Film & Video Wednesday 3/28 IRAN THROUGH ...
IRAN THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILDREN
Festival continues today with Friendly Persuasion (2000) & The Jar (1992); Screening Room, 54 Varick St. (Canal St.), 212-334-2100; call for times, prices & complete sched. [through 4/5].
A LONG NIGHT'S JOURNEY INTO DAY
Winner of Sundance's Grand Jury Prize & nominated for an Academy Award, doc. on South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission (an organization that offers amnesty to people found guilty of violent crime during apartheid) screens; Makor, 35 W. 67th St. (Central Park W. & Columbus Ave.), 212-601-1000; 7:30 & 9:30, $8 [through 4/5].
THE NEW WAVE
Series continues with Gloria "I'm ready for my close-up" Swanson in Sunset Boulevard; Cinema Classics, 332 E. 11th St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.), 212-971-1015; call for times, $5.50 [through 4/1].
NICK PARK'S WORLD: THE ECCENTRIC ADVENTURES OF WALLACE & GROMMET
Ninety minutes of Wallace & Grommit claymation, incl. British commercials & three films; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6600; call for times, free w/mus. adm. [through 5/13].
TRAFFIK
Five-part British television series that inspired the movie; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6600; call for times, free w/mus. adm. [through 4/29].
Friday 3/30
TERROR! HORROR! CORMAN!
Today, Roger Corman's 1963 production of The Raven; BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave. (Ashland Pl.), 718-636-4111; call for times & prices.
Saturday 3/31
A TREASURY OF FRENCH FILM
This week, Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle (1958); YWCA, 610 Lexington Ave. (53rd St.), 212-735-9717; 4:30, call for price [repeats Sun.].
Sunday 4/1
THE FILMS OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
Today, the 1996 doc. American Experience: The Battle Over Citizen Kane, w/an introduction by producer Thomas Lennon; American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Ave. (36th St.), Astoria, 718-784-4520; 2, call for price.
NY INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
Ten days of film from Canada, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Ireland, England, Argentina & the U.S. begins now, details a few pages back in "Since When?"; 212-771-7000 for locations, times & prices.
TIMES TALKS
NY Times' sponsors screening of The Specialist, 1961 doc. on Adolf Eichmann's trial, followed by panel discussion; Directors Guild, 110 W. 57th St. (betw. 6th & 7th Aves.), 888-NYT-1870; 3, $25, $10 st.
Monday 4/2
LEFT LUGGAGE
Starring the supermodel who could make soup for you, Isabella Rossellini. She discusses the film at screening; Center For Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-294-8301; 7:30, $7, $3.50 st./s.c.
PS 2001: PHAT SHORTS
Over 40 short films screen Mondays in April at slang-deficient Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5110; call for prices & complete sched.
RENOIR: FILMS OF THE 30S
Festival continues today w/The Lower Depths (1936); BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave. (Ashland Pl.), 718-636-4111; call for times & prices.
Tuesday 4/3
CHOOSING TO PARTICIPATE: FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES
Screening of Daring to Resist, narrated by suddenly serious Janeane Garofalo, about three teenage girls who fought against the Nazi movement; NY Historical Society, 2 W. 77th St. (Central Park W.), 212-873-3400; 7, free.
SAUTET & CHABROL: TWO WORLDS APART
Festival screens films by two contemporary French directors. Today, Claude Sautet weighs in w/A Heart in Winter (1992); the French Institute's Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St. (betw. Madison & Park Aves.), 212-355-6160; 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 & 9, $8, $6 st.