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 Frances Ha stillvia Rooftop Films Rooftop Films opened this weekend with an advance screening of Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha” to a controversial reception. Almost drowned out by a spectacular spring thunderstorm, the evening started in the elaborately painted auditorium of Open Road High School on the Lower East Side. The band Brazos played eerie, rousing, psychedelic … Continue reading  
Frances Ha Our favorite outdoor movies series, Rooftop Films, kicks off its 17th summer season this weekend right here on the LES with two signature programs: This is What We Mean by Short Films, and a sneak peek at writer and director Noah Baumbach’s feature, Frances Ha. Opening night’s This is What We Mean by Short Films features a … Continue reading
 Rooftop Films at Open Road Rooftop – photo by Sarah Palmer Our friends at Rooftop Films have announced the lineup for the opening weekend of their 17th Annual Summer Series. They’ll be kicking off the summer season down here at the Open Road Rooftop at New Design High School (350 Grand St., formerly Seward Park High … Continue reading
This week The Jewish Daily Forward features the Kickstarter campaign in support of Michael Levine’s Streit’s Matzo documentary film project. The production team has raised $14,000; they’ve got to hit $60,000 by the end of May. The documentary, “a story of Matzo and the American Dream on the Lower East Side,” celebrates the Streit family’s decision … Continue reading
 A still from the 1991 film, Delicatessen, by Jeunet & Caro. The fabulous French film Delicatessen will grace the screen at The Sunshine Cinema this weekend in the midnight time slot on Friday and Saturday. The film was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro (creators of The City of Lost Children and Amélie) and is … Continue reading
Barbara Rubin’s film Christmas On Earth was shot at 56 Ludlow Street, the Lower East Side apartment of John Cale. Now, it is being projected onto the walls of Boo Hooray Gallery, a short hike from the long vacant apartment where it was filmed. Grainy, sexual, alluring, disturbing images flicker across the white gallery wall: Rubin’s … Continue reading
In addition to dining out at local eateries this weekend, there are plenty of other easy, fun things to do (art exhibits, movies, shopping, gardening) while also boosting a variety of Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. We’ve listed a few here; write us at tips@thelodownny.com or Tweet us @lodownny if you know of others we … Continue reading
By Jennifer Strom in Arts, Fashion, Film Club, Parks and Recreation on November 16, 2012 2:30 pm |
 0 Comments   A still from “Your Day is My Night.” The documentary and live performance will be presented at University Settlement’s Performance Project Nov. 1-3, 2012. Photo courtesy of Lynne Sachs. They are living right here on the Lower East Side but most of us are oblivious to the existence, let alone the daily travails, of New York’s … Continue reading
By Giacinta Frisillo in Arts, chinatown, Featured, Film Club on October 9, 2012 10:20 am |
0 Comments  The cast and crew of the crime thriller “Dead Man Down” worked all afternoon in the athletic courts of Seward Park High School along Essex Street at Grand Street. Star Colin Farrell is on the bench. When the action movie Dead Man Down is released next April, Lower East Side residents will recognize plenty of the … Continue reading
 Jim Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation plays at the Seward Park Library tonight. Tonight, the Seward Park Library begins the second phase of its 2012 Lower East Side Heritage Film Series with a special focus: the eighties. The branch has been screening films shot on the Lower East Side every month since October, and will now present little-known … Continue reading
 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
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