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 TEN FROM TWI-NY: THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK For a great selection of recommended events in New York, check out Mark Rifkin's picks below, and then head over to twi-ny.com for more... THE 2007 U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS  Don’t forget about the smaller courts at the U.S. Open And here’s a little trick for you: If you get day tickets, you can stick around and watch all of the night events as well except for those in Arthur Ashe Stadium. There’s still plenty of action on the smaller courts, where you can get up close and personal with the players. Yes, the food and drink really is as expensive as you’ve heard, but don’t let that stop you. It’s a great New York tradition to overpay for everything from bottled water and French fries to champagne with strawberries and ice cream. Plus, there are lots of free favors in the women’s bathrooms. - - - METROPOLITAN OPERA IN THE PARKS  Wednesday, June 13 - - - JODY OBERFELDER DANCE PROJECTS  Jody Oberfelder will be premiering two dances at the Flea - - -AFFORDABLE ART FAIR 2007  Thomas Allen, “Furyâ€? In addition, there are art workshops, sculpture and printmaking demonstrations, and a lecture series sponsored by the School of Visual Arts, including “First Steps: Beginning and Developing Your Collection” and “The Paper Chase: Collecting, Owning and Preserving Works on Paper,” Saturday and Sunday at 2:00. The first night of the show, June 13, is a private preview benefiting the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, with tickets $50 in advance ($80 per couple) and $75 ($125 per couple) at the door. - - - LIGHTS IN THE DUSK (Aki Kaurismäki, 2006)  Things get a little dark for Maria Järvenhelmi and Janne Hyytiäinen in "Lights in the Dusk" Janne Hyytiäinen stars as Koistinen, a pathetic little security guard who has pipe dreams of starting his own company. A lonely man with no friends – except for Aila (Maria Heiskanen), who runs a late-night hot-dog van and whom he continually shuns – Koistinen is easily taken in by Mirja (Maria Järvenhelmi), a romantic interest who has ulterior motives. But no matter how bad things get for Koistinen – and they get pretty bad – he just wanders his way through it all, preferring to simply accept the consequences, no matter how undeserved, rather than take a more active role in his life. The character has a lot in common with Kati Outinen’s sad-sack, trampled-upon Iris from Kaurismäki’s "The Match Factory Girl" – in fact, Outinen makes a cameo in Lights in the Dusk as a cashier at a grocery store. - - - LIVE @ GALAPAGOS  Karen Gibson Roc is part of fluid triple bill at Galapagos On Friday night at 7:30, Jamaican-born musician Sparlha Swa and Vancouver-based singer-songwriter GreenTaRA are on the bill, but we’ll be there for the extraordinary Karen Gibson Roc & Fluid. On her 2006 CD/DVD release Traveling with Light, Gibson Roc prances across the stage barefoot, part poetess, part tigress, groovin’ to the funky soul of her sharp band. “We poets / We blow open the doors wide,” she proclaims on “I Don’t Wanna Be a Pop Star,” “letting truth flood onto the pavement / Reminiscing to blasphemies / We dig the cavities / Out of our mental maladies / Waiting for the day / When we can shock humanity / With our instrumental dignity.” Gibson Roc freely speaks what’s on her mind, not afraid to get right to the point. “What is the world coming to / With so few paying attention to the rate of dissension / Labeling with a lack of retention,” she declares, continuing, “You see, these words are the cure for the ill of disease / And this poetess wears truth on her sleeve.” There’s nobody currently doing quite what Gibson Roc does; be prepared for a night of transcendent peace and love, mixed with anger, frustration, and hot riffs. - - -2007 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL  Documentary about Edward Burtynsky is filled with unsettling beauty  Brian Steidle is shocked by what he uncovers in Darfur in "The Devil Came in on Horseback." For the 18th year, Human Rights Watch and the Film Society of Lincoln Center have teamed up to bring two weeks of eye-opening shorts and feature-length films from 17 countries, covering such hard-hitting and important subjects as photographers working during the repressive Pinochet regime in Chile, the violent legacy of towns across the United States driving out African American families, Palestinian leadership in Israeli prisons, a new look at the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Guatemalan prostitutes trying to better their lives by forming a soccer team, as well as global warming, electioneering, the struggle of Iraqi women under U.S. occupation, and the pursuit of war criminals in the former Yugoslavia. Check out a few of these films and help spread the word about what is really going on in the world these days. Below are only some of the screenings; visit www.twi-ny.com for the full schedule and select reviews. Friday, June 15 "The City of Photographers" (Sebastián Moreno Mardones, 2006), 1:30 Saturday, June 16 "Manufactured Landscapes" (Jennifer Baichwal, 2005), 6:15 Sunday, June 17 "The Violin" (Francisco Vargas Quevedo, 2006), 1:00 Monday, June 18 "The Railroad All-Stars" (Chema Rodriguez, 2006), 6:30 Tuesday, June 19 "Carla’s List" (Marcel Schüpbach, 2006), with Carla Del Ponte in conversation with Richard Dicker, followed by a reception, 6:30 Wednesday, June 20 "Suffering and Smiling" (Dan Ollman, 2007), 2:00 Thursday, June 21 "Banished" (Marco Williams, 2006), 6:30 Friday, June 22 "White Light/Black Rain" (Steven Okazaki, 2007), 6:30 Saturday, June 23 "A Lesson of Belarusian" (Miroslaw Dembinski, 2006), "Pizza Surveillance Feature" (Micah Laaker, 2005) and "Virtual Freedom" (Gef Senz & Maung Maung Aye, 2006), 1:30 Sunday, June 24 "Lumo" (Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt & Nelson Walker III, 2007), 3:30 Monday, June 25 "We’ll Never Meet Childhood Again" (Sam Lawlor & Lindsay Pollock, 2007), 9:00 Tuesday, June 26 "Hot House" (Shimon Dotan, 2006), 1:30 & 9:00 Wednesday, June 27 "The Devil Came on Horseback" (Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern, 2006), 4:00 Thursday, June 28 "Election Day" (Katy Chevigny, 2007), 9:00 - - - IT’S ONLY A MOVIE: HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1970S AND TODAY  Korean horror flick "The Host" runs head-on into Queens  Takashi Miike’s cult classic "Ichi the Killer" is one of the best of the fest Unfortunately, a lot of the films here just plain suck, but there are also such worthwhile thrillers as "Carrie," "The Last House on the Left," "The Devil’s Rejects," and "Homecoming," Joe Dante’s political nightmare from Showtime’s "Masters of Horror" series. And the low-budget legend himself, Larry Cohen, will be on hand for a screening of "It’s Alive. " Below are only some of the screenings; visit www.twi-ny.com for the complete schedule in addition to select reviews. Saturday, June 16 "A Clockwork Orange" (Stanley Kubrick, 1971), 4:00 Saturday, June 16 "Saw II" (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2005) and Life Like (Aida Ruilova, 2006), 6:30 Sunday, June 17 "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (Tobe Hooper, 1974), 2:00 Sunday, June 17 "The Devil’s Rejects" (Rob Zombie, 2005) and Bambi Meets Godzilla (Marv Newland, 1969), 6:30 Saturday, June 23 "The Hills Have Eyes" (Wes Craven, 1977), 2:00 Saturday, June 23 "The Hills Have Eyes" (Alexandre Aja, 2006), 4:00 Sunday, June 24 "The Host" (Bong Joon-Ho, 2006), 2:00 Sunday, June 24 "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" (Dario Argento, 1970), 4:30 Sunday, June 24 "High Tension" (Alexandre Aja, 2003) and "The Scary Movie" (Peggy Ahwesh, 1993), 6:30 Saturday, June 30 "Hostel" (Eli Roth, 2005), 12 noon Saturday, June 30 "It’s Alive" (Larry Cohen, 1974), with Larry Cohen in Person, 2:00 - - -2007 HBO BRYANT PARK SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL  Bogie and Bacall play it again in Bryant Park We’re especially looking forward to seeing Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark" and Anthony Perkins in "Psycho," both of which should be even scarier on a dark Manhattan night. The lawn fills up quickly, so you’d have to be psycho to wait until dark before you show up. Monday, June 18 "Annie Hall" (Woody Allen, 1977) Monday, June 25 "The Thing -- From Another World" (Christian Nyby, 1951) Monday, July 2 "Paper Moon" (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973) Monday, July 9 "Wait Until Dark" (Terence Young, 1967) Monday, July 16 "To Sir, with Love" (James Clavell, 1967) Monday, July 23 "The Sting" (George Roy Hill, 1973) Monday, July 30 "All the King’s Men" (Robert Rossen, 1949) Monday, August 6 "Bus Stop" (Joshua Logan, 1956) Monday, August 13 "Casablanca" (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Monday, August 20 "Psycho" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) - - - TRIBECA DRIVE-IN AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER  Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu star in "Watching the Detectives," screening at Rockefeller Center In addition, the short films "For All the Marbles" (Kris Booth), "Heart of Whistler" (Ken Hegan), "Piece by Piece" (Sachi Schuricht), and "Sand Dancer" (Valerie Reid) will be screened at the Top of the Rock throughout the four days, from 8:30 am to 12 midnight. (A separate admission is required for Top of the Rock.) Tuesday, June 19 "Watching the Detectives" (Paul Soter, 2007), preceded by "Super Powers" (J. Anderson Mitchell & Jeremy Kipp Walker) Wednesday, June 20 "Arctic Tale" (Sarah Robertson, 2007) Thursday, June 21 "Mo" (Brian Scott Lederman, 2007) Friday, June 22 "NetherBeast Incorporated" (Dean Matthews Ronalds, 2007) - - -THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS  Vancouver’s New Pornographers will celebrate American independence in Battery Park Advance tickets for the 2007 July 4 show, featuring the New Pornographers and Midlake, will become available online only at 12 noon on June 20. Thus, you must have a ticket to get in when Independence Day rolls around, so don’t get shut out. - - - PEACHES + SP. GUESTS  Peaches will be going it alone at the Highline Ballroom Don’t expect a polished, perfectly choreographed stage show, but don’t expect to get your mind expanded, either. Maybe some of your orifices, tho’. - - -All contents copyright 2007 by Mark Rifkin and twi-ny. All rights reserved. Contents may not be reprinted without written permission. Please note that events, dates, and prices are subject to change. For more on what’s going on this week in New York, visit www.twi-ny.com. |
