“My Name Is Jonah” makes its NYC premiere at the fest.
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LES Film Festival Brings Google Glass, Pool Parties and BYOB to the Cinema
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7 Local and Not-So-Local Ones to Catch at the Brooklyn Film Festival
Still from Tonitas, courtesy of Brooklyn Film Festival.
“Brooklyn is exploding right now,” says Nathan Kensinger, and he should know. For months, the documentary filmmaker and photographer has been working hard on the lineup for the 17th annual Brooklyn Film Festival, which kicks off this Friday.
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A Film Fest For the ‘Women of the LES’
It’s the year of the LES woman!
Because the “Heroines of the LES” mural couldn’t fit everybody, the East Village’s Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is hosting a film festival honoring the “Women of the Lower East Side.”
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SXSW Winner Fort Tilden Will Show at Northside and LES Film Fest Next Month
From left: stars Clare McNulty and Bridey Elliott with directors Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers.
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The Tompkins Riot Was Reenacted For a Movie and We Captured It All
Ater liveblogging yesterday’s May Day march we figured we’d unwind by watching the Tompkins Square Park Riot.
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Watch Rare Footage of Amiri Baraka and the New York Art Quartet at Anthology
Speaking of Sun Ra, his fellow pioneers of avant-garde jazz, the New York Art Quartet, are the subject of a new documentary playing at Anthology Film Archives next month. And Amiri Baraka, who collaborated with them both, will be honored with a four-day screening series.
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Adam Rapp’s New Film Features Fellow Villagers Sam Rockwell, Natasha Lyonne and Some Atomic Passion
Adam Rapp’s new film – featuring the playwright, novelist and screenwriter’s East Village neighbors Sam Rockwell and Natasha Lyonne – had its Tribeca Film Festival premiere in (where else?) the East Village last night.
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Onur Tukel On His Bushwick Vampire Comedy Featuring Alex Karpovsky of Girls
One of the buzzed about movies at the Tribeca Film Festival this season is Bushwick filmmaker Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood, a vampire mumblecore rom com that Vulture describes as “what might happen if Woody Allen and Lena Dunham found themselves collaborating on a Roger Corman movie.” The Dunham comparison is apt: Tukel co-starred in Alex Karpovsky’s Red Flag and now Karpovksy (Ray from Girls) appears in Tukel’s movie, as an office drone who watches his neurotic, lazy manchild of a co-worker descend into insatiable blood lust.
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In Five Star, Keith Miller’s Leading Man Is a General in the East New York Bloods
Left to right: Primo (James ‘Primo’ Grant) and John (John Diaz) talk business on the court. (Photo: Nathan Fitch)
Keith Miller’s latest film grew out of his 2011 short, “Gang Bangin’ 101.” In that two-minute doc, James “Primo” Grant – a burly, bearded Brooklyn native who works as a bouncer at a Bed-Stuy nightclub – spoke frankly about joining the East New York Bloods when he was 12 and eventually becoming a five-star general in what he calls the “brotherhood.”
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Our Favorite Faux Drive-In Theater Is Relaunching With a Horror Film Series
reRun Theater at reBar in Dumbo (Photos: Jenna Marotta)
After an eight-month intermission, reRun Theater reopens tomorrow night.
Located inside reBar gastropub, reRun debuted in July 2009 as Dumbo’s take on a drive-in (more duck fat popcorn, less exhaust fumes). The audience watches a 12-foot screen from 47 minivan seats from a Staten Island junkyard. Open to a 21-and-over crowd, reRun sells draft beer, wine, liquor, and cinema-themed cocktails. Drinks start at $5, and each person’s first drink is half-price.
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42 Kooky, Kinky Films to See in Theaters While You Wait For Nymphomaniac
Part one of Lars Von Trier’s much ballyhooed NC-17 tour de force, Nymphomaniac (NSFW trailer above), will finally make its NYC debut at Nitehawk Cinema on March 28 (we’re going to assume “LaBeouf in the Buff” will be one of the special Nympho-themed cocktails). Yes, that’s a whole month from now, but there are plenty of ways to stimulate your appreciation for strange, sex-crazed cinema in the meantime.
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This Week: Come Out and Play at Warriorfest, Rock Out With The Fabulous Stains
No movie depicts gritty, late ’70s NYC better than The Warriors. Celebrate its 35th anniversary this Saturday at Warriorfest — presented by Rocks Off and hosted by New York City punk rocker John Joseph of the Cro-Mags. Show up to (le) poisson rouge dressed as your favorite gang and get ready for a wild party. DJ $mall Change will be spinning vinyl, and a new remastered, extended version of The Warriors soundtrack will blast over the speakers, too. There’ll be a meet and greet, and Q&A with Cochise of the Warriors, Apache Ramos of the Orphans and members of other gangs. No matter which one your allied to, do yourself a favor: come out and play-yay! It’s $8 in advance, $10 at the door.
From satanic samurais to ghost bustin’, here’s what else we’re Reel Psyched about this week.
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