LUMET AND BURNETT AND MUSTO AND JIM NEAL

This week's Village Voice includes a little coverage of the Charles Burnett festival at Anthology Film Archives and the Sidney Lumet Festival at The Film Forum. At the very least, the Burnett festival gives you yet another chance to see a screening of his 1977 Killer of Sheep, to be shown on Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 7:00 pm (even though it's not your classic Valentine's Day fare). The Lumet festival kicks off this weekend with a new 35mm print of the great movie Network; on Monday at 7:00 pm, separate admission gets you an interview between Lumet and Foster Hirsch—but if you want a shot at getting in, you've got to get to the box office early, on the day of the show.

Also in this week's Voice, La Dolce Musto includes a funny exchange with Jim Neal, a gay man who is campaigning against Elizabeth Dole for the North Carolina Senate seat formerly occupied by the ass known as Jesse Helms. Musto writes:

But might Elizabeth Dole be every bit as rotten as Limbaugh—I mean Helms—was? "She's not as polarizing in terms of her stance on social issues," said Neal. "Jesse Helms will be remembered as being a very polarizing, mean person. An old-line party activist in North Carolina named Betty McCain said, 'Helms is so mean that when he was a boy, his motehr had to tie a pork chop around his neck so the dogs would come play with him.'" "I thought that was to keep away the Jews," I remarked saucily. "There aren't any!" replied Neal, laughing.

Here's the post-Oscar trailer for Network.



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