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Splendido Cinema: Nanni Moretti in the Spotlight, Part One

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: La Vita E Cinema, Caro Diario, Sacher Film, Nanni Moretti, IFC Center, We Have a Pope, Caesar Must Die, Cannes, Nuovo Sacher, Roma, Cannes Film Festival, Sacher Distribuzione, Il Caimano, Culture News

At first glance, the real life Nanni Moretti could appear quite like the men he plays in his films.

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Ian Cheney's The City Dark: Why We Need the Night to Survive

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Ian Cheney, Environmentalism, Rooftop Films, Astronomy, IFC Center, The City Dark, Argot Pictures, Neil Degrasse Tyson, The Fishermen Three & Ben Fries, Jane Brox, Star Gazing, Culture News

As a New Yorker, I know I haven't seen more than a handful of stars on any given night and the sad thing is, I didn't remember what I was missing until I watched The City Dark.

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'To Catch A Dollar' Documents Success Of Bank For Poor

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Video, To Catch a Dollar, IFC Center, Bangladesh, Gayle Ferraro, Bank for Poor, Grameen America, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Muhammad Yunus, Impact News

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press NEW YORK — Just before the global financial crisis struck in 2008, Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize laureate...

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Sundance/IFC's The Ledge -- God as Opiate

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Religion, Ifc, Sundance Film Festival, Matthew Chapman, Patrick Wilson, IFC Center, Charlie Hunnam, Karl Marx, Opiates, IFC Films, Terrance Howard, Liv Tyler, Sundance Channel, Entertainment News

The Ledge held me on the edge of my seat from start to finish, which is a very good thing these days, when I am tempted to give up on many pictures after only five minutes.

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A Sour Note at Carnegie Hall Few Heard, Coming From Above

John Farr | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Bill Cunningham Documentary, John Turturro, IFC Center, Lost Bohemia, John Barrymore, Vincent Van Gogh, Jane Fonda, Spencer Tracy, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, Leonard Bernstein, Best Movies by Farr, Isadora Duncan, Lionel Barrymore, Sanford Weill, Blazing Saddles, Marilyn Monroe, Enrico Caruso, Jason Robards, Carnegie Hall, Elia Kazan, Bill Cunningham, Isaac Stern, It's a Wonderful Life, George Balanchine, Josef Astor, Best Movies on DVD, Paul Newman, Cecil B. DeMille, Best Movies, Bill Cunningham New York, Norman Mailer, Paddy Chayefsky, Chelsea Handler, Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Entertainment News

The Carnegie Studios made it possible for artists to live as true bohemians: to enjoy the freedom of being deliciously different and quirky. I suppose it was simply too good to last.

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!Women Art Revolution at MoMA

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Spain Rodriguez, !Women Art Revolution, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Museum of Modern Art, IFC Center, Sally Berger, Arts News

The long-awaited documentary "!Women Art Revolution -- A Secret History" incorporates 42 years of archival footage and personal interviews that Hershman Leeson began shooting in 1966.

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Christmas With Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah'

Laura Silver | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Claude Lanzmann, Jews on Christmas, Holocaust Film, Janusz Korczak, Christmas in New York, IFC Center, Shoah Film, Religion News

Before the blizzard hit New York, I had my own watershed moment: Christmas with Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's nine-hour epic, which returned to the big screen on its 25th anniversary.

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Heart Breaker at the International Film Center

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monte Carlo, Green Card, Shrek, Morocco, French Film, IFC Center, NY Events, NY Culture, Arts News

This French film is very light, in the tradition of a superior American comedy, The Wedding Crashers.

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Tribeca Takes: Bette Gordon on Handsome Harry

Tribeca Film | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bette Gordon, Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Film, IFC Center, Steve Buscemi, Handsome Harry, Amy Taubin, Movies, Jamey Sheridan, East Village, Entertainment News

Bette Gordon's Handsome Harry, which premiered in 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival, opens at the IFC Center and in Los Angeles on April 16.

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Visiting Family Ghosts in October Country

Tribeca Film | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Documentary, Michael Palmieri, IFC Center, Donal Mosher, Tribeca Film, Family, October Country, Entertainment News

October Country is a unique documentary that uses the themes of Halloween and, in particular, ghosts to give voice to a working-class family in Mohawk...

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Kingjongilia: North Korea's Undeniable Hell

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holocaust, IFC Center, Documentary, Wwii, Adolf Hitler, OJ Simpson, Kim Jong Il, Charles Chaplin, N.C. Heikin, North Korea, Docuweek, Kimjongilia, Entertainment News

Kimjongilia, the new documentary directed by N.C. Heikin, is enough proof-on-film to convict North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il of mass murder, terrorism, and sadistic insanity.

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