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REDUCED PRICE TICKETS FOR ‘A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD PRYOR’ The Museum is pleased to offer reduced-price tickets to all three events this weekend in its special tribute to Richard Pryor, With guest appearances by actress Lonette McKee, comedian Paul Mooney, and cultural historian Mel Watkins, and rare screenings of Pryor’s standup comedy and film work. Admission will be the same as regular film programs: $10 for the general public, $7.50 for college students and senior citizens, and free for Museum members. For nonmembers, a combination package of $25 for all three evenings is also available. To purchase, call 718-784-4520. See below for program details.
WIM WENDERS AND JESSICA LANGE IN PERSON WITH PREVIEW SCREENING OF 'DON'T COME KNOCKING'On Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., internationally renowned director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club) and Academy Award-winning actress Jessica Lange will participate in a Pinewood Dialogue following a screening of Don’t Come Knocking, a wry and moving drama that reunites Wenders with writer Sam Shepard for the first time since they collaborated 21 years ago on Paris, Texas. The screening will take place at the Directors Guild Theater, 110 West 57 Street, in Manhattan. Tickets are $18 for the general public and $12 for Museum members. Call 718-784-4520.
Friday, February 2412:00 noonMOTION WORKSHOP GET ANIMATED WITH WALLACE & GROMIT
Before watching the claymation duo Wallace & Gromit in their Academy Award-nominated feature film, visitors are invited to participate in a Motion Workshop to learn the basic principles behind how moving images work. With the help of Museum educators, kids learn how to make a nineteenth-century optical toy, and create their own moving images at the Video Flipbook and the Digital Animation Stands. 1:30 p.m
.WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
FAMILY MATINEE: GET ANIMATED WITH WALLACE & GROMIT 2005, 85 mins., 35mm. Wallace and Gromit’s pest control outfit ‘Anti-Pesto’ defends a prized field of vegetables in the intrepid duo’s feature film debut—nominated for Best Animated Feature in this year’s Oscar race.
LA REVUE DES REVUESJOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1927, 103 mins., video, France. Two priceless sequences of Josephine Baker dancing are among the highlights of this archival treasure. Long considered a lost film, La Revue was pieced together with footage from five international film archives. Preceded by Josephine Baker at the Folies Bergère, which includes footage of Baker dancing in her most iconic costume: a girdle of bananas and a brilliant smile. 3:15pm
7:30 p.m.WORKING WITH RICHARD PRYOR: PANEL DISCUSSION WITH LONETTE MCKEE, PAUL MOONEY, MEL WATKINSA TRIBUTE TO RICHARD PRYORPryor’s legacy will be discussed by Lonette McKee, who starred with Pryor in Which Way is Up? and Brewster’s Millions’; comedian Paul Mooney, who co-wrote Pryor’s television specials and Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling; and Mel Watkins, author of On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy. Highlights from Pryor’s films and TV shows will be screened. Tickets: $10 public, $7.50 students, FREE for Museum members. Call 718-784-4520 to order.
Saturday, February 25
2:00 p.m.SIREN OF THE TROPICS JOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1927, 86 mins., video, France. In her first starring film role, Baker plays a tropical innocent who falls in love with a Parisian architect. The film showcases Baker’s slapstick flair: as a stowaway romping through an ocean liner, she evokes all the Marx Brothers rolled into one. Preceded by The Fireman of the Folies Bergère (1928, 8 mins.) Baker is among a bevy of semi-nude dancers who star in the hallucinations of a drunken fireman.
4:30 p.m.PRINCESS TAM TAM JOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1935, 77 mins., 35mm, France. Baker’s then husband, “Count” Pepito D’Abatino, wrote the screenplay for Baker’s most accomplished film, the Pygmalion-like comedy about a free-spirited sheperdess who becomes the muse for a married French novelist. He brings his new mistress to Europe to “civilize” her, but her wild dancing threatens to expose her true identity. Also showing Sunday, February 26, 4:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m.Actress Lonette McKee in person
WHICH WAY IS UP?A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD PRYOR 1977, 94 mins., 35mm. In this ambitious and raunchy remake of Lina Wertmuller’s satire The Seduction of Mimi, Lonette McKee plays a labor organizer and Richard Pryor plays three roles: an orange picker, a lascivious older man, and a philandering reverend. Tickets: $10 public, $7.50 students, FREE for Museum members. Call 718-784-4520 to order.
Sunday, February 26
2:00 p.m.ZOUZOU JOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1934, 92 mins. 35mm, France. Directed by Marc Allegret and costarring Jean Gabin, Zouzou was Baker’s personal favorite among her own films. Variety raved: “Miss Baker sings just three songs in the film, but all are of hit quality.”
4:30 p.m. PRINCESS TAM TAM JOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1935, 77 mins., 35mm, France. See Saturday, February 25, 4:30 p.m. for description.6:30 p.m. Comedian Paul Mooney in person
HIGHLIGHTS FROM 'THE RICHARD PRYOR SHOW 'A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD PRYOR Comedian and writer Paul Mooney will present highlights from Richard Pryor’s legendary short-lived network TV comedy revue series. "The show was no vanilla milkshake," said Pryor of the series, which featured appearances by Robin Williams, Maya Angelou, Sandra Bernhard, Paul Mooney, and others. Tickets: $10 public, $7.50 students, FREE for Museum members. Call 718-784-4520 to order.
Next Week
ANNA MAY WONG RETROSPECTIVE OPENS Historian Shirley Jennifer Lim introduces The Toll of the Sea, presented with live piano accompaniment; restored gem Piccadilly screens. March 4 + 5
ANTONIONI'S 'THE PASSENGER'I n Repertory Nights, March 3-5
Museum of the Moving Image is located at 35 Avenue and 36 Street in Astoria.Trains: R, V (R, G on weekends) to Steinway. N, W to 36 Avenue. For more information about screenings and events, please visit movingimage.us
WIM WENDERS AND JESSICA LANGE IN PERSON WITH PREVIEW SCREENING OF 'DON'T COME KNOCKING'On Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., internationally renowned director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club) and Academy Award-winning actress Jessica Lange will participate in a Pinewood Dialogue following a screening of Don’t Come Knocking, a wry and moving drama that reunites Wenders with writer Sam Shepard for the first time since they collaborated 21 years ago on Paris, Texas. The screening will take place at the Directors Guild Theater, 110 West 57 Street, in Manhattan. Tickets are $18 for the general public and $12 for Museum members. Call 718-784-4520.
Friday, February 2412:00 noonMOTION WORKSHOP GET ANIMATED WITH WALLACE & GROMIT
Before watching the claymation duo Wallace & Gromit in their Academy Award-nominated feature film, visitors are invited to participate in a Motion Workshop to learn the basic principles behind how moving images work. With the help of Museum educators, kids learn how to make a nineteenth-century optical toy, and create their own moving images at the Video Flipbook and the Digital Animation Stands. 1:30 p.m
.WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
FAMILY MATINEE: GET ANIMATED WITH WALLACE & GROMIT 2005, 85 mins., 35mm. Wallace and Gromit’s pest control outfit ‘Anti-Pesto’ defends a prized field of vegetables in the intrepid duo’s feature film debut—nominated for Best Animated Feature in this year’s Oscar race.
LA REVUE DES REVUESJOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1927, 103 mins., video, France. Two priceless sequences of Josephine Baker dancing are among the highlights of this archival treasure. Long considered a lost film, La Revue was pieced together with footage from five international film archives. Preceded by Josephine Baker at the Folies Bergère, which includes footage of Baker dancing in her most iconic costume: a girdle of bananas and a brilliant smile. 3:15pm
7:30 p.m.WORKING WITH RICHARD PRYOR: PANEL DISCUSSION WITH LONETTE MCKEE, PAUL MOONEY, MEL WATKINSA TRIBUTE TO RICHARD PRYORPryor’s legacy will be discussed by Lonette McKee, who starred with Pryor in Which Way is Up? and Brewster’s Millions’; comedian Paul Mooney, who co-wrote Pryor’s television specials and Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling; and Mel Watkins, author of On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy. Highlights from Pryor’s films and TV shows will be screened. Tickets: $10 public, $7.50 students, FREE for Museum members. Call 718-784-4520 to order.
Saturday, February 25
2:00 p.m.SIREN OF THE TROPICS JOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1927, 86 mins., video, France. In her first starring film role, Baker plays a tropical innocent who falls in love with a Parisian architect. The film showcases Baker’s slapstick flair: as a stowaway romping through an ocean liner, she evokes all the Marx Brothers rolled into one. Preceded by The Fireman of the Folies Bergère (1928, 8 mins.) Baker is among a bevy of semi-nude dancers who star in the hallucinations of a drunken fireman.
4:30 p.m.PRINCESS TAM TAM JOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1935, 77 mins., 35mm, France. Baker’s then husband, “Count” Pepito D’Abatino, wrote the screenplay for Baker’s most accomplished film, the Pygmalion-like comedy about a free-spirited sheperdess who becomes the muse for a married French novelist. He brings his new mistress to Europe to “civilize” her, but her wild dancing threatens to expose her true identity. Also showing Sunday, February 26, 4:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m.Actress Lonette McKee in person
WHICH WAY IS UP?A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD PRYOR 1977, 94 mins., 35mm. In this ambitious and raunchy remake of Lina Wertmuller’s satire The Seduction of Mimi, Lonette McKee plays a labor organizer and Richard Pryor plays three roles: an orange picker, a lascivious older man, and a philandering reverend. Tickets: $10 public, $7.50 students, FREE for Museum members. Call 718-784-4520 to order.
Sunday, February 26
2:00 p.m.ZOUZOU JOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1934, 92 mins. 35mm, France. Directed by Marc Allegret and costarring Jean Gabin, Zouzou was Baker’s personal favorite among her own films. Variety raved: “Miss Baker sings just three songs in the film, but all are of hit quality.”
4:30 p.m. PRINCESS TAM TAM JOSEPHINE BAKER ON FILM 1935, 77 mins., 35mm, France. See Saturday, February 25, 4:30 p.m. for description.6:30 p.m. Comedian Paul Mooney in person
HIGHLIGHTS FROM 'THE RICHARD PRYOR SHOW 'A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD PRYOR Comedian and writer Paul Mooney will present highlights from Richard Pryor’s legendary short-lived network TV comedy revue series. "The show was no vanilla milkshake," said Pryor of the series, which featured appearances by Robin Williams, Maya Angelou, Sandra Bernhard, Paul Mooney, and others. Tickets: $10 public, $7.50 students, FREE for Museum members. Call 718-784-4520 to order.
Next Week
ANNA MAY WONG RETROSPECTIVE OPENS Historian Shirley Jennifer Lim introduces The Toll of the Sea, presented with live piano accompaniment; restored gem Piccadilly screens. March 4 + 5
ANTONIONI'S 'THE PASSENGER'I n Repertory Nights, March 3-5
Museum of the Moving Image is located at 35 Avenue and 36 Street in Astoria.Trains: R, V (R, G on weekends) to Steinway. N, W to 36 Avenue. For more information about screenings and events, please visit movingimage.us
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