Monday, June 13

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The Lips/Los Labios at Maysles Cinema

What’s Showing Today? Monday, June 13
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The June offering of Maysles Cinema‘s bi-monthly Documentary in Bloom program begins its weeklong run tonight. The Lips is a 2010 Cannes Un Certain Regard pick about three community care workers in an impoverished rural South American village. Though the women are played by actresses, much of the film is apparently nonfiction with an empathetic look at the inhabitants of its remote settings. Reviews have been uniformly strong, praising The Lips as a deeply felt and poetic work — and in general, Documentary in Bloom is one of the city’s most consistently thoughtful and rewarding sources of must-see nonfiction. This one runs through June 19.

The final Flaherty NYC of the season is tonight at Anthology Film Archives before we take off for the Seminar. Seva Lives, programmed by Cinema Tropical, is an examination of the enduring myths circulated by the 1983 publication of an epistolary fiction novel about a violent U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico. The story remains popular to this day, and Francisco Serrano‘s documentary considers its continued popularity and potential basis in fact. Serrano will be in attendance — possibly with the film’s composer, Angélica Negrón, who opens for Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier at Le Poisson Rouge tonight.

There’s an obvious kinship between found footage and the animated collages of Lewis Klahr, whose painstaking assemblages from from old comics, advertisements and pulp ephemera construct loose narratives in sci-fi and melodramatic traditions. I suspect Klahr, who has also worked as a Hollywood screenwriter, begins with very clear narratives in mind — but through the inherent constraints of his raw material a gulf emerges in practice that suggests a heady sense of the uncanny, opening new venues of faintly understood yet strongly felt associations. Altair is one of his best-known works, and its worth seeing on the big screen at MoMA this afternoon, instructively paired as it is with Douglas Sirk‘s All that Heaven Allows.

Today

Docpoint
Cinefest Petrobras Brasil

Drama Queens: The Soap Opera in Experimental and Independent Cinemaat MoMA

  • “Altair” (Lewis Klahr) and All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk). 1984/1955. 97 min. 4:30 pm.

Crafting Genre: Kathryn Bigelow at MoMA

  • The Hurt Locker. 2008. 131 min. 8 pm.

Seva Lives (Francisco Serrano) at Anthology Film Archives. Filmmaker in person. 2009. 90 min. 7:30 pm.
College (James W. Horne) with “The Goat” (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair) at Film Forum. With piano accompaniment. 1927/1921. 86 min. 6:30 pm. $15.
In Our Name (Brian Welsh) at The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Director and lead actress in person. Digital. 2010. 90 min. 8 pm.
Phil Niblock at Microscope Gallery. With Niblock mixing live sound. 7-9 pm.
Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson) at The Queens Museum. 1992. 126 min. 2 pm.
Slideshow Potluck at The Spectacle Theater. Digital projection. 7:30 pm.
Love is Black Water (Sean Edward Lewis) at The Spectacle Theater. Digital projection. 2011. 9:30 pm.

Ongoing

Agrarian Utopia (Uruphong Raksasad) at Anthology Film Archives. Video. 2009. 122 min. 6:45, 9:15 pm.
Le Rayon vert (Eric Rohmer) at BAMcinématek. 1986. 98 min. 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 pm.
One Lucky Elephant (Lisa Leeman) at Film Forum. 2010. 84 mins. 1, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, 10:10 pm.
Rejoice and Shout (Don McGlynn) at Film Forum. 2010. 115 min. 1, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10 pm.
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini) at Film Forum. 35mm. 1960. 175 min. 2, 8:20 pm.
The Lips (Los Labios) (Iván Fund & Santiago Loza) at Maysles Cinema. 2010. 100 min. 7:30 pm.

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