The independent Manhattan movie house Film Forum has decided to pull its advertising from the Village Voice, citing concerns about Backpage.com, the classifieds site owned by Voice parent company Village Voice Media.
Longtime Film Forum director Karen Cooper told Off the Record that Nicholas Kristof’s Friday op-ed in The New York Times prompted her decision. Read More
Wednesday, March 30
Coffee Talk
We’re betting Tina Brown likes her coffee the same way she likes her copy: “V. v. hot!” Guests will find out tonight as the High Beastess herself throws a private book party at her Upper East Side townhouse for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s memoir, Onward (we hear it’s full of Read More
On Wednesday, the Film Forum will premiere Richard Press’ new documentary Bill Cunningham New York, about the indefatigable New York Times fashion photographer. Access to the press-shy shutterbug was perhaps the most challenging aspect of the film, though Mr. Press told The Observer that he had the inside track: “Actually, I knew Bill, because Read More
It’ll be sitting room only for 180 lucky fans of GoodFellas (or, just maybe, Shutter Island) at the Film Forum next week, as the Manhattan auteur not named Woody Allen addresses the Film Forum audience at a Feb. 23 screening of last year’s Fran Lebowitz documentary Public Speaking. Wait, everyone loves Martin Scorsese, but Read More
After all the scary future robots and Trekkies and Ben Stiller at the museum, you’d be forgiven if you were looking for a meditative break of some sort. On June 3, the Film Forum premieres Unmistaken Child, a documentary chronicling the search for a reincarnated Tibetan master. We’ll be honest: We know nothing about Tibetan Read More
Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana (1961), with Sylvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal and Margarita Lozano, will be shown at Film Forum from Friday, April 24, through Thursday, April 30, with show times daily at 1, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20 and 10:10. I first saw Viridiana on the last morning and evening of the 1961 Cannes Film Read More
Jean-Pierre Melville’s (1933-1973) Léon Morin, Prêtre (Léon Morin, priest) (1961), from his own screenplay, based on Béatrix’ Beck’s (1914-2008) autobiographical novel, will be revived at Film Forum from April 17 to April 23. Both the book and the film are constructed as a dialectical confrontation between a skeptical communist woman and an intellectual Catholic priest, Read More
Film Forum’s series of Depression movies, Breadlines & Champagne, resumes on Saturday, Feb. 14, on an especially high note, with Gregory La Cava’s My Man Godfrey (1936), starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer and Franklin Pangborn, at 1, 4:35 and 8:20; and Mitchell Leisen’s Easy Living Read More
Bruce Goldstein’s splendid Depression series, Breadlines and Champagne, continues at Film Forum on Monday, Feb. 9, with King Vidor’s Our Daily Bread (1934), starring Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards and Harry Holman, at 7:30 only; and Hamilton MacFadden’s Stand Up and Cheer (1934,) with Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, James Dunn, Read More
Bruce Goldstein of Film Forum has come up with a very timely reminder of the Great Depression of the ’30s with a festival of 50 Depression movies running from Feb. 6 to March 5. The series will include vintage shorts, cartoons and newsreels, and a Tuesday BANK NITE! As a post–Inauguration Day special, opening-day admissions Read More
