Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty
Marriage Story is Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, Loren Dean
Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley, Aneurin Barnard, Finn Wolfhard, Ashleigh Cummings, Willa Fitzgerald
The Goldfinch is the film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s globally acclaimed bestseller of the same name, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and spent more than 30 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Theodore “Theo” Decker (Ansel Elgort) was 13 years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day: a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch. The Goldfinch.
Starring: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Lili Reinhart, Julia Stiles, Madeline Brewer, Keke Palmer
Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. The film is inspired by the article published by New York Magazine entitled “The Hustlers at Scores” written by Jessica Pressler.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans
She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain’s help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm’s way.
Starring: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Yvonne de Bray, Suzanne Dehelly, Marie-Claire Olivia, Marina de Berg
Neglected for almost 70 years, Olivia is a remarkable work by one of France’s groundbreaking female filmmakers, Jacqueline Audry. It is set in a 19th century boarding school for girls, a space somewhat reminiscent of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. While not addressing lesbianism directly, it is the story of the two mistresses of the house, their competition for the affections of their students, and the students’ discovery of the dangerous game of love and attraction.
Art21 and Nitehawk present an evening of films with artist Marcel Dzama. Dzama (subject of Art21’s upcoming Marcel Dzama: Making Movies with Amy Sedaris & Friends) creates drawings that feature a cast of humans, animals, and hybrid creatures rendered in pencil, ink, watercolor, and, at times, root-beer syrup. Dzama draws upon a mix of influences—from childhood monsters, like the Wolfman and Dracula, to the work of artists like Marcel Duchamp, Francisco Goya, William Blake, and Francis Picabia—to create unique worlds that are at once surreal and familiar, sweet and violent, and chaotic and elegant.
PROGRAM
MARCEL DZAMA: ORGANIZING CHAOS by Art21. 2018. (8 min)
In this documentary short, artist Marcel Dzama is shown at work at his Brooklyn studio, discussing the evolution of his drawings, from his time growing up in his native Winnipeg, to his move to New York in 2004, to his more recent responses to U.S. politics and media.
MARCEL DZAMA: MAKING MOVIES WITH AMY SEDARIS & FRIENDS by Art21. 2019. (5:30 min)
On set with friends like Amy Sedaris and Raymond Pettibon, artist Marcel Dzama directs his latest film and discusses the importance of collaboration in contrast to his more solitary drawing practice.
GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST by Hans Richter. 1928. (9 min)
A German Dada classic, this short film utilizes stop motion and animation to explore fantasy, revolt, and the surreal.
ENTR’ACTE by René Clair. 1924. (18 min)
Originally premiered as the intermission film for the Ballets Suédois and heralded as a cinematic masterpiece, this short was written by Francis Picabia and features cameo appearances by many of Dada artists of the time in a series of zany, disconnected scenes.
SAD GHOST/GARAGE VIDEOS by Spike Jonze and Marcel Dzama. 2006 (27:18 min)
Made in collaboration with Spike Jonze and other artists, Sad Ghost/Garage Videos depicts a series of short vignettes, featuring Dzama’s childlike costumes, Dada film references, and absurdist humor.
UNE DANSE DES BOUFFONS by Marcel Dzama. 2013. (17:30 min excerpt)
Featuring Kim Gordon, this film depicts a fictionalized, ill-fated, romantic affair between Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who served as the model for Duchamp’s last major art
work Étant donnés.
PAX (& THE GODDESS OF THE SEA) by Marcel Dzama. 2008. (6 min)
A short tale of sea goddess and her comrades.
The legendary Piper Laurie (Carrie) stars in this campy supernatural thriller about a former showgirl, her possessed daughter and the strange goings on at a backwater drive-in theater. After the film, join us for a discussion with Erik Piepenburg, the founder of Don’s Place, a club for LGBTQ+ horror movie fans, and Jourdain Searles, a film critic, podcaster and comedian.
A woman with a shady past, Ruby Claire (Piper Laurie) is the single mother of Leslie (Janit Baldwin), a teenager who is deaf and mute. Ruby operates a drive-in movie theater and employs a number of ex-criminals, some of who start to die in bizarre ways. Eventually, Ruby discovers that the spirit of her dead mobster husband has possessed Leslie and is seeking revenge through the tormented girl. As Leslie picks off her dad’s former associates, she also begins to target Ruby herself.
imStarring: Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis
Wisecracking trio Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond Stantz and Dr. Egon Spengler start a ghost removal business after being fired from their occult studies professorships at a New York university. Encountering all sorts of undead in all sorts of places, the gang really meet their match when the stumble upon a gateway to another dimension. And you know that means: possessed women, guard dogs of hell, cats and dogs living together, and the largest bit of marshmallow you’ll ever see on the big screen. A combination of brilliant writing and comedic timing, Ghostbusters is a timeless classic for kids of all ages.
On April 22, 2019, The National took the stage at NYC’s famed Beacon Theatre for “A Special Evening With The National,” one of a series of five unique sold-out events in Paris, New York, London, Toronto and Los Angeles where the band performed their newest album and Mike Mills directed short film I Am Easy To Find starring Alicia Vikander.
This concert document includes a complete performance of that album, special only to the Beacon show, with guest appearances from the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Julien Baker, This Is The Kit and Mina Tindle. The band also came out for an encore featuring songs from the bands extensive catalogue.
This is a FREE event with RSVP required. Entry not guaranteed with RSVP.
