Having just taught a class last week on the advent of widescreen cinema to compete with television in the 1950s, it is very tempting to see Forbidden Planet this Friday and Saturday at the restored Loew’s Jersey theater in Jersey City. Even if you’ve seen this film before, you’ve probably never seen it on the [...]
The Seventy-Hour Work Week
Brooklyn’s Light Industry is showing, five times this week, the East Coast premiere of Wang Bing’s Crude Oil. The film is a fourteen-hour documentary of what it’s like excavating for crude oil in Northwest China. The shift starts on Wednesday at 9:00 am and continues each night 11:00 pm through Sunday.
