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Rejoice and Shout
209 West Houston Street
(between Avenue of the Americas and Varick Street)
New York, NY 10014
Tel: (212) 727-8112
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Seniors 65 and older pay $6, Mon-Fri for shows that begin before 5 pm only. At all other times seniors pay full price. Group rates available - email joffre@filmforum.org for details.
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African-American Gospel music is a melting pot of history, culture, religion and politics. Don McGlynn’s powerful, stirring new documentary, REJOICE AND SHOUT, is a beautiful, deeply felt overview of a genre that encompasses entertainment and spirituality---and that is inherently political in its ability to move audiences both emotionally and intellectually when its subject is the African-American struggle for freedom and dignity.
The film includes rare archival footage of some of the earliest Gospel singers from the Deep South (The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi), as well as international legends like Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, the Staple Singers and Mahalia Jackson. These performances, along with illuminating interviews with musicologists (including Anthony Heilbut and Bill Carpenter make for a rousing, jubilant journey though Gospel’s roots and an all-star compilation of some of its greatest hits.
- Directions: Subway: A, C, E, B, D, F, M trains to West 4th Street; 1 to Houston Street
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Film ForumA three-screen arthouse cinema in Lower Manhattan, Film Forum screens new independent and foreign films as well as thematically organized series of older films.
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Wed, July 11, 2012 – Tues, July 24, 2012 A thriller of intrigue and self-delusion in contemporary Sweden. JW is a handsome, suave grad student at Stockholm's business school. When a beautiful young woman from on high is smitten with him, the stakes grow ever higher. JW falls in with an international array of drug-dealing thugs who promise easy money for some solid financial advice about laundering the big bucks they plan to make from a cocaine deal.
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Wed, Aug 22, 2012 – Tues, Sept 4, 2012 Six-foot-seven, tattooed 38-year-old Dennis is a Danish bodybuilder: 308 pounds of raw muscle that’s made him a world-famous super-heavyweight champion. Yet he still lives at home with a domineering mother, and is so painfully shy that he can’t carry on a conversation with a woman. Following the lead of other men who trawl for brides in Thailand, he travels to Pattaya, a hub of the sex tourism trade.
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Wed, July 25, 2012 – Tues, Aug 7, 2012 A love story like no other. He is tall and thin and very handsome, but cannot see or hear. She is tiny with a strikingly beautiful face. South Koreans Young-Chan and Soon-Ho are a loving married couple who communicate through finger braille. Often he carries her on his shoulders and together they accomplish ordinary domestic tasks to which the rest of us wouldn’t give a second thought.