From left: Manchia Diawara, Souleymane Cisse, Martin Scorsese, myself. Photo by Getty Images. The April 29 Tribeca Talks: Directors' Series event with Malian director Souleymane Cissé and Martin Scorsese was…
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From Yeelen (Brightness), Souleymane Cissé, 1987 On Friday, April 29 at 4 p.m. I will have the honor of moderating a discussion between the great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé and…
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Saw two "thons" this weekend. The first, and more cinephilically congenial, was up in Suffern, held by my friends at the Lafayette Theatre... ...for the occasion, a three-day fest of…
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Gravity Radio, a multi-media song cycle by the composer Mikel Rouse, comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival on December 7 and runs there through the 11th. It's…
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(...and pushed, too) My friend Gary Lucas, one of the most dazzlingly inventive guitarists working today, will perform his original solo-guitar score for the 1931 Spanish-language mutation of Dracula this…
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Boris Karloff, The Mask of Fu Manchu, Charles Brabin, 1942 Bernard Verley, Love in the Afternoon, Eric Rohmer, 1972The occasion of the ongoing and entirely splendid Film Society of Lincoln…
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