- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
THE THEATRE
NUN SENSE
March 24
In the great tradition of turning movies into musicals, “Sister Act,” which was adapted for the stage in 2006, finally comes to the Great White Way. Whoopi Goldberg, who made the 1992 film a hit—and a franchise—is a . . ....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
THE THEATRE
NUN SENSE
March 24
In the great tradition of turning movies into musicals, “Sister Act,” which was adapted for the stage in 2006, finally comes to the Great White Way. Whoopi Goldberg, who made the 1992 film a hit—and a franchise—is a . . ....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
TATTERED SCREEN
Aug. 12-20
The seventies director William Lustig programs a set of movies at Anthology Film Archives, including Larry Cohen’s “The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover,” Henri Verneuil’s “The Burglars,” and Jonathan Kaplan’s “White Line Fever . . ....
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MOVIES
NO BONES ABOUT IT
May 20-23
Movies moved dinosaurs from the realm of science to that of legend, with art somewhere in the middle. The painter Charles R. Knight, whose portraits of prehistoric animals adorn natural-history museums, inspired many of the great sci-fi movies, and BAM is . . ....
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DANCE
SPANISH MOVES
March 17-20
The charismatic, lovable Ángel Corella comes to City Center as the artistic director of his new company, Corella Ballet Castilla y León. An international roster of dancers—fortified by Corella himself and the prodigious Herman Cornejo—will perform Corella’ . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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CONCERTS IN TOWN
THE MOVADO HOUR
Two potent violinists—Geoff Nuttall, of the St. Lawrence Quartet, and his wife, Livia Sohn—headline the next one-hour concert in the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s stylish series. They are joined by the violist Hsin-Yun Huang, the . . ....
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MOVIES
WAVING GOODBYE
Dec. 3-9
To commemorate a pair of directors, both of whom died this year and whose careers had interesting overlaps—the deliciously cynical French New Wave master Claude Chabrol and the one-man American New Wave Arthur Penn—Film Society of Lincoln Center offers a . . ....
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MOVIES
IN SOLITARY
Aug. 4-17
With the series “Talking Head,” Anthology Film Archives boldly defines a new genre—films based on one person’s testimony—and offers a surprisingly wide range of works that exemplify it, including two early documentaries by Martin Scorsese, several by . . ....
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MOVIES
A POLE APART
June 10-July 3
A film-school friend and collaborator of Roman Polanski’s, the director Jerzy Skolimowski faced censorship in Poland and emigrated in the late sixties. His career has taken him to Great Britain, Hollywood, Belgium, Germany, and finally back to Poland, where . . ....
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THE THEATRE
SISTERLY LOVE
Jan. 12
Classic Stage Company reunites the director Austin Pendleton with the actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard for Chekhov’s “Three Sisters.” The drama also stars Marin Ireland, Juliet Rylance, and Josh Hamilton. (212-352-3101.)
MOVIES
MAN OF THE WEST
Jan. 16-Feb . . ....
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MOVIES
BACK IN THE U.S.S.R.
April 15-June 4
The Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s name, a pseudonym, means “spinning top,” and it accords nicely with the stylistic gyrations of his documentaries about post-revolutionary life. MOMA presents a retrospective of Vertov’s work, which includes . . ....
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MOVIES
BEYOND CRITICISM
Feb. 19-March 4
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual series “Film Comment Selects” provides a crucial overview of world cinema. This year’s edition features screenings of new films by the South Korean director Hong Sang-Soo (“Like You . . ....
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MOVIES
THE LIVING LEGEND
May 20-22
Film Society of Lincoln Center will do its best to keep Elizabeth Taylor’s name and image alive: a weekend-long retrospective of her work includes such films as “A Place in the Sun” and “Reflections in a Golden Eye . . ....
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MOVIES
TURKISH DELIGHTS
April 27-May 10
The Turkish cinema has become a significant presence on the international scene through the works of such directors as Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akin. Now Film Society of Lincoln Center offers the largest U.S. retrospective of Turkish movies yet. The series includes . . ....
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MOVIES
DARK MAGUS
Aug. 12-25
A specialist in the short-tempered, moody characters of film noir, Robert Ryan also plied his hard-nosed art in a spate of Westerns and war movies. Film Forum’s retrospective of his films includes Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch,” . . ....
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MOVIES
SOME LIKE IT HOT
July 1-17
Marilyn Monroe, an icon of summer in New York City thanks to “The Seven Year Itch,” returns to town through the good offices of BAM Cinématek, which serves up fourteen titles in 35-mm. prints, including Marilyn’s . . ....
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MOVIES
ROMAN EMPIRE
Sept. 7-30
The acclaim that Roman Polanski received for his first feature, “Knife in the Water,” which he made in his native Poland, launched him into a long career that has included such classics as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown” . . ....
- Goings On About Town: Venues: 92Y Tribeca—Movies
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- Richard Brody: George Cukor’s “A Star Is Born.”
paragraph class="noindent">George Cukor’s “A Star Is Born,” from 1954—one of the greatest inside-Hollywood movies, featuring a career-crowning performance by Judy Garland—was mutilated by Warner Bros. and released with nearly half an hour slashed from the director’s . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
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The Guggenheim Museum’s “Works & Process” series presents a performance curated by the director Robert Wilson, featuring the works of five artists. Last summer, at the Watermill Center—Wilson’s artistic laboratory on eastern Long Island—the . . ....
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NIGHT LIFE
NEW FOLKS
Aug. 10
The young U.K. folk trio Lau—the singer and guitarist Kris Drever, the fiddler Aidan O’Rourke, and the accordionist Martin Green—has earned praise for its rich updating of Old World sounds; the group plays Joe’s Pub. (joespub.com . . ....
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NIGHT LIFE
BUSKING OUT
July 30
The folk-rock group the Swell Season—featuring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who first found fame with the Irish film “Once”—drop in on Prospect Park, as part of Celebrate Brooklyn! (bricartsmedia.org/cb.)
CLASSICAL MUSIC
ALL TOGETHER NOW
Aug . . ....
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DANCE
MOVING ON
Dec. 29-31
At the end of the year, the place to be is the Park Avenue Armory, where the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will give its final performances, a series of tailor-made “events”—collages assembled from various Cunningham dances—to culminate its . . ....
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CLASSICAL MUSIC
ODD MAN IN
Aug. 27-28
David Zinman is no longer the music director of the Aspen Music Festival, which leaves more time for Tanglewood. He leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in concerts with the soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian and the pianist Emanuel Ax. (bso.org.)
READINGS AND TALKS
OFF THE . . ....
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MOVIES
THE OTHER WERNER
May 11-June 11
Though Werner Schroeter, who died in 2010, was one of the greatest and most influential of modern German directors, his work has rarely been screened here. There are forty features in MOMA’s comprehensive retrospective of his films, including . . ....
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MOVIES
WAR AND PEACE
Nov. 18-Dec. 30
Hollywood was a vigorous participant in the Second World War; in conjunction with the publication of the book “Best Years,” by Charles and Mirella Jona Affron, MOMA presents a series of films of the nineteen-forties, including Lewis Milestone’ . . ....
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ABOVE AND BEYOND
TIME TO TALK
Nov. 10-13
Brian Eno, Peter Sellars, Jessye Norman, Gilberto Gil, Danny Glover, and other artists discuss their work as part of “LIVE from the NYPL” ’s Rolex Arts Weekend. (rolexartsweekend.com.)
MOVIES
ASIA TO THE WORLD
Nov. 10–21
The big . . ....
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MOVIES
RISE OF THE NOVEL
March 21-April 1
Surprising currents in international filmmaking are brought together in this year’s edition of the New Directors/New Films series, co-programmed by Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. Djinn Carrénard’s . . ....
