Events on Monday, October 27

Michel Gondry: <em>You'll Like This Film Because You're In It</em>

Books: Reading

Michel Gondry

Monday 10/27 @ Strand Bookstore

Michel Gondry creating a how-to book on filmmaking is a little like Italo Calvino penning a fiction-writing manual — it's bound... 

Born Ruffians w/ Plants & Animals

Music

Born Ruffians w/ Plants & Animals

Monday 10/27 @ The Mercury Lounge

Sure, the Canadian springs have just about run dry, but when an incredible label like Warp starts dropping pail, there must... 

John Ashbery

Books: Poetry

John Ashbery

Monday 10/27 @ 92nd St Y

John Ashbery has a penchant for confounding critics, but that's done little to detract from his fame. The poet has received... 

Deep Space feat. Quiet Village

Music: DJ

Quiet Village

Monday 10/27 @ Cielo

Quiet Village, a collaboration between Radio Slave's Matt Edwards and master selector Joel Martin, return to Deep Space for a night... 

<em>Floating Brothel</em>

Performing Arts

Floating Brothel

Monday 10/27 @ Galapagos Art Space

In the minimalist work Floating Brothel, all the world's a 3' x 6' platform. Within the liberating confines of the shrunken,... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Lola Montes</em> (1955)

Film

Lola Montes

Monday 10/27 @ Film Forum

With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 10/27 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

Stas Orlovski: <em>Nocturnes</em>

Art

Stas Orlovski

Monday 10/27 @ Mixed Greens

One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from... 

Blek Le Rat

Art

Blek Le Rat

Monday 10/27 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints.... 

<em>Ashes of Time Redux</em>

Film

Ashes of Time Redux

Monday 10/27 @ Angelika Film Center

Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 10/27 @ The Triad Theater

Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Monday 10/27 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Monday 10/27 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... 

Chanel Mobile Art

Art

Chanel Mobile Art

Monday 10/27 @ Rumsey Field in Central Park

Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of... 

<em>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Monday 10/27 @ Landmark Sunshine

British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... 

<em>Fault Lines</em>

Theatre

Fault Lines

Monday 10/27 @ Cherry Lane Theatre

David Schwimmer's latest directorial effort, Fault Lines, starts out with a cue from his long-lasting festival of canned laughs, Friends: a... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Monday 10/27 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

Mingus Mondays

Music

Mingus Mondays

Monday 10/27 @ Jazz Standard

The Mingus Big Band, one of three rotating groups that makes up this weekly celebration of the music of Charles Mingus,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 10/27 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Stephen Vitiello: <em>Four Color Sound</em>

Art

Four Color Sound

Monday 10/27 @ The Project

Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello... 

Banksy: <em>The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill</em>

Art

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Monday 10/27 @ Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Banksy, the art world's man of mystery (and controversy), continues to play the role of provocateur at The Village Pet Store... 

I Kiffe NY: French Urban Cultures Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

I Kiffe NY

Monday 10/27 @ Various locations

The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past... 

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Theatre

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Monday 10/27 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Monday 10/27 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Monday 10/27 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

Sun K. Kwak: <em>Times Composed</em>

Art

Sun K Kwak

Monday 10/27 @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art

Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Monday 10/27 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>I Am Curious (Yellow) </em>(1967)

Film

I Am Curious (Yellow)

Monday 10/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Back in the late '60s, our avert-thy-eyes censors banned Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious (Yellow) for its free-love approach toward cinematic... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Monday 10/27 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 10/27 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words,... 

<em>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Monday 10/27 @ Joe's Pub

We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded... 

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Monday 10/27 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

Free Night of Theater 2008

Theatre

Free Night of Theater 2008

Monday 10/27 @ Various locations

What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Monday 10/27 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

The 2008 DanceNOW Festival

Dance

DanceNOW

Monday 10/27 @ Dance Theater Workshop

Bringing together 65 artists from all five boroughs, the DanceNOW festival throbs with the pulse of NYC during its weeklong run.... 

<em>Filth and Wisdom</em>

Film

Filth and Wisdom

Monday 10/27 @ IFC Center

The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna?...