PERSONAL APPEARANCES
KEN JACOBS
AL GORE AND TOMMY LEE JONES


KEN JACOBS IN PERSON
'ONTIC ANTICS'
Saturday, December 10
2:00 p.m.
Avant-garde film pioneer Ken Jacobs uses side-by-side analytic film projectors and a whirligig shutter to closely examine—and create surprising 3-D effects with—a fragment of a Laurel and Hardy film. Mark McElhatten writes, "Jacobs supersedes slapstick, moving into the deeper dimensions of the human comedy—psychological imbroglios, time-space predicaments, the unruliness of uncooperative gravity, the unlimited expressiveness of the limited body hallucinated into Roeschaching deliveries. Laurel and Hardy, the perfect imperfect—a symbiotic couple straight out of the end times of Samuel Beckett." Ken Jacobs will present a DVD screening of an earlier performance of Ontic Antics. Part of the Laurel and Hardy retrospective.

AL GORE AND TOMMY LEE JONES IN PERSON
'THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA'
NEW YORK PREMIERE
At the Paris Theatre, 4 West 58th Street, Manhattan
Monday, December 12
6:30 p.m.
2005, 121 mins. Sony Pictures Classics. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. With Jones, Melissa Leo, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam.

The Museum is pleased to announce that Former Vice President Al Gore will co-host the New York premiere of Tommy Lee Jones’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Gore was the Harvard roommate of Tommy Lee Jones, the film's star and director. After the premiere screening, Jones will participate in a Pinewood Dialogue moderated by Chief Curator David Schwartz. The film will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on December 14th.

Jones's critically acclaimed directorial debut, written by his longtime friend, screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), won awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes. "Start learning to pronounce Mel-key-odd-ess right now, because eventually you may want to tell people you just saw the best movie of the year," writes film critic Richard T. Jameson. Tickets are  $18 public/$12 Museum members. Call 718-784-4520.