The people ride in a hole in the ground," sing the three horny, hopped-up sailors as they ecstatically catalog the city's many marvels in "New York, New York," the opening number of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's On the Town (1949).
That hole, now 110 years old, receives a more expansive, warts-and-all tribute in BAMcinématek's "Retro Metro" series, a program of 13 features and three shorts that highlight the joys and terrors of subterranean travel. Spanning 1928 through 1992, these movies reveal wildly vacillating feelings about the sprawling transit system — what Randy Kennedy calls "an object of pride and fascination, fear and loathing" in the introduction to his excellent 2004 book, Subwayland, a collection of his New York Times co...
That hole, now 110 years old, receives a more expansive, warts-and-all tribute in BAMcinématek's "Retro Metro" series, a program of 13 features and three shorts that highlight the joys and terrors of subterranean travel. Spanning 1928 through 1992, these movies reveal wildly vacillating feelings about the sprawling transit system — what Randy Kennedy calls "an object of pride and fascination, fear and loathing" in the introduction to his excellent 2004 book, Subwayland, a collection of his New York Times co...
- 9/24/2014
- Village Voice
Before the Us premiere at Doc NYC, I met up in the green room of the Sva Theater with director, producer Brad Bernstein and co-producer, editor, motion graphics animator Rick Cikowski, who did almost every animation in the exquisite Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story.
The two collaborated from day one. Here is their far out journey with Tomi, who Bernstein said, at the very moment we were doing this interview on the afternoon of November 10, was being honoured at the Rome film festival.
Anne-Katrin Titze: How did you first know about Tomi Ungerer? How did he enter your life?
Brad Bernstein: We were working on a history of American music project down in Miami in 2007. And one day I was in my office and I was reading the front page of the arts section in the New York Times. Randy Kennedy had written...
The two collaborated from day one. Here is their far out journey with Tomi, who Bernstein said, at the very moment we were doing this interview on the afternoon of November 10, was being honoured at the Rome film festival.
Anne-Katrin Titze: How did you first know about Tomi Ungerer? How did he enter your life?
Brad Bernstein: We were working on a history of American music project down in Miami in 2007. And one day I was in my office and I was reading the front page of the arts section in the New York Times. Randy Kennedy had written...
- 11/12/2012
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Reese Witherspoon appeared in a Tennessee court on Friday in a reported emergency conservatorship case as her parents are embroiled in a bigamy lawsuit.
Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon, known as Betty, filed a lawsuit in Davidson County, Tennessee on Tuesday alleging the Legally Blonde star's father John Witherspoon wed another woman while still married to her.
She claims John exchanged vows with Tricianne Taylor on 14 January and she is seeking to have that union annulled, insisting she doesn't want a divorce, despite the pair being separated for several years.
The actress joined her father in court in Nashville on Friday for a closed hearing. She was videoed guiding her dad into the courtroom where Probate Judge Randy Kennedy listened to the case.
According to The Tennessean, Judge Kennedy deals with conservatorship and determining mental capacity. Betty claimed in her affidavit that her 70-year-old husband was suffering from dementia, claiming he had no clue who she was and denied knowledge of their marriage when she confronted him about his new wife.
The judge sealed all records in the case and barred the media from the hearing.
Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon, known as Betty, filed a lawsuit in Davidson County, Tennessee on Tuesday alleging the Legally Blonde star's father John Witherspoon wed another woman while still married to her.
She claims John exchanged vows with Tricianne Taylor on 14 January and she is seeking to have that union annulled, insisting she doesn't want a divorce, despite the pair being separated for several years.
The actress joined her father in court in Nashville on Friday for a closed hearing. She was videoed guiding her dad into the courtroom where Probate Judge Randy Kennedy listened to the case.
According to The Tennessean, Judge Kennedy deals with conservatorship and determining mental capacity. Betty claimed in her affidavit that her 70-year-old husband was suffering from dementia, claiming he had no clue who she was and denied knowledge of their marriage when she confronted him about his new wife.
The judge sealed all records in the case and barred the media from the hearing.
- 5/12/2012
- WENN
Los Angeles, May 12: Actress Reese Witherspoon appeared in court to attend her feuding parents' hearing, after her mother alleged that her father wed another woman while still married to her.
According to The Tennesseean, the actress' mother, Betty Witherspoon, has filed papers claiming that John, her husband of 42 years, married a woman named Tricianne Taylor, while still married to her.
The hearing before Probate Judge Randy Kennedy was closed to the public.
Betty filed a petition for annulment of John Witherspoon's wedding in January to Taylor..
According to The Tennesseean, the actress' mother, Betty Witherspoon, has filed papers claiming that John, her husband of 42 years, married a woman named Tricianne Taylor, while still married to her.
The hearing before Probate Judge Randy Kennedy was closed to the public.
Betty filed a petition for annulment of John Witherspoon's wedding in January to Taylor..
- 5/12/2012
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
Reese Witherspoon appeared in court Friday in Nashville with her dueling parents for an emergency closed-door hearing. The actress's mother, Betty Witherspoon, has filed papers claiming her husband of 42 years - Reese's dad - tied the knot with another woman while still married to Betty. The hearing before Probate Judge Randy Kennedy was closed to the public, but Kennedy typically handles cases involving conservatorship and determining mental capacity, The Tennesseean reports.A video shows Witherspoon, wearing a dress and visibly pregnant, walking into the courtroom with her husband Jim Toth, along with her father, mother and brother. Betty filed a...
- 5/12/2012
- by Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
Reese Witherspoon's family drama has apparently just begun. The pregnant Oscar winner and husband Jim Toth joined her estranged mother and father in a Nashville courtroom today for an emergency conservatorship hearing stemming from the bigamy lawsuit Witherspoon's mom, Betty, filed against the Oscar winner's dad this week. In seeking to have John D. Witherspoon's Jan. 14 marriage to Patricia Taylor annulled, Betty Witherspoon has alleged that John is suffering from early onset dementia. And Friday's hearing probably wasn't the reunion anyone was hoping for. While details of what went on in court have been ordered sealed, Davidson County Probate Judge Randy Kennedy presides...
- 5/11/2012
- E! Online
As I mentioned when rounding up the Narrative Feature Competition, wrapping SXSW 2012 could take a while. That batch opened with comments from one of the jurors, J Hoberman, and this one will as well. First, though, let's mention that we already have roundups going on the award-winners, Beware of Mr Baker and Bay of All Saints.
So the Guardian's Catherine Shoard, jury member, found Jeffrey Kimball's The Central Park Effect to be "a sweet study of the birders who flock to Manhattan's thick strip of parkland each spring. It was pretty gentle, generic, even, but felt from a different planet from the rest in that it wasn't wholly human-focused. Sure, the warblers and the robins are red herrings, and it's really all about the cast of eccentrics who eyeball them – including celeb twitcher Jonathan Franzen, who pitches in with some unusually self-deprecating soundbites."
Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles...
So the Guardian's Catherine Shoard, jury member, found Jeffrey Kimball's The Central Park Effect to be "a sweet study of the birders who flock to Manhattan's thick strip of parkland each spring. It was pretty gentle, generic, even, but felt from a different planet from the rest in that it wasn't wholly human-focused. Sure, the warblers and the robins are red herrings, and it's really all about the cast of eccentrics who eyeball them – including celeb twitcher Jonathan Franzen, who pitches in with some unusually self-deprecating soundbites."
Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles...
- 3/27/2012
- MUBI
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