Big & Loud at Paris Theater: Cinema Classics Larger Than Life

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Published on Thursday, 31 August 2023 15:15

Written by Brad Balfour

Lawrence of Arabia

Cinema larger than life is coming to New York’s historic Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street).  Big & Loud is a celebration of the spectacle, wonder, and majesty of film, running September 1 - 24. The series boasts 48 screenings of 29 films presented in 70mm and ATMOS sound at one of New York’s most massive theaters.

Films include perennial classics such as Lawrence of Arabia, Michael Mann’s gritty crime thriller Heat, the fanciful Playtime from Jacques Tati, and William Friedkin’s underrated tense drama, Sorcerer.

 Highlights include:

• LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
  Rare 70mm print from the 2012 4k restoration! Sept 2, 10, 22

• PLAYTIME
  First US screening in 70mm in over ten years! Sept 1, 9, 17

• SORCERER
  Tribute to William Friedkin // Nominated for Best Sound, 1978 Academy Awards - Sept 9 & 16

• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
  Stanley Kubrick’s chilling, prophetic vision arrives at the Paris on 70mm! Sept 3 & 1

• THE WILD BUNCH
  Classic Peckinpah in a rare 70mm print

• BARAKA
  First NYC screening in 70mm in over ten years // Both screenings will be introduced by legendary photographer Neil Leifer - Sept 2 & 16

• I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART: A FILM ABOUT WILCO
  First NYC screening in over twenty years // Introduced by author & rock journalist Michael Azerrad - Sept 4

• MEMORIA
  US premiere screenings in Atmos // Winner Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, 2021 - Sept 3, 7, 23

• APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT
  The definitive version featuring a new Atmos mix overseen by Walter Murch in 2019! Sept 6 & 17

• THE TREE OF LIFE
  Terrence Malick's tour-de-force in an original release 35mm print

• RRR
  Naatu Naatu in Atmos at the Paris!

• Radiohead on the big screen
  THERE WILL BE BLOOD in 35mm, featuring a legendary score by Jonny Greenwood, paired with PTA's rarely screened collaboration with Thom Yorke, ANIMA (in Dolby Atmos!)
  
  

To learn more, go to: https://www.paristheaternyc.com/series/big-loud/

Big & Loud
September 1 - 24, 2024

The Paris Theater
4 West 58th Street
New York, NY 10019

DOC NYC Selects: Summer 2023 Comes to IFC Center

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Published on Monday, 10 July 2023 01:49

Written by Brad Balfour

Stephen Curry: Underrated

One of New York’s biggest film fests just got bigger. DOC NYC Selects is a new in-person, ongoing screening series that serves as an extension of DOC NYC’s annual fall festival. Running July 11 – August 8, 2023, at New York’s IFC Center (323 6th Ave.), with filmmakers in person for all shows. DOC NYC Selects gives audiences a firsthand look at hot new documentaries making their NYC premiere and include live post-screening conversations with creators and subjects from the films. Each screening will extend beyond the theater for discounted drinks at the West Village favorite Oppa Bistro (162 West 4th Street).

The festival opens with Plan C. Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, red state legislatures across the U.S. have rushed to severely restrict access for women and their right to choose. The already-crucial work of the grassroots organization Plan C, which provides knowledge of and access to abortion pills, has become that much more essential in the year since. Award-winning filmmaker Tracy Droz Tragos (Rich Hill, DOC NYC 2014) takes us deep inside this determined network, revealing the inner workings of the network’s pipeline, the criticisms they face, and the hope they provide for American women. The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker Tracy Droz Tragos, Executive Producer Jess Jacobs, Cinematographer Derek Howard and two doctors who were instrumental in getting NY to pass the shield law: Dr. Jane Doe and Dr. Lina Prine.

In Stephen Curry: Underrated, director Peter Nicks expands his perceptive view on the Bay area to one of its most famous residents: the basketball superstar Stephen Curry. Nicks discovers that Curry’s story is a remarkable and wholly unexpected trajectory from a kid with the “wrong” dimensions to a surprising flowering at a Division I college to four-time NBA champion with the Golden State Warriors – and with much unfinished business, even as Curry works to anchor a modern sports dynasty.

The festival will also include workshops for aspiring documentarians such as Gray Areas: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Documentary Filmmaking.

To learn more, go to: https://www.docnyc.net/selects-summer-2023/

DOC NYC Selects: Summer 2023
July 11 - August 8, 2023

IFC Center
323 6th Ave.
New York, NY 10014

New York Asian Film Festival 2023 Features Bold New Films & Classics

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Published on Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:03

Written by Brad Balfour

One of New York’s most vibrant film festivals, the New York Asian Film Festival, returns July 14, 2023 for its 22nd edition. Running July 14th to the 30th, NYAFF has over 70 new and classic titles, even more short films, and special guests. Expanding beyond NYC, NYAFF also includes a weekend of screenings (July 21–23) at a new venue, the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

The opening film is Killing Romance, directed by Lee Won-suk, who will also be in attendance for the screening. Known for his role in Parasite and a diverse career ranging from arthouse to rom-coms, Sun-kyun brings his versatile acting skills to portray the unforgettably overbearing husband of a fallen supermodel.

The Hong Kong Panorama segment of the festival includes a 4K restoration of the 1982 Patrick Tam film, Nomad (Director’s Cut). Mad Fate from director Soi Cheang harkens back to the crime films of the 80s and 90s. In Everyphone Everywhere director Amos Why (Far, Far Away) brings his wry playfulness in this pointed satire of postmodern communication and its resultant technological fallout set around the Hong Kong during the pandemic.

The Chinese block of films includes A Woman, Wang Chao’s sweeping narrative of a female factory worker during the Cultural Revolution. The animated film Art College 1994 from Liu Jian is a satirical look at student life in China during a time when the future held new promise.

Representing the cinema of South Korea are films such as Phantom, Lee Hae-young's action-driven spy drama set in 1933. Hail to Hell is feature debut of director Lim Oh-jeong, about two oddballs who track down the bully who pushed them to the brink of suicide.

From Japan there’s the North American premiere of In Her Room, an intriguing erotic narrative featuring musician-actor Satoru Iguchi and directed by Chihiro Ito. Mountain Woman, from former New York City resident Takeshi Fukunaga, is a mythic tale of female oppression and liberation with Toko Miura (Drive My Car). From Taiwan there’s Marry My Dead Body: an LGBTQ+ action-comedy that foments a gender-fluid revolution with its remise of a macho cop who unwittingly marries a gay ghost. The Philipino film 12 Weeks is a tiimely drama chronicles a fiercely independent 40-year-old woman’s attempts to arrange a safe abortion in a devoutly anti-choice nation where it is illegal.

The festival, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York and Film at Lincoln Center, will host a free outdoor screening at Damrosch Park on July 21. The feature is Bong Joon Ho's renowned monster movie, The Host, which stars Song Kang-ho and Bae Doona and showcases Bong's Oscar-winning family dynamics.

More events are being added to the festival so stay tuned!

To learn more, go to: https://www.nyaff.org/

New York Asian Film Festival
July 14 - 30, 2023

Film at Lincoln Center

70 Lincoln Center Plaza #4
New York, NY 10023

Barrymore Film Center
153 Main Street
Fort Lee, NJ 07024