Film
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SUBWAY SCREENS
“On Location,” an exhibit opening today at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex, explores the history of New York’s public transportation on screen. Drawing on movie clips, photographs, production stills, lobby cards, posters, costumes, and set designs, the exhibit spans from Auguste and Louis Lumiere’s groundbreaking short film “Arrival of a Train” (1895) to the yet-to-be-released “Madagascar” (2005), in which a group of animated animals escape from the Central Park Zoo via a MetroNorth commuter train. Today through Sunday, October 30, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex, Grand Central Terminal, near the main concourse in the Shuttle Passage by the Station Master’s Office, 212-878-0106, free.
FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHT
“Traveling Cinema” screens “The Good Fight” (1983), a documentary about the more than 3,000 Americans who fought against Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War. After the screening, filmmakers Mary Dore and Sam Sills participate in a question-and-answer session. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barbes, 376 9th St. at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-965-9177, free.
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