This exhibition features four films by acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge, who transforms the traditional medium of charcoal drawing into animation by successively filming drawn and erased alterations of his work.

The four films depict the fictional Jewish antagonists Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitelbaum, who begin as alter egos of each other. The characters metaphorically play out the social, political and moral legacy of apartheid as they go about their daily lives. The artist´s complex narratives explore politically specific themes from recent South African history and address personal and universal concerns, such as the nature of memory, greed, love and jealousy.

For more information, call (212) 423-3200.

This interesting and original exhibition features the charcoal drawings of South African artist William Kentridge ---- whose work combines the political with the poetic --- as films.

The four films depict the fictional Jewish characters Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitelbaum, who begin as alteregos of each other. While the latter is initially part self-portrait, the artist complicates this, as protagonist and antagonist exchange attributes as the sequences progress. The characters metaphorically play out the social, political and moral legacy of apartheid as they go about their lives. Kentridge´s filmed narratives explore political themes in recent South African history, while addressing personal and universal concerns; the nature of memory, greed, love and jealousy.

For more information, call (212) 423-3200.

Riveting and bone-chillingly creepy, this is 2009 American film the story of the most notorious of urban legends.

The film reflects on the story of "Cropsey," about Staten Island´s abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution where it was said an escaped patient who would come out at night and snatch children off the streets.

For show times and tickets, call (212) 924-7771.

With an amazing ensemble cast, --- including Allison Janney, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, Shirley Henderson and Charlotte Rampling --- this 2009 American film is a painfully funny exploration of the boundaries of forgiveness, family and love.

For show times and tickets, call (212) 924-7771.

This 2009 film is Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s animated interpretation of J.R. Ackerley’s droll and tender 1956 memoir about man-and-beast love.

Christopher Plummer gives voice to the unflappable, wry Ackerley and the late, great Lynn Redgrave is the sister who comes to share his flat and vie with him for the dog’s loyalty. Isabella Rossellini is Tulip’s sensitive and sensible veterinarian. The Fierlingers’ animated designs combine naturalism and visual wit, and their profound feelings for both dog and man are unmatched by conventional doggie cartooning.

For more information, call (212) 727-8110.

This seminal 1983 documentary film offers both a history and an up-close and personal glimpse of the “writers” who defined New York City’s subculture of subway graffiti in the 1970s and early 80s: one-armed “computer rock” prophet KASE 2 rhyming and boasting; ski-goggled SKEME sparring with his mother in their kitchen; DONDI musing on the solitary artist surrounded by metal machines; and SEEN doing a step-by-step how-to to Dion’s “The Wanderer.”

For more information, call (718) 636-4100.

Marlis Momber´s fascinating 1978 documentary film examines what life was like on Manhattan´s Lower East Side for the immigrants and artists living there with

Born in 1943 in Berlin, Germany, Marlis Momber has lived in the neighborhood since 1975. Her photographs document the struggle of the mostly Puerto Rican people living in that part of Manhattan. Her B&W and color photographs have been used to illustrate national and international publications on political and cultural topics such as: gentrification, urban development, slum lords/arson for profit, squatting, affordable housing/homesteading, cultural identity, education, the arts, drugs and urban crime.

Presented as part of the Howl Festival, which celebrates local cultural icons and lionizes, preserves and advances the art, history, culture and counterculture unique to the East Village and Lower East Side. For more information, call (212) 505-8304.

This 1993 documentary film (updated in 1997) chronciles the poet Allen Ginsberg´s life from his birth and early childhood to his thoughts about death at the age of 66.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was a leading figure of the Beat Generation, an anarchic group of young men and women in the 1950s who combined poetry, song, sex, wine and illicit drugs with passionate political ideas that championed personal freedoms.

Presented as part of the Howl Festival, which celebrates local cultural icons and lionizes, preserves and advances the art, history, culture and counterculture unique to the East Village and Lower East Side. Tickets are available from Brown Paper Tickets through the link below.

In this 1997 film --- a masterful adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel --- a big city lawyer (Ian Holm) descends on a small Canadian town following a tragic school bus accident to organize a civil action suit, while simultaneously mourning the loss of his own daughter to drug addiction.

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This 2002 Canadian film reinvents the classic horror story with Count Dracula as a sexy, demented vampire --- who dance ballet.

For more information, call (718) 636-4100.