Fifty years after it was first screened, then banned, then largely and idiotically dismissed, the audacity of Shirley Clarke's 1962 film The Connection still packs a staggering wallop. The movie,…
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Just kidding. But then again, mark my words: when the new 35mm print of Jacques Rivette's 1974 Celine and Julie Go Boating hits Film Forum beginning May 4, some "relevance"…
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Busby Berkeley's immortal 1943 The Gang's All Here comes to New York's Film Forum in a really lovely new 35mm restoration starting April 20. You should totally go see it.…
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It's an exceptional week in New York to explore the works of distinctive, uncategorizable filmmakers; the Brooklyn Academy of Music is hosting an exhaustive retrospective of Andrzej Zulawski (very much…
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It was heartening to see this event at the New School's Tishman Hall played to an overflow crowd. I mean, yeah, it did feature a literary intellectual superstar hosting a…
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