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Wednesdays at 7:15
Helvetica Jan.
16 Opening Night Celebration!
Q&A w/Michael Beirut & Peter
Scherer. Jazz, food and live art event.
Alice Neel Jan. 23 w/Andrew
Neel
A Walk into the Sea Jan.
30 w/Esther Robinson & Thom Powers
Shadow of the House Feb.
6 w/Allie Humenuk
F For Fake Feb.
13 w/Catherine Benamou & Vicente Rodriguez Ortega
C’est de l’Art Feb.
20
Salvador Dali Makes Movies Feb.
27 w/Robert Lubar
Members of the Katonah Museum
of Art, the Hudson River Museum, and the Neuberger Museum: Bring
your membership card and receive the JBFC member discount for one
ticket to each program in this series.
Series sponsored by
Group Tickets are available for this event. Click Here for
a flyer to print out for your organization (pdf).
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Opening Night, Wed. Jan.
16 at 7:15
Film, Food, Jazz & Live Art
HELVETICA
Gary Hustwit. 2007. 80 min. NR. UK.
"One of the most slyly intelligent
and quietly captivating documentaries of the year." (Time
Out London)
Perhaps the most influential
expression of sleek, bold modernism is hidden in plain
sight: the 50-year-old typeface called Helvetica. Found
everywhere everyday - in ads and logos, on street and
subway signs - it’s the ultimate in cool. Not just
for font geeks, Hustwit’s thoroughly engaging film
interweaves the history of Helvetica with passionate
debate from graphic designers on the typeface’s
political implications: Do its clean letters, proportions,
and spacing inspire confidence, fairness, even perfection
- or feed the impulse toward conformity and the corporate
mindset?
Q&A: Michael Bierut, who is featured in
the film, has won hundreds of awards including graphic
design’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal. He’s
a partner at the renowned firm Pentagram, as well as
an author and founding writer of the Design Observer blog.
His work is in the collections of MoMA and the Cooper-Hewitt.
He’ll be interviewed by Peter Scherer,
a partner at the H Plus design firm and trustee of
the Village of Pleasantville.
A Celebration! Join
us after the screening for good food, live jazz by Steve,
Edie & Friends, and an art happening in which the
collaborative group e.y.e (erase your ego) will spontaneously
paint a series of canvases on the theme of typefaces. Come
watch e.y.e get to work before the film, and stay afterward
to party and bid on the finished paintings as we kick
off this annual series.
Reception provided by Mrs. Green’s Natural
Market.
Tickets: $15 (members), $20 (nonmembers) |
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ALICE NEEL Wed.
Jan. 23 at 7:15
Andrew Neel. 2007. 82 min. NR. US. Arthouse
Films.
Alice Neel’s (1900–84) psychologically
keen, boldly executed paintings of varied subjects - from Red Grooms,
Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg to her neighbors in Spanish Harlem
- formed a body of work that "made portraiture into something
vitally modern" (New York Times). She was at once
charming and elusive, intelligent and troubled - a complicated
figure wholly dedicated to her work. Neel’s grandson has
assembled footage of painting sessions, home movies, and interviews
with family members to create an intimate portrait of the artist
in all her utterly human contradictions.
Q&A: Andrew Neel has written and directed
five films, including Darkon, which won the
Audience Award for Best Documentary at the SXSW Film
Festival. This is his second feature-length
documentary. |
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A WALK INTO THE SEA: Danny Williams
and the Warhol Factory
Wed. Jan. 30 at 7:15
Esther Robinson. 2007. 75 min. NR. US.
Arthouse Films.
BEST DOCUMENTARY, BERLIN
FILM FESTIVAL.
A deeply personal inquiry into the mysterious
1966 disappearance of filmmaker Danny Williams,
who was Andy Warhol’s lover and director
Esther Robinson’s uncle. Presenting
never-before-seen films made by Williams
during his time at Warhol’s Factory, A
Walk into the Sea makes the case for
him as a pioneer whose cinematic experiments
failed to get their due - not even 15 minutes’ worth.
Robinson’s probing interviews with
Factory members expose the underbelly of
the Warhol scene and the psychic toll it
exacted.
Q&A: Esther Robinson, director/producer of A
Walk into the Sea, is the founder of ArtHome, a
nonprofit that advises artists on finance and home ownership. This
is her directorial debut. Robinson will be interviewed
by Thom Powers, director, documentary
curator for the Toronto film festival, and host of the "Stranger
Than Fiction" documentary series.
Presented in conjunction with "Stranger
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SHADOW OF THE HOUSE
Wed. Feb. 6 at 7:15
Allie Humenuk. 2007. 74 min. NR. US.
Cuban-born photographer Abelardo Morell’s
poignant compositions - of weather-beaten books, inverted images
cast against hotel room walls, children amid toys and other domestic
objects - evoke place, memory, magic, and time’s passing.
Over seven years, filmmaker Humenuk recorded Morell observing
the world around him and getting down to the patient business
of setting up shots to capture fleeting moments of inspiration.
Throughout, Morell feels the powerful tug of his native Cuba.
Returning to Havana after 40 years in exile, he risks opening
rifts with family members to revisit a rich and painful past.
Q&A: Allie Humenuk has worked in the film
and video industry as a cinematographer, director,
producer, and editor for clients including
PBS, National Geographic, MTV, and Discovery. She taught
filmmaking at Harvard for many years and now heads
up AHP, a production company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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F FOR FAKE Wed.
Feb. 13 at 7:15
Orson Welles. 1974. 87 min. NR. France/Iran/West
Germany. Janus Films.
Decades ahead of its time, this freewheeling
documentary/ fiction pastiche, Orson Welles’ last completed
film, is "a charming, witty meditation upon fakery, forgery,
swindling, and art...that may itself be its own Exhibit A" (New
York Times). It’s a look at notorious art forger Elmyr
de Hory and his famously fraudulent biographer, Clifford Irving,
that questions our preconceptions about what’s real, what’s
phony, and whether it really matters in the end. The unreliable
narrator is Welles himself who, declaring "I’m a charlatan," tries
his bag of cinematic tricks on the audience.
Q&A: Catherine Benamou, of the Film and Media
Studies Department at the University of California-Irvine, has
served as curator of the Orson Welles archive at the
University of Michigan. She’s contributed an essay
on F for Fake in a recent anthology, and her
new book, It’s All True: Orson Welles’s
Pan-American Odyssey, reconstructs the history and
the making of the director’s unfinished final film.
She will be interviewed by JBFC faculty member Vicente
Rodriguez Ortega. Book sale follows the discussion. |
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C’EST DE L’ART Wed.
Feb. 20 at 7:15
Pierre Coulibeuf. 1996. 75
min. NR. France, in French with subtitles.
Filmmaker Coulibeuf’s
leisurely, lingering camera and subtle interplay
of color, light, and shadow imbue his films with
a sensation of choreographed movement set to music
and speech. In C’est de l’Art, he
shows 12 contemporary French artists at work in their
studios as each ponders, in voiceover narrative,
what it is about an earlier masterpiece that stirs
his creative imagination. Monet’s Water
Lilies, Van Eyck’s Rolin Madonna, Bonnard’s Nude
in the Bath - every piece described seems shot
through with multiple meanings for artist, filmmaker,
and viewer.
Screening courtesy of Delphine Selles and the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy. |
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Un Chien Andalou
L'Age d'Or
Destino
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SALVADOR DALÍ MAKES MOVIES:
Un Chien Andalou, L'Age d'Or, Destino
Wed. Feb. 27 at 7:15
Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dalí famously collaborated with
Luis Buñuel on two classic films. Their
rule for Un Chien Andalou was that "no
idea or image that might lend itself to a rational
explanation of any kind would be accepted" -
the film’s disturbing imagery and jarring
juxtapositions retain the power to shock. The pair
followed up with the blasphemous L’Age
d’Or, which unleashed a torrent of protest
upon its release. And then there’s Destino, the
product of Dalí’s collaboration with
another genius, Walt Disney. Begun in 1946 and
later abandoned, the mind-bending short was completed
in 2003, when it received an Oscar nomination.
Un Chien Andalou: Luis
Buñuel. 1929. 16 min. NR. France, in French
with subtitles.
Silent, with original music soundtrack. Kino International
L’Age d’Or: Luis
Buñuel. 1930. 30 min. NR. France, in French
with subtitles. Kino International
Destino: Dominique
Monfery. 2003. 7 min. PG. France/US. Buena
Vista.
Q&A: Robert Lubar, Associate Professor,
Institute of Fine Arts/NYU, specializes in
20th-century European art and is the author of books
including Dalí: The Salvador Dalí Museum
Collection. He’s currently editing an essay
collection on Dalí’s "trial" before
the surrealists.
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