New York natives Josh and Benny Safdie are the Safdie Brothers. Remember the name, these kids are going places. This weekend marks the final days of the brothers two-week summer series Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema, which features films they directed and selected for screening at BAM. We spoke to Josh Safdie about his craft.
August 20, 2010 Film, In Brooklyn, MultiMedia, Video
Brooklynite Paul Dano loves to eat meat, but doesn’t want your milkshake. We caught up with the actor in advance of next week’s release of his new flick, The Extra Man, based on a novel by Jonathan Ames.
July 22, 2010 Film
Performance artist, producer and director Sini Anderson appeared last month at the Franklin Park Reading Series and recently announced she is directing a documentary about her long time friend Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre fame.
July 9, 2010 Music Profiles
In her upcoming documentary Imaginary Mothers, local filmmaker Jacqueline Arias examines the often unregulated adoption industry through the perspective of the natural mothers. Join her this Friday at Littlefield to view the latest footage.
June 21, 2010 Film
Local filmmaker Cameron Yates talks about his first feature-length documentary, The Canal Street Madam, which premieres in New York this Friday.
June 16, 2010 Film
Freebird Books will be screening films about the waterfront outdoors on successive Thursdays. Tonight it’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Next week it’s Edge of the City.
June 10, 2010 Reader in Residence
The Medgar Evers College Film & Culture Series engages in “viewing and discussing important works of film that speak to or about the experiences of members of the African Diaspora.”
February 26, 2010 Film
Nowhere in Brooklyn is there a more foreign enclave than Brighton. Under the elevated tracks of the B and Q, caressed by sea breezes, the sidewalks of Brighton Beach Avenue vibrate with a cacophony of voices: the Russian of women hawking pastries, the English of sand-seeking day trippers, the hum of shoppers hailing from Omsk to Kiev.
Our weekly tip sheet on where to see what in the Brooklyn art world. This week’s featured listing is Klompching Gallery’s: “Phillip Toledano: A New Kind of Beauty,” opening Wednesday, September 8, 6-8pm. Click through to read more.
You decide! Are these famous folks tragic or groundbreaking? It’s up to debate. Each note-worthy figure is paired with an …
Your weekly listing of readings and literary events around Brooklyn: a comic artist lands at Desert Island, a funny girl from the Bronx stops in DUMBO, and runner-extraordinaire Christopher McDougall shares advice at WORD.
