This week at the movies with Rooftop!
November 25th 2009 02:50
New 35mm Print of Truffaut's Beloved Classic
In One-Week Engagement at IFC Center
Small Change
Venue: IFC Center
Opening: this Wednesday, November 25th
Daily Screenings: 11:35am, 1:55pm, 4:25pm, 7:05pm & 9:30pm
SMALL CHANGE, a lyrical and beguiling evocation of childhood from French master François Truffaut, will be revived in a new 35mm print for a special one-week engagement at IFC Center Wednesday, November 25 through Tuesday, December 1.
Too long absent from the big screen, SMALL CHANGE is one of Truffaut's (The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim) most poetic and personal films, a radiant celebration of the world of children. Through a series of loosely connected vignettes in the small city of Thiers in southern France, a group of children, from infants to adolescents (played mostly by nonprofessionals), experience the joys and trials of being young. "Children exist in a state of grace," as a young mother observes. "They pass untouched through dangers that would destroy an adult."
Small Change
"A poetic comedy that's really funny." - Pauline Kael
"An original, a major work in minor keys. It's a labor of love that ignores precedent with splendid verve and a film with so many associations to other Truffaut films that watching it is like meeting a previously unknown relative, someone both familiar and utterly new and surprising.. It ambles through the lives of these children, observing them in school, at home, going to the movies, making do on a Sunday morning when parents sleep late, trying to pawn some textbooks, making painful and hilarious discoveries that, by the time we reach the end, have encompassed most of the ordinary expressions of childhood in ways not possible in the conventional fiction film."- Vincent Canby, New York Times
1976, France, 104 min. In French with English subtitles. A Film Desk release.
SUPPORT BATTLE OF BROOKLYN
A new work-in-progress documentary about the Atlantic Yards Development needs your help Battle of Brooklyn Frequent Rooftop collaborators RUMUR (Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky, and David Beilinson) have spent the last 6 years documenting the Atlantic Yards development for their film Battle of Brooklyn. Editing over 300 hours of footage has proven to be its own battle.
In order to raise funds to finish the film they are pre-selling 1000 DVD's on Kickstarter.com.
They've raised 10k towards their goal of 25k and have 10 days left. If they don't get to 25k they'll get nada. zilch. It's all or nothing. That's the way Kickstarter works.
A pledge of $10 gets a Download and $25 gets a DVD.
You can watch a trailer as well as extra scenes here Really Long Link
Like their previous film Horns and Halos, this is a great opportunity to help produce what is sure to be another classic tale of power, politics, media and the little guy - kicking their asses.
Bonus: For the big money ballers there is an opportunity to get a producer credit for pledging $2500
IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas at West 3rd Street, box office: 212 924-7771. For showtimes, advance tickets and more information, visit www.ifccenter.com.
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