Events: Film
Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘The Master’
Angelika Film Center, New York
Paul Thomas Andersen’s muscular account of an American cult leader and his disciple is likely the best and certainly the most ambitious movie that Hollywood will give us this year
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Selected by J. Hoberman
October 10, 2012, 7 pm
‘The Ancient Law’
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
It’s The Jazz Singer’s Austrian counterpart, albeit silent and here accompanied by multimedia artist Thomas Köner performing live.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
September 28, 2012 – October 14, 2012
The New York Film Festival
Walter Reade Theater, New York
New York’s festival of festivals gives local premieres to the most feted movies last May at Cannes (Michael Haneke’s Amour, Leos Carax’s Holy Motors, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love, Christian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills) along with som
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Selected by J. Hoberman
October 19, 2012, 7:30 pm
‘The Red Detachment of Women’
Billy Wilder Theater at UCLA, Los Angeles
A movie that’s simultaneously infectious, chilling, and camp.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
October 13, 2012 – October 21, 2012
‘The Dumb Girl of Portici’
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dance legend Anna Pavlova made her only movie appearance in this elaborate, silent adaption of Daniel Auber’s opera La Muette de Portici.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Wuthering Heights’
Film Forum, New York
Andrea Arnold’s boldly miserablist, verité-style adaptation evokes the violence of Emily Brontë’s imagination.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
October 17, 2012 – October 30, 2012
‘Holy Motors’
Film Forum, New York
Leos Carax’s first movie in thirteen years is another singular, impressively crazy piece of work.
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