FILM & VIDEO Wednesday 10/18 BOILER ROOM Debut feature about young ...
BOILER ROOM
Debut feature about young stock broker starring Ben Affleck, discussion with writer/director Ben Younger follows; Makor, 35 W. 67th St. (Central Park W. & Columbus Ave.), 212-601-1000; 7:30, $8.
DOCK'UMENTARY FILM SERIES
Series on music history feat. Monterey Pop starring Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Reading & Mama Cass Screenings sponsored by Hudson River Park Trust; Picnic House, Pier 40 (W. Houston St.), 212-791-2530; 7:30, free.
BRAZILIAN FILM SERIES
Continues today w/The Hour of the Star, I Was Born a Black Woman & Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business; Donnell Library Media Center, 20 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-0618; 1:30 & 3:30, free.
HARUN FAROCKI
Screening of German-Egyptian documenatarian's An Image (25 min.) & Videogram of a Revolution (116 min.); Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5110; call for times & prices.
Thursday 10/19
TOTALLY TOTO: TRIBUTE TO A COMIC GENIUS
47 Talking Corpses, Poverty & Nobility, Old Man River & Stop Moving Your Hands; Film Society of Lincoln Center, 165 W. 65th St. (B'way), 212-875-5600; call for times & prices.
Friday 10/20
DAIRY OF A CHAMBERMAID
Luis Bunuel's 1964 feature starring Jeanne Moreau begins limited run at Film Forum; 209 W. Houston St. (6th Ave.), 212-727-8110; call for times & prices [through 10/26].
HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU KID
Four-day film festival feat. dozens of features, shorts & documentaries for girls/women sponsored by the Lower East Side Girls Club. Festival kicks off w/Secrets & Lies; Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5110 or www.girlsclub.org for complete sched.
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon accompanies the Wizard of Oz; Cinema Classics, 332 E. 11th St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.), 212-971-1015; 12, $5.50.
Saturday 10/21
IRANIAN DOCUMENTARIES
Videos Saffron & Christine plus one 16mm?The White Station?on the bill; NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th St. (betw. B'way & University Pl.), 212-807-9420; 5:30, $8, $5 st.
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Series continues w/subtitled The American Solider; YWCA, 610 Lexington Ave. (53rd St.), 212-755-9717; 4:30, $7 [repeats Sun.].
Sunday 10/22
LOU CHANEY: MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES
The Unknown (1927) & The Phantom of the Opera (1925); American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Ave. (36th St.), Astoria, 718-784-4520; 2 & 4, respectively, call for prices.
FEATURE FILM SUNDAYS AT VOID
This week: Lee Thompson's Cape Fear (1961) starring Gregory Peck & Robert Mitchum; Void, 16 Mercer St. (Howard St.), 212-941-6492; 8, free.
GOSTA BERLINGS SAGA
U.S. premiere of original, full length, Swedish silent film classic w/piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin & Eva Engman translating text; BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave. (Ashland Pl.), Bklyn., 212-636-4111; 2, call for prices.
NY FESTIVAL OF RUSSIAN FILMS
Incl. several new features & first ever Alexander Sokurov retrospective begins today; call 212-619-3033 or www.NFRFilm.com for locations & complete sched. [through 10/29].
Monday 10/23
MOTHER
No its not that Danzig song you made out to in high school, its Albert Brooks' incomparable look at parenting which screens as part of NYU's Jewish Mothers on Film series (see it with your mum if at all possible); NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th St. (betw. B'way & University Pl.), 212-807-9420; 7, $8, $5 st.
KORCZAK
Polish feature by Betty Jean Lifton about physician, painter & educator J. Korczak who set up progressive orpahnage in Warsaw Ghetto; Museum of Jewish Heritage, 18 First Pl. (Battery Pl.), 212-945-0039; 6, free w/mus. adm.
Tuesday 10/24
DINNER & A MOVIE
Weekly video screening (with English subtitles) followed by family-style dinner & discussion in French. Tonight, Les Choses De La Vie about businessman's choice between his family & his mistress; Columbia University's La Maison Francaise, 116th St., 2nd Fl. (B'way), 212-854-4482; 6:30, $5-$10.
EMPIRES OF PASSION: THE CINEMA OF OBSESSION
Almodovar's brilliant, life altering Law of Desire (7); Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (9); Symphony Space, 2537 B'way (95th St.), 212-864-5400; $9, $8 s.c.
LA BAIE DES ANGES
Young couple obsessed w/gambling learn consequences on French Riviera, starring Jeanne Moreau & Claude Mann, b&w (1963); French Institute, 22 E. 60th St. (betw. Madison & Park Aves.), 212-355-6100; 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 & 9, $8, $6 st.