The Big Apple is in the spotlight for “The City: Real and Imagined,” a retrospective series of classic New York City-based movies that will be presented May 12 through June 8 at Film Forum in lower Manhattan.
“The City: Real and Imagined” spans the complete cinematic experience from the early days of the silent movies through contemporary works. Classic works by Chantal Akerman, Mel Brooks, John Cassavetes, Jules Dassin, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Sergio Leone, Sidney Lumet, Elaine May, Gordon Parks, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Joan Micklin Silver and King Vidor will receive big-screen presentation.
The series is presented in conjunction with the Museum of the City of New York’s centennial exhibition “This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture.” Film Forum and the Museum of the City of New York will offer reciprocal admission discounts to attendees of both “The City: Real and Imagined” and the museum exhibition”™s (with proof of purchase).
Special live events will be presented during the series in collaboration with The Tenement Museum, The New York Public Library, Cinema Tropical, and other venues. Among the special events scheduled is a post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg following the May 17 screening of his 1971 classic “The Panic in Needle Park,” a post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Claudia Weill following the May 19 screening of her influential 1978 indie film “Girlfriends,” and a very rare screening on May 21 of the 1932 Yiddish-language “Uncle Moses” starring theater legend Maurice Schwartz.
More information is available on the Film Forum website.
Photo: Maurice Schwartz and Judith Abarbanell in “Uncle Moses” (1932), courtesy of the IMDb.
