All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

might see tommorow

the Anonioni comparsions making me curious.
though i'm not one of Antonioni's biggest fans - films from the pov of a mentally unstable character are always interesting, at least from the technichal aspect of directing.

"Holy Girl" is one of my fav films of the past 10 years (and La Cienega is excellent too), so I have high hopes for this one.

dug headless Woman! Need to see it again, I know some stuff got by me. It's like Haneke without the bullshit, ie not that much like Haneke.
Antonioni comp mostly due to mystery/ambiguous-reality element, her film doesn't look like his.

liked La Cienaga a lot, Holy Girl not so much.

If yer interested in next Thursday's single screening of Brit whatzit No Orchids for Miss Blandish at Film Forum, I advise buying an online ticket now:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/britnoir.html#orchids

i liked Headless Womam, though it looks more like an exercice in directing style than an actual "film". she uses the same shooting ideas most of the film over and over again, so you kinda get the point after a while,
(till of course the twist in the end, a-la Bunuel, which wraps everything nicely).
regardless, it's a good,original exercise in the combination between the camera use and the riddley storytelling,which together makes the viewer think,digging deep into the movie,trying to understand it - story and "message" wise.after all, thats the power of great cinema.

from the NY Times:

HILL-- Roberta, died on July 18, 2009 shortly after her 73rd birthday. Roberta was born in Washington, DC to Dorothy Dyar Hill and Robert Lindsay Hill. She was a consummate collector and animal lover. When she moved to New York in 1983, her love of cinema took center stage. She has been a fixture at almost every film festival and movie house in the City ever since, as captured in the film Cinemania (2002). She was a true New York character and will be missed by many.

A friend was told she had known her illness was terminal for months, but continued going to films.

400th-best film of all time (per TSPDT) showing @ Reade tonight:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/watershed/thecloudcappedstar.html

i don't know how much of this i can make but i would see everything i could. w/andersson in person:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/990

Daaaamn, that's hot.

Think I'll finally see this Monday:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/mason.html#pandora

also, NYFF tix on sale to gen public tomorrow. Only 2 films for me, pending increase in income.

AFA's fall schedule is up: directed by jerry lewis retro in november!

also roger corman, ulrike ottringer, warhol (inc. chelsea girls)

Last day of Odd Man Out.

Fat City and Claire Denis this week.

35 Rhums is one I've liked more than any of hers in years.

Did you like Nenette and Boni back in the day?

yes (google review of the recent disc)

Ah. Did you know that VBT was J4ck 4nstr31ch's ideal woman? At least back then.

(Misspelled his name anyway. Doubly g00gleproofed)

You don't have to G-proof him as long as he's doing stuff like this:

http://1linereview2.blogspot.com/2009/06/jack-angstreich.html

Still haven't made it to the FF this week. Wen to see Paradise at MoMA last night instead.

I'm trying to get to that when I'm twiddling my thumbs @temp sinecure.

35 Rhums is easily the best movie of the year.

it's hard to find something negative to say about it, which is another way of saying it's a masterpiece.

Denis is the best user of imageries in current movie making, and her subtle,silent humanity here ranks high as Ozu, (more than Koreeda in Still Walking - which look more like an Ozu film,but falls apart at the end of his movie with banality and over-written dialouges),with other influences as wide as The Dardenne brothers,

the rare,complex combination between abstract,realism and humanism is what make the film so great,along with the quiet and assured pacing which avoid social problems almost entirely,cause "they closed anthropology" (as oppose to what the Dardenne Brotehrs would have make with such a story - another clear influence on Denis here)

the Commodores dancingnsequence, the father-daughter horse riding on the train tracks, and the pots at the end are things to cherish.

I like it fine -- but I thought the depressed metro retiree subplot didn't quite work.

Still haven't seen it- it was held over so hopefully can go soon- so trying not to read about it on this thread.

i think it worked fine as a cmparison to the father soon-to-become-state, and how to deal with it.
the sequence that didnt work for me is the ellipse sequence in Germany. the film did rush in the end, with his sudden lapses of time, but it's a minor fault i think.

the best surprise about this film:
inserting yet a new blood for the we've-seen-it-all-family-drama movies

anyone seen Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die? Two-plus hours of John Gavin seems dicey! At BAM tom'w, I may go to the 3pm because of baseball.

Saw it back at the Public many years ago. You gotta go!

Tarr-nation!

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-10-20/film/s-aacute-t-aacute-ntang-oacute-turns-15-moma-throws-serious-party/

I recommend that you all see LOOT today (Monday) at IFC: http://stfdocs.com/films/loot/

It's a fantastic, strange, emotional, eery documentary...

OK, doubt anyone went, but you can still catch it:
LOOT opens for a week at IFC starting on Nov 20th!

http://www.hammertonail.com/monologues/loot-at-stranger-than-fiction/

Shatner in Corman's astounding Intruder tom'w night

http://www.villagevoice.com/events/the-intruder-1460597/

Jerry Lewis retro @Anthology. I'll be at Three on a Couch either this Sat eve or a week from Thursday.

Three on a Couch is pretty fantastic, imo.

Sylvia Prieto at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday.

Tonight at 7:00, FF has special members only screening of My Dog Tulip and special Swedish Consulate screening of Mauritz Stiller's The Saga of Gosta Berling. Think I'm going to try to go to the Stiller.

Three on a Couch is pretty fantastic, imo.

Jeez, you and comedy! It had its moments (about 3).
I saw the Marker doc Le Joli Mai before.

Looks like I'm skipping Garbo at FF tonight for Police, Adjective at MoMA.

Morbs, you missed something pretty spectacular.

what can I tell ya, this time of year seeing new releases for free takes precedence.

I overheard the following conversation as I was walking out:
"That one character, how did she fit in?"
"She was the MacGuffin."

that was My Dog Tulip?

No Gösta Berling. It had a long involved plot and lots of young women were in love with the title character. In fact the the third line of that conversation was "She was the second love of his life."

Jeez, you and comedy! It had its moments (about 3).

Do you not find any of Lewis's previous six movies funny, either? Because afaic they share the exact same pulse.

No. He didn't write 3oaC, and its relatively conventional narrative tendencies clash with his abstractions and protractions (ie, the 200 people exiting an elevator scene).

I mean, Fritz Feld is in it and he doesn't even pop his mouth!

He didn't? To the trash heap with it!