Insert obligatory phoenix metaphor here: Brooklyn’s Freebird, the used book and corn dogs mecca that closed earlier this year, is set to re-emerge a little later this week from The Embers of Gentrification. While the NY Magazine article linked in that last sentence is about the real estate debacle of Red Hook, the shuttered Freebird, which is technically in Cobble Hill, is sometimes considered (with restaurants like Alma) to be an extension of that troubled......

Remakes and sequels and genre formula, oh my! February is a great month for releasing exactly what the studios think the people will pay to see and this week's release schedule is a textbook example of this development by marketing focus group strategy. Oh well, doesn't mean Gothamist is ready to give up on moviegoing quite yet. Here's a few suggestions to guide your weekend viewing. Of the offerings that are new in wide release......

There's a full week of screenings ahead at the 43rd New York Film Festival, including three of the most anticipated American films in the entire program. But as we also mentioned in the most recent Weekly Movie Guide, tonight at 7:30 PM is a very special sidebar event at the Walter Reade Theater: "Greeneland: Graham Greene and the Cinema", a presentation/lecture/screening organized by Adrian Wootton, the former Director of the London Film Festival and current......

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For the next week, Film Forum is showing a restored print of The Third Man, the great 1949 noir film based on the book by Graham Greene. This is one of Gothamist's favorite movies, not only because it's a wonderfully twisting story set in post WWII Vienna, but because of Joseph Cotten who plays the protagonist, a Westerns writer named Holly Martins. Cotten was friends with Orson Welles (who plays Harry Lime in The......

I've been waiting for this since I read Graham Greene's The Quiet American this past summer: A Jaded Affair in a Vietnam Already at War......