Rubin's "Cabaret Cinema": I introduce R&J 3/12 - Tonight Sam introduces "It Came from Outer Space!"
A free late-night movie w/ a lychee martini at NYC's Rubin Museum is rapidly becoming my favorite Friday night date! The bar (with snacks) is hopping, the whole museum's open to wander beforehand.... Drinks are 2-for-1 from 6-8pm, including some very good wine.
Right now they're running the New Cosmic Cabaret Cinema Series in conjunction with a new exhibit, "Visions of the Cosmos." Which is how I got picked for:
RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART presents
CABARETCINEMA
Where Movies and Martinis Mix
Ellen Kushner introduces Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet"
Friday, March 12th, 9:30 p.m.
Free with a $7 Bar minimum
1968, Franco Zeffirelli, UK/Italy, 138 minutes
Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey play the star-crossed lovers: "When he shall die, cut him out into little stars... all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun."
You can bet I'll have a lot to say. That movie changed my life. I can't wait to see it on a big screen again!
Upcoming films in the New Cosmic Cabaret Cinema Series:
***TONIGHT! our own scbutler S. C. Butler introduces It Came from Outer Space! ****
March 19 Illustrator (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Brett Helquist introduces Contact
March 26 Multiple Oscar-winner Thelma Schoonmaker introduces her late husband’s A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven)
April 2 Documentarian filmmaker Henry Chalfant introduces Fellini’s La Strada
April 9 Playwright John Guare introduces Things to Come
April 30 Novelist and broadcaster Kurt Andersen introduces Destination Moon
May 7 Novelist and screenwriter Larry Doyle introduces The Day the Earth Stood Still
Right now they're running the New Cosmic Cabaret Cinema Series in conjunction with a new exhibit, "Visions of the Cosmos." Which is how I got picked for:
RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART presents
CABARETCINEMA
Where Movies and Martinis Mix
Ellen Kushner introduces Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet"
Friday, March 12th, 9:30 p.m.
Free with a $7 Bar minimum
1968, Franco Zeffirelli, UK/Italy, 138 minutes
Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey play the star-crossed lovers: "When he shall die, cut him out into little stars... all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun."
You can bet I'll have a lot to say. That movie changed my life. I can't wait to see it on a big screen again!
Upcoming films in the New Cosmic Cabaret Cinema Series:
***TONIGHT! our own scbutler S. C. Butler introduces It Came from Outer Space! ****
March 19 Illustrator (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Brett Helquist introduces Contact
March 26 Multiple Oscar-winner Thelma Schoonmaker introduces her late husband’s A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven)
April 2 Documentarian filmmaker Henry Chalfant introduces Fellini’s La Strada
April 9 Playwright John Guare introduces Things to Come
April 30 Novelist and broadcaster Kurt Andersen introduces Destination Moon
May 7 Novelist and screenwriter Larry Doyle introduces The Day the Earth Stood Still