UPCOMING PROGRAMMING

Bill Plympton in Person with Slide (March 9, Museum of the Moving Image)

Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks in Person with Gangs of New York (March 22, Museum of the Moving Image)

Susan Felleman, Hannah Shikle, and Richard Koszarski in person with In Production: The Life and Career of George Justin (March 9, Barrymore Film Center)

Jacob Burns FIlm Center Jewish Film Festival (April 23-29, Jacob Burns Film Center)

NEWLY ADDED WRITING:

Frederick Wiseman’s Primate

Frederick Wiseman’s Essene

Louisa Schabas, production designer of Unversal Language

Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction

Mario Soffici’s Rosaura at 10 O’Clock

Robert Siodmak’s Cry of the City

Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky

Robert Frank Retrospective

Personal Belongings: First Person Documentaries in the 1990s

David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is curator-at-large for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. Schwartz currently programs films for the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, hosts the Emelin Theatre Film Club in Mamaroneck, and programs for other venues, including the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington. He programmed and managed the Paris Theater in Manhattan, for Netflix, and has programmed for DocFilms in Chicago, Mezzanine in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY, and Film Forum, Metrograph, and the Quad in Manhattan. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is on the Board of Directors for The Film-makers’ Cooperative.