FILM & VIDEO Wednesday 8/2 FEATURING...CARMEN Dirk Sanders’ Roland Petit’s Ballet ...

FEATURING...CARMEN

Dirk Sanders' Roland Petit's Ballet of Carmen feat. Mikhail Baryshnikov; Donnell Library Media Center, 20 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-620-0619; 2:30, free.

 

Thursday 8/3

AFTER HOURS

See Scorcese's most far out film in a rare big screen appearance; Cinema Classics, 332 E. 11th St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.), 212-971-1015; 8, $5.

 

Friday 8/4

LIVE VIDEO JAM

Walter Wright & Brian Moran perform live "scratch" video to synthesized music; Scott Pfaffman Gallery, 35 E. 1st. St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.), 212-353-8415; Fri. at 7, $2.

 

RUDYLAND

John Philip & Matthew Carnahan's comic look at our mayor & his Disneyfication of NYC, with pre-show drinks at 7?voodoo Rudy dolls available!; Nada Show World, 671 8th Ave. (betw. 42nd & 43rd Sts.,), 212-414-5419; 8, $5.

 

SIGNIFICANT OTHERS: A CELEBRATION OF CINEMA BY TAIWANESE WOMEN

Opening night flick is Wang Shau-di's Grandma & Her Ghosts; Taipei Theater, McGraw-Hill Bldg., 1221 6th Ave. (betw. 48th & 49th Sts.), 212-373-1800; 7.

 

THE WOBBLIES

1979 doc. about Industrial Workers of the World, complete with labor struggle history dating back to turn of 20th-century; Dumba, 57 Jay St. (betw. Front & Water Sts.), Bklyn., 718-670-3719; 9, $5.

 

Saturday 8/5

SOUND & VISION FESTIVAL

Continues this evening with Wild Side (5); The Harder They Come (7); Decline of Western Civilization II: Metal Years & Heavy Metal Parking Lot (9:15); Instrument (11:30); Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5181 or www.NFRFilm.com for schedule & times.

 

Sunday 8/6

BEHIND THE MIRROR: AMERICAN FILM IN THE 1950s

Hitchcock's Rear Window (Sun. at 2); The Wrong Man (Sun. at 4:30); American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Ave. (36th St.), Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077; $8.50 $5.50 st./s.c.

 

Monday 8/7

bryant park summer film festival

Festival feat. Son of Frankenstein in which Boris Karloff receives CPR; Bryant Park, 6th Ave. (42nd St.), 212-512-5700; sunset, free.

 

Tuesday 8/8

MADISON AVENUE GOES TO WASHINGTON: HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING

Collection of campaign commercials from 1952 to 1996 begins screening. Everything from Jackie Kennedy's Spanish ad for Jr. all the way to Ronald "666" Reagan's "It's Morning Again In America" spots represented; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6600; free w/mus. adm. [through 8/13].

 

REEL JEWS

Series for new Jewish filmmakers pres. Brother Born Again; Makor, 35 W. 67th St. (Central Park W. & Columbus Ave.), 212-601-1000; 7:30 & 9:30, $12 & $8, respectively.