Musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo and Laurie Anderson, among many others — gets the documentary treatment in a film playing for a week (starting tomorrow) at the Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue at 12th Street.
In "Eno," the founding member of Roxy Music "reveals his creative processes."
Here's more:
In the first career-spanning documentary of the legendary and prolific artist and the world's first generative feature film, director Gary Hustwit set out to decode Eno's creative strategies and examine his lifelong search for the meaning of music. Defying the hagiographic impulses of the music doc genre, Eno draws from original interviews and the artist's own staggering archive of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music, as well as Hustwit's original interviews.
A different version of the film screens daily from Friday through Jan. 9. Find ticket info here.
There's a Q&A with Hustwit in conversation following the 7:40 p.m. screening on Saturday.
If you have three hours and 35 minutes (with intermission) to spare to see "The Brutalist" this holiday season, then I recommend seeing it in 70mm at the Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue and 12th Street. (Theater link here.)
The film, which opened on Dec. 20, is showing in the classic Jaffe Art Theatre in VistaVision, which Paramount Pictures developed 70 years ago. ("The Brutalist" is also shown here at other times, though not in 70mm.)
The acclaimed film tells the story of Holocaust survivor and Hungarian-born Jewish architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) as he begins a new life in America.
The lobby includes a display of buildings that Tóth's character designed...
"This film is the most personal piece of art that I have ever made," Brennan, an actor, comedian and filmmaker, told us. "It deals with the conversation a couple has to have when the wife is diagnosed with breast cancer."
The narrative hits very close to home and is based on the difficult conversations he and his wife had after learning she had cancer.
As he wrote in his director's statement:
"We are people who find the funny in most things, and this was no exception. The real-life conversations were adapted into the screenplay and with her approval, I decided to make the film in hopes that others who have to have 'The Chat' will find it comforting in knowing they are not alone."
His feature, in which Brennan stars opposite Emmy Harrington, is part of the Grand Streets Program that screens Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue and 12th Street. You can find ticket info here.
A favorite moment on Thursday evenings outside Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue and 12th Street — the changing of the letters on the marquee...
Even though a decent movie hasn't been made since 1915's "The Birth of a Nation," people keep trying and then hosting film festivals.
Screenings for the Tribeca Festival got underway on Wednesday at the Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue and 12th Street.
BTW — the screenings are at various theaters around the city, not just here. Find a list of what's playing at this link.
As mentioned, the "Kim's Video" documentary on the former EV staple of the same name is showing here next Tuesday and Wednesday. Find ticket info here.
At Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue and 12th Street... when you think the 2-hour and 59-minute "Beau Is Afraid" is almost over, but you realize there are still 85 minutes left...
"Enys Men" officially opens tomorrow at Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue at 12th Street ... and the Regal Union Square.
We caught an early screening this week ... and used these emojis to describe it on social media 🤯 and! 😳. (What are words for?)
The official description:
A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.'s most exciting and singular filmmakers.
[Side note: Jenkin's 2019 film "Bait" is also now playing at the Village East.]
If you like low-budget experimental folk horror films shot on 16mm... "Enys Men" is for you!
Oscar nominations were announced this morning... and, FWIW, several of those films are playing at the Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue at 12th Street... where three of the EVG f2022 avorites are — "Tár," "Aftersun" and "Decision to Leave" ...
Somehow, "Decision to Leave" wasn't nominated in a single category. Also, the Academy didn't nominate any women directors despite plenty of worthy films. (See Sarah Polley, "Women Talking" ... Gina Prince-Bythewood, "The Woman King" ... and Charlotte Wells, "Aftersun," among others.)
Two of EVG's favorite 2022 films — "Decision to Leave" and "Aftersun" — are now both playing at Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue at 12th Street. (With an assist by EV Arrow.)
The Wednesday evening Hitchcocktober screenings wrapped up tonight at Village East by Angelika with the spy thriller "Saboteur."
Coming Halloween night: "Psycho." The 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. showings are either sold out or close to it... so the theater added screenings at 6 and 7 p.m. (There's also one at 4:30 p.m.)
You can find ticket info here.
The Village East by Angelika is on Second Avenue at 12th Street.
The Village East is back in action (as of last evening) after 11 days of screenings for the Tribeca Festival.
The theater (Village East by Angelika) on 12th Street and Second Avenue closed after the business day on June 5 to prep for the festival... and the blank marquee that night prompted a few closure queries...
You can see "Goodfellas" and "George Michael Freedom Uncut" this week... not to mention a Stanley Kubrick retrospective. Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" opens Thursday. And "The Duke," a pleasant caper, moves over here on Friday after a run at the Angelika mothership on Houston. There are other films too.
Upcoming films include "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Feb. 14), the Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (March 14) and "The Wizard of Oz" (April 11).
