The Weekend List: Dragon Tattoo, Vanya, Bay Ridge Arts Fest

FILM

Alice in Wonderland, Greenberg, The Ghost Writer at BAM; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Man som hatar kvinnor), Greenberg, City Island at the Cobble Hill Cinema

April 9-May 11 at BAMcinematek: The Films of Jean Renoir, who directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes of individual liberty and universal fraternity. His poetic visual style, a graceful blend of naturalism and artifice, and incalculable influence on world cinema led Orson Welles to declare him “the greatest of all directors.” This 21-film retrospective includes every film Jean Renoir directed in Hollywood exile as well as his early masterpieces and late Technicolor spectacles. All films in French with English subtitles unless noted.

THEATER

April 7-10: Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov performed by The Maly Drama Theatre at BAM’s Harvey Theater at 7:30 PM.

ART

Friday, Saturday and Sunday:  Bay Ridge Arts Festival, features local artists, craftspeople, photographers, and musicians raising money for a local  arts scholarship fund. Parish Hall at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd (7420 4th Avenue).

SHOPPING

Saturday and Sunday: Brooklyn Indie Market on Smith Street. Peruse your favorite indie designers of seasons past and get to meet some new-on-the-scene faces as well, offering the public a first glimpse of the many new names in fashion and product design. After a wintery, three month hiatus, Brooklyn Indie Market designers re-emerge with a new bag of design tricks.

SPORTS

On Sunday April 12, meet Beyonslay, Anais Ninja, and Beatrix Slaughter of Gotham Girls Roller Derby.at Sunday’s Derbytant Ball at Public Assembly with music, food and drinks.