Results tagged “aclockworkorange”

MOVIE: Delve into the mind and life of H.L. “Doc” Humes (pictured) in a documentary by his daughter. Titled Doc, the 96-minute film focuses in on the counterculture icon. "In the 1950s and early '60s, Doc co-founded The Paris Review, wrote two acclaimed novels, and was a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London and New York. Doc was a 1950s NYC intellectual, a 60s free speech militant, and a 70s visionary crazy genius. His story is the story of decades of cultural history, a poignant personal long-strange-trip, and a fount of ever-relevant ideas." Tonight Immy Humes (filmmaker) will be at the 8pm screening, and tomorrow night she will be joined by Paul Auster. More info here.

Museum of the Moving Image, Queens

EVENT: Talking Head David Bryne joins Elizabeth Diller, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, for a talk about new tendencies and relationships between architecture and music. Christopher Janney moderates. More information here.

EVENT: Housing works is opening their new store in Brooklyn today. With great events and thrifty finds and a way to support the HIV-positive homeless community, it's nice to see the store is expanding.

THEATER: Perhaps even more challenging than producing a play in 24 hours, as in the well-known series mentioned yesterday, is writing a good play that lasts only 8 minutes. Maybe that's why Turtle Shell Productions calls their challenges to playwrights from around the country to do just that "8 Minute Madness." Plays are performed in groups of nine and judged by both audience members and a panel of theater people, and are advancing now toward the finale. - Mallory Jensen

The police are saying that a box cutting attack on three Asian men may have been racially motivated. The NY Times reports that three men were heading into the Gramercy Restaurant at 184 Third Avenue (at 17th Street) around 4:30AM when they were greeted with the racial slur for Chinese people (we assume "chink") as well as "mock karate moves" by two Hispanic men on the sidewalk. Then, when the Asian men left the restaurant at 5:15AM, the two men, plus a friend, attacked them , with one of the men slashing them ("one in the face, one in the neck and one in the back"). The victims' injuires were minor, but the police have not been able to find the attackers. Now, Gramercy would be considered one of the safer neighborhoods in the Manhattan, but at 4:30AM, anything goes, we guess. But there is something sadly A Clockwork Orange about these recent stories - Imette St. Guillen's murder, the killing of Edwin Hammond for his cellphone by 13 year-olds. And the Times got a "this stuff doesn't happen in this 'hood" quote from someone who lives upstairs from the restaurant: "I eat here all the time, like three times a week. If it wasn't safe, I wouldn't live here."

There's voting for a Guilty Pleasure Movie to be screened at Pier 25 on Friday, May 7. Included are A Clockwork Orange, Evil Dead 2, Fletch, Re-Animator, Rushmore, The Jerk, and more. While Gothamist loves Rushmore, Dazed and Confused is our guilty pleasure movie of choice.

Oh, and apparently the New England Patriots won over North Carolina.