6:30 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1958). Pampered teen Jean Seberg looks back at a summer of Technicolor heartbreak on the French Riviera in this gorgeous adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s novel. “Arguably, this is Preminger’s masterpiece.”—Chicago Reader (94 mins) Part of PFA Series ...
8:40 p.m., PFA Theater Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1967). A former Red soldier hides from a ruthless crackdown in this hypnotic black-and-white epic. “Totally unlike anything else in the cinema.”—John Russell Taylor (73 mins) Part of PFA Series Four by Hungarian Master Miklós Jancsó.
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1955). Dorothy Dandridge is the titular temptress, applying her wiles to G.I. Harry Belafonte, in a sizzling black-cast update of the Bizet opera. (107 mins) Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1978). A Chopin prelude triggers a long-delayed confrontation between concert pianist Bergman and her aggrieved daughter Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman’s intense and penetrating chamber piece. (93 mins) Part of PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater Barbara Willis Sweete (Canada, 1995). This lively documentary observes the collaboration between Morris and Yo-Yo Ma as they set a Bach cello suite to dance. With Chaplin short The Rink. (79 mins) Part of PFA Series An Evening with Mark Morris.
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater Alain Resnais (France, 1966). Yves Montand is a Spanish revolutionary suspended between the past and the future in Resnais’s political drama. (121 mins) Part of PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1960). With sweeping gusto, this epic adaptation of the Leon Uris novel details the events leading to the founding of the state of Israel. Paul Newman leads a stupendous cast. (212 mins) Part of PFA Series Otto ...
Action Potential: A Work-In-Progress Presentation Giving voice to human free will A work-in-progress performance by Torino:Margolis at PikselFest09 on Thursday, November 19th, 2009
NORWAY – Analogous Projects is excited to announce the participation of Torino:Margolis's ...
Epic Doom: Black Metal City An illustration of societal ills as emergent phenomena A work-in-progress performance by Nick Lesley Debuting as part of the 2009 Play With Fire Festival Sunday, November 15th, 2009 1717 Troutman Street, Queens, NY, 11385 (L to Jefferson)
In 1932 Bertolt Brecht formulated a critique of the radio as a centralized mass media, and advocated a decentralized media structure with as many senders as receivers. Ever since, the general notion of democratic media has been, and still is, identical to people getting access to transmitting their own content ...
This coming week through Basekamp will be talking with Roy Ascott about being an "artist with a technoetic, telematic, syncretic sense of being."
Currently Roy is the Director of Technoetic Arts Limited, an International art and technology consultancy situated in Bristol, United Kingdom. He is also Founding President of ...
On Friday November 13 2009 Alliance Française of Miami & Società Dante Alighieriopens Presents: “TRILOGY image -sound “. Three Uruguayan artists get together to present an exhibit featuring works by Mario Marinoni (paintings and boxes/sculpture mixed media); Federico Britos, (contemporary violin compositions); and Gabriel Orenstein (video art) “TRILOGY image - sound ...
8:40 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1955). Frank Sinatra has a dope addiction that jazz can’t cure in this groundbreaking film, censored for its frank treatment of a tough subject. “Sinatra’s performance is pure gold.”—Pauline Kael (119 mins) Part of PFA Series Otto ...