Everyone's Gone to the BAM, Now we're Badasssss at Last

[Terrance]

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Who be the Baldest Bdassss of dem All? 

Me, motherfucker! 

Baadasssss! (R) 110min
Fri, Jun 4—Sun, Jun 6 at 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30pm
Mon, Jun 7—Thu, Jun 10 at 4:50, 7:15, 9:30pm

Directed by Mario Van Peebles
Starring Mario Van Peebles, Joy Bryant, Ossie Davis, David Alan Grier

Brooklyn Exclusive Engagement!

Melvin Van Peebles pushed the boundaries of movie-making with his
groundbreaking and
controversial Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), which paved the
way for the
blaxploitation and independent film movements. Turned down by every
major studio, Van
Peebles, risking everything, self-financed this project and delivered
the world the first Black Ghetto hero on the big screen. More than 30
years later, Melvin’s son, Mario Van Peebles, directs and stars in this
romp that pays tribute to his father’s political defiance and his
struggle to get his milestone movie made.

Mirrors? 


Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Bu san) (2003) Sneak Preview!
Sat, Jun 5 at 6:45pm only!* 
*Introduced by Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang

Wryly minimal and lushly nostalgic, this movie about watching movies
holds up an
inquiring mirror to its audience—and in the urinal-cruising scene finds
a situation
hilariously suited to the director’s long, fixed takes. —Dennis Lim.
Film courtesy of
Wellspring. 

http://www.bam.org/

Check out the Richards (Shakespeare's). and Rorty. And, the greatest
teacher in the Chicago School, Richard McKeon. 

Richard Rorty's distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism
expresses itself along two main axes. One is negative---a critical
diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern
philosophy. The other is positive---an attempt to show what intellectual
culture might look like, once
we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in
which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and
indeed, in Rorty's view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are
rooted. The centerpiece of Rorty's critique is the provocative account
offered in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979, hereafter PMN). In
this book, and in the closely related essays collected in Consequences
of Pragmatism (1982, hereafter CP), Rorty's principal target is the
philosophical idea of knowledge as representation, as a mental mirroring
of a mind-external world.