FILM & VIDEO Wednesday 8/1 CLASSIC TEARJERKERS Screen this month, starting ...
CLASSIC TEARJERKERS
Screen this month, starting today w/Camille, at NY Public Library's St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave. (W. 81st St.), 212-221-7676; 2, free.
EROTIC TALES
German television series incl. films by Hal Hartley, Melvin Van Peebles & Ken Russell screens at The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-708-9781 or www.moma.org; call for times & prices [through 8/2].
GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES
The Films of Abel Ferrara screen, incl. premiere of 1997 feature The Blackout; Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5181; call for times & prices [through 8/16].
MOVIES UNDER THE STARS
Free outdoor screenings in Hoboken continue w/The Matrix, on the waterfront overlooking Hudson River; Erie Lackawana Plaza, Hoboken PATH Station, 201-420-2207; 9.
SOUNDS OF SILENTS
Museum screens silent films The Crowd, Nosferatu, The Wind, Ben-Hur & The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, all restored w/full orchestration; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6600; call for times, prices & complete sched. [through 8/12].
WEDNESDAYS AT VOID
Tonight, When We Were Kings, starring Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, George Plimpton & Norman Mailer; Void, 16 Mercer St. (Howard St.), 212-941-6492; 8, free.
Thursday 8/2
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK SUMMER FILM SERIES
Screens Smoke today; Water St. (Dock St.), 718-802-0603 for rain date; 8:45, free.
FREEDOM CINEMA
Weekly series devoted to "radical" films from local activists...radical; Walkerstage, 56 Walker St. (betw. Church St. & B'way), 718-768-7853; 8, $5.
Saturday 8/4
HOLLYWOOD ON THE HOMEFRONT: AMERICAN FILM IN THE 1940S
Festival highlighting this "turbulent & productive" decade continues w/Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (2) & Kings Row (4:15) starring Ronald Reagan; American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Ave. (36th St.), Astoria, 718-784-4520; call for prices & complete sched. [through 9/9].
RENOIR & HOLLYWOOD
YWCA Cine-Club presents Swamp Water (1941) at YWCA, 610 Lexington Ave. (53rd St.), 212-735-9717; 4:30, $7 [repeats Sun.].
Monday 8/6
THE DEN OF BANNED FILMS
Screens Jud Suss, chilling Nazi propaganda film banned in both US & Germany; Den of Cin beneath Two Boots, 44 Ave. A (betw. 3rd & 4th Sts.), 212-714-3575; 8, $5 (incl. one drink).
FLICKER
Super-8 festival hosts bi-monthly screening of short films (www.flickernyc.com to submit); Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard (betw. B'way & Church St.), 212-219-3006; 7, $5.
HBO BRYANT PARK FILM FESTIVAL
Outdoor summer film festival continues today w/The Philadelphia Story (1940); Bryant Park, 42nd St. (6th Ave.), 212-512-5700 or www.hbobryantparkfilm.com; sunset, call for price.
Tuesday 8/7
WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA
Series celebrates French women as filmmakers. Today, Haut les coeurs! (1989) about pregnant woman fighting breast cancer & La buche (1999) about three sisters & their chaotic lives during holiday season; French Institute, 22 E. 60th St. (betw. Madison & Park Aves.), 212-355-6160; call for times, $8, $6.