Film
FILM
To Catch a Dollar
Thursday, February 23, 8:00 p.m. (Arrive early and view the exhibition Women Hold Up Half the Sky)
This inspiring documentary by Gayle Ferraro follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus as he brings his unique and revolutionary microfinance program to the United States.
Admission:
$6 General; $5 Members and Full-Time Students
FOR MEMBERS
Bully
Thursday, March 1, 8:00 p.m.
Sneak preview screening! Directed by Sundance and Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch, this beautifully cinematic documentary offers insight into the often cruel world of the lives of bullied children.
Admission:
FREE and open to Members only; Up to two tickets per membership
FILM
Willie and Phil
Tuesday, March 6, 1:30 p.m.
Paul Mazursky drew heavily from Francois Truffaut’s Jules et Jim for this look at two free spirits, played by Michael Ontkean and Ray Sharkey, as they grow up and out of 1960s New York and into life in Los Angeles.
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
FILM
Moscow on the Hudson
Tuesday, March 13, 1:30 p.m.
When a Russian musician (Robin Williams) defects to America in the middle of Bloomingdale’s department store, he learns that the American dream is far more elusive than he imagined.
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
FILM
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
The Lily Rosman Program
Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
See this semiautobiographical film about an aspiring young actor (Lenny Baker) who moves out of his parents’ Brooklyn home to seek a career in theater. A conversation between filmmaker Paul Mazursky and screenwriter and frequent Mazursky collaborator Leon Capetanos follows the screening.
Admission:
$10 General; $8 Members; $6 Full-Time Students
FILM
Moon Over Parador
Tuesday, April 3, 1:30 p.m.
Actor Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss) is on location in the dictatorship of Parador when its dictator (also played by Dreyfuss) dies. The dictator's right-hand man, Roberto (Raul Julia), makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse: impersonate the dictator or die.
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
FILM
Blume in Love
Tuesday, April 3, 8:00 p.m.
George Segal stars as Stephen Blume, a lawyer who wrecks his marriage and just might wreck his divorce.
Admission:
$6 General; $5 Members and Full-Time Students
FILM
Enemies: A Love Story
Tuesday, April 10, 1:30 p.m.
Paul Mazursky directed and co-wrote this comic romance based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel of the same title about a married man (Ron Silver) whose past comes back to haunt him in the person of his not-as-dead-as-he-thought first wife, Tamara (Anjelica Huston).
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
FILM
Boudu Saved from Drowning and Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Double Feature
Sunday, April 22, 1:00 p.m.
Paul Mazursky directed and co-wrote the hilarious Down and Out in Beverly Hills—featuring Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, and Nick Nolte, along with a memorable performance by Little Richard—based upon Jean Renoir’s 1932 comic gem Boudu Saved from Drowning. Both Renoir’s and Mazursky’s works tell of of a bum who, when his life is saved, shakes the very foundations of the families who save him.
Admission:
$6 General; $5 Members and Full-Time Students
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