From July 17 to 23, the Williamsburg micro theater will screen Shirley Clarke’s 1985 documentary Ornette: Made in America as well as Conrad Rooks’s 1966…
Mike Love of Beach Boys On Love & Mercy: ‘Poor Brian, He’s Had a Rough, Rough Time’
When the Lower East Side Film Festival starts Thursday, Mike Love of the Beach Boys will be one of six judges. Love, who co-wrote and sang lead vocals…
Mike Love of Beach Boys On Love & Mercy: ‘Poor Brian, He’s Had a Rough, Rough Time’
When the Lower East Side Film Festival starts Thursday, Mike Love of the Beach Boys will be one of six judges. Love, who co-wrote and sang lead vocals…
This Exhibition Explores What Happens When Brooklyn Girls Drink Ayahuasca
Walking into the Company Gallery on the Lower East Side feels like stepping inside a Tumblr. Photographs of painted people, tinted by sunlight flooding in through…
Week in Film: a Flashy Smuggler Jaunt and Trippy Danish Sci-Fi
It was a bad week for us film nerds in NYC with word emerging that Sunshine Cinema will likely be sold to developers. Such things…
MGMT’s Will Berman On His Synthy Soundtrack for Throwback Sci-Fi Film Jackrabbit
The Tribeca Film Festival is here and one of the more exciting feature films on view is Jackrabbit, a throwback dystopian sci-fi film that follows…
Nitehawk’s Downstairs Bar Adjusts Its Tracking For a New Look
You may or may not remember that Nitehawk has a downstairs bar. I pretty much had to squeeze my brain as tight as I could…
DIY Venue Aviv Is Dipping Its Toes Into Underground Cinema
Do you sneer at the Iron Man franchise? Do Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey provide you with positively no ironic pleasure? Did you feel that Boyhood was just another celebration of the…
Week In Film: Strange Noir Saga, Underage Nymphos, and Seeing John Malkovitch
The sun will come out tomorrow y’all, but that doesn’t mean our black-as-black hearts have grown any less cynical. We’ll never be wary of shutting…
New Film Peeks Behind The Curtains Of A Bizarre Bushwick Scene
A new feature film based loosely on Bizarre, the splendidly raunchy Bushwick performance space and bar, doesn’t exaggerate for the sake of shock value. If…