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he Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (TCFA) is back with another great film series. “New York State of Mind: A festival of four documentary films from close to home” includes outstanding documentary films for grown-ups and older teens. S.K. List founded this winter film club and in the past has shown weeks of French-Canadian children’s films and seminal 60’s films. This year, she chose four excellent documentaries that focus on some unexplored parts of the Empire State. Bennett Miller’s The Cruise (1998) will kick off on Friday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Miller, who went on to direct Capote, Moneyball and last year’s Oscar-nominated Foxcatcher, made a splashy debut with The Cruise. It helps that Miller has a great subject to cruise with, the chatty, spacey tour guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch, who hosts tourists traveling on the Gray Line’s double-decker Manhattan tour buses. Levitch is an uncanny post-hipster character, pointing out the residences
of the famous and always ready with diatribes, quotes, and opinions. Richard Linklater took to Levitch’s strange aura and cast him in School of Rock and as an animated version of himself in Waking Life, talking about “going salsa dancing with my confusion.” I met Levitch at a Cornell Cinema screening of Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor, and he’s as eccentric as the film allows, and more. Next up is Brother’s Keeper (1992) on Friday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. The saga of the Ward brothers, poor chicken farmers from Munnsville, unfolds after one is accused of murdering the other. It was the film that put Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky on the map. They went on to make Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, the Paradise Lost HBO docs, and the pseudo-doc sequel to The Blair Witch Project. As the unknowing Wards get drawn into the dirty business of media, politics and the law, your jaw will drop. I Like Killing Flies (2004) plays on Friday, March 6, 7:30 p.m., and is the only one of the four documentaries in the series
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unseen by me. The film profiles, Kenny backyard near Kingston. Shopsin, the idiosyncratic, foul-mouthed “People who think documentary films a n n u a ltheir f i n g eeyes r l a k glaze es but original owner of a small restaurant int h i r d make over should not miss lower Manhattan, his menu of 900 items these films,” said List, executive director of and his insistence that he will never serve the Trumansburg Conservatory. “All these a “party of five.” with acclaim c o mfilms p e are t iaward-winners, tion Marwencol (2010), which wraps up from Sundance, from the Directors Guild, the series on Friday,MARCH March 7, 13, 7:30/ Information p.m., and more—detailed, funny, even gripping SATURDAY, 2015 and registration forms at: TLP arTners . org was the film that inspired List to focus on portraits of fascinating individuals with Media SponSor: New York docs. After a brutal barroom true and unforgettable stories.” • attack leaves him brain-damaged, Mark Hogencamp finds recovery, therapy TCFA is located at the corner and an avenue for art when he creates a of Congress & McLallen Streets in Barbie-scale, World War II-era town in his Trumansburg. Phone: 607-387-5939.
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