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Thursday, April 21, 2005
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  • Indiana Jones: The Adaptation by Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb (Brooklyn Underground Film Festival)

    Indy Indy

    Much talked about, but seldom seen, “Indiana Jones: the Adaptation” makes its New York debut as part of the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival this weekend. Filmmaker Chris Strompolos and his friends recreated, shot for shot, the blockbuster movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” over the course of their adolescence and into adulthood. Also on the bill, New York Press film critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s made-in-Brooklyn independent feature “Home.”

Bulls and Bears and Computers

David Wells senior Wall Street correspondent, Financial Times

and
Andre Postelnicu assistant news editor and markets reporter for the Financial Times
- discusses the merger between the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago and other market news

Indy Indy

Chris Strompolos, filmmaker, Brooklyn Underground Film Festival entrant,
- on the New York premiere of his labor of love "Indiana Jones: The Adaptation," a shot for shot recreation of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," done as an adolescent
» Indiana Jones: The Adaptation
and
Matt Zoller Seitz, film director, New York Press film critic and Star-Ledger television columnist,
- on his made-in-Brooklyn film, "Home," and the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival
» Brooklyn Underground Film Festival
» New York Press
» New York Press

Dragon Dance

Philp P. Pan Beijing Correspondent for the Washington Post
- discusses tensions between China and Japan
and
Michael Swaine Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace ,br /> - discusses tensions between China and Japan
» Carnegie Endowment

New York 51: District 6

Gale Brewer, City Councilperson (D - District 6, Upper West Side),
- on life and politics in her Upper West Side District
» District 6
» Gotham Gazette

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Michael Moore on Brian's 20th Anniversary

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