New York Stories
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Trilogy by Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand
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First meeting as first year film school undergraduates at NYU, Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew began to collaborate on highly unconventional narrative shorts following their individual stints in the art world, making singularly of-the-moment films about mediated desire (and rankling jealousy) in o...
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The Brother From Another Planet
Directed by John Sayles | 109 mins | 1984
New to Earth and fleeing bondage on his own planet, a mute telepath extraterrestrial known only as “The Brother” (Joe Morton)—who has the outward appearance of a twentysomething African American male hits the streets of Harlem—gets a crash course in the b... -
The Queen
Leaving February 1
Directed by Frank Simon | 68 mins | 1968
Welcome to the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant, held at New York’s Town Hall! Simon’s essential document of queer history takes us backstage to rehearsals and dressing rooms at a drag competition organized by Flawless Sabrina... -
Downtown 81
Directed by Edo Bertoglio | 72 mins | 2000
In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie abou... -
In the Soup
Directed by Alexandre Rockwell | 96 mins | 1992
The spirit of the Nouvelle Vague animates Alexandre Rockwell’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner, a veritable who’s who of New York independent cinema—from Cassavetes stalwart Seymour Cassel through to Jim Jarmusch, and an almost babyfaced Steve Busc... -
Delirious
Directed by Tom DiCillo | 106 mins | 2006
A decade on from "Living In Oblivion" (1995), writer-director Tom DiCillo and Steve Buscemi reunite in this underseen NYC fable. Here, Buscemi plays low-rent paparazzo Les, hungry for a big break. He’s happy enough to accept an offer of unpaid assistance ... -
Living in Oblivion
Directed by Tom DiCillo | 90 mins | 1995
Steve Buscemi stars as Nick Reve, a first-time director struggling to steer a wildly dysfunctional production, in this beloved satire of indie filmmaking—which also features Catherine Keener, as Nick’s leading lady, and Peter Dinklage in his film debut. Wr... -
Party Girl
Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer | 94 mins | 1995
With her beguiling presence and spry, screwball energy, Parker Posey made her name as the queen of American indie cinema during its ’90s boom. The recently restored "Party Girl" captures an ascendent Posey in wickedly fine form as Mary, the to...
