Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas' Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man Features Previously Private Glimpses of a Life

The Poetry Project’s 39th Annual New Year’s Day benefit

THE GODFATHER

Celebrate Jonas Mekas’s 90th

My Mars Bar Movie

Philip Glass's Life as an East Village Voice

The world-renowned composer is still a neighborhood staple

RHYME WITHOUT REASON

Two poetry extravaganzas

Sleepless Night Stories

"Performa: Jonas Mekas's Fluxus Cabaret"

Guns of the Trees

George Kuchar 1942-2011

​George Kuchar, the Bronx-raised filmmaker who began his career, along with twin brother Mike, at age 12, died this week in San Francisco after a long battle with prostate cancer. Beginning with The Wet Destruction of the Atlantic Empire (1954) and continuing through The Naked and the Nude (1 ... More >>

MOMI Screens Markopoulos Rarity Eniaios: Cycle Five

VERSE ON THE FIRST

Run with two poetry marathons

'Psycho' Is 50: Remembering Its Impact, and the Andrew Sarris Review

​It was 50 years ago this week, Alfred Hitchcock taught the world to shriek. Sunday morning June 16, 1960, Psycho opened at two midtown Manhattan theaters, with crowds already lined up on Broadway. Was it the insolently blunt title? Hitchcock's hilarious first-person trailer ("and here we ha ... More >>

Antonioni's Lessons Learned in Le Amiche

This Week's Voice: Woody Allen's Jazz Evangelism, Indie Rockstars Invade Brooklyn's Manhattan Inn, Joell Ortiz vs. Gentrification, and More

Play it again, Sam: Allen and the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band. Photo by John Rogers.​In this week's Village Voice, Stacey Anderson snags an exclusive interview with none other than Woody Allen as, clarinet in hand, the director talks jazz and defends one of America's disappearing art form ... More >>

Jonas Mekas, Raving Maniac, Champion of Visionaries

Scenes from the Anthology Film Archives 40th Anniversary: Sonic Youth, Julian Schnabel, Kenneth Anger, and Some Guy Named Lou

all photos by Nate "Igor" SmithDon't care what you say, Thurston still looks bad-ass The Anthology Film Archives celebrated its 40th anniversary last night at the Hiro Ballroom. The scene was, by all accounts, an intimately swanky affair--reserved tables started at $500; mezzanine tickets cost $99 ... More >>

FEED YOUR MIND

People, your computer is no place to start 2010

Village Voice Critics Choose Best Films of 1965

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 13, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 13 Film Critics Choose Their Favorites for 1965 By Jonas Mekas Once more we are playing the Best Movies of the Year game. The usual answer this year is that even the best ones are hardly worth listing a ... More >>

Honor Suzanne Fiol at Issue Project Room Tomorrow Night

​It's not a memorial--that will come later, and in high style--but the Issue Project Room is holding a benefit tomorrow night for its future space at 110 Livingston Street. Honor Suzanne Fiol by attending. She helped put "Poetry to the Infinitive Power(s)" together and that's reason enough alo ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Steely Dan, Grace Jones, Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax, and More

Jared GruenwaldNot available at H&M;: Grace Jones​ In this week's Village Voice, Mike Powell joins fathers and sons and dudes screaming 'GIVE IT TO LARRY' at Steely Dan's Beacon run. Cristina Black on how a Connecticut liberal arts school somehow gave birth to the surrealist Brooklyn pop of M ... More >>

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania Posits Archives as Resistance

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Clip Job: Jonas Mekas Jailed!

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 12, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 21Mekas JailedBy Stephanie Gervis HarringtonThe New American Cinema has run afoul of the old American determination to keep our culture clean. The first casualties were Village Voice film critic and new wave movie-mak ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Hipster Runoff, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Great Depression Double Bills, Piero Manzoni, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla gives us "Hipster Runoff Explained (Maybe)," a possibly illuminating chat with the Internet's latest mystery man. Stephen Slaybaugh investigates the sweet pop pleasure of the Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Aidan Levy on the ambitious 'Searc ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Graham Rayman has been following the "Fight Club" cooked up by Rikers Island guards for a couple of years, and the Bronx D.A. has started dishing out charges. Inmates used and rewarded as enforcers, beatings arranged so as not to leave marks, victims intimidated into silence (and a few killed) -- t ... More >>

Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR Records Last Gasp For Mother Russia, Father Brokaw

ODE TO THE NEW YEAR

Start ‘09 right with NYC’s finest performers

The Flower Thief

Mekas's Walden at Anthology

A grand project in preservation

From Fluxus to Media Art: 15 Minutes and Counting

A fascinating group media-art show

Spring Film Preview: Harmony Korine's Odd Squad

On Returning with Mister Lonely

Visions of Grandeur

Standish Lawder opens more doors of perception

It Is What It Is

Yes (I'm Not There !), NYFF 45 (Blade Runner?) plays to its base (Don Rickles!), but what's so bad about that? (Redacted.)

Back to The Brig

The Living Theatre turns 60, plus Warhol, Woodfall, and Brazil in N.Y.

Pro-Life

Artists return to the Vietnam protest model with For Life Against the War . . . Again

Creature Feature

Jack Smith doc a portrait of an artist as a paranoid man

Collective Memory

Nostalgia fever continues as the experimental-film community looks back at its 'lost generation.' But what's next?

Film

1958

The Bohemian Diaspora

Letters

The Return of Shadows

Long thought lost, Cassavetes's early version sees the light

Time Regained in an Underground Master's Lyrical Diary Films

Web Site

Spider in the Archives

Different Class

Masters of the Universe

The Year in Avant-Garde Film and Video

The Color of Paradise

Witness Program

Tempered Optimism in Berlin

A Brief History of Outrage

The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments