Events on Monday, March 30

Ofri Cnaani: <em>A Tale of Ends</em>

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Monday 3/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Israel-born artist Ofri Cnaani now resides in NYC, which serves as the urban backdrop for her noir, graffiti-inspired drawings. In contrast... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 3/30 @ 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>Performance 1</em>: Tehching Hsieh

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Monday 3/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Art and life are inseparable for Tehching Hsieh. The Taiwan-born artist, who literally jumped ship into the US in 1974, created... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Monday 3/30 @ Landmark Sunshine

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

<em>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Monday 3/30 @ IFC Center

Hunger takes its aesthetic and narrative cues from its protagonist, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). Focusing on Sands' last... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 3/30 @ 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,... 

Theatre

Chasing Manet

Monday 3/30 @ 59E59 Theaters

Tina Howe brings offbeat wit to nursing homes in her well-observed new play Chasing Manet. In it, a famous painter who's... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Monday 3/30 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video... 

DREYER

Film

DREYER

Monday 3/30 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

The great Danish early-cinema auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer produced otherworldly art out of basic, reactive elements — namely faith, family, and... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Monday 3/30 @ Chelsea Market

Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of... 

Theatre

BELLES

Monday 3/30 @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row

The punny title of Mark Dunn's BELLES refers to both the now-archaic telephone company nickname "Ma Bell" and the six Walker... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 3/30 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West</em>

Art: Photography

Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West

Monday 3/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Monday 3/30 @ Various locations

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

Festival: Performing Arts

New Directors/New Films

Monday 3/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In a city brimming with strong film festivals, New Directors/New Films still emerges as one of the most important annual cinematic... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 3/30 @ 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>Goodbye Solo</em>

Film

Goodbye Solo

Monday 3/30 @ Angelika Film Center

At a time when the American cinematic landscape is as barren as a date between two mumblecore actors, North Carolina-born Ramin... 

<em>Work to Do</em>

Special Event

Work to Do

Monday 3/30 @ 112 Greene Street

Soho's artistic heyday wasn't all that long ago, but thanks to the tourist-clogged streets and uber-fancy shops that sent many art-pushers... 

<em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Monday 3/30 @ Various locations

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... 

<em>Tokyo Sonata</em>

Film

Tokyo Sonata

Monday 3/30 @ IFC Center

Kyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling... 

Theatre

End Days

Monday 3/30 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre

Deborah Zoe Laufer's End Days is a comedic and carefully observed portrait of a family that left NYC for the suburbs... 

<em>Valentino: The Last Emperor</em>

Film: Documentary

Valentino: The Last Emperor

Monday 3/30 @ Film Forum

The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Monday 3/30 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 3/30 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Monday 3/30 @ IFC Center

No less than Marty Scorsese helped distribute this grim intersection of five interlocking storylines about the Camorra, the Italian mafia arm... 

<em>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Monday 3/30 @ New World Stages

ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a... 

Food/Wine

Dine in Brooklyn

Monday 3/30 @ Various Brooklyn restaurants

It's great that the "week" in Restaurant Week has lasted for two months, but the series still doesn't cater (ha-cha!) to... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Monday 3/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Monday 3/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched...