Helvetica, the film, at IFC Center! Any NYC Typophiles going?
The film opens tomorrow, September 12. Director Gary Hustwit will be there Wednesday, Friday (along with designer Tobias Frere-Jones) and Saturday (with editor Shelby Siegel) at 6:25 PM and 8:20 PM.
http://www.ifccenter.com/film?filmid=59838
http://www.helveticafilm.com/screenings.html
Any New York typophiles planning to go?
12.Sep.2007 7.48am
damn skippy, I just bought my two tickets for this evening... looking forward to it.
12.Sep.2007 7.58am
Tonight’s a possibility if I’m a good girl and get my work done. I’m away this weekend.
12.Sep.2007 11.51am
I’ll be there tonight, giving away one of these:
ooooooh.
’philers... please tell your New York friends about the IFC Center run! Especially this weekend’s screenings, we’re up against 3:10 to Yuma and loads of studio and indie competition. Actually I think 3:10 to Yuma uses Helvetica for their posters...
Cheers!
-Gary
12.Sep.2007 1.21pm
Looks like I’ll be going on Monday, 9/17, with some of my co-workers, at 8:20 PM.
12.Sep.2007 2.23pm
Thanks Ricardo, hope you enjoy it.
And for those who want one of those mugs:
http://www.veer.com/products/merchdetail.aspx?image=VPR0005470
Cheers!
12.Sep.2007 7.46pm
I just went to the 8:20 screening - line halfway down the block. Lots of design geeks here in the apple. When I told my neighbor I’d been to a movie about a font he looked at me like I was nuts. Anyway I loved it and the hell with EULAs I’ll just use Helvetica for everything from now on.
12.Sep.2007 9.29pm
I’ll just use Helvetica for everything from now on
Ha! Nice. :-D
15.Sep.2007 2.25pm
ROFL! I switched my default font on TextEdit to Helvetica when I came home from the screening here. ;-)
Spiffy mugs, Gary!
I see from the schedule that even lowly Winnipeg is getting a screening — I’ve sent the info to my cousin there (who’s not a design person), but perhaps her and her wife will go.
17.Sep.2007 8.48pm
I went with my fellow design student friend/roommate and.. my other friend/roommate, an engineer, to Saturday’s 8:20 show. Engineer friend had no idea what movie we were seeing until we told her, on the steps of IFC, that we were seeing a movie about Helvetica. A long silence. A blank look. And then finally a glare. To make things worse, we arrived late and couldn’t sit together.
She didn’t NOT enjoy herself, though..but she has made it clear several times over that she would have liked to see a “real” movie. Heh.
17.Sep.2007 8.55pm
We watched one of my all-time favourite movies last night, and as the credits rolled, I started laughing.
Look, it’s Helvetica!
17.Sep.2007 10.51pm
Just came back from seeing the movie, which I loved, with an old high school buddy of mine, who also dug it. When we stepped out of the theater he was looking at all sorts of signs and spotted Helvetica being used inside and outside of IFC Center. :-)
Later we knocked back a few at McSorley’s and talked about type-related stuff like Grotesks and Egyptians...
Thank you, Gary and Veer, for a great movie!