From the Museum of Moving Image site:
FREE SCREENING
Putney Swope
Sunday, April 19, 3:00 p.m.
With Robert Downey, Sr. and Antonio Fargas in person
At Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan
1969, 84 mins. The independent feature film Putney Swope, shot in Manhattan, is an outrageous satire about race, commercialism, and corporate life in America. On the 40th anniversary of its release, the Schomburg Center and Museum of the Moving Image team up to present this special screening with director Robert Downey and star Antonio Fargas in person. Warrington Hudlin, the noted film producer and film curator, will host the program and moderate the post-screening discussion. This cutting-edge cult film classic pushed the envelope in ways that still resonate today. In the film, the head of a struggling New York ad agency drops dead during a meeting of executives. Through a tangled voting process, the agency's token black man, Putney Swope, wins the election to head the company. Swope tells the board meeting "The changes I'm going to make will be minimal. I'm not gonna rock the boat. Rockin' the boat's a drag. What you do is sink the boat!” Cut to the next scene and all the white faces are gone from the agency, and its name is now "Truth and Soul, Inc."
Free admission. First-come, first-served.
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SPECIAL EVENT
An Evening with Jim Jarmusch
Thursday, April 23, 8:00 p.m.
At the School of Visual Arts Theater
330 West 23rd Street, Manhattan
Jim Jarmusch, whose brilliant and laconic style has made him one of America's most distinctive filmmakers since his debut with Stranger than Paradise in 1984, will participate in a conversation with clips moderated by Chief Curator David Schwartz. In addition to an exclusive look at scenes from his remarkable new film The Limits of Control, which was photographed by Christopher Doyle and has an ensemble cast including Isaach de Bankolé, Paz de la Huerta, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Bill Murray, the evening will include scenes from Stranger than Paradise, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Coffee and Cigarettes.
Tickets: $18 public/$15 IFP Members/$12 Museum members/Free for Sponsor-level and above. Order tickets online or by calling 718.784.4520.
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