Monday,
Nov. 9
6:30 pm
F.R.E.E. FILM FORUM
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In Prison My Whole Life
Dir. Mark Evans, 2008, 90 min.
In Prison My Whole Life is about a man: a father, a son, an inspiration and a pariah – who currently faces his twenty-fifth year on Death Row. His name is Mumia [...]
“I LOVE JAZZ!”
Dee Ramsey, Producer /Host
Wednesday, November 18 through Wednesday, December 30
Listen Up Jazz Fans… we’ve got something for everyone, spread the word!
“Precious”
Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 Theater
Friday, November 6 through Thursday, December 31
This much anticipated film stars Mo’Nique and introduces Gabourey Sidibe!
”Dark Matters and Entropy”
New paintings by Jack [...]
Friends of the Maysles Cinema,
This week at the Maysles Cinema we get back to work with an all-star line up. Tonight at 7:30pm we show Soul Power, on the Zaire 74 music festival that accompanied the “Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Performers include James Brown, Celia [...]
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One of the summer’s biggest blockbusters — a sci-fi morality tale about aliens and apartheid — is not welcome in Nigeria because of its portrayal of Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals, Nigeria’s information minister said Saturday.
Information Minister Dora Akunyili has asked movie houses in the capital of Abuja to stop screening [...]
With seven theatrical releases, beginning with 2005’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, that have grossed nearly $400 million and two syndicated television series, Tyler Perry is easily the most successful black filmmaker and producer in a generation. Perry has rode the house-dress of his most popular character, Aunt Madea—a chain-smoking, gun-toting and cussing [...]
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“You have got to see this film!”
It was the slight twinge of urgency in my friend Shimoda’s voice that prompted me to see the film “Whitewash,” an independent documentary about black surfers directed by Ted Woods.
Shimoda Emanuel, a jewelry designer and artist by trade, told me she and her husband Luther [...]
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“More Than a Game,” which had its world premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows the friendships and basketball exploits of James and his teammates at St. Vincent-St.
Mary High School in Akron. James is also an executive producer of the film.
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The Architecture of Doom / Undergangens arkitektur
Peter Cohen, Sweden, 1989; 119m
Presented Sat. Aug 29: 1:00pm and Wed. Sep 2: 9:00pm
Rejected from art school and then inspired to create the Third Reich while watching a performance of Wagner’s Rienzi, Hitler devoted an inordinate amount of his time studying and planning architectural projects, even in [...]
Tuesday July 28 marked the beginning of the 10th New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF). NYILFF’s mission is to showcase the works of the hottest emerging Latino filmmaking talent in the U.S. and Latin America, offer expansive images of the Latino experience, and celebrate the diversity and spirit of the Latino community.
On Wednesday night, [...]
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American Gangster (rated: 3 of 5 worlds)
(HBO on Comcast) The director Ridley Scott and the screenwriter Steve Zaillian take us back to an era when a drug lord had some class, the drug lord being the real-life ’70s Harlem kingpin Frank Lucas. The movie mixes boilerplate crime-epic frills with pointed observations about a black male [...]
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It was a warm Monday night. The sky had darkened to a sufficient shade of gray. The blankets were out and people had taken their seats. Then the screen lighted up with a familiar movie from three decades ago. Only this wasn’t Bryant Park, and it wasn’t “Kramer vs. Kramer.” This was St. Nicholas Park [...]
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Chris Rock’s upcoming documentary, called “Good Hair,” takes a look at the world of hair and the obsession around it by African-American women. Apparently this is a $9 billion industry and includes products like wigs, weaves, extensions and relaxers. Check out the trailer below.
Plot: Chris Rock examines the cost, both financial [...]
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Sade: Lovers Live, Dir. Sophie Muller, 2002, 116 min.
Lovers Live is a concert film of the one and only Sade’s 2001 Lovers Rock tour. Critically acclaimed and hugely attended, the concert featured the songstress performing hits off her 2001 eponymous album, as well as earlier classics. Set list includes “Sweetest Taboo,” “Cherish the Day,” and [...]
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AT age 82, the documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles is one of the protean figures in his field. It is hardly surprising that the four-story brownstone on West 122nd Street in Harlem that he moved to in 2005 is filled with art and artifacts reflecting a century of cultural, social and political history.
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George Melendez Wright was the first person in history to propose and conduct a survey of wildlife and plantlife conditions in America’s parks…
…resulting in landmark reports that led to the protection of natural species throughout the park system. This clip from Ken Burns’s newest film, The National Parks: Americas Best [...]
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Oscar nominated, pioneering filmmaker, Albert Maysles takes us on an evocative journey in Harlem
Check out Maysles Cinema at Lenox Avenue (beteen 127th and 128th Streets).
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Cece’s comment From Popwatch.com
Cece Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:59 PM EST
I have a few. One is Barry Gordy’s The Last Dragon because, when I was a kid, my cousins and I would act out the movie and my dad would be the Shogun of Harlem.
The Princess Bride, because this is one of the few [...]
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This Saturday, June 20th, at 8 PM we will be screening New Muslim Cool on the roof of El Museo del Barrio:
Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young Muslim. Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side [...]
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It’s no surprise that quirky local characters are the driving force behind the little movie house that documentarian Albert Maysles built in Harlem. But what ties them all together remains a bit of a mystery.
A multiracial group mills about, sipping Haitian rum from plastic cups inside a four-story building on Lenox Avenue. The humid spring [...]
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Friends of the Maysles Cinema,
This weekend, Friday, June 12th to Sunday, June 14th, we get in on the act and bring it all back to the house that Grey Gardens built with STAUNCH!: The Ultimate Grey Gardens Festival, curated by Rebekah and Sara Maysles. STAUNCH! is a tribute to the documentary film and most of [...]
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Sunday, May 10th, 6:00pm
Keeling’s Carribean Showcase
Gangsta’s Paradise
Dir. Trenton Gumbs (2004) 90 min.
A slice of violence, betrayal and murderous retribution from the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica to the streets of Downtown L.A. Gangsta’s Paradise boasts a star-studded cast of today’s hottest talent, including Beenie Man, Ninja Man and John “Ras Kidus” Cornelius as Shotta.
Maysles Cinema, 343 [...]
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Hello -
I’m a producer for Thirteen/WNET, and want to share with you the latest installment of our online video series The City Concealed. It focuses on the United Palace Theater in Harlem, once a fantastic movie palace and now host to church sermons and other events.
Here’s an excerpt the from the story written by producer [...]
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Re-Zoning Harlem
April 7th – 11th at 7:30pm
Dir. Natasha Florentino & Tamara Gubernat, 2009, 40 min.
A recently updated version of Rezoning Harlem follows longtime members of the Harlem community as they fight a 2008 rezoning that threatens to erase the history and culture of their neighborhood and replace it with luxury housing, offices, and big-box [...]
Greetings!
Please try to come out on Friday (March 27) to support our good friend, Souleymane Sy Savane in Goodbye Solo. Soulémané makes his feature film debut with “Goodbye Solo,” and his performance is fresh and riveting.
Although, some of you may have witnessed Soulémané’s talents in Manchester Bound, a independent film by Vigil C. Chimé (Harlem, New York) who heads, Breakfast Pictures Entertainment, [...]
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Greetings!
I hope all is well. We are gearing up for next week’s Music & Soul in the African Diaspora Film Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. We want to invite you to attend this great film program that I’m sure you would like to attend. There is a great line-up films that show how influential [...]
Whether exposing the harsh realities of environmental disasters or revealing the colorful history of jazz music, documentarians meet a unique set of challenges among filmmakers.
Please join Sandra Luckow, a Barnard lecturer who also teaches film production at the Yale School of Art, as she moderates a discussion with three award-winning Barnard filmmakers about what it [...]
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Thursday, March, 19th, 7;30 pm
The 7 Train: An Immigrant Journey
Dir. Hye Jung Park, 1999, 29 min
Every day 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride a subway that runs from Flushing to Times Square, going through Queens, the most culturally diverse region in the United States. This documentary follows four immigrant passengers: a Korean who works [...]
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