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MNN Youth Channel’s Summer Jam Film Screening

MNN Youth Channel’s Summer Jam Film Screening

Thursday, June 11, 6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m.
Target East Harlem Community Garden
415-417 East 117th Street, Manhattan

NYRP and Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s Youth Channel host for a Red Carpet Youth Film Screening of films produced by the Youth Channel’s internship program and in their Youth Media Impacting Communities program. Popcorn and refreshments will be served.

For more information, please call 212-333-2552.

Metropolis at The Morgan ~ June 5 2009

As a compliment to the wonderful exhibition at The Morgan exploring the art and innovation of set and theater design, The Morgan offers a film screening with live music, tomorrow, Friday,

June 5 from 5:00 to 7:00PM.
Metropolis (1926, 79 minutes)
Director: Fritz Lang
Club Foot Orchestra East
Richard Marriott, composer
Richard Marriott and the members of the Club Foot Orchestra will provide live musical accompaniment to Fritz Lang’s revolutionary silent film, whose dark vision of a technological future has become iconic.

The Morgan is located at  225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, NYC, (212) 685-0008
Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Members

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Flow at Jivamukti May 29 at 8:00 PM

If only water would FLOW as fluidly as vinyasa at Jivamukti,… FLOW: FOR THE LOVE OF WATER plays tonight, Friday May 29, 8:00pm

This award-winning Documentary On The World Water Crisis by Irena Salina  investigates what experts label the most important  political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world?s  water supply with a focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a world water cartel.  Interviews with scientists and activists reveal the rapidly building crisis at the global and human scale.  FLOW introduces  governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, and questions “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”  Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW  provides practical solutions to the water crisis.

Admission $10 ~ Jivamukti ~ 841 Broadway ~ 2nd Floor ~ 13th Street.

Tribeca Film Festival — Opening April 22, 2009

The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off with the world premiere of Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works” on April 22. The fun continues through May 3rd  — for more information,…

BAM Kids Festival

Saturday February 28 and Sunday March 1, 2009 Enjoy the 11th Annual Brooklyn Academy of Music Film Festival.

For more information,…

BAM Rose Cinemas are located at 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn.

Alvin Ailey Film Festival at Lincoln Center

Alvin Ailey Day presents four programs of rare archival material and television documentaries honoring the life and work of the iconic figure, whose example continues to inspire dancers and choreographers and bring African-American cultural expression and the American modern dance tradition to the forefront of the international arts scene.

1:00pm A Hymn for Alvin Ailey screening with In the Company Of… ~ Special Guests: Judith Jamison, Anna Deavere Smith, director Orlando Bagwell and Donna Wood Sanders.

3:30pm Alvin Ailey: Memories and Visions screening with Camera Three ~ Special Guest: Judith Jamison.

6:15pm Ailey Celebrates Ellington screening with Lamp Unto My Feet ~ Special Guest: executive producer Herman Krawitz.

8:15pm Three by Three screening with Two by Dove ~ Special Guest: Patricia Birch.

See all four programs for one low price with the Alvin Ailey Day Pass: $32 public; $24 member, student, senior (62+) and child (6-12, accompanied by an adult).

For more information,…

The Walter Reade Theater is located in Lincoln Center at 65th Street and Broadway.

Central Park Film Festival – tonight through Saturday, August 23

Enjoy the Central Park Film Festival – tonight through Saturday, August 23.
Gates open at 6:00 PM
, at Rumsey Playfield (enter Central Park 
at Fifth Avenue and 69th Street)

Films begin at 8:00 PM.

Tuesday, August 19: Working Girl (1988)
Wednesday, August 20: The French Connection (1971)
Thursday, August 21: Strangers on a Train (1951)
Friday, August 22: Moonstruck (1987)
Saturday, August 23 * Family Night: August Rush (2007)

Rainy Sunday in New York

My favorite thing to do in the rain is run. And my favorite place to run in NY is Central Park. I love the Bridle Path because it is kind to the knees in a way that the knees of runner’s need.

After a spring rain, feeling cold, head to Bouchon at 59th and Columbus in the Time Warner Center for a perfectly brewed cup of coffee. If you are heading east, or northwest do the same at a Pain Quotidien. If you heading north of the park, stop at Café Society.

After a shower and a snack, luxuriously spend the majority of the day with The New York Times. And when peckish for a little Chinese food to go with your Sunday night, head to Shun Lee – East or West, before voyaging off to the cinema.

Downtown head to the Angelika, uptown head to The Paris, or don’t head on out at all. Stay home this Sunday in New York.

The HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival

Tonight, June 16, kicks off the 2008 Bryant Park Summer Film Festival with the classic Bond flick, Dr.No. The lawn opens at 5:00 PM where you can reserve a little blanket space and enjoy a picnic spread. Bring your own delectables or
pick-up a gourmet picnic basket from ‘wichcraft,’ conveniently located at the corner of the lawn.

Films begin at dusk, sometime between 8:00 and 9:00pm. For the line-up of this summer’s movies check out their calendar.

Underground movies, above ground locations

Since 1997, the folks at Rooftop Films have been providing New Yorkers with diverse movie screenings in the open air: lawns, parks, courtyards, and of course, rooftops. This weekend, program options include “Cinema and Social Justice” and “Making the Mission.”

Sounds like an excellent way to celebrate the end of a heat wave…