All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

sheeit, Voyage to Italy is only playing once in Reade's Farber series, tomw at 6:30.

$48 for Bogdanovich talking to Jerry Lewis. I'd be tempted if I hadn't seen Jer in Damn Yankees.

http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/timescenter/events.php?month=11&year=2008&day=22

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/movies/homevideo/09dvds.html?ref=arts

yeah, I might be able to get through that box over my remaining lifespan. (The Keaton and Sturges boxes that I own have hardly been touched.)

I watched all the Sturges box a few times except for the science pic, which I still haven't seen.

It's fascinating! as far as I recall.

we should get to the movies some year, Ken ... don't know if there are possibilities this month.

Yeah, I'm kind of under a rock for the rest of the this year myself.

This weekend I am under my screener disc of Che.

I ordered that Borzage box a few hours ago. Fun times ahead!

everyone shd go see In the City of Sylvia at Anthology. Best nouvelle vagure film of the new century.

Laugh and Live: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks

December 17, 2008–January 12, 2009

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=10945&ref=calendar

Douglas Fairbanks was a thirty-five-year-old veteran of live theater when he made his first films in 1915 for D. W. Griffith's Fine Arts studio. There, he created the character of "Doug," a breezy, all-American go-getter who seemed to move effortlessly though life and across the screen. Still, Fairbanks never quite fit in with the Griffith ensemble, and within eighteen months he was working independently, eventually becoming one of the founders of United Artists in 1919. The following year, with the release of The Mark of Zorro, he moved into the production of big-budget costume films, averaging one a year for the rest of the 1920s.

This series—which takes its title from Fairbanks's 1917 book of the same name, in which he promoted his optimistic outlook as the key to happiness and success—celebrates the seventieth anniversary of MoMA's acquisition of the Douglas Fairbanks Collection. Jeffrey Vance, author of Douglas Fairbanks (University of California Press & Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2008), introduces the December 17 screening of The Gaucho.

it's the last day of a milos forman pic at BAM tomorrow. he did a q & a a week ago that i didn't know about - damn.

what's the anthology like? i might try and get to in the city of sylvia.

i saw in the city of sylvia tonight, it was great! tomorrow's the last day to see it i think. go go!

also best stalker film in awhile.

Anyone seen Schrader's Mishima? he's doing Q&A Friday at FF.

Haven't seen it and can't go, but I saw him on a panel once and he was very entertaining so I recommend you go.

man, i hope it isn't the last day, i wanna see the forman pic. mmmmmmmm.
i've seen mishima - not great, kinda like all his stuff. i saw him q & a on it and he was pretty interesting, funny stories about reagan getting shot and subsequent fbi phonecalls etc. some of the glass score is great, particularly when re-done by the kronos quartet.

but ehhh.

yes, I've seen him a couple times, like at NYFF after 'the Bob Crane movie'

I quite like Blue Collar, Patty Hearst ... and Touch!

Saw Mishima last night, but left before the q+a.

patty hearst is so sanitised though. have you seen the docu, guerrilla? it's terrific. i saw it first, and the auster pic comes across as way too sympathetic. the original tapes of hearst's messages, telling her mom not to wear the black dress, are really amazing relics, but the film's kinda revisionist. i seem to remember that she was involved.

Never seen Patty Hearst. The only Schrader I like is Affliction and maybe Light Sleeper, but it's been years since I've seen it.

I have an extra ticket to this 1919 Douglas Fairbanks comedy at 6 tonight if anyone wants to join me. (If you're not a MoMA member I think I can get you in for $5.)

http://moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=11270

i saw in the city of sylvia tonight, it was great! tomorrow's the last day to see it i think. go go!

i saw and l o v e d this in the end, so thanks! ilx. imdb-ing tells me there's an interesting looking companion piece, if one goes to the lengths of tracking down the dvd.
i loved the anthology too. going in it felt like i was going to be watching a film in a school, with all the white plaster and molded chairs, but the cinema was great/surprisingly great.

I can't believe they put new seats in, at last.

If not exhausted, will go to Fairbanks' A Modern Musketeer at MoMA at 6.

Would anyone like to see Nicholas Ray's "Bigger Than Life" perhaps tonight at Film Forum?? I just read
the very interesting New Yorker article that inspired the movie (there is a pdf of it at the FF site).

http://www.filmforum.org/films/bigger.html

That's a great movie, Virginia, you should definitely go.

i'm going to see bigger than life at some point, am not sure which screening though ..?
i've alwaysw been dying to see his 'they live by night'.

I've seen it once, will prob go again Monday eve tho.

I'm seeing it tonight. I've wanted to see this for a long time.

something about filmforum makes me sleepy. i have to buy tea to make sure i can last through.
i might go to 7.50 or 9.50 tonight anyhow.

I saw it years ago at the Thalia, back in the 80s.

How much are tickets at Film Forum? I can't find any info on their website

They're $11 now, I think.

To see a movie in mice-infested theaters with seats less comfortable than those at places with a lot less money.

Dear god, that's insane.

All they do is show movies Criterion Collection gives them to promote upcoming DVD releases

brut stanton ruining my thread.

That's more about what Rialto distributes and at least they're showing prints. It's the IFC Center that just screens (or used to screen) Criterion DVDS at full price.

I was going to swing by to catch Bigger Than Life, but $11... that's a real chin scratcher there.

Well, it's probably healthy for you to vary what you scratch.

$11 is fine for a film that doesnt seem to be on the DVD horizon. Plis u shd be a member.

caveat: most of the under-40 FF audience will laugh all the way thru BtL.

James Mason here I come.

I'm glad the FF guffaws were mostly confined to "God was wrong!"

Anyone going to Playtime at Reade tonight? $15, $12 members.

i'm not, but you should: it's such a great film to see projected, both aesthetically and with the ambient sound design.

I've seen it projected at least 3x, and still may go tonight.

Jacques Tati's "Playtime" - restored print

since we're here: i was flicking through the anthology film archives catalogue for the next few months, and then for the last few months, and noticed that i'd missed a robert frank retro. so bummed out. i'd heard cocksucker blues was playing, which i've seen projected once, but i can't believe i missed me and my brother etc. did anyone go? is anything else momentous on the horizon? i moved here just after that total eustache run a while back and still kick myself ...

No, I missed all that Frank, incl Cksuker.

I'd call the Kuchar brothers' retro at Anthology from March 11-17 pretty momentous. I've seen just about everything of theirs that's been shown locally in the last 15 years, but this is probably the most of their work that's been shown in one place since George's retro at AMMI around '93. Their shorts, esp from the '50s and '60s, are indescribable... like a Kenneth Anger fan's ramshackle dream of John Waters?

oh cool. i really ought to get around to seeing those kenneth anger shorts dvds too. the next few months of anthology screenings kind of mystified me, but i might chance some of the new filmmaker nights etc.

i have a great copy of cocksucker blues at a friend's - it's an amazing film, a tapestry of well-observed short takes and moments, so identifiably by frank. you're welcome to borrow if i can retrieve my copy. i believe the retro preceded an expensive dvd release of some of his stuff.

btw, did silent light only just come out here? i saw it forever ago but keep thinking of it.