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- Maysles Cinema
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343 Lenox Ave., nr. 127th St.; 212-582-6050
It won’t be putting Film Forum out of business, but the tiny, extremely low-budget Maysles Cinema at least has the pedigree of an art-film palace. The year-old Harlem screening room is the brainchild of acclaimed doc-maker Albert Maysles, who, with his late brother David directed Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens, among other masterworks of the genre. What it lacks in stadium seating and surround sound, it makes up in sheer character—there’s just 60 folding chairs with cushions set on a Persian rug—and inventive programming. For a $7 suggested donation per screening, you can catch rarely seen documentaries (including the ones in this month’s “Tibet in Harlem” festival), often followed by discussions and/or appearances by the filmmakers.
Best Spot for Film Geeks
From the 2009 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine
Our mission this year: to hunt down not just the best but the best values in the eating, shopping, drinking, and general-consuming universe of New York. It’s quite the process, this, requiring eating and shopping and drinking (all in the name of research), followed by heated but civil discussion, and heated but less-civil discussion, until a winner emerges in each category.


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