Events: Film
Selected by Dominique Nabokov
April 5, 2013 – April 6, 2013
In The First Place…
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy
In the First Place... is a multi-layered dance installation developed from the book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream), an Italian pastoral romance published in 1499.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
April 6, 2013, 8:20 pm
‘The Rose King’
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
A brilliant assemblage of gothic rot and Catholic kitsch that Werner Schroeter made in 1984 with his longtime superstar Magdalena Montezuma, then dying of cancer.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
January 19, 2013 – April 7, 2013
Werner Schroeter: Magnificent Obsessions
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Schroeter's most visionary movies—the willfully crude, aggressively campy low-budget opera-travesties he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s—were a significant influence on both Fassbinder and Syberberg.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Room 237’
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, New York
Thanks to DVD and the internet, The Shining has become the subject of elaborate exegeses which are themselves the subject of Rodney Ascher’s documentary feature.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
April 24, 2013 – April 25, 2013
‘Dead Man’
The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles
A western set in the 1870s and filled with creepy period details, Jim Jarmusch’s most uncompromising feature is generally regarded as his masterpiece.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
April 29, 2013, 7:30 pm
‘Flaming Creatures’ at 50
Anthology Film Archives, New York
The most influential and incendiary avant-garde film ever made in America, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures had its first public screening a half-century ago in New York. Anthology is marking the occasion by recreating the original bill.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
April 3, 2013 – May 6, 2013
The Weimar Touch
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Among other things, the Nazi seizure of power served to send what was then Europe’s leading film industry into exile.
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Reviewed in the NYRblog
March 5, 2013 – May 27, 2013
‘Street’
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
On the NYRblog, J. Hoberman writes: "An engrossing and celebratory hour-long video projection of life in New York City."
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