematography on display, the film’s surrounding beautiful outlaws: a nihilistic small crew on a short hiatus during Recalling the magical realism and featuring remarkable 2008, 100 mins. 35mm. With Leslie architecture is brilliantly fused with killer-for-hire, his agent, femme the production of Ashes of Time, that Wong admired in the Latin performances from its two stars, Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte its own electrifying formal design. fatale Blondie, and—in a parallel Wong pays homage to Hong Kong American literature of Manuel Puig Happy Together was one of Wong’s Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Carina universe—delinquent Ho Chi Moo by posing two contemporaneous and Julio Cortazar, Happy Together most internationally acclaimed Lau, Charlie Yeung, Jacky Cheung, Fallen Angels and little Charlie. Hyperstylized in stories of strange love against begins as a road movie—following films, garnering him Best Director Maggie Cheung. Prompted by a SATURDAY, JULY 13, 7:00 P.M. delectable wide-angle shots in both each other. The dual plot follows two male lovers as they journey prize at Cannes in 1997. “From necessary undertaking to preserve high-contrast black-and-white and lonely cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) 1995, 96 mins. 35mm. With from Hong Kong to Argentina on afar (Buenos Aires is Hong Kong’s the original 1994 film’s surviving searing colors, Fallen Angels is one and his pursuit of a mysterious Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takashi a quest to see the great Iguazu antipodes), [Wong] crystallizes the elements, Ashes of Time Redux of Wong’s most stunning films. blond-wigged woman (Brigitte Lin) Kaneshiro. This noirish prelude Falls and achieve some stability anxieties and hopes of Hong Kong is not merely a restoration but a in Kowloon, and the “accidental” to Chungking Express was in their volatile relationship— people on the eve of the return to stunning reorchestration of Wong’s meetings between lonely cop 663 derived from the third act of its and gradually transforms into a China,” wrote Tony Rayns. sweeping wuxia epic, creating an
10 even more intensified expression early masterpiece. “Drenched in 2046 protean selves. of the director’s singular sense of romanticism, it has one of the great NEW YORK PREMIERE In the Mood for Love cinematic construction. Wong’s music montages in Hong Kong The Grandmaster FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 7:00 P.M. second feature, shot on location film,” writes David Bordwell, “and a With Wong Kar-Wai in person 2000, 98 mins. 35mm. With Tony near Mongolia in Mainland China, finale that you feel lifting from genre SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 8:00 P.M. Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, chronicles the encounters and formula to pictorial poetry.” 2013, 123 mins. DCP courtesy of Rebecca Pan. With Fei Mu’s interlocking love triangles between The Weinstein Company. With Tony Spring in a Small Town (1948) and a group of wandering swordsmen, Days of Being Wild Leung Chiu-Wai, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) amongst bounty hunters, and other shadowy FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 7:00 P.M. Chang. Wong’s most recent feature its inspirations, In the Mood for Love characters against the entropic 1990, 94 mins. 35mm. With Leslie marks his seventh collaboration evokes the Golden Age of Shanghai spiral of a staggering desertscape. Cheung, Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, with leading man Tony Leung Chiu- romantic melodrama while Both expansive and intimate, and Carina Lau. Marking Wong Kar- Wai and the auteur’s astonishing transcending it in its luscious and featuring a veritable galaxy of Hong wai’s first film with two of his key return to genre filmmaking. A wuxia exacting formal design. Unfolding in Kong superstars and stylized fight collaborators—cinematographer epic and biopic which possesses languorous dream-time—despite all sequences, Ashes remains one Chris Doyle and set designer William the spirit and levity of a King Hu the clocks on the screen, the film’s of the greatest and most unique Chang—Days of Being Wild was a masterpiece, the film follows the chronology is sometimes traceable achievements in the wuxia genre.As box-office disappointment but a storied life of Ip Man—Bruce Lee’s only by Maggie Cheung’s dazzling the director himself has said, “[It’s] runaway critical success, and was mentor— through moments of major assortment of cheongsam—to the more than a standard martial arts soon hailed as a key work of the historical overturn in China, from the unforgettable score by Shigeru film; it’s Shakespeare meets Sergio Hong Kong Second Wave. The first end of the Sino-Japanese War to the Umebayashi, In the Mood chronicles Leone in Chinese.” in Wong’s triptych of scintillating Imperial British rule over Hong Kong, the intense friendship and As Tears Go By unrequited love stories (followed in sublime elliptical action-vignettes. sublimated desires between two by In the Mood for Love and 2046), Reinvigorating wuxia form with mutually cuckolded neighbors in its SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 5:30 P.M.. Days of Being Wild chronicles inimitable aesthetic grandeur and tale of passion tragically thwarted. 1988, 102 mins. 35mm. With Andy the tempestuous relationships complex narrative strategies, The Winner of the Technical Grand Prize Wong, Takuya Kimura, Carina Lau, Chow creates in a series of pulp Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jackie Cheung. between playboy heartbreaker Grandmaster brilliantly synthesizes at Cannes for its elegant mise-en- Zhang Ziyi, Maggie Cheung. Written novels, and the fateful year when Wong’s impressive debut As Tears Yuddy and his romantic victims elemental principles of kung fu scene—the Wong-Chris Doyle- almost at the same time with In the “One Country, Two Systems” Go By is a gangster film with all the Lulu and Li Su Zhen, celebrating the with tenets of historical national William Chang trifecta assisted the Mood for Love and weaving regime will expire in Hong Kong brazen audacity of its characters. reckless exuberance of youth while discourse to striking revelatory ends. by long-time Hou Hsiao-hsien together narrative strands and following the Mainland handover. Filled with his characteristic themes overlaying it with a wistful sense of Also part of the series Fist and Sword cinematographer Le Ping Bin—In characters from both that film and 2046 takes the viewer on a train of alienation and longing, the ephemerality. Personifying Hong (see page 18). the Mood for Love is one of cinema’s Days of Being Wild, 2046 completes ride through time to destinations story follows gangster and drifter Kong’s anticipatory anxieties for its greatest odes to longing and desire. Wong’s loose triptych of unrequited unknown, introduces new TICKETS: $25 public / $15 Museum Ah Wah as he tries to protect his future and a longing tenderness for love stories set in bygone “Golden characters (a futuristic Japanese members / free for Silver Screen friend Fly from slipping into fatal its past memories, Days of Being 2046 Ages.” The film’s title refers traveller, a female android) and members and above. danger with a large gang and falls Wild is perhaps “cinema’s ultimate SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 5:00 P.M. simultaneously to the hotel room resurrects familiar ones (Mood’s in love with youthful and vibrant unfinished masterpiece” (Sam Ho). where Mood’s Chow Mo-wan and Li Chow and Li, Days’s Lulu) to My Blueberry Nights 2004, 129 mins. 35mm. With Tony Ah-Ngor. Although often critically Su-zhen nearly consummated their reveal markedly and mysteriously SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 7:00 P.M. Leung Chiu-Wai, Gong Li, Faye eclipsed by his later works, it is an affair, the futuristic dystopia that different facets of their perpetually 2007, 95 min. 35mm. With Norah The Grandmaster Jones, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, My Blueberry Nights Natalie Portman, David Strathairn. Wong’s first feature film in English is a dreamy, exhilarating road movie with Norah Jones—in her film debut—as a heart-broken woman who leaves New York City and takes a soul-searching trip across America, from Memphis to Las Vegas. Along the way she encounters a series of offbeat characters including a compulsive, desperate gambler and a melancholic cop drinking himself into oblivion.
11 WONG KAR-WAI Rural Route Tall as the Baobab Tree. Photo by Chris Collins. Film Festival AUGUST 2–4, 2013
Organized by Alan Webber, Rural Route Film Festival
With live music and Southern food, Saturday (1:00–7:30 p.m.) and Sunday (1:00–5:00 p.m.)
Music in the Kaufman Courtyard by The Frontier Need Heroes, Gimagua, and Vlada Tomova, Valentina Kvasova & Shelley Thomas Acapella Trio
The Rural Route Film Festival was created to highlight works that deal with unique village, the festival screens work about rare people and places outside of the bustle of the people and cultures normally overlooked by city. Taking in a Rural Route program is like the mainstream media. Screenings include In addition to the events at the Museum, there choosing the road less travelled, and learning top quality, cutting-edge contemporary as will be a kick-off party on Thursday, August 1 For information about these something new about our constantly amazing well as works by such master filmmakers as at Strand Smokehouse in Astoria from 7:00 and other Rural Route world. Whether it be a modern-day western Werner Herzog and Les Blank. This year, the to 10:00 p.m., and a Closing Night screening Film Festival events, visit set in Chilean desert, a documentary about Rural Route Film Festival will have an outdoor and party at Brooklyn Grange in Long Island ruralroutefilms.com. two Chinese women thrust into a worldwide component at the Museum, with free live City on Sunday, August 4, and a screening at economic downturn, or a touching drama music, and authentic Southern food from a the Broadway branch of the Queens Library on about a forced marriage in a Senegalese local restaurant. Saturday, July 27.
12 Beaver Creek Yard Les Blank Tribute Program The Mosuo Sisters. Photo by Shiho Fukada. With Harrod Blank and archivist Dir. Laska Jimsen. 2013, 6 mins. Digital projection. A Mark Toscano in person poetic visual account of a Christmas tree processing Presented in collaboration with the facility provides insights into the human impulse to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences control, exploit, and profit from the natural world. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 7:00 P.M. Fitzcarraldo The great documentary filmmaker Les Blank (1935– SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 4:30 P.M. 2013) made poetic, vibrant films that captured the lives, culture, food, and music of people at the periphery of Peru. Dir. Werner Herzog. 1982, 158 mins. DCP. With American society. This special tribute to Blank, who died Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy. Herzog’s this April, consists of three of his most beloved films, pictorially stunning—and stunningly ambitious— shown in beautifully restored prints from the Academy of adventure film/comedy stars Klaus Kinski as the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. deranged Fitzcarraldo, a European businessman determined to build an opera house in Iquitos, Peru. To Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe accomplish this he has to make a fortune in the rubber Dir. Les Blank, 1979, 22 mins. 16mm. Yes, German film business, and his outlandish plan involves hauling an director Werner Herzog really does eat his shoe to enormous river boat across a small mountain with help across the Bolivian border. Sergio keep their mother and siblings out heaven, you may keep.” So goes fulfill a vow to fellow filmmaker Errol Morris—boldly from local Indians. Through his numerous narrative will have a good script... if he of poverty, Latso sacrifices her the unwritten law of the Kazakh exemplifying his belief that people must have the guts to and nonfiction works, shot on some of the most remote escapes alive. The acclaimed film dream of an education and stays steppes. For the inhabitants of a attempt what they dream of. Inspiring. locations across the world, Herzog has captured an Salt pays loving homage to Sergio home to farm, while Juma leaves small village, especially the youthful Dry Wood incredibly diverse set of people and cultures. Leone while playfully subverting again to try her luck in Lijiang and Iskander, living just downwind from Dir. Les Blank, Maureen Gosling. 1973, 37 mins. 16mm. A Preceded by: the old-school western genre in Chengdu. Ultimately, though, it’s the Baikonur Cosmodrome means fascinating look at black Creole life in French Louisiana, Magnetic Reconnection contemporary South America. the sisters’ relationship with one that what “falls from heaven” is held together by the wild, insistent music of Bois-Sec Dir. Kyle Armstrong. 2012, 12 mins. Digital projection. Rougier’s feature film debut has another that hangs in the balance actually valuable space debris from Ardoin and Canray Fontenot. Spectacular footage of the Aurora Borealis is been winning awards around the as they struggle to navigate the Russian rockets. Iskander uses his Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers accompanied by Jim O’Rourke’s evocative original score. world, including Best Film at First vast cultural and economic divides radio expertise to follow launches Dir. Les Blank, Maureen Gosling. 1980, 51 mins. 16mm. Time Fest in New York City earlier of contemporary China. and calculate where to find the cast- this year. off material. Something goes wrong This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, Preceded by: with the latest space millionaire cultivation, and culinary/curative powers of the stinking Preceded by: Felt, Feelings and Dreams Salt tourist lift-off, and he is there to rose features visits to garlic festivals and feasts, the Free Door With director Andrea Odezynska rescue the beautiful French woman legendary chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a Dir. Michael Schmidt. 2012, 8 mins. in person inside the crashed capsule. He hides flavorful musical soundtrack. Digital projection. Jim finds a door Dir. Andrea Odezynska. 2013, her in his yurt and, as she suffers by the side of a road that’s marked 30 mins. Digital projection. This from amnesia, Iskander is able to Tall as the Baobab Tree “free,” but decides he should still ask documentary follows a small pretend they are engaged. In this With director Jeremy Teicher in person if it’s okay to take it. group of Kyrgyz women who pull offbeat romantic comedy, Iskander SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2:00 P.M. themselves from crushing poverty Little Town has turned the ancient law of the Senegal. Dir. Jeremy Teicher. 2012, 82 mins. Digital by making shyrdaks (beautiful rugs Dir. Michael Schmidt. 2013, 4 mins. steppes to his own advantage, but projection. With Dior Ka, Oumul Ka. Coumba and her composed of felt). Odezynska’s film A music video, echoing classic even the most romantic lie cannot little sister Debo are the first to leave their family’s is a vivid snapshot of Kyrgyz culture. westerns, by the Canadian band Air remain undiscovered forever. remote Senegalese village, where meals are prepared Marshal Landing. Cathedral over open fires and water is drawn from wells, to attend Preceded by: Dir. Clea Roberts. 2013, 2 mins. school in the city. But when an accident suddenly Reindeer Salt The Mosuo Sisters Digital projection. Two women go threatens their family’s survival, their father decides Dir. Eva Weber. 2011, 3 mins. Digital SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 7:30 P.M. With director Marlo Poras for a walk together in the woods, to sell 11-year-old Debo into an arranged marriage. projection. An impressionistic, in person often termed “forest bathing” in Torn between loyalty to her elders and her dreams for Chile/Argentina. Dir. Diego Rougier. 2011, 112 mins. haunting portrait of Sámi reindeer SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2:00 P.M. Zen Buddhism. the future, Coumba hatches a secret plan to rescue Digital projection. With Fele Martínez, Javiera Contador, herding in the twilight expanses of her young sister from a fate she did not choose. This Gonzalo Valenzuela. Sergio is a washed-up Spanish China. Dir. Marlo Poras. 2012, 80 Baikonur the Lappish wilderness. affecting African drama was a highlight of this year’s director obsessed with making a western in Chile’s mins. Digital projection. Juma and SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 5:00 P.M. Was du nicht siehst... Rotterdam Film Festival “Bright Futures” section. Atacama Desert. Producers in Barcelona tear his Latso are thrust into the worldwide I spy with my little eye screenplay to shreds, sending him on a journey to economic downturn when they Germany/Russia/Kazakhstan. Preceded by: Dir. Gunda Aurich. 2012, 15 mins. northern Chile in search of the inspiration that will lose their jobs in Beijing. Left with Dir. Veit Helmer. 2011, 94 mins. Home Turf After an argument with her boyfriend salvage his story. Once Sergio arrives, however, he is few options, they leave for home, Digital projection. With Alexander Dir. Ross Whitaker. 2011, 14 mins. Digital projection. A during their countryside getaway, mistaken for the region’s long-lost gunslinger hero, a remote village in the foothills Asochakov, Marie de Villepin, Sitora fascinating documentary about the ancient art of cutting Laura meets a mysterious stranger pitting him against thugs involved in ‘shady business’ of the Himalayas. Determined to Farmonova. “Whatever falls from turf by hand in the bogs of Ireland. picking mushrooms in the forest.
13 RURAL ROUTE FILM FESTIVAL The French Connection
In November 1965, New York elected a young The ironic coinage “Fun City” first appeared in a Dick Schaap mayor with movie-star looks; six months into his column that ran in response to a remark made by the new mayor reign, John V. Lindsay signed an executive order at his first press conference: “This is a fun and exciting city even that would turn the city into a movie set. when it’s a struck city.” That was one way to put it. Born with a transit strike, ending amid the gas lines that followed the oil The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and embargo of 1973, Fun City was a town in continuous crisis. Broadcasting cut through existing red tape, fun encouraging the filming of motion pictures on Whatever the mayor’s intentions, the movies produced on his the city’s streets. Hollywood took notice with a watch rarely glamorized New York. Rather, they provide a still- cycle of tough cop films, bleak social comedies, compelling, exuberantly downbeat spectacle of social upheaval and gritty urban fables, capturing the feel of the and urban decay, ethnic tension, and street smart chutzpah, city in the late 1960s and early 1970s. drawing on local talent to celebrate America’s greatest city in all city its glory and despair. AUGUST 10–SEPTEMBER 1, 2013
Organized by guest curator J. Hoberman
14 LOCATION COMEDIES: THE TWO SIDES OF SIDNEY LUMET: Little Murders The French Connection You’re a Big Boy Now SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 5:30 P.M. Bye Bye Braverman Introduced by J. Hoberman Dir. Alan Arkin. 1971, 110 mins. 35mm. With Elliot Gould, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 3:30 P.M. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2:00 P.M. Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia. Another sort of urban Dir. Sidney Lumet. 1968, 94 mins. Digital projection. horror movie, no less apocalyptic but more overtly funny, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. 1966, 96 mins. Digital With George Segal, Jack Warden, Jessica Walter, Alan Arkin’s adaptation of Village Voice cartoonist Jules projection. With Peter Kastner, Geraldine Page, Rip Godfrey Cambridge, Phyllis Newman. The Feiffer’s caustic play (a flop on Broadway, a hit in London Torn. The first feature production to avail itself of quintessential Fun City director, Sidney Lumet drew and a smash off-Broadway revival) was co-produced by Mayor Lindsay’s new deregulations was a manic on his Yiddish theater roots for this dark, extremely its star, erstwhile Brooklyn chorus boy Elliott Gould. That youth comedy filmed entirely in New York by 26-year- ethnic comedy adapted from Brooklyn novelist Wallace Little Murders was originally to be directed by Jean-Luc old former Queens resident Francis Ford Coppola. Markfield’s wise-guy satire of pop-culture obsessed Godard gives some idea of its world view. Manhattan locations included Central Park, Times Partisan Review intellectuals, To An Early Grave. Square, Greenwich Village, and, in a sequence that Careening through Brooklyn in search of a funeral, the FABLES OF RACIAL TENSION: required the mayor’s personal intervention, the 42nd cast includes sometime stand-up comedians Alan King Street Library. The screening will be introduced by The Landlord CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: and Godfrey Cambridge. guest curator J. Hoberman. SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2:00 P.M. The French Connection Serpico Dir. Hal Ashby. 1970, 112 mins. 35mm. With Beau Bridges, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2:00 P.M. Cotton Comes to Harlem Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 5:00 P.M. Dir. William Friedkin. 1971, 104 mins. 35mm. With Gene Jr. An indolent American princeling (Beau Bridges) Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco. “I Dir. Ossie Davis. 1970, 97 mins. 35mm. With Godfrey purchases a row house in then-black brownstone felt this was a kind of crude poem to the city,” said director Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Brooklyn. Hal Ashby’s first feature, directed from Bill William Friedkin with regard to this most successful Redd Foxx. Broadway star Ossie Davis’s rollicking first Gunn’s script, is among the funniest social comedies of Fun City movies, which won Best Picture and four film, adapted from Chester Himes’s 1965 novel, was of the period. The hero goes native as did the cast, other Oscars, including Gene Hackman’s for Best Actor. shot in Harlem during the spring of 1969, with extensive which largely moved into then ungentrified Park Slope The justly celebrated car and elevated subway chase neighborhood participation and an almost entirely black during the shoot as Pearl Bailey commuted daily from through Bensonhurst required an actual Transit Authority cast headed by Raymond St. Jacques and Godfrey Broadway where she was starring in the all-black motorman on set and five weeks to complete. Cambridge (both playing cops) with Calvin Lockhart production of Hello, Dolly! stealing the movie as their nemesis, a bogus preacher. Across 110th Street The Angel Levine SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 4:30 P.M. Cotton Comes to Harlem SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 4:30 P.M. Serpico Dir. Barry Shear. 1972, 102 mins. Digital. With Anthony SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 5:30 P.M. Dir. Jan Kadar. 1970, 104 mins. 35mm. With Zero Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa. Fueled by Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O’Shea, Bobby Womack’s haunting theme, directed by Barry Dir. Sidney Lumet. 1973, 130 mins. 35mm. With Al Gloria Foster, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson. Bill Gunn also Shear (Wild in the Streets) from a novel by a Channel 5 Pacino. New York Film Critics Circle named Bronx-born contributed to the script of this kindred fable of racial news cameraman, this farrago of corrupt cops, ghetto Al Pacino the year’s best actor for his performance as tension in a New York City tenement directed by Czech hustlers, and downtown mobsters is the least glamorous the whistle-blowing “hippie” detective Frank Serpico, émigré Jan Kadar and based on a story by Bernard and most violent of Blaxploitation films—producer-star real-life hero of the Knapp Commission Hearings into Malamud. Harry Belafonte not only produced the movie Anthony Quinn held its world premiere in Harlem, at the police corruption, which convulsed the city in late 1970 but plays its deus ex machina as the divine hustler who Loews Victoria, on 125th Street. and precipitated the biggest shake-up in the history of installs himself in the lives of a downtrodden, elderly the NYPD. “A galvanizing and disquieting film,” perThe Jewish couple (Mostel and Kaminska, the star of Kadar’s FISH OUT OF WATER: New York Times critic Vincent Canby. Oscar-winning The Shop on Main Street). Coogan’s Bluff
URBAN HORROR: SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2:00 P.M. Norman Mailer vs. Fun City The Angel Levine (Park Circus) SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2:00 P.M. Rosemary’s Baby Dir. Don Siegel. 1968, 93 mins. 35mm. With Clint Dir. Dick Fontaine, 1970, 50mins. Digital projection. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2:30 P.M. Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb. An Arizona deputy known only as With Norman Mailer, Jimmy Breslin. Norman Mailer Coogan (Clint Eastwood) comes to town to extradite a Dir. Roman Polanski. 1968, 136 mins. DCP. With orchestrated his own political happening in the suspect and finds himself cheated by cabbies, insulted Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon. Roman spring of 1969, running for New York mayor in the by hookers, dissed by the cops, and even attacked by his Polanski milked maximum atmosphere out of a two- Democratic primary with journalist Jimmy Breslin prey’s strident, vaguely Jewish mother. The title puns week location shoot, turning the stately Dakota into as his sidekick, seeking the nomination for city on the location of the Polo Grounds, a tenement stoop Manhattan’s most infamous apartment house. New council president. Documented by British filmmaker of a ballpark once home to the New York Giants; the big York street guy John Cassavetes plays an extremely Dick Fontaine, their free-wheeling and highly action scene is set around the Cloisters. sketchy Broadway actor with naïve Mia Farrow as his rhetorical campaign provides a flavorsome analog to pregnant bride, and Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon as the contemporary Fun City caper films. hilariously sinister character next door.
15 Midnight Cowboy (Park Circus) Born To Win SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 5:00 P.M.
Dir. Ivan Passer. 1971, 88 mins. 35mm. With George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black, Robert DeNiro. Forman’s colleague and sometime collaborator Ivan Passer addressed another social issue in his first U.S. movie, a comic tragedy that was given its world premiere at the 1971 New York Film Festival. George Segal plays a hipster hairdresser, addicted to smack, impressing critic Pauline Kael as “an absurd man seen not in the abstract setting of an absurdist play but in the lower depths of New York City.” Midnight Cowboy SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 5:00 P.M. PACINO: Dir. John Schlesinger. 1969, 113 mins. 35mm. With The Panic in Needle Park Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2:00 P.M. Vaccaro. Another westerner comes east. John Dir. Jerry Schatzberg. 1971, 110 mins. DCP. With Al Voight’s wannabe gigolo leaves Texas and winds up Pacino, Kitty Winn. Al Pacino made his film debut hustling on 42nd Street, bonded with the blighted as a fast-talking junkie in a movie filled with choice block’s genius loci, Dustin Hoffman’s tubercular Fun City locations, including an authentic cold water petty thief. Probably the most romantic New York loft and the then hustler-ridden Whalen’s drugstore movie of its era, Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture at the corner of 8th Street and Sixth Avenue. The and two other Oscars despite being the first major triangle where Broadway crosses 72nd Street stands studio production released with an X. in for the eponymous hangout, a block away, but The Taking of Pelham One Two Three the ambience is real. The extras were “people who’d come off the streets,” according to casting director FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 7:00 P.M. Juliet Taylor. “We used some real heroin addicts.” Dir. Joseph Sargent. 1974, 104 mins. 35mm. With NEW YORK PREMIERE Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Dog Day Afternoon SPECIAL INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY EVENT Hector Elizondo. Just before leaving office, Mayor SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 5:00 P.M. Lindsay gave permission for this hijacking thriller, Dir. Sidney Lumet. 1975, 125 mins. 35mm. With a disaster flick set in the New York subways, to Al Pacino, John Cazale. Pacino gives his career be filmed on location—mainly in the tunnel of the performance in what Vincent Canby called Sidney abandoned Court Street station in Brooklyn and Lumet’s “most accurate, most flamboyant New York Sholay 3-D outside the subway entrance on 28th Street and movie.” Based on a bizarre 1972 bank robbery staged Park Avenue South. The mayor is a character but Preceded by a reception at 6:00 p.m. blocks from the movie’s Brooklyn location, Dog Day the movie is stolen by Lower East Side born Walter Afternoon might be seen as the first Fun City period Matthau’s jaundiced police inspector. film; it was shot after John Lindsay had left office and THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 7:00 P.M. OUTSIDER PERSPECTIVES: released a month before the legendary Daily News headline: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” Dir. Ramesh Sippy. 1975/2013, 204 mins. Presented in Dolby Digital 3-D. With Taking Off Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Mailini, Jaya Badhuri, Amjad SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2:00 P.M. Khan. The “curry western” epic 1975 film Sholay is widely considered one of the best Dog Day Afternoon Dir. Milos Forman. 1971, 93 mins. 35mm. With Lynn Indian films of all time. With a wildly popular soundtrack by R.D. Burman, an all-star Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel. A solemn high- cast, and a wonderful blend of Western and Bollywood elements, the film tells the school student (Linnea Haecock) vanishes into story of a former police chief who hires two petty crooks to avenge the murder of his the East Village, leaving her clueless parents (Buck family. The film has been stunningly restored and converted to Dolby Digital 3-D. Henry and Lynn Carlin) to leave Queens and essay the counterculture on their own. The sweetest of Presented in collaboration with Asian Cinevision. generation gap movies, Czech exile Milos Forman’s first American production was shot in and around TICKETS: $25 public / $18 Museum members. New York during the summer of 1970; the director A limited number of tickets will go on sale on Thursday, August 8 discovered his 16-year-old star in Central Park hanging with the hippies around Bethesda Fountain.
1116 CHANGING THE PICTURE An ongoing series celebrating the work of film and television artists of color, sponsored by Time Warner, Inc.
(The Weinstein Company) PREVIEW SCREENING PREVIEW SCREENING Fruitvale Station Superfly With actress Melonie Diaz in person rebel With actress Sheila Frazier in person With director María Agui Carter in person THURSDAY, JULY 11, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 7:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. Dir. Ryan Coogler. 2013, 84 mins. DCP. With Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Dir. Gordon Parks, Jr., 1972, 96 mins. 35mm. With Sheila Frazier, Spencer, Melonie Diaz. Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Dir. María Aqui Carter, 2013, 72 mins. Digital projection. Shrouded Ron O’Neal. Superfly was not only one of the most popular films Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, this powerful in mystery and long the subject of debate, the amazing story of from the “blaxploitation” movement, it was also one of the most movie dramatizes the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area Loreta Velazquez is one of the Civil War’s most gripping forgotten cinematically accomplished and thoughtful, distinctively directed resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 to narratives. Although the United States only recently lifted the ban by the son of the legendary photographer. The film tells the story of get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, on women in combat, Velazquez, a Cuban immigrant from New a Harlem drug dealer looking to make one last score before quitting being a better partner to his girlfriend Sophina, who he hasn’t been Orleans, was one of the estimated 1,000 women who secretly the business. The Curtis Mayfield score was incredibly popular; completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to Tatiana, served as soldiers during the American Civil War. Who was she? the soundtrack album outgrossed the movie. Sheila Frazier, who their beautiful 4-year-old daughter. As the day goes on, he crosses Why did she fight? And what made her so dangerous that she has made her memorable film debut as Shaft’s girlfriend Georgia, will paths with friends, family, and strangers, each exchange showing us been virtually erased from history? Actors and historians bring introduce the screening and speak afterwards. that there is much more to Oscar than meets the eye. But it would be Velazquez’s story to life in this beautifully directed documentary, his final encounter of the day, with police officers at the Fruitvale BART weaving drama and animation with historical and archival material Following the screening, Museum trustee and curator Warrington station, that would shake the Bay Area to its very core, and cause the to unravel the mystery of this secret soldier, Rebel is a riveting Hudlin, actress Shelia Frazier and guest judges, actors Bow Legged entire nation to take notice, once again, about the problem of police detective story about a woman, a myth, and the politics of national Lou, Paul Anthony, and George Logan will host a costume and brutality. “A shrewd script and career-launching performances drive memory. This exclusive preview screening, prior to the film’s singing contest. Prizes will be given for the “best Superfly outfit” and a tragic modern story that carries heavy social weight” wrote Todd the best acapella performance of a Superfly soundtrack song. broadcast on WNET, will be followed by a conversation with writer/ McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter. director María Agui Carter. TICKETS: $12 public / $9 Museum members / free for Silver Screen TICKETS: $15 public / $9 Museum members / free for Silver Screen members and above. members and above.
17 War of the Arrows (Lotte Entertainment) Image courtesy of the artist
fist and sword An ongoing martials arts series organized by Warrington Hudlin ONGOING War of the Arrows NEW YORK PREMIERE For this commissioned work, artist Aram Bartholl (Berlin, b. 1972) FRIDAY JULY 26, 7:00 P.M. The Grandmaster With Wong Kar-Wai in person embedded an inconspicuous, slot-loading DVD burner into the side of South Korea. Dir. Kim Han-min. 2011, 128 SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 8:00 P.M. the Museum, made available to the public 24 hours a day. Visitors who mins. DCP. Set during the second Manchu insert a blank DVD-R will receive a surprise collection of digital files that invasion in the seventeenth century, the Dir. Wong Kar-Wai. 2013, 123 mins. DCP courtesy of best archer in Korea rises against the Qing The Weinstein Company. With Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, may include found footage, animated GIFs, video games, feature films, Dynasty in a quest to save his younger sister, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Chang. Wong’s most recent feature or interactive art curated or created by artists selected by Bartholl. DVD who has been taken hostage by Mongolian marks his seventh collaboration with leading man Dead Drop imbues the act of data transfer with a tangibility left behind in Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and the auteur’s astonishing invaders. With exquisite, painterly composition a world of cloud computing and appstores, using a medium—the digital and spectacular choreography, this soaring return to genre filmmaking. A wuxia epic and biopic versatile disc—that is quickly becoming another artifact of the past.| historical epic oscillates between a tender which possesses the spirit and levity of a King Hu personal journey and a thrilling propulsive ride masterpiece, the film follows the storied life of Ip through an epochal period of Korean history. Man—Bruce Lee’s mentor— through moments of Current volume (June 26–August 6, 2013): VIRII examines the history “Toplining Park Hae-il (The Host) as an archer major historical overturn in China, from the end and aesthetics, real and imagined, of the computer virus, including of the Sino-Japanese War to the Imperial British whose prowess puts Robin Hood to shame, more than 30,000 actual computer viruses in a password-protected this rip-roaring yarn has hit the bull’s-eye… rule over Hong Kong, in sublime elliptical action- folder, video documentation of nearly a dozen computer viruses, a it lets fly with a second half of nonstop action vignettes. Reinvigorating wuxia form with inimitable and excitement.” (Variety) aesthetic grandeur and complex narrative strategies, selection of articles about historically significant viruses, and a gallery The Grandmaster brilliantly synthesizes elemental of virus clip art. principles of kung fu with tenets of historical national discourse to striking revelatory ends. Also part of DVD Dead Drop installation made possible by the Harpo Foundation. Wong Kar-wai (see page 11).
TICKETS: $25 public / $15 Museum members / free for Silver Screen members and above.
18 Photo by XXX SCREENINGS IN TUT’S FEVER MOVIE PALACE
Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong’s artwork/movie theater, Tut’s Fever Movie Palace, an homage to the days of the ornate movie palace, is the perfect venue for screenings of classic movie serials and television shows. Screenings on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 3:30 p.m., on weekdays (Mon–Thurs) at 2:00 p.m., and on Fridays at 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. Now showing Superman (dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr. 1948. With Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Carol Forman). Kirk Alyn became the first actor to portray Superman on screen in this successful, action-packed serial. Due to budgetary constraints, all of Superman’s flying sequences were animated. Still, a sequel followed in 1950, and the television series starring George Reeves two years later. Approx. 15 mins. per episode.
BEHIND THE SCREEN HIGHLIGHT
Before digital technology made the use of film all but obsolete, a wide range of technical apparatus were used to ensure the quality of the film negative. One such device, the Art Reeves Sensitester, married inspired design to innovative function, testing The Museum’s core exhibition, Behind the Screen, immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, the sensitivity of film stock to light. promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment. It includes over 1,400 artifacts—from See the Art Reeves Sensitester and nineteenth-century optical toys to video games—as well as an array of interactive experiences, audiovisual material, many other technical apparatus in and artworks to reveal the skills, material resources, and artistic decisions that go into making moving images. Behind the Screen.
19 From left: P. Harting Triunal Magic Lantern, 1877. Gift of Neil Berzak; Ernst Plank Toy Magic Lantern and Kinematograph, ca. 1910. Gift of Glenn Ralston; Jean Schonner “Atlas” Magic Lantern, 1880. Gift of Glenn Ralston; English Zoetrope, ca. 1872. Gift of Bryan Ginns.
Long before the advent of The Museum’s collection includes In the nineteenth century, Examples of magic lanterns cinema in the mid-1890s, a variety of magic lanterns— parlor toys and entertainment and pre-cinema devices from audiences were captivated by optical projection devices that novelties applied new ideas the collection are on view in the illusion of moving images pre-date the development of about the perception of the Museum’s core exhibition, through the use of magic the motion picture projector by motion, which held that our Behind the Screen. A rare lanterns and optical toys. Such several hundred years. Magic eyes retain an image for a three-lens, or “triunuial,” magic artifacts are part of the pre- lantern shows entertained fraction of a second, permitting lantern is currently on exhibit in history of the moving image audiences with images projected a rapidly shown series of the Museum’s lobby. as it is commonly understood, from painted glass slides, shown images to become “fused” as and help us understand the in progression to tell a story. a moving image. The collection Catalog records for these and scientific and cultural context Using multi-lens magic lanterns, includes a wide range of such other artifacts in the Museum’s of the emergence of cinema. a sophisticated lanternist could “pre-cinema” devices, including collection can be viewed at manipulate multiple slides at examples of the thaumatrope, collection.movingimage.us once, creating the illusion of phenakistoscope, and zoetrope. moving images.
20 Summer media Camp AUGUST 5–30, 2013
Photo bySyed Salahuddin
Spend the summer at the Museum, working with equipment and Movies 101 Video Game Design Animation Advanced Animation software to create animations, videos, and video games. At the end AUGUST 5–9 AUGUST 12–16 AUGUST 19–23 AUGUST 26–30 Participants will explore the Participants will learn about Participants will create a series of Campers who have previously of each week, there will be a special showcase at the Museum. Museum’s one-of-a-kind exhibition, the process of video game short animated projects, exploring a participated in the Museum’s Behind the Screen, and complete programming by hacking existing variety of techniques and materials. animation camp (in 2013 or prior) Each Camp runs one week. Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. a series of interactive experiences games, and designing their own Working in small production teams, can take their skills to the next level. With the exception of Movies 101, there are two sessions for each and hands-on workshops to learn elements such as characters, sets, everyone will then write, design, and Participants will have a chance camp: an Intro section (for children ages 9–11) and a Studio about the magic of moviemaking. and levels. For inspiration, campers animate an original project. to refine existing techniques and Ages 9–11 only. will have a chance to play classic practice new ones while working on section (for teens ages 12 and up). An advanced animation course arcade games from the Museum’s a longer original project. is also available for campers who have already completed a week collection. of animation camp.
For additional information about fees and registration, visit movingimage.us/education/summermediacamp
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CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP • Free admission to Museum galleries and over 400 film screenings annually • Access to family programs • Discounts at the Moving Image Store and Café BECOME • Opportunities to host events in the Museum’s stunning facilities Become a Corporate member today and enhance the lives of your employees and demonstrate your company’s commitment to the arts! For more information, visit movingimage.us, contact A MEMBER [email protected] or call 718 777 6877. 22 Museum of the Moving Image is housed in a building owned Additional support: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Public support for the Museum’s expansion and renovation by the City of New York and has received significant support Sciences; Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.; Betsy and Michael provided by: New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; from the following public agencies: New York City Department Barker; Howard and Stacy Bass; Nathan Bernstein and Katharina New York City Economic Development Corporation; New York of Cultural Affairs; New York City Economic Development Otto-Bernstein; Joshua Bilmes; Ellin A. Delsener; Krystyna O. City Council; Office of the Queens Borough President; PlaNYC; Corporation; New York State Council on the Arts; Institute of and Ronald J. Doerfler; DreamWorks Animation; ESA Foundation; Dormitory Authority of the State of New York; New York State Museum and Library Services; National Endowment for the Jo-Ann Fox-Weingarten; Raphael Gonzalez; Carl Goodman; Council on the Arts; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; Natural Heritage Michael Gordon; Scott Gurney; HBO; Cheryl Henson; Hive Digital and Historic Preservation; U.S. Department of Housing and Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust; The Urban Development; National Endowment for the Humanities. Recreation and Historic Preservation). Jane Henson Foundation; Janklow Foundation; Richard I. Kandel; Richard A. Leibner; The Liman Foundation; The Lotos Foundation; Major support for the Museum’s expansion and renovation The Museum gratefully acknowledges the leadership and Ivan and Andrea Lustig; Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Lustig Fund; provided by: Mahnaz and Adam Bartos; Booth Ferris assistance of: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Queens Borough Luxottica USA; Marc Haas Foundation; The Marilyn and Jeffrey Foundation; Comcast NBCUniversal; Leon and Michaela President Helen M. Marshall; Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Kate Katzenberg Foundation; The McGraw-Hill Companies; Michael Constantiner; Krystyna O. and Ronald J. Doerfler; Michael and D. Levin; Speaker of the New York City Council Christine C. Quinn; Tuch Foundation; New York University; Michael and Gabrielle Lauren Gordon; HBO; The Hearst Corporation; The Hearst Council Members Leroy G. Comrie, Domenic M. Recchia, Jimmy Palitz; Persol; Rainbow Media Holdings; Max Rifkind-Barron; Foundation; Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation; Linda LeRoy Van Bramer, and the entire Queens delegation of the New York Rohauer Collection Foundation, Inc.; Jane Rosenthal; Josh Sapan; Janklow; George S. Kaufman; Ivan and Andrea Lustig; John T. City Council; Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor, New York State; New Henry and Peggy Schleiff Family Foundation; Rochelle Slovin; McGuire; New York Community Bank Foundation; Michael and York State Senators Michael N. Gianaris; New York State Assembly Sony Corporation; The Studio in a School Association; Warner Gabrielle Palitz; Rockstar Games; Herbert and Judith Schlosser; Members Catherine T. Nolan and Aravella Simotas; Congressman Bros. Pictures; William Fox, Jr. Foundation; Mike and Woan Jen Silvercup Studios; Time Warner Inc.; Ann and Andrew Tisch; Joseph Crowley; Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Wu; Jeffrey Zucker. William Fox, Jr. Foundation; Variety Group.
Major program and operating support provided by: Alfred P. Funding for the Museum’s after-school programs has been Sloan Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Bloomberg provided by: JP Morgan Chase Foundation; New York City Philanthropies; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Council Members Leroy Comrie, Daniel Dromm, Peter F. Vallone, Pannonia Foundation; SAG-MPPWF; Sumner M. Redstone Jr., Jimmy Van Bramer, and Mark Weprin, through the New York Charitable Foundation; Herbert S. Schlosser; Screen Actors Guild City Department of Cultural Affairs; NYC C.M. Stephen Levin. Foundation; Theatrical Teamsters Local 817; Time Warner Inc.; Ann and Andrew Tisch Foundation.
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HOST YOUR EVENT
Featuring extraordinary BIRTHDAY PARTIES PRIVATE EVENTS PRIVATE SCREENINGS facilities, Museum Your child can be the star of his or her very The Museum is able to accommodate a wide The 267-seat Sumner M. Redstone Theater and own party at the Museum. The birthday party range of events, from weddings and bar/bat 68-seat Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening of the Moving Image program has been developed for children mitzvahs to meetings and location shoots. Room are available for private screenings. is a stunning setting ages 8+. We create a memorable and fun- Galleries can remain open after hours for Host a screening of your favorite film for your filled extravaganza for your child and guests, guests to enjoy our exhibitions and interactive friends to celebrate a milestone or mark a for private events with a special educator-led tour, interactive experiences. Museum educators are available to special occasion. and screenings experiences, a private screening, and party bags. offer gallery talks and demonstrations.
For more information about renting spaces at the Museum, please contact BG Hacker at 718 777 6868 or [email protected].
24 All programs take place in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater unless noted (BA: Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room). Screenings in Tut’s Fever Movie Palace, weekdays at 2:00 p.m. (and Fridays at DAILY 6:00 p.m.) and weekends at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:30 p.m.
All program times, dates, formats, and locations are subject to change. SCHEDULE Unless otherwise noted, all screenings are free with Museum admission. JULY AUGUST
FRIDAY, JULY 5 FRIDAY, JULY 19 FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 7:00 Citizen Kane (p. 8) 7:00 Rebel with Maria 7:00 Les Blank Tribute 7:00 Days of Being Wild (p. 11) 2:00 The Landlord (p. 15) 2:00 The Panic in Needle Park Agui Carter in person Program with Harrod 4:30 The Angel Levine (p. 15) (p. 16) SATURDAY, JULY 6 (p. 17) Blank and Mark Toscano SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 7:00 My Blueberry Nights 5:00 Dog Day Afternoon (p. 16) 2:00 Sunrise (p. 8) in person (p. 13) 2:00 You’re a Big Boy Now (p. 11) 5:00 Greed with live music by SATURDAY, JULY 20 with J. Hoberman in Makia Matsumara (p. 8) 2:00 The Right Stuff (p. 9) SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 person (p. 15) FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 2:00 Tall as the Baobab Tree 5:00 Cotton Comes to Harlem 7:00 In the Mood for Love SUNDAY, JULY 7 SUNDAY, JULY 21 with Jeremy Teicher in (p. 15) (p. 11) 2:00 The Grapes of Wrath 2:00 Ashes of Time Redux person, preceded by 8:00 The Grandmaster with (p.8) (p. 10) Home Turf and Beaver Wong Kar-Wai in person SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 5:00 El Norte (p. 8) 4:00 The Big Trail (p. 9) Creek Yard (p. 13) (p. 11) 2:00 The French Connection 7:00 Paris, Texas (p. 9) 4:30 Fitzcarraldo, preceded by (p. 15) THURSDAY, JULY 11 Magnetic Reconnection SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 4:30 Across 110th Street 6:00 Opening reception for FRIDAY, JULY 26 (p. 13) 2:00 Norman Mailer vs. (BA, p. 15) SINGLE STREAM (p. 5) 7:00 War of the Arrows (p. 18) 7:30 Salt, preceded by Free Fun City (p. 15) 5:00 2046 (p. 11) 7:00 Fruitvale Station with Door and Little Town 3:30 Bye Bye Braverman Melonie Diaz in person SATURDAY, JULY 27 (p. 13) (p. 15) SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 (p. 17) 2:00 Nashville (p. 9) 5:30 Serpico (p. 15) 2:00 Coogan’s Bluff (p. 15) 5:30 There Will Be Blood (p. 9) SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 5:00 Midnight Cowboy (p. 16) FRIDAY, JULY 12 2:00 The Mosuo Sisters with THURSDAY, AUGUST 15 7:00 Chungking Express SUNDAY, JULY 28 Marlo Poras in person, 7:00 Sholay 3-D (p. 16) FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 (p. 10) 1:00 There Will Be Blood (p. 9) preceded by Felt, Feelings 7:00 The Taking of Pelham 4:30 The Night of the Hunter, and Dreams, with Andrea FRIDAY, AUGUST 16 One Two Three (p. 16) SATURDAY, JULY 13 introduced by film critic Odezynska in person 7:00 Superfly with Sheila 2:00 Imitation of Life (p. 8) Peter Rainer, followed by (p. 13) Frazier in person (p. 17) SATURDAY AUGUST 31 4:45 Do the Right Thing (p. 8) a book signing (p. 9) 5:00 Baikonur, preceded by 2:00 Taking Off (p. 16) 7:00 Fallen Angels (p. 10) Reindeer and Was du SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 5:00 Born to Win (p. 16) nicht siehst... I spy with 2:30 Rosemary’s Baby (p. 15) SUNDAY, JULY 14 my little eye (BA, p. 13) 5:30 Little Murders (p. 15) 2:00 Reds (p. 8) 5:30 As Tears Go By (p. 11) 6:00 Happy Together (p. 10)
25 PARKING Nearby discounted parking is available for Museum patrons.
Members: 15% discount Non-members: 10% discount
(Same day parking tickets must be validated at the Museum).
Parking provided by PV Parking Corp 34-11 Steinway Street (entrance on 41 Street between 34 & 35 Avenue; wheelchair accessible). pvparkingny.com
TICKETED EVENTS Paid tickets are required for some events. To order tickets, call 718 777 6800 or buy online at movingimage.us. In addition to free admission to regular film screenings, Museum members enjoy a significant discount on all ticketed events.
GROUP TOURS The Museum offers special discounted rates for groups of eight or more, as well as engaging educator-led group tours of its core exhibition, Behind the Screen. Reservations are required. Call 718 777 6800.
MOVING IMAGE STORE The Moving Image Store has hundreds of books ADDRESS ADMISSION DIRECTIONS for everyone from cinephiles to casual movie buffs, video gamers to students. The Store also 36-01 35 Avenue (at 37 Street) ADULTS Ages 18+ $12 Just minutes away from Midtown Manhattan, the offers a selection of DVDs, specially designed Astoria, NY 11106 SENIORS Ages 65+ $9 Museum is located on the campus of the historic Moving Image souvenirs, and gifts for children 718 777 6888 STUDENTS $9 Kaufman Astoria Studios, in Astoria, Queens. and adults. Members receive a 15% discount. movingimage.us CHILDREN Ages 3–12 $6 Subway: or (weekdays only) to Under 3 Free Steinway Street; or (weekdays only) MOVING IMAGE CAFÉ HOURS Members Free to 36 Avenue. The café serves soup, salads, a rotating Wednesdays–Thursdays: 10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. selection of Amy’s Bread sandwiches, and a Fridays: 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Gallery admission is free on Fridays from Bus: Q101 (from Midtown Manhattan) variety of snacks and sweets. Beverages include Saturdays–Sundays: 11:30 a.m.–7.00 p.m. 4:00–8:00 p.m. to 35 Avenue; Q66 (from Flushing) to Native Roasters coffee drinks, fine tea, and Steinway Street. Paid admission includes all regular juices. Members receive a 10% discount. The Museum will be closed on Thursday, July 4. film screenings.
Tickets for screenings are not included Starting July 5, the George S. Kaufman with free admission on Fridays. Courtyard will be open Fridays 4:00–8:00 p.m. and all day Saturdays and Sundays.
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