All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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!

(Fritz Feld is from the '30s)

Sacrilege. When they had a guy on Lost In Space and on the Odd Couple doing that trick, was it actually Fritz Feld at that point or someone just copping his shtick?

Guess it was still him.

Today is last day of The Red Shoes. Might try for 7 or 9:30 show.

I just went to the 1pm, it was almost sold out.

The central ballet really makes the film.

OK, just reserved for the 7PM.

You are right, the central ballet really does make it. I always enjoy having seen this film but the actual sitting and watching it can be a little exhausting.