Inside Job

True Crime New York

Wednesday, March 23rd, Friday, March 25th, Sunday, March 27th, 7:30pm

Inside Job

Charles Ferguson, 2010, 108 mins.

Bigger than NYC, but where would this 2010 Best Documentary Academy Award winner be without Wall Street’s criminal class? Inside Job provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

Post Screening Audience Led Discussion with Gale and Ben Armstead, Humanitarians and Long Time Harlem Residents, on Wednesday, March 23rd.

Post Screening Q&A with Carl Dix on Friday, March 25th

Carl Dix is the national spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. He was a member of the United States Army, but when he was called to go to Vietnam he refused. He served two years in prison as a result of this action. He then joined the Black Workers Congress. Carl Dix has since become a leader of the RCP, and an outspoken activist for that organization. He is currently embarking on a nationwide conversation with Cornel West on “Race and Politics in the Era of Obama.”

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer

True Crime New York

Tuesday, March 22nd, Thursday, March 24th, Saturday, March 26th, 7:30pm

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer

Alex Gibney, 2010, 117 mins.

Almost exactly three years after the fall from grace of New York governor Elliot Spitzer, the Maysles Cinema inaugurates quarterly series, True Crime New York with Alex Gibney’s Client 9.  This film is an in-depth look at what Spitzer himself refers to as greek tragedy. The conspiracy to take down Spitzer, his undeniable hubris, Spitzer’s take down of Wall Street and Albany. Its all here. A high level, white, starched-collar crime cornucopia. Including interviews with the scandalized, former politician as well as those he sought to destroy and, in turn, those same good men that sought to destroy him.

Q&A with dir. Alex Gibney on Thursday, March 24th

Dark Days

Monday, March 21st, 7:00pm

Introduced by David Dinkins, the 106th Mayor of New York City

Dark Days

Marc Singer, 2000, 94 mins.

"Dark Days" is the multi-award winning documentary from Marc Singer about a community of homeless people illegally living in the “Freedom” tunnel beneath Manhattan, unofficially named for the graffiti artist Chris “Freedom” Pape and his series of pieces that famously adorn the endless tunnel. The film depicts a way of life that is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above. In the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn Station tear through the darkness. Dark Days is an eye-opening work that sheds a spotlight on a world generally shrouded in darkness and now provides a look back at a literal underground community at the turn of 20th century New York City.

Q&A with Dir. Marc Singer and Mary Brosnahan, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless

A portion of the proceeds from this screening will go to the Coalition for the Homeless

Curated by Sylvia Savadjian