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  • Critics' Pick

Agenda: What’s Good This Week

Today: 11/16/09

Tuesday: 11/17/09

Wednesday: 11/18/09

Thursday: 11/19/09

Friday: 11/20/09

Saturday: 11/21/09

Sunday: 11/22/09

All of Today’s Picks All Tuesday Picks All Wednesday Picks All Thursday Picks All Friday Picks All Saturday Picks All Sunday Picks

movie

imageAct of God

The "Manufactured Landscapes" director gives us a thrillingly strange journey through the wide and beautiful world of lightning -- from its spectacular visual majesty to its honored place in myth to its puzzling physical reality. More »

nightlife

imageA Camp
(Le) Poisson Rouge

Nina Persson's immaculately melodic side project. More »

theater

imageRagtime
Neil Simon Theatre

The 1998 musical based on E. L. Doctorow's novel about the early-twentieth century returns in a celebrated production from the Kennedy Center. More »

art

imageSpencer Finch
Postmasters Gallery

Ever since that imp Marcel Duchamp crawled into the unmapped space between a work of art and its title, artists have mined this rich artistic terrain; Spencer Finch does so as well as anyone. More »

theater

imageAfter Miss Julie
American Airlines Theatre

Patrick Marber's new adaptation of August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" transports the classic drama about sex and power to the English countryside in 1945. More »

art

imageJosh Gosfield
Steven Kasher

The definitive archive of magazine covers and video clips of the svelte sixties Bulgarian-American actress Gigi. (Note: Said idol is a fake, an entirely plausible creation of Gosfield's.) More »

art

imageTim Burton
The Museum of Modern Art

A retrospective for the man who, it goes without saying, has brought us some of the most fantastical movies of the last two decades, from "Beetlejuice" to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." More »

nightlife

J. Tillman
The Bell House

The hunky, hirsute drummer for the Fleet Foxes continues his gut-wrenching, brow-furrowing solo career with his sixth album, "Year in the Kingdom." More »

reading

Studio 360 Live with Kurt Andersen

WNYC host and "New York" contributing editor goes live with the weekly show on the topic of--what else?--time travel. His guests include brainy scientist types as well as "the female OutKast," Janelle Monae. More »

classical

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Joyce Theater

The powerfully daring ballet troupe led by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson celebrates fifteen years together with a set of diverse programs. More »

nightlife

The Dirty Projectors
Music Hall of Williamsburg

All three shows by the local intellectual-rock darlings (profiled in this issue) are sold out, but try Craigslist. More »

movie

Broken Embraces

Surprisingly complex melodrama about vision, creativity, identity, and memory harks back to the wild narratives of Almodovar's earlier films in a way that his recent output hasn't. More »

movie

Bad Lieutenant

Werner Herzog's insane, in-name-only remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 wild corrupt cop drama eschews the former's operatic indulgences--for better or worse--in favor of a goofy Nicolas Cage fever dream. More »

movie

Red Cliff

In his sprawling military epic, John Woo tries pulls off the kind of artsy martial-arts period picture that Zhang Yimou does peerlessly. More »

nightlife

The Jesus Lizard
Fillmore New York at Irving Plaz

Unpredictable and sometimes R-rated, the old-school Chicago rock and rollers reunited last year and are bursting with provocation. More »

nightlife

Eugene Mirman (And Many Friends)
HighLine Ballroom

Comedy at its most highbrow: Literary journals "Tin House" and "The Rumpus" present guests Mirman, Jonathan Ames, Todd Barry, and Rick Moody and a musical breather by Care Bears on Fire. More »

classical

Kepler
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

A landmark concert performance of Philip Glass's opera about the seventeenth-century astronomer who discovered the laws of planetary motion; the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under Dennis Russell Davies accompanies, along with soloists and the choir of the Upper Austrian State Theatre. More »

nightlife

Melinda Doolittle
Feinstein's at Loews Regency

An evening with the American Idol darling -- she placed third during the sixth season but gained a loyal following with her big voice and smile -- where she'll mix R&B with jazz and Broadway classics. More »

movie

Defamation

This disarming, surprisingly funny exploration of anti-Semitism isn't afraid to jump into arguments that will no doubt piss many people off: As a launchpad for healthy debate, it's essential viewing. More »

movie

Fix

A pair of documentary filmmakers rush across L.A. to get one's brother to rehab before nightfall. More »

movie

The Missing Person

We'll forgive the flaws of this affected, slightly too-referential neo-noir because it gives us a chance to watch one of our favorite working actors play a hard-boiled detective. More »

Ongoing

art

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction

More than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by one of the most famous female painters of the twentieth century, as well as selected examples from Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic portrait series of an often naked O’Keeffe. Through 1/17, Whitney Museum

theater

Idiot Savant

Richard Foreman’s new “philosophical comedy” is a predictably off-the-wall theatrical event, exploring the boundaries of what is real and legitimate in our world. Through 12/13, The Public Theater

Ticket Alert

Race

Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 12/6; $59.50–$121.50

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