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SUMMARY:Tales of the Immigrant City - EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA (On The Seventh Day) with special guest Jim McKay
DESCRIPTION:EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA (On the Seventh Day)\nJim McKay\, 2017\, 92 min\nWith Fernando Cardona\, Gilberto Jimenez\, Abel Perez\nin Spanish with English subtitles \nQ&A with director Jim McKay and Moises Bazbaz of the Latin American Film Center \nAbout the film: \nSet over the course of seven days in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park\, this compassionate drama follows José\, an undocumented Mexican immigrant and bicycle delivery worker who leads a local soccer team. When his team reaches the finals\, José faces a wrenching choice between playing with his teammates on the field or keeping the job that sustains their fragile lives. Told with tender realism and warmth\, En el Séptimo Día reveals the rhythms of work\, community\, and joy in the everyday struggle for dignity in a city defined by its immigrant energy. \nGuest Speaker:\nJim McKay is an NYC-based American filmmaker known for his work on immigrant communities and working-class lives. His films\, including En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day)\, Girls Town\, and Everyday People\, focus on working-class and immigrant communities\, capturing everyday lives with warmth\, realism\, and quiet urgency. In television\, McKay has directed episodes of The Wire\, Treme\, Better Call Saul\, Big Love\, Criminal Intent\, and Mr. Robot. \nTICKETS:\n$12/adult\n$10/seniors & students\n$2 discount with Community partner code \nBUY TICKETS HERE \nCo-presented by the Latin American Film Center. See www.lafcnyc.org. \nThis program is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in partnership with the City Council and the office of NY City Councilperson Shaun Abreu. \nCo-sponsors: BAiP\, LiLY\, W. 90s Neighborhood Assn.\, W. 102nd & 103rd Streets Block Assn.\, W. 104th St. Block Assn.\, JCC Manhattan
URL:https://uptownfilm.org/event/tales-of-the-immigrant-city-on-the-seventh-day-en-el-septimo-dia-with-special-guest-jim-mckay/
LOCATION:The New York Historical\, 170 Central Park West\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tales of the Immigrant City
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SUMMARY:Tales of the Immigrant City - HESTER STREET with Special Guest Molly Haskell
DESCRIPTION:HESTER STREET\nJoan Micklin Silver\, 1975\, 89 min\nWith Carole Kane\, Steven Keats \nAbout the film:\nIn this newly restored independent classic adapted from Abraham Cahan 1896 Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto\, a newly arrived Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe struggles to find her footing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side as her husband embraces American life with gusto. Shot in evocative black and white\, Hester Street captures the tension between old traditions and new dreams in turn-of-the-century New York. Carol Kane earned an Academy Award nomination for her powerful performance as Gitl\, a woman forging her own path in the face of cultural displacement and personal upheaval. \nAbout Molly Haskell:\n \nphoto by Jim Carpenter\nMolly Haskell is a writer and film critic in New York City whose most recent book is My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation. Her first job in New York City was at the French Film Office\, writing and editing publications on French films. Since then she has written and lectured widely on film and women in film\, and is the author of four previous books: the classic From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movie; the memoir Love and Other Infectious Diseases; a collection\, Holding My Own in No Man’s Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists; and\, in 2009\, Frankly\, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited. She is currently working on a short biography of Steven Spielberg for Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series. \nHaskell has taught at Columbia\, Barnard\, and Sarah Lawrence\, served as film critic for The Village Voice\, New York magazine and Vogue\, and written for many publications\, including The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, Town & Country\, and The Nation. She wrote monthly columns for both The Guardian U.K. and The New York Observer\, and served as co-host with Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies. \nHaskell received\, with Andrew Sarris\, the 2008 William K. Everson Award for Film History\, from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Her work was featured in The Library of America’s 2006 American Movie Critics\, edited by Philip Lopate\, and she won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010\, and she won the Athena Award for criticism in 2012. \nTICKETS:\n$12/adult\n$10/seniors & students\n$2 discount with Community partner code \nBUY TICKETS HERE \nThis program is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in partnership with the City Council and the office of NY City Councilperson Shaun Abreu. \nCo-sponsors: BAiP\, LiLY\, W. 90s Neighborhood Assn.\, W. 102nd & 103rd Streets Block Assn.\, W. 104th St. Block Assn.\, JCC Manhattan
URL:https://uptownfilm.org/event/tales-of-the-immigrant-city-hester-street/
LOCATION:The New York Historical\, 170 Central Park West\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tales of the Immigrant City
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SUMMARY:Tales of the Immigrant City - IN AMERICA with special guest Colum McCann
DESCRIPTION:IN AMERICA\nJim Sheridan\, 2002\, 105 minutes\nWith: Paddy Considine\, Samantha Morton\, Sarah Bolger\, Djimon Hounsou \nWith special guest speaker\, Colum McCann \nAbout the film: \nSet in early-1980s New York\, In America follows an Irish immigrant family arriving illegally in Hell’s Kitchen\, carrying grief\, hope\, and the fragile promise of a new beginning. Through the eyes of two young daughters\, Jim Sheridan’s deeply personal film captures the exhilaration and hardship of starting over\, the intimacy of immigrant communities\, and the quiet acts of solidarity that make survival possible in an unfamiliar city. \nAbout Colum McCann:\nColum McCann is a celebrated NYC-based Irish novelist and National Book Award winner for Let the Great World Spin. Across his fiction and nonfiction\, he captures the layered lives of immigrants and explores how individuals navigate displacement\, loss\, and belonging in an ever-changing world\, often using New York City as a crossroads of global stories. \nTICKETS:\n$12/adult\n$10/seniors & students\n$2 discount with Community partner code \nBUY TICKETS HERE \nFREE TICKETS with ID are available at the door for eligible New Yorkers participating in Art House NY Cinema Week.  See eligibility guidelines. \n  \n  \nThis program is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in partnership with the City Council and the office of NY City Councilperson Shaun Abreu. \nCo-sponsors: BAiP\, LiLY\, W. 90s Neighborhood Assn.\, W. 102nd & 103rd Streets Block Assn.\, W. 104th St. Block Assn.\, Irish Arts Center\, JCC Manhattan \n \n 
URL:https://uptownfilm.org/event/in-america-with-special-guest-colum-mccann/
LOCATION:The New York Historical\, 170 Central Park West\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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