Joyride is one of more than ten food trucks that will be pulling into Colonel’s Row on Governors Island on September 5 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Colonel’s Row, Governors Island
Sunday, September 5, free, 12 noon – 5:00 pm
www.meanredproductions.com
www.govisland.com
Back on Memorial Day, the folks at Mean Red Productions kicked off the summer season with Parked, a gathering of many of the city’s best food trucks, all anchored at BKLYN Yard on Carroll St. To close the season, Parked will travel to Governors Island on September 5, where people can partake in the delicious delights of such mobile food servers as the Jamaican Dutchy, Rickshaw Dumpling, Green Pirate Juice, Joyride, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream, Halo Berlin, Cinnamon Snail, Kelvin Natural Slush, and Hermelinda Mexicana. There will also be local craft beer, live music, DJ sets, and other activities. So forget about checking all those websites and twitter feeds to figure out where your favorite food truck is; on Sunday, it’s most likely on Governors Island.
Based on a magazine serial by Jack Finney, Don Siegel’s 1956 classic, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, was the ultimate thriller about cold war paranoia. Twenty-two years later, in a nation just beginning to come to grips with the failure of the Vietnam War, Philip Kaufman (THE RIGHT STUFF, QUILLS) remade the film, moving the location north to San Francisco from the original’s Los Angeles. When health inspector Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) and lab scientist Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) suspect that people, while they sleep, are being replaced by pod replicas, they have a hard time making anyone believe them, especially Dr. David Kibner (Leonary Nimoy), who takes the Freudian route instead. But when Jack and Nancy Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartwright) seem to come up with some physical proof, things begin to get far mores serious — and much more dangerous. Kaufman’s film is one of the best remakes ever made, paying proper homage to the original while standing up on its own, with an unforgettable ending (as well as an unforgettable dog). It cleverly captures the building selfishness of the late 1970s, which would lead directly into the Reagan era. As an added treat, the film includes a whole bunch of cameos, including Siegel as a taxi driver, Robert Duvall as a priest, and Kevin McCarthy, who starred as Dr. Miles Bennell in the original, still on the run, trying desperately to make someone believe him. The sc-fi thriller is screening at the Rubin as part of the museum’s Memento Mori series, being held in conjunction with the exhibition “Remember That You Will Die,” and will be introduced by Georgia Clark.
