BLANK GENERATION COMING SOON ON DVD
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   Other Poe films will be re-released on DVD gradually

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EMPIRE II NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE –
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL, NEW YORK CITY

Fri, May 02, 2008  9:00PM
Sat, May 03, 2008  11:00PM
> Festival Guide/Tickets

EMPIRE II NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD
EXCLUSIVELY FROM RAINFILM
> Go to RainFilm Store

EMPIRE II
> Last Exit Magazine - Poe interview
> Time Out NY - The Age of Empire
> CITY Magazine April 08 issue Poe interview - download PDF here
> CULTUMEDIA.it (in Italian)
> NY Sun - A Full Menu at Tribeca
> David Bordwell's Website on Cinema

EMPIRE II EVENTS
Tuesday April 29, 2008
LIVE at the > Gershwin Hotel NYC  (select LOVE/special events)
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Bill Nace - Matt Heyner TRIO playing a live soundtrack to Amos Poe's EMPIRE II.  A three hour experience.
8 to 11pm       $15/at door           > View invitation

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New book

A Downtown State of Mind
N.Y.C. 1973 – 1983
Photographs by Bobby Miller
Text by Terence Sellers

 

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There's a very cool film festival in Paris coming up:  Feb 6-12, 2008

8th Journees Cinematographiques Dionysiennes
Cinema L'ECRAN, Saint-Denis
>> www.combatrock.fr

showing these Poe films:
NIGHT LUNCH, THE BLANK GENERATION, UNMADE BEDS,
THE FOREIGNER, SUBWAY RIDERS & EMPIRE II

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>> THE GUITAR in the NY Times 1.17.07

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Poe's screening THE BLANK GENERATION in Paris Oct. 6 & 7, 2007
International Underground Cinema Festival, Paris
>> www.stripfilmfestival.com    >> program   >> flyer

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The Price of Nothing, Curated by Jason Murison.
Opening (6 to 8pm) on Friday Sept. 14th, 2007 at the Elizabeth Foundation, on 39th between 8th + 9th, NYC.

The Price of Nothing at EFA Gallery

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Amos Poe's EMPIRE II had its World Premiere on the Lido in
Venice at the 64th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica on
Aug. 31st, Sept 2, 4 and 6 at 10:30 pm!

>> View EMPIRE II TRAILER
>> 64th Venice Film Festival

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Variety - 1.11.07
Amy Redford to direct Amos Poe's THE GUITAR  
>> View PDF
>> variety.com/article/VR1117957543.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

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When bad was good: the art scene of downtown Manhattan ca. 1974-1984 is resurrected in a show that originated in New York and is now in Pittsburgh
Art in America, June-July, 2006, by Raphael Rubinstein
>> Read article

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BENEFIT GIG for 47 East 3rd Street NYC
Fight against mass eviction
Friday, Nov. 10, 2006
8pm at TONIC, 107 Norfolk Street
PENNYRIMBAUD and LOUISE ELLIOTT JAPANTHER
plus Screening of CRASS film YES SIR, I WILL     

"I i lived at 47 east third between 11/77 and 2/81 (ironically, was
evicted myself), but i have fond memories..."
>> http://www.47e3.org/

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psychoPEDIA.com -- Indie culture network
>> Article on Poe 04.24.06

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AmosPoe.com $99 Script Sale!

>> PRESS RELEASE 03.21.06

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NY Times article Feb. 9 '06
Current fashion trends harken back to '80s NYC pop culture, NYU Downtown Show

>> FASHION DIARY; A Tremor of Rebellion

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Poe interview in Chilean magazine
(in Spanish)

>> Walk on the wild side: El cine según Amos Poe

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Summer '06 Poe teaching in Italy (NYU)

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Elégance punk
«La Brune et moi» (1979) réunit, autour de Pierre Clémenti, Taxi Girl, Edith Nylon, Marquis de Sade...

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>> Amos' son Nick Poe in the media

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NYU ROCKS WITH THE DOWNTOWN SHOW

The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984
at Grey Art Gallery at New York University
Jan 10 to April 1, 2006

Poe's work is included. This show goes on national tour after NY.

>> Downtown Show website

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Check out CAPTURED, a new book by Clayton Patterson on the history of film & video on the Lower East Side of NYC.

>> Book review of CAPTURED

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"THE FOREIGNER" SCREENING IN PARIS

On Nov. 4TH, 2005, Rock’en Scope will be screening THE FOREIGNER in Paris. Rock’en Scope is a French non-profit organization based in Paris that organizes film shows around rock music.

>> Visit the Rock'en Scope website: English or French

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Some of the work coming from Amos' current teaching gig in Florence -- the commercial reel:

>> Pianospecs.com

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Amos' work is discussed at length in the book RECYCLED CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY ART AND FILM - THE USES OF NOSTALGIA by Vera Dika.

>> Read Film Quarterly's book review here.

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WRITERS GUILD MEMBER NEWS

STREET TALK #3, May 5, 2005

The Les Moonves mobilization was hard at work last night in front of the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. As the American Museum of the Moving Image honored Les Moonves we delivered a little bit more. WGA East members and supporters distributed materials informing attendees that Les Moonves must also be recognized for supporting CBS' unprecedented demands including significant givebacks, removal of many Guild-covered jobs and up to a 21% cut in salaries for Writers Guild-covered CBS news and promotion writers, editors, graphic artists, desk and production assistants, and researchers. Never in the history of our negotiations with CBS have they demanded such extreme and regressive changes. The Award-winning Writers Guild members at CBS deserve honor as well -- but CBS just wants to give them "Les."In recognition of Les Moonves and CBS' anti-union demands in WGA contract negotiations -- all while he accepted $53 million this past year in annual compensation -- we have nominated him for the "Big Media Hall of Shame" Award. SUPPORT THE WRITERS GUILD IN OUR NEGOTIATIONS AND SEND LES MOONVES A MESSAGE BY VOTING FOR HIM IN THE HALL OF SHAME.

Links:

HALL OF SHAME

Previous Street Talks

2005 WGA-CBS Negotiations

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March 2004 --

POE RETROSPECTIVE IN FRANCE

Rock’en Scope is a French non-profit organization based in Paris that organizes film shows around rock music. They start their shows the 8th of April with a Memphis director named Mike McCarthy, and after, they plan to show a special Amos Poe retrospective with Blank Generation and The Foreigner.

>> Visit the Rock'en Scope website: English or French

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November, 2004 --
EL FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE GIJON, 42 Edición

Amos was a guest speaker and THE FOREIGNER was screened as part of the "In and Off Hollywood: The independent tradition in American cinema" program at the 42nd Gijón International Film Festival in Gijón, Spain.

>> Articles (in Spanish):

El Periodico de Gijón
Amos Poe: "El cine independiente americano está vivo, pero enfermo"

IBL News
Los cineastas de EEUU constatan el mal momento del cine independiente

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Captain Amos Poe, b. 1824

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Amos Poe's SUBWAY RIDERS will be shown as part of the
SUBWAY CENTENNIAL FILM FESTIVAL October 2-11, 2004
at the American Museum of the Moving Image

>> Sunday, October 10 at 4pm
SUBWAY RIDERS 1981, 120 mins. Directed by Amos Poe. With John Lurie, Robbie Coltrane. New York underground legend John Lurie starred in and scored this modern-day film noir about a murderous saxophone player who hides out on the subways. Preceded by WONDER RING 1955, 6 mins. Silent. Directed by Stan Brakhage. An exquisite study of the interior of an elevated train.

Presented in cooperation with the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

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