Coming to Brooklyn’s indieScreen tomorrow, Friday, June 17: BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN
Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky’s look at the Atlantic Yards development debacle took home two awards earlier this month at the Brooklyn Film Festival and now embarks on a one-week hometown theatrical run.
For my take on the film, click here.
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Brooklyn’s Northside Festival is the third of three posts on events beginning in NYC tomorrow. Now in its third year, the event, organized by The L Magazine, spotlights music, film, art, and ideas – a sort of mini-SXSW in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Running June 16-19, there’s a little bit of something for everyone.
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In this second of three postings about NYC based festivals beginning tomorrow, I’m looking at the non-fiction offerings of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. A mainstay for over twenty years, HRWIFF has separate events in NYC and London, with a selection of films from those lineups included in a traveling festival screening around the US and Canada. The NYC festival brings 18 films to the Film Society of Lincoln Center through the end of the month.
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In the first of three postings today about NYC festivals all starting this week, we’ll start with BAMcinemaFEST. Now in its third year, this BAM Rose Cinemas based event begins tomorrow and runs through June 26. More or less a successor to Sundance at BAM, which ran for three editions, this popular Brooklyn event features a great selection of strong films culled from top fests, including but no longer limited to Sundance – many films this year made their debuts at Berlin and SXSW. In addition, the fest features special retro and outdoor screenings.
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Coming to POV next Tuesday, June 21: KINGS OF PASTRY
Documentary masters Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker turn their attention to the most important pastry competition in the world in this film, which had a great fest run last fall and went on to a limited theatrical release.
I posted about this film on the eve of its theatrical release last fall here.
To find out more about the POV screening on PBS, click here.
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Coming to NYC’s Angelika Film Center and to the brand new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at the Film Society of Lincoln Center as its inaugural first-run release this Friday, June 17: PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES
Andrew Rossi premiered his behind-the-scenes look at our nation’s premiere newspaper this January at Sundance (with a slightly longer subtitle) and has taken it to a number of other festivals leading up to its theatrical release this week.
For my pre-Sundance profile on the film, click here.
The doc will expand to additional cities through the end of July – for additional locations and dates, click here.
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The director of THAT MAN: PETER BERLIN takes an appreciative look at another figure who is synonymous with the cinematic depiction of frank gay male sexuality in the immediate post-Stonewall era.
Director Jim Tushinski’s previous film (which premiered in Berlin in 2005 and had a theatrical release after its run on the LGBT film festival circuit) served as both a tribute to a gay erotic icon and an introduction to younger generations of gay men who were not familiar with Peter Berlin. His new film, DIRTY POOLE, seems likely to do the same for Wakefield Poole. Poole directed features from the early 1970s until the mid 1980s, most famously the sexually-explicit gay adult films BOYS IN THE SAND and its sequel and BIJOU (available on DVD packaged together as THE WAKEFIELD POOLE COLLECTION – note: NSFW link). Taking advantage of the post-sixties era new openness and newly identifiable out audience, Poole’s films celebrated gay male sexuality and brought these images to theatrical release in major urban centers. Tushinski film explores these contributions to gay cinema while providing more of a context for the filmmaker, who he notes didn’t see himself as a pornographer despite the graphic content of his work – before filmmaking, in fact, Poole was a ballet dancer and a Broadway choreographer, so filmmaking was as much an artistic expression as those endeavors. DIRTY POOLE aims to capture the fullness of Poole’s life and legacy and its specific impact on gay male culture.
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Coming to NYC’s IFC Center next Friday, June 17: BUCK
Having taken the festival circuit by storm since its world premiere at Sundance in January, where it took home the US Documentary Audience Award, Cindy Meehl’s profile of Buck Brannaman, the inspiration for the Horse Whisperer, comes to NYC for its theatrical run.
For my pre-Sundance take on the film, click here.
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A pair of films on the same unusual subject – the Colony Collapse Disorder plaguing bees – are coming to audiences this month:
Coming to NYC’s Cinema Village this Friday, June 10 and indieScreen on Friday, June 24: QUEEN OF THE SUN
Coming to VOD (including Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Playstation, Cinemanow, and Xbox) on Tuesday, June 21: VANISHING OF THE BEES
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Coming to HBO for its cable premiere this Monday, June 13: A MATTER OF TASTE: SERVING UP PAUL LIEBRANDT
Sally Rowe made her feature directorial debut with this winning profile of the fall and rise of wunderkind chef Liebrandt. The film has screened at SXSW, Full Frame, and Tribeca in the last few months, prior to its cable premiere as part of the HBO Documentary Films Summer Series.
I wrote about the film when it premiered in competition at SXSW here.
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