Footlight brooklyn11/18/2023 MURNAU’S NOSFERATU, Queens Drive-In, New York Hall of Science, Corona, Queens, NYģ/11/20 THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER, The Sultan Room, Turk’s Inn, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYĢ/27/20 A NIGHT OF SURREALISM ( The Blood of a Poet and Entr’acte), The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYġ/9/20 ROBERT KENNEDY: THREE BODY FILMS, The Sultan Room, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYġ2/4/19 CARL THEODOR DREYER’S VAMPYR, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYġ0/31/19 FW MURNAU'S NOSFERATU, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYġ0/27/19 CARL THEODOR DREYER’S VAMPYR, FEARnyc Horror Film Festival, Film Noir Cinema, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYġ0/18/19 ROBERT WIENE’S THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, Music of Curiosities, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY - SOLD OUTĦ/13/21 DZIGA VERTOV’S MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYġ0/25/20 F.W. and THE BALLOONATIC, The Century Association, Manhattan, NYģ/27/22 CHROMESTHESIA: BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOR AND SOUND, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYġ2/5/21 FRITZ LANG'S METROPOLIS, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYġ0/30/21 ROBERT WIENE’S THE CABINET OF DR. MURNAU’S NOSFERATU, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYġ0/20/22 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Williamsburg Cinemas, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYħ/25/22 CLASSIC EXPERIMENTAL FILMS WITH LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYħ/23/22 THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER, Music of Curiosities, Sideshows by the Seashore, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYĥ/10/22 BUSTER KEATON FILMS: SHERLOCK JR. MURNAU’S NOSFERATU, Music of Curiosities, Sideshows by the Seashore, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYġ0/24/22 F.W. MURNAU’S NOSFERATU, The Century Association, Manhattan, NYġ0/28/22 F.W. MURNAU’S NOSFERATU, Cobble Hill Cinemas, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, NYġ1/14/22 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens, NYġ0/31/22 F.W. 7/10/23 ANGEL’S EGG, Duo Lumière, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queensĥ/22/23 PSYCHIC CINEMA: SURREALIST/DADA/EXPERIMENTAL FILMS, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queensĥ/13/23 THE UNKNOWN + UN CHIEN ANDALOU, Music of Curiosities, Sideshows by the Seashore, Coney Island, BrooklynĤ/7/23 THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER, Freddy’s Bar and Backroom, Park Slope, Brooklynģ/23/23 CLASSIC QUEER CINEMA ( SALOME + LOT IN SODOM), Starr Bar, Bushwick, Brooklynģ/13/23 METROPOLIS, The LetLove Inn, Astoria, QueensĢ/28/23 METROPOLIS, Footlight Underground at The Windjammer, Ridgewood, Queensġ2/8/22 NOSFERATU, Lucky 13 Saloon, Gowanus, Brooklynġ1/29/22 THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER, Footlight Underground, The Windjammer, Ridgewood, Queensġ1/16/22 F.W. Kenji Fujishima (December 11, 2:25pm, 6:25pm December 12, 12:40pm as part of Film Forum’s Busby Berkeley series. Rarely has such artistic obsessiveness been made so damn irresistible. (Considering how many times Berkeley was married during his life, maybe Kent’s penchant for female objectification-one that reaches a zenith in the “By a Waterfall” number-reflected him as well.) And yet, just as Cagney is able to infuse the whole film with pedal-to-the-metal energy through sheer charisma, so is Berkeley able to momentarily silence criticisms-of political incorrectness (this is pre-Code 1930s, after all), of racial insensitivity, of sexism-through his taste for astonishing visual extravagance and exhilarating “can-you-top-this” chutzpah. Could that authorship, however, extend to the film’s backstage drama as well? Berkeley was celebrated more for his visual imagination than for his sense of humanity perhaps Chester Kent (James Cagney), the fast-talking stage impresario at the heart of Footlight Parade, could be seen as a Berkeley analogue, with his ruthless willingness to manipulate and sacrifice anybody for the sake of his art. Bacon may be credited as the director, but by now it’s widely accepted that Busby Berkeley-the director and choreographer of its song-and-dance numbers-is this musical’s real auteur.
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