Results tagged “internationalfilmfestival”

July 19 - 28, Asia Society

Brooklyn Academy of Music

MUSIC: You know summer is just around the corner when the Seaport Music Festival has their first show of the season. Tonight Animal Collective, Danielson and XXXChange (Spank Rock) will all be on Pier 17 for a FREE show! Come, drink, listen.

Even though we are way way past school age, we still get a little melancholy at the close of summer. Fortunately, our friends across the -ist network know that the shenanigans don't need to end just because the big yellow buses are back on the roads. So, grab your sunscreen and your favorite hangover cure, as we take a tour of end of summer fun from -ist cities all over the damn place.

If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week.

has been building. Maybe it's merely the oddity of combining Garrison Keillor's radio program, Altman's usual troop of amazing character actors and the teen starlet that has people intrigued but it finally hits general theatrical release. Besides a blonde LIndsay trying to hold her own with the likes of Lily Tomlin and Kevin Kline, it should be fun to see Streep behind the mic, as apparently she and many other cast members sing in the film.

• A pedestrian in Harlem was killed by a police car that was en route to another call; public outrage at police tactics to come.
• Despite rising gas prices, the Taxi and Limousine Commission will not raise fares for cabs.
• Screw separation between church and state: A federal judge ruled that NYC schools should allow religious groups to rent space for their meetings.

Gorman Bechard, Director and Screenwriter, You Are Alone, Novelist

Aaron Lubarsky,
co-director/editor,
Seoul Train

cast member from his lack of Academy Award accolades this year, but really the continually overlooked one is Sandra Oh.

Buboo Kakati, Filmmaker

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Tonight BIFF is giving you an authentic, 70's style drive-in movie going experience, complete with a car of your choosing (to sit in for the duration, not to keep). There will be 30 cars you can pick from, including BMWs, Mini Coopers and Toyota Prius gas/electric hybrids (courtesy of Zipcar).