Film
Reel Talks: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox
Bryant Park W 42nd St and 6th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesBryant Park’s Reel Talk series continues with Vanda Krefft, author of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox. Hosted by Scott Adlerberg, Resident Film Expert, this […]
Moonlight & Movies: Modern Times
Museum of the City of New York 1220 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesCharlie Chaplin’s 1936 masterpiece, Modern Times, marks his final outing as the Little Tramp, this time starring as an inept factory worker caught in the cogs and gears of modern industrialization. From […]
The Big Combo (1955): Introduced by Ann Douglas
Museum of Arts and Design 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY, United StatesFilm noir was a major influence on the atmospheric landscapes and social dramas of Chicago Imagist painter Roger Brown. In conjunction with the exhibition Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes, MAD presents a […]
Moonlight & Movies: On the Waterfront with Jennifer Egan
Museum of the City of New York 1220 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan introduces this outdoor screening of Elia Kazan's classic 1954 drama On the Waterfront (108 min), which stars Marlon Brando as a boxer-turned-dockworker. Both On the Waterfront and Egan's latest novel, historical […]
Cheese Mites to Planet Earth: A History of Natural History Films
New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 W 64th St, New York, NY, United StatesSince the curtains first went up on early motion picture screens, nature documentaries have enthralled us. The challenges of capturing intimate views of animal life have pushed the boundaries of […]