Director Andrew Bujalski celebrates 10 years of 'Funny Ha Ha' with a big fan, Lena Dunham:
Andrew Bujalski's film Funny Ha Ha celebrated its 10th anniversary last night at Anthology Film Archives, with the director and one of his biggest fans, Lena Dunham, in attendance.
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It was an unusual opening yesterday that prompted Mayor Michael Bloomberg to wax poetic, and prosaic, about the value of art. More
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on June 13th, 2012 11:47amThere was a telling moment last night when Neil Young and filmmaker Jonathan Demme spoke to preview their latest concert film, Journeys. The theater projected a clip with Young playing "Ohio", footage that was intercut with footage of the Kent State shootings and photos of the four slain college students that inspired the song. Lopate watched the small monitor feed set in front for all three and Demme turned around in his seat to see the large projection the audience saw. Young looked down or in his hands – anywhere but at the footage. More
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on June 8th, 2012 10:15amWhen he was five years old, he helped his mother with her wedding dress. It had lots of bows. “I think it’s really busy,” he recalled telling his mom. So they took the bows off and the dress, at least, was a success, even if the marriage wasn't. “My mom ended up getting divorced from Bill Kors, but I think the dress was pretty timeless,” he said. More
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on June 7th, 2012 9:56amLast night, crowds of hungry Queens residents jammed a Long Island City food festival that was also attended by Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer. More
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on June 6th, 2012 11:56amMany of the awardees also kept it light. Getting his award, De Niro said the “oversized subway token” was nicer than a glass apple he’d gotten from Mayor Koch.
“It says ‘Made in New York’, then in smaller letters, it says ‘Made in China’,” he said to laughs. “It symbolizes how much of New York is owned by China.” More
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on June 5th, 2012 9:44amAs the city prepares to convert a disused marine transfer station off 91st Street for waste-transfer purposes, some residents of the surrounding Manhattan neighborhood have the unfamiliar feeling that they're being ignored. More
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on June 4th, 2012 2:30pm“The [Labapalooza] festival is a lot of fun but its kind of secondary to the process that happens for the whole nine to ten months,” said lab director Matt Acheson. That process helped creators to continue and perfect works in progress, from perfecting a cartoonish brain puppet to completing an urban fable set in the East Village in the '80s. More
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on June 4th, 2012 1:15pmLast night, over a hundred people showed up at a book launch party to celebrate advertising executive Tom Doctoroff’s new book on China. One of those people was his brother's boss, Michael Bloomberg. More
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on May 30th, 2012 3:00pmJon Huntsman insisted he wasn’t referring to his own experience in the Republican presidential debates when he said, “They give you three-and-a-half seconds to talk about your worldview.” More
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on May 29th, 2012 1:40pm“Outside, right now, should be 64 of the best Skee-Ball players in the country,” the organizer said to the crowd of people mostly in their late 20s, who cheered back at him. Minutes later, they went inside the Knitting Factory for the second day of the Brewskee-Ball national tournament. The Beeb, its third year, attracts players from affiliates in four cities, turning a familiar Boardwalk diversion into a competitive sport with its own pun-heavy vernacular, characters and rivalries. More
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on May 29th, 2012 11:56am
