"The Bride Wore Black" is not that good.
Might try to catch Mario M at MoMA, easier to get to, but I'm drowning in film catchup as always.
I've seen more Lupino Lane than anyone under 85 should have.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
ewwww, film ketchup
― GREENS (the putting kind) (donna rouge), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Were I in NYC and feeling bold I might attempt the superfecta of Yang films on Saturday. Alas.
― GREENS (the putting kind) (donna rouge), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Really? Should I go to the Diego Rivera preview at MOMA, instead?
I saw Charlie Chase last Saturday.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2012/03/04/detail/news-from-home-with-chantal-akerman
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
Cool, thanks.
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
anyone seen Ken Jacobs' Seeking the Monkey King?
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2012#showing-38437
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
now I have.
2 rare Bressons Tuesday night at FF.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
Would like to see some of the Bressons on the weekend but who knows. Also want to see Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and A Separation.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
the Jones-Rosenbaum article on Godard alluded to that obscure Bresson.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da was good. j "That Jackass" Hoberman otm
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Film Comment Selects has some wows & WTFs:
http://www.filmlinc.com/press/entry/fslc-announces-12th-edition-of-film-comment-selects-february-17-march-1
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace is wonky and unwieldy but I still liked it.
Role Models is solid but I'd like to read the explanation for its inclusion.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
cuz Wain has a newer film due they couldn't get?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
No, they're showing the new one too
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
ok, a 2fer
bought my Satantago ticket for Sunday; when i get out it will be BASEBALL SEASON
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
Don't hold your breath
― POLL Removal Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I should just ask KJB what the best underssen Wellmans are!
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/wellman
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
J Hobrerman?
― Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Hoberman, even
Shame that FF isn't showing OTHER MEN'S WOMEN. Those Forbidden Hollywood DVDs that have the pre-code Wellmans are pretty crummy.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 2 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
It's George Kuchar weekend
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/38584
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
helluva weekend btwn those programs, robert nelson, 'my hustler' and james whitney!
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
also whoa @ that wooster group series
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Folks,
I'll be in NYC during March 23 - 25th (Pop Conference time)... is anything good playing? I'm not v. interested in the Sara Driver retrospect.
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
j0e, there is also a Raquel Welch retro at W.Reade w/ Raq doing several Q&As. :o
remy, I think it's too early to know. French showcase is early March:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2012
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh, there's this in late March; my friend is co-curating a series of European silent comedy shorts from 1908-14!
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1253
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Program 3: Mass Destruction looks promising...
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://spectacletheater.com/middletown-thin-slices-of-america
would be psyched to catch some/all of middletown in a couple of weeks. i've only seen seventeen, which is a must.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
I don't remember ever reading about those films.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
there's a long article somewhere that coincided with the dvd rerelease last year; iirc tape store is a big fan. seventeen's just terrific; i just saw 45365, which has that flickering-portrait-of-a-town-through-vignettes thing going, & even though seventeen's focus is ostensibly school, teenagers, &c, it has the same effect, it somehow catches way more than it films, & is like the ur-text of high school ups and downs, like a verite take on one of the weird fast times/dazed & confused things (i can sorta feel this comparison alienating you but really it's good). i like it a bunch anyway. i don't know so much about the other eps.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
Seventeen is a thousand times better than the others. They're probably worth seeing -- the Leacock in particular -- but mostly because they give a sense of how deeply ingrained and unthinking that kinda modified direct cinema approach had become by the early 80s (there's a great, vicious Bill Nichols piece about this). The whole project doesn't add up to much.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
Lucian Pintilie retro @ MoMA -- I loved The Oak 20 years ago. Who's seen others?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1251
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not me.
― Averroes's Search Engine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't think I'll have time to see any of the DCPs of the classics at Film Forum -- I bet Strangelove is sold out already.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
who go to Zulawski films @ BAM? The plot summaries are exhausting.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
i'm going to try to catch a zuul or two. i think i'd be more excited about dcp if more of the selections weren't things you can catch at ifc around the corner every weekend midnight, yknow? (did 5 easy pieces though)
also, hi, im snack.
― snack, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know IFC was showing those films digitally yet... tho apparently we may never see 35mm prints of any of them again. Tragic.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
I doubt I will end up seeing any of them. The one scheduled for today is probably the most appealing to me but I don't feel like going.BAM is showing Shoah on March 25th. The director will be there. It is one screening, with breaks. I can't make it. Now I am thinking of just getting it on DVD. Apparently it's available as an import from South Korea.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
you might check if any NYC stores will rent you OOP Shoah discs.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Do you have any suggestions as to where? On the one hand, I don't know that it is something I would want to watch repeatedly, so renting might be a better way to go.On the other, I guess I like the idea of having it so I could just watch when I find the time and the correct mood, rather than being "forced" to watch in an alloted time period.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
well, I saw it in two big chunks at the Cinema Studio theater in the late '80s, so no sympathy there. :)
These guys have a lotta stuff:
http://worldofvideonewyork.com/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the link, I will check it out.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
BAMs march calendar is p great, i would go to a lot of stuff if i lived here, including Q&A sesh w/ james gray @ the end of the month
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
goin to anythg else this week?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
i wish i could! today was really it, unless i find something worth hitting during the afternoon tmrow or fri
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
maybe will do 'the oak' @ moma @ 4 tomorrow
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
didn't realize we were having concurrent zulawski retros (going to a later-than-i'd-like screening of 'possession' tonight)
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Our retro has better weather
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I guess the Stalker screening/panel (Walter Murch, Francine Prose, Phillip Lopate and Zona author Geoff Dyer) at the New School Saturday eve should go here too
http://nyihumanities.org/event/tarkovsky-interruptus
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link