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L.E.S. Heritage Film Series to Present Unpublished Rebecca Lepkoff Photos

The Seward Park Branch Library has announced the first program of its 2013/2014 Lower East Side Heritage Film Series, Rebecca Lepkoff: In photographs and conversation, on Tuesday, October 15th.  Ms. Lepkoff, a renowned historical New York City photographer and nonagenarian...

Seward Park Library Celebrates the 80s on Film

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...

LES Heritage Film Series Concludes Tomorrow Evening

One of our favorite events is having its second year finale tomorrow night. Here's Sean Ferguson of the Seward Park Library with the details: We are about to conclude the second season of our Lower East Side Heritage Film Series...

LES Heritage Film Series: Charles Mingus’ 90th Birthday

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,...

Scorsese and the City Come to the Heritage Film Series

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...

LES Heritage Film Series: “Punking Out” and “Wino”

Revisit punk rock birthplace CBGB's and hear members of the Ramones and the Dead Boys talk about their music and the NYC scene in 1979's "Punking Out," part of the next installment of the Lower East Side Heritage Film Series...

“Hester Street” Kicks Off LES Film Series

The Seward Park Library's LES Heritage Film Series returns for a second season Tuesday night.  Series curator Sean Ferguson digs up some real gems from the New York Public Library's vast film archive.  The screening room (the library's basement)...

Film Series: The Biggest Jewish City in the World

This month's LES Heritage Film Series will feature the 1976 film, The Biggest Jewish City in the World. The film was directed by David Gill and was produced as a part of the TV series, "Destination: America." It will...

LES Heritage Film Series Focus: Men on The Bowery

This month's edition of the fascinating LES Heritage Film Series at the Seward Park Library will focus on three films about the Bowery (including the famous time capsule, On the Bowery, that screened at Film Forum a few months...

Seward Park Library to Present L.E.S. Heritage Film Series

The Seward Park Library is offering a new film series called the LES Heritage Film Series. They will be screening historical documentary and feature films that were shot on location in lower Manhattan, on the first Tuesday of every month. Kicking off...
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The Lo-Down Culture Cast Episode 19 – Roxy Hunt, Co-Founder of The Lower East Side Film Festival

We spoke with Roxy Hunt, Co-Founder of The Lower East Side Film Festival (LESFF), for this week's episode of...
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