All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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.

climaxes w/ most surreal abstract courtroom sequence ever.

I think my Kuchars sched is Friday 9pm, Saturday 5 & 7, Tuesday 7.

The color is as stupendous as is some of the later Sirks;

yeah, it's like le mepris or something. totally great.

OK, went to see this last night. Lives up to the hype.

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.

last Kuchar programs tnite at 7 & 9

What should I see from the BAM series of Nagisa Oshima films?
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1017

as much as possible.

S/D: Nagisa Oshima, renegade filmmaker

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

planning on BAM Oshima tomw & Thurs.

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

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.

Also, I'm starting to dip my toes into the distribution world. What theaters do you guys recommend for documentaries? Rooftop? IFC? BAM?

IFC deffo (not that i go to many of them but they've got the whole stranger than fiction series)

Film Forum premieres a lot.

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?

the first of those sounds like FF, second IFC.

Thanks!

If you need to contact anybody at the Film Society At Lincoln Center these days, you'll have to go straight to the top, Richard Peña, as he seems to be the only one left over there.

you/someone mentioned the dardenne/french film before, and i remember struggling to find much of a presence online. good luck anyhow.

Yeah, that's mostly because it's being promoted under its Portuguese title in France. Also because it's obscure.

Also, another reminder: Forbidden Lie$ is playing at Cinema Village and you need to see it. Without doing any research, really, i'm not joking.

Also, Time Out's review is painfully wrong, perhaps the worst blurb of the year.

"Yesterday's news"? Like WTF, did you even get the point of the film? Or watch past the first 25 minutes?

Ayo, http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/forbiddenlies

think i will get to Oshima 4:30 @BAM, Three Resurrected Drunkards

dr spaceman was excellent as norma's husband in forbidden lies

Chaplin Essanays @ NY Hist Society on CPW at 2

http://www.silentclowns.com/nowshowing.html

any tribeca plans?

nope! :D

looks like i am going to see moon... blank city... the eclipse... defamation?

what else is good playing at tribs? honestly the line-up is not wowing me.

is it true they "downsized" this year? their unwieldiness i found kinda offputting in the past

i am new to this and was totally thinking i could wait the long-ass time until denizens of the tri-state area could get tickets for things like whatever works. bummer. now i have to read through all the enthusiastic recommendations for horror imports.

85 films in it, down from 200+. I've seen 3 or 4, all underwhelming. Their press screenings are barely organized.

anything in particular you're looking forward to morbs?

what have you seen?

Rudo y Cursi - the "Tambien" brats in an even MORE insufferable comedy!

Easy Virtue - wrongheaded Noel Coward adap where they try to make the characters REAL.

Might try that Brit In the Looop today.

the line-up isn't that inspiring i gotta say. there's not that much to tempt me away from chillin with my nyc friends and eating things... one or two movies a day max

have you seen Treeless Mountain? or do you want to see Viridiana at Film Forum maybe Friday?

i haven't! and when is viridiana playing?

it starts at Film Forum on Friday. Treeless Mt just started there too.

also, there's a Shirley Clarke fest @ Anthology.

I can unreservedly recommend In the Loop, but IFC is releasing it in May.

Someone else told me the same thing. Thinking about seeing it at the FF members brunch, but might take the kids to see the Harold Lloyd instead.

also John Hurt is very touching playing Quentin Crisp again in An Englishman in New York, but it doesn't approach the earlier film.

FF Members Brunch was lots of fun. Bruce outdid himself.

any of you catch IL DIVO/anyone as enamoured as i was?

it sounds awesome from everything ive read
how long until its in non-snob theaters, if ever?

there's something on a blog about how it's been ghettoized into just the film center and sunshine, but will come out at some point. it's a masterpiece anyway: i like sorrentino's last two films plenty but could call him my favourite director after this - the function of the production design and cinematography, the language of the film, ahh.

I liked, gave it 3 stars outta 4, but it's sort of limited -- you keep waiting for Toni Servillo to bend his performance to let more "naturalism" at least peek through, but the only new color after the first 5 minutes is that very theatrical confession scene.

Directors' Late Films @ BAM -- I'm thinking mostly about Cracking Up on Tuesday, then Aldrich and Wellman.

http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1051