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THE GREAT GATSBY

Nick (Tobey Maguire), Jay (Leonardo DiCaprio), Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and Tom (Joel Edgerton) are caught up in matters of the heart in THE GREAT GATSBY

THE GREAT GATSBY (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)
Opens Friday, May 10
www.thegreatgatsby.warnerbros.com

Baz Luhrmann’s sumptuous version of The Great Gatsby is a dazzling reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel of old and new money and the American dream. The Australian director and his wife, costume and production designer extraordinaire Catherine Martin, have turned the classic tale into a lush spectacle without losing focus on the main story of life and love during the Roaring Twenties. Leonardo DiCaprio, who played the male lead in Lurhmann’s contemporary take on Romeo + Juliet, is superb as Jay Gatsby, the mystery man previously portrayed by Warner Baxter in 1926, Alan Ladd in 1949, Robert Redford in 1974, and Toby Stephens in 2000, adding a compelling level of vulnerability to the character. Gatsby has built a magnificent palace for himself on Long Island, hosting wild parties that he doesn’t care about; all he truly wants is Daisy (Carey Mulligan), a former love who has married successful businessman Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton) and lives in a mansion right across the bay. The villainous Tom is having an affair with the lower-class Myrtle Wilson (Isla Fisher), whose unaware husband, George (Jason Clarke), runs a gas station and garage in the Valley of Ashes. Although a loner, Gatsby befriends his neighbor, Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), a young, innocent bond trader who rents a modest home at the base of Gatsby’s enormous estate and whose cousin just happens to be Daisy. As Carraway is sucked into this glamorous, debauched society, which also includes wild and elegant golf champion Jordan Baker (Elizabeth Debicki), he is forced to reexamine his own hopes and dreams as he tries to find his place in the world.

Baz Luhrmann throws one helluva party in his reimagining of THE GREAT GATSBY

Luhrmann and cowriter Craig Pearce have framed the tale by putting Carraway, the narrator of the book and film, in a sanitarium, where a doctor (Jack Thompson) convinces him that writing down what happened with Gatsby will help him overcome his alcoholism and depression; the device, which is not part of the novel, is based on Fitzgerald’s own time spent in a sanitarium. Luhrmann and Pearce, who did extensive research for the project, also include elements from Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio, the first draft of The Great Gatsby, which will certainly anger purists. Purists are also likely to be furious at the soundtrack, which features songs by Jay Z (one of the film’s producers), his wife, Beyoncé, André 3000, will.i.am, Lana Del Rey, Gotye, and the xx alongside Jazz Age re-creations by the Bryan Ferry Orchestra of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” and Roxy Music’s “Love Is the Drug.” But this is not your high school English teacher’s Gatsby; instead, it’s F. Scott Fitzgerald for the twenty-first century, not meant to be seen through the billboard spectacles of oculist Dr. T. J. Eckleburg but through 3-D glasses that invite viewers into the oh-so-fashionable goings-on in eye-popping ways. “Is all this made entirely from your own imagination?” Daisy asks Gatsby at one point. In this case, it’s made from the minds of two wildly inventive men, Luhrmann and Fitzgerald, who together throw one helluva party.

Nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Costume Design (Catherine Martin), Best Production Design (Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn)

BOOED AT CANNES: THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE

Jean-Pierre Léaud is a busy boy in THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache, 1973)
BAMcinématek, BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.
Sunday, May 12, 2:30 & 7:00
Series runs May 8-23
718-636-4100
www.bam.org

Jean-Pierre Léaud gives a bravura performance in Jean Eustache’s New Wave classic about love and sex in Paris following the May 1968 cultural revolution. Léaud stars as Alexandre, a jobless, dour flaneur who rambles on endlessly about politics, cinema, music, literature, sex, women’s lib, and lemonade while living with current lover Marie (Bernadette Lafont), obsessing over former lover Gilberte (Isabelle Weingarten), and starting an affair with new lover Veronika (Françoise Lebrun), a quiet nurse with a rather open sexual nature. The film’s three-and-a-half-hour length will actually fly by as you become immersed in the complex characters, the fascinating dialogue, and the excellent acting. Much of the film consists of long takes in which Alexandre shares his warped view of life and art in small, enclosed spaces, the static camera focusing either on him or his companion. Someone at BAM has a wicked sense of humor, as The Mother and the Whore is screening on Mother’s Day at 2:30 & 7:00 as part of the BAMcinématek series “Booed at Cannes,” consisting of films that did not exactly thrill the Cannes glitterati but have gone on to gain their own unique reputations, including Maurice Pialat’s Under the Sun of Satan, Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’eclisse, David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, and David Cronenberg’s Crash.

NADA/PARALLAX/PULSE/CUTLOG/COLLECTIVE .1

NADA NYC
Pier 36 at Basketball City
299 South St. on the East River
May 10-12, free
www.newartdealers.org

Back in March, Armory Arts Week featured the Armory Show, Volta NY, Scope, the Independent, Moving Image New York, ADAA the Art Show, New City, Fountain, and Spring/Break art fairs. Now that we’ve all gotten the chance to catch our breath, the second part of the season is up and running this weekend with another slew of art shows around the city. While the main event might be the second edition of Frieze, held on Randall’s Island and charging a whopping $42 admission fee, there are numerous lower-cost options. At NADA, it does indeed cost nada to see more than seventy exhibitors at Basketball City, including Eleven Rivington, Klaus von Nichtssagend, Marlborough Chelsea, Churner and Churner, Feature Inc., and SculptureCenter. Among the special events and projects are Merkx & Gwynne’s “King Arthur Green Room,” a LittleCollector tour, a Lower East Side gallery tour, and an Eat up NY in the LES food tour at this show sponsored by New Art Dealers Alliance, which “believes that the adversarial approach to exhibiting and selling art has run its course . . . that change can be achieved through fostering constructive thought and dialogue between various points in the art industry from large galleries to small spaces, nonprofit and commercial alike.”

PARALLAX “ART” FAIR
Prince George Ballroom
15 East 27th St.
May 11-12, free with advance registration, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
www.parallaxaf.com

Parallax is a self-described “non-art fair that makes a uniquely refreshing conceptual statement about subjectivity and the commoditization of taste, offering an intellectual framework where visitors can dare to be themselves for a change.” Created by Dr. Chris Barlow, Parallax features works from more than two hundred international emerging and established artists celebrating “the luxury of objects” and examining new forms of acquisition.

Jani Ruscica’s “Screen Test (for a Living Sculpture)” is among the special projects at Pulse (courtesy of Otto Zoo)

PULSE
The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th St.
May 9-12, $20 (run of show $25)
www.pulse-art.com/new-york

The always enjoyable Pulse is back at the Metropolitan Pavilion, with nearly fifty international galleries part of its main exhibition and another thirteen in its Impulse cutting-edge section. This year’s Pulse Projects features Tristin Lowe’s “Comet Nature,” Lisa Lozano and Tora Lopez’s “We Couldn’t Remember What We Came to Forget,” Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s “Spring Flings & Pretty Things,” Russell Maltz’s “Painted/Stacked,” Jason Rogenes’s “CH1M3R4,” and Tim Youd’s “Typing Tropic.” The multimedia Pulse Play lounge will be showing Jani Ruscica’s Screen Test (for a Living Sculpture), Robbie Cornelissen’s The Labyrinth Runner, and Lars Arrhenius’s The Street, there will be a Pulse New York Chelsea Gallery Walk and after-party on Thursday night, and a free shuttle bus will take people between Pulse and the Frieze ferry stop.

The cutlog fair makes New York debut with indoor and outdoor events

CUTLOG NY
Clemente Soto Vélez Center
107 Suffolk St. between Rivington & Delancey Sts.
May 9-13, $15 (run of show $25)
www.cutlogny.org

Making its New York debut, cutlog is a whirlwind event focusing on collaboration and innovation in multiple disciplines. Held at the Clemente on the Lower East Side, cutlog NY includes such exhibitors as Tel Aviv’s Art Connections, Paris’s Galerie Dix9 and Olivier Watman, Antwerp’s Marion de Cannière, London’s House of the Nobleman, Milano’s Edward Cutler, Lyon’s Céline Moine, Istanbul’s Gama, and Vancouver’s the Apartment, but it’s the special projects that highlight this highly anticipated fair. There will be projected images outdoors on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights; such live performances and installations as Movement Research re-creating Anna Halprin’s “Mirror Piece,” the Fantastic Nobodies’ “Free Car Wash,” Tyler Matthew Oyer’s cabaret “Gone for Gold,” Marni Kotak’s exercise-obsessed “Calorie Countdown,” a site-specific dance by Netta Yerushalmy, and Phoebe Rathmell’s “Visceral Transcendence,” among others; and talks with Harvey Stein and John Lurie.

Gaetano Pesce will be at Collective .1 Design with new installation and conversation

COLLECTIVE .1 DESIGN FAIR
Pier 57 at 15th St. and the West Side Highway
May 8-11, $25 (run of show $30)
www.collectivedesignfair.com

Another newbie is the Collective .1 Design Fair, founded by Steven Learner to present a curated examination of new and historical design. Approximately two dozen galleries will gather at Pier 57, including Demisch Danant, Jousse Entreprise, Lost City Arts, Maison Gerard, Mondo Cane, and Sebastian + Barquet, with installations by Gaetano Pesce, Sebastian Errazuriz, and Dana Barnes, tours, book signings with Christopher Bascom Rawlins and Jeffrey Head, and such Collective Conversations as “Inside the Design Market,” “Obsessed — Collecting in the 21st Century,” and “In Dialogue” with Gaetano Pesce and curator Daniella Ohad Smith.

FREE SUMMER MOVIES 2013

JAWS will make people on board the Intrepid wary of the water on June 28

Relaxing on a beautiful night outdoors watching a free movie has become quite a city tradition, and you can find all kinds of films being shown in parks and plazas all over town, from Central Park, Bryant Park, and Riverside Park to the USS Intrepid, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Queens Museum. Film screenings begin at dusk, although some series have live music before that, so be sure to get there early. Keep watching this space as we add more festivals as they’re announced.

Friday, May 24
Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986), Pier 86

Thursday, June 6
Films in Tompkins: Romeo+Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996), with Sweet Street Symphony, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, June 7
Films on the Green: Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut, 1969), Cedar Hill, Central Park

Tuesday, June 11
Family Guy, Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Thursday, June 13
Films in Tompkins: O Brother Where Art Thou (Joel Coen, 2000), with the Dapper Dans, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, June 14
Films on the Green: L’Art d’aimer (The Art of Love) (Emmanuel Mouret, 2011), Washington Square Park

Sunday, June 16
SummerStage — This Is _ Hip-Hop: Soul Food Junkies (Byron Hurt, 2012) and live music by Dead Prez, Herbert Von King Park

SummerStage: Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (Luiz Bolognesi, 2013) and live music by Preta Gil and DJ Just Marcelo, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park

Monday, June 17
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982), Bryant Park Lawn

Thursday, June 20
Films in Tompkins: Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998), wtih Batala NYC, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, June 21
Intrepid Summer Movie Series: National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub, 2004), Pier 86

Films on the Green: French Cancan (Jean Renoir, 1955), Washington Square Park

Saturday, June 22
SummerStage — Make a Joyful Noise: A Tribute to Mahalia Jackson, featuring a screening of Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (Jeff Scheftel, 1997) and live appearances by Joshua “the Prince of Kosher Gospel” Nelson and Della Reese, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park

Monday, June 24
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956), Bryant Park Lawn

Thursday, June 27
Canceled: Films in Tompkins: Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992), with Amour Obscur and free slices of Two Boots “Mr. Pink” pizza, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, June 28
Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Pier 86

Films on the Green: Angèle et Tony (Angel and Tony) (Alix Delaporte, 2010), Tompkins Square Park

Monday, July 1
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972), Bryant Park Lawn

Flicks on the Beach: Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin, 1955), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Williamsburg Summer Nights, Movies in the Park: Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012), East River State Park

Wednesday, July 3
Outdoor Cinema: Our Nixon (Penny Lane, 2013), Socrates Sculpture Park

Friday, July 5
Films on the Green: L’Arancoeur (Heartbreaker) (Pascal Chaumeil, 2010), Tompkins Square Park

Saturday, July 6
Front/Row Cinema: Breaking Away (Peter Yates, 1979), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, July 8
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971), Bryant Park Lawn

Flicks on the Beach: Bending Steel (Dave Carroll, 2013), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Tuesday, July 9
Red Hook Flicks: Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 1986), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 10
Maysles Cinema’s Summer of Music — the Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: I Want My Name Back (Roger Paradiso, 2012), with DJ Tedsmooth’s Old School Jam at 5:30, a live performance of “Rapper’s Delight” by MCs Wonder Mike, Master Gee, and Grandmaster Caz and special guests Melle Mell, Dana Dana, DJ Wiz, Grandmaster Dee, Keith LeBlanc, Vernon Reid, and Doug Winbish at 7:30, film screening at 8:30, moved to Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church, 16-20 Mount Morris Park West, southwest corner of 122nd St.

RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010), Socrates Sculpture Park

Front/Row Cinema: Ice Age (Chris Wedge & Carlos Saldanha, 2002), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

SummerScreen: Can’t Hardly Wait (Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan, 1998), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

The call of “Bueller . . . Bueller . . . Bueller . . .” will be heard throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 11

Thursday, July 11
Movies with a View: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986), preceded by Creep (Sharif Anthony), with music by DJ Still Life, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Films in Tompkins: Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), with Main Street Quintet, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 12
RiverFlicks for Kids: The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord & Jeff Newitt, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Films on the Green: Marius et Jeannette (Robert Guédiguian, 1997), Pier 1, Riverside Park

Saturday, July 13
SummerStage — This Is _ Hip-Hop: Screening of From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale (Henry Chalfant, 2006) and live music by the Ghetto Brothers, Crotona Park, 7:00

Front/Row Cinema: Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty, 1978), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, July 15
Flicks on the Beach: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich, 1964), Bryant Park Lawn

Williamsburg Summer Nights, Movies in the Park: The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011), East River State Park

Tuesday, July 16
Red Hook Flicks: Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, 2008), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 17
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio, 2009), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, July 18
Maysles Cinema’s Summer of Music — the Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: I Remember Harlem: Toward Freedom (1940-1965) and I Remember Harlem: Toward a New Day (1940-1965) (William Miles, 1980), with a Harlem World DJ set by DJ Blade, St. Nicholas Park, 7:30

Movies with a View: Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973), preceded by Catnip: Egress to Oblivion (Jason Willis), with music by DJ Hahn Solo, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Films in Tompkins: Drive (Nicolas Winding Ref, 2011), with Brendan O’Hara, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 19
RiverFlicks for Kids: ParaNorman (Chris Butler & Sam Fell, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Films on the Green: Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (We Won’t Grow Old Together) (Maurice Pialat, 1972), Pier 1, Riverside Park

Saturday, July 20
Front/Row Cinema: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Sunday, July 21
SummerStage — This Is _ Hip-Hop: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Screening of I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988) and live music by DJ D-Nice, Queensbridge Park

Monday, July 22
Flicks on the Beach: Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore, 2012), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The African Queen (John Huston, 1951), Bryant Park Lawn

Williamsburg Summer Nights, Movies in the Park: Up (Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, 2009), East River State Park

Tuesday, July 23
Red Hook Flicks: Shaft (John Singleton, 2000), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 24
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo, 2012), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: The Craft (Andrew Fleming, 1996), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, 1953), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, July 25
Movies with a View: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971), preceded by Irish Folk Furniture (Tony Donoghue), with music by DJ Ayres, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Maysles Cinema’s Summer of Music — the Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: Shape of a Broken Heart (Andrew Dosumnu, 2012) and Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Bert Stern, 1960), with DJ Blade and live drumming, the Jackie Robinson Park Bandshell, 7:30

Films in Tompkins: The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998), with Jake Pinto and the Yeahtones and free slices of Two Boots “the Dude” pizza, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 26
RiverFlicks for Kids: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979), Pier 86

Films on the Green: U (Grégoire Solotareff & Serge Elissalde, 2006), Transmitter Park

Saturday, July 27
Front/Row Cinema: Working Girl (Mike Nichols, 1988), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, July 29
Flicks on the Beach: Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonenfeld, 2012), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, 1948), Bryant Park Lawn

Williamsburg Summer Nights, Movies in the Park: Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012), East River State Park

Tuesday, July 30
Red Hook Flicks: Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, 1992), Valentino Pier

Movie fans can find the underrated MOONRISE KINGDOM in Hudson River Park on July 31

Wednesday, July 31
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: Domestic (Adrian Sitaru, 2013), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, 1971), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: Star Trek (J. J. Abrams, 2009), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 1
Movies with a View: 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002), preceded by Until the Quiet Comes (Kahlil Joseph), with music by DJ Who Am I, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Films in Tompkins: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), with Jason Trachtenburg and the Pendulum Swings, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, August 2
RiverFlicks for Kids: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath & Conrad Vernon, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Chris Columbus, 2001), Pier 86

Films on the Green: Conte d’été (A Summer’s Tale) (Eric Rohmer, 1996), Transmitter Park

Saturday, August 3
Front/Row Cinema: The Muppets (James Bobin, 2011), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, August 5
Flicks on the Beach: The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Norma Rae (Martin Ritt, 1979), Bryant Park Lawn

Tuesday, August 6
Red Hook Flicks: Akeelah and the Bee (Doug Atchison, 2006), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 7
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: The Avengers (Joss Wheedon, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2008), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: Speed (Jan de Bont, 1994), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 8
Movies with a View: Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953), preceded by How She Slept at Night (Lilli Carré), with music by DJ $mall ¢hange, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 9
RiverFlicks for Kids: Rise of the Guardians (Peter Ramsey, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Saturday, August 10
Front/Row Cinema: Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Sunday, August 11
SummerStage: screening of 1981 BBC documentary Hotter than July and live music by DJ Spinna, Mika, Gloria Ryann, Asa Lovechild, Darien, Mike Hammond, Chris Robb, Vivian Sessoms, and Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle performing “A Soul Train Tribute to Stevie Wonder,” Marcus Garvey Park

Monday, August 12
Flicks on the Beach: Fame (Alan Parker, 1980), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Women (George Cukor, 1939), Bryant Park Lawn

Tuesday, August 13
Red Hook Flicks: The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 14
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, 2000), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: Audience Pick, McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore, 2012), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 2012), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 15
Movies with a View: Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976), preceded by Marcel, King of Tervuren (Tom Schroeder), with music by DJ Emch, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Cries of “Beetelgeuse! Beetelgeuse! Beetelgeuse!” will echo through Hudson River Park on August 16

Friday, August 16
RiverFlicks for Kids: Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Saturday, August 17
Front/Row Cinema: Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, August 19
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982), Bryant Park Lawn

Flicks on the Beach: 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Tuesday, August 20
Red Hook Flicks: Caddyshack (Harold Ramis, 1980), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 21
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007), Socrates Sculpture Park

Front/Row Cinema: Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 22
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

Movies with a View: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), preceded by My Favorite Picture of You (Dan Lindsay & T. J. Martin), with music by DJ Geko Jones, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 23
RiverFlicks for Kids: The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, 2011), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Hook (Steven Spielberg, 1991), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, 1984), Pier 86

Saturday, August 24
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

Front/Row Cinema: Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, 1958), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Sunday, August 25
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

Monday, August 26
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

SummerStage — This Is _ Hip-Hop: Thirtieth Anniversary Screening of Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1983), live music by DJ D-Nice, East River Park

Tuesday, August 27
Red Hook Flicks — Red Hook Choice: Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (Stephen Herek, 1991), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 28
Front/Row Cinema: The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 29
Movies with a View: Public vote between Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998), Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997), Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003), and any rained-out films, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Saturday, August 31
Front/Row Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Wednesday, September 4
Front/Row Cinema: Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, September 5
Films on the Green: Les Roseaux Sauvages (Wild Reeds) (André Téchiné, 1994), Columbia University Low Library steps

Saturday, September 7
Front/Row Cinema: Up (Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, 2009), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

MoMA FREE TUESDAYS IN MAY

Visitors can now see such works as Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” at MoMA seven days a week, with the first one hundred visitors getting in free every Tuesday in May (photo courtesy MoMA / Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest)

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Tuesday, May 7, 14, 21, 28, 10:30 am – 5:30 pm
Free admission for the first one hundred visitors
212-708-9400
www.moma.org

Every Friday afternoon, there is a long line at the Museum of Modern Art, when admission is free from 4:00 to 8:00. Meanwhile, on Tuesdays, stray people gather at the entrances, frantically searching their guidebooks to confirm that the museum is actually closed on that day. That latter situation is about to change, as MoMA has just announced that they now will be open seven days a week, with Tuesday hours, 10:30 am – 5:30 pm, that match the rest of the week except Friday, which is of course open later. MoMA is actually getting the jump on the Met, which earlier announced that it will also open its doors every day, adding Monday to its schedule, but that begins in July. To celebrate the new policy, MoMA will be offering free admission Tuesdays in May to the first one hundred visitors, an ample savings of $25 per adult, $18 per senior, and $14 per student. (Children sixteen and under who are not part of a group are always free.) Among the many exhibitions currently on view are “Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store” and “Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum / Ray Gun Wing,” “Artist’s Choice: Trisha Donnelly,” “Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth,” “Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light,” “9 + 1 Ways of Being Political: 50 Years of Political Stances in Architecture and Urban Design,” “Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light,” and “Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons.” It’s first come, first served, so you better start lining up soon to take advantage of this temporary offer.

AN EVENING WITH MARK PELLINGTON: U2 3D

Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. are practically in your lap in U2 3D

SONOS AND VEVO PRESENT: THE DIRECTOR’S STUDIO
PLAY IT LOUD! U2 3D (Catherine Owens & Mark Pellington, 2008)
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Ave. at 36th St., Astoria
Tuesday, May 7, $15, 7:00
718-777-6800
www.movingimage.us
www.U23Dmovie.com

When we caught U2’s Vertigo Tour at the Garden in June 2006, we were up in the rafters, looking down at tiny dots that just happened to be drummer Larry Mullen Jr., bass player Adam Clayton, guitarist the Edge, and singer Bono. But the World’s Most Important Band is front and center for everyone to see in U2 3D, the first-ever full-length film shot in Digital 3-D, directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington. Using as many as eighteen specially equipped digital cameras and recording decks, Owens, who has been U2’s visual content director since ZooTV, captures the Irish band during stadium shows in South America and Mexico, focusing on the March 1-2 concerts at Estadio la Plata in Buenos Aires. The new technology, previously used for sporting events, has a fascinating layered effect that sucks in viewers — yes, who are wearing special glasses (not unlike the specs Bono used to wear as the Fly) — placing them right in the middle of the action as the band powers through an exultant setlist that, if not quite ideal, includes “Vertigo,” “New Year’s Day,” and “Pride (In the Name of Love).” You can’t help but reach out for Bono as he seemingly jumps out of the screen while singing “Touch me” during “Beautiful Day,” and then you’ll swear he’s reaching out only to you when he stares into the camera during “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and promises to “wipe your tears away.” And when tens of thousands of fans all bop up and down in unison to “Where the Streets Have No Name,” forming a propulsive wave, you’ll feel a rush beneath your seat that moves up into your gut. Owens and Pellington (Arlington Road) incorporate the band’s hypertextual stage show into the new format, as digitized figures, words, symbols, and letters from the large screens behind the band seem to float right in front of your face. The concert footage is supplemented with extreme close-ups shot onstage without an audience, and the energy level severely drops at these times, although Mullen’s drum kit looks amazing in 3-D. As straight-ahead concert movies go, U2 3D is among the best ever made, a unique theatrical experience that will blow you away. U2 3D is screening in Dolby Digital 3-D at the Museum of the Moving Image on May 7 at 7:00 as part of the series “Play This Movie Loud!” and “Sonos and VEVO Present: The Director’s Studio” and will be preceded by a discussion with Pellington and chief curator David Schwartz.

THE MODERN SCHOOL OF FILM: THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS

Takashi Miike riffs on multiple genres in the endlessly delightful HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS

THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS (Takashi Miike, 2001)
IFC Center
323 Sixth Ave. at West Third St.
Tuesday, May 7, 8:15
212-924-7771
www.ifccenter.com

Japanese genre king Takashi Miike, who has made more than one hundred films in his twenty-two-year career, outdoes himself in The Happiness of the Katakuris, an endlessly inventive tale of the Katakuris, a family that moves to the middle of nowhere to run a country inn. The only problem is that when guests finally arrive, they all end up dead — in bizarre, ridiculous ways — and the father decides to bury them instead of reporting the incidents, in order to protect the inn and the family’s future. Miike (Ichi The Killer, Audition, Thirteen Assassins) masterfully mixes comedy, romance, Claymation, music, murder, and mayhem in this enormously entertaining and highly original movie that is filled with a never-ending bag of surprises. The Happiness of the Katakuris is screening in a 35mm print May 7 at 8:15 as part of the IFC Center series “The Modern School of Film” and will be followed by a discussion with Brooklyn-based choreographer Mark Morris; the series continues May 9 with John M. Stahl’s 1945 melodrama Leave Her to Heaven, with Neil LaBute on hand to talk about it, May 13 with Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror and Bill T. Jones, and May 28 with Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle in Milan and Laurie Anderson.