"The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong," Gary Shteyngart's unique tale of circumcision misadventures is now streaming online @newyorkermag (and on YouTube). The film chronicles Gary's immigrant experience as a 7-year old boy in America, and considers competing ideas of manliness, the limits of the redemptive power of fame, and coming to terms with betrayals by parents, religion, and country. I mean really what is a "tragicomedy of the penis" afterall, but the history of civilization, amiright?? I hope you will watch.
Directed by @benaridana@theguywhogotcutwrongfilm Produced by me, @novackek , @brooklynparkfilm . Featuring @shteyngart . Edited by @nametoocommon . Cinematography by @bowie_alexander . Music by @alihelnwein . Graphics & animation by @its_plad . Music supervisor @theeurdang Executive Producer The New Yorker @paulmoakley . Producer The New Yorker kate_emerson
Dance Walk this Sunday November 17th @10am . Burn off the static; Revive your nervous system! Dance Walk is an al fresco dance experience — a great way to replace the soundtrack of your thoughts with full musical immersion, in motion and in community. Bring a friend. We meet 100 paces up the Grand Army Plaza main entrance to Prospect Park. Gather on the grassy triangle, just shy of the park loop. Bring your own airpods/phone/playlist. Dress light, come hands-free. See you Sunday!
When bestselling Soviet-Jewish novelist @shteyngart wrote about his botched circumcision a few years back, he sparked a viral debate about the age-old practice. If you, like me, are a massive Gary Shteyngart fan, you read the essay with one eye open and laughed, in spite of yourself, because @shteyngart is incapable of writing tragedy without comedy. Well, now that story is a short documentary film and you’re welcome. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you will probably think hard about tradition and default penis practices. Remarkably unvanquished by the ordeal he calls “shlong-gate,” Shteyngart proclaims in the film: “This country broke my penis, but it couldn’t break my spirit!”
I’m thrilled to announce 📣 the WORLD PREMIERE of The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong @woodstockfilmfestival 2024. Directed by Dana Ben-Ari @cutwrongfilm and Produced by me, @novackek and Nikola Duravcevic. Edited by Kim Hall @nametoocommon Music by @alihelnwein , graphics by @its_plad and @mattvanrys . Music Supervising @theeurdang Sound by @tompaul3 Color by Will Cox @finalframe_post ✨
Bob Gottlieb was brilliant —speaking in eloquent, whole paragraphs — while simultaneously the least self-regarding and unpretentious man I’ve known. As a midwesterner, I loved this about him and it’s what made me feel immediately endeared to and relaxed around him. His willingness to participate in Turn Every Page (the documentary we made about him and writer Bob Caro) did not spring from a desire to cement or lionize his legacy — in fact, he could not have been less interested in going over the details of his career — but it was his affection, trust and admiration of Lizzie, his daughter, that prevailed. The film is suffused with Lizzie’s loving sensibilty toward her father, and so I am grateful that it exists. And I am so glad that Lizzie and her dad had the opportunity to share so many platforms and stages this past year with the film, in which he sung her praises and she told his story. It is very hard to speak of Bob in the past tense. Sending all my love and condolences to their family. xx
