.NewFest's Queering the Canon: Besties starts tonight! 5 days of queer-positive camaraderie, with screenings of Go Fish, Set It Off, I Think I Do and more. Tickets going fast: bam.org/film/2024/quee…

Watch the trailer for Janus Films’ release of the 4K restoration of Pressure, the landmark 1975 picture from Horace Ové. Opening May 10 at BAM Film.

Add to watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/3OiO

Read Ayanna Dozier on Fresh Kill before our screening tonight! Stay tuned for a retrospective of Cheang's scifi films in June. brooklynrail.org/2024/04/film/S…

Starts Thursday!

A Nigerian film club fights the status quo in our exclusive U.S. trailer premiere for Alain Kassanda's 'Coconut Head Generation,' opening at BAM Film on April 26.

Watch: thefilmstage.com/a-nigerian-fil…

Three more programs today and tomorrow!

'There are certain films that have just never been altered by time. ... And some have become funnier.'

Martin Short and director Paul Flaherty chat with Maxwell Paparella about 30th anniversary of Clifford on Screen Slate screenslate.com/articles/very-…

Thursday night see extraordinary moving image works by Daïchi Saïto with a one-time-only live score by Konjur Collective! bam.org/film/2024/trip…

The Art of the Benshi in April:

5-7 BAM Film

12-14 Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

16-17 Gene Siskel Film Center

18 JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles

19 United Theater on Broadway, LA

20-21 UCLA Film & Television Archive

26 Okuma Auditorium, Tokyo

artofthebenshi.org

march 22-28 BAM Film

delighted to collab with Triple Canopy again for STANDARD DEVIATIONS: daring artists using cinema to escape censorship, law, decorum ✨

tmw 7pm: Bill Gunn taking Hollywood money to deliver an erotic vampire experiment in black cultural autonomy

At BAM starting today!

'The Tuba Thieves,' opening at BAM Film today, is a formally radical meditation on the presence and absence of sound.

Read John J. Fink's review: thefilmstage.com/sundance-revie…

🤭 BAM Film + Letterboxd are our besties letterboxd.com/newfest/list/q…

The Tuba Thieves 'makes us take in the world differently' and is a New York Times Critic's Pick! Starts tomorrow. nytimes.com/2024/03/14/mov…

Throughout THE TUBA THIEVES, Alison O’Daniel uses a real-life incident as a springboard to fascinatingly explore how the removal of an integral part of a structure affects the larger whole. See the film starting on Friday BAM Film. slantmagazine.com/film/the-tuba-…

ONE HAND DON’T CLAP captures the vibrant story of calypso and the emergence of soca (the 'Soul of Calypso') through the eyes of two legendary artists: Lord Kitchener and Calypso Rose.

Opens in theaters at @bamfilmbrooklyn on Friday before expanding: bit.ly/onehanddontccl…

ONE HAND DON’T CLAP captures the vibrant story of calypso and soca music through the eyes of legendary artists Lord Kitchener and Calypso Rose.

The new restoration opens in theaters next Friday at BAM Film before expanding: bit.ly/onehanddontclap

The Paranoid Style in American Cinema, 1974-1999 opens Friday at BAM! 35mm prints of The X Files,
They Live, Cutter’s Way, Parallax View, Enemy of the State and more great screenings:
bam.org/film/2024/the-…

THIS FRIDAY: Blair on Raoul Peck’s 1990 film “Lumumba: Death of a Prophet” BAM Film; Jennifer Krasinski on “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social’s chronicle of the “Village Voice”; & more. Subscribe now (it’s free!) to get the issue in your inbox. 4columns.org/follow

Raoul Peck's passionate, politically astute biography of Patrice Lumumba 'is as much a poem as it is a documentary.' Opens this Friday at BAM! nytimes.com/2024/02/21/mov…