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 photo via rooftopfilms.com Rooftop Films has been showing films outdoors in some of the most stunning outdoor rooftop venues around NYC for the past 16 years. One of those rooftops is right here on Grand Street at Open Road Rooftop at New Design High School. If you weren’t able to attend the opening of Rooftop’s 16th Annual Summer Series two … Continue reading  
 Image from Think of Me. Photo by Bryan Hainer Sultry sadness is a single mom living off the Vegas strip, struggling to raise her young daughter in Bryan Wizemann’s Think of Me. The film helped kick off Rooftop Films’ opening weekend on the sprawling roof of New Design High School Saturday, the lurid lights of … Continue reading
Rooftop Films is kicking off it’s summer series at the Open Road Rooftop on Grand Street this weekend. Their evening of short films from around the world, tonight, is sold out, but you can still get tickets for Bryan Wizemann’s feature, Think of Me, starring Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under, Sleep Walk With Me) tomorrow night. It’s … Continue reading
 This month’s LES Heritage Film Series screening will be a one-of-a-kind event; the program will consist of a silent film from 1915, by Raul Walsh, titled Regeneration (60 min.), and it will be accompanied by a very unique musical score, consisting of music written in the year 1915 by Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin, and … Continue reading
 Rooftop Films at Open Road Rooftop – photo by Sarah Palmer Our friends at Rooftop Films have announced the feature film lineup for their upcoming 16th Annual Summer Series. They’ve been kicking off their summer season down here at the Open Road Rooftop at New Design High School (formerly Seward Park High School) for the last … Continue reading
 Photo via Tom Marcello on Flickr. Next week’s screening at the Lower East Side Heritage Film Series looks like a doozy. In honor of what would have been legendary jazz musician Charles Mingus’ 90th birthday, they will present Mingus (1968, 59 min., 16mm). The documentary, directed by Thomas Reichman, is a 1966 interview with Mingus during the … Continue reading
 Still from A Little Closer, a film by Matthew Petock, which opened the L.E.S. Film Festival last night. The L.E.S. Film Festival opened to a packed house last night at the Sunshine Cinema on Houston Street. Complimentary beer was flowing and downtown performance artist Justin Bond was in the audience. Bond is one the festival judges, … Continue reading
 Scorsese interviewing his parents at their home on Elizabeth Street, in the film "Italianamerican." This month’s installment of the always fascinating LES Heritage Film Series will include film legend Martin Scorsese interviewing his parents in Italianamerican (1974, 26 min., 16mm). Scorsese visits with them in their home on Elizabeth Street while they are preparing dinner. His … Continue reading
Although they apparently aren’t allowed to say “Oscars,” The Sunshine Cinema confirms (via their Facebook Page) that they will be screening “Hollywood’s Big Night” this Sunday, beginning at 7pm (143 E. Houston). They write: We’re going to host that famous awards show (that we’re not allowed to mention by name for legal reasons, no joke) live … Continue reading
 LES Film Festival Curators Shannon Walker and Damon Cardasis, along with fellow festival directors Roxy Hunt and Tony Castle. The L.E.S. Film Festival has announced a fun lineup for its 2012 program, touting big name directors like Abel Ferrara and big screen talent like Willem Dafoe, Dolly Parton and Dustin Lance Black. The local festival, now … Continue reading
 Carol Kane in a still from the 1975 movie, Hester Street. Our friends at the Museum at Eldridge Street will be screening a rarely seen film, Hester Street, by Joan Micklin Silver, this Sunday at 3:00pm. The best part? Two for one tickets for Lower East Siders who live or work in the neighborhood! They write: See a … Continue reading
 Pull My Daisy 1959 Film Still The Lower East Side Heritage Film Series at Seward Park Library has a fun line-up this month. This Tuesday they will focus on “Bubbies & Beats.” On the program: Pull My Daisy (1959, 29 min., 16mm) “Friday morning in the universe…” is the opening line of Jack Kerouac’s improvisational narration … Continue reading
 Arleen Schloss at home in her office. Photo courtesy of Arleen Schloss via Stuart Ginsberg. Arleen Schloss has been described as a creative force of nature. She is a prolific experimental artist whose work over the course of 30 years, beginning in the 1970′s, occupied the avant-garde edge, encompassing performance art, sound poetry, video, digital multimedia … Continue reading
 Rooftop Films is partnering with EPIX, a digital video streaming company, and Verizon Fios to present free screenings at four different venues around the city this summer. They kick off the series with a screening of Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull this evening at 8pm in Tomkin Square Park. Boxing promoter Don King is on the bill … Continue reading
 The LES Heritage Film Series is closing out its season tomorrow evening at the Seward Park Library with a film from the Fulton Fish Market in 1955 and a compilation piece of amazing footage shot in and around Seward Park Library in three different time periods, starting in 1934! Curator Sean Ferguson writes: It might be hard to … Continue reading
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