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NEW SPRING SEASON ANNOUNCED 

Guests include Gillian Armstrong,

Sundance winner Jon Foy,
Oscar winner Barbara Trent & more

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STF SPRING SEASON IS COMING!

 

14 great docs in the theater

+ free dvd from Docurama

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+ ability to transfer pass to a friend

ALL this for $99 (for IFC Center members $75) 

 

To order Spring Season pass, follow this link to LOVE, LUST & LIES and click on 8:00 pm. 


Love, Lust & Lies   

PRE-SEASON SPECIAL - Wed, MAR 16

LOVE, LUST & LIES (2010)  

Director Gillian Armstrong (Little Women; My Brilliant Career) has spent several decades looking at the lives of 3 Australian women from age of 14 to closing in on 50 - reminiscent of "7 Up."
Q&A w/ dir Gillian Armstrong

  

Mooney vs Fowle 

PRE-SEASON SPECIAL - Tues, MAR 22  

MOONEY VS. FOWLE (1962) 

This rarely screened classic by Drew Associates (Jane; Crisis) looks at rival Miami high school football coaches facing off in a championship game.
Q&A w/ dir James Lipscomb   

 

The Pipe 

PRE-SEASON SPECIAL - Mon, MAR 28

THE PIPE (2010)  

When Shell attempts to build a gas pipeline on Ireland's west coast, local farmers and fishermen rise up to fight.  

Q&A w/ dir Risteard � Domhnaill & prod Rachel Lysaght

 

Resurrect Dead 

OPENING NIGHT - Tue, MAR 29

RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES (2011)

Sundance Best Director winner, Jon Foy looks into the mysterious tiles embedded on streets of Philadelphia, NY and elsewhere.

Q&A w/ dir Jon Foy

 

stolen
Tue, APR 5
STOLEN (2009)

Filmmakers stumble upon accusations of modern slavery in the Western Sahara and wind up in the middle of international controversy.

Q&A w/ dirs Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw

wholphin
Tue, APR 12
WHOLPHIN  

From the publishers of McSweeney's comes this quarterly anthology of strange and wonderful short films. Wholphin curator Brent Hoff presents doc surprises.

Q&A w/ Brent Hoff and others

 

Brick City
Tue, APR 19
BRICK CITY (2011)

This epic doc series about Newark, NJ is like a reality version of The Wire. Tonight the makers show selections and discuss behind the scenes.

Q&A w/ filmmakers Marc Levin & Mark Benjamin

 

These amazing shadows

THURS SPECIAL - APR 21

THESE AMAZING SHADOWS  (2011)

Official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. A film lover's delight, this doc celebrates the National Film Registry with clips from silent era, Hollywood's golden age, historic home movies and more.  

Q&A w/ TBA

 

Cul de Sac
Tue, APR 26
CUL DE SAC: A SUBURBAN WAR STORY (2002)

A meth addict steals a tank from a military base and plows through San Diego's suburbs. This night also showcases recipients of Garrett Scott grant.

Q&A w/ editor Ian Olds

 

We still live here
Tue, MAY 3
WE STILL LIVE HERE (2011)

The language of the Massachusetts-based Wampanoag Indians was lost until Jessie Little Doe makes it her mission to revive it.

Q&A w/ dir Anne Makepeace

 

Three of hearts 

Tue, MAY 10
THREE OF HEARTS: A POSTMODERN FAMILY  (2004)

Directed by the founder of DocuClub and filmed over 8 years, an experiment to maintain a menage a trois makes for riveting real life drama and raises provocative questions.

Q&A w/ dir Susan Kaplan

 

The Panama Deception 

Tue, MAY 17
THE PANAMA DECEPTION (1992)

Oscar-winning doc investigating George Bush's 1989 invasion of Panama and the media's compliance in skewing the story.

Q&A w/ dir Barbara Trent

 

Megamall
Tue, MAY 24
MEGAMALL (2009)

A searing look at the politics of property development, following a 12-year battle over the Pallisades Center mall in West Nyack, NY.

Q&A w/ dir Barbara Trent

 

CLOSING NIGHT - Tue, MAY 31: TBA

Two films left in STF Winter season...


theater of war  

Tues, Mar 8 @ 8 pm

THEATER OF WAR (2008) 

Q&A w/ filmmaker John Walter

 

A NYT Critics' Pick, below are excerpts from Manohla Dargis' review:

In his inspired, inspiring essayistic documentary "Theater of War," the filmmaker John Walter jumps from art to history and politics and back again, from the theater of the streets to the theater of the stage, without pause. That makes the movie, which follows a Public Theater production in Central Park of Bertolt Brecht's epic play "Mother Courage and Her Children," tough to summarize, which is part of its appeal. Because while the movie is about a particular staging of "Mother Courage," it is also about the war in Iraq, theater (and bicycle riding) as social protest, the necessity and futility of art, and the agonizing human failing that Mother Courage gives voice to in "The Song of the Great Capitulation."

 

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Coming soon to STF...
  harlan county
CLOSING NIGHT - MARCH 15: HARLAN COUNTY USA (1976)
This Oscar-winning film belongs in the canon of great documentary making for its compassionate look at the clash between coal miners and a corporation.
Q&A w/ dir Barbara Kopple

STF spring season runs March 29-May 31. Stay tuned for details.  

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