Movies at Alice Tully Hall

Steven Tsuchida Alice Tully Hall is where many films for The New York Film Festival are screened, and for the first year, where New Directors/New Films is taking place. Friday night, I saw Infernal Affairs, a part of New Directors/New Films, there. The short film, The Ninja Pays Half My Rent, directed by Steven Tsuchida, Mindy's good friend and someone I had worked with at Bright Sun, got a wonderful reception. After the films, Steven found himself talking to other filmmakers, receiving praise, and signing a few autographs.

Alice Tully Hall is a great venue, if not a perfect one for viewing films. Seating 1,096, there's a stage as well as box seating (my issues with viewing films there have to do with the boxes - the angle is too extreme - but it was meant to be a music hall; also, the lights for the exits are too bright). What's cool during ND/NF (showing here, while the MoMA is being renovated and New York Film Festival is that after the film is screened, if the director is present, a house light shines on a box on the right and everyone claps and cheers for the director. And since it's a pretty intimate space, it makes you feel connected to the movie in another way.

Over the past few years, I've seen quite a few films at Alice Tully, mostly through the New York Film Festival. I've also seen some interesting film-related talks there too, with speakers like Oliver Stone, Christopher Hitchens, Christine Vachon, Bob Shaye, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, and Steven Spielberg. My fondness of Alice Tully Hall also stems from the fact that by now, I know the optimal seats for movie viewing as well as talk participation (upstairs, first row, for viewing; within the first 15 rows for a discussion).

Movies I've seen at Alice Tully Hall (2000-present):
Chunhyang
Brother from NYFF 2000 House of Mirth
Circle
Brother
Comedy of Innocence
In the Mood for Love
Faithless
Before Night Falls
What Time is There?
The Lady and the Duke
The Royal Tenenbaums
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Man Without A Past from NYFF 2002 Fat Girl
Waking Life
The Man Without a Past
AutoFocus
Punch Drunk Love
Raising Victor Vargas
Infernal Affairs
My Architect
And I'll be seeing Camp later.

Alice Tully Hall

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment, Miscellaneous, News on March 30, 2003 4:31 PM

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Ariella

I saw Oliver STone speak in 2001 at Brown. He was a complete nutjob. After arriving an hour late he started his speech by saying he had to make it short because he had a plane to catch back to New York and he didn't want to "get stuck in this place." (It happened to be one of those stunningly gorgeous Providence days.) Other choice quotes in his rambling, shoddily improvised speech included his description of his upbringing as "the best childhood I ever had," and a spontaneous non sequiter tirade on why pot should be legal.

sakana

oh god. magenta socks. well, at least he didn't, you know, rant against women, or something.

Jen

1) Tony Leung rules in Infernal Affairs. He totally sinks into his characters and his eyes do so much.

2) Oliver Stone was, in fact, a little nuts at the "Making Movies That Matter" discussion in fall 2001. The whole discussion was nuts, actually, since it was a few weeks after September 11. Christopher Hitchens, though, was far crazier. Oliver Stone would at times slump in his chair, scrunch up his beet red frustrated face, and reveal that he was wearing magenta socks.

sakana

1)i so love tony leung (the tony leung who wasn't in the lover). how magnificent was he in infernal affairs?

2)please tell me olive stone wasn't a huge asshole when you saw him speak. thank you.

Sam

Something I've been wondering about since watching "The Ninja Pays Half My Rent,": if Steven Tsuchida has ever seen the The Official Ninja Webpage. http://www.realultimatepower.net/ It's one of the funniest websites out there and has been passed around by mass e-mails for at least a year or two. The website inspired a lot of bad imitation webpages trying to cop the same kind of humor and attitude. Also, I think the use of the word "Sweet" back into our vernacular was in some way result of this website.