AUG & SEP 2013 at BAMcinématek The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor for BAMcinématek and BAM Rose Cinemas. AUG 2—8 (One Week) US theatrical premiere! Charlie Ahearn’s JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET PHOTOGRAPHER Ahearn, Shabazz, Fab 5 Freddy, & David “Chino” Villorente in person In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style that would launch an enduring worldwide phenomenon. Ahearn, director of the seminal film Wild Style, pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had a definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking Puma Suedes, Kangols, and pinstriped Jordaches in Times Square and Fort Greene Park, Shabazz’s photographs have hundreds of (often times tragic) stories behind them, and Ahearn gives voice to these images with dozens of interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, and others. Ahearn, Shabazz, Fab 5 Freddy, hip-hop multihyphenate Bobbito Garcia, and artist David “Chino” Villorente, who designed a limited-edition poster for the documentary, will appear in person for opening weekend Q&As on Friday, August 2 and Saturday, August 3 at 7pm. AUG 9—12 (Four Days, Four Films) CHAPLIN IN 35MM “The only genius to come out of the movie industry” (George Bernard Shaw), Charlie Chaplin gave cinema some of its most poignant, outlandish, and indelible images. A performer of balletic grace, he balanced never-topped comedic set pieces with moments of soulful vulnerability. And behind the camera, he was the ultimate auteur—a writer, director, producer, actor, editor, and composer whose exacting standards could yield that rarest of results: true moviegoing perfection. BAMcinématek presents this series of four Chaplin favorites, all in 35mm. FILMS INCLUDE: City Lights (1931), The Great Dictator (1940), A King in New York (1957), Modern Times (1936). AUG 13—28 (Two Weeks, 40 Films) A TIME FOR BURNING: CINEMA OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Special guests include D.A. Pennebaker, Madeline Anderson, Jack Willis, William Jersey, and more to be announced To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, BAMcinématek presents 40 films documenting the civil rights movement from the end of World War II to the March and the waves of legislation that passed in the years after. Culled from 28 private film and television archives, collectors, studios, and the New York Public Library, these films create a picture of what is often called the heroic era of the civil rights movement with rarely screened documentaries and archival footage alongside Hollywood classics, revolutionary independent films, agitprop, and incendiary exploitation movies from Roger Corman and Herschell Gordon Lewis. FILMS INCLUDE: All My Babies (Stoney, 1952), American Revolution 2 (Alk, 1969), Baldwin’s N_____r (Ové, 1968), Black Natchez (Pincus and Neuman, 1965), The Bus (Wexler, 1965), The Children Were Watching (Drew, 1961), Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (Drew, 1963), The Cry of Jazz (Bland, 1959), Freedom March (Emshwiller, 1963), I Am Somebody (Anderson, 1970), I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Fontaine and Hartley, 1982), Integration Report 1 (Anderson, 1960), The Intruder (Corman, 1962), King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (Landau, 1970), Lay My Burden Down (Willis, 1966), The Learning Tree (Parks, 1969), Let the Church Say Amen! (Bourne, 1974), The March (Blue, 1964), My Childhood Part 2: James Baldwin’s Harlem (Barron, 1964), Native Land (Hurwitz & Strand, 1942), Nine from Little Rock (Guggenheim, 1964), Nothing But a Man (Roemer, 1964), Now! (Álvarez, 1965), Odds Against Tomorrow (Wise, 1959), Palmour Street (Stoney, 1957), Portrait of Jason (Clarke, 1967), A Raisin in the Sun (Petrie, 1961), Still a Brother (Greaves, 1968), The Streets of Greenwood (Willis, Wardenburg & Reavis, 1963), A Time for Burning (Jersey, 1966), To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962), A Tribute to Malcolm X (Anderson, 1967), Two Thousand Maniacs! (Lewis, 1964). AUG 29—SEP 5 (Eight Days, Six Films) Robert Clouse’s ENTER THE DRAGON + 5 WING CHUN CLASSICS New 40th anniversary digital restoration of Enter the Dragon in a week-long run! In conjunction with the release of Wong Kar-wai’s upcoming Ip Man biopic, The Grandmaster, this series revels in the lightning-fast moves of the revered kung fu tradition of wing chun. Passed on to generations of martial artists, wing chun was popularized by icons like Sammo Hung and Ip’s movie-star disciple Bruce Lee. Anchoring the series is a week-long run of Robert Clouse’s Enter the Dragon, in which Bruce Lee (in his last role before his untimely death) gets ample opportunity to showcase his incredible, almost balletic wing chun chops—especially in the now-legendary climactic fight in a hall of mirrors. Over Labor Day weekend, Enter the Dragon will be paired with martial arts rarities, including Shaw Brothers classic Invincible Shaolin (1978) by Chang Cheh; a biopic of the man himself, Wilson Yip’s Ip Man (2008); and Sammo Hung’s Bruce-sploitation masterpiece, Enter the Fat Dragon (1978). ALSO INCLUDES: The Prodigal Son (Hung, 1981), The Way of the Dragon (Lee, 1972). SEP 6—23 (11 Days, 23 Films) SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME The ultimate in counterculture coolness since the late 1970s, skateboarding has made an irresistibly sexy subject for movies thanks to its rebel-athlete superstars, SoCal slacker fashion, and jaw-dropping jumps, ollies, tricks, and stunts. This series is a tribute to the best skateboarding in cinema, from the 1960s to the present, featuring shorts by Spike Jonze, docs by Stacy Peralta (of course), features by Larry Clark and Gus Van Sant, Noel Black’s Oscar-nominated, Palme d’Or-winning short Skaterdater (1965), cult classics and rarities, and an opening night screening of George Gage’s Skateboard (1978), an awesomely retro ride through 1970s skateboarding culture starring teen idol Leif Garrett (Alfred Hitchcock’s daughter plays his mom!) and Z-Boys great Tony Alva. Gage appears in person for a Q&A following the screening. Pretty rad, dudes. ALSO INCLUDES: Apple Juice (Bruce, 1990), Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (Peralta, 2012), The Devil’s Toy (Jutra, 1966), Dogtown and Z-Boys (Peralta, 2001), Dragonslayer (Patterson, 2011), Freewheelin’ (Dittrich, 1976), Fruit of the Vine (Nichols & Charnoski, 1999), Gleaming the Cube (Clifford, 1989), Ken Park (Clark & Lachman, 2002), Kids (Clark, 1995), Lords of Dogtown (Hardwicke, 2005), The Motivation (Lough, 2013), Paranoid Park (Van Sant, 2007), Shredder Orpheus (McGinley, 1990), Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (Stickler, 2002), This Ain’t California (Persiel, 2012), Tilva Roš (Ležaić, 2010), Thrashin’ (Winters, 1986), Waiting for Lightning (Rosenberg, 2012), Wasted Youth (Papadimitropoulos, 2010), Yeah Right (Jonze, 2003). SEP 9—12 (Three Days, Four Films, all in 35mm) MARLENE GOES WEST After Josef von Sternberg established her image as the Ultimate Love Goddess, German émigré Marlene Dietrich became the unlikely star of a handful of Westerns by some of Hollywood’s greatest autuers. With her exotic beauty and husky contralto, Marlene’s presence lent a tragic (and in one case comedic) air to the saloons and corrals of the Old West. All films in 35mm and starring Marlene Dietrich in Western costumes. FILMS INCLUDE: Destry Rides Again (Marshall, 1939), Rancho Notorious (Lang, 1952), The Spoilers (Enright, 1942), Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958). SEP 25—OCT 2 (Six Days, Six Films) I AM DIVINE “The most beautiful woman in the world, almost,” Divine (née Harris Glenn Milstead) was John Waters’ outrageously-eyebrowed, respectability-razzing, incredibly foul and funny superstar. Immortalized as the “World’s Filthiest Person” in Pink Flamingos, she left nary a taboo unbroken. But beneath the outré persona was a genuine comedic genius who became a pioneering queer icon. Kicking off the retrospective is the New York premiere of Jeffrey Schwarz’s I Am Divine, a new documentary charting how a chubby, misunderstood gay teen from Baltimore transformed into the cult icon and muse Divine. ALSO INCLUDES: Boom! (Losey, 1968), Female Trouble (Waters, 1974), Hairspray (Waters, 1988), Pink Flamingos (Waters, 1972), Polyester (Waters, 1981), and more. For press information, please contact Lisa Thomas at 718.724.8023 / [email protected] Gabriele Caroti at 718.724.8024 / [email protected] .