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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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, along...
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...
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...
