All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

+ Eugene Pallette And Edward Everett Horton!

geez, I get outta work early today -- anyone for Made in USA at 4:40?

You still thinking about doing this?

YES

are you a FF member? Go in on my double discount card.

Thanks, but I re-upped this year so I got my own. Not quite sure I can make it though.

I went at 8:20; so crowded.

think i'm gonna catch some of these finnish melodramas at AFA today, one of which apparently has a "stella dallas" thing going on so i expect i'll be happy

(SD itself is screening at walter reade on feb. 13 for the lonely hearts club. i wonder if that'll be more crushing than seeing umbrellas of cherbourg on v-day at film forum like i did several yrs ago)

havent gone to MiUSA yet... i saw that Finnish SD! good.

thats the silent Stella Dallas!

Jeanne Dielman at FF for a week starting tom'w

isn't akerman having a retro somewhere? maybe not even in ny. but it sounds interesting; i've always wanted to see toute une nuit.

http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2009/01/q-with-chantal-akerman-jeanne-dielman.html

i might try to catch jeanna this weekend. the anthology are playing ordet, but without subtitles, which is frustrating because seeing one of the tuovo pictures showing just made me want to see ordet on a screen.

They are speaking Danish it's true, but they are speaking it VERY SLOWLY so maybe you will have a chance of understanding it.

i kinda thought about going because i have a hazy memory of what happens and it isn't like it's dialogue driven. i'd go to watch the camera move alone. but maybe next time.

schlump, BAM is having a Dreyer retro soon -- March? wait til then.

JANE in person @ IFC:

FTA (1972, Francine Parker), the Vietnam War-era documentary, will be shown in a rare archival screening with former FTA cast member Jane Fonda in person, Monday, February 2 at 7:00pm. Following the screening, Jane Fonda will talk about the film and her work in the controversial antiwar touring show in a discussion moderated by David Zeiger, director of the recent documentary Sir, No Sir! A portion of the proceeds from the evening will benefit Iraq Veterans against the War, a nonprofit advocacy organization for ending the war and for providing support to returning service members.

“The show the Pentagon couldn’t stop,” the FTA (which stood for Free Theater Associates, and also Free - or another F-word - The Army) revue brought antiwar entertainment to military personnel at the height of Vietnam. Performers like Ms. Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Holly Near toured towns near military bases around the US and overseas, lending their support to troops who opposed the war. The film documents the troupe’s performances at US military bases on the Pacific Rim - Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines - as they attempt to encourage opposition to the war among the rank-and-file of US forces.

Tickets to this special event are $12 for IFC Center members, $15 for non-members.

xpost:
Here are a few key Danish words and phrases to help you

mor = mother
far = father
farvel min pige = goodbye my girl
en kop kaffe = a cup of coffee
jeg vil gerne ha en kop kaffe - I would like (would gladly have) a cup of coffee

"BAM will also host retrospectives honoring Paul Newman (March 20-29), Danish auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer (March 13-31) and Japanese helmer Nagisa Oshima (April 1-14)."

those keywords neatly summarise the plot of ordet. i think a lot of the crazy guy's muttering goes unsubtitled anyway.

thanks for the bam info; the garrone season looks interesting too. oshima and dreyer retros should be great.

only related by virtue of being an italian film, there should be the new sorrentino that was playing at the festivals soon, right?

I think those keywords account for about half the dialogue.

jeg vil gerne ha en kop kaffe - I would like (would gladly have) a cup of coffee
Forget some letters, it should be
jeg vil gerne have en kop kaffe

Sirk vs Stahl?

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?show_date=2009-01-28

Sirk wins in every showdown I've seen (ya, every = both).

haha at Eric's new screenname.

i plan on hitting up sirk/stahl double feature tonight (when tomorrow comes/interlude)

I'm not sure I can do both -- of course, the Sirk isnt til 9.

Dave Kehr on Interlude: "For once Douglas Sirk seems totally defeated by the material, though he does manage some characteristically intense work near the end."

Fingers w/ Toback q&a on Sat:

http://filmlinc.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/like-quentin-tarantino-maybe-you-have-some-questions-for-legendary-filmmaker-james-toback/

dave kehr OTM, it was a bit flat. the stahl was fantastic tho

of course, I thought it was tonight. can't read. :(

Too much looking at intranets makes you go blind.

oh, WTC shows again Sat @ 4:30.

Reade has Oscar Micheaux / prewar black cinema series upcoming. I think I've only seen OM's fallen-preacher silent Body and Soul w/ Robeson, but some of his sound films are supposed to be unearthly strange.

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/micheaux/program.html

and then Film Comment Selects, w/ Guy Debord retro:

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/fcs09/program.html

The Frontier of Dawn & the guy who did duck season should be interesting.
i might catch just the stahl picture at the anthology on sunday.

I've only seen the preceding P Garrel film (Regular Lovers) and found it mostly stultifying despite dashing Louis' presence.

can't think of anywhere else to discuss this - has anyone made it to the class yet?

nope. I will, but my hopes aren't particularly high.

Thanks for the JM Stahl recommend, donna rouge!

Tom'w night I'm gonna try to do a Reade double of David Holzman's Diary and Scgrader's Blue Collar.

Jane Fonda only did Q&A for about 20 mins last night, a little white doggie in her lap the whole time. FTA is woth a look if you're into the period, but it's not of Winter Soldier caliber.

(FTA on DVD later this month)

the class is good. kinda reminded me of claire denis, it's bold enough to really discuss and present ambiguously, for the most part.

i got to stahl's magnificent obsession in the end and loved it.

& i have given up on paul schrader films entirely - is that the one he made last year?

glad you liked! the church sequence has stuck with me ever since i watched it

maybe it's even better than Love Affair (which I didn't realize was same year for Boyer-Dunne).

haha, no schlump, it's a '78 labor unrest film w/ maybe Richard Pryor's best acting role. Schrader says Pryor hit both Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto on the set.

re Oscar Micheaux, for Reade retro:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/life-comes-through-20090204

and Robt Downey Sr retro returns to Anthology:

http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/comedy/downey-sr-a-prince-but-also-a-man-possessed/

damn, trying to figure how I can squeeze in Chafed Elbows and No More Excuses!

gah, not sure i can do either this weekend, schoolwork starting to snowball again

Laszlo Szabo to do Q&A at Made In U.S.A screening at FF this Friday.

Japan Society "Shinjuku Ecstasy: Independent Films from the Art Theatre Guild of Japan" series, Feb 18-March 1:

http://www.japansociety.org/shinjuku_ecstasy

Throw Away Your Books, Let's Go into the Street has to be one of the best titles ever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/movies/11coop.html

^^yeah, pretty pissed off about this. this is a pretty bad time for film archives (and pretty much every other arts organization) right now

i'm down for funeral parade of roses

Wow, that really sucks. The FMC is necessary for most of these to be seen at all (particularly the parts of the collection that don't overlap with Canyon).

Like the kid in that photo, I was once a Co-op intern, and while I don't know all the details, it really doesn't seem like P.S. 1 would need all the space on that floor for the radio station (iirc, they've been running something similar from there for a while); the FMC collection fills only a small room. And even if they're able to find another space, moving all those films is a ton of work, as illustrated here.

a ton of potentially dangerous work if some of the prints are fragile (and i imagine in many cases they are)

Yeah, that's largely true, but the Co-op is primarily a distributor rather than an archive, so it's not like rare negatives are in danger of being destroyed. It's more a question of these movies' (relative) availability to the public than their existence somewhere.