Kate Churchill’s doc explores the world of yoga through the eyes of a novice student, Nick Rosen, taking him to meet and study with some of the most influential yogis in the world, from NYC to LA, Hawaii, and India.
My festival picks for Saturday, May 2nd.
The title is pretty self-explanatory: Anvil is going to play a mini-set at the Bridge Theater on May 3rd, after the screenings at 7:10 and 9:30.
Chris Felver’s portrait of the poet is a little rough and given to rambling. But it’s an engaging portrait of one of the most important figures in American letters and publishing, and Ferlinghetti himself is expected to attend.
Documentary about an obscure Canadian metal band that tasted fame and fortune only to lose it, and then spend twenty-five years trying to recapture it. Highly recommended.
Jeremiah Zagar’s film about his father, muralist Isaiah Zagar, exposes the secrets of his entire family.
[Above, Marina Abramovic and her posse dare the ocean to hit them with its best shot.]
Our City Dreams chronicles the careers and lives of five female artists, now based in New York City, who have been drawn there by everything the city represents — all its chaos, romance, and the advantages of being at the center of the [...]
Today is Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 90th birthday. Give City Lights some love and buy a book from them today! In person or online, it’s a gift for him that you get to receive.
Streetsblog has this great article about Ferlinghetti’s proposal to create an Italian-style piazza on Vallejo Street (near Trieste).
By the way, a film about [...]
Every fall, Harvard’s football team plays against Yale’s in a match known as The Game. The words are always capitalized to underscore the epic nature of the annual face-off between the Ivy League giants.
The stakes at this match are always high, but in 1968, they were stratospheric: both teams walked onto the field undefeated for [...]
People have a low opinion of philosophy these days, what with its reputation for being at once futile and irrelevant. So the premise of Astra Taylor’s film, The Examined Life, almost sounds like a bad joke: eight contemporary philosophers holding forth on their views for ten minutes each? Real compelling cinema, that.
But whether by [...]
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