Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Celebrates Film

Greenlight is excited to announce and share MoMA's upcoming film series. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has always been a pleasant film retreat throughout the year with its diverse and eclectic film programming. Here are two (2) wonderful MoMA film offerings:

Charles Burnett: The Power to Endure
April 6–25, 2011
Charles Burnett has long borne the dubious distinction of being, as critic Armond White observed, “the least well-known great American filmmaker.” In Charles Burnett: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2011), Burnett cites the phrase “the power to endure” as a motif his films share with William Faulkner’s novels; the phrase applies equally well to the indomitable characters who inhabit Burnett’s cinema, and to Burnett’s own struggle to get his films made in accordance with his vision.

Each of Burnett’s films can be seen to chronicle some aspect of the black experience in America, offering black and white audiences alike a moving representation and triumphant appreciation of African American culture, with a strong emphasis on both the rewards and burdens of family. It should be evident from the films presented in this retrospective that Burnett is a talent deserving of a much larger audience. http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1163

Filmmaker in Focus: Euzhan Palcy
May 18–30, 2011
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1173
Euzhan Palcy (b. Martinique, 1958), who in 1989 became the first black woman director to have her work produced by a major Hollywood studio (with MGM’s A Dry White Season), explores themes of race, gender, and politics from a decidedly feminist perspective.

This first U.S. retrospective of Palcy’s work includes a newly restored print of her Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley), which won a Silver Lion award at the 1983 Venice Film Festival, along with the New York premieres of Les Mariées de I’isles Bourbon (2007), an historical epic about forced marriage in 17th-century France; Parcours de Dissident (2006), about the forgotten history of West Indian patriots during World War II; Siméon (1992), a musical comedy fairytale set in the Caribbean; and the biographical documentary Aime Cesaire, A Voice for History (1994).

The series also features Ms. Palcy's Oscar nominated A Dry White Season (1989) starring Marlon Brando. Miss Palcy and special guests will introduce a number of programs in the series.

Mark Your Calendar Now. This film series is not to be missed. See you at MoMA.