FILM & VIDEO Wednesday 11/8 ANNUAL MARGARET MEAD FILM & ...
ANNUAL MARGARET MEAD FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
Continues today w/Gea Girls, Angelos' Film, The Walnut Tree & Bigger Than A Whale; American Museum of Natural History, 79th St. (Central Pk. W.), 212-769-5100; call for times, prices & complete sched. [through 11/11].
THE BRITISH NEW WAVE
See 30 early 60s classics feat. young Albert Finney, Julie Christie & Richard Harris-types in Look Back in Anger, Tom Jones, This Sporting Life & more at Film Forum; 209 W. Houston St. (6th Ave.), 212-727-8110; call for times & prices [through 11/16].
FEATURING...BRAZIL: INSIDE & OUT
Camus' 1959 Black Orpheus (1) & Creation of the World: A Samba Opera (3:30); Donnell Library Media Center, 20 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-0618; free.
NY COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL
Kicks off w/NY premiere of gruesome twosome's (Stiller & Garofalo's) newest vehicle; AMC Empire, 234 W. 42nd St. (8th Ave.), 212-479-7363; call for times & prices [through Sat.].
Thursday 11/9
MICHEL AUDER
Three-day retrospective begins today w/premieres plus screenings of oldies like A Coupla White Faggots Sittin Around Talking & My Last Bag of Heroin; Thread Waxing Space, 476 B'way (betw. Broome & Grand Sts.), 212-966-9520; 8, $5 [through Sat.].
Friday 11/10
GANGSTER FILM SERIES
This week, Abraham Polonsky's Force of Evil (1948) at the 58th St. Library, 127 E. 58th St. (betw. Lexington & Park Aves.), 212-221-7676 or www.nypl.org; 2, free.
REVOLUTION IN THE REVOLUTION: SOVIET CINEMA OF THE 60S
Today: Monologue, Brief Encounters, When Leaves Fall & Heat; Lincoln Center, 165 W. 65th St. (B'way), 212-875-5600; call for times & prices.
SINGLES MOVIE CLUB
See a film & then discuss it over a Chinese dinner (modern love); Cineplex Odeon, 50th St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.), RSVP 201-342-8609; 6:45, $25.
SITUATING COMEDY
Series highlighting legendary comedians continues at the Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave. (89th St.), 212-360-4321; call for times, free w/mus. adm. [through 11/22].
Saturday 11/11
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Series continues w/subtitled Fox & His Friends (1975); YWCA, 610 Lexington Ave. (53rd St.), 212-755-9717; 4:30, $7 [repeats Sun.].
RARELY SCREENED FILMS BY HOU HSIAO-HSIEN
Tonight, Dust in the Wind (1986), about two lovers who head for big city of Taipei in search of employment; BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave. (Ashland Pl.), 718-636-4111; call for times & prices.
VISIONS OF NEW YORK: FILMS FROM THE 1960S UNDERGROUND
Shirley Clarke's The Connection (1961) & Dick Higgins' The Flaming City (1963); American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Ave. (36th St.), Astoria, 718-784-4520 or www.ammi.org; call for times, prices & complete sched.
Sunday 11/12
FILM IN VOID
Film screenings in cyberlounge; this week: Luc Bresson's surprisingly romantic La Femme Nikita; Void, 16 Mercer St. (Howard St.), 212-941-6492; free.
SILENT CLOWNS FILM SERIES
Continues w/Harold Lloyd in The Kid Brother (1927); New-York Historical Society, 2 W. 77th St. (Central Pk. W.), 212-969-0968; 2, $7, $5 s.c.
Monday 11/13
11TH NATIVE AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
Starts today, feat. presentations by over 60 filmmakers like Shirley Cheechoo (Cree), Annie Frazier-Henry (Blackfoot/Sioux) & Gary Farmer (Cayuga); Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; 1 Bowling Green, B'way (Battery Pl.), 212-514-3820; call for times & prices [through 11/19].
Tuesday 11/14
A TASTE OF PARADISE: JEWISH VISIONS OF UTOPIA ON FILM & TELEVISION
Timely screening & discussion program on Zionism, Socialism, counter culture & more presented in conjunction w/exhibit Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World; Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave. (92nd St.), 212-423-3271; 6:30, call for prices.