Tag: Movies
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 77° LOW 62° Sustain-Release electronic music festival in the Catskills, with Ital, Blondes, Aurora Halal, Huerco S. and more. (6pm, $115, Catskills) The 5th Annual CCNY Self-Published Zine and […]
Watch this Auralnauts edit of the final scene of Star Wars sans John Williams’ score. The other sounds are dubbed in. No longer drowned out by orchestral pomp of the original, these simulated claps, creaks and Chewbacca yelps… aren’t they awkward? And isn’t it awkward, that coy look Princess Leia gives Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, even though she doesn’t know she […]
Princeton University psychologist Uri Hasson has presented some somewhat curious empirical studies at an event recently hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His research concludes that certain films stimulate the same parts of the audience members’ brains, “synchronizing” their neural activity. Clips from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as well as a scary scene from Darren Aronofsky’s Black […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 74° LOW 65° In theaters: Kink, a documentary about BDSM fetish franchise Kink.com (with producer James Franco and director Christina Voros in person at IFC), and See You Next Tuesday at […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 83° LOW 67° In theaters: The Dog documentary about John Wojtowicz, the real-life inspiration for Dog Day Afternoon (screening with Q&A at the Lincoln Film Center this weekend); Web Junkie documentary (filmmaker in […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, we’re excited to premiere the trailer for “Pig Movie” by sound artist Kate Levitt and video artist Miles Pflanz. The film was written by the prisoners of the Lincoln Correctional Facility. In spring of 2014, we were […]
Lucy (2014) This is Luc Besson’s Cujo. Scarlett Johansson is like dumb, wakes up with a bag of fictional drugs inside her stomach. It leaks and suddenly, something about her brain. Superpowers. LOOKED COOL FOR A FEW SECONDS: 2.0 out of 5.0 Like when her hand was TWO hands. And on the airplane, when she bursts into […]
Through a nondescript door on South 3rd Street, for $5 a seat, you can catch some of the strangest, rarest, most controversial films ever made, every night at Spectacle. Starting July 24th through August 28th, the collectively-run volunteer-staffed screening space in Williamsburg is taking part in “The MAD Biennial” at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan. The […]
Somewhere in 17th Century England, a group of deserting soldiers encounters a “necromancer” and “alchemist,” who forces them to look for a hidden treasure in a field. Amidst their submissive scampering and digging, “The world is turned upside down and so is its pockets.” The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw called the film “grisly and visceral, an occult, monochrome-psychedelic […]
Joon-ho Bong’s South Korean/American train epic based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige is strange, dark, bilingual post-Apocalyptic sci-fi. Lower class passengers of a train that’s been rattling in a circle around a dead frozen Earth wasteland for years struggle to survive until R E B E L L I O N WTF: 4.0 out of 5.0 […]
