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Vigilante: The Incredible True Story of Curtis Sliwa and The Guardian Angels (2017) – DOC NYC Film Festival
November 23rd, 2017 by Mr. C
——————————————————————————————————– Vigilante: The Incredible True Story of Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels is a fascinating documentary on a very, very intense man that loves his city. Sliwa’s personality is one that you either love or you hate. There’s no denying his brutal honesty & his in your face, punk rock way of delivering the […]
Tags: curtis sliwa, doc nyc, docnyc 2017, guardian angels, lisa evers, nyc documentary, the magnificent 13
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My Friend Dahmer (2017)
November 23rd, 2017 by chocko
Last month, The Williams Center in Rutherford, New Jersey hosted an advanced screening of the movie MY FRIEND DAHMER followed by a Q&A with the writer/director, Marc Meyers. The film is based on the graphic novel by John “Derf” Backderf which tells the real life story of Derf’s friendship with a teenager named Jeff Dahmer […]
Tags: cinema, Marc Meyers, movie, My friend Dahmer, The Williams Center
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The Iron Triangle (2017) at DOC NYC 2017
November 15th, 2017 by Mr. C
—————————————————————————————————— The struggle is real at the Willets Point section in the borough of Queens NYC, an industrial area that has been occupied by auto mechanic shops, junkyards, chop shops, & machinery businesses for decades. The time has come for the City to start evicting these businesses for new real estate development under the shadows […]
Tags: citifield, docnyc, docnyc 2017, gentrification, new york documentaries, ny mets, willets point
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L7: Pretend We’re Dead at DOC NYC
August 27th, 2017 by chocko
L7: Pretend We’re Dead documentary made its World Premiere at last year’s DOC NYC. The movie is the story of the all female punk, grunge, rock and roll band L7. Told mostly from their perspective with their own home footage, viewers are immersed into the van and on the road from the formation of the […]
Tags: cinema, dee plakas, doc nyc, documentary, donita sparks, jennifer finch, joan jett, L7, L7: Pretend We're Dead, movies, punk, Q&A, suzi gardner, sva theatre, The Lunachicks
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Reservoir Dogs 25th Anniversary at The Beacon Theatre
May 3rd, 2017 by chocko
One of the special events that took place at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival was the 25th Anniversary screening of RESERVOIR DOGS in glorious 35 mm at The Beacon Theatre. Quentin Tarantino’s super cool movie about potty-mouthed gangsters and a jewel heist gone bad first screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992. It was […]
Tags: 2017, 25th Anniversary, Beacon Theatre, cinema, movies, quentin tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, tribeca film festival, Tribeca2017
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Crate Diggers: WFMU Record Fair is Happening This Weekend!
April 28th, 2017 by chocko
Drop all your plans and get down to the 2017 WFMU Record Fair this weekend (April 28-30) located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Expo Center, 79 Franklin Street. Get ready to dig through crates and boxes of records, CDs and DVDs so start limbering up those fingers and get your scrawny legs ready to […]
Tags: brooklyn, brooklyn expo center, greenpoint, nyc, record fair, records, shut up weirdo, vinyl, wfmu
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Chiller Theatre Halloween 2016
March 7th, 2017 by chocko
Hey stank azz zombies and all you mummies! It’s Chiller Theatre time once again..a biannual celebration of all things horror, sci-fi and everything else in between. It’s the ultimate toy, model and film expo you will kick yourself in the pants if you miss. Get up out of your coffins, shake out the cobwebs and […]
Tags: chiller theatre, cosplay, halloween, horror, horror movies, Joe Lynn Turner, movies, new jersey, sci-fi, the dead elvi
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JIM JARMUSCH at Williams Center PATERSON Screening
December 30th, 2016 by chocko
Earlier in December, The William Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts in Rutherford, New Jersey hosted a special screening of Paterson with the writer and director of the film, Jim Jarmusch in attendance. Jarmusch was in the house during a pre-reception in the lobby of the historic building and also to introduce the film […]
Tags: Adam Driver, cinema, Jim Jarmusch, movies, new jersey, nj, paterson, poems, poetry, rutherford, William Carlos Wiliams, Williams Center
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OFF THE RAILS documentary might leave a few skidmarks on your mind!
November 27th, 2016 by Mr. C
—————————————————————————————————————– OFF THE RAILS : Documentary Director: Adam Irving Producer: Adam Irving, Glen Zipper Production Company: Gemini Pictures, Zipper Brothers Film Runtime: 87 min —————————————————————————————————————— Off the Rails documentary continues the New York State of complicated minds with a fascinating & compelling story of a one of a kind character in a one of a […]
Tags: aspergers, documentary, mta, new york port authority, nyc, off the rails
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TRUE NEW YORK is out on DVD and VOD (iTunes)
November 17th, 2016 by Mr. C
——————————————————————————————————— We wanted to share an excellent documentary anthology that was released as a feature by First Run Features called TRUE NEW YORK. True New York is an awesome collection of 5 award-winning short film docs that takes place in NYC. All 5 films display a subculture of NY that undeniably reams of Big Apple […]
Tags: documentary, films, new york, short films
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DOC NYC 2016: More Reviews
November 15th, 2016 by chocko
Here are more short reviews of movies playing during DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival. Be sure to take a look at their website or pick up a program and find something that you can get into. Get your tickets and head over to either IFC Center (323 Sixth Ave at West Third Street), SVA […]
Tags: cinema, doc nyc, documentary, IFC Center, movies, reviews, sour grapes, supergirl, sva theatre, the bee keeper and his son
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Finding KUKAN at DOC NYC Film Festival 2016
November 14th, 2016 by Mr. C
There are so many facets and layers of why I enjoyed watching FINDING KUKAN and I think you will, too! At the very most outer shell, Kukan (1941) – an American made documentary film about a war torn China being invaded by Japan with live video footage on location from China during the attacks, was […]
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