NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
As Three Colors: Blue returns, “New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema” offers some of this year’s most fun, eye-opening programming.
Roxy Cinema
The series “Woman as Witch” offers plenty scintillating—prints of The Craft, Showgirls, Femme Fatale, and Wild Things all have multiples showings this weekend—while the Yale Film Archive has two 16mm prints of films by Nicholas Doob on Sunday.
IFC Center
A series on Los Angeles films is underway—including They Live, The Long Goodbye, and the new restoration of Heat—while the Lost Highway restoration begins a run and Taxi Driver has late showings.
Film Forum
The new restoration of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and “Mifune Redux” continue, the series on films from 62-64 includes work by Varda, Kubrick, Godard, Coppola, Hitchcock, and James Bond.
Anthology Film Archives...
Film at Lincoln Center
As Three Colors: Blue returns, “New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema” offers some of this year’s most fun, eye-opening programming.
Roxy Cinema
The series “Woman as Witch” offers plenty scintillating—prints of The Craft, Showgirls, Femme Fatale, and Wild Things all have multiples showings this weekend—while the Yale Film Archive has two 16mm prints of films by Nicholas Doob on Sunday.
IFC Center
A series on Los Angeles films is underway—including They Live, The Long Goodbye, and the new restoration of Heat—while the Lost Highway restoration begins a run and Taxi Driver has late showings.
Film Forum
The new restoration of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and “Mifune Redux” continue, the series on films from 62-64 includes work by Varda, Kubrick, Godard, Coppola, Hitchcock, and James Bond.
Anthology Film Archives...
- 7/28/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
This story was first published after the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in our history. We will republish it every time America suffers another mass shooting.
A.J. Schnack remembers the calm in every town. No matter how hellish the shooting, or how many news crews came, things always went back to normal. So Schnack made a film.
“Every time, there’s people who think we need to do something about this violence, then the other side says, ‘Now is not the time,’ and then a few days go by and there’s just… nothing,” he said. “I wanted to make something that shows these events happening again and again and how they echo one another.”
Also Read: Mass Shooting at Texas Church Sparks Mourning, Outcry: 'We Can Do Better Than This'
Schnack’s film, “Speaking Is Difficult,” travels to Colorado Springs, Colorado; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Hood,...
A.J. Schnack remembers the calm in every town. No matter how hellish the shooting, or how many news crews came, things always went back to normal. So Schnack made a film.
“Every time, there’s people who think we need to do something about this violence, then the other side says, ‘Now is not the time,’ and then a few days go by and there’s just… nothing,” he said. “I wanted to make something that shows these events happening again and again and how they echo one another.”
Also Read: Mass Shooting at Texas Church Sparks Mourning, Outcry: 'We Can Do Better Than This'
Schnack’s film, “Speaking Is Difficult,” travels to Colorado Springs, Colorado; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Hood,...
- 8/4/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Criterion lavishes a major upgrade to its older box set celebrating the first major rock concert event, the ‘California Dreamin’ idyll that some say marked the beginning of the Summer of Love. Get ready to hear and see some history-making performances from Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Who. Plus two more features and a bundle of ‘extra’ music sets . . . including Tiny Tim.
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 167
1968 / Color / 1:33 flat / 79 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 12, 2017 / 69.95
Cinematography: James Desmond, Barry Feinstein, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Roger Murphy, D.A. Pennebaker
Film Editor: Nina Schulman
Original Music: The Animals, The Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Al Kooper, Hugh Masekela, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, Otis Redding, The Quicksilver Messenger Service,...
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 167
1968 / Color / 1:33 flat / 79 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 12, 2017 / 69.95
Cinematography: James Desmond, Barry Feinstein, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Roger Murphy, D.A. Pennebaker
Film Editor: Nina Schulman
Original Music: The Animals, The Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Al Kooper, Hugh Masekela, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, Otis Redding, The Quicksilver Messenger Service,...
- 12/9/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Read More: See Trailer for "Triggering Wounds" Gun Violence Documentary, Produced by Harlem Teens More than 8,000 people die from gunfire in the United States every spring, and Emmy-winning directors Nick Doob and Shari Cookson are exposing the trauma caused by such violence in their upcoming HBO documentary, "Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014." The duo, who have previously worked together on other hard-hitting HBO docs such as "Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert" and "The Alzheimer’s Project: The Memory Loss Tapes," gathered details of gun violence and related deaths in the spring of 2014 through social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, 911 calls, police files and interviews of family and friends of victims. With a ticking countdown to the 8,007 deaths in Spring 2014, the trailer powerfully showcases tweets, crime scene photos and tearful interviews. The emotional documentary...
- 6/3/2015
- by Kaeli Van Cott
- Indiewire
Directors Nick Doob and Shari Cookson tell the stories of some of those who died from gunfire in the spring of 2014. Using found footage, social media, news accounts, 911 calls and police files, "Requiem for the Dead" explores the aftermaths of accidental shootings, suicides, family disputes and random acts of violence through the eyes of those who survived the victims. Doob and Cookson collaborated on HBO’s Emmy-winning “The Alzheimer’s Project: The Memory Loss Tapes” and Emmy-nominated “Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert." Below, see the emotional "Requiem for the Dead" trailer, which debuts today in honor of the first national Gun Violence Awareness Day.
- 6/2/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
There’s a scene about halfway through Shari Cookson and Nick Doob’s documentary short Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert that the subject in question receives news that she has passed a long-feared college entrance exam and can now enroll in a local institution. For Gilbert, a single mother of three who works long stretches at a care facility for the elderly as a certified nurse’s assistant (hard work, and all for the paltry sum of $9.49 an hour), the possibility that she can now attend and complete college is both a tremendous blessing and the result of lots of hard work. Minutes later, however, Gilbert is informed that her financial aid – an obvious necessity in her situation – has been denied, and her joy turns to confusion, pain, and fear. Gilbert, who continually approaches the numerous setbacks of her life on the brink of poverty with a matter-of-fact spirit that is nothing...
- 3/14/2014
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Venice International Film Festival (1932-2012), the 2012 edition will feature a retrospective of ten films presented during past Venice Films Festivals.
The films were selected on the basis of rarity, using the copies from the Collections of the Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts of the Biennale (Asac).
As has often been pointed out by historians and researchers, the films from the Venice Film Festival preserved over the years in the Asac represent a valuable and extremely important legacy of documents. In many cases, they are the only copies of films that were considered lost, or of versions that differ from the copies successively released in theatres.
The retrospective project consists of a limited number of films not otherwise available in 35mm or DVD copies, and that have never been restored. The Biennale will keep one 35mm or Dcp/HD-cam copy of all the restored films,...
The films were selected on the basis of rarity, using the copies from the Collections of the Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts of the Biennale (Asac).
As has often been pointed out by historians and researchers, the films from the Venice Film Festival preserved over the years in the Asac represent a valuable and extremely important legacy of documents. In many cases, they are the only copies of films that were considered lost, or of versions that differ from the copies successively released in theatres.
The retrospective project consists of a limited number of films not otherwise available in 35mm or DVD copies, and that have never been restored. The Biennale will keep one 35mm or Dcp/HD-cam copy of all the restored films,...
- 6/20/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
In a list of the best documentaries of the 2000s, I named Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus’ Al Franken: And God Spoke as the greatest political doc of the decade. It’s a film that follows the humorist, then long away from becoming a U.S. Senator, in the 2004 election year, and for me it perfectly represents a problem for the left at the time of being too reliant or at least overshadowed by comedic liberal media and personalities, everything from The Daily Show to Michael Moore to SNL vets like Will Ferrell and Franken. But eight years later it seems the jokesters truly do matter, as argued and evidenced by Brian Knappenberger’s necessary new film, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hactivists. No, it doesn’t make the case that the Republican candidates...
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- 3/16/2012
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
These are the highways to hell. For the second straight year, The Daily Beast ranks the roads with the worst rush hour gridlock. How does your commute rank?
More than merely expensive, long commutes are mentally debilitating. They're also completely, absolutely avoidable. With that in mind, The Daily Beast set out to determine, for the second consecutive year, which cities have the worst commutes-and specifically, which stretches of road within each city experience the worst congestion.
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Gallery: The Worst Commutes in America
To find America's Highways from Hell, we started with newly released data from traffic-tracking firm Inrix, which culls data from 4 million vehicles nationwide using Gps units and a smartphone application.
We pared and ranked our top 50 worst metropolitan areas for traffic for 2010 using Inrix's Travel Time Tax-the percentage of time it takes to navigate the area's roadways...
More than merely expensive, long commutes are mentally debilitating. They're also completely, absolutely avoidable. With that in mind, The Daily Beast set out to determine, for the second consecutive year, which cities have the worst commutes-and specifically, which stretches of road within each city experience the worst congestion.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The 25 Worst Meals for Kids
Gallery: The Worst Commutes in America
To find America's Highways from Hell, we started with newly released data from traffic-tracking firm Inrix, which culls data from 4 million vehicles nationwide using Gps units and a smartphone application.
We pared and ranked our top 50 worst metropolitan areas for traffic for 2010 using Inrix's Travel Time Tax-the percentage of time it takes to navigate the area's roadways...
- 3/8/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
Hours after Al Franken's latest victory in the 2008 Minnesota senate race, Thom Powers hosted a special screening of Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob's documentary Al Franken: God Spoke at Stranger Than Fiction in New York. Though the film, released in 2006, only extend into the very beginning of Franken's senate run, thanks to recent events it plays as an invaluable portrait of the bridge Franken travelled from Saturday Night Live mainstay to Fox News punching bag, from humiliated Kerry supporter to quiet victor in a vote that his opponent won't let lie. Early on in the film there's footage of a public spat on some kind of book panel between Franken and Bill O'Reilly, which basically ends when the Fox star aggressively tells the then-comedian to "shut up!" At that p ...
- 4/15/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob's "Car men & Geoffrey" is a valuable, charm ing and entertaining record of two key figures in the history of modern dance, Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder.
New Orleans-born de Lavallade and Holder, from Trinidad, both arrived in New York in the '50s after working in Hollywood and met on the Broadway production of "House of Flowers," which Holder also co-choreographed.
De Lavallade, a noted solo performer who had a close association with Alvin Ailey, also became a choreographer and teacher.
New Orleans-born de Lavallade and Holder, from Trinidad, both arrived in New York in the '50s after working in Hollywood and met on the Broadway production of "House of Flowers," which Holder also co-choreographed.
De Lavallade, a noted solo performer who had a close association with Alvin Ailey, also became a choreographer and teacher.
- 3/13/2009
- by By LOU LUMENICK
- NYPost.com
This week sees, for once, nothing imported from Russia and nothing opening in 3D. Hmmm...signs and portents.
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"Brothers at War"
While his very premise negates a documentarian's objectivity, filmmaker Jake Rademacher brings an intimacy and affection to his feature debut, a handheld portrait of his two brothers serving in Iraq. Shot first-hand while embedded with his brothers' units in the field, Rademacher seeks to better understand their actions and motivations as they patrol along the Syrian border. Putting the larger political issues aside, the film focuses on the men and women who fight, the families back home who wait, and the unique bond that ties and holds them all together.
Opens in limited release.
"The Cake Eaters"
After cutting her directorial teeth with a segment in 2001 sci-fi anthology "On the Edge," Mary Stuart Masterson undergoes yet another career reinvention...
Download this in audio form (MP3: 7:43 minutes, 10.6 Mb)
"Brothers at War"
While his very premise negates a documentarian's objectivity, filmmaker Jake Rademacher brings an intimacy and affection to his feature debut, a handheld portrait of his two brothers serving in Iraq. Shot first-hand while embedded with his brothers' units in the field, Rademacher seeks to better understand their actions and motivations as they patrol along the Syrian border. Putting the larger political issues aside, the film focuses on the men and women who fight, the families back home who wait, and the unique bond that ties and holds them all together.
Opens in limited release.
"The Cake Eaters"
After cutting her directorial teeth with a segment in 2001 sci-fi anthology "On the Edge," Mary Stuart Masterson undergoes yet another career reinvention...
- 3/11/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
- [Pierre-Alexandre Despatis suffers for his cinema. Now covering his second edition, our official festival reporter and multi-function human cyborg will provide us the sights (plenty of cool pics!), the sounds, the reviews and the occasional interviews of the still very young 5th edition of the Tribeca film festival. Below are some of Pierre-Alexandre’s reviews in easy to read, insightful capsule form. Enjoy!] Al Franken: God SPOKEWell, if God speaks to Bush and asks him to go to war, why doesn’t God speak to Al Franken too? Coincidentally, the film opens with a series of shots of God himself! It pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the film--a hilarious and sometimes politically incorrect journey with the colored Al Franken before the last presidential elections in the United States. Combining excerpts of one-on-ones, tv appearances and interviews, cinéma-vérité veterans Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus offer us an interesting perspective on Al Franken's "tireless campaign" against George Bush and Franken's motives behind his never-ending crusade. Of course, any pro-democrat documentary would be incomplete without making fun of Fox News and featuring Michael Moore! Whether you like him or not, this is definitely a must see so that you can like Al Franken more--or hate him more!Follow My Voice: With
- 4/29/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
HBO is planning a theatrical release in the fall for documentarian D.A. Pennebaker's Elaine Stritch at Large, a backstage look at the actress' one-woman Broadway show. The docu, from Pennebaker and his partners Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob, will then air on the pay cable network next year. Stritch's show traces her Broadway career as she intersperses anecdotes about Marlon Brando, Noel Coward, Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland with such signature tunes as Stephen Sondheim's "Here's to the Ladies Who Lunch" and "I'm Still Here". It opened on Broadway last year, went on to London and bowed Tuesday at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre for 17 performances. The show has received a Tony Award for best special theatrical event as well as a Drama Desk Award.
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