I wasn’t sitting at my computer all that much today, and now I need to get back to finishing up the last few films by Albert Maysles, to whom I will be speaking tomorrow for a Gothamist interview to run next week. I’ve you’ve never seen the films the Maysles Brothers did documenting almost all of the public arts projects by Christo & Jeanne-Claude, I highly suggest you check-out the Plexifilms DVD release of 5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude. I hope to discuss them in a little more detail later, but they’re really well-worth watching. Maysles is in post-production (I believe) on a film documenting “The Gates” — the Christo and Jeanne-Claude project that took over Central park in February of this year. After watching these other Christo docs, I really can’t wait to sse this latest one.
Meanwhile, watching all these films plus the rest of my busy week has left so much to do this weekend. I don’t know that I’ll have time to go to anything, but look at how much is out there. I still haven’t seen plenty of current releases, and now, although I have seen The Chronicales of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe already, I certainly have to get to Brokeback Mountain and Memoirs of a Geisha, and there’s a ton of other great programming around town. But I shouldn’t repeat myself here as I’ve already discussed some recommendations and miscellaneous thoughts over at Gothamist as part of my weekly “Weekend Movies” post.
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