Events: January 23, 2013, Film
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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Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi
Ongoing
‘Argo’
Angelika Film Center, New York
Not quite flattering to the Iranian regime, Argo has received much attention in the Middle East.
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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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