Curating Moving Images: IFC Center NEWS: Spring Season announced @ STF

Stranger Than Fiction @ IFC Center

NEW SPRING SEASON ANNOUNCED

Guests include Gillian Armstrong,
Sundance winner Jon Foy,
Oscar winner Barbara Trent & more
ORDER EARLY BIRD SEASON PASS
14 FILMS FOR $99
& for IFC Center members $75

STF SPRING SEASON IS COMING!

14 great docs in the theater

+ free dvd from Docurama

+ free popcorn at every STF show

+ ability to transfer pass to a friend

ALL this for $99 (for IFC Center members $75)

To order Spring Season pass, follow this link to LOVE, LUST & LIES and click on 8:00 pm.

PRE-SEASON SPECIAL - Wed, MAR 16

LOVE, LUST & LIES (2010)

Director Gillian Armstrong (Little Women; My Brilliant Career) has spent several decades looking at the lives of 3 Australian women from age of 14 to closing in on 50 - reminiscent of "7 Up."
Q&A w/ dir Gillian Armstrong

PRE-SEASON SPECIAL - Tues, MAR 22

MOONEY VS. FOWLE (1962)

This rarely screened classic by Drew Associates (Jane; Crisis) looks at rival Miami high school football coaches facing off in a championship game.
Q&A w/ dir James Lipscomb

PRE-SEASON SPECIAL - Mon, MAR 28

THE PIPE (2010)

When Shell attempts to build a gas pipeline on Ireland's west coast, local farmers and fishermen rise up to fight.

Q&A w/ dir Risteard Ó Domhnaill & prod Rachel Lysaght

OPENING NIGHT - Tue, MAR 29

RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES (2011)

Sundance Best Director winner, Jon Foy looks into the mysterious tiles embedded on streets of Philadelphia, NY and elsewhere.

Q&A w/ dir Jon Foy

Tue, APR 5
STOLEN (2009)

Filmmakers stumble upon accusations of modern slavery in the Western Sahara and wind up in the middle of international controversy.

Q&A w/ dirs Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw

Tue, APR 12
WHOLPHIN

From the publishers of McSweeney's comes this quarterly anthology of strange and wonderful short films. Wholphin curator Brent Hoff presents doc surprises.

Q&A w/ Brent Hoff and others

Tue, APR 19
BRICK CITY (2011)

This epic doc series about Newark, NJ is like a reality version of The Wire. Tonight the makers show selections and discuss behind the scenes.

Q&A w/ filmmakers Marc Levin & Mark Benjamin

THURS SPECIAL - APR 21

THESE AMAZING SHADOWS (2011)

Official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. A film lover's delight, this doc celebrates the National Film Registry with clips from silent era, Hollywood's golden age, historic home movies and more.

Q&A w/ TBA

Tue, APR 26
CUL DE SAC: A SUBURBAN WAR STORY (2002)

A meth addict steals a tank from a military base and plows through San Diego's suburbs. This night also showcases recipients of Garrett Scott grant.

Q&A w/ editor Ian Olds

Tue, MAY 3
WE STILL LIVE HERE (2011)

The language of the Massachusetts-based Wampanoag Indians was lost until Jessie Little Doe makes it her mission to revive it.

Q&A w/ dir Anne Makepeace

Tue, MAY 10
THREE OF HEARTS: A POSTMODERN FAMILY (2004)

Directed by the founder of DocuClub and filmed over 8 years, an experiment to maintain a menage a trois makes for riveting real life drama and raises provocative questions.

Q&A w/ dir Susan Kaplan

Tue, MAY 17
THE PANAMA DECEPTION (1992)

Oscar-winning doc investigating George Bush's 1989 invasion of Panama and the media's compliance in skewing the story.

Q&A w/ dir Barbara Trent

Tue, MAY 24
MEGAMALL (2009)

A searing look at the politics of property development, following a 12-year battle over the Pallisades Center mall in West Nyack, NY.

Q&A w/ dir Barbara Trent

CLOSING NIGHT - Tue, MAY 31: TBA

Two films left in STF Winter season...

Tues, Mar 8 @ 8 pm

THEATER OF WAR (2008)

Q&A w/ filmmaker John Walter

A NYT Critics' Pick, below are excerpts from Manohla Dargis' review:

In his inspired, inspiring essayistic documentary "Theater of War," the filmmaker John Walter jumps from art to history and politics and back again, from the theater of the streets to the theater of the stage, without pause. That makes the movie, which follows a Public Theater production in Central Park of Bertolt Brecht's epic play "Mother Courage and Her Children," tough to summarize, which is part of its appeal. Because while the movie is about a particular staging of "Mother Courage," it is also about the war in Iraq, theater (and bicycle riding) as social protest, the necessity and futility of art, and the agonizing human failing that Mother Courage gives voice to in "The Song of the Great Capitulation."

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Coming soon to STF...

CLOSING NIGHT - MARCH 15: HARLAN COUNTY USA (1976)This Oscar-winning film belongs in the canon of great documentary making for its compassionate look at the clash between coal miners and a corporation.
Q&A w/ dir Barbara Kopple

STF spring season runs March 29-May 31. Stay tuned for details.

STF group discounts

If you belong to a school or organization that would like to make a group purchase of 10 or more tickets at a discount rate, please contact raphaela@STFdocs.com. Start planning now to purchase season passes for spring season kicking off March 29!

STF welcomes Columbia University's graduate documentary class as season pass holders.

SPRING SEASON

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