Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Museum of the Moving Image
A particularly outstanding weekend for “See It Big! Action” offers Big Trouble in Little China on Friday, a John Woo double-bill of Hard Boiled and Face/Off on Saturday, and Die Hard this Sunday.
A Carlos Reygadas series is underway, with all of his pre-Our Time features screening through Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A particularly outstanding weekend for “See It Big! Action” offers Big Trouble in Little China on Friday, a John Woo double-bill of Hard Boiled and Face/Off on Saturday, and Die Hard this Sunday.
A Carlos Reygadas series is underway, with all of his pre-Our Time features screening through Sunday.
- 6/6/2019
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
I’ve been making 16mm durational urban landscape voiceover films, slowly but surely, since the late ‘90s. My short film Blue Diary premiered at the Berlinale in 1998. My two features, The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015) both premiered in the prestigious New Frontiers section at the Sundance Film Festival and have been as wildly successful as experimental films can be. Which is to say, they remain fairly obscure. My small but enthusiastic fan-base frequently asks me for recommendations of films that are similar to my own in terms of incorporating durational landscapes and voiceover and a meditative pace. While it is certainly one of the smallest subgenres in the realm of filmmaking, here are a handful of excellent landscape cinema examples by the practitioners I know best. I confess that my expertise here is limited and hope that the learned Mubi community will chime in with additions in the comments field below.
- 10/11/2016
- MUBI
Her Silent SeamingPerhaps more than most other forms of cinema, experimental film and video is an auteur’s medium through and through. Since the production model for avant-garde work is almost exclusively artisanal, with a single individual (or possibly a duo or an artists’ collective) making the work from a studio context similar to that or a sculptor or photographer, it only makes sense to consider these works are expressions of an artist’s point of view. As such, those of us who regularly engage with experimental work will inevitably use the artist as the primary mode of categorization—who to keep track of, who seems promising, etc.But there’s a bit more to it. One of the greatest joys of avant-garde filmgoing, as any fan will tell you, is seeing an expertly curated program of films, be they new short works, recontextualized classics, or some combination thereof. A...
- 1/22/2016
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
The 61st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival running April 30 - May 5, has selected 132 films from 41 countries for its five competitive programs. With 59 entries the International Competition is the largest section by far. There are 19 films in the German Competition and 11 each in the Nrw Competition and the MuVi Award, 35 productions will be shown in the Children’s and Youth Film Competition.
Oberhausen is awarding prizes amounting to 41,250 Euros in all of its five competitions. Whereas large festivals are facing growing criticism for showing too few films by women, the proportion of female filmmakers at Oberhausen is traditionally high: approximately 50% of the films in this year's competitions are made by women.
The films were selected from almost 6,000 entries from 98 countries. This shows the unbroken strength of the genre of short film as well as the position of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen as one of the leading festivals of its kind worldwide. Compared to 2014 the number of entries has risen by almost 1,000. The internet plays an important role in this: way over half the films reached Oberhausen via internet upload.
The Oberhausen competitions thus reflect the recent development from bulky reel of film to VHS and DVD, culminating in “immaterial” files. The majority of the competition films have in the past three years been projected in today's customary Dcp format.
Sebastian Buerkner's Flamin Productions commissioned film "The Chimera of M" is among work by a host of Flamin alumni featuring as part of an impressive line-up.
This year's program also includes a profile of William Raban, featuring his Flamin-supported work "Continental Drift," alongside films by fellow alumni Ben Rivers, Laure Prouvost and Luciano Zubillaga.
International Competition
59 films from 32 countries were selected for this Competition from 4,553 entries. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 25,500 euros. A number of smaller film nations are represented in this Competition, with films from Kazakhstan, Haiti, Vietnam or Uganda. The presence of Switzerland and Norway is unusually strong, each with three films...more
German Competition
For this Competition, 19 films were selected from 1,146 entries that will compete for prizes worth a total of 7,500 euros. The German short film is not the domain of film schools, but thrives in a very strong free scene. This is clearly demonstrated by the entries: only approximately 300 works – that is just over a quarter –, come from film schools...more
Nrw Competition
11 films were selected from 224 entries from Nrw. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 2,250 euros. Oberhausen has paid tribute to the strength of film in the federal state of Nrw since 2009 in programs reserved for films from Nrw. Film school and free productions are fairly equally balanced here...more
17th MuVi Award
11 videos were selected from 204 entries, competing for prizes worth a total of 3,500 euros. The vast majority of the videos – including clips for Deichkind, Mouse on Mars, Von Spar or Chicks on Speed – come from Berlin, Hamburg und Munich, the centers of German music production... more
38th Children’s and Youth Film Competition
35 films from 17 countries were selected from 320 films that were submitted for the German and International Competitions. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 3,000 euros. The Children and Youth film Competition also offers plenty of opportunity to make discoveries beyond the dominant film producing countries, for example with films from Columbia, Argentina, Mexico or Brazil..
In addition to the big festival competitive sections, the Theme program or the Profiles, the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will present a number of smaller program, from 3D films for children to the Open Screening where films that weren't selected for the competitions are presented by the filmmakers.
Award Winners of other Festivals
Thursday, April 30, 5 p.m.
A selection of recent shorts, all of which won prizes at other big festivals - Locarno, Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand.
Short Matters!
May 1, 3 and 4, 6 p.m.
Three programs featuring the most striking European short films of 2014, all of them nominees for last year's European Short Film Award.
25 Years of the Khm
Friday, May 1, 2.30 p.m.
The Academy of Media Arts Cologne Khm is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. In honour of the occasion, Oberhausen presents a selection of films from the Khm that were all screened in Oberhausen in recent years.
Derek Jarman Newly Restored
Monday, May 4, 10.30 p.m.
Between 1970 and 1983 Derek Jarman made over 80 individual Super 8 films which have now been digitised frame by frame, supported by the Lumas foundation. Oberhausen will be the first venue to screen a selection of these films in 2K, presented by James Mackay, the initiator of the project.
Michael Brynntrup: Jesus - the Film
Friday, May 1 (German only)
6 p.m.: Book presentation, Festival Space
8 p.m.: Film screening, Kino im Walzenlager
Michael Brynntrup's project Jesus - der Film (1985/86) saw him assembling 35 episodes from the New Testament, which were filmed by 22 filmmakers on Super 8. Brynntrup will be in Oberhausen to present the book on the film along with a few surprises.
Believe!
Monday, May 4, 8 p.m.
A program from our distribution catalog in which five filmmakers cast a fresh view on questions of faith and forms of religious practice around the world.
Emerging Artists
Sunday, May 3, 8 p.m.
Seven extraordinary works by young German filmmakers. A selection by Ag Kurzfilm and German Films.
Open Screening
May 3-4, 8 p.m.
Filmmakers not selected for the competitions present their works at the Oberhausen - a real favorite with the audiences.
The Third Image - 3D Cinema as Experiment: a subject for children
May 3, 10.30 a.m.
Films from the program "The Third Image - 3D Cinema as Experiment", that are suitable for children aged 8 and above, including the premiere of a 3D film made by young people from Oberhausen, Searching for Space.
The Oberhausen Selection
May 3, 4 p.m. (German only)
Citizens of Oberhausen have put this program together from films in the Festival archive - an ideal introduction for people who are curious about short films. In co-operation with the City of Oberhausen's Office for Equal Opportunities/Life in Old Age Division.
4th Poetry Clip Competition
May 4, 12.30 p.m. (German only)
Oberhausen school groups from the ninth year are entering their poetry clips in the race, all of which will be screened at the Festival. The project is sponsored by the "Arts Open Worlds" program of the Bkj (Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e.V.), which is part of the "Culture Makes Strong. Alliances for Education" from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The prize money is donated by Energieversorgung Oberhausen (evo).
Filmgeflacker Open Air
May 1, 10.30 p.m.
Oberhausen's Filmgeflacker art collective will be presenting films from this year's competitions, and the filmmakers will be invited to discuss their works with the audience. The event will be held in the Kino im Walzenlager in case of bad weather.
Poetry Slam
May 3, 9 p.m. (German only)
Poetry slammers perform texts inspired by films from the current German Competition. Hosted by Jonas Jahn.
Oberhausen is awarding prizes amounting to 41,250 Euros in all of its five competitions. Whereas large festivals are facing growing criticism for showing too few films by women, the proportion of female filmmakers at Oberhausen is traditionally high: approximately 50% of the films in this year's competitions are made by women.
The films were selected from almost 6,000 entries from 98 countries. This shows the unbroken strength of the genre of short film as well as the position of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen as one of the leading festivals of its kind worldwide. Compared to 2014 the number of entries has risen by almost 1,000. The internet plays an important role in this: way over half the films reached Oberhausen via internet upload.
The Oberhausen competitions thus reflect the recent development from bulky reel of film to VHS and DVD, culminating in “immaterial” files. The majority of the competition films have in the past three years been projected in today's customary Dcp format.
Sebastian Buerkner's Flamin Productions commissioned film "The Chimera of M" is among work by a host of Flamin alumni featuring as part of an impressive line-up.
This year's program also includes a profile of William Raban, featuring his Flamin-supported work "Continental Drift," alongside films by fellow alumni Ben Rivers, Laure Prouvost and Luciano Zubillaga.
International Competition
59 films from 32 countries were selected for this Competition from 4,553 entries. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 25,500 euros. A number of smaller film nations are represented in this Competition, with films from Kazakhstan, Haiti, Vietnam or Uganda. The presence of Switzerland and Norway is unusually strong, each with three films...more
German Competition
For this Competition, 19 films were selected from 1,146 entries that will compete for prizes worth a total of 7,500 euros. The German short film is not the domain of film schools, but thrives in a very strong free scene. This is clearly demonstrated by the entries: only approximately 300 works – that is just over a quarter –, come from film schools...more
Nrw Competition
11 films were selected from 224 entries from Nrw. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 2,250 euros. Oberhausen has paid tribute to the strength of film in the federal state of Nrw since 2009 in programs reserved for films from Nrw. Film school and free productions are fairly equally balanced here...more
17th MuVi Award
11 videos were selected from 204 entries, competing for prizes worth a total of 3,500 euros. The vast majority of the videos – including clips for Deichkind, Mouse on Mars, Von Spar or Chicks on Speed – come from Berlin, Hamburg und Munich, the centers of German music production... more
38th Children’s and Youth Film Competition
35 films from 17 countries were selected from 320 films that were submitted for the German and International Competitions. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 3,000 euros. The Children and Youth film Competition also offers plenty of opportunity to make discoveries beyond the dominant film producing countries, for example with films from Columbia, Argentina, Mexico or Brazil..
In addition to the big festival competitive sections, the Theme program or the Profiles, the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will present a number of smaller program, from 3D films for children to the Open Screening where films that weren't selected for the competitions are presented by the filmmakers.
Award Winners of other Festivals
Thursday, April 30, 5 p.m.
A selection of recent shorts, all of which won prizes at other big festivals - Locarno, Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand.
Short Matters!
May 1, 3 and 4, 6 p.m.
Three programs featuring the most striking European short films of 2014, all of them nominees for last year's European Short Film Award.
25 Years of the Khm
Friday, May 1, 2.30 p.m.
The Academy of Media Arts Cologne Khm is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. In honour of the occasion, Oberhausen presents a selection of films from the Khm that were all screened in Oberhausen in recent years.
Derek Jarman Newly Restored
Monday, May 4, 10.30 p.m.
Between 1970 and 1983 Derek Jarman made over 80 individual Super 8 films which have now been digitised frame by frame, supported by the Lumas foundation. Oberhausen will be the first venue to screen a selection of these films in 2K, presented by James Mackay, the initiator of the project.
Michael Brynntrup: Jesus - the Film
Friday, May 1 (German only)
6 p.m.: Book presentation, Festival Space
8 p.m.: Film screening, Kino im Walzenlager
Michael Brynntrup's project Jesus - der Film (1985/86) saw him assembling 35 episodes from the New Testament, which were filmed by 22 filmmakers on Super 8. Brynntrup will be in Oberhausen to present the book on the film along with a few surprises.
Believe!
Monday, May 4, 8 p.m.
A program from our distribution catalog in which five filmmakers cast a fresh view on questions of faith and forms of religious practice around the world.
Emerging Artists
Sunday, May 3, 8 p.m.
Seven extraordinary works by young German filmmakers. A selection by Ag Kurzfilm and German Films.
Open Screening
May 3-4, 8 p.m.
Filmmakers not selected for the competitions present their works at the Oberhausen - a real favorite with the audiences.
The Third Image - 3D Cinema as Experiment: a subject for children
May 3, 10.30 a.m.
Films from the program "The Third Image - 3D Cinema as Experiment", that are suitable for children aged 8 and above, including the premiere of a 3D film made by young people from Oberhausen, Searching for Space.
The Oberhausen Selection
May 3, 4 p.m. (German only)
Citizens of Oberhausen have put this program together from films in the Festival archive - an ideal introduction for people who are curious about short films. In co-operation with the City of Oberhausen's Office for Equal Opportunities/Life in Old Age Division.
4th Poetry Clip Competition
May 4, 12.30 p.m. (German only)
Oberhausen school groups from the ninth year are entering their poetry clips in the race, all of which will be screened at the Festival. The project is sponsored by the "Arts Open Worlds" program of the Bkj (Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e.V.), which is part of the "Culture Makes Strong. Alliances for Education" from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The prize money is donated by Energieversorgung Oberhausen (evo).
Filmgeflacker Open Air
May 1, 10.30 p.m.
Oberhausen's Filmgeflacker art collective will be presenting films from this year's competitions, and the filmmakers will be invited to discuss their works with the audience. The event will be held in the Kino im Walzenlager in case of bad weather.
Poetry Slam
May 3, 9 p.m. (German only)
Poetry slammers perform texts inspired by films from the current German Competition. Hosted by Jonas Jahn.
- 4/28/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Fury (David Ayer)
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
- 9/3/2014
- by John
- SoundOnSight
Browse all the sections of the 57th London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
- 9/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
BFI London Film Festival
Bearing in mind the state of Leicester Square right now (it's more of a construction site), and the cuts inflicted on British film in the past year, you could forgive the country's biggest film festival for toning things down a bit this year – except it hasn't. There's as much here as there ever was, from the rest of the world and, reassuringly, from Britain. It's heartening to see so many of our cherished auteurs back in action: Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea, which closes the festival); Andrea Arnold (her earthy take on Wuthering Heights); Michael Winterbottom (Trishna); Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), and Steve McQueen (Shame). And there are plenty here who could join their ranks, from as-yet-unknowns in the New British Cinema section to first-time directors Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill) and Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus).
From the international stage, there are recent...
Bearing in mind the state of Leicester Square right now (it's more of a construction site), and the cuts inflicted on British film in the past year, you could forgive the country's biggest film festival for toning things down a bit this year – except it hasn't. There's as much here as there ever was, from the rest of the world and, reassuringly, from Britain. It's heartening to see so many of our cherished auteurs back in action: Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea, which closes the festival); Andrea Arnold (her earthy take on Wuthering Heights); Michael Winterbottom (Trishna); Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), and Steve McQueen (Shame). And there are plenty here who could join their ranks, from as-yet-unknowns in the New British Cinema section to first-time directors Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill) and Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus).
From the international stage, there are recent...
- 10/7/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Once again, in a perfect blend of Canadian and U.S. experimental film harmony, the cities of Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan are teaming up for the 17th annual Media City. It’s four nights of great experimental videos and films from all over the world that will run on May 24-28.
Special events this year include a retrospective of the work of Dutch filmmaker Jaap Pieters, which opens the fest. Pieters specializes in shooting 3-minute reel Super 8 films of the interesting people and events that pass by his apartment window, which he has been making for three decades.
There will also be a retrospective of the films of William Raban, who has been making experimental documentaries about the changing face of east London over the past 25 years. Plus, artist Silvi Simon will host a discussion of her sculptural film projections, which will be on display at the Art Gallery of Windsor.
Special events this year include a retrospective of the work of Dutch filmmaker Jaap Pieters, which opens the fest. Pieters specializes in shooting 3-minute reel Super 8 films of the interesting people and events that pass by his apartment window, which he has been making for three decades.
There will also be a retrospective of the films of William Raban, who has been making experimental documentaries about the changing face of east London over the past 25 years. Plus, artist Silvi Simon will host a discussion of her sculptural film projections, which will be on display at the Art Gallery of Windsor.
- 5/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Brian Dillon hails the return of Patrick Keiller's Robinson in a film about the conundrum of the countryside
The opening sentence of Patrick Keiller's new film, voiced with laconic precision and italic irony by Vanessa Redgrave, is calculated to quicken the hearts of admirers of Keiller's enigmatic oeuvre: "When a man named Robinson was released from Edgecote open prison, he made his way to the nearest city and looked for somewhere to haunt." Robinson in Ruins is the third of Keiller's feature-length essay-fictions to deposit his eccentric protagonist among the relics of millennial England, where he functions once more as the comically half-deluded conduit for the director's own brand of visionary scholarship. As a fictional invention, the autodidact aesthete Robinson, whom we only ever encounter via the films' narrators' vexed relations with him, is an absurd sort of wraith, tricked up from reminders of Defoe and Céline, but...
The opening sentence of Patrick Keiller's new film, voiced with laconic precision and italic irony by Vanessa Redgrave, is calculated to quicken the hearts of admirers of Keiller's enigmatic oeuvre: "When a man named Robinson was released from Edgecote open prison, he made his way to the nearest city and looked for somewhere to haunt." Robinson in Ruins is the third of Keiller's feature-length essay-fictions to deposit his eccentric protagonist among the relics of millennial England, where he functions once more as the comically half-deluded conduit for the director's own brand of visionary scholarship. As a fictional invention, the autodidact aesthete Robinson, whom we only ever encounter via the films' narrators' vexed relations with him, is an absurd sort of wraith, tricked up from reminders of Defoe and Céline, but...
- 11/20/2010
- by Brian Dillon
- The Guardian - Film News
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