Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
- by Raphaela Neihausen, November 14, 2008
Written by Nicole Alicia Watson
If waiting until Tuesday seems like a long time to get your next documentary fix, STF recommends the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. The Festival runs through November 16 at the American Museum of Natural History. This international film festival screens films on a wider range of topics. Two films, PEACE WITH SEALS and MARCH POINT deal with climate change and environmental protection. David MacDougall’s film GANDHI’S CHILDREN, follows the lives of 181 orphans at The Prayas Children’s Home for Boys. The festival includes NY premiers of films such as THROW DOWN YOUR HEART, a film about banjo great Bela Fleck and his travels throughout Tanzania, Uganda, Mail and the Gambia in search of the African roots of the banjo and Edward S. Curtis’ 1914 silent film, IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS. The film depicts the lives of First Nation people before their encounters with Europeans. This film will be accompanied by the Coast Orchestra, a Native American classical ensemble conducted by Timothy Long. On Sunday, I will be going to see VISIONS OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON, a presentation and panel discussion on Hurston’s own work as a filmmaker. See you there.
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Feb 7: UNFINISHED SPACES
by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray“Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961) Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of ...
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Feb 14: ZELIG
by Woody Allen”[Allen’s] new, remarkably self-assured comedy is to his career what… Berlin Alexanderplatz is to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s and… Fanny and Alexander is to Ingmar Bergman’s ... Zelig is not only ...
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Feb 21: TOOTIE’S LAST SUIT
by Lisa Katzman“Tootie represented a kind of soulfulness in the community, and a certain type of style, and everybody loved him.” – Wynton Marsalis TOOTIE’S LAST SUIT explores the complex relationships, rituals, ...
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Feb 28: THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
by Thom ZimnyDescription from TIFF 2010 catalog by Thom Powers: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band for the recording of ...
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Mar 6: SMASH HIS CAMERA
by Leon Gast“Famously and successfully sued by Jackie Onassis, and slugged just as famously and successfully by Marlon Brando, denounced from the pulpits of punditry for decades, Galella has been a man easy to ...
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Mar 13: THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY
by Carl ColbyA son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY uncovers the secret world of a legendary ...
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Mar 20: GIRL MODEL
by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon Description from TIFF 2011 catalog by Thom Powers: Girl Model shows a rarely seen side of the fashion industry. The film brings a novelist’s eye for emotional and psychological complexity to its ...
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