Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'stanleykubrick'
June 15, 2007
It's Only A Movie: Horror Films From the 1970s and Today Museum of the Moving Image, Queens Boo! It's time to hide your eyes and scream with delight over at the Museum of the Moving Image, as they'll be showing six weeks worth of old and new horror films starting tonight. You could say that scary stories are always about what metaphorical bogey men society fears most, but that became particularly evident in the horror......
Continue Reading "The Cinecultist's Weekly Repertory Pick: Bump in the Night Edition "June 12, 2007
READING: Today NY Mag asks, "What does Tina Brown have to do to get some attention?" Well tonight she's signing copies of her new book (a tell-all on Princess Di) called The Diana Chronicles. 7pm // Barnes & Noble [33 E 17th St] // Free MUSIC: That band in the bubble, Cartel, that you've undoubtedly already forgotten about, is playing a free show tonight. Go visit the bubble boys, help them re-enter the real world......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In"January 19, 2007
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. 11am to 7pm // Housing Works Thrift Store [122 Montague St, Brooklyn Heights] ART: Photographer Haik Kocharian’s solo show at Robin Rice Gallery is “Isild Le Besco: the Early Years”. Fans of French cinema know Le Besco for her mercurial screen......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In"June 1, 2006
After last week's huge box office take for X-Men, you know that we're in it: the bang-up summer blockbuster season. However, even with all of this energy of over the top new releases in the air there's still some amazing old movies screening this weekend too. So you better get a watchin'. Not content to sit back and let her ex-husband get all of the real relationship/on screen relationship press, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn......
Continue Reading "The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Getting Dumped Edition"January 5, 2006
Ah January. That lovely first month of the year which big Hollywood uses as its annual dumping ground. The Awards eligibility period is over, and now is the time to catch-up on all those films being talked about that came out at the same time over the past few weeks. Still, New Yorkers are lucky as we retain many filmgoing options. Sure you can check-out the latest video game adaptation from hackmeister Uwe Boll, but......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movies: Even in January, There's Plenty to See Here"December 16, 2005
Ah, the ongoing fight between stores that sell adult materials and the neighborhoods that don't want them anymore. A number of stores that sell "adult materials" have successfully appealed a lower court ruling which held up a city law that said any business that sells any bit of porno is an adult business. Previously, the city had allowed stores to operate under a "60/40 rule": If 60% or more of their floor space/inventory was non-porn-related,......
Continue Reading "Porno Stores Try to Stay Stores"December 1, 2005
There's only one major wide release this weekend, and although it stars an Oscar winner, we can pretty much guarantee Paramount isn't expecting any year-end kudos for Aeon Flux. In fact, it looks like the studio is hoping to slyly score a big opening weekend on the draws of Charlize Theron in skintight rubber and fans of the old MTV animated series because they aren't letting critics anywhere near it -- apparently no press screenings......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movies: Tony Leung, the Maysles and a Transgendered weekend on lower 6th Ave."October 15, 2004
In terms of English language filmmaking from the late '60s and early '70s, it's easy to focus on the output from American auteurs but directors from the UK, like Ken Russell, were also amazing innovators. A Ken Russell Retrospective begins tonight at the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens and runs through October 31. Like Stanley Kubrick, Russell started out as a still photographer and it shows in his exquisite compositions. He started......
Continue Reading "Ken Russell Retrospective @ AMMI"


