"The Polymath" screening tonight in NYC

Mentioned, among other places, in the New Yorker blog:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2010/03/do-the-polymath.html

Do the Polymath
Posted by Richard
Brody<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/richard_brody/search?contributorName=Richard%20Brody>

Tonight, a rare treat, courtesy of my friend Fred Taylor: his film “The
Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman” (which
Bruce Diones reviewed<http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/the_polymath_or_the_life_and_opinions_of_samuel_r_delany_gentleman_taylor>in
the magazine when it played in the Tribeca Film Festival three years
ago)
is returning to the big screen tonight at 6:30, at the Soho Gallery for
Digital Art <http://sohodigart.com/>, 138 Sullivan St., together with
Delany’s own film, “The Orchid,” from 1971 (which I haven’t seen). Delany, a
legendary sci-fi visionary, will be on hand and will speak between the two
films. Fred’s documentary fulfills, with style, a classic function of the
modern documentary film: to hear a voice in direct address and to see the
face of a person playing his own role in life. Delany is voluble and
shockingly self-revealing; his self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing
portrayal of himself is also a surprising portrait of the city and of his
times.
--Zvi


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