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BORN TO FLY: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity * Now Playing at Film Forum in NYC!
I'm sure you've heard it again and again, but opening weekend is critical for the success of a film, especially small independents like us. So, New Yorkers, resist the urge to be homebodies, and hit the cinema this weekend!
You can purchase tickets here
The film is screening September 10 - 16, and Catherine is conducting daily Q&As with Elizabeth Streb and members of the STREB Extreme Action Company.
BORN TO FLY will open in LA, San Francisco and Portland on September 26th, and more cities nationwide in the following weeks. See below for a full listing, or visit our website: www.borntoflymovie.com.
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A Pursuit That Leaps, Crashes and SwingsBy Jeannette Catsoulis
"It's all joy and motion in this dazzled and breathless documentary by Catherine Gund, who traces Ms. Streb's artistic journey through Haight-Ashbury in the 1970s to the warmly cluttered SoHo loft she shares with her longtime partner, the journalist Laura Flanders. "
Read the full review here.
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Reviewed by Joe Leydon
"Fascinating... Intriguing...Likely to generate fascination and uneasiness in equal measure... breathtaking...teasingly suggests that some displays of avant-garde virtuosity could be enjoyed equally by venturesome aesthetes, dance enthusiasts and devotees of World Wrestling Entertainment."
Read the full review here.
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In Born to Fly, Elizabeth Streb Conquers the World
by Alan Scherstuhl
"What does it say about the state of Hollywood action filmmaking that this year's most dashing derring-do transpires in a doc about a choreographer? (It's not for nothing that she titled a book How to Be an Extreme Action Hero.) There's much in Born to Fly to thrill to, dream with, flinch from: dancers leaping from a great whirling wheel and smacking onto mats far below; dancers ducking and leaping a wickedly spinning I-beam or cinderblock."
Read the full review here.
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 Flying Tigersby Joan Acocella
"These days, Streb's work is starting to be more visual, less crash-bang. At the end of the movie, she says that when a piece of hers succeeds it's because she has been able to show "physical archetypes" that spectators recognize-an experience that makes them "quake inside." I think that's true, but mystic joys are only part of her secret. Streb would not be Streb if her programs didn't include a heavy dose of punk: theatre of cruelty, or at least of impoliteness."
Read the full review here.
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Interview by David Hershkovits
"I challenged myself to use my particular time-based, artistic medium not merely to document Elizabeth's time-based work but to expand it. In fact, I wanted to collide our two artistic forms to invent a third kind of breathless, sweaty, heart-pounding experience."
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Don't Call It Dance. It's 'Pop-Action'
Interview by Gisele Regatao
"In this interview, Streb recalls one episode a moment from childhood when her father forgot her, leaving her holding a roof for several minutes. Streb says that experience helped her shape her philosophy as a dancer and choreographer."
Listen to the interview here.
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Director Catherine Gund on Capturing Motion in 'Born to Fly'
by Paula Bernstein
"The magic of art injects you with a fierce focus, makes you remember that you make your own decisions. So fly! Many people tell me that they've always wanted to fly. Who knew that was such a common motivator, such a natural response to going through our sometimes ugly, often extraordinarily beautiful earthbound motions?"
Read the full interview here.
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B2F Near You -- get your tickets now!!
 New York, NY Theatrical Premiere September 10-16th! 1:00pm, 3:15pm, 5:30pm, 7:40pm, 9:40pm 209 West Houston St, New York, NY 10014
Lancaster, PA September 20th-21st, 24th-25th 2522 SE Clinton Street, Lancaster, PA
Chicago, IL
September 21th
Landmarks Century Centre Cinema
Santa Barbara, CA September 24th 371 South Hitchcock Way, Santa Barbara, CA
Philadelphia, PA September 25th 531 North 12th St, Philadelphia, PA
Los Angeles, CA
September 25th 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
September 26th - October 2nd
5240 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA
Portland, OR
September 26th - 30th
2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, OR
San Francisco, CA September 26th - October 2nd 3290 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA
Port Jefferson, NY September 29th Theatre Three, Main Street
Detroit, MI
October 3rd - 5th
3420 Cass Avenue, Detroit, MI
Santa Fe, NM
October 10th - 16th
1600 St. Michael's Dr, Santa Fe, NM
Boston, MA
October 18th
100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA
Pleasantville, NY
Oct 26th 7:00PM, 28th 7:30PM
Jacob Burns Film Center
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