Catch Director Andrzej Zulawski at his most manically complex in 1985’s L’amour Braque.
Adapting Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, Zulawski’s masterful direction fine tunes the over-the-top performances of this mad love triangle into a “ballet of blood.”
French actress Sophie Marceau credits the film with making her the star she is today. She would be romantically linked to the director through 17 years, four films, and a son.
Part of BAM’s Hysterical Excess: Discovering Andrzej Zulawski.
Director-approved English subtitles by Mondo Vision.
Wed Mar 14 7pm30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn $12
Film Forum allows us a look at the personal process of one of the greatest living painters in Corinna Belz’s serene documentary Gerhard Richter Painting.
The film coincides with the artist’s 80th birthday and his major retrospective given by the Tate Modern in London.
Thru Mar 27th 209 West Houston Street $12.50
BAMcinématek celebrates the first US retrospective of Poland’s forgotten son with Hysterical Excess: Discovering Andrzej Zulawski.
A young actress accepts a role in a film version of Dostoyevsky’s The Devils, blurring the line between her acting and a politically charged reality in Zulawski’s sexually tense Le Femme Publique.
Winner of Special Grand Prix Jury Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1984.
Director-approved English subtitles by Mondo Vision.
Tue Mar 13 7pm 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn $12
New York’s Asia Society and Museum hosts a series of documentaries exposing the intimate details of Japanese life with Extreme Private Ethos: Japanese Documentaries.
All subtitles in English.
Thru Mar 31st, 725 Park Avenue @ 79th Street $11
The Museum of the Moving Image graces us with an evening of cinematic poetry in Andrei Tarkovsky’s demanding autobiographical childhood dream, The Mirror (1975).
As its name would imply, this would be the best place to see “one of the most strikingly beautiful films ever made.”
Introduction by author + novelist Geoff Dyer.
Sun Mar 11 6pm, 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria Queens $12
This month Anthology Film Archives acquaints us with the work of genuinely radical + award-winning American filmmaker Nina Menkes.
A U.S. Marine found digging a grave for his pregnant wife in the Mojave desert provides the true story for Menkes’ hallucinatory poem to violence and military culture in The Bloody Child.
Sun Mar 11 + Thu Mar 15 7pm 32 Second Ave @ 2nd Street, $9
The Maysles Cinema in Harlem brings us documentary filmmaker Menelik Shabazz’s definitive portrait of a British musical movement that would define a generation with The Story of Lover’s Rock.
The birth of this reggae genre provided an escapist backdrop to mounting racial tensions in the late 70s/early 80s UK, influencing a national black identity with a worldwide musical impact.
Part of the series Keeling’s Carribbean Showcase.
Sun Mar 11 7:30pm 343 Malcolm X @ Lenox Ave (127-128th), Harlem $10
92Y Tribeca’s Basic Cable Classics series presents Frank Langella, in one of his absolute favorite roles, in the 1987 toy-based fantasy Masters of the Universe.
The three-time Tony Award winner + Academy award nominee took on the role of Skeletor as a present to his children, creating one of the great overlooked villains in movie history.
See the original before the rumored remake…
Introduced by TimeOut NY film critic Keith Uhlich.
Sat Mar 10 10:15pm 200 Hudson Street $10
Who are the real vandals?
Harlem’s Maysles Cinema answers the question this week with Max Good’s highly engaging documentary on street art in Vigilante Vigilante.
Director Max Good in-person for post-screening conversation with retired vandal squad Lieutenant Steve Mona.
Fri Mar 09 7:30pm 343 Malcolm X @ Lenox Ave (127-128th), Harlem $10
Clearview CInema’s Chelsea Classics shows us how a young Richard Gere and a score by Giorgio Moroder put Giorgio Armani on the fashion map in Paul Schrader’s 1980 crime drama American Gigolo.
7pm show hosted by Hedda Lettuce. Mature audiences only!
Thu Mar 08 7:00 + 9:30pm, West 23rd between 7th + 8th Avenues, $7.50
