Events on Monday, September 29

Miss Kittin & the Hacker

Music: Electronic

Miss Kittin & the Hacker

Monday 9/29 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza

Veterans of the '90s European rave scene, Miss Kittin and her longtime creative co-conspirator the Hacker drop sets packed with techno,... 

The Dodos w/ Au

Music

The Dodos

Monday 9/29 @ Spiegelworld

The Dodos' acoustic-guitar-and-drums setup might seem the epitome of folky politeness, but their album Visiter boasts some of the year's most... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Godfather </em>(1972) and <em>The Godfather Part II</em> (1974)

Film

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II

Monday 9/29 @ Film Forum

Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola... 

<em>Other Options</em>

Art

Other Options

Monday 9/29 @ Eyebeam

Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails... 

<em>Choke</em>

Film

Choke

Monday 9/29 @ Landmark Sunshine

Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all... 

<em>Battle in Seattle</em>

Film

Battle in Seattle

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 9/29 @ 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>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Monday 9/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 9/29 @ 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... 

<em>Humboldt County</em>

Film

Humboldt County

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 9/29 @ Paragraph

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

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations in the East River

Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns... 

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

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Monday 9/29 @ 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... 

<em>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy... 

<em>Hollywood on the Hudson: Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39</em>

Film

Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39

Monday 9/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school... 

Crossing the Line: Dance 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Crossing the Line

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

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Theatre

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Monday 9/29 @ 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>Towelhead</em>

Film

Towelhead

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded... 

<em>The Outsiders</em>

Art

The Outsiders

Monday 9/29 @ Lazarides Gallery NYC

Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift... 

Taste of Korea 2008

Food/Wine

Taste of Korea 2008

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

This week marks NYC's first-annual festival dedicated to traditional Korean fare. Local restaurants let you try bibimbap — a dish of... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format.... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 9/29 @ 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>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Monday 9/29 @ 37 Arts

Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... 

William Pope.L: <em>October Projects</em>

Art

William Pope.L

Monday 9/29 @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash

In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through... 

Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FIAF Fall Festival

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking... 

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not... 

<em>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

Monday 9/29 @ Angelika Film Center

Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous... 

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Monday 9/29 @ IFC Center

Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially... 

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

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Monday 9/29 @ SculptureCenter

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

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Monday 9/29 @ Various locations

With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the...