UPCOMING EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
Pregnant Pause: A Variety Show About Pregnancy and Pop Culture
June 3, 2015 -- Doors: 6:30pm / Show 7pm at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
Come explore where pop culture intersects with being pregnant. Performers will deconstruct depictions of pregnancy and choices people make in film, television, stand-up, & more! This show has something for everyone: horror, drama, comedy, and romance, all brought to you in variety show fashion by Eleanor Kagan and Kseniya Yarosh of Bonnie & Maude.
*Special Guest Gillian Robespierre will discuss her groundbreaking film Obvious Child
*Pop Presentations will delve into monstrous birth, celebrity bumps, and dancing dirty
*Dance performances, poetry readings, and stand-up comedy will creatively expand the way you look at pregnancy and choice
* Themed stand-up set by Sriya Sarkar
*With Drink Specials and Silent Auction
*Sponsored by The Feminist Press and Choices in Childbirth
The money raised by this event will benefit The Doula Project: www.doulaproject.org
*Special Guest Gillian Robespierre will discuss her groundbreaking film Obvious Child
*Pop Presentations will delve into monstrous birth, celebrity bumps, and dancing dirty
*Dance performances, poetry readings, and stand-up comedy will creatively expand the way you look at pregnancy and choice
* Themed stand-up set by Sriya Sarkar
*With Drink Specials and Silent Auction
*Sponsored by The Feminist Press and Choices in Childbirth
The money raised by this event will benefit The Doula Project: www.doulaproject.org
PAUSE THE TAPE with The Soundtrack Series and Bonnie & Maude (FREE)
April 30, 2015 -- 7:30 pm at Videology in Brooklyn, NY
Writers, podcasters, musicians, and film-lovers tell stories of where cinema and music intersect for them. In the fourth edition of Pause the Tape, film podcast Bonnie & Maude once again teams up with music podcast The Soundtrack Series to share tales of the dance movies we know, love, and have rewound in our minds long after we broke the VCR. Loosen those hips, dust off your tap shoes, and help us carry this watermelon to the dirty dance floor.
Join us for an evening of storytelling, clips, and feels. It's FREE!
Line up:
Dana Rossi
Ruth Delaney
Tanya Davis
Claudia Bitran
Kseniya Yarosh
Join us for an evening of storytelling, clips, and feels. It's FREE!
Line up:
Dana Rossi
Ruth Delaney
Tanya Davis
Claudia Bitran
Kseniya Yarosh
Bonnie & Maude judge at Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival ($12)
March 1, 2015 -- 7:30 pm at Symphony Space in NY, NY
On the first Sunday of each month, the Iron Mule Short Comedy series serves up a collection of the funniest short films from around the world, including animation, web series, and narrative shorts. Celebrate funny and inventive short cinema with hosts Jay Stern and Victor Varnado along with a rotating collective of filmmakers and film lovers. Every show includes the world premiere of the latest "Wanna Be a Star" film, which places one lucky audience member from the month prior's show in a film with a different director each month. The title of this film is yelled out by the fastest talking audience member. After the films, chat with visiting filmmakers, then mingle with them and fellow audience members in Symphony Space's Bar Thalia, featuring $5 drink specials.
PAUSE THE TAPE with The Soundtrack Series and Bonnie & Maude (FREE)
February 14, 2015 -- 7:00 pm at Videology in Brooklyn, NY
Writers, podcasters, musicians, and film-lovers tell stories of where cinema and music intersect for them. In the third edition of Pause theTape, film podcast Bonnie & Maude teams up with music podcast The Soundtrack Series for a joint live taping of personal narratives that riff on the subject of crushes, flings, sex scenes and the music that sets the mood for all of these.
Join us for an evening of storytelling, clips, and feels.
Line up:
C.D. Hermelin
Eleanor Kagan
Isaac Oliver
Dana Rossi
Kseniya Yarosh
Join us for an evening of storytelling, clips, and feels.
Line up:
C.D. Hermelin
Eleanor Kagan
Isaac Oliver
Dana Rossi
Kseniya Yarosh
PAUSE THE TAPE with The Soundtrack Series and Bonnie & Maude (FREE)
November 15, 2014 -- 7:00 pm at Videology in Brooklyn, NY
Writers, podcasters, musicians, and film-lovers tell stories of where cinema and music intersect for them. In the second edition of Pause the Tape, film podcast Bonnie & Maude teams up with music podcast The Soundtrack Series for a joint live taping of personal narratives that riff on the subject of second chances, covers, sequels and B-sides.
Join us for an evening of storytelling, clips, and feels.
Line up:
AK
David Crabb
Spike McCue
Dana Rossi
Aviv Rubinstien
Daniel Sears
Join us for an evening of storytelling, clips, and feels.
Line up:
AK
David Crabb
Spike McCue
Dana Rossi
Aviv Rubinstien
Daniel Sears
Bonnie & Maude Presents: All of Them Witches
October 13, 2014 -- 8:00 pm at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
BONNIE & MAUDE PRESENTS: ALL OF THEM WITCHES
MON, OCTOBER 13, 2014
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Bell House - Brooklyn, New York
$8.00 / 21+
"All Of Them Witches" is the third in a series of live variety shows by Kseniya Yarosh & Eleanor Kagan, the hosts of the Brooklyn-based film podcast, Bonnie & Maude.
Sure to boil the blood and alight the brain, join us for an exploration of witches as seen in movies, television, and pop culture. From green-skinned, be-broomstick'd villains to benevolent sources of high female power, from goddesses of nature to Satan-worshippers, to actual practitioners of Wicca...celluloid representations of witches are contradictory, to say the least. Scholars, artists, and film enthusiasts from all walks of life will toil up some trouble, and revisit favorite on-screen moments of witchcraft in Bewitched, Buffy, The Craft, Hocus Pocus, Black Sunday, Suspiria, Rosemary's Baby, and more.
Presenters: Tom Blunt, Lyra Hill, Eleanor Kagan, Racheline Maltese, Rosie Schaap,Tenebrous Kate, Cassie Wagler, Kseniya Yarosh
Music throughout the show will be performed by Brooklyn-based chamber pop singer AK, and the 8-piece, all-female a cappella group Femme Rhythm.
MON, OCTOBER 13, 2014
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Bell House - Brooklyn, New York
$8.00 / 21+
"All Of Them Witches" is the third in a series of live variety shows by Kseniya Yarosh & Eleanor Kagan, the hosts of the Brooklyn-based film podcast, Bonnie & Maude.
Sure to boil the blood and alight the brain, join us for an exploration of witches as seen in movies, television, and pop culture. From green-skinned, be-broomstick'd villains to benevolent sources of high female power, from goddesses of nature to Satan-worshippers, to actual practitioners of Wicca...celluloid representations of witches are contradictory, to say the least. Scholars, artists, and film enthusiasts from all walks of life will toil up some trouble, and revisit favorite on-screen moments of witchcraft in Bewitched, Buffy, The Craft, Hocus Pocus, Black Sunday, Suspiria, Rosemary's Baby, and more.
Presenters: Tom Blunt, Lyra Hill, Eleanor Kagan, Racheline Maltese, Rosie Schaap,Tenebrous Kate, Cassie Wagler, Kseniya Yarosh
Music throughout the show will be performed by Brooklyn-based chamber pop singer AK, and the 8-piece, all-female a cappella group Femme Rhythm.
PAUSE THE TAPE with The Soundtrack Series and Bonnie & Maude (FREE)
August 23, 2014 -- 7:30 pm at Videology in Brooklyn, NY
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Six women in broadcasting tell stories of where cinema and music intersect for them. Film podcast Bonnie & Maude teams up with music podcast The Soundtrack Series for a joint live taping of personal narratives that will touch on everything from what song one should play when losing her virginity, to the disillusionment of Sixteen Candles, and why we should be skeptical that so many rom coms feature the same damn Van Morrison song.
Join us for an evening of storytelling, clips, and feels. Bonnie & Maude is a monthly film podcast in which hosts Eleanor Kagan and Kseniya Yarosh take on films and television shows from a femme-centric perspective. The Soundtrack Series is a live show and podcast created and hosted by Dana Rossi, where people tell stories about the music that matters and the songs that make up the soundtrack to our lives. --- Line up: Dana Rossi (Soundtrack Series) Eleanor Kagan (Bonnie & Maude) Maggie Serota (Low Times) Molly Knefel (Radio Dispatch) Rommel Wood (Ear Hammer) Saidah Blount (NPR Music) 
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Bonnie & Maude Presents: You Are Hair
March 11, 2014 -- 8:00 pm at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY
"You Are Hair" is the second in a series of live variety shows by Kseniya Yarosh & Eleanor Kagan, the hosts of the Brooklyn-based film podcast, Bonnie & Maude.
Join us for an evening of funny and insightful stories and presentations on the subject of female hair as seen in movies, television, and pop culture. We will untangle the trope of the fiery redhead, rediscover the true story of Rapunzel, strip away the portrayal of body hair in the film Human Nature, and root into how we see African-American hair on the big screen and beyond-cé. Plus, NPR's Ophira Eisenberg will share with us the secrets of "Canadian hair" and some never-before-seen photos from her personal archives.
Presenters:
L.V. Anderson, Tessa Brown, Sophie Bushwick, Ophira Eisenberg, Aisha Harris, Allegra Oxborough, Cassie Wagler
Videos from the event can be viewed here
Join us for an evening of funny and insightful stories and presentations on the subject of female hair as seen in movies, television, and pop culture. We will untangle the trope of the fiery redhead, rediscover the true story of Rapunzel, strip away the portrayal of body hair in the film Human Nature, and root into how we see African-American hair on the big screen and beyond-cé. Plus, NPR's Ophira Eisenberg will share with us the secrets of "Canadian hair" and some never-before-seen photos from her personal archives.
Presenters:
L.V. Anderson, Tessa Brown, Sophie Bushwick, Ophira Eisenberg, Aisha Harris, Allegra Oxborough, Cassie Wagler
Videos from the event can be viewed here
Bring It On
Jun 13, 2013 -- 7:30 pm at 92YTribeca in New York, NY
Director: Peyton Reed. 98 min. 2000. 35mm.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten,
co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
A high school film that avoids the usual “popular kids vs. geeks” routine, Bring It On pairs competitive cheerleading with a director primarily known for Mr. Show, Weird Al and Upright Citizens Brigade.
Peppy and energetic but never grating, this is a sports movie for people who never bothered to root.
Kirsten Dunst is at her most charming as the new captain of a squad on the brink of losing its title. Perpetually black-clad, smirking teammate Eliza Dushku helps her develop new routines based on mime acts, kabuki theater and Bollywood films. Will Dunst make things right with the team’s East Compton frenemies while also winning over the alterna-dude of her dreams?
You’ll discover spirit fingers you never knew you had with this spirited tale of creativity, friendship and butt lifts.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten,
co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
A high school film that avoids the usual “popular kids vs. geeks” routine, Bring It On pairs competitive cheerleading with a director primarily known for Mr. Show, Weird Al and Upright Citizens Brigade.
Peppy and energetic but never grating, this is a sports movie for people who never bothered to root.
Kirsten Dunst is at her most charming as the new captain of a squad on the brink of losing its title. Perpetually black-clad, smirking teammate Eliza Dushku helps her develop new routines based on mime acts, kabuki theater and Bollywood films. Will Dunst make things right with the team’s East Compton frenemies while also winning over the alterna-dude of her dreams?
You’ll discover spirit fingers you never knew you had with this spirited tale of creativity, friendship and butt lifts.
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
May 30, 2013 -- 7:30 pm at 92YTribeca in New York, NY
Director: David Mirkin. 92 mins. 1997. 35mm.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten, co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
“You know, even though I had to wear that stupid back brace and you were kind of fat, we were still totally cutting edge.”
Having a ball in their Venice Beach apartment and honing their DIY style, lifelong friends Romy and Michele are totally fine with their boyfriend-free and barely-employed existence. That is until their high school reunion creeps up on them, forcing them to reassess not only the women they have become, but what their roles were back then. Thus they half-bake new personas—as the inventors of Post-Its, they are sure to gain the respect of their former classmates, right? Even funnier than you remember, Romy and Michele is made strong with Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino as the leads, supported by the contrastingly dark-humored, chain-smoking Janeane Garofalo.
Pre-screening we will salute DIY fashion and take a look at some of the other achievements of costume designer Mona May.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten, co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
“You know, even though I had to wear that stupid back brace and you were kind of fat, we were still totally cutting edge.”
Having a ball in their Venice Beach apartment and honing their DIY style, lifelong friends Romy and Michele are totally fine with their boyfriend-free and barely-employed existence. That is until their high school reunion creeps up on them, forcing them to reassess not only the women they have become, but what their roles were back then. Thus they half-bake new personas—as the inventors of Post-Its, they are sure to gain the respect of their former classmates, right? Even funnier than you remember, Romy and Michele is made strong with Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino as the leads, supported by the contrastingly dark-humored, chain-smoking Janeane Garofalo.
Pre-screening we will salute DIY fashion and take a look at some of the other achievements of costume designer Mona May.
Slums of Beverly Hills
With actress Natasha Lyonne and director Tamara Jenkins in person for post-screening Q&A!
April 24, 2013 -- 7:30 pm at 92YTribeca in New York, NY
Director: Tamara Jenkins. 91 min. 1998. 35mm.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten, co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
Don't you hate it when your dad walks in while you're playing Hot Potato with your cousin's vibrator?
Vivian (Natasha Lyonne in her first starring role) is growing up and growing breasts in 1976. While her family moves through a series of flop hotels, she navigates a world of sexual and familial embarrassments, dodging her dodgy brothers and relishing the attention of her skeevy neighbor. Learning about love, halter tops and the pleasures of self-discovery from her older, more experienced cousin Rita (Marisa Tomei), the tough but still wide-eyed Vivian is a role model for teen girls of any decade.
For a movie which shows more than half its stars in their underwear, Tamara Jenkins’ semi-autobiographical film is a touching, earnest and awkwardly funny look at what it means to be a young woman in a man’s world.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten, co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
Don't you hate it when your dad walks in while you're playing Hot Potato with your cousin's vibrator?
Vivian (Natasha Lyonne in her first starring role) is growing up and growing breasts in 1976. While her family moves through a series of flop hotels, she navigates a world of sexual and familial embarrassments, dodging her dodgy brothers and relishing the attention of her skeevy neighbor. Learning about love, halter tops and the pleasures of self-discovery from her older, more experienced cousin Rita (Marisa Tomei), the tough but still wide-eyed Vivian is a role model for teen girls of any decade.
For a movie which shows more than half its stars in their underwear, Tamara Jenkins’ semi-autobiographical film is a touching, earnest and awkwardly funny look at what it means to be a young woman in a man’s world.
Mermaids
March 14, 2013 -- 7:30 pm at 92YTribeca in New York, NY
Director: Richard Benjamin. 110 min. 1990. 35mm.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten, co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
"How do I look?" "Like a woman about to go forth in sin."
Adolescence is a bitch—especially when you're 15, you've lived in 18 different towns and your mother is the textbook definition of "eccentric." Winona Ryder stars as the precocious Charlotte Flax, whose idea of rebelliousness is embracing Catholicism in the face of her irreverent, Jewish mother. Ryder may get the most cutting one-liners, but the heart of the film is Cher as Mrs. Flax. Amid dealing with the JFK assassination and Mrs. Flax's new boyfriend (Bob Hoskins), Charlotte tries to figure out what God has in store for her—whether it's losing her virginity to the cute guy up the road, understanding the root of her mother's flamboyance or both.
A teensy Christina Ricci makes her film debut as Charlotte's younger sister Kate. With a nostalgic '60s soundtrack featuring Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and, of course, Cher herself. Now who wants a marshmallow kebab?
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten, co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
"How do I look?" "Like a woman about to go forth in sin."
Adolescence is a bitch—especially when you're 15, you've lived in 18 different towns and your mother is the textbook definition of "eccentric." Winona Ryder stars as the precocious Charlotte Flax, whose idea of rebelliousness is embracing Catholicism in the face of her irreverent, Jewish mother. Ryder may get the most cutting one-liners, but the heart of the film is Cher as Mrs. Flax. Amid dealing with the JFK assassination and Mrs. Flax's new boyfriend (Bob Hoskins), Charlotte tries to figure out what God has in store for her—whether it's losing her virginity to the cute guy up the road, understanding the root of her mother's flamboyance or both.
A teensy Christina Ricci makes her film debut as Charlotte's younger sister Kate. With a nostalgic '60s soundtrack featuring Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and, of course, Cher herself. Now who wants a marshmallow kebab?
Now & Then
Feb 21, 2013 -- 7:30 pm at 92YTribeca in New York, NY
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter. 100 min. 1995. BluRay.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten, co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
Lay some fresh eyes on your grade school slumber party staple. It's the 1970s in suburban Indiana, and life is only starting to extend beyond the familiar cul-de-sac for the four friends of Now and Then. While investigating the mysterious death of a young boy, the adolescent girl gang grows obsessed with death, divorce and other things that go on behind closed doors in the suburbs – fascinations that follow them into divergent adulthoods. Through séances and red rover, brown cows and Tony Orlando & Dawn on the radio, their bonds of friendship are tested. Apple-cheeked, fresh-faced stars Christina Ricci, Thora Birch and Gaby Hoffmann, plus 90’s hunk Devon Sawa prove that growing up is hard.
The screening will include an introduction to the film by Bonnie & Maude and a presentation on other memorable bra-stuffing moments in cinema history.
Part of the series 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten, co-presented with Bonnie & Maude and xoJane.
Tickets: $12, Film Club Member: $8.
Lay some fresh eyes on your grade school slumber party staple. It's the 1970s in suburban Indiana, and life is only starting to extend beyond the familiar cul-de-sac for the four friends of Now and Then. While investigating the mysterious death of a young boy, the adolescent girl gang grows obsessed with death, divorce and other things that go on behind closed doors in the suburbs – fascinations that follow them into divergent adulthoods. Through séances and red rover, brown cows and Tony Orlando & Dawn on the radio, their bonds of friendship are tested. Apple-cheeked, fresh-faced stars Christina Ricci, Thora Birch and Gaby Hoffmann, plus 90’s hunk Devon Sawa prove that growing up is hard.
The screening will include an introduction to the film by Bonnie & Maude and a presentation on other memorable bra-stuffing moments in cinema history.
Bonnie & Maude Present: Carrie (1976)
Feb 9, 2013 -- 7:00 pm at Videology in Brooklyn, NY
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Carrie is bloody,
And she’s coming for you!
Body issues, overbearing mothers, and crippling social anxiety – Carrie has everything you might experience the week before Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re dateless or with a young Travolta in tow, come scream, cry, and wreak havoc with your mind at this screening of this Stephen King classic.
After the movie, podcast Bonnie & Maude and special guest Tenebrous Kate will discuss women’s roles in horror movies, King’s obsession with messed-up moms, and the upcoming remake (sigh).
All fire exits will be clearly marked.
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Tenebrous Kate is an artist, writer and regular contributor to Ultra Violent Magazine and I Love Bad Movies. On her blog she examines everything "lurid, weird, and fantastique."
Violets are blue,
Carrie is bloody,
And she’s coming for you!
Body issues, overbearing mothers, and crippling social anxiety – Carrie has everything you might experience the week before Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re dateless or with a young Travolta in tow, come scream, cry, and wreak havoc with your mind at this screening of this Stephen King classic.
After the movie, podcast Bonnie & Maude and special guest Tenebrous Kate will discuss women’s roles in horror movies, King’s obsession with messed-up moms, and the upcoming remake (sigh).
All fire exits will be clearly marked.
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Tenebrous Kate is an artist, writer and regular contributor to Ultra Violent Magazine and I Love Bad Movies. On her blog she examines everything "lurid, weird, and fantastique."
Watching You Eat
Nov 29, 2012 -- 9:00 pm at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, NY
Our first live event was a free variety show consisting of funny and serious slideshow presentations, and clips focusing on the cinematic motif of female characters cooking, eating, and falling in love with food. We filled and flambéd such films as Simply Irresistible, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Like Water for Chocolate, 9 1/2 Weeks, and many more.
Special guests included Tom Blunt (creator of Meet the Lady), writer and publicist David Archer, L.V. Anderson (Slate’s recipe column, You're Doing It Wrong), I Love Bad Movies editor Matt Carman, and comedy writer/performer Meg Sweeney Lawless.
Best of all, free snacks were provided courtesy of Alexandra Paloma (cookies) and Steve McFarland (cakes) and our on-stage Easy-Bake Oven demonstration.
Special guests included Tom Blunt (creator of Meet the Lady), writer and publicist David Archer, L.V. Anderson (Slate’s recipe column, You're Doing It Wrong), I Love Bad Movies editor Matt Carman, and comedy writer/performer Meg Sweeney Lawless.
Best of all, free snacks were provided courtesy of Alexandra Paloma (cookies) and Steve McFarland (cakes) and our on-stage Easy-Bake Oven demonstration.
