Events: February 20, 2013
Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi
February 20, 2013, 7:30 pm
‘Islamaphobia’: A Forum
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A public forum on the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment in the years since 9/11.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
February 20, 2013 – February 21, 2013
‘Call Girl’
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Having its US premiere courtesy of Film Comment magazine, Mikael Marcimain’s leisurely political thriller is based on the scandal known in Sweden as Bordellhärvan that nearly brought down the socialist government in the 1970s.
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Reviewed in the NYR
November 18, 2012 – February 25, 2013
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde
Museum of Modern Art, New York
In the January 10 issue, Ian Buruma writes, “It is a common belief that Japanese are almost congenitally incapable of facing the horrors of the war they unleashed. Some of the art in MoMA’s new show should help to dispel that caricature.”
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘No’
Angelika Film Center, New York
Chilean director Pablo Larrain caps a trilogy of movies concerning the Pinochet dictatorship—it’s a parable with an edge.
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
November 11, 2012 – March 10, 2013
A Harlem Family 1967
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
A gripping work on poverty by the famous African-American photographer, writer, director, and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2008).
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
October 30, 2012 – March 28, 2013
‘The Orphan of Zhao’
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Royal Shakespeare Company, under the direction of RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, presents James Fenton's new adaptation of this classic play--sometimes called the Chinese Hamlet.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
January 15, 2013 – April 6, 2013
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Grey Art Gallery, New York
To go along with your "Howl" twitter feed, an exhibition of Allen Ginsberg's photographs called "Beat Memories."
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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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