"Friday Night Rock 'n' Roll," screenings of rock programs, from episodes of "Shindig!" and "The Midnight Special" to portraits of R.E.M. from "This Way Up" and "Rough Cut".
"Antagonism Over the Airwaves: A Look at Controversy on Television and Radio," with screenings and audio tapes of programs that raised the question of violence through April 3. "Sammy in the 60's," screenings of television appearances by Sammy Davis Jr., through April 6.
A Salute to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation," screening series highlighting radio and television programs created by or featuring many of the most important Canadian artists, through Feb. 2. Also, screenings of Thanksgiving-related programming, today through Sunday.
YBCA hosts a live demo of the Europa mission by Sachs and his crack team of astronauts during the closing weekends; you can get a sense of the "entertain and educate" directive in action at scheduled screenings of A Space Program, the feature-length film by Tom Sachs and Van Neistat documenting Sachs' 2012 Mars mission in adroit detail.
Offering droves of other supportive resources, the project lacks comprehensive vision screenings for program participants.
Occasionally, commercial galleries also sponsor free musical performances, readings, film screenings and discussions, the sort of programs that nonprofits have always included with exhibitions.
In fact, Chinese government efforts to regulate Internet screenings of domestic and foreign programs are colliding head-on with Chinese online video sites' aggressive efforts to expand in that area in a legitimate way.
In New York you can find alternatives to multiplex fodder every day of the week in the form of festivals, special screenings and programs like the recently completed Film Comment Selects, a mix of the old (dusted-off classics by veterans like Alain Tanner) and the new (outrages by the sizzling-hot likes of Takashi Miike) from the bimonthly magazine published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The second program includes screenings of Julie Taymor's 1992 production of "Oedipus Rex," with Jessye Norman, and Seiji Ozawa conducting the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra; and Pina Bausch's "Rite of Spring," with the Tanztheater Wuppertal and the Cleveland Orchestra (4 p.m).
Also announced as part of the festival program are screenings of "45 Years," "Anomalisa," "Eisenstein in Guanajuato," "February," "Hello, My Name Is Doris," "Hitchcock/Truffaut," "The Invitation," "The Lady in the Van," "The Invitation," "Louder Than Bombs," "Men & Chicken," "The Seventh Fire" and "Where to Invade Next".
