Events: Film
Selected by J. Hoberman
December 26, 2012 – January 8, 2013
‘Tabu’
Film Forum, New York
This purposefully anachronistic third feature by Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes is so rich with narrative fillips and filled with cinephilic pleasures it could restore your faith in the medium.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
January 9, 2013, 7:30 pm
Barbara Rubin and ‘Christmas on Earth’
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Barbara Rubin’s 1963 Christmas on Earth, made when she was eighteen, is an ethereal tangle of guys posing like Greek statues, girls painted like archaic fertility goddesses, and fingers probing orifices in bleached black and white.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
January 4, 2013 – January 13, 2013
First Look 2013
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
The second edition of the Museum of the Moving Image’s “First Look” opens with the local premiere of Bressonian brutalist Bruno Dumont’s Outside Satan.
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Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi
January 18, 2013 – January 23, 2013, 7 pm
‘Cairo 678’
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Based on the real-life events that led to the first anti-harassment legislation, CAIRO 678 tells the stories of three Cairene women from different walks of life as they unite in a fight against sexual harassment on their city's streets.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
January 23, 2013 – January 25, 2013, 1:30 pm
‘The Tarnished Angels’
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The closest that cultivated emigré Douglas Sirk would come to making a European art film in Hollywood was a svelte adaptation of William Faulkner’s Pylon.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Regal Stadium 13, New York
Kathryn Bigelow, whose last film, The Hurt Locker, was the best Hollywood action flick of the twenty-first century, uses the killing of Osama Bin Laden as the basis for an epic procedural.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
January 11, 2013 – January 31, 2013
New Yawk New Wave
Film Forum, New York
New York supported a scrappy, streetwise off-Hollywood well before the coinage “American independent.” “New Yawk New Wave” surveys the movement from Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss through Scorsese’s Mean Streets.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
December 6, 2012 – February 10, 2013
Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960-1986
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Every year or so there’s a retrospective so comprehensive and rich with little-seen work as to jeopardize one’s day job.
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