Parsons Hosts Free NYC Fashion Movie Series: Klute

When:Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Time:7:30 pm- 8:30 pm
Where:The New School’s Historic Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street,
between 5th and 6th avenues
212-229-5667
Cost:Free

From the site:

The School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons is pleased to announce its first ever “Fashion in Film” festival, celebrating the launch of our new MA Fashion Studies program commencing in fall 2010.

From the cosmopolitan comedies and screwball musicals of the 1930s, to the “designing women” melodramas of the 1950s, to the dirty glamour and “Dunaway chic” of the 1970s, to the bourgeois bohemia and working girl fantasia of the 1980s – this year’s festival will spotlight films in which New York City can be seen through fashion and vice versa, films that captured and defined an attitude, an era, a style, and films in which New York City style exists as an idea in relation to other cities and locales.

For the inaugural festival, writers, critics, and fashion personalities in New York have been invited to select one of their favorite New York City films and to come and introduce it, allowing us to see fashion, film, and NYC in new ways

April 27
Klute
Directed by Alan J. Pakula, 1971
Introduced by John Epperson
Jane Fonda stars as hardened call girl Bree Daniels in Pakula’s perfect film, which ushered in the golden age of 1970s paranoia thrillers. Fonda’s performance remains astonishing. Introduced by John Epperson, creator and performer of Lypsinka and author of the acclaimed shows Lypsinka! The Boxed Set, John Epperson: Show Trash, The Passion of the Crawford, and, most recently, My Deah. A reception precedes the screening.

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served