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4 Stars from Time Out NY!
Village Voice
Artforum.com
The New York Times – with slidesow
L Magazine

Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl’s latest feature film tells two stories that at first glance appear unrelated. One is an import story, beginning in the Ukraine and leading to Austria. The other is an export story, in which the trajectory is reversed.
The first concerns Olga, a young nurse and mother who, determined to leave the Ukraine, decides to go to Austria, where she eventually finds work as a cleaning lady in a geriatric hospital. The other story follows Paul, a young Austrian man who finds himself unemployed and in debt, until his stepfather takes him along to a job in the Ukraine installing video gambling machines.
Both of these characters are in search of work, a new beginning, an existence, life: Olga, from Eastern Europe, where unremitting poverty is the order of the day; Paul, from the West, where unemployment means not hunger, but a crisis of identity and a sense of uselessness. Both are struggling to believe in themselves, to find meaning; both travel to a new country, and thus into its depths. IMPORT EXPORT is a film about sex and death, living and dying, winners and losers, power and helplessness.

-Through Thursday, August 6 at 6:30 & 9:15 nightly.

Though rarely discussed in film circles these days, the artist and filmmaker Jerry Jofen was an integral part of the New York underground film scene in the 1960s, collaborating with Ron Rice, Taylor Mead, Jack Smith, Ken Jacobs, and David Brooks, performing at the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque, and making numerous, mostly unfinished films in his Chelsea loft.
Jofen’s family fled Poland for the U.S. in 1941. He started painting in the 1950s, and by the 70s, his films had been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His truly distinctive collages, which make conspicuous use of staples rather than glue, were rarely shown during the 60s but have since been featured in numerous exhibitions.

Check out the article in Jewish Week!

RITUALS AND DEMONSTRATIONS (1977, 42 minutes, 16mm)
A record of authentic religious rituals.  “[The film's] most effective scenes celebrate the collective energy of Chassidic life. There are some wonderfully observed street scenes of Purim in Williamsburg…and a particularly lovely wedding ceremony; a sequence of an elderly Torah scribe carries so great a sense of tradition and awe as to render explanation superfluous…. Jofen’s film testifies to the inexhaustible richness of his subject matter.”
-J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

HOW CAN YOU TELL THE DANCER FROM THE DANCE (1968-75, 10 minutes, 16mm)
“Jofen’s psychedelic portrait of a night in the city. Layers and layers of images of musicians, dancers, performers, artists, hipsters – illuminated by the neon lights of the metropolis.” -Ulrich Ziemons

David Brooks JERRY (1963, 3 minutes, 16mm)
“[Brooks] left us a beautiful three-minute film portrait, JERRY, in which his own youthful optimism and adulation is inextricably fused with Jofen’s frantic energy.”  -P. Adams Sitney

-Thursday, August 6 at 8:00.

-BRONSON & DUVALL VS. THE MOB!-
Michael Winner
THE STONE KILLER
1973, 95 minutes, 35mm. With Charles Bronson and Martin Balsam.
Bronson is a pitiless cop who uncovers an unlikely plot by a Mafia don (Balsam) to avenge a decades-old attack by using Vietnam veterans to eliminate the heads of the major mob families. Bronson in his prime, and features one of Hollywood’s finest uses of a free-falling dummy.
-Friday, August 7 at 7:00 & Thursday, August 13 at 9:15.

John Flynn
THE OUTFIT
1973, 105 minutes, 35mm. With Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Elisha Cook Jr., and Timothy Carey.
The “taut, grim thriller…sees Duvall, just out of prison and with revenge burning in his heart for the murder of his brother, taking on the Syndicate with the help of heavy, Joe Don Baker. [I]t’s a cool, exciting thriller in the Siegel tradition, paying more than passing reference to classic film noir.” -Geoff Andrew
-Friday, August 7 at 9:30, Sunday, August 9 at 4:00, & Thursday, August 13 at 7:00.

-CRIMINALS YOU DON’T WANT TO SCREW WITH!-
Jacques Deray
THE OUTSIDE MAN / UN HOMME EST MORT
1972, 104 minutes, 35mm. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, and Angie Dickinson.
This Melville-inspired thriller stars Trintignant as a French hit man sent to L.A. to whack a mob kingpin. Once the job is finished, though, he finds himself trapped in an early-1970s nightmare of strip clubs, Jesus freaks and Star Trek re-runs, chased by muscle-car driving assassin Roy Scheider and helped by friendly go-go girl, Ann-Margret.
-Saturday, August 8 at 2:45 & Monday, August 10 at 7:00.

Douglas Hickox
SITTING TARGET
1972, 93 minutes, 16mm. With Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, and Ian McShane. Archival print courtesy of Academy Film Archive and Warner Bros.
Though it wasn’t meant as high praise, the NY TIMES description of this film pretty much sums it up: “This is brutal, garish pulp stuff, with a repulsively sadistic Oliver Reed busting out of prison and snaking into London for the sole purpose of killing his unfaithful wife, played by a bug-eyed Jill St. John.” What’s not to like?
-Saturday, August 8 at 5:00 & Monday, August 10 at 9:15.

-WACKY COPS!-
Richard Rush
FREEBIE AND THE BEAN
1974, 113 minutes, 35mm. With James Caan and Alan Arkin.
“Alan Arkin as a Hispanic detective (i.e., ‘The Bean’), and James Caan as his determined-to-be-corrupted partner (hence ‘Freebie’)…it’s an amazing, explosive, almost self-destructive exercise in action, comedy, racism, and property damage, not necessarily in that order.” -Todd Gilchrist, CINEMATICAL
-Sunday, August 9 at 6:15 & Wednesday, August 12 at 9:00.

Peter Hyams
BUSTING
1974, 92 minutes, 16mm. With Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, and Allen Garfield. Archival print courtesy of Academy Film Archive.
This archetypal buddy cop movie stars Elliott Gould as a cynical, rebellious cop and Robert Blake as his inexperienced young partner. Tired of toiling away on insignificant small-time busts, they decide to buck their corrupt police force and single-handedly target a protected crime boss, incurring the wrath of their superiors.
-Sunday, August 9 at 8:45 & Wednesday, August 12 at 7:00.

-VIETNAM VETS GONE WILD!-
John Flynn
ROLLING THUNDER
1977, 95 minutes, 35mm. With William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, and Dabney Coleman.
Among the very greatest – and most disturbing – revenge flicks, ROLLING THUNDER stars Devane as a Vietnam vet determined to track down the men who killed his wife and child. Written by a young Paul Schrader, it’s a classic of its kind.
-Saturday, August 8 at 7:00 & Tuesday, August 11 at 9:00.

Richard Compton
WELCOME HOME, SOLDIER BOYS
1972, 91 minutes, 35mm. Archival print courtesy of 20th Century Fox. With Joe Don Baker.
Four battle-fatigued and well-armed Vietnam vets, driving cross-country, accidentally kill a woman before heading to their hometown. Disillusioned with their homecoming, the four vets unleash their fury in a blood-crazed rampage that has to be seen to be believed.
-Saturday, August 8 at 9:30 & Tuesday, August 11 at 7:00.

Check out some reviews:
Village Voice
Time Out New York

-Friday, August 7-Thursday, August 13 at 7:15 & 9:15 nightly.

Also showing:
Adolfas Mekas & Pola Chapelle
GOING HOME (1972, 60 minutes, 16mm)
In addition to REMINISCENCES, we will be screening the film Jonas Mekas’s brother Adolfas and his wife Pola Chapelle made during the same visit.
“GOING HOME is a film about childhood memories, life’s hardships, and the durability of families. In 1971, after a twenty-seven year absence, Adolfas and his brother Jonas returned to their birthplace in Lithuania. They came home, Adolfas with his wife, the singer Pola Chapelle, and in the long northern summer days they sang and walked across golden fields and feasted at crowded tables with family and friends. There are flowers for the dead and for the living in this film; it is full of flowers and songs.” -FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE
Saturday & Sunday, August 8 & 9 at 5:45 each day.

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