NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy Cinema
Dressed to Kill and Chabrol’s The Champagne Murders have 35mm showings; Mary Bronstein’s Yeast, starring a young Greta Gerwig, screens on Friday.
Film Forum
A Jeanne Moreau retrospective brings films by Antonioni, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Welles and more; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Una Vita Difficile continue showing in a 4K restorations while The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T plays this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on snubs brings films by David Lynch, Todd Haynes, the Safdies, and Rebecca Hall.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and continues its run.
IFC Center
Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, and Jaws have screenings, while Body of Evidence plays on 35mm.
The post NYC Weekend Watch: Dressed to Kill, La Notte, Safe & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
Roxy Cinema
Dressed to Kill and Chabrol’s The Champagne Murders have 35mm showings; Mary Bronstein’s Yeast, starring a young Greta Gerwig, screens on Friday.
Film Forum
A Jeanne Moreau retrospective brings films by Antonioni, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Welles and more; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Una Vita Difficile continue showing in a 4K restorations while The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T plays this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on snubs brings films by David Lynch, Todd Haynes, the Safdies, and Rebecca Hall.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and continues its run.
IFC Center
Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, and Jaws have screenings, while Body of Evidence plays on 35mm.
The post NYC Weekend Watch: Dressed to Kill, La Notte, Safe & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
- 3/10/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Tiff Bible Greta Gerwig started her career in microbudget comedies ranging from "Hannah Takes the Stairs" to "Yeast," where she excelled at portraying the naiveté and confusion of early adulthood. However, in the past five years since Gerwig has taken on roles in bigger projects, there has been a greater clarity to her screen presence: She's a rambunctious, fun-loving ball of energy at once frustrated with her limited options and giddy about taking new steps. Her talky style defines the distinctive qualities of "Frances Ha," "Mistress America," and even less original character studies such as "Lola Versus." While not exactly typecast, Gerwig leaves a particular mark on her material with an auteur-like command over every roles. No matter what, she runs the show, and the movies complement that ability. Writer-director Rebecca Miller's "Maggie's Plan" looks and sounds like several Gerwig...
- 9/15/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It's been a while since Whit Stillman's last release back in 1998 (Last Days Of Disco) but his latest film, Damsels In Distress, is well worth the wait.
Like Stillman's previous films, Damsels focuses on articulate characters obsessed with modern etiquette and social correctness but transports us to Sevenoaks University college campus. Here we meet Violet and her do-good chums, Heather (Carrie, MacLernore) and Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) who together run The Suicide Prevention Centre, giving doughnuts out and running tap dance therapy classes for heartbroken girls contemplating suicide. The centre is not their sole concern, as the gang also conduct “Youth Outreach” work by going to parties to help guys who haven't reached or realised their full potential yet.
Damsels opens with old style silent movie credits with full cast names rolling in keeping with the film's 50s' feel. Violet and friends dress in vintage clothes, the film's title is...
Like Stillman's previous films, Damsels focuses on articulate characters obsessed with modern etiquette and social correctness but transports us to Sevenoaks University college campus. Here we meet Violet and her do-good chums, Heather (Carrie, MacLernore) and Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) who together run The Suicide Prevention Centre, giving doughnuts out and running tap dance therapy classes for heartbroken girls contemplating suicide. The centre is not their sole concern, as the gang also conduct “Youth Outreach” work by going to parties to help guys who haven't reached or realised their full potential yet.
Damsels opens with old style silent movie credits with full cast names rolling in keeping with the film's 50s' feel. Violet and friends dress in vintage clothes, the film's title is...
- 5/5/2012
- Shadowlocked
When we watch movies, it's always filtered through our own experiences. I never had pets growing up, so violence against animals never bothers me. But for some folks, it's a deal breaker. I like depressing relationship "comedies" like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Lars and the Real Girl and Blue Valentine, but for folks who like sunshine and rainbows, it's a dreary experience. We all watch movies differently, based on how we've lived our lives, and so our reactions are different. But even more so than that, it's how we watch the movies. A comedy watched in a theater full of an appreciative audience might be funnier than when we watch it alone at home during the week. The first film you see with your father or mother in a theater is going to resonate much differently than if you are watching it with a group of friends,...
- 2/25/2011
- by Brian Prisco
Michael Tully began his career with a flurry, getting selected for Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2006 on the back of his debut feature Cocaine Angel, and then following it up the next year with Silver Jew, a documentary about Silver Jews frontman David Berman. In the years since, Tully has stayed active, shooting Mary Bronstein’s Yeast, acting in a handful of movies by fellow Generation Diy peers, including Aaron Katz’s Quiet City and Ry Russo-Young’s You Won’t Miss Me, and editing the indie film website Hammer to Nail. But, in terms of new films, he has kept his head below the parapet.
Now, however, he’s back with his second narrative feature, Septien, a fantastically idiosyncratic tale in which he plays the lead role of Cornelius Rawlings, an athletically-gifted prodigal son who after an unexplained 18 year absence returns to the family farm where his two brothers,...
Now, however, he’s back with his second narrative feature, Septien, a fantastically idiosyncratic tale in which he plays the lead role of Cornelius Rawlings, an athletically-gifted prodigal son who after an unexplained 18 year absence returns to the family farm where his two brothers,...
- 1/22/2011
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Fans of Greta Gerwig are atwitter over the prospect of seeing the mumblecore It Girl on the big screen again.
The film is "Yeast," directed by Mary Bronstein, which had its debut in March at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and then was streamed on the Web for a short time.
On Wednesday it will unreel at 7:30 p.m. at 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St., at Canal Street) as the opening half of a double feature.
The second half, at 9:30 p.m., is "Frownland," helmed by Bronstein's husband,...
The film is "Yeast," directed by Mary Bronstein, which had its debut in March at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and then was streamed on the Web for a short time.
On Wednesday it will unreel at 7:30 p.m. at 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St., at Canal Street) as the opening half of a double feature.
The second half, at 9:30 p.m., is "Frownland," helmed by Bronstein's husband,...
- 1/4/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
With Mary Bronstein's Yeast debuting on DailyMotion tonight, and Joe Swanberg's Nights and Weekends opening this weekend at the IFC Center, the two SXSW 2008 premieres starring Greta Gerwig will suddenly become available to a non-festival audience simultaneously. When I heard this was going to happen, I dug up some of the press Gerwig has garnered over the past year, most of it pegged to her appearance in the Duplass brothers' Baghead. I quickly noticed a trend: Gerwig has been covered exhaustively by male writers who a) have a tendency to label her an "ingenue" or an "'it' girl", and b) devote much column spac ...
- 10/10/2008
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Last night in Manhattan, Cinetic Rights Management and the video sharing site DailyMotion hosted a special rooftop screening of Mary Bronstein's indie comedy of female relationship horrors, Yeast. At the event, we learned that Yeast will debut on DailyMotion on Friday night, where it will be available for free streaming for one weekend only. You'll be able to find the film at the Cinema DailyMotion page. For more info, check out our review from SXSW, and our interview with Bronstein, and co-stars Greta Gerwig and Amy Judd. ...
- 10/8/2008
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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