Dear Friends,
I hope you all had an opportunity to get outside and enjoy the glorious weekend weather we just experienced. What a welcome relief.

Because it's never too early to introduce kids to great cinema, this week we bring you New York Children's International Film Festival's short film compilations for Ages 3+ and 8+. Adults will find them entertaining too!

We also have SPACESHIP EARTH - the stranger-than-fiction adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2.

Read On!
Carol Sadlon
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NEW! SPACESHIP EARTH
2:05hrs

Director: Matt Wolf
Biosphere 2 was an experiment that became a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life-threatening ecological disaster and growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.


ON SALE MAY 8
NEW! NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL
A great opportunity to share the art of film with kids, with this program filled with fun and clever stories of growth and transformation.
ON SALE MAY 8
KID FLICKS ONE: Ages 3+
56 mins

If you’ve ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming KUAP. Catching up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils in the winning doc Pen License . Then little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script.
KID FLICKS TWO: Ages 8+
72 mins

With these great films for slightly older kids, you’ll have plenty of inspiration to continue the conversation with your kids long after the screening is done.Take a wild ride and harness the (cat) power of the cosmos with the quirky film Catmos . If you’re curious about more earthly matters, take a page out of a Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl . And whether their tastes lean umami or sweet, the duo in Mogu & Perol just might convince you there is simply nothing more delish than a warm friendship.
Also Offering
The Booksellers
1:41hrs

Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. The film takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics, and dreamers, and features interviews with some of the most important dealers in the business, as well as prominent collectors, auctioneers, and writers.

Tickets $9.99
Join us for Movie Club: The Booksellers
Tuesday, May 5 @ 6 pm
Led by guest host Dan Dwyer of Johnnycake Books
with Producer, Daniel Wechsler and booksellers from the film
Heather O'Donnell and David Bergman.
BALLOON
2:05hrs

In the summer of 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families—who had been working on their audacious plan for more than two years—try to flee East Germany in a self-made hot-air balloon. But after the balloon crash-lands just before the West German border, the Stasi find traces of the attempted escape and immediately launch an investigation. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two families attempt to build a new escape balloon as the Stasi get closer and closer each day.

Tickets: $10
THE ETRUSCAN SMILE
1:55hrs / R

Rory, a rugged Scotsman played by Brian Cox reluctantly leaves his beloved Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his grandson. Also starring Roseanna Arquette, JJ Feild, Thora Birch, & Peter Coyote.

Tickets: $12
THE MINDFULNESS MOVEMENT
1:45hrs / NR

Executive Producers: Deepak Chopra, Jewel

This feature documentary examines the growing number of people throughout society who believe mindfulness – a peaceful quality of attention anyone can develop by simply focusing on the present moment in a non-judgmental way – is the key to creating a healthier, happier world. For them, mindfulness is the tool anyone can use to make more moments matter in their lives and to help create a more compassionate, caring, and ethical society. Featuring interviews with Deepak Chopra, Jewel, Dan Harris, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Salzberg, George Mumford, Daniel Goleman and many more. The film follows the emotionally compelling stories of four main characters (Jewel, Dan Harris, Sharon Salzberg, and George Mumford) who reveal their personal hardships and explain how mindfulness transformed their lives.

Tickets $7
Join us for Movie Club: The Mindfulness Movement
Thursday, May 14 @ 6 pm
With Guest Host Kathleen Voldstad
with Kosen Gregory Snyder, Bruce Shearer & Caroline Voldstad.
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN
Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
1:30hrs

Directed by: David Bickerstaff

One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of the very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves with such consistency. Spanning nearly seven decades his self-portraits give a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter, from his earliest portrait painted in 1939 to the final one executed 64 years later. When seen together, his portraits represent an engrossing study into the dynamics of aging and the process of self-representation.

Tickets: $12
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN
Leonardo: The Works
1:30hrs

Directed by: Phil Grabsky

Key works include The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Lady with an Ermine, Ginevra de’ Benci, Madonna Litta, Virgin of the Rocks, and more than a dozen others. This film also looks afresh at Leonardo’s life – his inventiveness, his sculptural skills, his military foresight and his ability to navigate the treacherous politics of the day – through the prism of his art.

Tickets: $12
BOTERO
1:24hrs

Fernando Botero is one of the world’s most popular living artists, with millions of fans transcending cultures across the globe. While his art is instantly recognizable, the story of how he became “the Maestro” is largely unknown. This beautifully filmed documentary offers an inspiring look at the power of relentless vision, unwavering conviction and a lifetime of discipline. We follow an unknown, self-taught painter from provincial Medellin in 1932, as he propels himself to the pinnacle of the art world.

Tickets: $12
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
1:33hrs

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an all-but-forgotten figure in art historical discourse, before her long-delayed rediscovery.

Tickets: $12
Leaving Us After Thursday
NT Live & Met Opera
NT Live at Home

Twelfth Night
Available through 4/29.
Make a date with Shakespeare’s whirlwind comedy of mistaken identity, featuring Tamsin Greig as a transformed Malvolia. Learn more.

Frankenstein
From midnight EDT Thursday 4/30 through 5/8.
Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, alternating the roles of Frankenstein and his creation. Learn more.
Nightly Met Opera Streams

Each day, a different encore presentation from the Metropolitan Opera company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers.
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