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Beat Week Takes New York On A Trip
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- Published on Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:00
- Written by Renzo Adler
No matter how jaded we become, the open road will always have a strange allure, particularly when the open road is juxtaposed with the grit and naiveté of the 1960’s beatnik and counter culture movement. It’s that feeling that all you need is wheels, sex, intoxicants, and idealism and you turn into a leather-clad genius-prophet.
Leading up to the release of Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, the IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, New York) will be putting on a weeklong retrospective called On the Road Retrospective: Road Movies: Directed and Selected by Walter Salles, along with beatnik related events throughout New York.
Films being shown are:
- In Search of On the Road
- On the Road
- The Searchers
- Central Station
- Alice in the Cities
- The Passenger
- Detour
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Paris, Texas
- Ten
- Easy Rider
- Foreign Land
- Iracema
The Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn) will do a free advance screening of On the Road along with performances by a live bebop band on Sunday, December 16, 2012.
Compete in an On the Road-themed poetry slam, or just come to listen at the Nuyorican Poets Café (236 East 3rd Street) featuring poets from lit journals and poetry clubs all across the city on Tuesday, December 11.
Check IFC for more Beatnik related events throughout the week.
To learn more, go to: http://bk.knittingfactory.com/
The IFC Center
323 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10014
Knitting Factory – Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Nuyorican Poets Café
236 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
In French with English Subtitles 2012 Translates into Good Causes
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- Published on Saturday, 24 November 2012 17:36
- Written by Laura Blum
Four years ago, the In French with English Subtitles fest was created to bring together cinéphiles, cinéastes, stars and industry professionals in celebration of cultural diversity through French-language film. But like the Tribeca Film Festival 
– which began as a booster for downtown Manhattan in the wake of 9/11 – IFWES's bedrock raison d'être was to support a charitable cause.
Along the way, it too became an anticipated cultural event for both kids and adults, whether because or in spite of its philanthropic thrust. At this year's installment (November 30 to December 2, 2012), net proceeds will be donated to Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York, l’Entraide Française and the Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund.
First Annual Philip K. Dick Film Fest in NYC
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- Published on Thursday, 08 November 2012 16:08
- Written by Renzo Adler
The invocation of coveted authors is an effective method of purporting importance.
Director Francis Ford Coppola didn’t just make Dracula, he made Bram Stoker’s Dracula! Even though Henry Selick was the director, his 1993 stop-motion animated classic was called Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. The same goes for fledgling film festivals.
The inaugural Philip K. Dick Film Festival (December 7 – 9, 2012) at the Williamsburg indieScreen theater (289 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211) has the broad mission statement of promoting, “original or adapted material inspired by the works of Philip K. Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Robert Anton Wilson, Franz Kafka and others who have explored the metaphysical, the eerie, in all its manifestations. “
Other Israel Film Festival 2012: Tales of Tumbling
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- Published on Thursday, 08 November 2012 14:40
- Written by Laura Blum
“Tanathor” means “tumbling” in Arabic, and it’s the original title of Tawfik Abu Wael’s new film about a Palestinian couple whose marriage is doing just that.
Abu Wael's deeply personal drama is but one narrative about tumbling to be screened at the Other Israel Film Festival, now in its sixth year of “giving an international voice to minority groups in Israel through cinema.”
If conditions under Israeli rule have plunged this couple into disarray, fleeing East Jerusalem for Paris should bring stability. Or not.
