Velvet Underground: Under Review and Recently Released Super 8 films
The Velvet Underground Under Review is a documentary reviewing the influential collective, a band that Lester Bangs claims started modern music. It features performances as well as “obscure footage,” interviews and photographs of and with Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison and John Cale. I keep falling asleep watching it, personally–but maybe someone out... [ Read More → ]
We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-makers’ Co-op at Microscope Gallery
2/11/12 to 3/5/12 Opening Reception Saturday 2/11, 7-9PM preceded by special 5PM screening of rare shorts by Jack Smith MICROSCOPE Gallery, 4 Charles Place, Bushwick We Are Cinema is a month-long exhibit and screening series celebrating 50 years of the Film-Makers’ Co-op in NYC. It was in January of 1962 that filmmaker Jonas Mekas called... [ Read More → ]
Merce Cunningham, “Legacy Tour” final presentation at Next Wave Festival
If you missed the Legacy Tour this summer at the Joyce, now’s your (last) chance to catch these treasures in situ. A historic happening, BAM’s presentation of The Legacy Tour offers US audiences a final chance to see these large-scale repertory works performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company before the group’s disbandment at the... [ Read More → ]