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According to its website, Anthology is "committed to the guiding principle that a great film must be seen many times, that the film print must be the best possible, and that the viewing conditions must be optimal.? Um, yeah. New York"s premier venue for avant-garde programming-located at Second and 2nd, in a former courthouse-is nevertheless a remarkably unpleasant place to see a film. The whole building smells like fermented photochemicals, and in both auditoriums (the cozier, downstairs Maya Deren Theater is marginally the more tolerable of the two), the seats are hard plastic with almost no padding. Depending on your point of view, the discomfort may be a necessary part of the ambience: Anthology, co-founded by Voice-film father figure Jonas Mekas, is arguably the only place in the city where the "60s underground film scene still lives. And the programming really is top-notch, from the rotating Essential Cinema series to classic rarities to revival engagements to national festivals (Subway Cinema"s New York Asian Film Festival, for instance) to, of course, the non-narrative work, which makes Anthology an irreplaceable entity in the New York film world.

Carriage Trade

Sun., February 12, 4:45pm

Dir. Warren Sonbert (1973).

My Hustler

Sun., February 12, 6:15pm

Dir. Andy Warhol (1965).

"George Kuchar, Prgm 5"

Sun., February 12, 6:30pm

"Warhol / Whitney Prgm"

Sun., February 12, 8:00pm

"George Kuchar, Prgm 6"

Sun., February 12, 8:30pm

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2011 | Best Movie Programming

Anthology Film Archives might be located in a desanctified courthouse and officially consecrated to the most rarefied expressions of cinematic art, but the atmosphere is wildly eclectic and the programming excitingly nonjudgmental: High, low,... More >
2009 | Best Way to Watch Smutty Movies

If you're wary of catching an Xtube virus and are looking for cleaner digs than whatever's left of Times Square's naughty picture joints, CineKink NYC is there for you. Each February, this festival provides the means for you to ditch the laptop... More >
2000 | Best Friday-Night Moviegoing Meat Market

As a meet-cute backdrop, the Anthology Film Archives has a certain locker-room charm—the musty smell, the linoleum floors, the deserted-pep-rally vibe of the main theater, with its rump-averse bucket seats. But those seats are welded together, so... More >

Village Voice Reviews and News

THE UNDERGROUND

By Angela Ashman | Wed, February 01, 2012

“I had this attitude then that I didn’t know how to make a film, but I wasn’t going to let that stop me,” filmmaker Amos Poe told Films in Review last year. His DIY ethic naturally drew him to the CBGB’s crowd, many of whom became the subjects and... More >
THE CLUCKING DEAD

By Angela Ashman | Wed, January 11, 2012

Things aren’t so good at the opening day of fast-food restaurant American Chicken Bunker. Built on the Tromahawk Tribe sacred burial grounds, the restaurant is under attack by a group of protesters spearheaded by the Collegiate Lesbians Against Me... More >
I Was Born, But...

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

Dir. Yasujiro Ozu (1932). Class relations enter the family: Ozu called this silent comedy—one of the best movies about children ever made—a “Picture Book for Grown-Ups.” Newly relocated to the outskirts of Tokyo, a pair of hilariously naturalistic... More >
The Fall

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

Dir. Peter Whitehead (1969). A British documentarian comes to New York and finds himself joining the Columbia students barricaded in Low Library. Peter Whitehead’s most ambitious film is pure 1968, a totally personal psycho-dramatizing guerrilla n... More >
An Injury to One

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

Dir. Travis Wilkerson (2002). Recalling the great strikes of the World War I period and explicates the death of an IWW organizer in Butte, Montana Travis Wilkerson’s documentary-essay is a model of low-budget formal intelligence as well as engaged... More >

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