CHESS OF THE WIND & HIVE - Shirin Neshat, Blerta Basholli & Yllka Gashi
Release Date: 11/16/2021
UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR – January 2025 + Filmmaker Steve Pink on THE LAST REPUBLICAN
Film Forum Presents
In this episode, Film Forum Director & Premieres Co-Programmer Sonya Chung discusses our January openings with Premieres Artistic Director Mike Maggiore; and Mike talks to filmmaker Steve Pink about his new documentary THE LAST REPUBLICAN, opening January 3.
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UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR - October, November & December 2024
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In our new Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss upcoming premieres on our calendar for October – December 2024. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy.
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LOOK INTO MY EYES - Lana Wilson
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In Part 4 of the July – September 2024 installment of UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR, Film Forum Director Sonya Chung sat down at the theater with Lana Wilson, the brilliant director of the new documentary LOOK INTO MY EYES, a revelatory portrait of psychics in New York City and the people who come to them seeking connection – on this plane or another one. The film opens Friday, September 6 from A24. Lana has a long history with Film Forum. After working in our administrative office for several years early in her career, her bold, moving debut feature AFTER TILLER, about four of the US’s...
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BLAXPLOITATION, BABY! - Odie Henderson and Bruce Goldstein
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In part 3 of the July – September 2024 installment of UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR, Film Forum’s Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein has a lively, free-wheeling conversation with Odie Henderson, chief film critic of The Boston Globe, about our upcoming festival BLAXPLOITATION, BABY!, opening Friday, August 16, and continuing for a week with 16 genre classics from the early 1970s, including SHAFT, SUPER FLY, COFFY, CLEOPATRA JONES, and much more. The festival coincides with the publication of Henderson’s new book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation,...
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WAR GAME - Jesse Moss, Tony Gerber & Gov. Steve Bullock
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In part 2 of the July – September 2024 installment of UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR, Film Forum Director and premieres co-programmer Sonya Chung talks with WAR GAME filmmakers Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber, along with one of the film’s participants, former Montana Governor Steve Bullock. For WAR GAME, the filmmakers, in association with the non-partisan organization Vet Voice, staged a White House war room simulation of a second January 6th-type insurrection attempt, with former members of US military high command and politicians acting in both the government and insurrectionist roles. Bullock...
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UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR - July, August, September 2024
Film Forum Presents
In our new Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss upcoming premieres on our calendar for July – September 2024. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Look out for the second part in early August, which will feature FF Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein discussing our “Blaxploitation, Baby!” festival (August 16 - 22) with Boston Globe film critic and series advisor Odie Henderson. Please enjoy.
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NAKED ACTS - Bridgett M. Davis
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Film Forum’s Director Sonya Chung talks with filmmaker, novelist, and memoirist Bridgett M. Davis on the occasion of the restoration and release of her 1996 film NAKED ACTS — which will screen at FF on Thursday, June 6 at 7:00. Davis shares her influences and inspirations, including Julie Dash and Kathleen Collins, her passion for storytelling in multiple genres, and her return to filmmaking after 30 years.
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FILM GEEK & “Out of the 80s” – Richard Shepard
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For Part 2 of our April – June Unfolding the Calendar installment, Film Forum's Founding Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein has a lively, wide-ranging conversation with film director Richard Shepard about their favorite NYC moviegoing and moviehouse experiences in the 1970s and 80s. Shepard’s own memories are the core of his new documentary FILM GEEK, having its NYC premiere as part of our upcoming four-week, 50+ film festival “OUT OF THE 80s,” opening May 17.
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UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR - April, May & June 2024
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In this, our fourth Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss upcoming premieres on our (now three-month!) calendar for April – June 2024. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Since we expanded the calendar, we have also expanded the podcast into two episodes. Look out for the second part in early May, which will feature FF Repertory Artistic Director discussing our four-week “Out of the 80s” festival (May 17...
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UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR - February & March 2024
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In this, our third Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung, Bruce Goldstein, and Mike Maggiore provide a behind-the screens look at our February-March 2024 calendar. They discuss films and filmmakers, a little FF history, the programming process, and what they each find particularly exciting about upcoming programming. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy. Chung photo by Patrick Quarterman; Maggiore photo by Robin Holland;...
info_outlineIn today’s episode, we bring you special events around two of our recent hit films – CHESS OF THE WIND and HIVE. First up, we were honored to have the renowned Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat join us to introduce a screening of Mohammad Reza Aslani’s sumptuous, long-lost 1976 melodrama CHESS OF THE WIND on Sunday, November 7. Here she’s introduced by Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Director of Repertory Programming. In the second segment: the opening night Q&A for Blerta Basholli’s HIVE from November 5. HIVE is an engrossing drama about a young widow overcoming tragic and oppressive circumstances in post-war Kosova, based on a true story. Popular Kosovan actress Yllka Gashi gives a fabulous, steely lead performance in the film, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award and Directing Award in World Cinema Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. We were fortunate to have both Basholli and Gashi join us for the Q&A, which was moderated by Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson. The event was co-presented by the Albanian Institute New York. Special thanks to Shirin Neshat, Janus Films, Blerta Basholli, Yllka Gashi, Alissa Wilkinson, Dino Korca and Jordin Rubio at the Albanian Institute New York, Sara Sampson, Josh Haroutunian, and Zeitgeist Films for making these events possible. Our runs of both CHESS OF THE WIND and HIVE have been held over. Check www.filmforum.org for showtimes and tickets. Shirin Neshat photo (left) by Michael Dalton. Blerta Basholli & Yllka Gashi photo by Tian Feng.