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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME on Film Forum Double Bill with KING KONG 3/25
/THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a superb, pre-Code action-adventure film. Based upon a famous short story by Richard Connell, it follows big game hunter, Bob Rainsford, (Joel McCrea), as he becomes quarry for another, the opulently deranged Count Zaroff, (floridly played by Leslie Banks).
Read MoreJeff Preiss at The Museum of Modern Art March 18
/Jeff Preiss was inspired by the diary films of Jonas Mekas and Warren Sonbert (who was his teacher at Bard College). He began in the early 1980s making silent, semi-narrative works born out of his practice of shooting with his Regular 8mm Bolex on a daily basis.
Read More“The Films of Dziga Vertov” in Essential Cinema series at Anthology Film Archives through 3/17
/"I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it. I am now free of human immobility. I am in perpetual motion.”
Read MoreJames Benning’s RR at Anthology Film Archives “Infrastructure on Film” Series March 16
/For two years, Benning assembled footage of trains throughout the U.S., depicting their movement through the frame of a static camera in a variety of surroundings.
Read MoreHELSINKI, FOREVER (2008) Closes Out Anthology Film Archives CITY SYMPHONIES Film Series
/HELSINKI, FOREVER (2008), a portrait and city symphony of the white city of northern Finland, screened as part of Anthology Film Archive’s CITY SYMPHONY series.
Read MoreWarren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) in Dirty Looks: Eight Years On Touring Winter Series
/The Dirty Looks: Eight Years On winter tour runs from March 10 - April 24 across the U.S. and into Canada.
Read MoreWarren Sonbert’s Propulsive Cinema in Art in America Magazine
/Sonbert’s films consist of relentless montage. Scenes burst forth and quickly give way to the next. They inhabit the fringe of narrative, almost telling a story but never conveying character, conflict, or plot.
Read MoreMoving Tribute to Jonas Mekas at City Winery
/We experienced an incredibly moving tribute to Jonas Mekas last night at City Winery.
Read MoreCITY SYMPHONIES: TIME LAPSE (AND OTHER DISTORTIONS) film series at Anthology Film Archives 2/25/19
/CITY SYMPHONIES: TIME LAPSE (AND OTHER DISTORTIONS) film series at Anthology Film Archives 2/25 includes a screening of Marie Menken’s masterpiece of single frame cinematography GO! GO! GO! (1964).
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