Taiwanese company will present feast at the Joyce
THE HAN TANG YUEFU MUSIC AND DANCE ENSEMBLE
Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St.
Tickets: $10-$49
212-645-2904
www.joyce.org
Tuesday, November 3
through
Sunday, November 8 Taiwan-based company brings the ancient painting “The Feast of Han Xizai” to life in an evening-length program featuring costumes and set design by Oscar winner Tim Yip
Disco beats should dominate as Hercules and Love Affair spin at the W
SYMMETRY: A DJ SERIES
Oasis Living Room, W New York
541 Lexington Ave. at 49th St.
Admission: free
www.starwoodhotels.com/whotel
www.myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair
Wednesday, November 4 Disco throwbacks Hercules and Love Affair will be sharing their lush, longing sounds spinning tunes at the W’s new DJ series, with such special cocktails as the Backspin Manhattan, Dub a Pear, Pomegranate Wow, and Move It to Mojito, 8:00 – 11:00 pm
THE RED BOOK DIALOGUES
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th St. at Seventh Ave.
Tickets: $15-$25
212-620-5000 ext 344
www.rmanyc.org
Analysts delve into Carl Jung’s RED BOOK in a series of fascinating discussions featuring Charlie Kaufman, Alice Walker, David Byrne, Kathleen Chalfant, Marina Abramovicz, Cornel West, Billy Corgan, and many more.
Thursday, November 5 Documentarian Albert Maysles and Jungian analystl Laurie Layton Schapira, $25, 7:00
Award-winning Thai film tells story of an unexpected love
TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
92Y Tribeca
200 Hudson St. at Canal St.
Thursday, November 5, $12, 7:30
212-415-5500
www.92ytribeca.org/film
www.kickthemachine.com/works/tropical_malady.html
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Jury Prize at Cannes for this beautiful, mystical work that will thoroughly engage you — if you allow it to. Part tender love story between a country boy (Banlop Lomnoi) and a soldier (Dakda Kaewbuadee), part folktale set in the deep forests of Thailand, TROPICAL MALADY is a like a visual poem in which details are not as important as the overall effect, which is intoxicating. The unorthodox film features ghosts, a shape-shifter, unusual characters, and a playful sense of humor that come together to form a subtle meditation on life and love.
MOVING IMAGE MASTERPIECES: TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Queens Theatre in the Park
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York State Pavilion
Tickets: $10
718-760-0064
www.queenstheatre.org
Thursday, November 5 Special screening of Yasujiro Ozu classic, 7:30
Pink Eye lets it all hang out at Fucked Up show in Brooklyn this past summer (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
FUCKED UP
Thursday, November 5, Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 317 Clermont Ave. at Lafayette Ave., $18, 7:00
Friday, November 6, Market Hotel, 1142 Myrtle Ave. at Broadway, $18, 7:00
www.myspace.com/epicsinminutes
www.myspace.com/markethotelnyc
www.masonicboom.com
On November 5, Fucked Up will be performing THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE, with Andrew W.K. on keyboards and the Vivian Girls on backup vocals; also on the bill are Titus Andronicus, the Girls at Dawn, and Katie Stelmanis. The next night members of Fucked Up will appear at Market Hotel as Bitters on a bill with the Vivian Girls, Grass Widow, and Stupid Party.
THE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR FOR PRINTS & EDITIONS
The Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave. at 67th St.
Admission: $20
212-674-6095
www.printfair.com
Thursday, November 5
through
Sunday, November 8 Annual print fair features etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, innovative contemporary projects, curator-led tours, a panel discussion on collecting, a treasure hunt, and more
EDITIONS | ARTISTS’ BOOKS
X Initiative
548 West 22nd St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Admission: free
www.eabfair.com
Thursday, November 5 VIP preview benefiting the Annual Exhibition Fund of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, with a special DJ set by Sahra Motalebi and live music by AJ Slim, $50, 6:00 – 9:00
Friday, November 6
through
Sunday, November 8 Fair open to the general public, with special events featuring Mike Bidlo, Alison Knowles & Alan Bowman, Geoffrey Hendricks, Nancy Hwang & Elaine Tin Nyo, Sal Randolph, Tom Otterness, Larry Miller, and others, site-specific installations by Yoko Onno and Robert Wyatt, and Occurrences curated by Robin Kahn and Kirby Gookin
NICER NEWS PRESENTS: GOOD STUFF FUNDRAISER
Sin Sin Leopard Lounge
248 East Fifth St. at Second Ave.
Suggested donation: $5
212-253-2222
www.nicernews.com
Friday, November 6 Nicer News, which delivers “uplifting news and events from all over the world,” what they refer to as “just the good stuff,” is holding a fundraiser for their all-volunteer venture with cheap drinks and live music by the John Powers Band and other guests, 6:00 – 10:00 pm
The Big Man will be discussing his life and career at the Hard Rock
CLARENCE CLEMONS
Hard Rock Cafe
1501 Broadway at 43rd St.
Admission: free
www.hardrock.com/newyork
www.bigmanthebook.com
Friday, November 6 Saxophonist Clarence “Big Man” Clemons celebrates the release of his memoir, BIG MAN: REAL LIFE & TALL TALES (Grand Central, October 2009, $26.99), with a reading, signing, and audience Q&A, with special celebrity guests, 8:00
CAGE A SWALLOW CAN’T YOU BUT YOU CAN’T SWALLOW A CAGE: A SONNET SEQUENCE FOR RONI HORN
Whitney Museum of America Art
745 Madison Ave. at 74th St.
Free with museum admission (pay-what-you-wish)
www.whitney.org
Friday, November 6 Whitney Live special presentation in honor of Roni Horn exhibition, composed by Anne Carson and featuring Carson, Olof Arnalds and Kjartan Sveinsson of Sigur Ros, and poets R. Currie and Penelope Thomas, 8:00
Women have something to say in angry punk show
MONGREL BITCH
Otto’s Shrunken Head
538 East 14th St.
212-228-2240
www.ottosshrunkenhead.com
Friday, November 6 Futurex, 9:00; Ff, 10:00; a Bunch of Girls, 11:00; and Mongrel Bitch, 12 midnight
COOK. EAT. DRINK. LIVE. 24.7.365
The Tunnel and La.Venue
608 West 28th St.
Tickets: $65-$99
www.cookeatdrinklive.com
Friday, November 6
through
Sunday, November 8 Three days of gourmet food and wine and spirits, with tastings, lectures, demonstrations, classes, book signings, and more, featuring such guests as
LUC TUYMANS
The Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway at 12th St.
Admission: free
www.strandbooks.com
Saturday, November 7 Artist Luc Tuymans will be signing copies of his new eponymously titled book (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/ Wexner Center for the Arts/D.A.P., 10/31/09, $60), 2:00
THE ALL CITY BLACK BOOK SHOW
NYC Arts Cypher
12 Broad St., Staten Island
Admission: $10
www.nycartscypher.com
Saturday, November 7 Special event celebrating the release of GRAFFITI NEW YORK, featuring subway and street legends from all five boroughs, including COPE 2, SPAR ONE, MENIC, BRAZE, STRIDER, SNOOZE, and many more, with two floors of music and graff hosted by ON 2, DJ Fresh Style Rockers, and a live performance by the Bandulos, 6:00
Soup will be celebrating its tenth anniversary at Piano's
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF A TOUR OF TWO CITIES
Piano’s
158 Ludlow St.
Tickets: $12-$15
212-505-3733
www.pianosnyc.com
www.facebook.com/soup.atl
Saturday, November 7 Soup celebrates the tenth anniversary of the release of its live album with special reunion shows in Atlanta and New York City, on a bill with Leisure McCorkle, Emily Long, and the Swimmers, 8:00
City Winery hosts unique kind of tasting this week
SPIT & TWIT: TASTING THE FUTURE
City Winery
155 Varick St. at Vandam St.
Tickets: $35
212-608-0555
http://www.citywinery.com/events/38944
Sunday, November 8 Ticket holders will participate in tasting of some one hundred wines from thirty-five wineries from around the world, then immediately tweet their opinions in what is being billed as the “first ever online fully interactive wine tasting,” with plasma screens at City Winery picking up all the twittering, 2:00 – 6:00
EDOKKO: GROWING UP A FOREIGNER IN WARTIME JAPAN
Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Rd. at Vernon Blvd.
Second Sunday of every month
Free with museum admission of $10
Weekend shuttle service: $10 round trip
718-204-7088
www.noguchi.org
Sunday, November 8 Longtime Isamu Noguchi friend Isaac Shaprio, who was born in Japan and raised there and in China, reads from his forthcoming memoirs in the monthly Noguchi Museum Second Sundays series, 3:00
Special event will help children in trouble
A WAY FROM NO WAY: ISRAELI ARTISTS AND COLLECTORS FOR ELEM
Opera Gallery
115 Spring St.
Sunday, November 8, $35-$120 (tax-deductible), 6:30-10:00
www.elem.org
A group of Israeli artists and collectors will come together to help support the King’s Road mentoring program of ELEM, an organization that helps Israeli youth in distress in Israel. The evening begins at 6:30 for VIPs with an art tour, wine, and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a silent and public auction at 7:30 for all ticket holders. Among the participating artists are Ron Agam, Aliza Olmert, Moshe Kupferman, Dror Daum, Karen Gillerman, and Michal Cole, among many others. In addition, works by children helped by ELEM – including a special guest, sixteen-year-old Ilan, who has turned his life around with the help of the organization – will also be up for bidding. The auction will be run by Sotheby’s president Jennifer Roth.
EYE TO EYE: ARTIST-LED TOURS OF KANDINSKY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. at 89th St.
Tickets: $25
212-423-3500
www.guggenheim.org
Monday, November 9 Multidisciplinary artist R. Luke DuBois leads a tour of the Kandinsky exhibit, focusing on the correspondence between Vasily Kandinsky and composers Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander Scriabin, followed by a reception, 6:30
DIRTY: ONE WORD CAN CHANGE THE WORLD (Raison Allah, 2009)
National Black Theatre
2031 Fifth Ave. between 125th & 126th Sts.
Tickets: $15-$20
212-722-3800
www.imagenation.us
www.nationalblacktheatre.org
Tuesday, November 10 Special premiere of new documentary about Ol’ Dirty Bastard of the Wu Tang Clan, preceded by a live performance by Brooklyn Zu and followed by a panel discussion with director Raison Allah, Terrie Williams, Dr. Jeffrey Gardere, Brooklyn Zu, and members of the Wu Tang Clan, 7:00
WALTER DEAN MYERS
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West at 77th St.
Free with museum admission of $7-$12
212-873-3400
www.nyhistory.org
Wednesday, November 11 Award-winning author reads from, discusses, and signs copies of RIOT, which examines the 1863 New York Civil War draft riots, held in conjunction with the museum’s “Lincoln and New York” exhibition, 10:30 am
Justin Townes Earle will be singing about movies and more at Webster Hall (photo by Joshua Black Wilkins)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
Webster Hall
125 East Eleventh St. between Third & Fourth Aves.
Tickets: $25
www.websterhall.com
www.myspace.com/justintownesearle
Wednesday, November 11 Justin Townes Earle plays on a bill with Dan Auerbach and Jessica Lea Mayfield, 7:00
Michigan-born writer/director/producer Sam Raimi makes a welcome return to the horror genre with DRAG ME TO HELL, his first thriller since 2000’s THE GIFT and only his second legitimate scarefest since 1987’s EVIL DEAD II. (In the interim, he has made such films as A SIMPLE PLAN, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, ARMY OF DARKNESS, DARKMAN, and the SPIDER-MAN trilogy.) Battling for a promotion, loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) decides not to give old, decrepit Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) a third extension on her mortgage. But the vile-looking woman won’t give up that easy, getting into a frightening physical fight with Christine that ends when the craggy old bat casts a wicked spell on her. Christine tries to return to her safe, conventional life with her boyfriend, Clay Dalton (Justin “I’m a Mac” Long), but she is haunted by an evil creature that just might drag her to hell in three days if she can’t find a way to stop it. Written by Raimi and his brother Ivan, DRAG ME TO HELL is a potent mix of horror and humor, ire and irony, always ready with a funny joke or two, its tongue firmly imbedded in its cheek — when it’s not rolling out of Mrs. Ganush’s absolutely disgusting mouth.
Released a few years before the Summer of Love and Prague Spring, Miloš Forman’s LOVES OF A BLONDE is a very funny romantic black comedy that also has a lot to say about women’s burgeoning sexual freedom. The delightful Hanu Brejchovou stars as Andula, a young factory worker whose sexual liberation is ahead of its time in an old-fashioned small town. When a trainload of military reservists arrives, most of the single women do their best to attract the uniformed men at a big party, but Andula is more interested in pianist Milda (Vladimíra Pucholta). In a scene for the ages, three men try to pick up Andula and her two friends, with hysterical results. Later, when Andula visits Milda in Prague, she meets the piano player’s parents (Milada Jezková and Josef Sebánek), who are a droll riot. A Czech New Wave classic that evokes Godard and Truffaut, LOVES OF A BLONDE, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, caused a sensation when it played the New York Film Festival and introduced Forman (ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, AMADEUS) to the world. Notably, assistant director and cowriter Ivan Passer, who also worked with Forman on THE FIREMEN’S BALL, defected to America following Prague Spring and went on to make such films as BORN TO WIN and CUTTER’S WAY.
Korean writer-director Hong Sangsoo returns to the New York Film Festival for the fifth time with NIGHT AND DAY (BAM GUAN NAT), a character-driven tale about displacement and loneliness. Youngho Kim stars as Sungam, a married painter in his forties who flees South Korea for France after having been turned in for smoking marijuana with U.S. tourists. A fish out of water in Paris, he settles into a Korean neighborhood, spending most of his time with two young art students, Yujeong (Eunhye Park) and Hyunju (Minjeong Seo). He also meets an old girlfriend, Minsun, (Youjin Kim), who is still attracted to him. And every night he calls his wife, Sungin (Sujung Hwang), wondering when he’ll be able to return home. Hong (WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN, TALE OF CINEMA) tells the story in a diary-like manner, with interstitials acting like calendar pages. Sometimes a day can be filled with talk of art, a party, and a chance encounter, while others can consist of a brief, random event with no real bearing on the plot, reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch’s STRANGER THAN PARADISE, just without the existential cynicism and dark humor. As with 2006’s WOMAN ON THE BEACH, Hong lets NIGHT AND DAY go on too long (it clocks in at 141 minutes), with too many inconsequential (even if entertaining) vignettes, but it’s so much fun watching Youngho’s compelling performance that you just might not care about the length.