NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Anthology Film Archives
Eight films by Nagisa Ōshima, one of the greatest Japanese directors, are subject of a retrospective.
Film at Lincoln Center
As The Mother and the Whore continues in a 4K restoration, the full Jean Eustache retrospective gets underway; Out of Sight plays for free this Friday night on Governors Island.
Roxy Cinema
35mm prints of Casino and Visconti’s The Damned screen, while Party Girl and Brick and Mirror show in 4K restorations.
Metrograph
Documentary filmmaker Tom Palazzolo is subject of a rare retrospective.
Film Forum
Godard’s Contempt and Midnight Cowboy play in 4K restorations.
Museum of the Moving Image
The original Star Wars trilogy, Roger Rabbit, and An American Werewolf in London play in a summer movie series, while a print of The Royal Tenenbaums screens on Saturday and Sunday; The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms also shows.
Anthology Film Archives
Eight films by Nagisa Ōshima, one of the greatest Japanese directors, are subject of a retrospective.
Film at Lincoln Center
As The Mother and the Whore continues in a 4K restoration, the full Jean Eustache retrospective gets underway; Out of Sight plays for free this Friday night on Governors Island.
Roxy Cinema
35mm prints of Casino and Visconti’s The Damned screen, while Party Girl and Brick and Mirror show in 4K restorations.
Metrograph
Documentary filmmaker Tom Palazzolo is subject of a rare retrospective.
Film Forum
Godard’s Contempt and Midnight Cowboy play in 4K restorations.
Museum of the Moving Image
The original Star Wars trilogy, Roger Rabbit, and An American Werewolf in London play in a summer movie series, while a print of The Royal Tenenbaums screens on Saturday and Sunday; The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms also shows.
- 7/6/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Beginning in the early 1960s, one of the main venues where audiences could watch underground films outside of New York City was the midnight movie screening series called Underground Cinema 12.
The origins of Underground Cinema 12 were related by one of its founders, Mike Getz, to the Alternative Projections historical project. Getz was the manager of the Cinema Theater in Hollywood, California when he was approached by John Fles, who had been holding alternative cinema screenings around Los Angeles, such as in the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural centers.
Fles had the idea to run a regular midnight movie screening series in an actual movie theater, which Getz quickly agreed to host. The Cinema Theater typically ran foreign films and independent cinema, so screening underground films at midnight seemed like a good match. Initially, the series was called Movies ‘Round Midnight and it premiered on Columbus Day 1963 with a screening of Jack Smith‘s Flaming Creatures,...
The origins of Underground Cinema 12 were related by one of its founders, Mike Getz, to the Alternative Projections historical project. Getz was the manager of the Cinema Theater in Hollywood, California when he was approached by John Fles, who had been holding alternative cinema screenings around Los Angeles, such as in the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural centers.
Fles had the idea to run a regular midnight movie screening series in an actual movie theater, which Getz quickly agreed to host. The Cinema Theater typically ran foreign films and independent cinema, so screening underground films at midnight seemed like a good match. Initially, the series was called Movies ‘Round Midnight and it premiered on Columbus Day 1963 with a screening of Jack Smith‘s Flaming Creatures,...
- 1/20/2019
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Get your beret and warm up the espresso! Some of the most famous deep-dish art film is here -- in HD -- starting with attempts to translate various art 'isms' to the screen, to graphics-oriented abstractions, to 'city symphonies' to the dream visions of Maya Deren and beyond. The careful remasters reproduce proper projection speeds and original music. Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 Blu-ray + DVD Flicker Alley 1920-1970 / B&W and Color / 1:33 full frame / 418 min. / Street Date October 6, 2015 / 59.95 With films by James Agee, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, Stan Brakhage, James Broughton, Rudolph Burckhardt, Mary Ellen Bute, Joseph Cornell, Jim Davis, Maya Deren, Marcel Duchamp, Emien Etting, Oksar Fischinger, Robert Florey, Amy Greenfield, A. Hackenschmied, Alexander Hammid, Hillary Harris, Hy Hirsh, Ian Hugo, Lawrence Janiac, Lawrence Jordan, Owen Land, Francis Lee, Fernand Léger, Helen Levitt, Jan Leyda, Janice Loeb, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Dudley Murphy, Ted Nemeth, Bernard O'Brien,...
- 10/6/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation have awarded their annual Avant-Garde Masters Grants for 2012. The overall grant award, which equals $50,000, will help restore and preserve an impressive selection of classic experimental and avant-garde films from the 1950s and ’60s by five legendary underground filmmakers: Mike Kuchar, Gregory Markopoulos, Ian Hugo, Aldo Tambellini and Jud Yalkut.
This year’s grant award will be split among five different archivist organizations, each one working on a different filmmaker’s work.
Three filmmakers will have one film each preserved: The Temenos will be preserving Cycle VII of Gregory J. Markopoulos’ epic 22-cycle film Eniaios; Anthology Film Archives will be preserving one of Mike Kuchar‘s more obscure works, Green Desire (1965); and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be preserving Jud Yalkut’s Planes (1968), which features choreography by Trisha Brown.
Meanwhile, the Library of Congress has been awarded the opportunity to preserve...
This year’s grant award will be split among five different archivist organizations, each one working on a different filmmaker’s work.
Three filmmakers will have one film each preserved: The Temenos will be preserving Cycle VII of Gregory J. Markopoulos’ epic 22-cycle film Eniaios; Anthology Film Archives will be preserving one of Mike Kuchar‘s more obscure works, Green Desire (1965); and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be preserving Jud Yalkut’s Planes (1968), which features choreography by Trisha Brown.
Meanwhile, the Library of Congress has been awarded the opportunity to preserve...
- 4/18/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Independent documentary filmmaker Tom Palazzolo‘s 2000 film Down Clark Street is now available for the iPad via a new app. The film is a nostalgic vision of Palazzolo’s hometown, Chicago, that combines vintage images of the Windy City with more modern footage. The filmmaker describes the film as “a chronicle of a time past and sometimes humorous look at the forgotten characters of the down and out Clark street of old.”
With entry into the regular iTunes store nearly impossible for truly independent filmmakers without major distribution representation, the new way to get indie and underground movies onto mobile devices seems to be through apps. Down Clark Street‘s web app mobile distribution is being handled by a new company called appLESAUZE, which is releasing artistic films via applications.
Founded by artists Anthony Thompson Shumate and Robert Ziebell, appLESAUZE is producing interactive art productions and independent films for the...
With entry into the regular iTunes store nearly impossible for truly independent filmmakers without major distribution representation, the new way to get indie and underground movies onto mobile devices seems to be through apps. Down Clark Street‘s web app mobile distribution is being handled by a new company called appLESAUZE, which is releasing artistic films via applications.
Founded by artists Anthony Thompson Shumate and Robert Ziebell, appLESAUZE is producing interactive art productions and independent films for the...
- 8/22/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Jan. 29
3:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 37 Street
Astoria, NY 11106
Hosted by: Museum of the Moving Image
Meditative contemplation gives way to barbaric chaos in this selection of classic avant-garde and experimental films from 1947 to 1976. Several of the makers and one of the stars of these short movies will be in attendance at the screening. They are: Millicent Brower, Larry Gottheim, and Carolee Schneemann.
What’s also interesting about this particular lineup is that not only do the films go from meditation to chaos, but their order is close to being neatly chronological. The most meditative film, Untitled by Norman Mailer, is from 1947 while the most chaotic, Jerry’s by Tom Palazzolo, is from 1976. Is that an unconscious statement about the historical progression of avant-garde film?
The screening will also repeat on Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. The full lineup is below:
Untitled, dir. Norman Mailer,...
3:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 37 Street
Astoria, NY 11106
Hosted by: Museum of the Moving Image
Meditative contemplation gives way to barbaric chaos in this selection of classic avant-garde and experimental films from 1947 to 1976. Several of the makers and one of the stars of these short movies will be in attendance at the screening. They are: Millicent Brower, Larry Gottheim, and Carolee Schneemann.
What’s also interesting about this particular lineup is that not only do the films go from meditation to chaos, but their order is close to being neatly chronological. The most meditative film, Untitled by Norman Mailer, is from 1947 while the most chaotic, Jerry’s by Tom Palazzolo, is from 1976. Is that an unconscious statement about the historical progression of avant-garde film?
The screening will also repeat on Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. The full lineup is below:
Untitled, dir. Norman Mailer,...
- 1/27/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Heading into its 18th year in 2011, the Chicago Underground Film Festival is the longest-running underground film festival in the world. It used to be tied with the New York Underground Film Festival — both were started in 1994 — until Nyuff closed up shop in 2008.
In 1994, the Internet wasn’t the big promotional tool it is today so neither Nyuff nor Cuff that year had a website; or, if they did, those pages have since vanished off the web. So, details about what these fests screened in their first years have been sketchy. Well, until now for Cuff.
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I recently discovered that the alternative newsweekly the Chicago Reader had posted up the entire, full lineup of the first annual Chicago Underground Film Festival.
So, I copied that info and reformatted it into the style of Bad Lit’s traditional film festival lineups, which...
In 1994, the Internet wasn’t the big promotional tool it is today so neither Nyuff nor Cuff that year had a website; or, if they did, those pages have since vanished off the web. So, details about what these fests screened in their first years have been sketchy. Well, until now for Cuff.
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I recently discovered that the alternative newsweekly the Chicago Reader had posted up the entire, full lineup of the first annual Chicago Underground Film Festival.
So, I copied that info and reformatted it into the style of Bad Lit’s traditional film festival lineups, which...
- 12/9/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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