L.A. may have Hollywood, but New York has the Museum of the Moving Image, the only institution in the country dedicated exclusively to the history of film. Not the movie stars and memorabilia, though the museum does that, too, but actual film. MOMI just dedicated a new expansion that nearly doubles its size to 97,700 Read More
Wednesday, March 18
Phew! We survived St. Patrick’s Day without being run over by a beer-swilling, laid-off trader from Hoboken! (We went there once in our early 20s to celebrate this “holiday” and weren’t quite right for years …) Who would guess that St. Patrick was actually an upstanding Christian missionary and not the Read More
Oh we’re sure the Museum of the Moving Image’s board was just tickled about their choice for this year’s honoree at their swanky 24th annual black-tie salute. Reuters says it’s Ben Stiller, the guy who parodies last year’s honoree, Tom Cruise, as TomCrooze, the actor’s "stunt double."
So at Cipriani 42nd Read More
Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image will close down for "several months" for renovations starting March 23. Bummer. Where else can one stare at Bill Cosby’s sweaters or make their own stop-motion animation movie with plastic polar bears? When complete, the new museum building will feature a 262-seat theater, a 71-seat screening room, Read More
George A. Romero, the legendary horror auteur, is wary of all this “new media”: blogs, citizen journalists … YouTube! He thinks it’s all kind of, well, scary.
“I know that as a journalist, what you’re supposed to do is document. But isn’t there a line of humanity?” he said, speaking to a sold-out crowd Read More
