http://www.villagevoice.com/locations/anthology-film-archives-22525/
32 Second Ave.
New York, NY 10003
212-505-5181
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
According to its website, Anthology is "committed to the guiding
principle that a great film must be seen many times, that the film
print must be the best possible, and that the viewing conditions must
be optimal." Um, yeah. New York's premier venue for avant-garde
programming "located at Second and 2nd, in a former courthouse" is
nevertheless a remarkably unpleasant place to see a film. The whole
building smells like fermented photochemicals, and in both
auditoriums (the cozier, downstairs Maya Deren Theater is marginally
the more tolerable of the two), the seats are hard plastic with
almost no padding. Depending on your point of view, the discomfort
may be a necessary part of the ambience: Anthology, co-founded by
Voice-film father figure Jonas Mekas, is arguably the only place in
the city where the '60s underground film scene still lives. And the
programming really is top-notch, from the rotating Essential Cinema
series to classic rarities to revival engagements to national
festivals (Subway Cinema's New York Asian Film Festival, for
instance) to, of course, the non-narrative work, which makes
Anthology an irreplaceable entity in the New York film world.
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