Culture, connection, and a touch of fun—our Playing section highlights theater, film, art, music, streaming shows, exhibitions, and events that make life vibrant. Find out what to see, where to go, and how to experience it all like an insider.
Streamed Live under the aegis of the 92nd Street Y In the best fly-on-a-wall situation, despite Tim Gunn’s promoting his new Amazon Prime series Making the Cut, one feels in the presence of two smart, articulate, friends. Bud Mishkin has apparently interviewed his subject several times over the years. His
Love the author? Rereading something pithy? Here are films – fiction and documentary- about the person. Jules Verne Jules Verne – A Lifelong Journey 2015 Directed by Misha Kostrov. In Russian – subtitled. An unusual (effective and entertaining) combination of computer generated fantasy and live action taking the prescient French
Streamed live on ZOOM though the aegis of 92nd Street Y “1970 is a year when I think some of the greatest songwriters of the generation were starting to hit their stride,” begins host, Louis Rosen. “In terms of mainstream, I believe that’s when the term singer-songwriter came into play.”
Love the author? Rereading something pithy? Here are films – fiction and documentary- about the person. Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women 2009 PBS American Masters i.e. well done and thorough. Directed by Nancy Porter. Alcott was something more of a progressive than we think.
John Keats Bright Star 2009 “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art” Inspired by Andrew Motion’s biography. Directed by Jane Campion. The film focuses on the last three years of John Keats’ life and his romance with Fannie Brawne. An admirer of his poetry, upper class Brawne (Abbie
Top photo: Winter twilight scene; rare moment on a windy snowy evening. A back-lit bird feather alights on branch and remains for awhile. Poet Emily Dickinson wrote “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul…” Love the author? Rereading something pithy? Here are films – fiction and
Streamed under the aegis of Harvey Granat’s Songs & Stories – 92nd Street Y Special Guests: The composer’s daughter, Monica Mancini and Vocalist, Christine Andreas Today’s event opens with an instrumental medley clip from The Andy Williams Show with composer Henry Mancini conducting. “It’s all about the numbers.” Host Will
Love the author? Rereading something pithy? Here are films – fiction and documentary about the person. Jane Austen Becoming Jane 2007 British. Partly based on the book Becoming Jane Austen by John Hunter Spence. Directed by Julian Jarrold. Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy. The film centers on Jane’s love for
Streamed Live under the aegis of the 92nd Street Y In the best fly-on-a-wall situation, despite Tim Gunn’s promoting his new Amazon Prime series Making the Cut, one feels in the presence of two smart, articulate, friends. Bud Mishkin has apparently interviewed his subject several times over the years. His own, easy, well researched style fits Gunn’s demeanor perfectly. Admiration and comfort seem mutual. Laughter is frequent. Both men, it should be noted, are wearing
Love the author? Rereading something pithy? Here are films – fiction and documentary- about the person. Jules Verne Jules Verne – A Lifelong Journey 2015 Directed by Misha Kostrov. In Russian – subtitled. An unusual (effective and entertaining) combination of computer generated fantasy and live action taking the prescient French author from daily life to imagination and back. Here’s yet another young man whose family insisted he become a lawyer – when he yearned to
Streamed live on ZOOM though the aegis of 92nd Street Y “1970 is a year when I think some of the greatest songwriters of the generation were starting to hit their stride,” begins host, Louis Rosen. “In terms of mainstream, I believe that’s when the term singer-songwriter came into play.” Over the next six weeks, Wednesdays at 7:15 p.m., Rosen will focus on albums that presented a unified whole, rather than individual cuts and on
Love the author? Rereading something pithy? Here are films – fiction and documentary- about the person. Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women 2009 PBS American Masters i.e. well done and thorough. Directed by Nancy Porter. Alcott was something more of a progressive than we think. The biggest surprise, however is, her having penned some thirty pulp fiction thrillers under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, something not discovered until the 1940s. Free
John Keats Bright Star 2009 “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art” Inspired by Andrew Motion’s biography. Directed by Jane Campion. The film focuses on the last three years of John Keats’ life and his romance with Fannie Brawne. An admirer of his poetry, upper class Brawne (Abbie Cornish) flirtatiously pursues Keats (Ben Wishaw) who is, to society, an ‘unsuitable’ match. Realizing his position, the poet doesn’t respond until made jealous. With another
Top photo: Winter twilight scene; rare moment on a windy snowy evening. A back-lit bird feather alights on branch and remains for awhile. Poet Emily Dickinson wrote “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul…” Love the author? Rereading something pithy? Here are films – fiction and documentary about the person. Emily Dickinson A Quiet Passion 2017 Directed by Terence Davies. Cynthia Nixon is Emily. Begins with Dickinson’s childhood to give us
Streamed under the aegis of Harvey Granat’s Songs & Stories – 92nd Street Y Special Guests: The composer’s daughter, Monica Mancini and Vocalist, Christine Andreas Today’s event opens with an instrumental medley clip from The Andy Williams Show with composer Henry Mancini conducting. “It’s all about the numbers.” Host Will Friedwald notes, “18 Academy Award nominations, four wins; a Golden Globe, 20 Grammys and a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.” Henry Nicola Mancini (1924-1994) was
Love the author? Rereading something pithy? Here are films – fiction and documentary about the person. Jane Austen Becoming Jane 2007 British. Partly based on the book Becoming Jane Austen by John Hunter Spence. Directed by Julian Jarrold. Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy. The film centers on Jane’s love for Thomas Langlois Lefroy, a young lawyer with poor reputation and at first, no respect for her writing. It was, the book states, “a pivotal relationship
