All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

will do!

AFA's 'film as a subversive art' series looks incredible

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/40458

looks like The Cool World at FF today for me, have never seen it. Lead actor Rony Clanton at the 4:50 show.

^this was amazing

on the NY nuwave series:

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-new-yawk-new-wave

bummed i'm missing all that. i did see taylor mead's ass tho

essential italics missing?

by serendipity, Oshima films showing at MoMA tnite (Ceremony) and tomw (Shinjuku Thief)

haha yes xp

Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker doing a Q&A at FF after today's 4:40 show of Something Wild (Jack Garfein's, not Demme's).

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/killers_kiss_with_something_wi

Worth seeing that one if you haven't.

Finally using MUBI. Weird thing is that if I am not logged on I can see which films have just been added or about to run out of the 30 days but if I am logged on I can't seem to.

Oh wait, is that for people who are on the free trial.

Or is it the last gasp of the old policy

OK, I see. It is the difference between mubi.com and us.mubi.com. I guess the first is supposed to go away at some point soon.

Richard Kramer's low-budget revolutionary epic Ice at Film Forum tonight:

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=12168

Australian '70s/80s retro, Fred Schepisi Q&A tonight w/ The Chant of Jimmiw Blacksmith.

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/the-last-new-wave-celebrating-the-australian-film-revival

Kiarostami retro

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/a-close-up-of-abbas-kiarostami

and as prev noted, Amos Vogel faves

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/40458

and the Film Forum shows 66 from 1933! (Six with Cagney.)

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/nineteenthurtythree

can't wait for some of these - going to gold diggers/sitting pretty this afternoon

i'm gonna try to make Sitting Pretty at 6:30

...and i did. SJ Perelman was one of the 3 credited writers, and he had to have done one screenwriter-suicide joke. And Jack Oakie is always an elfin presence.

Badly wanted to see Ford's Pilgrimage tonight, but was exhausted and saw that there's a DVD in print.

i was there too - really liked the long tracking shots at the beginning (to say nothing of the fake busby berkeley, which compared favorably with some of the real busby berkeley of gold diggers)

probably gonna go to the 9:15 "baby face" showing on friday night

ive seen that one plenty, but never Christopher Strong!

Thinking of leaving the cozy homefires of streaming Cale and Criterions to venture out over the frozen wastes in to the Film Forum to see the double feature with the Sturges-scripted "Power and The Glory."

LA: jerry lewis marathon at cinefamily in march, with six of the screenings accompanied by a different hour of 'bonjour mr. lewis'. guess i'll finally *mumbles*seealloftheseforthefirsttime*mumbles*

id have to look up 'bonjour mr. lewis', no idea

Dennis Lim is the new FSLC Director of Cinematheque Programming.

http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/dennis-lim-film-society-of-lincoln-center-cinematheque-robert-koehler

nice

two films into the lewis marathon and yep, i'm a convert (missing 'the errand boy' with tashlin cartoons screening this weekend, tho)

the portions of the documentary they've been showing are pretty great too, lots of rare outtakes and home movie footage

tonight though, 'life and death of colonel blimp', which i fell asleep while watching the first time on TCM home sick

The Errand Boy has some good bits but not one of my faves. Bellboy much better.

New book on The Searchers looks intriguing.

anything especially worth seeing over the next week?

Too busy, haven't looked.

Malick-a-thon at BAM sunday.

http://www.screenslate.com/

Now I remember, Film Forum is redoing the Pierre Étaix festival. By popular demand.

Pierre Étaix

no the day the clown cried, no credibility!

thanks dan, that was a very helpful site

as i'm planning to go to moma on my visit anyway, i'm very tempted by the american avant-garde program there on weds at 1.30pm - do these screenings sell out?

also tempted, on the same day, by the screening of straub/huillet's class relations at this place called the bamcinematek

I went to an American avant-garde program today at 1.30pm, and no they don't. (Patron after Vorkapich and Maya Deren: "Terrible. 0-for-2.)

I'm going to see Wm Friedkin do a Q&A at BAM after Sorcerer next Thursday; he's there after Cruising on Friday too.

http://www.bam.org/film/2013/friedkin70s

If you've never seen this it's a must (tho I assume a DVD is coming):

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/voyage_to_italy

thanks morbs, that weds screening sounds like a lock for me then. the only deren i've seen is meshes of the afternoon, many years ago, which i really enjoyed, but i hadn't seen that much avant-garde cinema at the time (still haven't), so it poss had the strength of revelation

wow that sorcerer screening looks v tempting, assuming there are still tickets available? (i am still planning on seeing the yankees on friday)

re: voyage to italy:

What a strange and beautiful film Voyage in Italy is - wonder if Kiarostami knows it, parts of it def brought to mind 'Taste of Cherry' etc.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:11 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh, many pointed out that Certified Copy is kind of a remix! He most definitely knows it.

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there is a region 2 bfi dvd of it, btw, with an excellent commentary by laura mulvey

oh, that was you!

I had never seen Meshes til today, nor Bruce Connor's A Movie.

Sorcerer appears to be sold out alas.

:-(

It's possible I might go to that a-g program, not sure.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1371

Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai (Disorder)
2009. China. Directed by Huang Weikai. Assembling footage from a dozen amateur videographers, Huang Weikai presents a unique anti-city symphony of urban dysfunction that is alternately hilarious and horrifying. Pigs racing down a busy highway, government VIPs swimming in a polluted river, a hit-and-run victim being bribed to leave the scene, and an abandoned baby gawked at by passersby are all stranger-than-fiction visions that could never be aired on Chinese state television. These images represent both an alternative media culture of amateur videographers and viral video netizens, and the chaos seething through the cracks of a society in rapid transformation. Courtesy of dGenerate/Icarus. In Mandarin, Cantonese; English subtitles. 58 min.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 4:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Monday, May 27, 2013, 4:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2

this is a must-see fyi