All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Not film, but I hope to catch some of this next weekend:

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2011/02/11/detail/tv-party-a-panorama-of-public-access-television-in-new-york-city/

yes, go! my grad colleague is co-curating it, really wish i could go

haven't been able to make a single one of the Soviet actions films @ Reade yet, of course. Aiming for 7:10 tonight.

New Directors/New Films lineup:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2915

tix still available for Deneuve introducing Repulsion at BAM tonight.

Seriously? Are you going?

no idea yet. perhaps not.

I checked and it seems you can't buy the tix online.

First time I ever saw Repulsion was a 3 a.m. showing on TV about 30 years ago. Creeped me out tremendously.

VP, it appears you can, here:

http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=40

also, not til 9:40. sleepy sleepy sleepy

Yeah, that's kind of late to be stuck in Brooklyn watching Repulsion, but Catherine Deneuve!

Could just hang out in the lobby and wait for her to walk to the car at 9:45!

Thieves & Genealogies of a Crime are both super, btw

Seriously, don't encourage me, because I would do that!

Manuel DeLanda at Anthology all weekend. Bummed I can't make it. Raw Nerves really blew me away -- it's concerns are familiar, but I've never seen anything else quite like it -- and these are hard to see. Good weekend at MMI too: Great batch of Resnais' and the David Perlov diaries.

I saw Muriel last week--it was quite boring. Going to try to catch Providence with Dirk Bogarde.

Muriel, boring?

seconding 'raw nerves', it's a blast

iirc it was his senior thesis film at SVA?

I liked Muriel. plz tell me Providence is not this weekend? ive been wanting to see it for 30+ years.

Not this weekend: don't worry. In a couple of weeks.

Which Resnais should I see this weekend? Is "I Want to Go Home" good? Other choices: Je T'aime, Je T'aime (seen it), Stavisky, Far From Vietnam, Not on the Lips.

I didnt care for Not on the Lips, otherwise unable to help.

off topic, but i'm working on the assumption that this thread is a honey-trap for film fans on ILX:

which raul ruiz should i see, first, availability pending? i think i have access to three crowns of a sailor. fwiw, i'd maybe be inflicting it on some others, too, so something vaguely enjoyable or interesting would be a plus.

it'd be nice to have a general film thread for general film geeking right now. i'm all full of enthusiasm for archipelago, & need to find counsel on where to go from here with eugene green films; don't know that there's a rolling arthouse thread, or whether one's worthwhile.

I'll let snobbier film snobs answer the above. Just wanted to say that over the weekend I saw "Mon Oncle d'Amerique" -- super amusing.

Don't think Three Crowns is really the one to see, sorry. Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting or On Top of the Whale maybe.

tons of his I haven't seen, but my faves from the '90s are Genealogies of a Crime, Three Lives and Only One Death, and the Proust movie.

Yeah I start with "Time Regained" then " Three Lives..." Then track down "Combat D'amour en songe " (sic) which is stellar.

has anybody been to this Indie Screen theater on Kent Ave in W'burg? It's the only place Cold Weather is showing now.

http://www.indiescreen.us/?page_id=74

Five Japanese Divas series starts tomorrow at FF.

Good series. Mother and Repastare among Naruse's best, iirc.

I know i've seen Repast, not sure abt Mother

Might try to catch The Life of Oharu.

So the new FSLC screens open in June:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/movies/film-society-of-lincoln-center-readies-art-house-complex.html

Maybe this means we won't have to wait YEARS before Film Socialisme gets shown again?

Life Of Oharu still amazing. Hope I can get to more in this series.

Holy shit, this is a godsend: http://altscreen.com/

looks good

They have to add Spectacle. That little theater is showing amazing stuff. I subscribed to their feed and can barely tell when things are playing. They need a new website.

Yeah, totally. Though it's still unclear to me how underground that place wants to be. They seemed super hush-hush at first, but they have received a bunch of fairly high-profile mentions since then, so who knows.

I haven't been. It looks small...is it an OK place to see movies? Sometimes if a place is that small, I'm not sure if it's worth it!

Ha, well it depends what you mean by "OK". It's very comfortable, but it's not agonizing either (a little more legroom than Film Forum, at least). It seems like a lot of the stuff they show is from torrents and run from a drive, which could be a problem, image quality-wise. Everything I've seen there has looked okay, but I've only gone a couple times. But it's cheap, and they show stuff you're not going to see projected anywhere else, which is enough for me.

Why isn't there a rolling movie thread after award season? Is this it?

this thread mostly covers limited-release/repertory screenings that happen in nyc

never heard of Spectacle

Thank you for the explanation, donna rouge

very DIY/punk little venue:

http://spectacletheater.com/

showing some pretty serious stuff.

very well might go there at 4:50 for The Immortal Story

http://rooftopfilms.com/blog/2011/04/announcing-our-15th-annual-summer-series-lineup.html

This doc lineup is insane, includes most of my favorites of the past year (highlights: LA BOCCA DEL LUPO, FAMILY INSTINCT, EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY LIFE OF JOSE GONZALEZ, AT THE EDGE OF RUSSIA, FAKE IT SO REAL)

Have heard great things about almost all of the narratives.

havent bothered w/ all these Rudy Wurlitzer-penned films I've already seen at Anthology, but might try Glen and Randa tnite at 7.

A bunch of great stuff at MoMA's Cinema Tropical thing this weekend. Historias extraordinarias and Tropic of Cancer are among the best movies of the last decade imo.