NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film Forum
A Jeanne Moreau retrospective brings films by Antonioni, Malle, Becker and more; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Una Vita Difficile continue showing in a 4K restorations while King Kong plays this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on snubs brings films by the Coens, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Todd Haynes.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and begins a run.
Roxy Cinema
Minnie and Moskowitz has 35mm showings Saturday and Sunday, the latter day also bringing Polanski’s Frantic; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday.
Anthology Film Archives
Barbarella, Wr: Mysteries of the Organism, and more play in Wilhelm Reich series; Brakhage screens in Essential Cinema.
IFC Center
Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, and Akira have screenings, while Showgirls plays on 35mm.
The post NYC Weekend Watch: Jeanne Moreau,...
Film Forum
A Jeanne Moreau retrospective brings films by Antonioni, Malle, Becker and more; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Una Vita Difficile continue showing in a 4K restorations while King Kong plays this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on snubs brings films by the Coens, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Todd Haynes.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and begins a run.
Roxy Cinema
Minnie and Moskowitz has 35mm showings Saturday and Sunday, the latter day also bringing Polanski’s Frantic; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday.
Anthology Film Archives
Barbarella, Wr: Mysteries of the Organism, and more play in Wilhelm Reich series; Brakhage screens in Essential Cinema.
IFC Center
Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, and Akira have screenings, while Showgirls plays on 35mm.
The post NYC Weekend Watch: Jeanne Moreau,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Stars: Victorya Brandart, Ignacyo Matynia, Mark Lobene, Jarred Harper, Louisa Bradshaw, Claire McClain, Joy Donze | Written and Directed by Hamza Zaman
Few things in one’s life inspire more joy and fear than childbirth and becoming a parent. Though probably not the fears that Marie faces at the start of The Institute. Snake-like arms and hands emerge from the walls of a cave and tear the fetus from her body.
It’s a nightmare born out of frustration. Marie and her husband Daniel have been trying to become parents but with no luck and it’s affecting their marriage and her mental health. And then Daniel stumbles across Dr. Arthur Lands (Mark Lobene) and his secluded fertility clinic which claims to offer a radical solution to their problem.
The online ad for the clinic extols all of its virtues without offering any actual facts. And the disclaimers for such minor...
Few things in one’s life inspire more joy and fear than childbirth and becoming a parent. Though probably not the fears that Marie faces at the start of The Institute. Snake-like arms and hands emerge from the walls of a cave and tear the fetus from her body.
It’s a nightmare born out of frustration. Marie and her husband Daniel have been trying to become parents but with no luck and it’s affecting their marriage and her mental health. And then Daniel stumbles across Dr. Arthur Lands (Mark Lobene) and his secluded fertility clinic which claims to offer a radical solution to their problem.
The online ad for the clinic extols all of its virtues without offering any actual facts. And the disclaimers for such minor...
- 3/21/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
From "Modern Lusts," Berghahn 2020, 340PPErnest Borneman not only wrote the greatest detective novel set in the movie-business, with one of the best titles, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (1937), but was also a screenwriter, editor, producer, distributor and director who worked closely with two cinema colossi, John Grierson and Orson Welles. He was also a painter, musician, revered jazz critic and historian of African-American life, a radical agitator and sexologist whose stated aim was to destroy the patriarchy. Modern Lusts, the first biography of this protean polymath, reveals a man who did everything, knew everyone, and remained in the forefront of avant-garde art and politics, Black liberation and sexual freedom, like some ultra-woke Zelig. Never in the field of human culture was so much done, so many met, now known to so few.Born in Berlin in 1915, Borneman attended Karl Marx school and by 15 had met Brecht, with whom he collaborated over the decades,...
- 12/23/2020
- MUBI
This week’s full moon in Pisces may have left you feeling a bit tender. But that’s all right: these songs are meant to revitalize, empower, and mobilize as you let go of the parts of your life that no longer serve you — or reaffirm those that do.
From Stevie Nicks and Kate Bush to Miley Cyrus and Fka Twigs, the femme artists on this week’s Music at Home playlist have made careers out of majestic assertions of their own power, and each song has a certain witch-y,...
From Stevie Nicks and Kate Bush to Miley Cyrus and Fka Twigs, the femme artists on this week’s Music at Home playlist have made careers out of majestic assertions of their own power, and each song has a certain witch-y,...
- 9/4/2020
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Orson Bean, whose subtle wit made him a staple on television in the 1950s and 1960s, was killed in a pedestrian traffic accident Friday in Venice, Calif. He was 91 and his death was confirmed by the Los Angeles County coroner.
Bean was struck by a car and killed while crossing Venice Boulevard in Venice at 7:35 Pm. A “car coming westbound did not see him and clipped him,” Los Angeles Police Department Captain Brian Wendling told ABC7.
A second driver, who “was distracted by people trying to slow him down” then struck Bean, Wendling said.
Bean was crossing the busy street to get to the Venice Resident Theatre. His wife of 27 years, actress Alley Mills, was reportedly already at the location.
Both drivers remained at the scene and cooperated with police. Investigators have initially said they believe the crash was an accident.
Many remember Bean from his appearances on talk shows,...
Bean was struck by a car and killed while crossing Venice Boulevard in Venice at 7:35 Pm. A “car coming westbound did not see him and clipped him,” Los Angeles Police Department Captain Brian Wendling told ABC7.
A second driver, who “was distracted by people trying to slow him down” then struck Bean, Wendling said.
Bean was crossing the busy street to get to the Venice Resident Theatre. His wife of 27 years, actress Alley Mills, was reportedly already at the location.
Both drivers remained at the scene and cooperated with police. Investigators have initially said they believe the crash was an accident.
Many remember Bean from his appearances on talk shows,...
- 2/8/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
In collaboration with the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Melika Bass' Creature Companion (2018) is showing exclusively on Mubi from July 2 - August 1, 2018 as part of the series Competing at Oberhausen.Humans inhabit containers. Most intimately, our bodies are containers. Our daily jobs, and our mornings and nights are mostly spent inside boxes. When we leave those spots, we travel inside and into different containers—other houses, rooms, offices, cars, trains. My new experimental fiction film, Creature Companion, is a container too—a cinematic snow globe, bubbling on simmer. Like a lot of movies, it shows the exteriors of bodies and rooms and objects. It is also asking: what do these images and surfaces contain inside, what remains unknown, concealed underneath? How can cinema get at the interior of humans, when the whole apparatus is about capturing surfaces?The two women featured in Creature Companion navigate their bodies, domestic spaces, and the world outside through maintenance,...
- 7/2/2018
- MUBI
Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik's extensive Internet presence gives us a look inside the inner workings of a madman. Meet a young man obsessed with Muslims, liberals, commercial techno music, and World of Warcraft.
Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, like most nutjobs, had a substantial Internet presence. He had an active Facebook page, blogged, posted YouTube clips, and distributed a manifesto online. But now he is in police custody--and the world is trying to figure out exactly what Breivik's beliefs are.
Under the Anglicized name “Andrew Berwick,” Breivik wrote a 1,500-page Norwegian-language manifesto titled “2083--a European Declaration of Independence” that contained an unwieldy mix of anti-left-wing invective, criticisms of multiculturalism, disdain for immigrants, support for far right-wing elements in the United States, the Netherlands, and Israel, and support for something called “The Vienna School of Thought”--an anti-immigration movement he claimed countered the “Eurabia project and the Frankfurt School (neo-Marxism...
Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, like most nutjobs, had a substantial Internet presence. He had an active Facebook page, blogged, posted YouTube clips, and distributed a manifesto online. But now he is in police custody--and the world is trying to figure out exactly what Breivik's beliefs are.
Under the Anglicized name “Andrew Berwick,” Breivik wrote a 1,500-page Norwegian-language manifesto titled “2083--a European Declaration of Independence” that contained an unwieldy mix of anti-left-wing invective, criticisms of multiculturalism, disdain for immigrants, support for far right-wing elements in the United States, the Netherlands, and Israel, and support for something called “The Vienna School of Thought”--an anti-immigration movement he claimed countered the “Eurabia project and the Frankfurt School (neo-Marxism...
- 7/25/2011
- by Neal Ungerleider
- Fast Company
Jd Salinger, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer were all devotees of the orgone energy accumulator, nicknamed by Woody Allen the 'Orgasmatron'. Its inventor, Wilhelm Reich, claimed that better orgasms could cure society's ills
When Wilhelm Reich, the most brilliant of the second generation of psychoanalysts who had been Freud's pupils, arrived in New York in August 1939, only a few days before the outbreak of war, he was optimistic that his ideas fusing sex and politics would be better received there than they had been in fascist Europe. Despite its veneer of puritanism, America was a country already much preoccupied with sex – as Alfred Kinsey's renowned investigations, which he had begun the year before, were to show. However, it was only after the second world war that the idea of sexual liberation would permeate the culture at large. Reich could be said to have invented this "sexual revolution"; a Marxist analyst,...
When Wilhelm Reich, the most brilliant of the second generation of psychoanalysts who had been Freud's pupils, arrived in New York in August 1939, only a few days before the outbreak of war, he was optimistic that his ideas fusing sex and politics would be better received there than they had been in fascist Europe. Despite its veneer of puritanism, America was a country already much preoccupied with sex – as Alfred Kinsey's renowned investigations, which he had begun the year before, were to show. However, it was only after the second world war that the idea of sexual liberation would permeate the culture at large. Reich could be said to have invented this "sexual revolution"; a Marxist analyst,...
- 7/8/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Jd Salinger, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer were all devotees of the orgone energy accumulator, nicknamed by Woody Allen the 'Orgasmatron'. Its inventor, Wilhelm Reich, claimed that better orgasms could cure society's ills
When Wilhelm Reich, the most brilliant of the second generation of psychoanalysts who had been Freud's pupils, arrived in New York in August 1939, only a few days before the outbreak of war, he was optimistic that his ideas fusing sex and politics would be better received there than they had been in fascist Europe. Despite its veneer of puritanism, America was a country already much preoccupied with sex – as Alfred Kinsey's renowned investigations, which he had begun the year before, were to show. However, it was only after the second world war that the idea of sexual liberation would permeate the culture at large. Reich could be said to have invented this "sexual revolution"; a Marxist analyst,...
When Wilhelm Reich, the most brilliant of the second generation of psychoanalysts who had been Freud's pupils, arrived in New York in August 1939, only a few days before the outbreak of war, he was optimistic that his ideas fusing sex and politics would be better received there than they had been in fascist Europe. Despite its veneer of puritanism, America was a country already much preoccupied with sex – as Alfred Kinsey's renowned investigations, which he had begun the year before, were to show. However, it was only after the second world war that the idea of sexual liberation would permeate the culture at large. Reich could be said to have invented this "sexual revolution"; a Marxist analyst,...
- 7/7/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Barbara Chai The orgone accumulator: get in on it.
There was the book, “Adventures in the Orgasmatron” by Christopher Turner, with the questionable cover art of a woman’s nude torso. There was the party celebrating the book’s release, at Cabinet Event Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Then there was, in the middle of the room, an “orgone accumulator” — a wood-and-metal box invented by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich designed to collect sexual energy or life force that he believed to confer healing powers.
There was the book, “Adventures in the Orgasmatron” by Christopher Turner, with the questionable cover art of a woman’s nude torso. There was the party celebrating the book’s release, at Cabinet Event Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Then there was, in the middle of the room, an “orgone accumulator” — a wood-and-metal box invented by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich designed to collect sexual energy or life force that he believed to confer healing powers.
- 6/29/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
There are Tons of new releases this past week, and as my co-host and friend Travis George said, it was going to be a hell of a time to write these up for all of you people out there who want to know about Criterion’s blossoming Hulu Plus page. And as usual, I’m elated to tell you all about these films, especially if you want to join up to the service, which helps us keep this weekly article series going. I mean, come on, there’s an Ingmar Bergman film that’s not in the collection yet! More on that at the end of the article. So let’s get right to it then.
The epic film The Human Condition (1959) has been put up, separated into three videos. Parts 1 & 2, Parts 3 & 4 and Parts 5 & 6 are there for your ease of watching, so if you have 574 minutes to kill watching the...
The epic film The Human Condition (1959) has been put up, separated into three videos. Parts 1 & 2, Parts 3 & 4 and Parts 5 & 6 are there for your ease of watching, so if you have 574 minutes to kill watching the...
- 6/12/2011
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
The opening credits cite Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian-American psychiatrist/author who brought us such marvels of technology as the orgone box. Reich is known for his position that sexual repression leads to violence in a culture, though despite the highfalutin quoting of the shrink by writer-director Philippe Diaz, the point-of-view, which echoes Freud himself, is merely an excuse for cinematic soft-core porn. Not that the eight sexual escapades are a bore: if such activity were dull, people would not pay stiff (so to speak) money in hotels to channel such films.
- 2/5/2011
- Arizona Reporter
You see some odd things looking at web-stats for a site, but there's usually a reason if you dig in a little. The other day I was curious why one of John Bensalhia's excellent thrice-weekly Doctor Who reviews had a peculiar hit-spike. Looking into how it was listed at Google News provides the likeliest answer...
All I can say is that it ought to be true, at least at some or other 'geek' site. The eccentric singer-songwriter was a very public TV and movies geek decades before the term 'geek chic' was invented. A huge swathe of Kate Bush's work is either based directly on movies, TV or books, includes references to such things or actually has a strong cinematic ambition.
The 1978 No.1 'Wuthering Heights' was inspired by the last ten minutes of Robert Fuest's 1970 adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic; the 1979 single 'Hammer Horror' is...
All I can say is that it ought to be true, at least at some or other 'geek' site. The eccentric singer-songwriter was a very public TV and movies geek decades before the term 'geek chic' was invented. A huge swathe of Kate Bush's work is either based directly on movies, TV or books, includes references to such things or actually has a strong cinematic ambition.
The 1978 No.1 'Wuthering Heights' was inspired by the last ten minutes of Robert Fuest's 1970 adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic; the 1979 single 'Hammer Horror' is...
- 12/24/2010
- Shadowlocked
The Chicago Underground Film Festival is always a special occasion, but the 17th edition of this venerable institution, which runs on June 24 – July 1, is a little bit extra special. This year, Cuff will be honoring the lifelong underground film champion Jonas Mekas with their Lifetime Achievement Award!
Mekas will be in attendance at the festival at will appear at several screenings in his honor. On the 25th, there will be a screening of the new documentary Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (Mostly) American Avant-Garde, at which director Chuck Workman, Mekas and underground film historian Fred Camper will participate in a Q&A. Then, on the 26th, several of Mekas’ own films will screen and he’ll be presented with his award.
As for the rest of the fest, Cuff usually has some sort of unifying theme, at least as far as the features go. It’s not typically a stated theme,...
Mekas will be in attendance at the festival at will appear at several screenings in his honor. On the 25th, there will be a screening of the new documentary Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (Mostly) American Avant-Garde, at which director Chuck Workman, Mekas and underground film historian Fred Camper will participate in a Q&A. Then, on the 26th, several of Mekas’ own films will screen and he’ll be presented with his award.
As for the rest of the fest, Cuff usually has some sort of unifying theme, at least as far as the features go. It’s not typically a stated theme,...
- 6/3/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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