Like the protected books, plays and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas — and even social messages — through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player’s interaction with the virtual world),” Justice Scalia wrote. “That suffices to confer First Amendment protection.
June/14
the melancholic chicken [ bohemian national hall ] details
June/15
ocean's twelve [ stuyvesant town oval ] details
June/17
a summer's tale - conte d'été [ washington square park ] details
June/17
singin' in the rain [ snug harbor, staten island ] details
June/19
krush groove [ habana outpost ] details
June/20
desperately seeking susan [ the elevated acre ] details
June/20
one flew over the cookoo's nest [ bryant park ] details
June/21
how to drown dr. mracek, the lawyer [ bohemian national hall ] details
June/24
contempt - le mépris [ tompkins square park ] details
June/24
moonstruck [ snug harbor, staten island ] details
June/24
spider-man [ the intrepid ] details
June/26
above the law [ habana outpost ] details
June/27
the 39 steps [ bryant park ] details
June/27
the godfather part ii [ the elevated acre ] details
June/28
thanks for a good morning [ bohemian national hall ] details
June/29
between the folds [ tavern on the green patio ] details
June/30
raging bull [ tompkins square park ] details
July/1
mr. hulot's holiday - les vacances de monsieur hulot [ tompkins square park ] details
July/3
grease [ hanaba outpost ] details
July/4
easy rider [ bryant park ] details
July/5
whisper [ bohemian national hall ] details
July/6
clermont ferrand short films [ socrates sculpture park ] details
July/6
friday [ mccarren park ] details
July/6
the social network [ hudson river park, pier 63 ] details
July/7
coming to america [ tompkins square park ] details
July/7
manhattan [ brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
July/8
the goonies [ the intrepid ] details
July/8
the karate kid [ hudson river park, pier 46 ] details
July/8
mars attacks [ snug harbor, staten island ] details
July/8
momma mia [ narrows botanic gardens, staten island ] details
July/8
towards zero - l' heure zéro [ riverside park, pier 1 ] details
July/10
roller boogie [ habana outpost ] details
July/11
the brother from another planet [ the elevated acre ] details
July/11
gentlemen prefer blondes [ bryant park ] details
July/11
saturday night fever [ coney island ] details
July/12
the bitch's diary [ bohemian national hall ] details
July/12
men in black [ red hook ] details
July/13
easy a [ hudson river park, pier 63 ] details
July/13
mad hot ballroom [ tavern on the green patio ] details
July/13
wayne's world [ mccarren park ] details
July/13
who wants to kill jessie [ socrates sculpture park ] details
July/14
ghostbusters [ brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
July/14
the warriors [ tompkins square park ] details
July/15
antz [ snug harbor, staten island ] details
July/15
despicable me [ hudson river park, pier 46 ] details
July/15
my father's glory - la gloire de mon père by yves robert [ riverside park, pier 1 ] details
July/17
saturday night fever [ hanaba outpost ] details
July/18
in the heat of the night [ bryant park ] details
July/18
rango [ coney island ] details
July/19
bring it on [ red hook ] details
July/19
twosome [ bohemian national hall ] details
July/20
caramel [ socrates sculpture park ] details
July/20
ghost world [ mccarren park ] details
July/20
the kids are all right [ hudson river park, pier 63 ] details
July/21
star trek [ tompkins square park ] details
July/21
sweet smell of success [ brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
July/21
west side story dance and sing-along [ prospect park bandshell ] details
July/22
back to the future [ the intrepid ] details
July/22
the princess bride [ hudson river park, pier 46 ] details
July/22
wall-e [ narrows botanic gardens, staten island ] details
July/24
breaking [ hanaba outpost ] details
July/25
the lady eve [ bryant park ] details
July/25
top gun [ coney island ] details
July/26
dissolved and effused [ bohemian national hall ] details
July/26
lords of dogtown [ red hook ] details
July/27
ferris bueller's day off [ mccarren park ] details
July/27
food.curated [ tavern on the green patio ] details
July/27
the good, the bad, the weird [ socrates sculpture park ] details
July/27
the other guys [ hudson river park, pier 63 ] details
July/28
arthur [ tompkins square park ] details
July/28
basquiat [ brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
July/29
toy story 3 [ hudson river park, pier 46 ] details
July/31
dirty dancing [ hanaba outpost ] details
August/1
cool hand luke [ bryant park ] details
August/1
iron man 2 [ coney island ] details
August/2
wall-e [ red hook ] details
August/3
clueles [ mccarren park ] details
August/3
the fighter [ hudson river park, pier 63 ] details
August/3
the straight story [ socrates sculpture park ] details
August/4
an american tail [ brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
August/4
the complete metropolis with alloy orchestra [ prospect park bandshell ] details
August/4
the pope of greenwich village [ tompkins square park ] details
August/5
e.t. the extra-terrestrial [ the intrepid ] details
August/5
how to train your dragon [ hudson river park, pier 46 ] details
August/5
young frankenstein [ narrows botanic gardens, staten island ] details
August/7
heathers [ habana outpost ] details
August/8
airplane! [ bryant park ] details
August/8
annie hall [ coney island ] details
August/9
the karate kid [ red hook ] details
August/10
appetite city [ tavern on the green patio ] details
August/10
at the edge of russia [ socrates sculpture park ] details
August/10
jurassic park [ mccarren park ] details
August/10
scott pilgrim vs. the world [ hudson river park, pier 63 ] details
August/11
breakfast at tiffany's [ brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
August/11
kick-ass [ tompkins square park ] details
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hrek forever after [ hudson river park, pier 46 ] details
August/15
high sierra [ bryant park ] details
August/14
risky business [ habana outpost ] details
August/16
the fast and the furious [ red hook ] details
August/15
moonstruck [ coney island ] details
August/17
biutiful [ socrates sculpture park ] details
August/17
carol channing: larger than life [ tavern on the green patio ] details
August/17
the town [ hudson river park, pier 63 ] details
August/18
crooklyn [ brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
August/18
rosemary's baby [ tompkins square park ] details
August/19
jurassic park [ the intrepid ] details
August/19
over the edge [ narrows botanic gardens, staten island ] details
August/19
tangled [ hudson river park, pier 46 ] details
August/21
st. elmo's fire [ habana outpost ] details
August/22
dirty harry [ bryant park ] details
August/22
justin bieber: never say never [ coney island ] details
August/23
the ion giant [ red hook ] details
August/24
backyard band/with silent film festival [ socrates sculpture park ] details
August/25
the godfather [ tompkins square park ] details
August/25
rosemary's baby [ brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
August/28
purple rain [ habana outpost ] details
August/29
how she move [ coney island ] details
August/30
pump up the volume [ red hook ] details
September/1
public vote - choose your own favorite new york story! (brooklyn bridge park, pier 1 ] details
September/1
stake land [ tompkins square park ] details
September/4
teen wolf [ habana outpost ] details
September/6
highlander [ red hook ] details
September/7
cabaret [ stuyvesant town oval ] details
September/8
two days in paris - deux jours à paris [ columbia university, low library steps ] details
September/11
blues brothers [ habana outpost ] details
September/13
pee-wee's big adventure [ red hook ] details
September/14
austin powers: international man of mystery [ stuyvesant town oval ] details
September/18
the good, the bad and the ugly [ habana outpost ] details
September/21
the devil wears prada [ stuyvesant town oval ] details
September/25
the harder they come [ habana outpost ] details
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander (Mara), a young computer hacker.
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright
Anonymous (2011)
A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare-- Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford-- set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Jamie Campbell Bower
The Three Musketeers (2011)
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars: Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Orlando Bloom
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Stars: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, Tom Felton
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys are all that stand in their way.
Director: Jon Favreau
Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals.
Director: Joe Johnston
Stars: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Samuel L. Jackson, Stanley Tucci
Hugo Cabret (2011)
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Lee, Jude Law
Melancholia (2011)
Two sisters find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth. (130 mins.)
Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling
The Rum Diary (2011)
Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean... (110 mins.)
Director: Bruce Robinson
Stars: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Giovanni Ribisi
Conan the Barbarian (2011)
The tale of Conan the Cimmerian and his adventures across the continent of Hyboria on a quest to avenge the murder of his father and the slaughter of his village.
Director: Marcus Nispel
Stars: Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan, Rachel Nichols
30 Minutes or Less (2011)
Two fledgling criminals (McBride and Swardson) kidnap a pizza delivery guy (Eisenberg), strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, Aziz Ansari
The Perfect Host (2010)
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.
Director: Nick Tomnay
Stars: David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Nathaniel Parker, Helen Reddy
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.
Director: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams
Happy Feet 2 in 3D (2011)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven...
Director: George Miller
Stars: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Pink, Elizabeth Daily
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.
Director: Seth Gordon
Stars: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston
Red State (2011)
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda. (97 mins.)
Director: Kevin Smith
Stars: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman, Michael Angarano
Puss in Boots (2011)
A story about the events leading up to the sword fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends.
Director: Chris Miller
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris, Salma Hayek
50/50 (2011)
A comedic account of a 27-year-old guy's cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Director: Jonathan Levine
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard
The Thing (2011)
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr...
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets
Director: Michael Bay
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel
The Muppets (2011)
With the help of three fans, the Muppets must reunite in order to save their old studio from a greedy oil tycoon.
Director: James Bobin
Stars: Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper, Zach Galifianakis
The Devil's Double (2011)
A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son. (108 mins.)
Director: Lee Tamahori
Stars: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi, Mem Ferda
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Based on Thierry Jonquet's novel "Mygale", this revenge tale tells the story of a plastic surgeon on the hunt for the men who raped his daughter. (120 mins.)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Marisa Paredes
Bellflower (2011)
Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang "Mother Medusa". (106 mins.)
Director: Evan Glodell
Stars: Evan Glodell, Tyler Dawson, Jessie Wiseman, Rebekah Brandes
Kidnapped (2010)
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. But the family fights back - brutally.
Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas
Stars: Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Fernando Cayo, César Díaz
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
During an ordinary day in Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh sets out to find some honey. Misinterpreting a note from Christopher Robin... (69 mins.)
Director: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
Stars: Jim Cummings, Craig Ferguson, John Cleese, Tom Kenny
Straw Dogs (2011)
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
Director: Rod Lurie
Stars: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods
11-11-11 (2011)
A horror-thriller set on 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month and concerning a entity from another world that enters the earthly realm through Heaven's 11th gate.
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Michael Landes, Wendy Glenn, Timothy Gibbs, Salomé Jiménez
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
The life of a businessman begins to change after he inherits six penguins, and as he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel.
Director: Mark Waters
Stars: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Madeline Carroll
Immortals (2011)
Greek warrior Theseus battles against imprisoned titans.
Director: Tarsem Singh
Stars: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Kellan Lutz
Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall exec producers, and Rowan Joffe is writing the script
Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) has been rejected by the British Board of Film Classification because it is “sexually violent and potentially obscene”. It tells the story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the first film and who imagines putting the ‘centipede’ idea into practice.
The report goes on to say the sequal focuses on; “the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture and murder of his naked victims”.
“DiCaprio WILL play villian Calvin Candie in Tarantino‘s Django Unchained!” It went on to say: “QT wanted him for I.B. & now has him!” - Creative Screenwriting editor Jeff Goldsmith
[ wikileaks.ch ]
It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history -- the leaking of more than a half million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website throughout 2010. At the center of the controversy stands Bradley E. Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who's charged with handing them over.
Who is Bradley Manning, and what does his story tell us about how and why the secret cache of documents may have been leaked? In WikiSecrets, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith gains exclusive access to those closest to Manning -- including his father, close friends and his Army bunkmate -- and uncovers video of Manning taken around the time of the alleged handover of classified information.
[ pbs.org ]
“Actually, he’s an imperfectionist,” Mr. Pitt said of Mr. Malick, speaking in an interview at the Carlton Hotel here. “He finds perfection in imperfection, and he’s always trying to create the imperfection.” He added that working with Mr. Malick was “liberating but exhausting,” a rare opportunity to fulfill what he called “this actor’s quest of always trying to be in the moment, which is a bit precious but very true.”
[ nytimes.com ]
"Everyone says we’re doing Kick-Ass 2 but… the weird thing about Kick-Ass 2 is I’d love to do it, because I enjoyed it so much, but I’m a big believer that if you’re going to do a sequel it’s got to be as good as the first one if not better. I just don’t know how I could…"
"My business brain just says do Kick-Ass 2, shoot it and get it out there and it would make a lot of money but I really do love that movie. It was a special moment to me making that film and I don’t want to spoil it. I’m not saying it’s as good as Pulp Fiction but I think it would be weird if Tarantino did Pulp Fiction 2. Everything that made Kick-Ass original and fun, if you do it again, it would be crass…"
Advances in technology are changing the way storytellers use actors, as well as how audiences appreciate them. There’s a parallel to be made with the advent of gas and electric lighting, the invention of motion pictures, etc. But the changes here are so drastic they bear investigation.
[ charge-shot.co ]
...pushing students to make arguments formatted for the YouTube age.
So far the trend exists mainly among tech-savvy professors, though in some cases students asked to write traditional papers are lobbying to turn in video essays instead.
LA Noire and Portal 2 are video games that challenge the mind instead of the thumbs
[ guardian.co.uk ]
Palme d'Or
THE TREE OF LIFE directed by Terrence MALICK
Grand Prix Ex-aequo
BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA (ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA) directed by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
LE GAMIN AU VÉLO (THE KID WITH A BIKE) directed by Jean-Pierre et Luc DARDENNE
Award for Best Director
Nicolas WINDING REFN for DRIVE
Award for Best Screenplay
Joseph CEDAR for HEARAT SHULAYIM (Footnote)
Award for Best Actress
Kirsten DUNST in MELANCHOLIA directed by Lars VON TRIER
Award for Best Actor
Jean DUJARDIN in THE ARTIST directed by Michel HAZANAVICIUS
Jury Prize
POLISSE (POLISS) directed by MAÏWENN
Natali described his vision for the film: "For me, it’s a story of redemption, if you want to get down to the core element of it. I think in terms of how you approach Neuromancer now, post-Matrix, post-all the other films that have poached from it, in the 21st century (because the book was written in 1984), I think you have to take those things and use them to your advantage, because what they give you, what The Matrix, for instance, gives you is the opportunity to make Neuromancer in a culture that is already aware of what The Matrix is. I mean, the very word “matrix” is in Neuromancer. It was borrowed by the Wachowski brothers for their film. I think that’s a good thing, because I don’t even know how someone would have been able to make that film 10 years ago or 15 years ago, because it’s so abstract. I don’t even know how people understood the book when it first came out. I think I read it in the late 1980s, but in 1984, how would people even understand it, because it was just so far ahead of the curve?"
