Criss Cross & The Killers tonight at FF. Don't think I will make it though.
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
going to K Kurosawa's Cure at Japan Society tonight!
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 July 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
How was it?
Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street at FF tonight.
― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
But don't think I will make it to Manhattan tonight.
― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
It was as creepy and top-shelf as last time.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 July 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Is this still the all-puprose film snob thread?
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/interview-carlos-reygadas/316
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
Anthology with a Secret Cinema program tom'w night:
PROGRAM 1: TOTALLY WIRED: THE FILMS OF BELL TELEPHONEA program of short films from one of the major motion picture producers of the 20th century – the phone company! As the largest corporation in the world, Bell had unlimited resources, producing corporate films more skillfully and more entertainingly than most companies could. We will show an assortment of rare Bell sales films, in-house training films, commercials and public relations films, all on 16mm. As they depict the various missions and agendas of one business throughout the years, the movies also provide a revealing look at mid-century America in general.
Just a few of the highlights will be:TELEPHONE HIGHLIGHTS (1947); WHAT’S IN A NAME? (1950S); DIAL “O” FOR OPERATOR (1965); INVISIBLE DIPLOMATS (1965); OPERATOR (1969); PICTURE PHONE (1970); and more!
PROGRAM 2: CREEPY PUPPET FILMSPuppetry is an age-old art-form that has charmed and delighted both children and adults for countless generations. And puppets have been a source of inspiration to filmmakers almost since the movies began. So why do puppets become so…creepy when filmed and projected on a giant screen? The Secret Cinema will attempt to answer that question – or at least show our favorite examples of this peculiar genre of cinema. Using assorted educational and entertainment shorts from past decades, we’ll show films using hand puppets, marionettes, and stop-motion animated figures and claymation. Some were made by great masters of special effects like George Pal and Ray Harryhausen. Others were made by nameless hacks for forgotten educational film mills. Yet, they are all creepy.
A few highlights include:HANSEL AND GRETEL (1951, dir. Ray Harryhausen); PHILLIPS CAVALCADE (1942, George Pal); MAKING CHANGE (1970s, Unknown); GUMBY: HOT ROD GRANNY (1957, Art Clokey); PIRRO AND THE SCALE (1948, Alvin J. Gordon); and much more!
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen some of those bell films before. nell cox directed 'operator' (who's mostly done tv work, eg M*A*S*H)
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
should i come back in from Brooklyn at 9:35 for COBRA WOMAN??
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
didn't.
would like to get a party together for Son of Paleface:
http://www.bam.org/film/2012/american-gagsters-great-comedy-teams
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't get to COBRA WOMAN either. Nor Spanish DRACULA
― Zing Can Really Hang You Up the Most (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
who's for Bob & Jane @ BAM, 9:15?
http://www.bam.org/film/2012/son-of-paleface
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 August 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
that's BOB. HOPE. JANE. RUSSELL. FRANK. TASHLIN.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
i would, but
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
I think Pialat's Police is hard to see, I'd pounce if I wuz you
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/15760
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
coming out on R1 blu ray soon iirc
― johnny crunch, Monday, 27 August 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
If I didn't have plans I wd go to MoMA's Sarris tribute, w/some doc footage and a Max Ophuls masterpiece.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/16150
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
i'm in town for a couple of days at the end of the month, so just started looking around to see if i could squeeze in a screening somewhere, & was thrilled to find there's a kidlat tahimik programme at the anthology, w/director in person. would zealously recommend perfumed nightmare to anyone who hasn't seen it, & will probably end up at that or turumba on the saturday.
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
buncha quality choices tonight, incl Nothing But a Man w/ Q&A at NYFF sidebar, a Jerry Lewis thing at NYPL Perf Arts, and this at Anthology:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2012#showing-39851
I will probly wind up at Glen and Randa / La Jetee @ BAM if I can stay awake.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
and Hoberman curates this year's To Save and Project at MoMA... my God... how am I going to take my medicine AND live there?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1325
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen 'call her savage', fairly racist but the gay bar scene is funny
wow @ farrokhzad/seidl/makavejev bill
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
and uh, Watergate figure Dwight Chapin presents his home movies of the Nixon White House?
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
hah i stopped scrolling before that (possibly out of jealousy) but wow
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
is anyone going to hear kiarostami talk tomorrow? wish-i-was-there, http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/hbo-directors-dialogue-abbas-kiarostami
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
more on the Project fest, hoping that Demy Lola print will get a full tour:
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-to-save-and-project-2012
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
AFI fest coming up, angelenos
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Anouk Aimee at MoMA this afternoon introducing, um, Justine.
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 October 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
and De Niro tonight introducing the latest elongation of Once Upon a Time in America. (My back can't take 4 hours of sitting right now.)
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 October 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
So I heard. (So I also heard. Sorry about that)
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 October 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty good. Hoberman was there too.
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Wonder what M. White would've thought?
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 October 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Is it worth seeing Harold Lloyd in "Dr. Jack" Monday night at Film Forum? If so, would anyone like to go?
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 15 October 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
seen it, it's good. I'll be resting.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 October 2012 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
saw Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D at Fim Forum and it was rad
― Mary Ty$ Band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 October 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
no idea how i'll feel tomw night, but Genghis Khan at MoMA looks promising:
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=855997&publicationSubCategoryId=70
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
any thoughts on this lineup?:
http://www.afi.com/afifest/pdf/AFI_FEST_2012_Quick_Guide.pdf
reading that the carax was well-liked at NYFF but i saw a short film that he made with that denis lavant character and thought it was terrible. i've heard good things about 'post tenebras lux' also.
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
if you're talking about his segment in Tokyo!, then that character is only in one scene. Heard it's great though.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Carax can try one's patience enormously, but I liked Pola X, so wd try this. He makes a film every dozen years or so now, pace Kubrick.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that's what i was thinking of. also it conflicts with the memphis 3 doc. hmmm
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
spose i wouldve taken a flyer on Tabu and Leviathan if i hadnt missed the whole NYFF.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
i've heard good things about 'post tenebras lux' also.
so awesome donna, go
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
that festival has a lot of good stuff playing, btw. i didn't know anything about the film w/leila hatami but it sounds interesting.
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
etc has mentioned Pierre Etaix before, I will try to get to at least a couple things at the retro.
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/pierre_etaix#nowplaying
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
10th anniv screening of a great doc on Monday night:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/love-diane
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
Went to see the Etaix last night. Pretty good. He looks like a combination of Keaton and the Italian Totò.
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 October 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
It was pretty good, like his version of Three on a Couch (more good gags tho).
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
got into the spillover theater for 'hitchcock' last night at AFI fest, and i have tickets to 9 more screenings between now and wednesday. gotta stock up on visine and snacks...
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 2 November 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
so was Alma Reville the secret genius of Psycho?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
not so much the genius as the bulwark. it's kinda lightweight and i'm not crazy about certain casting choices but it's fun and, thankfully, funny
caught 'post tenebras lux' tonight...like apichatpong w. doing 'tree of life' or something. bizarre and beautiful and i didn't totally understand it but i want to see it again!
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Saturday, 3 November 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
MoMA's showing Tenebras and a lotta other acclaimed stuff on their annual Contenders series:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1326
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link