Harlems Maysles Cinema

One Weekend, Four Film Fests: Harlem

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Independent Film, Harlem International Film Festival, Freeing Silvia Baraldini, Just Be Frank, The Vanishing City, Franco the Great, New York City, Harlem, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Film Festival, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

There was a definite Harlem theme to the films, yet there was also a lot more than only Harlem. Festivals should always be about stimulating the audience to think and to feel, and sometimes to get angry.

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Tour Time in Harlem!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mount Morris Park, The Victoria Theatre, Thomas Lamb, Small's Paradise, The Cotton Club, Dr. J. Gardner Smith, Uptown, 5 & Diamond, Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Lena Horne, The Savoy Ballroom, The Lafayette Theatre, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Gillian Walker, Albert Maysles, Homo-Harlem a Film Retrospective, Ny State Assemblywoman Maeguerite L. Smith, State Senator Bill Perkins, Tourism, Charter Schools, High-Priced Condominiums, Gentrification, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

New restaurants like the discretely-posh, delicious 5 & Diamond abound in today's Uptown. But the Cotton Club of Lena Horne, the Savoy Ballroom, Lafayette Theatre, Small's Paradise are gone.

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Homo-Harlem Moves Downtown: How Malcolm Harris Hung Up on Angelina Jolie, Twice!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Homo-Harlem, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Soho, Storme DeLarverie, Ivanka Trump, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell, New York, New York City, Malcolm Harris, Designers for Dafur, Kim Cattrall, Billy Strayhorn, Marvin Smith, Andre Leon Talley, Fashion, Bayard Rustin, K. Tyson Perez, Dred, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Initially saddened that my glamorous friends had moved from uptown, I now realize that it's not so by Sarah Grossman much that K. Tyson Pere...

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Meeting the Maysles: Grey Gardens Comes to Harlem

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Albert Maysles, Lesbian, Roman Catholicism, President Obama, Rebekah Maysles, Aristotle-Onassis, Sara Maysles, Gay Rights, Tiger Woods, Judge Sotomayor, Gay Parade, Big Edie Bouvier Beale, Stonewall, African-American Issues, Latinos, Women, Gillian Maysles, Little Edie Bouvier Beale, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Episcopal Church, Grey Gardens, Gay Pride Parade, New York City, Lgbt, Columbia University, Philip Maysles, High Society, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Hotel St Regis, Gay Issues, Jerry Torre, Paper Magazine, Mr. Mickey, Jacqueline Bouvier, Lee Radziwel, New York, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Bred to be lovely and pleasant, to take for granted an ample supply of cash, the women of Grey Gardens were essentially abandoned to languish in a mansion infested with raccoons and cats.

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Movie Magic In Harlem

New York Press | Joseph Huff-Hannon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maysles Theater, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Film, Harlem, New York, Maysles Cinema, Maysles Film Institure, New York News

In Harlem, the Maysles Cinema provides a place for non-fiction film fans to enjoy documentaries on their favorite topics. A year ago, 82-year-old docu...

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