Selected by J. Hoberman
June 29, 2012 – July 5, 2012
‘Funny Face’
Film Forum, New York
The last great, unself-conscious Hollywood musical features Audrey Hepburn playing a beat chick among the fashionistas, Fred Astaire dancing, and cabaret madcap Kay Thompson clowning.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
June 29, 2012 – July 8, 2012
Le Conversazioni
Hotel Punta Tragara, Capri
The most romantic literary gathering the world has ever known. On a piazzeta with views of the Bay of Naples, readings of new, original works in English and Italian.
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Reviewed in the NYR
March 14, 2012 – July 8, 2012
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Century)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the May 10 issue, Peter Brown writes: "The foundation of the Arab empire has been called ‘one of the most remarkable achievements in human history.’ Byzantium and Islam takes us to the heart of this great detonation."
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Selected by J. Hoberman
July 9, 2012, 7 pm
‘The Wedding March’
Film Forum, New York
You owe it to yourself to see more silent movies, especially in archival prints with live musical accompaniment. This is Erich von Stroheim’s other mutilated masterpiece.
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Selected by Eyal Press
July 11, 2012, 6:30 pm – 8:15 pm
‘Reportero’: A Screening and Conversation
New America NYC, New York
The New America Foundation will host a screening and discussion of Reportero, a documentary about a veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsweekly in Tijuana who have refused to be silenced or intimidated.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
July 6, 2012 – July 12, 2012
‘Daisies’
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
The most drolly anarchic cine-provocation to bloom during the Prague Spring, Vera Chytilova’s new wave farce looks better every year.
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
May 10, 2012 – July 19, 2012
Robert Delpire: A Retrospective
The Aperture Foundation, New York
Robert Delpire—a French publisher, curator, and editor who published the work of some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century—is the subject of an ongoing retrospective at no fewer than six galleries throughout New York.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
July 13, 2012 – July 19, 2012
‘Bonsái’
San Francisco Film Society Cinema, San Francisco
With its shabby locations, deadpan exchanges, and a lively indie-rock score, Bonsái is a small, grounded cumulatively poignant tragicomedy of student-boho life.
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