Posted May 8, 2009
For the SnagFilms audience in the New York City area, there’s a great event hosted by Flaherty NYC next week!
FLAHERTY NYC
Monday, May 11, 7:30pm, Anthology Film Archives
For the May installment of the Flaherty NYC monthly screening series, The Flaherty will present Johnny Berlin 2: Notes from the Dumpster. Director Dominic DeJoseph will be participating in a post-screening discussion moderated by Ingrid Kopp of Shooting People.
Sarasota Film Festival describes Johnny Berlin 2: Notes from the Dumpster as a “brilliantly funny and wise monologue-as-portrait of a unique American thinker.”
Dominc DeJoseph is a Brooklyn filmmaker, producer, and music video director. He worked for Michael Stipe’s independent film production company C-Hundred Films before founding his own company, Black Shoe Films, in 1996. In addition to the Johnny Berlin films he has directed The One Dollar Diary, about German director Wim Wenders, The Heart of America Tour, a documentary for Bobby Shriver’s DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) Foundation, and music videos for R.E.M., The Dandy Warhols, The Stills, and Ryan Adams, among others.
The film is a follow up to the critically acclaimed Johnny Berlin, executive produced by Jim McKay and Michael Stipe, which follows quick tongued, eccentric 40-something John Hyrns whose job as a porter on a dying breed of luxury train endowed him with his nickname, Johnny Berlin. Eddie Cockrell of Variety described the film as a “short, sharp profile of a man at once fascinating and vaguely troubled.”
Flaherty NYC series at the Anthology Film Archives
