All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

no idea if I can catch the Sunday twinbill yet, wd like to see Waterloo Bridge.

via Rolling Doc:
Dear NYC,
You should seriously see LOOT and BIG RIVER MAN: http://www.ifccenter.com/

http://www.lootmovie.com/trailer.php?page=trailer

Ignore the reviews of LOOT, which seriously piss me off. Here's Karina Longworth on it:
"Darius Marder’s feature debut, which debuts on HBO in May, tracks two WWII veterans in their longshot quests to recover pillages valuables hidden since the end of the war. As much a film about the vagaries of memory and post-traumatic stress as it is a portrait of the charismatic car salesman-turned-treasure hunter who guides the veterans (one legally blind, the other blinded by his own hoarding habit), what’s most impressive about Loot is the way the narrative unfolds so effortlessly, with impeccable timing. It’s absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime story, which is not to say that the filmmaker simply got lucky: Marder doesn’t appear in the film or offer narration, but his presence, patience and diligence, his innate understanding of how to hook an audience, is felt in every frame."

And AJ of Alll These Wonderful Things:
"A thoroughly surprising, beautifully rendered look at loss and discovery that is as fresh and unexpected as the great, lost, no-star, indie narratives of the 1990s. Its provocative hook - a documentary about a treasure hunter - could almost overwhelm the simple, low key and alternately devastating and satisfying pleasures of this under-the-radar film. Despite its jury triumph in Los Angeles (and the check that came with it), the film has kept a low profile through the fall but it deserves full exposure as a fresh and provocative take on the nonfiction genre. A huge debut for director Marder."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce432_JmdB8
Manohla on BIG RIVER MAN: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/movies/04bigriver.html?hpw
Robert Koehler: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939358.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

fellow screwballs, shd I see If You Could Only Cook today?

http://www.filmforum.org/films/madcapmanhattan.html#if

You should. I would like to, but I think I am sticking to Queens today.

Playtime at MoMA at 8pm! I can't do it...

My Dinner w/ Andre Redux on Wednesday!

At Lincoln Center.

My first response was who's Andre Redux?

It's an Outkast side project tribute to John Updike.

(Sorry)

Missed the whole FF Madcap Manhattan series. Tonight is the final night with Taking Off and A Thousand Clowns. Milos Forman will be there.

Did you go see A Thousand Clowns? I liked it when I saw it a long time ago.

Nope. Didn't make it.

anyone feel like Stray Dog at 7?

Ha, I just came to post that I might try for the one before that.

I did Stray Dog on Monday!

i'm thinkin about getting a Film Forum membership and seeing as many of the films in the Kurasowa fest as possible

You won't regret it.

WGW, I somehow didn't know you lived here.

I do! i'm gonna do "Hidden Fortress" today!

I figure I have to see 13 movies for the membership to pay off, so i'm gonna get crackin

Houzu (House), the japanese cult movie was a pretty well spent 12.5$ i'd say.
idiotism made to perfection, if youre a fan of the genre.

will try to hit some Wiseman:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1028

i'm probably going to one of the shows tomorrow depending on what time i wake up

i went to their our hospitality/sherlock jr double feature on wednesday and had the best time ive had at the movies in a while

and that film forum documentary series theyre starting next week looks really good. basically moma is on fire right now

anyone seen this?

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/house/

Any weekend MoMA doc recommendations? Several I might be interested in, like Karl May, are also on DVD -- which aren't?

THE MIRROR and NOTICIAS are awesome

thx TS

also 45365 is great and AGRARIAN UTOPIA is one of the most gorgeously shot films I've seen this past year. CONSTANTIN AND ELENA is a lovely film, though I just saw a Mexican doc that is EXACTLY like it and I prefer it

by 'prefer it,' i mean the Mexican doc, which still hasn't screened in the US

I'm really happy MOMA is picking up these films, wish we had room in our program for some of them

oops, NOTICIAS = NEWS

I wonder if anyone is at the FF seeing Thelma S introduce The Red Shoes?

saw the last run

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-02-23/film/the-films-of-william-e-jones-at-anthology/

Victor Fleming Festival is one week in and have seen nothing.

Also: Limited Tickets Remain For Select Rendez-Vous Screenings

saw Lonelyhearts -- much too slow bowdlerization of Nathanael West's "Miss L" -- in the Monty Clift retro at BAM; the reel went askew in the last 5 minutes, then the celluloid burned twice. (It was a 16mm print from some archive, acc to the theater apologist.)

Eddie Muller is introducing 7:40 show tonight of The Prowler.

OK, I got a ticket.

too tired, will see next week

I'll tell Eddie Muller you said hello.

I do not know the fella

early advertising:
one of my top three documentaries of last year (along w/ 45365 and BECAUSE WE WERE BORN), BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO, comes to Film Forum in May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO9vCcQsrZ4

AFA just released their april-june calendar; '45365' is getting a weeklong run (i tried watching it online but wandered off after about 20 mins, would like to give it another go)

also: kucharmania in april (i'll be missing most of it probably), pierre clementi, alain teller, 'punishment park'....

On Friday at the FF Bruce G was pushing the special screening tonight of The Docks Of New York. Would love to go but probably can't make it.

catching last night of Losey's Prowler at 7:40

donna rouge or ian going to go with?

dont think so

too bad for them.

ian doesnt see many old movies, that was a special occasion when you ran into us. And dr I always assume has schoolwork.

It's hard out there for a NYC ILX Film Snob.