The New York Museum of Modern Art will be screening all three of American independent filmmaker, Ramin Bahrani's films to date, including his newest one, "Goodbye Solo" (2008).
Read my post about "Chop Shop" (2007) here.
Man Push Cart. 2005. USA. Directed by Ramin Bahrani. Screenplay by Bahrani. First-time actor Ahmad Razvi plays a man fleeing his past among the urban multitudes. Man Push Cart captures the siren beauty of midtown Manhattan and the complexity of life in a multicultural, multiethnic city that suddenly reneges on its comforting promise of anonymity. Print courtesy Films Philos, New York. 87 min.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 6:15 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Saturday, March 7, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Chop Shop. 2007. USA. Directed by Ramin Bahrani. Screenplay by Bahrani, Bahareh Azimi. With Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata. A streetwise kid and his slightly older sister, played by a pair of nonprofessional actors, cope with adolescence amid the junkyards and auto-repair shops of Willets Point, Queens. "A giant billboard from Shea Stadium looms and reads, ‘Make dreams happen.' I was curious to know what dreams can happen in this place, and who these dreamers were. The more time I spent there, the more I was drawn to the lives of the young kids who work and live in the auto-body shops" (Bahrani). Print courtesy Koch Lorber. 85 min.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 8:15 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Friday, March 6, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Goodbye Solo. 2008. USA. Directed by Ramin Bahrani. Screenplay by Bahrani, Bahareh Azimi. With Soulemane Sy Savane, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo. Combining his extraordinary ability to coax memorable performances from nonprofessional actors, his interest in location shooting, and his understanding of how so much of human drama is internalized, Bahrani relocates (to some extent) Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry from Tehran to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The film tells the story of a Senegalese cab driver and his passenger, a seventy-year-old man who wants to be driven to a distant and lonely location. Print courtesy Roadside Attractions. 91 min.
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1 (Introduced by Bahrani)
Be sure to check out 'Goodbye Solo' when it opens in theaters on March 27th. Roger Ebert calls it "a force of nature" and The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has "an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world." You can check out the trailer and theater listings at www.goodbyesolomovie.com.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to check out Bahrani's latest film 'Goodbye Solo' when it opens in theaters on March 27th. Roger Ebert calls it "a force of nature" and The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has "an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world." You can check out the trailer and theater listings at www.goodbyesolomovie.com.
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