Sunday 11/18 8pm $5
Moviehouse presents Warnings From Above and Hipster Olympics with The Big Lebowski
Tonight, Moviehouse presents the Coen Brothers classic The Big Lebowski with two spectacular local shorts and an afterparty featuring the visual delights of VJ Clay Franklin and the DJ rhythms of Nate Mars.
Strap on your bowling shows, pour yourself a White Russian and revel in your own dudeness as you watch The Big Lebowski . Bring a pair of bowling shoes or dress as a character and get $2 off admission.
The night opens with hilarious shorts from two of New York's best filmmakers.
In Warnings From Above by James Monohan, a man meets his guardian angel only to discover that his angel specializes in bad advice.
Then in Hipster Olympics by POYKPAK, a group of slackers battle their way through a series of mudane competitions to prove that silver is the new gold.
James Monohan and members of POYKPAK will be on hand for a q and a following the shorts.
To close the evening, its VJ Clay Franklin splicing together found footage, classic scenes and crazy stuff he made himself while DJs Nate Mars and provide all the beats you need to get down.
As always there's free popcorn for everyone and free drinks for the winner of the tragic teenage trivia contest. This week theirs a special bowling competition with free admission to the next show on the line. All this of just $5.
Moviehouse presents NYC's best short films, a classic feature, and an afterparty with the neighborhood's best VJs and DJs on the first and third Sunday of every month at Galapagos Art Space. The event is sponsored by Brilliant Productions, Indiepix, East Village Radio, Reel Life Video, and Galapagos Art Space.
Upcoming Moviehouse shows:
December 2: The Graduate
December 16: A Christmas Story
January 6: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
January 20: The Sting
For more information: www.myspace.com/reellifemoviehouse
Sunday 11/18 8pm
Polish Cultural Institute presents
RUSSIA-POLAND. NEW GAZE
A Series of new documentaries by young Polish and Russian Filmmakers
Three Programs of Short Films from an innovative experiment in international understanding:
Russia in the eyes of Poles, Poland in the eyes of Russians
Following the warm reception of Part One and Two by a full-house international audience on September 30 and October 28, the last in a three-part series of new documentaries by young Polish and Russian filmmakers will be screened at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space on Sunday, November 18, at 8 p.m.
Part Three includes the program's most widely honored film: The Seeds by Wojciech Kasperski.The Seeds is an “achingly beautiful” (SILVERDOCS award) documentary portrait of a Siberian village family isolated by the community. “If Chekhov and Rembrandt had collaborated on a documentary film, it might have the visual richness and dramatic insight of SEEDS.” (Big Sky Documentary Film jury)
In an innovative program of cross-cultural encounter called Russia-Poland. New Gaze, selected film students from a number of film schools in Russia “traded places” with their counterparts from film schools in Poland to make short documentary films about each other’s countrymen. As a group the films offer intriguing personal glimpses – a “new gaze” – into the lives of “others”, with the similarities at least as startling as the contrasts. The enthusiastic young film-school students used their talents and skills to explore who those "Poles" and "Russians" really are. These films thus came to life through the confrontation of prejudices with spontaneous interactions, and the collision of expectations with facts, bringing us closer to the truth about the stereotypes dividing these two nations. The films have been shown over 300 times throughout Europe and cumulatively have garnered nearly thirty awards.
