Apatow, Forster, Morris Booked for New Yorker Festival

(Photo: EmDashes)

By S.T. VanAirsdale

New Yorker devotee EmDashes has the first glimpse at this year's New Yorker Festival line-up, always a high point of the fall arts season as well as one of its most impossible, expensive tickets. The film-related slate is typically strong, with directors Judd Apatow, Errol Morris and Marc Forster among others booked for Oct. 5-7 at venues around the city. I'm holding out for Morris' conversation with Philip Gourevitch about Abu Ghraib and the filmmaker's new doc Standard Operating Procedure (complete with a sneak preview); Neil LaBute's chat with John Lahr shouldn't be half-bad either (the writer/director will also sign copies of his book Wrecks: And Other Plays on Oct. 7).

Follow the jump for other film notes, including David Byrne's paean to bicycle culture in the city. Really. And check out EmDashes for the full slate. Tickets go on sale Sept. 15 at Ticketmaster, by phone at (877) 391-0545 and at Festival Headquarters, located at 125 W. 18th St. (H/T: Art Fag City)

FRIDAY
OCTOBER 5

An evening of paired readings by writers whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker and conversations between writers on the themes that feature in their work; a New Yorker Town Hall Meeting on Iraq; an Errol Morris film project; and the second New Yorker Dance Party.

FRIDAY NIGHT FILM PROJECT
A conversation between Errol Morris and Philip Gourevitch about Abu Ghraib, with clips from “Standard Operating Procedure.?

8 P.M. Directors Guild of America ($25)

SATURDAY
OCTOBER 6
A day of interviews, panel discussions, and talks by New Yorker writers; Early Shift and Late Shift events, many of them featuring live musical performance, throughout the city; the inaugural New Yorker Debate; a sneak preview of the upcoming feature film The Kite Runner; a Saturday Night Special with David Byrne on urban bicycling; and humor events and free book signings at Festival Headquarters.

WRITERS AND THEIR SUBJECTS
Neil LaBute and John Lahr
10 A.M. Acura Stage at Helen Mills Theatre ($25)

Steve Martin interviewed by Susan Morrison
4 P.M. Directors Guild of America ($25)

PANELS

Costume Design
With Colleen Atwood, Patrizia von Brandenstein, Patricia Field, and William Ivey Long. Judith Thurman, moderator.
4 P.M. Cedar Lake Dance Studios ($25)

EARLY SHIFT

Eugene Levy talks with Susan Orlean
7:30 P.M. Acura Stage at Helen Mills Theatre ($35)

Rosanne Cash talks with Hendrik Hertzberg:
A Conversation with Music
7:30 P.M. Highline Ballroom ($35)

Saturday Night Sneak Preview: The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini and Marc Forster talk with Jon Lee Anderson.
7:30 P.M. Directors Guild of America ($25)

SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL
David Byrne Presents: How New Yorkers Ride Bikes
David Byrne will host an evening of music, discussion, film, readings, and surprises dedicated to the advancement of bicycling in New York City, including talks and performances by the Classic Riders Bicycle Club, Jan Gehl, Calvin Trillin, Paul Steely White, Jonathan Wood, and the Young@Heart Chorus.
7:30 P.M. Town Hall ($16)

LATE SHIFT

John C. Reilly talks with Dana Goodyear
10 P.M. Cedar Lake Dance Studios ($35)

Bill Nighy talks with Michael Specter
10 P.M. Acura Stage at Helen Mills Theatre ($35)

SUNDAY

OCTOBER 7

WRITERS AND THEIR SUBJECTS

Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, and David Denby
4 P.M. Directors Guild of America ($25)

BOOK SIGNINGS

Saturday, October 6

2 P.M.
Miranda July ~ “No One Belongs Here More Than You”
George Saunders ~ “The Braindead Megaphone”

Sunday, October 7

3 P.M.
Neil LaBute ~ “Wrecks: And Other Plays”

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Posted at September 5, 2007 8:59 AM