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Thursday, February 25, 2010
MALLS R US Screening in NYC and Q&A with director!
MALLS R US is screening this Saturday 27th in NYC at The Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place) at 1PM. Director Helene Klodawsky will be present for a Q&A. Don't miss it!
In Search of Memory opens on Friday February 12th at The Screen theater in Santa Fe, NM.
FEBRUARY 13TH SCREENING WILL INCLUDE AN INTRODUCTION AND Q&A LED BY NEUROSCIENTIST CHRIS WOOD, VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATION OF THE SANTA FE INSTITUTE.
Free screening of A ROAD TO MECCA tomorrow in NYC!
On Wednesday January 27th, 7pm, at Alwan for the Arts, there will be a free screening of A ROAD TO MECCA: THE JOURNEY OF MUHAMMAD ASAD, followed by a discussion with Talal Asad, son of Muhammad Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Joseph A. Massad, associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University.
Do not miss it!
Click here for more information and details on the event.
IN SEARCH OF MEMORY opening at the IFC Center NYC on Friday 8th Dr. Eric Kandel in person for a Q&A!
We are thrilled to announce the theatrical opening of the film IN SEARCH OF MEMORY, the documentary on the life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.
Do not miss your chance to ask questions to Dr. Kandel during the Q&A following the 7:35pm screening on Friday 8th. Get your tickets now!
The IFC Center is located on Sixth Avenue at West 3rd street in New York City. Showtimes: 1pm, 3:10pm, 5:25pm, 7:35pm, and 10pm. It will run for one week only!
Click here for more details and to purchase tickets.
The New York Theatrical Premiere screening of REVUE will be part of Anthology Film Archive's program "The Films of Sergei Loznitsa," from March 13th-19th, a retrospective of the documentarian's work, including a return engagement of BLOCKADE.
This promises to be a "Joli Mai" as two events celebrate the work of French filmmaker and multimedia poet Chris Marker.
The Harvard Film Archive is offering a program entitled The Second Life of Chris Marker from May 9th to 16th with screenings of a selection of his films and a very special "virtual" appearance by Marker as he gives a live tour of his Second Life cyber-museum, "Ouvroir," and also answers questions on-line from the audience on May 16th.
For more details and a list of the films being screened with showtimes, please visit the HFA website.
In New York City, the Peter Blum Gallery in Chelsea will present an exhibition of photographs and video installations by Marker, opening May 16th. The photographic series include "Koreans," a grouping of 51 images that Marker shot in 1957 when he was one of the few journalists allowed to travel freely in North Korea.
Two of our films will have their Chicago premiere in May. Do not miss them!
A ROAD TO MECCA A Film by Georg Misch The story of Leopold Weiss, a Viennese Jew who converted to Islam in the 1920's and became the Muslim scholar Muhammad Asad.
May 10, 11 and 12 Gene Siskel Film Center 164 North State Street TEL 312-846-2600 www.siskelfilmcenter.org
OBLIVION A Film by Heddy Honigmann Heddy Honigmann's latest film focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing the contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis and corruption.
May 8 through 14 Facets Cinematheque 1517 West Fullerton Avenue TEL 773-281-9075 Click here for more info.
MoMA's annual showcase of Canadian Cinema, Canadian Front, will feature one of Icarus Films' latest releases, MALLS R US.
From impressive architectural projects to environmental and social concerns, MALLS R US unveils everything you have always wanted to know about shopping centers from Canada to the US to Dubai and India.
Screenings will be held on March 21st and 23rd. Do not miss this US premiere!
For more information, please visit the MoMA website.
THE SUGAR CURTAIN is an intimate portrait by Camila Guzmán Urzúa about growing up in Cuba during the "golden years" of the Cuban Revolution and how the country has changed since the collapse of other communist governments which were supporting Cuba economically.
Urzua is the daughter of documentarian, Patricio Guzman, and will be at the screening on Friday, January 30th, with other panel members, to discuss the film and Cuba.
The screening will be held at the Cosford Cinema, University of Miami Coral Gables Campus.
For one week only! So don't miss your chance to see this beautifully constructed and contemplative film on a particle which is everywhere and ever present but rarely considered.
“An eccentric and profoundly informative documentary.”—A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Meet Nina Davenport, director of OPERATION FILMMAKER
Nina Davenport will be present for a Q&A at the 7:20pm and 9:30pm screenings of her film OPERATION FILMMAKER at the IFC Center in NYC on the following dates:
Wednesday June 4th Friday June 6th Saturday June 7th
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the IFC Center website.
OPERATION FILMMAKER opens on June 4th at the IFC Center in NYC!
Nina Davenport's award winning film, OPERATION FILMMAKER is opening on Wednesday, June 4th at the IFC Center in New York. It will play for two weeks only so don't miss out on your chance to see this thought provoking documentary.
Heddy Honigmann's award winning new film, FOREVER - a powerful meditation on relations between the living and the dead, and the immortal power of art - will open on Friday, April 4th at the Laemmle Music Hall 3 in Los Angeles. It will play for one week only so don't miss out on your chance to see this beautiful film.
For showtimes and tickets, please check Laemmle's Music Hall online or call (310) 478-1041.
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER to be screened at the Society for Photographic Education Conference
The Society for Photographic Education is holding its 45th national conference from March 13th to 16th in Denver, Colorado. WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, the Academy Award nominated documentary by Christian Frei about American photographer James Nachtwey, will be presented as part of the Film Festival Showcase.
THE SUGAR CURTAIN to be shown at CUNY Graduate Center in New York City on March 15
The 3-day international symposium “A Changing Cuba in a Changing World” will feature a free screening of THE SUGAR CURTAIN by Camila Guzmán Urzúa on Saturday March 15th at 10:45am at the Elebash Recital Hall of the CUNYGraduateCenter in Manhattan.
In this revealing autobiographical portrait, the filmmaker returns to Havana to reflect on her childhood and adolescence during the "golden years" of the Cuban Revolution.
"Highly recommended... An endearing and intimate reverie... distinguished by its refusal to conclude or preach... it helps the audience contemplate mixed and multiple Cuban realities."—Holly Ackerman, Educational Media Reviews Online
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