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September 17, 2026. Free shows, free concerts, free movies, free tours, free readings, worshops, lectures, etc.  are New York's best kept secret! Learn all about it and do not miss the unique opportunities that only New York provides: NYC never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment whether it's day or night, weekday or weekend, summer or winter, spring or fall, January or June, May or September. If you are looking for inexpensive things to do and where to go in Manhattan today, tonight, tomorrow, or any other time, or any other day of any week - you came to the right place: just click on any day on the calendar dispayed on the every page of our site and you will see how many events you can attend in Manhattan free of charge on that very day.

New York's cultural scene is at its busiest in October and March (and the same goes for free events, free things to do), but other months of the year still offer incredible amount of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away! So if you looking for something to do in April or November, December or February, you will find tons of free things to do, free events to go to. (In June, July and August lots of those free events take place outdoors, of course).

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Where else but in New York City can you listen to a world-class musician, discuss a book with a famous author, take a part in poetry reading, have a glass of wine at an art exhibition opening, and all that on the same day, and all that free of charge, and all of that on any day of the year, whether it's December or July, April or November!

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Free things to do, free events that take place in New York City every day of the year are truly amazing. So if you're looking for something interesting to do today (September 17, 2026) or on any other day of the year don't miss those free-of-charge opportunities that only New York provides! You can find lots of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away!

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Lecture | Neorealism and Photography

Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 6:15 pm

free, no reservation required

The talk will look at a relatively unexplored aspect of neorealist cinema: its relationship with the still photograph. A number of Italian filmmakers after 1943 sought to 'denarrativize' their films at certain points, to open up moments in which the viewer could contemplate 'slowed' or 'stilled' images on the screen. One aspect of this process was captured in Gilles Deleuze's notion of the 'time-image'. However, it involved new uses of cinematic space too, such as frontal deep staging and the circular 180 and 360 degree pan, as well as new ways of lighting exterior shots. It also possessed a strong ethical dimension, which was drawn out in the contemporary critical writings of Andra Bazin and others. At the ethical level the revalidation of the photographic image involved a new attention both to landscape, in particular to places marked by wars or social conflicts, and to the visual expressiveness of the human face and physical gesture.

Speaker David Forgacs is the newly appointed Guido and Mariuccia Zerilli-Marima Professor of Contemporary Italian Studies at NYU. Formerly he taught at Sussex, Cambridge, Royal Holloway, Rome La Sapienza and University College London. His publications on Italian cinema include Rome Open City in the BFI Film Classics series, Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real (edited with Sarah Lutton and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith) and, most recently, an essay on Antonioni and actors in Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes (ed.) Antonioni: Centenary Essays, London: BFI, 2011. He has recorded full-length audio commentaries for the DVDs/Blu-rays of Ossessione (BFI), The Leopard (BFI), The Red Desert (BFI/Criterion Collection), and The Conformist (Arrow Films).

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