The Brooklyn Academy of Music kicked off their fourth season of Eat Drink & Be Literary last night at the BAMcafé. The sold-out event revolved around author George Saunders, a craftsman of absurdly hilarious short story and essays that lovingly lift American consumerism and mass media to surreal heights. His laugh-out-loud short story Pastoralia, for instance, concerns a man and a woman portraying full-time troglodytes in a theme park exhibit. In 2006, Saunders, who has......

The New Decade: Hong Kong Film BAM Cinématek A pervasive theme in the films coming out of the prolific national cinema of Hong Kong has been their transfer over to China in 1997. The Brooklyn Academy of Music is putting a spotlight on this preoccupation in their current series The New Decade: Hong Kong Film. Running through the end of next weekend, the series offers a number of intriguing prospects made in the last 10......

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. City offices, post offices and other government buildings are closed today in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Public schools are closed, as well. Some offices are closed today, too, and there are a number of events to participate in. The Brooklyn Academy of Music has its 21st Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which includes a musical celebration and special guests like Senator......

Just in case you haven't been keeping up on this, movies from Korea are the new "It" Asian cinema. Leading the way in this art house trend is the work of director Chan Wook Park whose film, OldBoy won the Grand Jury Prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival. The Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemas will be doing a mini-festival of Park's films this weekend and OldBoy, set to be released theatrically later in......

Always a film writer whose approach to criticism places the movies within their cultural context, it makes sense that J. Hoberman of the Village Voice would be interested in political movies during an election year. Tonight at BAM Cinemathéque he will present films that "give an insider’s look into America’s presidential campaigns." At 6:50 pm will be a feature, Four More Years directed by TVTV Collective (1972) with the short, Campaign Manager (1964), directed by......