The Gates Saturday hosts after party for Lucky days and Last letters from Monte Rosa 8.7.2010

After Party for the NY Premieres of Ari Taub and Angelica Torn’s Films LUCKY DAYS and LAST LETTERS FROM MONTE ROSA Saturday, August 7th, 2010 at The Gates 290 Eighth Avenue Between 24+25th Streets Music by DJ Vikas Open Vodka Bar 10:30-11:30 RSVP: http://www.thegatesnyc.com/ambassador/rsvp.asp?proid=1009

Click here to RSVP

Outdoor Cinema 2010 @ Socrates Park brings Indian Animated Feature – Sita Sings the Blues

CELEBRATING THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF QUEENS
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS IN JULY AND AUGUST
AT SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK

Pre-screening performances begin at 7pm / Films begin at sunset
Weather Permitting
Free Admission

Come to Socrates Sculpture Park and sample regional cuisine from neighborhood restaurants, picnic on the grass as the sun sets over the city, enjoy performances by local musicians and dancers and, as the sky darkens, see exceptional international films on a large-format screen-all set against the spectacular backdrop of the Manhattan skyline!

AUGUST 4

SITA SINGS THE BLUES INDIA

2008, 82 mins. Directed by Nina Paley. This acclaimed independent animated feature depicts the personal narrative of the filmmaker’s marital breakup through a reinvention and modernization of the Indian classic ‘The Ramayana.’ Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the film lives up to its tagline: ‘The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.’

PRE-SCREENING PERFORMANCE:
Live sitar and tabla music by INDRAJIT ROY-CHOWDHURY
Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury is a disciple of the sitar maestro Pandit Subroto Roy-Chowdhury.  Groomed in the Veen-kar style of the Senia Gharana, which maintains the Dhrupadi origins of Indian Classical music, Indrajit strives to innovate while keeping a firm connection with the past.  He has performed on stages across the world including such prestigious venues as Gyan Mancha (Kolkata), Hammerstein Ballroom (New York), Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.) and has had his concerts telecast by Doordarshan (Indian National Television). Listen here: http://www.indrositar.com/index.html

FOOD: Indian cuisine by 5 STAR PUNJABI

Sailor Jerry Presents: Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry

get in on rooftop films underground movies outdoors in Brooklyn for some live music, comped drinks and lite bites – what better way to learn about the life and times of this famous tattooer ??

On Saturday, August 7th join Sailor Jerry Rum (Rooftop Films- 232 3rd St. – Suite D-101 – Brooklyn, NY 11215) for a screening of Hori Smoku, complimentary drinks, and hors d’oeuvres. Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry is a feature-length documentary chronicling the life and times of American tattoo master Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins. Admittance is gratis with RSVP. First come first served based on capacity. There will also be a special guest performance.

RSVP: http://horismokumovie.com/aug7nyc

HBO’s NY International Latino Film Festival Events July 26th- August 1st

Launched in 1999, the New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) is now the premier Urban Latino film event in the country. The NYILFF’s mission is to showcase the works of the hottest emerging Latino filmmaking talent in the U.S. and Latin America, offer expansive images of the Latino experience, and celebrate the diversity and spirit of the Latino community. Programming includes the flagship film festival in NYC, new music and art showcases, family and community events, scholarships for aspiring filmmakers, and a nationally recognized short film competition in partnership with HBO. The NYILFF is the only film event to have had the endorsement of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s NYC Latin Media and Entertainment Commission since its formation in 2003.

There’s a screening that’s happening tonight for El Espiritu de La Salsa – The Spirit of Salsa – where you are invited to feel the rhythm of the city 😀

check it out here:  St. Nicholas Park at 135th St. and St. Nicholas

Invidual tickets to shows are $12.00 – there are also Matinees going for $9.00 and Red Carpet Premieres for $15-25 which includes the after party!

To attend them all, get the Festival Badge for $100.00

If you are just about the parties, then you are in luck! Lulu Loves and String Theory Events has five official after party passes for the HBO Latino Film Festival – The Festival starts tomorrow, the 27th of July and runs through August 1st.

Opening Night Premiere After Party
DRY LAND – Tuesday July 27th
Starring: America Ferrera,
Ryan ONan, Jason Ritter & Wilmer Valderrama
KISS AND FLY (409 W. 13th St.)
10pm with RSVP

DOWNTOWN CALLING – Wednesday July 28th

a film by Shan Nicolson about the late 70s  early 80s music scene in downtown New York City. Narrated by Deborah Harry.

SANTOS PARTY HOUSE (96 Lafayette St.)

10pm with RSVP

Tropico de Sangre (Tropic of Blood)  – Thursday July 29

Starring: Michelle Rodriguez and Juan Fernandez

By the late 1950s Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo’s reign of terror over t

he Dominican Republic had lasted nearly thirty years. And yet the Mirabel sisters,

led by feisty, passionate Minerva, would come to represent the greatest threat to his regime.

EL MOROCCO (3534 Broadway)

10pm with RSVP

GUN – Friday
Starring Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, who wrote the screenplay, and Val Kilmer,

Gun is a fast-paced, action film with an original perspective on gun violence and crime.
GREENHOUSE (150 Varick St.)
10pm with RSVP

Closing Night Afterparty
STOLEN DREAMS – Saturday July 31st
Three young women living in poverty and struggling with dysfunctional

families and early pregnancy turn to prostitution to survive.
HIGHLINE BALLROOM (431 W. 16th St)
10pm with RSVP

The following passes are only for the after parties of these red carpet movie premiere for the HBO 2010

New York International Latino Film Festival.  For more information on the actual festival and other movies

click on the link below

TO RSVP FOR THE EVENTS LISTED YOU MUST RSVP TO

RSVP@STRINGTHEORYEVENTS.COM

OR GO TO

WWW.STRINGTHEORYEVENTS.COM

FOR MORE INFORMATION

OR CALL 1-646-248-7773

SPECIAL THANKS TO HBO, AMERICAN AIRLINES, JOHNNY WALKER, HEINEKEN, JOSE CUERVO PLATINO, AND CIROC

WWW.STRINGTHEORYEVENTS.COM

Gawker makes me LOL with Twilight v. Apple fanatics!

This totally got me giggling and LOL-ing : I can’t do justice to the unbelievably funny and observant comparisons – check it out for yourself!!

PS. I’m team Jacob 😀

Like sitting out in the sun today for a new iPhone might have waited hours or overnight. They are wimps. Twilight fans have been camped out since Monday for tonight’s premiere. They will show you how it’s done!

The people waiting out for an iPhone bring chairs and maybe a snack or two, but they have nothing on the shantytown that has sprung up in front of the Nokia Theater this week. They’re all waiting for tonight when Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and a bunch of girls we don’t care about will descend for the premiere of Twilight: Some Kind of Sequel. These fanatics are doing the long-wait in style. Seriously they are teenage girls and they are schooling the tech geeks who should be well-versed in how to stand on the sidewalk for countless hours waiting for an event they think will change their lives (but probably won’t).

Here are all the lessons the Apple Addicts can learn from the Twihards before the next product launch.

[Images via AP]

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10

New York Asian Film Festival 2010 starts Friday 6.25-7.8

from subwaycinema.com:

The New York Asian Film Festival 2010 is here!

June 25 – July 8

Like Vandals storming the gates of Rome, the New York Asian Film Festival rampages through the Film Society’s Walter Reade Theater June 25 – July 8, unleashing an orgy of the latest and greatest pop masterpieces Asian cinema has to offer. For nine years, the NYAFF has been North America’s leading festival of popular Asian cinema but now it’s teamed up with the Film Society of Lincoln Center to also become North America’s fanciest!
.
America’s art-house theaters normally show an anemic sliver of what Asian cinema has to offer but the NYAFF’s 2010 line-up is a brawny slab of 35 blockbusters and break-out hits that audiences in Thailand, China, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan actually buy tickets to watch.

THE STAR ASIA AWARDS

.

The NYAFF will be presenting three Star Asia Awards to actors Western audiences should know more about. The ceremony will take place on opening night, June 25, and the recipients will all be at the festival to receive their awards.
.

Rising Star of Asia Award to Huang Bo

.

.

One of China’s most popular new actors, Huang Bo got his break in Ning Hao’s 2006 comedy, CRAZY STONE, and he’s gone on to specialize in earthy, foul-mouthed characters. A leading man with a character actor’s face, he won a Golden Horse for his performance in COW, and we’ll be screening it as part of the NYAFF 2010, as well as his movie CRAZY RACER.

.

Star Asia Award to Simon Yam

.

.

Starting as a character actor in the 1970’s, Simon Yam has gone on to become one of Hong Kong’s favorite leading men, winning “Best Actor” at the 2010 Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW, an official selection of this year’s New York Asian Film Festival. From his performance as the insane fashion plate, Judge, in Ringo Lam’s FULL CONTACT to his turn as the dapper pickpocket, Kei, in Johnnie To’s SPARROW, Simon Yam has been one of the world’s best, and most debonair, actors. In this year’s festival, he appears in ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW, STORM WARRIORS and BODYGUARDS & ASSASSINS.
.

Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award to Sammo Hung

.

.

A special Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award will go to the legendary actor and director, Sammo Hung, to honor his legacy of onscreen work. Jackie Chan’s “older brother” at Master Yu Jim Yuen’s Chinese Opera School, Sammo has worked as a producer, director, action-choreographer or stuntman in over 230 films. In this year’s NYAFF, Sammo Hung choreographed the action in IP MAN, he co-stars in the festival’s official opening night film, IP MAN 2, and he stars in the cracked action-cooking-comedy KUNG FU CHEFS. There will also be a special screening of his 1987 Vietnam War movie, EASTERN CONDORS, preceded by an onstage chat with the maestro about his career.
.

RETURN TO THE OLD SCHOOL: HONG KONG’S

NEW MARTIAL ARTS CINEMA

.
After 2009’s film, IP MAN, became a massive box office hit, savvy Hong Kong producers unleashed a wave of old school-inspired martial arts films that went back to basics: no CGI, no fancy wire work, no fakery. Instead, they were all about blazing hand-to-hand combat, hard-falling stuntmen and lightning fast kung fu. In conjunction with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York, this year’s NYAFF features a special focus on Hong Kong’s new wave of old school kung fu.
.

Jackie Chan’s in LITTLE BIG SOLDIER, his best

movie since DRUNKEN MASTER 2.

.

This year’s line-up will include Jackie Chan’s latest movie, LITTLE BIG SOLDIER; we’ll be screening GALLANTS, a rollicking action comedy starring a gallery of old school greats like Bruce Leung and Chen Kuan-tai; and two movies about Bruce Lee’s teacher and Chinese folk hero, Ip Man: an encore presentation of the original IP MAN and the North American Premiere of IP MAN 2, our official Opening Night Film.
.
We’ll also be screening the award-winning, 2009 Hong Kong blockbuster, BODYGUARDS & ASSASSINS; the insane cooking kung fu flick, KUNG FU CHEFS; and the totally mad throwback to visually bonkers Hong Kong comic books of the 70’s, THE STORM WARRIORS, and much more
.

UP FROM THE JAPANESE UNDERGROUND

.

Independent movies get a bad rap, but for the past two years some of the wildest Japanese films have been shot on video for about $1.95. Hip hop wannabes stranded in the middle-of-nowhere will be ripping up the screen in the award-winning 8000 MILES (about male rappers, dying on the vine) followed by a screening of the much-anticipated follow-up 8000 MILES 2 (about female rappers, languishing in obscurity). Director Yu Irie will be here for both screenings. We’ll also be screening two films from director Tetsuaki Matsue, who will also be attending the festival. First up is his Japanese/Korean personal odyssey porno documentary, ANNYONG YUMIKA, that’s a testament to the passions aroused by one Japanese skin flick actress working in Korea. Then we’re screening LIVE TAPE, one of the most ambitious concert films ever made and winner of “Best Japanese Film” at the Tokyo International Film Festival, starring Kenta Maeno, known as Japan’s Bob Dylan. Kenta Maeno is expected to attend the screenings.
.

8000 MILES: these rappers only wanna break your heart.

.

We may be in a new location, but the NYAFF will still be as raw and potent as moonshine. Although we’re on the Upper West Side, we’re still showing movies that’ll mess you up and ruin you permanently for the pale, lifeless junk Hollywood has to offer.
.

Let us save you from the boring movies.

For a sneak peak at this year’s NYAFF program book, click the image below to be forwarded.

rooftop films – support underground movies – OUTDOORS :D

SPIRIT (SEMANGAT)

Adam Gutch & Chu-Li Shewring 2010

Documentary Short

$10 AT THE DOOR OR ONLINE

DATE / TIME

THURSDAY JUN 24, 2010

8:00 PM

IN THE EVENT OF RAIN, THE SCREENING WILL BE HELD INDOORS AT THE SAME LOCATION.

AUTOMOTIVE HIGH SCHOOL
On the lawn of Automotive High School
WILLIAMSBURG
50 BEDFORD AVE. AT NORTH 13TH ST., BROOKLYN, NY 11222
L to Bedford Ave. or G to Nassau Ave.

THE RURAL LIFE AND SPIRIT

8:00	Doors Open
8:30	Live Music by The Luyas
9:00	Films begin
12:00 AM (midnight)	After-party: Open Bar at Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave) Radeberger Pilsner

The Show Presented in Partnership With

SPIRIT (SEMANGAT) (Adam Gutch & Chu-Li Shewring | Borneo & UK | 44 min.)

In the lush jungles of Borneo, an Iban father on the cusp of old age begins a river journey to seek medical help for his sick child. Along the way, the boy is troubled by recurring visions of a strange figure who appears on the river bank. Their journey contrasts the vibrant otherworldly flora and fauna in the rain forest with the grey, foreboding mechanics of modern urban life, and father and son are drawn inexorably to a final encounter with the mythical ‘transformed’ shaman who dwells deep inside the jungle.

Semangat was made by working closely with one Iban longhouse community from Sarawak, Malaysia with whom the story was devised and filmed. The basis of the film explores the conflict that exists between ancient animist beliefs and modern approaches to illness. The main protagonists of the film are a real father and son, and a retired shaman from this community. flyingant.org.uk

Vive le France – Bastille day in NYC @ 60th St Celebration! (btw 5th and Lex)

BONJOUR NEW YORK!

On Sunday, July 11, 2010 celebrate French culture at NYC’s annual three-block fête on 60th Street from 12-6pm!

Each year, Bastille Day on 60th Street brings the best of France to New York for an afternoon of activities and delights for the entire family. Kids can play a round of pétanque or get their faces painted at the Kids Corner booth. From tasting delicious treats to listening to music at our day-long concert, everyone will enjoy the myriad attractions provided by artists and artisans from various regions of France, as well as other French-speaking countries.

For more than ten years, Bastille Day on 60th Street has been the largest public celebration of the historic friendship between France and the United States commemorating France’s own Independence Day on July 14, 1789. Shop the French-themed market stalls, try your luck at the raffle, and stop by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) at 22 East 60th Street for wine and cheese tastings. Vive la France!

Entrance to Bastille Day on 60th Street is free and open to the public

WINE AND CHEESE TASTING at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)

FIAF’s popular Bastille Day wine and cheese tasting returns! Sample a wide selection of red and white wines from Bordeaux, one of France’s most famous wine regions, provided by the Bordeaux Wine Council (CIVB). Accompanying these wines will be an array of delicious French cheeses, courtesy of Lactalis Deli. Gourmands can treat their palette while finding the perfect combination of vin et fromage.

From 12pm to 5:30pm
FIAF Gallery

Entrance $12
Must be 21 or over to attend

coney island film festival 2009

have the weekend free ? want to be outdoors to enjoy the nicer fall weather after all that rain we had for the past weekend? what to find a different way to spend $45? the answer to all those questions is below:

9th Annual Coney Island Film Festival

October 2-4, 2009

at Sideshows By The Seashore and The Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York!

Advanced online ticketing now live. Click on each program block to buy tickets for individual screenings. Individual screenings $6.

Festival Pass $45 includes all screenings (except The Warriors) and opening night party with open bar.

Saturday Screening Pass $15 includes all Saturday screenings (except The Warriors).

Sunday Screening Pass $10 includes all Sunday screenings.

The Warriors $10.

Opening Night Screening and Party (open bar) $25. Opening Night Screening only $6.