As warmer temperatures arrive, there are a host of outdoor film screenings starting today and through spring. Special screenings include documentaries, rooftop films at NOCHI, the French Film Festival and more.
"Portrait of Jason." Shirley Clarke's 1967 nonfiction film features a Black gay hustler who goes by the name Jason Holiday describing his life in an extended interview in his New York apartment. He's a great storyteller and talks of wanting to develop a nightclub act. He also drinks during the filming, and views of the film's nature have changed as many questioned the exploitative conditions of filming an inebriated subject. Others have lauded its candor. A restored version was released in 2012, and in 2015 it was added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. It screens at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, and 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, at Broadside.
"Unexpected Modernism: The Wiener Brothers Story." Half-brothers Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener were architects from Shreveport, who in 1931 went to Europe to study at Bauhaus. Enthralled with the modern style, they brought their version of it to residential, commercial and institutional buildings that made Shreveport an early hub of modern architecture in America. The 43-minute film premiered last year. It screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at Broadside.
"MLK/FBI" The documentary uses newly declassified documents to detail the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. and the extent to which the agency and its director, J. Edgar Hoover, viewed the civil rights leader as a communist and a threat. It's reviewed here in Gambit. The New Orleans Film Society and Patois New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival sponsor a free screening followed by a panel discussion with director Sam Pollard, Renard Bridgewater, a musician and activist with the Eye on Surveillance project, and artist and activist Shana M. griffin. Register to watch the free screening here. It is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25.
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"Afro Brother: Spacemen in the Day the Earth Stood Stupid." Patois also sponsors a free screening of John Slade's animated comic series about space heroes who battle an alien set on absorbing all of the Earth's art and culture. Slade is a local political cartoonist and artist. A screening link is available on the Patois website. It screens at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28.
Dinner and a Movie series. NOCHI, the New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute, will hold a spring movie series on the rooftop of its Warehouse District home. Tickets include a themed dinner and cocktail pairings. The series opens March 12 with "Rudy" and continues with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" on April 2, "Say Anything" on April 30, "Waitress" on May 14, "Dirty Dancing" on May 28 and a final date on June 11 with a film to be announced. Reservations for the first night are available on Eventbrite.
French Film Festival. The New Orleans Film Society holds its French Film Festival at the Broadside and virtually March 23-31. The lineup has not been announced, but there will be films from francophone nations in Europe and Africa, all with subtitles in English. Festival passes currently are available on the festival website.
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