Center Aisle Cinema

We recently added Foreign Parts to the DBRL collection. The film played at the 2011 True False Film Fest and was a New York Times critics pick. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:

Filmed in 2008 and 2009, an intimate portrait of the auto repair shops and junkyards that lie in the shadow of the New York Mets’ Citi Field Stadium, in Willets Point, Corona, Queens, and the hardscrabble community of immigrants who work and live there. Once ignored and neglected by the city government, these residents recently became the target of a $3 billion redevelopment project of malls, offices, and high-rise condos.

Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.

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We recently added Page One: Inside the New York Times to the DBRL collection. The film played at the 2011 True False Film Fest and currently has a rating of 79% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:

Gain unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, see the media industry transform at its time of greatest turmoil. Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango, and David Carr track print journalism’s metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent. Includes interviews, and commentary.

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We recently added Con Artist to the DBRL collection. The film currently has a rating of 100% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:

A stylishly dark docu-comedy excavating America’s craving for fame and fortune via one of its most outrageous addicts. Once a legitimate art star in the 1980s New York scene, millionaire ‘business artist’ Mark Kostabi hires others to conceive and create paintings which he openly signs and sells as his own. ‘Con Artist’ focuses on Kostabi’s attempts to regain prominence and find happiness through fame, which he openly equates with love.

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We recently added Bill Cunningham New York to the DBRL collection. The film recently played at the Ragtag and currently has a rating of 98% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:

Bill Cunningham has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirees for the New York Times Style section in his columns On the Street and Evening Hours for decades. Presented is a delicate, funny, and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

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We recently added the re-release of Dark Days to the DBRL collection. We no longer have the original release, but luckily the film has been recently re-released by Oscilloscope with many new features. The film won three awards at Sundance in 2000 and the film currently has a rating of 94% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:

For years, a homeless community took root in a train tunnel beneath New York City, braving dangerous conditions and perpetual night. Dark Days explores the surprisingly domestic subterranean world, unearthing a way of life unimaginable to those above. Through stories simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, intimate, and off the cuff, tunnel dwellers reveal their reasons for taking refuge and their struggle to survive underground.

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We recently added Public Speaking to the DBRL collection. The film is the work of well known director Martin Scorsese, who has directed other documentaries like The Last Waltz, Lightning in A Bottle,  No Direction Home, & Rolling Stones Shine A Light. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:

Wise, brilliant, and funny, Fran Lebowitz hit the New York literary scene in the early ’70s when Andy Warhol hired the unknown scribe to write a column for Interview magazine. Today, she’s an acclaimed author with legions of fans who adore her acerbic wit. Public speaking captures the author in conversation at New York’s Waverly Inn, in an onstage discussion with longtime friend and celebrated writer Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York City.

Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info. If you’re a fan of Lebowitz you can put a hold on her book Progress which we have on order for the library.

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