When in 169 one of the contestants, Menelaus, was returned to the office, Antiochus, who had already incurred the bitter resentment of faithful Jews
by his interference, sought to correct his financial plight
by entering the Temple himself and stripping it of its considerable movable wealth.31 Antiochus became at once the object of Judaism's bitterest
hate; and no doubt in part in retaliation but also as an expression of this ardent Hellenist's frustration with a people slow to change, he
effected an otherwise quite unprovoked attack on Jerusalem in 168.
And while I
hate to admit that my appraisal has the unintended
effect of validating the Oscars» taste, being that those two are also the only films
by the Coen brothers to win Academy Awards to date, you could hardly say that either film panders to the Academy's middlebrow sensibilities.
January 24: Charles Atlas's Torse presented
by Sam Frank and David Velasco January 31: Yvonne Rainer's Kristina Talking Pictures February 7: Jennifer Reeves's Chronic + Sadie Benning's Flat Is Beautiful February 8: Trinh T. Minh - ha's Naked Spaces — Living Is Round February 21: D.A. Pennebaker's Elizabeth and Mary presented with MoMA's Documentary Fortnight February 26: Shinsuke Ogawa's Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress March 10: Three Tapes
by Carole Roussopoulos presented
by Ridykeulous and Stuart Comer March 13: Tony Buba's Lightning Over Braddock introduced
by LaToya Ruby Frazier April 11: Sara Gómez's De cierta manera April 21: Jean - Luc Godard and Anne - Marie Miéville's France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children April 28: Thom Andersen and Noël Burch's Red Hollywood introduced
by Lucy Raven May 8: Scott Bartlett's OffOn + Kinji Fukasaku's The Green Slime May 14: Andy Warhol's Paul Swan introduced
by Douglas Crimp June 9: Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli's Anna introduced
by Dennis Lim June 12: Michael Thomas's Meat Rack June 23: Ed Pincus's Diaries (1971 - 76) introduced
by Nicolas Rapold June 26: An Evening with Cinenova July 3: René Clair's The Crazy Ray + Robert Frank's C'est vrai July 17: Shirley Clarke's The Cool World introduced
by Amy Taubin July 24: Nathaniel Dorsky + Susan Howe August 26: For Chris Marker September 9: Michael Snow's La Région centrale introduced
by Chantal Akerman September 18: Todd Haynes's Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud + Todd Phillips's
Hated: G.G. Allin and The Murder Junkies September 25: Michael Almereyda's Another Girl Another Planet October 8: Esfir Shub + Hito Steyerl October 12: Darmstadt / ISSUE Project Room at Light Industry: David Grubbs + Anthony McCall October 16: James Benning's 11 x 14 introduced
by Julie Ault October 17 - 20: Light Industry Benefit Auction at Miguel Abreu Gallery October 23: The Interface
Effect a lecture
by Alexander R. Galloway presented with Triple Canopy November 13: Alexander Kluge's Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed introduced
by Gary Indiana November 19: Tony Bicât's Skinflicker + Arthur Johns's Solarflares Burn for You presented
by William Fowler November 27: David Hall + Marlon Riggs