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No Home Movie

September 2, 2019 4:30pm

Directed by Chantal Akerman | 2015

Chantal Akerman’s extraordinary final film is a moving tribute to her mother, who died in 2014 and whom the filmmaker once described as “the center of my oeuvre.” Interweaving intimate footage of “Maman” at home with snippets of conversation between mother and daughter and reflections on the elder Akerman’s past, including her internment in Auschwitz, No Home Movieis a profound meditation on mortality and a formally adventurous last masterwork from an artist who never stopped pushing boundaries.

General Admission: $16

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Memories of Underdevelopment

September 2, 2019 7:00pm

Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1968

With Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez

The first post-revolution Cuban film to gain international acclaim is a politically and stylistically radical portrait of a boorish bourgeois intellectual struggling to come to terms with life under communism. Through a complex use of montage and documentary techniques, this experimental tour-de-force vividly evokes both its unsympathetic central character’s sense of alienation as well as the heady revolutionary spirit of 60s Cuba.

General Admission: $16

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Testament

September 3, 2019 7:00pm

Directed by John Akomfrah | 1988

With Tania Rogers, Evans Oma Hunter, Frank Parkes

Black Audio Film Collective visionary John Akomfrah confronts postcolonial disillusionment with this poetic, multilayered work of experimental docufiction in which a British television reporter returns to her native Ghana for the first time since the 1966 coup that put an end to President Kwame Nkrumah’s dream of pan-African socialism. There she finds herself adrift in a “war zone of memories,” searching for a utopia that no longer exists while wrestling with the meaning of “home.”

General Admission: $16

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Harlem Jazz Series - Craig Harris and Harlem Nightsongs Big Band

September 3, 2019 12:00pm - 2:00 pm 

When Craig Harris exploded onto the jazz scene in 1976, he brought the entire history of the jazz trombone with him. From the growling gutbucket intensity of early New Orleans music through the refined, articulate improvisation of the modern era set forth by J.J. Johnson, into the confrontational expressionism of the ‘60s avant-garde, Craig handled the total vernacular the way a skilled orator utilizes the spoken word. He has performed with a veritable Who’s Who of progressive jazz’s most important figures and his own projects display both a unique sense of concept and a total command of the sweeping expanse of musical expression. It is those two qualities that have dominated Craig’s forty years of activity, bringing him far beyond the confines of the jazz world into the sphere of multimedia and performance art as composer, performer, conceptualist, music curator, and artistic director. Craig, who comes from a tradition of art as a cultural facilitation to help promote change, has employed his musical voice to comment on social injustice with projects including God’s Trombones, based on James Weldon Johnson’s book of sermons; Souls Within the Veil commemorating the centennial of W.E.B. DuBois’s seminal work; TriHarlenium, a sound portrait and 30-year musical time capsule of Harlem; and Brown Butterfly, a tribute to the exquisite movements of Muhammad Ali. 

Featuring: Jay Rodriguez - reeds, James Stewart - reeds, Richard Fairfax - reeds, Eddie Allen - trumpet, Franz Hackl - trumpet, Calvin Jones - bass, Tony Lewis - drums, and Craig Harris - trombone

First set: 12pm-12:45pm (15 min break); Second set: 1pm-1:45pm 

Cost: $15

Location: Greater Calvary Baptist Church, 43-55 West 124th Street, New York NY 10027 US

Mi Familia

September 3, 2019 9:00pm

Directed by Gregory Nava | 1995

With Jimmy Smits, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos.

Gregory Nava’s novelistic epic traces the journey of a Mexican-American family across three generations, from the 1920s to the 1980s, as they put down roots in Los Angeles, face deportation, weather LAPD violence, strike out into the world, and, above all, endure. With touching sincerity and and a vibrant visual style, Nava crafts an openhearted, richly textured microcosm of the Southern California Chicano experience.

General Admission: $16

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

The Bill Douglas Trilogy

September 4, 2019 7:00pm

Directed by Bill Douglas

A pioneer of Scottish independent cinema, Bill Douglas left behind a small but miraculous body of work, the centerpiece of which is this remarkable trio of short films about the experiences of a restless boy (played by the same actor over the course of six years) searching for escape from the harsh realities of life in a Highlands mining town. Shot in lyrical black and white and graced with images of ineffable loveliness, these miniature masterpieces transform the filmmaker’s own painful memories into hopeful, transcendent art.

My Childhood
1972, 46min, 35mm

My Ain Folk
1973, 55min, 35mm

My Way Home
1978, 71min, 35mm

General Admission: $16

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

September 5, 2019 7:00pm

Directed by Michel Gondry | 2004

With Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst

Michel Gondry’s deliriously imaginative trip down the rabbit holes of memory casts Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as ex-lovers who turn to medically induced amnesia to get over their heartbreak—only to fall in love all over again. Bringing together the cracked genius of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman with the crazy quilt visual style of Gondry, this sci-fi-inflected romance mines the mysteries of consciousness, love, and attraction to stirring emotional effect.

General Admission: $16

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Jinn

September 6 - September 12, 2019 2:00pm

Directed by Nijla Mu'min | 2018

With Zoe Renee, Simone Missick, Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Summer, a carefree, 17-year-old black girl, finds herself navigating complex questions of faith, family, sexuality, and identity when her mother converts to Islam. Drawing on her own experiences growing up, director Nijla Mu'min fashions a bittersweet, beautifully observed portrait of a young woman finding her way in the world—and a multi-dimensional image of Muslim life rarely depicted onscreen.

9/6, 7pm: Skype Q&A with filmmaker Nijla Mu’min, moderated by Stephanye Watts, founder of Be Reel Black Cinema Club

9/7, 7pm: Skype Q&A with filmmaker Nijla Mu’min, moderated by Tayler Montague, writer and curator

General Admission: $16

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

September 6, 2019 7:00pm

Directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. | 2019

Horn player, bandleader, innovator. The very embodiment of cool. The central theme of Miles Davis’ life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. Again and again, he broke with convention—and when he thought his work came to represent a new convention, he changed it again. Davis’ relentless drive and constant thirst for new experiences made him incredibly difficult to live with, but it made him an inspiring collaborator, a cultural icon, and an innovator—in everything from bebop to “cool jazz,” modern quintets, orchestral music, jazz fusion, rock ’n’ roll, and hip-hop.

Acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. (Freedom Riders, The Murder of Emmett Till) tells this story of a truly singular talent. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool unpacks the man behind the horn.

9/6, 7pm: Post-screening Q&A
with Miles and Me author Quincy Troupe, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool editor Lewis Erskine, moderated by writer/cultural critic Greg Tate

General Admission: $16

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

All About Eve

September 7, 2019 12:00pm

Directed by Ivo van Hove

★★★★ "Anderson’s arresting performance combines irresistible allure and drop-dead wit.”
—Independent

Gillian Anderson and Lily James star in Ivo van Hove’s stage adaptation of the iconic 1950 film about an aging Broadway actress and the young ingénue who wants to be her.

Margo Channing (Anderson) is a theater star who has always taken center stage—until the young, beautiful Eve (James) arrives on the scene, claiming to be her biggest fan. Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth, and identity never seems to get old.

This screening was recorded from an earlier live performance.

General Admission: $28

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

First Saturday Jam Session

September 7, 2019 2:00pm

Calling jazz musicians of all ages!  Grab your instrument, bring a chart, and build your chops with Harlem icon, pianist David Durrah and a community of budding contemporary musicians and living legends.

Don’t play an instrument?  Saturday Sessions are a space for musicians and fans alike to soak up Harlem’s vibrant live music scene.

$10.00 Suggested Donation

The Saturday Sessions are presented in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America’s Gig Fund program, with support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tickets: $10

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Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, 58 West 129th Street, New York NY 10027 US

Intergenerational Jazz Jam

September 8, 2019 2:00pm

Jazz Power Initiative’s Intergenerational Jazz Jam brings together singers, musicians, dancers, spoken word artists and audiences of all ages to experience the power of jazz, community, and swing. Jams take place on the second Sunday of each month from 2-5 PM at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem located at 58 West 129th Street in Manhattan.

Pianist and master educator Eli Yamin has a way of bringing people together through jazz. He’s a blues evangelist who partners an infectious love for the music with a passion for sharing it in ways that everyone can understand. His musical workshops, full of clapping, singing, dance and play, invite listeners to feel the music deep in their bones.

Here, Yamin and friends kick off the afternoon with a romping set of blues and jazz, followed by an all-ages jam session open to musicians, singers, and dancers of every stripe.

Tickets: $10

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Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, 58 West 129th Street, New York NY 10027 US

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