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January 28, 2008

Pencil This In

THEATER: Lisa Kron’s solo play 2.5 Minute Ride, which won an OBIE when it premiered at the Public Theater in 1999, is currently being revived with Nicole Golden as the autobiographical “Lisa.” The play concerns Lisa's attempts to make a documentary about the life of her father, a German Jew who survived the Holocaust but lost his parents at Auschwitz. 2.5 Minute Ride finds him, in his later years, a blind diabetic with a heart condition and a passion for roller coasters. Allison Taylor deems it as comical as it is intense; a “patchwork of anecdotes about Kron's family, including memories of her Midwestern mother; an annual trip with her embarrassing relatives to the Cedar Point amusement park; and her brother's Orthodox wedding
 genuinely poignant and simultaneously funny.” - John Del Signore

7pm // Altered Stages [212 W 29th St] // Tickets cost $18

200801chatterley.jpgMOVIE: Lady Chatterley, Pascale Ferran's 2006 film based upon D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is screening at MoMA tonight, with Ferran on hand. "Ferran's adaptation of John Thomas and Lady Jane, the remarkably different second version of Lawrence's celebrated and notorious novel, is cinema at its most sensuous, tactile, and intelligent." The movie is in French, so get ready to read some subtitles. (Pictured: Marina Hands.)

7pm // MoMA, The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater [11 West 53 St]

Filmmaker Jem Cohen is in Williamsburg tonight to screen his 2004 film Chain and 1996's Lost Book Found: "In Chain (2004), malls, theme parks, hotels, and corporate centers worldwide are joined into one monolithic ‘superlandscape’. One city blends into the next; it is increasingly hard to tell where you are. In Lost Book Found (1996) the quotidian remnants of commerce are explored through extreme close-ups. Debris, leaflets, coins and advertisements of the cityscape are revealed. Cohen uses film, and in particular super 8, as a tool to bring his subjects into view while at the same time distancing them from us." He will also show some shorts, and be available for a Q&A.

7:30pm // The Change You Want To See Gallery [84 Havemeyer St] // Free

COMEDY: It's the last night of Human Giant's run at UCB and for die hard comedy fans, you might be able to get in through the stand-by line. Aziz, Rob and Paul will be inviting John Oliver and Melinda Hill to the stage tonight. Season 2 of their show airs March 11th on MTV, so if you miss tonight -- you can catch them on the small screen soon enough. UPDATE: Looks like there will be a couple more shows after all, including one on February 11th with Kelly Kapoor from The Office!

11pm // UCB Theater [307 W 26th St] // Free

MUSIC: While reading this review of Apes & Androids (totally amazing) cd release show, one thing struck us as being especially true: "A&A is sexy, shifty, silly; Vampire Weekend is limp-dicked, straightforward, dull." The comparison is being made because each band has Columbia alums in it, the latter, however, seems to tout it every chance they get as if it has something to do with the music they're creating. But hey, we realize that A LOT of people like this band, so we'd like to point those people to Virgin Megastore tonight. That's right, Columbia grads and buzz band du jour, Vampire Weekend, will be playing a free show prior to their sold out Bowery show tomorrow night.

11:30pm // Virgin Megastore Union Square [52 E 14th St] // Free

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Comments (2)

"Rich preppies co-opt black caribbean music". I don't think you could come up with a description of music that could repel me from listening to it more effectively.

Doesn't Vampire Weekend seem more appropriate to be the house band at a seafood restaurant in the hamptons rather than playing mercury lounge or wherever?

 

I think maybe my mother and I are the only two people who loathed that version of Lady Chatterley. I've never walked out of a movie before, and I've seen some pretty damn awful movies. Even the sex was boring.

 
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