re Oscar Micheaux, for Reade retro:
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/life-comes-through-20090204
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
gah, not sure i can do either this weekend, schoolwork starting to snowball again
― charles bronson reilly (donna rouge), Friday, 6 February 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Laszlo Szabo to do Q&A at Made In U.S.A screening at FF this Friday.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 February 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/movies/11coop.html
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 February 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
^^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
― ORGASM REMIX (donna rouge), Thursday, 12 February 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
a ton of potentially dangerous work if some of the prints are fragile (and i imagine in many cases they are)
― ORGASM REMIX (donna rouge), Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe that Sicilian town will house them.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I love this guy
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's another good article about him.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 February 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Might go to 6/7:30 Depression double feature at the FF tonight.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I belong to a (semi-defunct) vintage comedy viewing group, one of whose members kept nitrate prints under the sink as a teen/YA. They exploded one day and totaled his parents' bathroom (no casualties).
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
trying to figure if i shd take double plunge tonight for Micheaux silent @Reade:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011870/
and then Vitaphone variety shorts at FF:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/breadlines.html#vitaphone
I've seen the Jolson picture, it's good.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 19 February 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I recently read a bunch of the Scott Eyman book about the transition to sound, so I'm pretty curious about the Vitaphones. Thanks for the tip. I might see you there.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 February 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
That was pretty good and nice to run into you at the end. Did you hear me trying to shout down the cacklers?
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 February 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
no. not at Will Hays I hope...
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 20 February 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Were you there for the Will Hays? They were hooting all the way through.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 February 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
a rare instance of appropriate hooting, imho.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 20 February 2009 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Even though it was Will Hays, it really bugged me all these people laughing at this guy acting like he was addressing a large theater audience and not knowing how to behave in front of a camera.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 February 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
the arm gestures were pretty choice.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 20 February 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP new yorker films:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/end_of_the_road_for_new_yorker_films_legendary_distributor_of_difficult_cin/
― the pink press threat file (donna rouge), Monday, 23 February 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
ouch. rip
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 February 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
yikes, so much March stuff!
http://sallitt.blogspot.com/2009/02/assorted-screenings-in-nyc-march-2009.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
has anyone made it to 12 at the filmforum? i might go tonight but need to plot a chart assessing quality/length (160 min).
― schlump, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
not me. no time for this or that Ferreri film @ BAM.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
if ferreri is the dillinger film, i think that's winning the battle for my evening. then stahl soon at filmforum!, too. i really regret not seeing more of the anthology retro.
wish i'd remembered about the film at the lincoln last night too
― schlump, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Hurt Locker tomw @WRT for me
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Kuchar Bros fest begins tom'w @ Anthology. Brilliant, hilarious precursors to John Waters, among other niches.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/events/a-lust-for-ecstasy-brand-new-20090311
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
hi today i got to fix some sprocket holes in the LoC print of the quiet man
i predict that maybe 1 person will find this at all interesting and that person probably posts to this thread
― double dutch bus schedule (donna rouge), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
present!
Catch Leave It to Heaven att ff if you haven't; about 25 ppl at my show, derisive chuckles from at least 6 throughout... The color is as stupendous as is some of the later Sirks; wow Gene Tierney on a horse with an urn!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, gotta see that. Saw about five seconds of some Scorcese doc about history of cinema and the clips from that really stood out. Plus look at the disparate group of characters that are repping for it on the FF website: guy that wrote some Godard books, guy that wrote some film noir books, Guy Maddin, and many of the usual suspects, among others.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
climaxes w/ most surreal abstract courtroom sequence ever.
I think my Kuchars sched is Friday 9pm, Saturday 5 & 7, Tuesday 7.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 March 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
The color is as stupendous as is some of the later Sirks;
yeah, it's like le mepris or something. totally great.
― deveraux billings (schlump), Thursday, 12 March 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, went to see this last night. Lives up to the hype.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 March 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
oh by the way: le mepris actually came to mind way more watching DILLINGER IS DEAD. did any of you get to it? i owe myself ferreri films now.
― deveraux billings (schlump), Friday, 13 March 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
last Kuchar programs tnite at 7 & 9
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
What should I see from the BAM series of Nagisa Oshima films?http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1017
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
as much as possible.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
S/D: Nagisa Oshima, renegade filmmaker
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
since my week is insanely imploding already, I'll probably screw it and go to the Dreyer silent at BAM tnite:
http://onfilm.chicagoreader.com/movies/capsules/6016_MASTER_OF_THE_HOUSE
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
planning on BAM Oshima tomw & Thurs.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link
forgot about that. i will probably randomly pick a couple. has anyone ever seen that bresson film that's really hard to get that's called something like four nights of a dreamer or something? one of the oshima pics reminded me of it, synopsis wise
― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
As posted on Rolling Documentary thread, you guys need to see this, imo it's one of the best documentaries of the past couple years (/ever). Don't do any research at all before you go to it, it could kinda ruin the experience.
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, I'm starting to dip my toes into the distribution world. What theaters do you guys recommend for documentaries? Rooftop? IFC? BAM?
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
IFC deffo (not that i go to many of them but they've got the whole stranger than fiction series)
― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Film Forum premieres a lot.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh, forgot Film Forum, I've heard good things!
I might as well get into specifics (I should point out that I'm not actually distributing either of these films, but I am trying to give advice). The first is a ridiculously well-shot film about poor br4zilian boys, looks amazing on a big screen. Kinda like Kiarostami. The director is a colleague of the Dardenne brothers. The other film is a surprisingly well-shot and well-edited coming-of-age doc that follows these Jackass-obsessed kids...sorta feels like cult classic material?
Does that change any answers?
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link