Parsons Hosts Free NYC Fashion Movie Series

When:Tuesday, April 6, 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 6-Annie Hall

Directed by Woody Allen, 1977

Introduced by Judith Thurman 

Woody Allen’s classic tale of New York City romantic neuroticism stars Diane Keaton in the era-defining title role. Introduced by Judith Thurman, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (winner of the National Book Award), Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, and, most recently, Cleopatra’s Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire. A reception precedes the screening.



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