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A PEOPLE UNCOUNTED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE ROMA

Poignant documentary relates the harrowing story of the Roma, focusing on their genocide during the Holocaust

A PEOPLE UNCOUNTED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE ROMA (Aaron Yeger, 2012)
Quad Cinema
34 West 13th St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
May 16-23
212-255-2243
www.quadcinema.com
www.apeopleuncounted.com

“Of course, when we talk about the suffering of the Roma at this place, this is not to blame anybody, or to tell that some nations are bad or others are better,” journalist Marcus Pape says as he walks through a forest at the beginning of A People Uncounted: The Untold Story of the Roma. “The point is that we want to tell a story that might tell us something about ourselves.” And what Aaron Yeger’s surprising and harrowing documentary tells us is not very pleasant. In his feature-length debut, Yeger travels to Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Romania, America, and other countries, documenting the continuing plight of the Roma, more popularly known by the offensive term “Gypsies,” Europe’s largest minority. Interviewing activists, government officials, and Roma Holocaust survivors, Yeger reveals the intense prejudice against the Roma, who came from Northern India, and the Sinti, Romani people from in and around Germany, going back centuries, through the genocide of the Holocaust to today. He shows how misunderstood their culture is, as depicted in Hollywood movies and songs by Cher (“Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves”) and Shakira (“Gypsy”), and how Roma men, women, and children are still discriminated against, pointing out that the previous mayor of Milan led a movement in 2010 to rid his city of all Roma. Incorporating archival footage with staggering facts and Robi Botos’s mournful score, A People Uncounted: The Untold Story of the Roma is a poignant and painful examination of man’s seemingly unending inhumanity to man. The film, which has won numerous awards at festivals around the world, is playing May 16-22 at the Quad, with Yeger participating in Q&As following the 9:00 show on Friday and the 4:45 and 9:00 shows on Saturday.

NEXT YEAR JERUSALEM

A group of octogenarians and nonagenarians travels to the Holy Land in NEXT YEAR JERUSALEM

NEXT YEAR JERUSALEM (David Gaynes, 2014)
Quad Cinema
34 West 13th St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Opens Friday, May 16
212-255-2243
www.quadcinema.com
www.nextyearjerusalemmovie.com

During Yom Kippur and the Passover seder, Jews around the world proclaim that “next year, may we be in Jerusalem.” In David Gaynes’s charming documentary, Next Year Jerusalem, this dream comes true for eight men and women at the Jewish Home for the Elderly in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 2011, JHE president and CEO Andrew Banoff and Rabbi Stephen Shulman arranged for eight of their residents to make a once-in-a-lifetime ten-day trip to Israel; what made this journey different, and very special, is that the group had an average age of ninety-one, ranging from Sandy Levin, eighty-two, to Bill Wein, ninety-seven. With all their infirmities and medications, canes and wheelchairs, they prepare for a great adventure, with Gaynes behind the camera himself as they share stories about their lives, contemplate their deaths, and express their sheer joy as their anticipation grows. Shortly before they leave, Rabbi Shulman has to explain that they have to be ready not only for someone to not be able to make it to Israel but, more critical, one of them not being able to come home, given their ages and health situations. But that isn’t going to stop any of them, especially not ninety-three-year-old Selma Rosenblatt, who isn’t about to let her twisted body get in the way. Meanwhile, eighty-seven-year-old Regine Arouette, who isn’t Jewish, looks forward to visiting several Christian landmarks. (The others on the trip are Helen Downs, ninety-one; Leslie Novis, ninety; Harry Shell, ninety-two; and Bill’s wife, Juna Wein, eighty-nine.) When they all head off to Israel, accompanied by such lovingly involved caretakers as Donnette Banton, thirty-six-year-old Gaynes (Saving Hubble, Keeper of the Kohn) keeps his camera focused on the senior citizens as they visit historic sites, placing their fabulous experience front and center. Next Year Jerusalem is a charming and delightful celebration of life at the end of life, a spirit-lifting film that shows that you’re never too old to say no. “Where are the Israels for which we personally have yet to travel?” Gaynes, who also served as editor and producer, asks in his director’s statement. Next Year Jerusalem opens May 16 at the Quad, with all weekend screenings followed by a Q&A with Gaynes.

THE FEW / ANNAPURNA

Tasha Lawrence, Gideon Glick, and Michael Laurence star in Rattlestick production of Samuel D. Hunter’s THE FEW

THE FEW
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverly Pl. between Eleventh & Perry Sts.
Wednesday – Monday through June 22 (extended), $55
866-811-4111
www.rattlestick.org

Quite by coincidence, we saw The Few and Annapurna on successive nights last week, and we couldn’t have been more struck by how oddly similar the two New York premieres were. Each work is a ninety-five-minute one-act contemporary drama written by an award-winning playwright and is set in a cluttered trailer, where a character unexpectedly returns to a former love after having been away for years. And in each case, letters play a key role in the plot. However, whereas one play is exciting and gripping, with surprise twists, the other drags on repetitively, with a late shock that comes out of nowhere and deflates the story. Writer Samuel D. Hunter (A Bright New Boise), director Davis McCallum (London Wall), and actress Tasha Lawrence (Wilder Wilder Wilder), who worked together on the widely hailed Playwrights Horizon hit The Whale, reunite for The Few, a sharply incisive tale running at the Rattlestick. The tale begins a few months before Y2K, as a down-and-out Bryan (Michael Laurence) suddenly shows up at his old trailer, where his abandoned love, QZ (Lawrence), has heroically kept the small paper they founded, The Few, going for four years. But she’s turned the idealistic journal about connecting lonely interstate truckers into a venue for personal ads and hired their unseen third partner’s nerdy nephew, Matthew (Gideon Glick), who pushes a reluctant Bryan to return The Few to its original lofty purpose. (We know, we know; just how interesting can a small paper for and about interstate truckers be? It turns out that it can be quite fascinating.) Glick (Spring Awakening) is a jittery marvel as Matthew, his tentative, stuttering delivery an excellent foil to the raw tension brought out by Lawrence and Laurence. McCallum’s aggressive, unpredictable direction prepares the audience for an explosion, and when it comes, just watch out.

Real-life husband and wife Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally play former spouses reunited after twenty years in the New Group production of Sharr White’s ANNAPURNA (photo by Monique Carboni)

ANNAPURNA
The Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row
410 West 42nd St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
Tuesday – Sunday through June 1, $75
212-560-2183
www.thenewgroup.org
www.theatrerow.org

In the New Group production of Annapurna, written by Sharr White (The Other Place, The Snow Geese) and directed by Bart DeLorenzo (Passion Play, Fast Company), Emma (Megan Mullally) suddenly shows up at Ulysses’s (Nick Offerman) run-down trailer in the mountains of Colorado. The former spouses haven’t seen each other in twenty years, since she walked out on him, taking their son with her. Emma arrives lugging several suitcases, apparently planning on staying a while, but Ulysses, wearing a butt-revealing apron and a life-sustaining backpack with an oxygen tube, wants no part of her, preferring to remain a hermit. They battle over the past, leading to a reveal that is like a reverse deus ex machina, draining the drama of any subtlety and making it about something else in a manipulative way. Real-life husband and wife Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Mullally (Will & Grace) certainly have a familiarity with each other, but their characters’ affectations, especially Emma’s whininess, grow tiresome quickly. The conflict dries up long before the lights go out for the final time — DeLorenzo and lighting designer Michael Gend like to flip the switch like a kid with a new toy — so the last darkness comes as a relief. Annapurna lacks the energy and passion that drives The Few, the latter a far more successful exploration of responsibility, lost love, past misdeeds, and being a part of something that is bigger than oneself.

FROM MAE WEST TO PUNK — THE BOWERY ON FILM: ON THE BOWERY

Ray Salyer and Gorman Hendricks are two of the forgotten men in Lionel Rogosin’s unforgettable ON THE BOWERY

ON THE BOWERY (Lionel Rogosin, 1956)
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave. at Second St.
Saturday, May 17, 7:30, and Monday, May 19, 7:00
Series runs May 16-19
212-505-5181
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
www.ontheboweryfilm.com

One of the greatest cinematic documents ever made about New York, Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery is playing at Anthology Film Archives on May 17 and 19 as part of “From Mae West to Punk: The Bowery on Film,” a three-day series that includes feature-length works and shorts that take place in and around one of the most famous thoroughfares in the world. The recent, stunning 35mm restoration of On the Bowery offers a new look at this underground classic, which caused a stir upon its release in 1956, winning prizes at the Venice Film Festival while earning criticism at home for daring to portray the grim reality of America’s dark underbelly. After spending six months living with the poor, destitute alcoholics on Skid Row as research, idealistic young filmmaker Rogosin spent the next four months making On the Bowery, a remarkable examination of the forgotten men of New York, ne’er-do-wells who can’t find jobs, sleep on the street, and will do just about anything for another drink. Rogosin centers the film around the true story of Ray Salyer, a journeyman railroad drifter stopping off in New York City seeking temporary employment. Salyer is quickly befriended by Gorman Hendricks, who not only shows Salyer the ropes but also manages to slyly take advantage of him. Although the film follows a general structure scripted by Mark Sufrin, much of it is improvised and shot on the sly, in glorious black-and-white by Richard Bagley. The sections in which Bagley turns his camera on the streets, showing the decrepit neighborhood under the El, set to Charles Mills’s subtle, jazzy score and marvelously edited by Carl Lerner, are pure poetry, yet another reason why On the Bowery is an American treasure. The film is screening with the 1964 short How Do You Like the Bowery?, in which Alan Raymond and Dan Halas pose the title question to Bowery denizens.

Raoul Walsh’s 1915 Bowery-set gangster picture, REGENERATION, kicks off series at Anthology Film Archives

The Anthology festival runs May 16-19 and also includes Raoul Walsh’s 1915 Regeneration and 1933 The Bowery, Lowell Sherman’s 1933 She Done Him Wrong starring Mae West and Cary Grant, Mandy Stein’s 2009 doc Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB, Jen Senko and Fiore DeRosa’s 2009 The Vanishing City, and Scott Elliott’s Slumming It: Myth and Culture on the Bowery, with all showings accompanied by shorts about the iconic, historic area.

ZÜRICH MEETS NEW YORK: A FESTIVAL OF SWISS INGENUITY

Zürich Meets New York festival honors upcoming centennial of the Dada movement

Multiple locations
May 16-23, free – $20
www.zurichmeetsnewyork.org

In The Third Man, one of the greatest movies ever made, Harry Lime (Orson Welles) tells his childhood friend Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), “You know what the fellow said — in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace — and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” Of course, Switzerland has contributed a whole lot more to international culture and history than the cuckoo clock — and by the way, who doesn’t love the cuckoo clock? — as evidenced by this month’s Zürich Meets New York: A Festival of Swiss Ingenuity. From May 16 to 23, more than two dozen events will be taking place around the city, from concerts and dance to panel discussions and film screenings, from art exhibits and seminars to theater and scientific conversations, with a particular focus on the one hundredth anniversary of the Dada movement, which was born at the Cabaret Voltaire. Aside from “How Black Holes Shape Our Universe,” a multimedia presentation at the Explorers Club that requires a $20 ticket, everything else is absolutely free, although most events require advance RSVP. Below are only some of the highlights; other participants and programs include Dieter Meier of Yello, game developer Tim Schafer, Jungian analyst Christopher Hauke, complexity scientist Dirk Helbing, financial economist Didier Sornette, IBM director of research John E. Kelly, novelists Renata Adler and Ben Marcus discussing the work of Max Frisch, and a pair of documentaries about artist Urs Fischer.

Friday, May 16
“Collegium Novum Zurich: Live Music & Silent Films,” David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Broadway between 62nd & 63rd Sts., featuring screenings of shorts by Hans Richter, James Sibley Watson Jr. and Melville Webber, René Clair, and Joris Ivens with live musical accompaniment, free with advance RSVP, 7:00

Saturday, May 17
“Giants Are Small: Dada Bomb,” Dada performance art journey, free with advance RSVP, 7:00

Sunday, May 18
through
Thursday, May 22
“Dada on Tour,” art exhibition in a “nomadic” tent, Whitebox Art Center, 329 Broome St. between Chrystie St. & Bowery, free, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Monday, May 19
“What Can Robots and Economics Teach Us About Humanity?,” with Rolf Pfeifer and Ernst Fehr, moderated by Maria Konnikova, New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St., 40th Floor, free with advance RSVP, 7:00

Monday, May 19
through
Thursday, May 22
“Dada Pop-Up: The Absurdities of Our Times,” opening will include spontaneous performances and exchanges, Whitebox Art Center, 329 Broome St. between Chrystie St. & Bowery, free, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Tuesday, May 20
and
Wednesday, May 21
“Simone Aughterlony/Antonija Livingstone/Hahn Rowe: In Disguise,” dance performance with choreographer Simone Aughterlony, performer Antonija Livingstone, and composer Hahn Rowe, the Kitchen, 512 West 19th St. between Tenth and Eleventh Aves., free with advance RSVP, 8:30

FREE SUMMER FILMS 2014

French classic PURPLE NOON will screen in Central Park on May 30

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. The season’s free festivals are slowly being announced, with more to come. Below are the day-by-day listings of favorites as well as lesser-known festivals, including Summer on the Hudson, Rooftop Films, the Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, the Intrepid Summer Movie Series, Syfy Movies with a View, SummerScreen, Films on the Green, Outdoor Cinema at Socrates Sculpture Park, Red Hook Flicks on Valentino Pier, the Central Park Conservancy Film Festival in Central Park, Front/Row Cinema at the South Street Seaport, SummerStage, RiverFlicks, Coney Island Flicks on the Beach, Passport Thursdays at the Queens Museum, and Celebrate Brooklyn! Keep watching this page as more festivals are announced. (Films without exact start times generally begin around sunset.)

Saturday, May 17
Feature Screenings: The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 3:00 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Wednesday, May 21
Rooftop Films: Cold in July (Jim Mickle, 2014), Solar One, free for Time Warner Cable customers with RSVP, live music at 8:30, screening at 9:00, followed by Q&A with director Jim Mickle and star Michael C. Hall

Friday, May 23
Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986), Intrepid flight deck

Saturday, May 24
Feature Screenings: Short Circuit (John Badham, 1986), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 3:00 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Friday, May 30
Movies at Crocheron Park: Super Buddies (Robert Vince, 2013), Crocheron Park, 8:00

Films on the Green: Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960), Cedar Hill in Central Park, 8:30

Saturday, May 31
Feature Screenings: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (Jun Fukuda, 1974), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 3:00 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Front/Row Cinema: Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), South Street Seaport

Wednesday, June 4
Front/Row Cinema: WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008), South Street Seaport

Friday, June 6
Movies at Crocheron Park: Brave (Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman, 2012), Crocheron Park, 8:00

Rooftop Films: Sundance Film Festival Shorts, preceded by live music by Salt Cathedral, Metro-Tech Commons, music at 8:30, screening at 9:00

Films on the Green: Les Tontons Flinguers (Georges Lautner, 1963), Washington Square Park, 8:30

Saturday, June 7
Feature Screenings: The Monuments Men (George Clooney, 2014), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 12:15 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Feature Screenings: After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan, 2014), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 3:00 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Front/Row Cinema: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt, 2011), South Street Seaport

Wednesday, June 11
Front/Row Cinema: The Muppets Take Manhattan (Frank Oz, 1984), South Street Seaport

Friday, June 13
Movies at Crocheron Park: Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard, 2010), Crocheron Park, 8:00

Films on the Green: Buffet Froid (Bertrand Blier, 1979), Washington Square Park, 8:30

Saturday, June 14
Feature Screenings: The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 12:15 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Feature Screenings: Think Like a Man (Tim Story, 2012), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 3:00 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Front/Row Cinema: The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985), South Street Seaport

Monday, June 16
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977), Bryant Park Lawn

Wednesday, June 18
Front/Row Cinema: Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011), South Street Seaport

Thursday, June 19
BAMcinemafest Outdoor Screening, with live music and food, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, June 20
Films on the Green: The Women on the Sixth Floor (Philippe Le Guay, 2010), Tompkins Square Park, 8:30

Saturday, June 21
Feature Screenings: The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 12:15 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Feature Screenings: Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012) Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 3:00 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Front/Row Cinema: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, 2012), South Street Seaport

Sunday, June 22
SummerStage: Whistle! A Tribute to Frankie Knuckles, with the Soul Summit DJs, DJ Kervyn Mark, DJ Stormin’ Norman, vocalists Kenny Bobien and Lynn Lockamy, and others, followed by a screening of the director’s cut of Hands to the Sky (Angelo Boyke & Jean-Paul Noel, 2012), Herbert von King Park, 7:00

Monday, June 23
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian, 1940), Bryant Park Lawn

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is part of free summer tribute at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

Wednesday, June 25
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981), Museum of Jewish Heritage, 6:30

Front/Row Cinema: Brave (Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman, 2012), South Street Seaport

Friday, June 27
Films on the Green: La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995), Tompkins Square Park, 8:30

Rooftop Films: Five Star (Keith Miller, 2014), Metro-Tech Commons, 9:00

Saturday, June 28
Feature Screenings: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Cody Cameron & Kris Pearn, 2013), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 12:15 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Feature Screenings: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Harald Zwart, 2013), Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 3:00 (RSVP two weeks in advance)

Monday, June 30
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: A Soldier’s Story (Norman Jewison, 1984), Bryant Park Lawn

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013), beach at West Tenth St.

Wednesday, July 2
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind: Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998), Museum of Jewish Heritage, 6:30

Outdoor Cinema: Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Maxim Pozdorovkin & Mike Lerner, 2013), Socrates Sculpture Park, preceded by live music at 7:00

Front/Row Cinema: The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, 1984), South Street Seaport

Saturday, July 5
Pier/Party: The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012), South Street Seaport, preceded by Midtown Comics Fan Party at 4:00

Monday, July 7
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974), Bryant Park Lawn

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013), beach at West Tenth St.

Tuesday, July 8
Rooftop Films at Bronx Terminal Market: Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013), Level 6 Garage Roof Deck, activities 7:00, film 8:30

Red Hook Flicks: Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 9
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993), Museum of Jewish Heritage, 6:30

Outdoor Cinema: La Pirogue (Moussa Touré, 2012), Socrates Sculpture Park, preceded by live music at 7:00

Front/Row Cinema: Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore, 2012), South Street Seaport

SummerScreen: Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson: Pier I Picture Show presents Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995), Riverside Park, 8:30

RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), Pier 63, Hudson River Park

Thursday, July 10
Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996), Intrepid flight deck

Syfy Movies with a View: Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, July 11
RiverFlicks Family Fridays: Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud, 2013), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Rooftop Films: Broken Hearted: Twisted, Romantic Short Films, Metro-Tech Commons, 8:00

Films on the Green: The Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère, 2005), Pier 1, Riverside Park, 8:30

Saturday, July 12
Front/Row Cinema: I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence, 2007), South Street Seaport

Monday, July 14
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959), Bryant Park Lawn

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982), beach at West Tenth St.

Tuesday, July 15
Rooftop Films at Bronx Terminal Market: The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Peter Hedges, 2012), Level 6 Garage Roof Deck, activities 7:00, film 8:30

Red Hook Flicks: Hustle and Flow (Craig Brewer, 2005), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 16
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind: Amistad (Steven Spielberg, 1997), Museum of Jewish Heritage, 6:30

Outdoor Cinema: The Deadly Ponies Gang (Zoe McIntosh, 2013), Socrates Sculpture Park, preceded by live music at 7:00

Front/Row Cinema: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009), South Street Seaport

SummerScreen: Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson: Pier I Picture Show presents Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985), Riverside Park, 8:30

RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013), Pier 63, Hudson River Park

SHARKNADO will wreak havoc in Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 17

Thursday, July 17
The Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: Brothers Hypnotic (Reuben Atlas, 2013), “Horn Section” DJ set with DJ Laylo at 7:30, film screening at 8:30, Jackie Robinson Park Bandshell

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013), Intrepid flight deck

Syfy Movies with a View: Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante, 2013), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, July 18
RiverFlicks Family Fridays: Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Films on the Green: Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937), Pier 1, Riverside Park, 8:30

Saturday, July 19
Front/Row Cinema: True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2010), South Street Seaport

Monday, July 21
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: National Lampoon’s Vacation (Harold Ramis, 1983), Bryant Park Lawn

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), beach at West Tenth St.

Tuesday, July 22
Red Hook Flicks: Hotel Transylvania (Genndy Tartakovsky, 2012), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 23
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977), Museum of Jewish Heritage, 6:30

Outdoor Cinema: Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952), Socrates Sculpture Park, preceded by live music at 7:00

The Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: The Night James Brown Saved Boston (David Leaf, 2008), “Godfather of Soul” DJ set with DJ Chairman Mao at 7:30, film screening at 8:30, St. Nicholas Park

Front/Row Cinema: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982), South Street Seaport

SummerScreen: Cry-Baby (John Waters, 1990), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson: Pier I Picture Show presents Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971), Riverside Park, 8:30

RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: This Is the End (Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, 2013), Pier 63, Hudson River Park

Thursday, July 24
Seaport Film & Food Festival: Cockpit (Mårten Klingberg, 2012), with free Swedish cuisine and drinks, South Street Seaport, 6:00

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003), Intrepid flight deck

Syfy Movies with a View: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Rooftop Films: Animation Block Party, Brookfield Place, Winter Garden, live music at 8:30, short films at 9:00

Friday, July 25
Celebrate Brooklyn! Music and Movies: Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (Lee Hirsch, 2002) and Second-Hand Reading (William Kentridge, 2013), with live score performed by Neo Muyanga, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

RiverFlicks Family Fridays: Ghostbusters II (Ivan Reitman, 1989), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Films on the Green: Le Magnifique (Philippe de Broca, 1973), Transmitter Park, 8:30

Rooftop Films: NY Shorts, Brookfield Place, Winter Garden, live music at 8:30, short films at 9:00

Saturday, July 26
Front/Row Cinema: Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenefeld, 2012), South Street Seaport

Rooftop Films: The Case of the Three Sided Dream (Adam Kahan, 2014), Brookfield Place, Winter Garden, live music at 8:30, screening at 9:00

Monday, July 28
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Key Largo (John Huston, 1948), Bryant Park Lawn

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: The Lego Movie (Chris Miller & Phil Lord, 2014), beach at West Tenth St.

Tuesday, July 29
Rooftop Films at Bronx Terminal Market: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Cody Cameron & Kris Pearn, 2013), Level 6 Garage Roof Deck, activities 7:00, film 8:30

AT&T Film for All: When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989), the Beach at Coney Island, 3059 West Twelfth St., 8:30

Red Hook Flicks: Fried Green Tomatoes (Jon Avnet, 1991), Valentino Pier

The Heathers will hatch quite a plan in McCarren Park on July 30

Wednesday, July 30
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind: Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993), Museum of Jewish Heritage, 6:30

Dahesh Museum of Art Wednesday Night Movies: The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949), with free drinks and popcorn, Dahesh Museum of Art Gift Shop, 145 Sixth Ave., 6:30

Outdoor Cinema: Viola (Matias Piñeiro, 2013), Socrates Sculpture Park, preceded by live music at 7:00

Front/Row Cinema: The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985), South Street Seaport

SummerScreen: Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1988), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson: Pier I Picture Show presents The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987), Riverside Park, 8:30

RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: The Lego Movie (Chris Miller & Phil Lord, 2014), Pier 63, Hudson River Park

Thursday, July 31
Seaport Film & Food Festival: Nosotros los Nobles (The Noble Family) (Gary Alazraki, 2013), with free Mexican cuisine and drinks, South Street Seaport, 6:00

Passport Thursdays: India, with The World Before Her (Nisha Pahuja, 2012) and dance performance by Sonali Skandan & Jiva Dance, outside Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Park, 7:00

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan, 1990), Intrepid flight deck

Syfy Movies with a View: Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 1
RiverFlicks Family Fridays: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Cody Cameron & Kris Pearn, 2013), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Films on the Green: 2 Autumns, 3 Winters (Sébastien Betbeder, 2013), Transmitter Park, 8:30

Saturday, August 2
Front/Row Cinema: When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989), South Street Seaport

Sunday, August 3
Nitehawk Outdoors — 50 Kent Festival: ¡Three Amigos! (John Landis, 1986), 50 Kent Ave., live music at 7:00, screening at sunset

Monday, August 4
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, 1984), Bryant Park Lawn

Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013), beach at West Tenth St.

Tuesday, August 5
Red Hook Flicks: Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1991), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 6
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind: Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Museum of Jewish Heritage, 6:30

Dahesh Museum of Art Wednesday Night Movies: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin, 1945), with free drinks and popcorn, Dahesh Museum of Art Gift Shop, 145 Sixth Ave., 6:30

Outdoor Cinema: Forest of the Dancing Spirits (Linda Västrik, 2013), Socrates Sculpture Park, preceded by live music at 7:00

Front/Row Cinema: The Croods (Kirk DeMicco & Chris Sanders, 2013), South Street Seaport

SummerScreen: The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson: Pier I Picture Show presents Anchors Aweigh (George Sidney, 1945), Riverside Park, 8:30

RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: Lone Survivor (Peter Berg, 2013), Pier 63, Hudson River Park

Thursday, August 7
The LOT LIC Film Series: Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani, 2008), 43-29 Crescent St., Long Island City, 6:00

Passport Thursdays: Brazil, with O Mistério do Samba (Carolina Jabor Lula Buarque de Hollanda, 2008) and live music and dance by Batala NYC, outside Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Park, 7:00

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, 1987), Intrepid flight deck

Syfy Movies with a View: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 8
RiverFlicks Family Fridays: Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Saturday, August 9
Front/Row Cinema: Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994), South Street Seaport

Monday, August 11
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann, 1961), Bryant Park Lawn

Tuesday, August 12
Red Hook Flicks: Madagascar (Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath, 2005), Valentino Pier

Movies at Crocheron Park: Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud, 2013), Crocheron Park, 8:00

Wednesday, August 13
SummerStage: Bobby Sanabria and screening of Chico & Rita (Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba, 2010), Marcus Garvey Park, 6:00

Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982), Museum of Jewish Heritage, 6:30

Dahesh Museum of Art Wednesday Night Movies: The Moon and Sixpence (Albert Lewin, 1942), with free drinks and popcorn, Dahesh Museum of Art Gift Shop, 145 Sixth Ave., 6:30

Front/Row Cinema: Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, 2005), South Street Seaport

Outdoor Cinema: 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 2011), Socrates Sculpture Park, preceded by live music at 7:00

SummerScreen: Audience Pick, McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson: Pier I Picture Show presents The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983), Riverside Park, 8:30

RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, 2013), Pier 63, Hudson River Park

Captain Phillips lands on the Intrepid on August 14

Thursday, August 14
Seaport Film & Food Festival: Au Revoir Taipei (Arvin Chen, 2010), with free Taiwanese cuisine and drinks, South Street Seaport, 6:00

The LOT LIC Film Series: Polyester (John Waters, 1981), 43-29 Crescent St., Long Island City, 6:00

SummerStage: Bobby Sanabria and screening of Chico & Rita (Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba & Tono Errando, 2010), Marcus Garvey Park, 6:00

Passport Thursdays: Cuba, with Habanastation (Ian Padrón, 2012) and live music by the Cimarron Project, outside Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Park, 7:00

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013), Intrepid flight deck

Syfy Movies with a View: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 15
RiverFlicks Family Fridays: The Smurfs 2 (Raja Gosnell, 2013), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Saturday, August 16
Front/Row Cinema: When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989), South Street Seaport

Sunday, August 17
SummerStage: Nuyorican Poets Café 40th Anniversary Celebration, with screening of Our Latin Thing (Leon Gast, 1972), East River Park, 6:00

SummerStage: Bellatrix! A Soul Train Tribute to Women in Music, with Ubiquita Sound System and screening of Twenty Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville, 2013), Marcus Garvey Park, 6:00

Monday, August 18
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival – Scenes from Our City: Big (Penny Marshall, 1988), north of Sheep Meadow, 8:00

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980), Bryant Park Lawn

Tuesday, August 19
Red Hook Flicks: Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996), Valentino Pier

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival – Scenes from Our City: The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001), north of Sheep Meadow, 8:00

Movies at Crocheron Park: Monsters University (Dan Scanlon, 2013), Crocheron Park, 8:00

Wednesday, August 20
Dahesh Museum of Art Wednesday Night Movies: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Alfred L. Werker, 1939), with free drinks and popcorn, Dahesh Museum of Art Gift Shop, 145 Sixth Ave., 6:30

RiverFlicks — Big Hit Wednesdays: Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013), Pier 63, Hudson River Park

Front/Row Cinema: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988), South Street Seaport

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival – Scenes from Our City: The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack, 1988), north of Sheep Meadow, 8:00

Thursday, August 21
Seaport Film & Food Festival: Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001), with free French cuisine and drinks, South Street Seaport, 6:00

The LOT LIC Film Series: Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, 1992), 43-29 Crescent St., Long Island City, 6:00

Passport Thursdays: Korea, with Approved for Adpotion (Laurent Boileau & Jung Henin, 2012) and dance performance by Song Hee Lee Dance Company, outside Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Park, 7:00

Syfy Movies with a View: The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival – Scenes from Our City: Coming to America (John Landis, 1988), north of Sheep Meadow, 8:00

Friday, August 22
RiverFlicks Family Fridays: The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), Pier 46, Hudson River Park

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival – Scenes from Our City: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954), north of Sheep Meadow, 8:00

Saturday, August 23
Front/Row Cinema: The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), South Street Seaport

Tuesday, August 26
Red Hook Flicks Neighborhood Choice: On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954), Valentino Pier

Movies at Crocheron Park: Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero, 2013), Crocheron Park, 8:00

Wednesday, August 27
Outdoor Cinema: Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perénnou, 1996), Socrates Sculpture Park, preceded by live music at 7:00

Front/Row Cinema: Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013), South Street Seaport

Thursday, August 28
The LOT LIC Film Series: The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003), 43-29 Crescent St., Long Island City, 6:00

Syfy Movies with a View: Public Vote, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975), Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993), or Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988), Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Saturday, August 30
Front/Row Cinema: Crazy, Stupid, Love (John Requa & Glenn Ficarra, 2011), South Street Seaport

Sunday, August 31
Front/Row Cinema: Skyfall (Sam Mednes, 2012), South Street Seaport

Thursday, September 4
The LOT LIC Film Series: Lo Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010), 43-29 Crescent St., Long Island City, 6:00

Films on the Green: The French Minister (Bertrand Tavernier, 2013), Columbia University, 7:30

Thursday, September 11
The LOT LIC Film Series: Pariah (Dee Rees, 2011), 43-29 Crescent St., Long Island City, 6:00

Thursday, September 18
The LOT LIC Film Series: Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1983), 43-29 Crescent St., Long Island City, 6:00

BIG APPLE BARBECUE BLOCK PARTY 2014

There’s plenty of smokin’ good ’cue at annual BBQ block party in Madison Square Park (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Madison Square Park
23rd to 26th Sts. between Fifth & Madison Aves.
Saturday, June 7, and Sunday, June 8, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Admission: free; $9 per plate of barbecue, $3-$8 per dessert
Fast Pass: $125; BigPiggin’ Pass: $265
www.bigapplebbq.org
www.madisonsquarepark.org
big apple barbecue block party 2013 slideshow

The immensely popular and ridiculously crowded Big Apple Barbecue Block Party is less than a month away, when pitmasters from around the country gather in Madison Square Park and serve up some damn fine BBQ. The twelfth annual event, being held June 7-8, features some old favorites as well as some up-and-comers: North Carolina’s Ed Mitchell, Mike Mills of the 17th Street Bar & Grill (Murphysboro, Illinois), Chris Lilly of Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q (Decatur, Alabama), Joe Duncan of Baker’s Ribs (Dallas), Mike Emerson of Pappy’s Smokehouse (St. Louis), Jimmy Hagood of BlackJack Barbecue (Charleston, South Carolina), Patrick Martin of Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint (Nashville), Garry Roark of Ubon’s Barbeque of Yazoo (Yazoo City, Mississippi), Scott Roberts of the Salt Lick Bar-B-Que (Driftwood, Texas), John Wheeler of Memphis Barbecue Co. (Horn Lake, Mississippi), Rodney Scott of Scott’s Bar-B-Que (Hemingway, South Carolina), Sam Jones of the Skylight Inn (Ayden, North Carolina), and local purveyors Jean-Paul Bourgeois of Blue Smoke, Charles Grund Jr. of Hill Country, John Stage of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, and Daniel Delaney of Delaney Barbecue. The lines can get extremely long, so the best way to enjoy the event is to go with a bunch of friends, get on different lines, and then gather in the park to devour your meal. Each plate of ’cue is nine bucks, with desserts ranging from three to eight dollars each. Even the express lines for those BBQ lovers with the FastPass can get long — the FastPass is $125, with $100 redeemable for food, and tends to sell out in advance — so this year you can get the BigPiggin’ Pass, where for $265 you get $100 worth of barbecue using the express line and access to the VIP hospitality tent, which includes a Danny Meyer southern buffet, open bar (wine, beer, specialty cocktails), shaded seating, and air-conditioned rest rooms. There will also be live music, seminars, cooking demos, and more.