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RAIN: ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS

Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet) finds himself in a tight squeeze in French Nouvelle Vague noir classic

Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet) finds himself in a tight squeeze in noir classic on cusp of Nouvelle Vague

CABARET CINEMA: ASCENSEUR POUR L’ECHAFAUD (ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS) (Louis Malle, 1957)
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th St. at Seventh Ave.
Friday, June 3, $10, 9:30
212-620-5000
www.rubinmuseum.org

Louis Malle’s first feature-length fiction film, following The Silent World (made with Jacques Cousteau), is a classic French noir that comes with all the trimmings — and was recently restored in an excellent 35mm print with new subtitles. Jeanne Moreau stars as Florence Carala, who is married to ruthless business tycoon Simon (Jean Wall) but is carrying on an affair with Simon’s right-hand man, Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet). Julien plans the perfect murder — or so he thinks, until he has to go back to retrieve a crucial piece of evidence and gets trapped on the elevator. While he struggles to find a way out and Florence waits for him anxiously at a neighborhood bistro, young couple Louis (Georges Poujouly) and Veronique (Yori Bertin) take off in Julien’s convertible and get into some serious trouble of their own. Mistaken identity, cold-blooded killings, jealousy, and one of the greatest film scores ever — by Miles Davis, recorded in one overnight session — make Elevator to the Gallows a splendid debut from one of the world’s finest filmmakers. The film is screening June as part of the Rubin Museum Cabaret Cinema series “Rain,” being held in conjunction with the “Nepalese Seasons: Rain and Ritual” exhibition, and will be introduced by documentarian Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry). The series continues June 10 with Deepa Mehta’s Water, introduced by writer Meera Nair, June 17 with Akira Kurosawa’s Rashômon, and June 24 with Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night.

FREE SUMMER DANCE 2016

Eiko will continue her BODY IN PLACES sojourn at the River to River Festival this summer (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

The free summer dance season is upon us, with presentations in parks all around the city, including participatory programs in addition to companies from across the globe and site-specific projects by local favorites. Bryant Park will be hosting several dance series, while Central Park (and others) has SummerStage and Prospect Park has Celebrate Brooklyn! River to River boasts the most exciting lineup, but you need to reserve your free space in advance. There will also be a handful of cool performances in Socrates Sculpture Park and Hudson River Park as well as at Lincoln Center. You’ll find those and other festivals below; more information will be added as it becomes available.

Wednesday, June 1
Bryant Park Presents Dance Party: Cuban Salsa, with Los Hacheros, Fountain Terrace, 6:00

Saturday, June 4, through Saturday, September 24
Bryant Park Moves with Limon Dance, northeast corner of lawn, Bryant Park, 10:00 am

Wednesday, June 8
Bryant Park Presents Dance Party: Bachata, with Voz a Voz, Fountain Terrace, 6:00

Wednesday, June 15
Bryant Park Presents Dance Party: Forro, with Eliano Braz the Forro Fidler, Fountain Terrace, 6:00

Wednesday, June 15, and Thursday, June 16
Hudson River Dance Festival: Stephen Petronio Company, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, Pier 61 at Chelsea Piers, 6:30

Thursday, June 16
River to River Festival: Chimatek: Chimacloud Control Center, by Saya Woolfalk, installation on display June 16-26, Fulton Center, 7:00

Dance Heginbotham will perform a site specific LMCC commission as part of River to River Festival (photo by Amber Star Merkens)

Friday, June 17
Bryant Park Presents Modern Dance, with Alia Kache/Kachal Dance, BARKIN/SELISSEN PROJECT, and LaneCoArts, Bryant Park Stage, 6:00

River to River Festival: Dance Heginbotham, site-specific commission set to Erno Dohnanyi’s Serenade in C Major for String Trio, solo guitar music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, and the “Fandango” from Luigi Boccherini’s Quintette No. 4 in G Major, III, Winter Garden, Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St., 7:00

Saturday, June 18
SummerStage: Dance on the Lawn, preshow Master Class with Calvin Wiley, Red Hook Park, 7:00

Saturday, June 18, and Sunday, June 19
River to River Festival: A Body in Places, installation by Eiko Otake, Nolan Park, Governors Island, 12 noon – 4:00 pm

River to River Festival: When I Return Who Will Receive Me, by Okwui Okpokwasili, Fort Jay Magazine, Governors Island, 1:30

Sunday, June 19
River to River Festival: A Body on Governors Island, by Eiko Otake, Nolan Park, Governors Island, 4:30

Monday, June 20
River to River Festival: Riff This, Riff That, by Ephrat Asherie Dance, 33 Maiden Lane, 1:00 & 3:00

River to River Festival: The Planet-Eaters: Seconds, by Will Rawls, Diker Pavilion, National Museum of the American Indian, 5:00

Tuesday, June 21
River to River Festival: The Planet-Eaters: Seconds, by Will Rawls, Diker Pavilion, National Museum of the American Indian, 1:00

River to River Festival: Riff This, Riff That, by Ephrat Asherie Dance, 33 Maiden Lane, 1:00 & 3:00

River to River Festival: A Body on Wall Street, by Eiko Otake, Wall & Broad Sts., 5:00

River to River Festival: Chimatek: Chimacloud Control Center, by Saya Woolfalk, installation on display June 16-26, Fulton Center, 7:00

Wednesday, June 22
River to River Festival: A Body on Wall Street, by Eiko Otake, Wall & Broad Sts., 2:00

River to River Festival: The Planet-Eaters: Seconds, by Will Rawls, Diker Pavilion, National Museum of the American Indian, 4:00

Bryant Park Presents Dance Party: Latin Festival, with Grupo Arcano, Pete Nater & Associates, and the New Swing Sextet, Fountain Terrace, 6:00

River to River Festival: R2R Living Rooms, South Street Seaport, 8:30

Thursday, June 23
River to River Festival: Chimatek: Chimacloud Control Center, by Saya Woolfalk, installation on display June 16-26, Fulton Center, 5:00

Friday, June 24, and Saturday, June 25
River to River Festival: The Set Up: Kapila Venu, by Wally Cardona, Jennifer Lacey, and Jonathan Bepler, Melville Gallery, South Street Seaport Museum, 9:00

Jillian Peña’s PANOPTICON takes place at Federal Hall as part of River to River Festival (photo by Ian Douglas)

Thursday, June 23, and Friday, June 24
River to River Festival: Panopticon, by Jillian Peña, Federal Hall, 8:00

Friday, June 24
Bryant Park Presents Modern Dance, with 227 Dance Project, Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance, and Amy Marshall Dance Company, Bryant Park Stage, 6:00

Saturday, June 25
River to River Festival: A Body in Places, installation by Eiko Otake, Nolan Park, Governors Island, 12 noon – 4:00 pm

SummerStage: Brooklyn Dance Festival, with preshow master class with Mr. Kid, Betsy Head Park, 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Philadanco, Prospect Park Bandshell, 8:00

River to River Festival: The Set Up: Kapila Venu, by Wally Cardona, Jennifer Lacey, and Jonathan Bepler, Melville Gallery, South Street Seaport Museum, 8:00

Sunday, June 26
River to River Festival: Panopticon, by Jillian Peña, Federal Hall, 1:00

River to River Festival: An Epilogue for Otro Teatro: True Love, by Luciana Achugar, Front St. between Beekman St. & Peck Slip, 3:00

SummerStage: Christian Cultural Center C3 Choir, Mr. Reed, Boots Step Team, DJ Styff, Betsy Head Park, 4:00

River to River Festival: R2R Living Rooms, South Street Seaport, 6:00

Wednesday, June 29
SummerStage: Screening of A Ballerina’s Tale (Nelson George, 2015), with Jeremy McQueen’s Black Iris Project and preshow panel discussion, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 8:00

Friday, July 1
Bryant Park Presents Modern Dance, with WILLYLAURY&CO., BARE Dance Company, and Sean Curran Company, Bryant Park Stage, 6:00

SummerStage: Maimouna Keita Dance Company, with preshow master class, Herbert Von King Park, 7:00

Saturday, July 2
Hot Summer Nights! On Stage at Kingsborough: The Glenn Crytzer Orchestra with special guest Lindy Hoppers from the Syncopated City Dance Company, Kingsborough Lighthouse Bandshell, 8:00

Thursday, July 7
Gibney dance-mobile — Amy Miller + Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance, Foley Square, 5:30

Friday, July 8
Bryant Park Presents Modern Dance, with Black Boys Dance Too, Adam Barrauch / Anatomiae Occultii, and Cherlyn Lavagnino Dance, Bryant Park Stage, 6:00

Saturday, July 9
Gibney dance-mobile — Amy Miller + Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7:00

Saturday, July 16
Gibney dance-mobile: Excerpts of Gina Gibney’s Duet, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7:00

Sunday, July 17
SummerStage: Legacy Women, Recess Monkey, Music with a Message, Double Dutch Dreamz, St. Mary’s Park, 4:00

Thursday, July 21
Gibney dance-mobile: Excerpts of Gina Gibney’s Duet, Fort Greene Park, 7:30

Celebrate Brooklyn! Camille A. Brown & Dancers: Black Girl: Linguistic Play, Brandee Younger, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Saturday, July 23
Lincoln Center Out of Doors Family Day: Dance Theatre of Harlem Company and School, Josie Robertson Plaza, 1:00

Jamaica Dance Festival: Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company performs Raindrops, On the River of Dreams, Mirage, Coin Stick Dance, The Flying Goddesses, and Song of the Water Lily, Rufus King Park, 6:45

Gibney dance-mobile: Excerpts of Gina Gibney’s Duet, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7:00

Hot Summer Nights! On Stage at Kingsborough: Svetlana & the Delancey Six, with special guest tap star Michela Marino Lerman, Kingsborough Lighthouse Bandshell, 8:00

Sunday, July 24
Lincoln Center Out of Doors — Heritage Sunday Global Beat of the Bronx: From Bambara to Breakbeats, with Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble, Bombazo Dance Company, Chief Joseph Chatoyer Dance Company, and Full Circle Souljahs, Hearst Plaza, 1:00

Wednesday, July 27
SummerStage: Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Carolyn Dorfman, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 8:00

Thursday, July 28
Gibney dance-mobile — Amy Miller + Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance, Hudson River Park’s 14th Street Park, time TBA

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Maurice Hines Tappin’ Thru Life, Michael Mwenso & the Shakes, Damrosch Park, 7:30

Friday, July 29
Suite Summer Festival: Program I, In-Sight Dance, Socrates Sculpture Park, 6:00

Young Dancemakers Company will perform an excerpt by Robert Battle in Socrates Sculpture Park on July 30

Saturday, July 30
Young Dancemakers Company, excerpt by Robert Battle, Socrates Sculpture Park, dancing the art at 2:00, performance at 2:30

Gibney dance-mobile — Amy Miller + Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7:00

Suite Summer Festival: Program II, In-Sight Dance, Socrates Sculpture Park, 3:00

Sunday, July 31
Suite Summer Festival, In-Sight Dance, Socrates Sculpture Park, Program I at 3:00, Program II at 4:00

SummerStage: Marc Cary: The Harlem Jam Sessions, Joseph Webb: Dancing Buddhas, WBGO Kids Jazz with Brianna Thomas & the Jazz Travelers, Queensbridge Park, 4:00

Wednesday, August 3
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca, and Manhattan Camerata: Tango Fado Project featuring Nathalie Pires, Damrosch Park, 7:00

Saturday, August 6
SummerStage: Complexions Contemporary Ballet, preshow master class with Jamel Gaines, Clove Lakes Park, 7:00

Wednesday, August 10
SummerStage: Tamar-kali with ASE Dance Theatre Collective, Nathan Trice Rituals, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 8:00

Saturday, August 13
SummerStage: Carolyn Dorfman, preshow master class with Theresa Lavington, East River Park, 7:00

Sunday, August 14, to Friday, August 19
Battery Dance presents the Battery Dance Festival, Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, 6:30

Thursday, August 18
SummerStage: Tamar-kali with ASE Dance Collective, preshow master class with Calvin Wiley, Marcus Garvey Park, 7:00

Friday, August 19
SummerStage: Nathan Trice Rituals, Harlem School of the Arts Young Dance Alliance, preshow master class with Calvin Wiley, Marcus Garvey Park, 7:00

Saturday, August 20
Battery Dance presents the Battery Dance Festival, closing event and reception, the Schimmel Center at Pace University, free with advance RSVP, 6:00

METFRIDAYS — THE MAXIMUM OUT OF THE MINIMUM: RECONSIDERING NASREEN MOHAMEDI

Nasreen Mohamedi, Untitled, ink and graphite on paper, ca. 1975 (Sikander and Hydari Collection)

The Met Breuer
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.
Friday, June 3, free with suggested museum admission, 6:00
Exhibition continues through June 5
212-731-1675
www.metmuseum.org

The Met Breuer instantly established its own identity in March, when it opened in the old Whitney space with an experimental performance residency by jazz great Vijay Iyer and an eye-opening exhibition on little-known Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi, along with the major show “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible,” which more than hinted at further changes to come at this new outpost. On Friday, June 3, the Met Breuer will host the MetFridays lecture “The Maximum Out of the Minimum: Reconsidering Nasreen Mohamedi,” with University of Washington associate professor Sonal Khullar, artist Seher Shah, and Sheena Wagstaff, Met chairman of the Departments of Modern and Contemporary Art. “It’s an odyssey of an artist who, despite all the difficulties, was intent on creating work that really made a difference, and that is both personally very impressive but was artistically, well, you can see for yourself,” Wagstaff says in the exhibition trailer. The Indian artist’s first U.S. museum retrospective features more than 130 drawings, paintings, photographs, and diaries by Mohamedi, who died in 1990 at the age of fifty-three but continued working to the end of her life despite battling a rare neurological disorder. Mohamedi favored sharp horizontal and diagonal lines, polygonal shapes, and grids that explored light and space. The progression of her career took her from abstract ink-and-watercolor works on paper to gelatin silver prints of outdoor locations with unique linear angles to extraordinary ink-and-graphite drawings that eventually took on a scientific, futuristic quality, very different from what her contemporaries were doing in South Asia and beyond.

Nasreen Mohamedi, Untitled, gelatin silver print, ca. 1972 (Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi)

All of the works are untitled, allowing viewers to supply labels in their own thought processes if they choose. Mohamedi’s creativity and imagination are so compelling, you’re likely to wonder why you’re hearing about her only now, more than a quarter century after her death, although a critical reevaluation has been building over the last ten years. She was inspired by the writings of Rainer Maria Wilke and Albert Camus and the architectural work of Le Corbusier as well as by Kasimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky and fellow Indian artists M. F. Husain, Tyeb Mehta, and V. S. Gaitonde but amassed an oeuvre that was uniquely her own. In her 2014 poetic essay “Elegy for an Unclaimed Beloved,” the artist’s friend Geeta Kapur wrote, in conjunction with a show at the Tate, “Remember Nasreen’s frail limbs, ascetic face, ungendered artist persona. Remember her calling as an unrequited beloved, her narcissistic engagement with her body and the stigmata she barely cared to hide. And always her departing gesture, her return, her masochism and its reward of absurdity and grace. Her continual tracking of a mirage.” You can experience all this more at this beautiful exhibition, with the June 3 panel discussion a happy bonus. “A precise specularity, the flight of an angel shearing space. Then, in the dark night of the soul, where the ejected body persists, Nasreen was content to work with a poverty of means,” Kapur, an influential art critic, adds. “To counter the spectacle of love and of spiritual ambition, she was willing to break apart. She would simply survive, and let the calligraph, the graphic sign, speak.”

FREE SUMMER FILMS 2016

Prince will pull into Brooklyn Bridge Park for free screening of PURPLE RAIN on July 21

There’s nothing quite like catching a free movie in the summer in New York City, lying on a blanket in a park, gathering on an aircraft carrier, or huddling in an air-conditioned theater. Here are the day-by-day listings of favorites as well as lesser-known festivals; keep watching this space as more are announced. So far, you’ll find the following festivals below: the Intrepid Summer Movie Series, Movies with a View in Brooklyn Bridge Park, SummerScreen in McCarren Park, Films on the Green, SummerStage, RiverFlicks in Hudson River Park, Celebrate Brooklyn! in Prospect Park, BAMcinématek’s FAB Flicks at Putnam Triangle Plaza, Alamo Drafthouse’s free series in Fort Greene Park, Rooftop Films (advance RSVP required), the always-packed HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, Outdoor Movie Night in Randall’s Island Park, Outdoor Cinema in Socrates Sculpture Park, Movies Under the Stars in numerous parks, Summer on the Hudson and Hudson RiverFlicks in Hudson River Park, and Movies on the Waterfront in Astoria Park. (Films without exact start times generally begin around sunset.)

Tuesday, May 31
Rooftop Films: The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2016), live music by the Q-Kidz, followed by a Q&A with Holmer, the Elevated Acre, 55 Water St., free with RSVP, 7:30

Movies Under the Stars: Happy Feet (George Miller, 2011), St. Mary’s Park

Wednesday, June 1
Movies Under the Stars: Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015), Flynn Playground

Thursday, June 2
BAMcinématek: FAB Flicks — ’70s Black Cinema: Mahogany (Berry Gordy, 1975), Putnam Triangle Plaza, 22 Putnam Ave., 8:00

Friday, June 3
Alama Drafthouse Free Outdoor Movie Series: quote-along with Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986), Fort Greene Park

Movies Under the Stars: Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnston, 2011), St. Mary’s Park

Arts, Culture & Fun: T-Rex (Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari, 2016), followed by a Q&A with the producer, Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, 7:00

Tuesday, June 7
Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961), preceded by The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1957), Cedar Hill, Central Park, 8:30

Thursday, June 9
BAMcinématek: FAB Flicks — ’70s Black Cinema: Cleopatra Jones (Jack Starrett, 1973), Putnam Triangle Plaza, 22 Putnam Ave., 8:00

Friday, June 10
Rooftop Films — Territory: Short Films about Turf Wars, preceded by live music and followed by a Q&A, Firefighter’s Field, Roosevelt Island, 8:00

Alama Drafthouse Free Outdoor Movie Series: Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003), Fort Greene Park

Movies Under the Stars: Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen, 2015), Crocheron Park

Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Yves Robert, 1973), Washington Square Park, 8:30

Saturday, June 11
Rooftop Films: Sundance Short Films, live music by Alice Cohen, MetroTech Commons, 8:00

Wednesday, June 12
Rooftop Films — The Ties That Bind: Short Films about Families, preceded by live music, MetroTech Commons, 8:00

Monday, June 13
SummerStage: screening of Afripedia and music by DJ Hard Hittin’ Harry, Saratoga Park, 7:00

Thursday, June 16
BAMcinématek: FAB Flicks — ’70s Black Cinema: Claudine (John Berry, 1973), Putnam Triangle Plaza, 22 Putnam Ave., 8:00

Friday, June 17
Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: Air of Paris (Marcel Carné, 1954), Washington Square Park, 8:30

Ferris Bueller will bring friends to several free outdoor screenings this summer in NYC

Ferris Bueller takes the day off so he can bring friends to several free outdoor screenings this summer in NYC

Monday, June 20
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

SummerStage: Screening of In My Father’s House (Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg, 2015), followed by Q&A with film subject Rhymefest, Saratoga Park, 7:00

Thursday, June 23
BAMcinématek: FAB Flicks — ’70s Black Cinema: Friday Foster (Arthur Marks, 1975), Putnam Triangle Plaza, 22 Putnam Ave., 8:00

Friday, June 24
Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: Subway (Luc Besson, 1985), Transmitter Park, 8:30

Saturday, June 25
Rooftop Films: Living Stars (Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat, 2014), preceded by live music, Solar One, 8:00

Sunday, June 26
SummerStage: DJ Gringo and screening of Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess (Roy T. Anderson, 2015), Betsy Head Park, 7:00

Outdoor Movie Night: Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin, 2000), Randall’s Island Connector, Randall’s Island Park, 8:00

Monday, June 27
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Tuesday, June 28
SummerStage: Lisa Simone and screening of What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus, 2015), Herbert Von King Park, 7:00

Thursday, June 30
BAMcinématek: FAB Flicks — ’70s Black Cinema: Shining Star: A Tribute to Maurice White, with Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert (Michael Schultz, 1981) and Earth, Wind & Fire Live on Soul!, Putnam Triangle Plaza, 22 Putnam Ave., 8:00

Friday, July 1
Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959), Transmitter Park, 8:30

Monday, July 4
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Wednesday, July 6
SummerScreen: Scream (Wes Craven, 1996), McCarren Park, live music at 6:00, film at dusk

Outdoor Cinema — The River (USA): The African Queen (John Huston, 1951), Socrates Sculpture Park, live performance at 7:00, film screening at sundown

Summer on the Hudson — Pier I Picture Show: The Walk (Robert Zemeckis, 2015), Pier I, Riverside Park South

Hudson RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015), Pier 63 lawn, Hudson River Park

J. J. Abrams’s STAR TREK reboot will land on the Intrepid on July 7

Thursday, July 7
Summer Movie Series: Star Trek (J. J. Abrams, 2009), the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, gates open at 7:00

Movies with a View: Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Movie Nights in the Rockaways: Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978), Beach 94th St. off Shorefront Pkwy, 8:00

Friday, July 8
Hudson RiverFlicks — Family Fridays: Minions (Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda, 2015), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci, 2016), Riverside Park, Pier I at 70th St., 8:30

Saturday, July 9
Movie Nights in the Rockaways: The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985), Beach Channel Park, 8:00

Sunday, July 10
SummerStage: DJ Kool Herc, Little Shalimar, and screening of Rubble Kings (Shan Nicholson, 2010), Crotona Park, 7:00

Outdoor Movie Night: Selena (Gregory Nava, 1997),Touchdown of the 103rd Street Footbridge, Randall’s Island Park, 8:00

Monday, July 11
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Wednesday, July 13
SummerScreen: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner, 2004), McCarren Park, live music at 6:00, film at dusk

Outdoor Cinema — The River (France): L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934), Socrates Sculpture Park, live performance at 7:00, film screening at sundown

Summer on the Hudson — Pier I Picture Show: Baquiat (Julian Schnabel, 1996), Pier I, Riverside Park South

Hudson RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015), Pier 63 lawn, Hudson River Park

Thursday, July 14
Summer Movie Series: Star Trek IV (Leonard Nimoy, 1986), the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, gates open at 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Music & Movies: Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003), Jessica Fichot, Prospect Park Bandshell, 8:00

Movies with a View: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner, 2004), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, July 15
Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972), Riverside Park, Pier I at 70th St., 8:30

Hudson RiverFlicks — Family Fridays: The Peanuts Movie (Steve Martino, 2015), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Monday, July 18
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Wednesday, July 20
SummerScreen: The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen 2001), McCarren Park, live music at 6:00, film at dusk

Outdoor Cinema — The River (Iran/UK): Sonita (Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, 2015), Socrates Sculpture Park, live performance at 7:00, film screening at sundown

Summer on the Hudson — Pier I Picture Show: Arthur (Steve Gordon, 1981), Pier I, Riverside Park South

Hudson RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, 2015), Pier 63 lawn, Hudson River Park

Thursday, July 21
Summer Movie Series: Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot, 1999), the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, gates open at 7:00

Hudson RiverFlicks — Sing-Along Special: Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978), Clinton Cove, Hudson River Park

Movies with a View: Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1994), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, July 22
Hudson RiverFlicks — Family Fridays: Shaun the Sheep (Richard Starzak & Mark Burton, 2015), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962), Tompkins Square Park, 8:30

Monday, July 25
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack, 1975), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Movies on the Waterfront: Big Hero 6 (Don Hall & Chris Williams, 2014), Astoria Park Great Lawn, 8:30

Claudette Colbert has a unique way to get to Brooklyn Bridge Park to see IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT on July 28

Wednesday, July 27
SummerScreen: 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999), McCarren Park, live music at 6:00, film at dusk

Outdoor Cinema — The River (Germany/UK): Rivers and Tides (Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2001), Socrates Sculpture Park, live performance at 7:00, film screening at sundown

Summer on the Hudson — Pier I Picture Show: Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975), Pier I, Riverside Park South

Hudson RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015), Pier 63 lawn, Hudson River Park

Thursday, July 28
Rooftop Films: Animation Block Party, preceded by live music and followed by a Q&A, Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, 8:00

Movies with a View: It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, July 29
Summer Movie Series: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982), introduced by Nicholas Meyer, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, gates open at 7:00

Movies Across from Golden Pond: Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015), Crocheron Park

Hudson RiverFlicks — Family Fridays: Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh Nelson & Alessandro Carloni, 2016), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer, 1987), Tompkins Square Park, 8:30

Saturday, July 30
Rooftop Films: In Pursuit of Silence (Patrick Shen, 2015), preceded by live music and followed by a Q&A with Shen, Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, 8:00

Sunday, July 31
Outdoor Movie Night: The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985), Touchdown of the 103rd Street Footbridge, Randall’s Island Park, 8:00

Monday, August 1
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Movies on the Waterfront: Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964), Astoria Park Great Lawn, 8:30

Wednesday, August 3
SummerScreen: The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001), McCarren Park, live music at 6:00, film at dusk

Outdoor Cinema — The River (Australia): Girl Asleep (Rosemary Meyers, 2015), Socrates Sculpture Park, live performance at 7:00, film screening at sundown

SummerStage: Screening of Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (Michel Ocelot & Bénédicte Galup, 2005), Orisha’s Journey, DJ Djib Sayo, Clove Lakes Park, 7:00

Summer on the Hudson — Pier I Picture Show: The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2003), Pier I, Riverside Park South

Hudson RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015), Pier 63 lawn, Hudson River Park

Thursday, August 4
Celebrate Brooklyn! Music & Movies: Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1999) with U.S. premiere of live score by the Bays, Joan as Police Woman, Benjamin Lazar Davis, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Movies with a View: American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 5
Summer Movie Series: Big Hero 6 (Don Hall & Chris Williams, 2014), the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, gates open at 7:00

Movies Across from Golden Pond: Minions (Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda, 2015), Crocheron Park

Hudson RiverFlicks — Family Fridays: Penguins of Madagascar (Eric Darnell & Simon J. Smith, 2014), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Sunday, August 7
Movie Nights in the Rockaways: Goosebumps (Rob Letterman, 2015), Beach 17th St. & Seagirt Blvd., 8:00

Clint Eastwood is a mysterious man with a plan as he gallops into Bryant Park on August 8 for a screening of HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER

Monday, August 8
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: Rooftop Shorts, West Tenth St.

Movies on the Waterfront: Minions (Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda, 2015), Astoria Park Great Lawn, 8:30

Wednesday, August 10
SummerScreen: audience pick, McCarren Park, live music at 6:00, film at dusk

Outdoor Cinema — The River (China): Suzhou River (Lou Ye, 2000), Socrates Sculpture Park, live performance at 7:00, film screening at sundown

Celebrate Brooklyn! Music & Movies: Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986), Donny McCaslin Group, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Summer on the Hudson — Pier I Picture Show: audience vote, Mary and Max (Adam Elliot, 2009) v. Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015) v. The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979), Pier I, Riverside Park South, 6:30

Hudson RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (Francis Lawrence, 2015), Pier 63 lawn, Hudson River Park

Thursday, August 11
Movies with a View: Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 12
Summer Movie Series: Star Trek (J. J. Abrams, 2009), the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, gates open at 7:00

Movies Across from Golden Pond: The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012), Crocheron Park

Hudson RiverFlicks — Family Fridays: Goosebumps (Rob Letterman, 2015), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Saturday, August 13
Movie Nights in the Rockaways: Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore & Jared Bush, 2016), Broad Channel Park, 8:00

Sunday, August 14
Outdoor Movie Night: The Good Dinosaur (Peter Sohn, 2015), Randall’s Island Connector, Randall’s Island Park, 8:00

Monday, August 15
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan, 1983), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984), West Tenth St.

Movies on the Waterfront: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986), Astoria Park Great Lawn, 8:30

Wednesday, August 17
Outdoor Cinema — The River (Germany/Peru): Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972), Socrates Sculpture Park, live performance at 7:00, film screening at sundown

Summer on the Hudson — Pier I Picture Show: Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta, 1958), Pier I, Riverside Park South, 6:30

Hudson RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015), Pier 63 lawn, Hudson River Park

Thursday, August 18
Movies with a View: A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 19
Hudson RiverFlicks — Family Fridays: The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Monday, August 22
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982), Bryant Park Lawn, gates open at 5:00, film at dusk

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015), West Tenth St.

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003), Marcus Garvey Park

Movies on the Waterfront: Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Astoria Park Great Lawn, 8:30

Tuesday, August 23
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: The Last Dragon (Berry Gordy, 1985), Marcus Garvey Park

Wednesday, August 24
Outdoor Cinema — The River (Colombia): Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015), Socrates Sculpture Park, live performance at 7:00, film screening at sundown

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence, 2007), Central Park

Thursday, August 25
Movies with a View: public vote, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982), Central Park

Friday, August 26
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985), Central Park

Saturday, August 27
Movie Nights in the Rockaways: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), Beach 59th St., 8:00

Sunday, August 28
Outdoor Movie Night: Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen, 2015), Randall’s Island Connector, Randall’s Island Park, 8:00

Thursday, September 8
Films on the Green — A Summer in Paris: Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, 2014), Columbia University, 116th St., 7:30

AMERICAN PSYCHO

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
236 West 45th St. between Broadway & Eighth Aves.
Through June 5, $69-$148
americanpsychothemusical.com

The musical version of Bret Easton Ellis’s popular but controversial 1991 novel, American Psycho, which was also made into a popular but controversial 2000 film, has posted an early closing notice on Broadway, ending its short run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on June 5 after a mere eighty-one performances. So what went wrong with the show, a sold-out smash in London? The Broadway production looks great; the set, designed by the always innovative Es Devlin (Machinal, Chimerica), is often breathtaking and thrilling, with blinding whites everywhere, gorgeous minimalist furniture, and ultracool lighting by Justin Townsend (The Humans, The Other Place), pulsating with fast-moving projections by Finn Ross (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night). When a plexiglass front comes down, the stage turns into Dexter’s dream kill room, as New York City investment banker and ahead-of-his-time metrosexual Patrick Bateman (Benjamin Walker) uses a number of techniques to dispose of people standing in his way. But director Rupert Goold (King Charles III, Enron), Walker (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Based on a Totally True Story), and composer and lyricist Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) can’t quite decide whether American Psycho is a tongue-in-cheek satire of 1980s Wall Street, a black comedy about greed and desire, or a psychological exploration of obsession and violence. Much like Martin Scorsese’s overrated The Wolf of Wall Street, which also takes place during the Reagan era, American Psycho is filled with characters you either strongly dislike or just don’t care about, people you don’t want to spend even a few hours with on Broadway (including Alice Ripley as Mrs. Bateman, Drew Moerlein as Paul Owen, Theo Stockman as Timothy Price, and Heléne Yorke as Evelyn). Meanwhile, the music shifts between hits of the time by such bands as Tears for Fears, Phil Collins, the Human League, and New Order alternating with Sheik’s new songs (“Selling Out,” “Cards,” “I Am Back”) that don’t stand up in comparison. There were significant changes made for American audiences, including adding, deleting, and shifting around numbers, which might not have been the best idea. The show, which garnered a mere two Tony nods (Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design of a Musical) but a hefty eight nominations from both the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics Circle, closes with an $8.8 million loss, something that would probably send Bateman looking for yet more people to take out his anger on.

MANHATTANHENGE 2016

Manhattanhenge will light up crosstown traffic May 29-30 and July 11-12 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

SUNSET ON THE MANHATTAN GRID
East side of Manhattan
Half Sun: Sunday, May 29, 8:12 pm
Full Sun: Monday, May 30, 8:12 pm
Full Sun: Monday, July 11, 8:20 pm
Half Sun: Tuesday, July 12, 8:20 pm
www.amnh.org
manhattanhenge slideshow

One of our favorite events of the summer season, the first of two Manhattanhenges takes place this weekend, when the sun aligns with Manhattan’s off-center (by thirty degrees) grid to send spectacular bursts of sunlight streaming across the streets. It’s a real bummer when the sky is obscured by clouds and bad weather, ruining the effect, so hopefully that won’t be a problem, as it has been in recent years. Coined by master astrophysicist and Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson in 2002, Manhattanhenge takes place twice a year; for 2016, those dates are May 29-30 and July 11-12, when the sun (half the disk one night, the full disk the other) will create “a radiant glow of light across Manhattan’s brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough’s grid,” Tyson explains on the planetarium website. “A rare and beautiful sight. These two days happen to correspond with Memorial Day and Baseball’s All Star break. Future anthropologists might conclude that, via the Sun, the people who called themselves Americans worshiped War and Baseball.” Photographers will once again line up along the city’s wider thoroughfares on the east side, including Twenty-third, Thirty-fourth, Forty-second, and Fifty-seventh Sts., risking their physical safety against oncoming traffic as they try to capture that exact moment when the sun is half above the horizon, half below it. Wrongly called the Manhattan Solstice, the event “may just be a unique urban phenomenon in the world, if not the universe,” Tyson explains. It’s quite a sight when everything is alignment; don’t miss it.

YVONNE RAINER — THE CONCEPT OF DUST: CONTINUOUS PROJECT-ALTERED ANNUALLY

“The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?” at MoMA, with Emmanuele Phuon, Patricia Hoffbauer, David Thomson, and Yvonne Rainer, 2015 (photo by Julieta Cervantes © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

The Kitchen
512 West 19th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
June 2-4, 8:00
212-255-5793 ext11
thekitchen.org
www.americandance.org

The new American Dance Institute initiative ADI/NYC at the Kitchen kicks off June 2-4 with the Performa presentation of legendary dancer, choreographer, and avant-garde filmmaker Yvonne Rainer’s “The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move,” an ongoing work-in-progress that combines body movement and spoken text to examine aging and mortality. The eighty-one-year-old Rainer, who has created such dances as Terrain and Two People on Bed/Table and such films as Kristina Talking Pictures and A Film About a Woman Who . . . , will perform in the work, along with dancers who are given the freedom to improvise in order to heighten the unpredictable, personal nature of the forty-five-minute piece, set to British minimalist Gavin Bryars’s “The Sinking of the Titanic.” The opening-night gala includes a champagne reception with Yvonne and the Raindears. ADI/NYC continues through July 2 with Brian Brooks’s Wilderness, Jane Comfort & Company’s You are here, Susan Marshall & Company’s Chromatic, and Jack Ferver’s I want you to want me.