I see there is a week left on the MOMA Spain (Un)Censored series and Film Forum is stepping up to the plate with a Pietro Germi festival starting this weekend. Still some good things in the Spanish series, like The Executioner tomorrow, but don't know if I'll make any of it. Definitely will try to see at least In nome della legge at the FF.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 November 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometimes I regret living here; too much, too much...
Youngest MoMA audience I've ever seen last night for Night of the Living Dead, maybe 35-40. And the 8pm screening looked younger still.
I'm pretty sure I've never seen Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (BAM for the next week).
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
But you probably DID see the Madonna video that ripped it off.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
If it was after '86, don't bet on it.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
7pm Germi tnite? (i won't be online, off today)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Like to, but no can do.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I have tickets for the MOMI Todd Haynes thing that night, but David Gatten is programming an evening of films about water (including JJ Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign) at the WORK Gallery in Red Hook on November 10th.
― C0L1N B..., Monday, 5 November 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not seeing any movies until after the GREs
― impudent harlot, Monday, 5 November 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Paradjanov! I've seen that, it was about 10 years ago though.. gorgeous. The Madonna video that ripped off scenes was Bedtime Story.. I remember talking to some Armenian girls when on study abroad & mentioning this.. they were absolutely mortified..
― daria-g, Monday, 5 November 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
So you gave up on ILF too, huh?
― Eric H., Monday, 5 November 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
who, me? (I'm thinking this is gonna be mostly for local screenings) I didn't promise to start posting on ILF more, like SOME PEOPLE.
Tonight Paradjanov (esp if I decide not to vote), maybe tom'w Terror's Advocate, Thurs another Germi? all tentative.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I think he was talking about me. Actually I officially gave up around here. but I've started some threads over there since then, like my Germi thread, and these two: TS Carl Dreyer vs. Victor Erice I Don't Think He'd Have Given It To Me If I Had Hair Like EXCELSIOR Or Little Legs Like An Alligator
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Can anybody figure out where the hell the link is to get tix for the FF's Evening with Norman Lloyd on Nov 26?
http://www.filmforum.org/films/norman.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you can only buy 7 days in advance.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(unless it's I'm Not There)
even with Norman Lloyd cultists champing at the bit?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe you can pull some strings with Bruc3 G0ldstein?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually I officially gave up around here.
B-b-but that was the only thread there that had any life in it. Well, that and the rockism one.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
The ILF excelsior thread, however, is classsic as is.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Indeed.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
B-b-but that was the only thread there that had any life in it. Well, that and the rockism one. I can't find the thread where I stopped posting in parentheses and Morbius accused me of some Weekend At Bernie's behavior.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Memories.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
'S'all I got, and the few that remain are fading fast.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I got ticket to 9:30 Germi tomorrow, Thursday, which I intend to use, barring the not unlikely work, home or health emergency.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
ah, 5:30 for me.
Anyone seen any Marc Recha?
http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=161
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll take that as a no.
More Brakhage at Antholgy Sunday (Pittsburgh Trilogy)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a big Max Ophuls retro coming to BAM at month's end; don't see anything on their site, but here:
http://tinyurl.com/2zymrj
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 November 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
A friend of mine is trying to get me to go see Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation at The Anthology tomorrow or over the weekend. Looks like an interesting curiosity, but I dunno.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
UGH @ ophuls competing w/ sembene!!
the brief clip i watched of the adaptation looked awesome. i suggest you get on line REEEEEAL early if you end up seeing it, tho
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
in my GRE-prompted cinema ban i didn't realize i missed ALL of the germis (except for divorce, italian style which i've already seen)
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I am suspicious of Raiders Adaptation. For one, I haven't watched ROTLA 20x like everyone else has, apparently.
Also, Sembene v Ophuls v Pasolini.
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/pasolini/program.html
I would focus on the otherwise unavailable OS & MO.
Jiri Menzel is at BAM tonight w/ his latest, but I know nothing about it.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm suspicious too, but I may have to go out of a social obligation.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
the ophuls stuff is up on the website now, btw
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Why is Summer With Monika in the Times today? New print?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
yes. haven't seen it in eons.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone seen/seeing the Albert Ayler doc at AFA?
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 14 November 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I was sposta review it. They sent me a European DVD.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
If anyone has MIX tips, speak:
http://www.mixnyc.org/index.html
Maybe I'd go to the 11pm Friday shorts, if I'm up.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
after today, Divorce—Italian Style is only playing 9:20 pm at FF.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Get your Norman Lloyd tickets yet?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
no, but I see they're available.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, that's what I was trying to tell you.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
o i c
Divorce was cute. Why anyone thinks it's GREAT, I'm not sure.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 November 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw it years ago, didn't make much of an impression. Wasn't he Oscar nominated?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 November 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, it got several; Germi too?
I hv my N Lloyd ticket.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 November 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Hoberman on Sembene (and Ophuls, briefly):
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0748,hoberman,78462,20.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
If I go to see Salo, should I bring someone to hold my hand?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 November 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I would recommend any NY snob to see Letter from an Unknown Woman on its last night @BAM tonight; it fulfilled all of my expecs.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I would recommend any NY snob EVERYONE ON THE PLANET to see Letter from an Unknown Woman
fixed
― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Salò makes an even more problematic date movie than Jeanne Dielman!
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Ophuls and Sembene have taken over my December.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 December 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
there were maybe 15 people at last night's 7:45 show of Guelwaar.
I am trying to figure out how to squeeze in Skolimowski's Deep End...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 December 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
AFA is doing a full Weerasethakul retro in mid-Jan.
― C0L1N B..., Monday, 10 December 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
BAM is doing a Manoel de Oliveira centennial retro in Feb or March! I wonder if he'll fly in!?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, at last year's NYFF-screening of Belle toujours, Kent Jones or whoever basically said "uh, you guys didn't expect him to be here did you?"
― C0L1N B..., Monday, 10 December 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
He came to the NYFF about 6 years ago. Still, he was a sprig of 93 then.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
AFA seems to have retros planned for olivier assayas, charles burnett and albert brooks (!) as well
― impudent harlot, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
haha AND a new print of myra breckinridge!!
― impudent harlot, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
snobs, I think I can only make 1 tonight -- which? None are on DVD.
1) Camp de Thiaroye (Sembene) - saw it maybe 12 years ago, it's fine 2) Caught (Ophuls) - never seen 3) Deep End (Skolimowski) - never seen (last night of week run)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
What time is Deep End?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
7 & 9.
Ophuls is 7 only.
and I could only make 7:30 of Sembene (it's long).
I thought about running 10 mins to the F from BAM to get to Anthology, but the odds are vs that.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
as close as these places all are to each other they are also NOT CLOSE ENOUGH
(probably not seeing any of those tonight, trivia)
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess I will go to Ophuls and see if splices shorten the running time enough to dash to Deep End.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Any Joan Blondell fans in the house?
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=6736
also, FOSSE!
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/allthatfosse/program.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 December 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
also I'm going to try to take children to City Lights.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 December 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Otto!
http://www.filmforum.org/films/preminger.html
Expect I'll see Daisy Kenyon at last tomw night, tho I've seen Laura plenty.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
if i'd woken up at a reasonable hour today, i would probably be doing that
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Patricia Neal and Jill Haworth will be introducing next Tuesday's 8pm show of In Harm's Way at FF.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
If you feel like seeing some "Ford at Fox" on a big screen, which I'd recommend for some of the epics:
http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/mainpage/john_ford.html
Seen any Paskaljevic? I liked Midwinter Night's Dream and cabaret Balkan, haven't seen any older.
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=7195
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 January 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Any Japanese film snobs interested in some 60s action at the Japan Society on Friday?
http://www.japansociety.org/content.cfm/event_detail?eid=4517028a
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 17 January 2008 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Japan Society shows some great stuff with the one caveat that sometimes the prints are not so good (and sometimes 16mm although this says 35mm)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 17 January 2008 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
that's true.
I likely won't stick around for that as we get outta work at 3 Friday.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 17 January 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
thought you guys might dig these
http://originalalamo.blogspot.com/2008/01/heavy-metal-director-t-shirts.html
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 January 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm getting the herzog & bergmans.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"bergmans"
It's "Joe" weekend.
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule
Might try for shorts, tonight & tomw.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Joe"? Joe Dallesandro or Peter Boyle?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to try for Syndromes and a Century.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 18 January 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i still haven't seen syndromes, might try to make that sunday.
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Von Sternberg?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, I get it.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I might need a second look, it really left me intrigued but dubious. Don't know if there'll be time tho.
ken = relentless vaudevillian
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.chrisbeetles.com/img/pictures/artists/Snowdon/C25046-b.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Film Comment Selects in Feb: Rivette, Assayas, Seidl etc.
http://www.filmref.com/notes/archives/2008/01/2008_film_comment_selects_prog.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
gonna try to catch last year at marienbad at film forum tomorrow after work.
― sleep, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The Rivette is opening fairly soon, no?
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
think so
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(not that I'll go -- he's a boring old bastard)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, he's one of my favorites, but I've heard the new film is pretty dull.
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Va savoir was totally forgettable too.
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish!
Did yall catch Woman on the Beach? Good stuff! I liked Hong's Tale of Cinema too. Rohmer w/ hint of Charlie Kaufman.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I liked Woman on the Beach, but not as much as previous Hong. I hope he's not drifting too far into comedy of manners territory. I'd like to see it again, though -- is it still playing in the city?
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
not acc to Voice listings. I heard crowds were thinnish at FF.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
at least as of an hour ago, MoMA still has tix for tomw night's Bert Williams program:
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=7520
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Tribeca fest to slash prices, be more selective:
http://www.thereeler.com/the_blog/tribeca_comes_home.php
I bought 5 tix for Film Comment Selects, including Joy Division and the pair of fleischers.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 4 February 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
A little off-topic and I can't find any info online, but I heard that A1 Film Lab closed. It was easily the worst lab in the city, but it's always sad when businesses like this close and I guess it means that PacLab is the only place left to process super-8.
― C0L1N B..., Monday, 4 February 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Reade French series:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/rendezvous08/program.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 February 2008 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Tarkovsky's The Mirror, Reade 6:30
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Filmforum
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone caught any of the lin cheng-sheng series at AFA? saw two last night and enjoyed them both (murmur of youth = very un-typical first same-sex experience tale; sweet degeneration = tastefully done if slightly oblique man-on-the-skids-returns-to-alienated-family drama, with added incest subplot for good measure); the latter has tsai ming-liang regular lee kang-sheng in it, who i will watch in just about anything
― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, i read about those about a month ago. So many films...
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Punishment Park and State Legislature this weekend.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 22 February 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Mandingo at WRT tomorrow, I wonder if the audience will fracture...
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 February 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you going?
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 22 February 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
doesn't James Mason walk barefoot on a Nee-gro slave in that one?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 22 February 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
no, he rests his gouty feet on a boy slave. I think it's a provocative, flawed corrective to GWTW etc.
90 minutes of old & new stuff Kuchar brothers' stuff @Anthology, Thursday at 7:30 only.
Mike Kuchar TALES OF THE BRONX (1970, 16 minutes, 16mm) “From the elephant house of Bronx Zoo to the eight-story-tall Tabonga Terrace apartments on Sedgwich Avenue, living Mammals scream for their place in the Sun and drop heavy brown excretions in pots of porcelain that splash and clog and suck like huge toothless mouths on the lily-white mounds that lower into the hollow half submerged ovals, creating stagnant damp vacuums that cling and grab.” –M.K.
George Kuchar BLIPS (1979, 31 minutes, 16mm) “An enigmatic movie that’s like an enigmatic enema.” –G.K.
Mike Kuchar ZOOLOGY (2006, 20 minutes, 16mm) “It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existence is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions stirred up by memory.” –M.K.
George Kuchar VISTAVISIONS (2007, 15 minutes, video) “A tribute to people everywhere who spread their glorious visions on canvases both large and small, beaded or lenticular, glossy or mat finished. A joyous celebration of lofty peaks and deep dished delights all basking in the limelight of luminous imagery from the visionaries of tomorrow who create today so that yesterday is not forgotten.” –G.K.
Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess I'm going to Kim Ki-Young's The Housemaid tonight, as it seems I can't afford to miss.
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/infernalmachines/program.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Franju at Anthology? anyone seen HEAD AGAINST THE WALL?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 March 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
or THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX?
― edb, Friday, 14 March 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, Kael liked that one.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 17 March 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ok hoberman series @ BAM is killin' it this week: jeanne dielman tonight, rock n' roll high school/assault on precinct 13 (with free booze in between) tomorrow, and andrei rublev wednesday
― impudent harlot, Monday, 31 March 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
and for the sake of inclusion, a cloud-capped star on thursday, which i know absolutely nothing about
― impudent harlot, Monday, 31 March 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't deal with any of that, probably, esp as I am heading home tonight to watch opening day baseball. My only retro outing might be Planet of the Apes, and I want to see No Country while it's still in a theater.
http://www.clearviewcinemas.com/classics/classics-ziegfeld.shtml
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 31 March 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Not with a bang, etc
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone seen anything by Robert Breer, getting a retro @Anthology?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 April 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope.
I wonder what's playing at that Paris Underground cinema?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 11 April 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
rock n' roll high school/assault on precinct 13 (with free booze in between)
annoying sound issues aside, this was awesome
― impudent harlot, Friday, 11 April 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
During May it's going to be '60s, '60s, '60s:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/1968/program.html
http://www.filmforum.org/films/godards60.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://loewsjersey.org/
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Sarris & Haskell introduce Cluny Brown (good Lubitsch) tonight @Reade!
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 May 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
and tnite, T Schoonmaker intros an Archers film I havent seen:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/jenniferjones/gonetoearth.html
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 17 May 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Thelma did a generous 30-min Q&A.
For the Charles Boyer series, i highly recommend History Is Made at Night but won't be back from weekend trip in time.
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/charlesboyer/historyismadeatnight.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 May 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
There are a few Peter Hutton screenings left at MOMA. What I've caught has been really great so far.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 23 May 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Two of Dali's fave silents at MoMA tonight, The Freshman and The General.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
also, does anyone know which of these Robbe-Grillet films I should prioritize? (I don't mean Marienbad)
http://bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=194
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
are all the film snobs "summering" elsewhere?
Friday at 7pm at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Columbus & 58th St, a program of silents that feature NYC locations; actualities from the 1900’s, plus these comedy shorts – All On Account of a Transfer (Edison Co., 1913), Plagues and Puppy Love (Larry Semon, 1917), Coney Island (Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, 1917) – pipe organ accomp – tix are “free will offering” (pay what you like)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
who's doing the 10 hours of The Human Condition at FF?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
...not me.
I think I'll go to Oshima's "Boy" on Sat.
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/kawakita/program.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Film snobs, please go to see Classe Tous Risques tomorrow at the FF, which I saw today. And yeah, of course you should probably watch Le Doulos as well.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 25 August 2008 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw both fairly recently...
I might go to that Mexican director's retro @Reade one night this week... Macario?
also need to use my free admission card this week at FF; Diabolique, probly.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 25 August 2008 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I am going to use mine for The Sicilian Clan.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 25 August 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
My second one that is. For some reason I got two.
That Roberto Gavaldón festival looks good, don't know if I will get to see any of it.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 25 August 2008 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Sicilian Clan tonight. Did you use your coupon yet, Morbius?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 28 August 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
no, and i'm not going to. :( Going to Macario at WRT tonight.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 28 August 2008 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
who want Tarr's The Man from London at MoMA at 6?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 September 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
If you've missed most of Oshima (tonight and Sunday left for me, I think), Andrzej Wajda retro upcoming @Reade:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/wajda/program.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
tonight ... Sharif & Palance & Cuba, oh my!
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/fcs/che.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I yam going to The Wild Child tonight.
snobs for a Farber program?
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/mannyfarber/program.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
sheeit, Voyage to Italy is only playing once in Reade's Farber series, tomw at 6:30.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 November 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
$48 for Bogdanovich talking to Jerry Lewis. I'd be tempted if I hadn't seen Jer in Damn Yankees.
http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/timescenter/events.php?month=11&year=2008&day=22
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/movies/homevideo/09dvds.html?ref=arts
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I might be able to get through that box over my remaining lifespan. (The Keaton and Sturges boxes that I own have hardly been touched.)
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I watched all the Sturges box a few times except for the science pic, which I still haven't seen.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
It's fascinating! as far as I recall.
we should get to the movies some year, Ken ... don't know if there are possibilities this month.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm kind of under a rock for the rest of the this year myself.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
This weekend I am under my screener disc of Che.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I ordered that Borzage box a few hours ago. Fun times ahead!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
everyone shd go see In the City of Sylvia at Anthology. Best nouvelle vagure film of the new century.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Laugh and Live: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks
December 17, 2008–January 12, 2009
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=10945&ref=calendar
Douglas Fairbanks was a thirty-five-year-old veteran of live theater when he made his first films in 1915 for D. W. Griffith's Fine Arts studio. There, he created the character of "Doug," a breezy, all-American go-getter who seemed to move effortlessly though life and across the screen. Still, Fairbanks never quite fit in with the Griffith ensemble, and within eighteen months he was working independently, eventually becoming one of the founders of United Artists in 1919. The following year, with the release of The Mark of Zorro, he moved into the production of big-budget costume films, averaging one a year for the rest of the 1920s.
This series—which takes its title from Fairbanks's 1917 book of the same name, in which he promoted his optimistic outlook as the key to happiness and success—celebrates the seventieth anniversary of MoMA's acquisition of the Douglas Fairbanks Collection. Jeffrey Vance, author of Douglas Fairbanks (University of California Press & Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2008), introduces the December 17 screening of The Gaucho.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 12 December 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
it's the last day of a milos forman pic at BAM tomorrow. he did a q & a a week ago that i didn't know about - damn.
what's the anthology like? i might try and get to in the city of sylvia.
― schlump, Thursday, 18 December 2008 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw in the city of sylvia tonight, it was great! tomorrow's the last day to see it i think. go go!
― lyndonna larouge (donna rouge), Thursday, 18 December 2008 07:08 (fifteen years ago) link
also best stalker film in awhile.
Anyone seen Schrader's Mishima? he's doing Q&A Friday at FF.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't seen it and can't go, but I saw him on a panel once and he was very entertaining so I recommend you go.
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
man, i hope it isn't the last day, i wanna see the forman pic. mmmmmmmm.i've seen mishima - not great, kinda like all his stuff. i saw him q & a on it and he was pretty interesting, funny stories about reagan getting shot and subsequent fbi phonecalls etc. some of the glass score is great, particularly when re-done by the kronos quartet.
but ehhh.
― schlump, Thursday, 18 December 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, I've seen him a couple times, like at NYFF after 'the Bob Crane movie'
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 18 December 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I quite like Blue Collar, Patty Hearst ... and Touch!
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 18 December 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw Mishima last night, but left before the q+a.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
patty hearst is so sanitised though. have you seen the docu, guerrilla? it's terrific. i saw it first, and the auster pic comes across as way too sympathetic. the original tapes of hearst's messages, telling her mom not to wear the black dress, are really amazing relics, but the film's kinda revisionist. i seem to remember that she was involved.
― schlump, Thursday, 18 December 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Never seen Patty Hearst. The only Schrader I like is Affliction and maybe Light Sleeper, but it's been years since I've seen it.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 18 December 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I have an extra ticket to this 1919 Douglas Fairbanks comedy at 6 tonight if anyone wants to join me. (If you're not a MoMA member I think I can get you in for $5.)
http://moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=11270
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 22 December 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw and l o v e d this in the end, so thanks! ilx. imdb-ing tells me there's an interesting looking companion piece, if one goes to the lengths of tracking down the dvd.i loved the anthology too. going in it felt like i was going to be watching a film in a school, with all the white plaster and molded chairs, but the cinema was great/surprisingly great.
― schlump, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't believe they put new seats in, at last.
If not exhausted, will go to Fairbanks' A Modern Musketeer at MoMA at 6.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 29 December 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Would anyone like to see Nicholas Ray's "Bigger Than Life" perhaps tonight at Film Forum?? I just read the very interesting New Yorker article that inspired the movie (there is a pdf of it at the FF site).
http://www.filmforum.org/films/bigger.html
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
That's a great movie, Virginia, you should definitely go.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm going to see bigger than life at some point, am not sure which screening though ..?i've alwaysw been dying to see his 'they live by night'.
― schlump, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I've seen it once, will prob go again Monday eve tho.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm seeing it tonight. I've wanted to see this for a long time.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 2 January 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
something about filmforum makes me sleepy. i have to buy tea to make sure i can last through.i might go to 7.50 or 9.50 tonight anyhow.
― schlump, Friday, 2 January 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw it years ago at the Thalia, back in the 80s.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
How much are tickets at Film Forum? I can't find any info on their website
― burt_stanton, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
They're $11 now, I think.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 2 January 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
To see a movie in mice-infested theaters with seats less comfortable than those at places with a lot less money.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 2 January 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear god, that's insane.
― burt_stanton, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
All they do is show movies Criterion Collection gives them to promote upcoming DVD releases
brut stanton ruining my thread.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
That's more about what Rialto distributes and at least they're showing prints. It's the IFC Center that just screens (or used to screen) Criterion DVDS at full price.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 2 January 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to swing by to catch Bigger Than Life, but $11... that's a real chin scratcher there.
― burt_stanton, Friday, 2 January 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, it's probably healthy for you to vary what you scratch.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
$11 is fine for a film that doesnt seem to be on the DVD horizon. Plis u shd be a member.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
caveat: most of the under-40 FF audience will laugh all the way thru BtL.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
James Mason here I come.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm glad the FF guffaws were mostly confined to "God was wrong!"
Anyone going to Playtime at Reade tonight? $15, $12 members.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm not, but you should: it's such a great film to see projected, both aesthetically and with the ambient sound design.
― schlump, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I've seen it projected at least 3x, and still may go tonight.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Jacques Tati's "Playtime" - restored print
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
since we're here: i was flicking through the anthology film archives catalogue for the next few months, and then for the last few months, and noticed that i'd missed a robert frank retro. so bummed out. i'd heard cocksucker blues was playing, which i've seen projected once, but i can't believe i missed me and my brother etc. did anyone go? is anything else momentous on the horizon? i moved here just after that total eustache run a while back and still kick myself ...
― schlump, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
No, I missed all that Frank, incl Cksuker.
I'd call the Kuchar brothers' retro at Anthology from March 11-17 pretty momentous. I've seen just about everything of theirs that's been shown locally in the last 15 years, but this is probably the most of their work that's been shown in one place since George's retro at AMMI around '93. Their shorts, esp from the '50s and '60s, are indescribable... like a Kenneth Anger fan's ramshackle dream of John Waters?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
oh cool. i really ought to get around to seeing those kenneth anger shorts dvds too. the next few months of anthology screenings kind of mystified me, but i might chance some of the new filmmaker nights etc.
i have a great copy of cocksucker blues at a friend's - it's an amazing film, a tapestry of well-observed short takes and moments, so identifiably by frank. you're welcome to borrow if i can retrieve my copy. i believe the retro preceded an expensive dvd release of some of his stuff.
btw, did silent light only just come out here? i saw it forever ago but keep thinking of it.
― schlump, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw Silent Light at the NYFF '07. Then it ran at MoMA for a week last year, and now this FF run.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I just remembered once back in more halcyon days Morbius was asking about some Kenneth Anger stuff and we were checking some of the now-defunct video stores like Evergreen to see if they had it. RIP, Bricks and Mortar.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, where am I going to rent with last week's demise of Mondo Kim's? Kim's West Village?
I had Vol. 1 of Anger out of the library last week.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll be at playtime tonight!
the handful of kuchars i've seen are awesome. john waters has credited them for inspiring him to make films
― i am in the kitchen with the ghost dad blues (donna rouge), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
are you going at 6, joe?
I have a combo Waters/Kuchars book I bought at A Different Light in SF!
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
8:30
― i am in the kitchen with the ghost dad blues (donna rouge), Monday, 5 January 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
cool beans. i've just reserved billy the kid from mid-manhattan, but am trying to get to the cinema rather than watch stuff at home right now.
i have an idea that park slope's good for renting stuff, but that may be based on copious video outlets rather than quality or selection.
― schlump, Monday, 5 January 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I'd rather go to a store near work in Chelsea than hop off the F to rent in PkSlope, then get back on to go home! What's that place around 22nd & 9th that looks like a bomb hit it? is it even still there?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
but the f has lovely views around smith
― schlump, Monday, 5 January 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that store on 22nd and 9th is still there.
― O Bama, Up Yours! (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
is one westside, too, maybe on christopher?, betwixt sex and smoke shops. it has ozu boxsets in the window and stuff.
― schlump, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
playtime = wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
― i am in the kitchen with the ghost dad blues (donna rouge), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 05:15 (fifteen years ago) link
is there a good production history of this movie anywhere? i really would love to know more about how eg the nightclub scene was handled by tati
― i am in the kitchen with the ghost dad blues (donna rouge), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
The David Bellos Tati bio has a chapter on the production, it's not a great book though. There's some info in Stuart Klawan's Film Follies too. It's often referenced and hugely mythologized--Tati bankrupted himself making the film--but there doesn't seem to be much detail available in English.
I'm sad I missed the Walter Reed. I've seen it projected before, but not in 70mm.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 6 January 2009 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
^Walter Reed screening.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 6 January 2009 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
dr, there's also a 2-hr doc on Tati's career (made by his daughter) on the recent Criterion DVD of Trafic, which has some footage of the Playtime shoot and succinct history.
(didn't go last night, hemorrhaging $ this week)
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw a documentary - i remember it as being specifically about playtime, but it may well have been an extract of a general bio. there was footage of them disassembling the set after shooting finished, walls falling buster keaton style. i'd thought there was a book too, i forget.
― schlump, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I had this book, too. I bought it at the Compendium going out of business sale.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
If you can tolerate pitch-black (as in rape and murder-flavored) comedies about pre-glasnost Russia, I highly recommend Cargo 200 at Cinema Village. (it goes to a late-night only sched after tonight)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm excited for Made in America at FF. Morbs, you were right about the crowd for Bigger Than Life. I actually preferred the New Yorker article, which portrayed cortisone-induced mania, rather than Mason's peculiar brand ofinsanity.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
FF draws such a contemptibly smug demog to the revivals.
I like Masonmania. "You didn't want to go on living?"
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I like that Mason got worked up in this one, even if it was just a side effect of the cortisone. Usually I find him a little bland, in a Herbert Marshall style.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Although I guess he was tough in North By Northwest.
They went w/ the stuntmen a really long time at the climax, plenty of time to see it's not Mason and Matthau.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Busby Berkeley / Carmen Miranda tomw night @Reade (new color print):
http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/doc09/thegang_sallhere.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 January 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
+ Eugene Pallette And Edward Everett Horton!
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
geez, I get outta work early today -- anyone for Made in USA at 4:40?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 January 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
You still thinking about doing this?
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 January 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
YES
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 January 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
are you a FF member? Go in on my double discount card.
Thanks, but I re-upped this year so I got my own. Not quite sure I can make it though.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 January 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I went at 8:20; so crowded.
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 17 January 2009 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
think i'm gonna catch some of these finnish melodramas at AFA today, one of which apparently has a "stella dallas" thing going on so i expect i'll be happy
(SD itself is screening at walter reade on feb. 13 for the lonely hearts club. i wonder if that'll be more crushing than seeing umbrellas of cherbourg on v-day at film forum like i did several yrs ago)
― armatrader joan's (donna rouge), Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
havent gone to MiUSA yet... i saw that Finnish SD! good.
thats the silent Stella Dallas!
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeanne Dielman at FF for a week starting tom'w
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 January 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
isn't akerman having a retro somewhere? maybe not even in ny. but it sounds interesting; i've always wanted to see toute une nuit.
― schlump, Thursday, 22 January 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2009/01/q-with-chantal-akerman-jeanne-dielman.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i might try to catch jeanna this weekend. the anthology are playing ordet, but without subtitles, which is frustrating because seeing one of the tuovo pictures showing just made me want to see ordet on a screen.
― schlump, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
They are speaking Danish it's true, but they are speaking it VERY SLOWLY so maybe you will have a chance of understanding it.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 January 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i kinda thought about going because i have a hazy memory of what happens and it isn't like it's dialogue driven. i'd go to watch the camera move alone. but maybe next time.
― schlump, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
schlump, BAM is having a Dreyer retro soon -- March? wait til then.
JANE in person @ IFC:
FTA (1972, Francine Parker), the Vietnam War-era documentary, will be shown in a rare archival screening with former FTA cast member Jane Fonda in person, Monday, February 2 at 7:00pm. Following the screening, Jane Fonda will talk about the film and her work in the controversial antiwar touring show in a discussion moderated by David Zeiger, director of the recent documentary Sir, No Sir! A portion of the proceeds from the evening will benefit Iraq Veterans against the War, a nonprofit advocacy organization for ending the war and for providing support to returning service members.
“The show the Pentagon couldn’t stop,” the FTA (which stood for Free Theater Associates, and also Free - or another F-word - The Army) revue brought antiwar entertainment to military personnel at the height of Vietnam. Performers like Ms. Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Holly Near toured towns near military bases around the US and overseas, lending their support to troops who opposed the war. The film documents the troupe’s performances at US military bases on the Pacific Rim - Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines - as they attempt to encourage opposition to the war among the rank-and-file of US forces.
Tickets to this special event are $12 for IFC Center members, $15 for non-members.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost:Here are a few key Danish words and phrases to help you
mor = motherfar = fatherfarvel min pige = goodbye my girlen kop kaffe = a cup of coffeejeg vil gerne ha en kop kaffe - I would like (would gladly have) a cup of coffee
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 January 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
"BAM will also host retrospectives honoring Paul Newman (March 20-29), Danish auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer (March 13-31) and Japanese helmer Nagisa Oshima (April 1-14)."
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
those keywords neatly summarise the plot of ordet. i think a lot of the crazy guy's muttering goes unsubtitled anyway.
thanks for the bam info; the garrone season looks interesting too. oshima and dreyer retros should be great.
only related by virtue of being an italian film, there should be the new sorrentino that was playing at the festivals soon, right?
― schlump, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I think those keywords account for about half the dialogue.
jeg vil gerne ha en kop kaffe - I would like (would gladly have) a cup of coffeeForget some letters, it should bejeg vil gerne have en kop kaffe
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 January 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Sirk vs Stahl?
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?show_date=2009-01-28
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Sirk wins in every showdown I've seen (ya, every = both).
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
haha at Eric's new screenname.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i plan on hitting up sirk/stahl double feature tonight (when tomorrow comes/interlude)
― charles bronson reilly (donna rouge), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure I can do both -- of course, the Sirk isnt til 9.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Dave Kehr on Interlude: "For once Douglas Sirk seems totally defeated by the material, though he does manage some characteristically intense work near the end."
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Fingers w/ Toback q&a on Sat:
http://filmlinc.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/like-quentin-tarantino-maybe-you-have-some-questions-for-legendary-filmmaker-james-toback/
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
dave kehr OTM, it was a bit flat. the stahl was fantastic tho
― charles bronson reilly (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 January 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
of course, I thought it was tonight. can't read. :(
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 January 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Too much looking at intranets makes you go blind.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 January 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, WTC shows again Sat @ 4:30.
Reade has Oscar Micheaux / prewar black cinema series upcoming. I think I've only seen OM's fallen-preacher silent Body and Soul w/ Robeson, but some of his sound films are supposed to be unearthly strange.
http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/micheaux/program.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 January 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
and then Film Comment Selects, w/ Guy Debord retro:
http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/fcs09/program.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 January 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The Frontier of Dawn & the guy who did duck season should be interesting.i might catch just the stahl picture at the anthology on sunday.
― schlump, Friday, 30 January 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I've only seen the preceding P Garrel film (Regular Lovers) and found it mostly stultifying despite dashing Louis' presence.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 January 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
can't think of anywhere else to discuss this - has anyone made it to the class yet?
― schlump, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
nope. I will, but my hopes aren't particularly high.
Thanks for the JM Stahl recommend, donna rouge!
Tom'w night I'm gonna try to do a Reade double of David Holzman's Diary and Scgrader's Blue Collar.
Jane Fonda only did Q&A for about 20 mins last night, a little white doggie in her lap the whole time. FTA is woth a look if you're into the period, but it's not of Winter Soldier caliber.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
(FTA on DVD later this month)
the class is good. kinda reminded me of claire denis, it's bold enough to really discuss and present ambiguously, for the most part.
i got to stahl's magnificent obsession in the end and loved it.
& i have given up on paul schrader films entirely - is that the one he made last year?
― schlump, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
glad you liked! the church sequence has stuck with me ever since i watched it
― charles bronson reilly (donna rouge), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe it's even better than Love Affair (which I didn't realize was same year for Boyer-Dunne).
haha, no schlump, it's a '78 labor unrest film w/ maybe Richard Pryor's best acting role. Schrader says Pryor hit both Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto on the set.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Film Forum premieres a lot.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 04:04 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
the first of those sounds like FF, second IFC.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks!
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
you/someone mentioned the dardenne/french film before, and i remember struggling to find much of a presence online. good luck anyhow.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's mostly because it's being promoted under its Portuguese title in France. Also because it's obscure.
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 3 April 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 3 April 2009 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, Time Out's review is painfully wrong, perhaps the worst blurb of the year.
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 3 April 2009 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"Yesterday's news"? Like WTF, did you even get the point of the film? Or watch past the first 25 minutes?
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 3 April 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Ayo, http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/forbiddenlies
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 3 April 2009 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
think i will get to Oshima 4:30 @BAM, Three Resurrected Drunkards
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
dr spaceman was excellent as norma's husband in forbidden lies
― corps of discovery (schlump), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Chaplin Essanays @ NY Hist Society on CPW at 2
http://www.silentclowns.com/nowshowing.html
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 19 April 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
any tribeca plans?
― corps of discovery (schlump), Monday, 20 April 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
nope! :D
― zurück zum Traphaus (donna rouge), Monday, 20 April 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― s1ocki, Monday, 20 April 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
is it true they "downsized" this year? their unwieldiness i found kinda offputting in the past
― zurück zum Traphaus (donna rouge), Monday, 20 April 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Monday, 20 April 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
85 films in it, down from 200+. I've seen 3 or 4, all underwhelming. Their press screenings are barely organized.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
anything in particular you're looking forward to morbs?
what have you seen?
― s1ocki, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― s1ocki, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
have you seen Treeless Mountain? or do you want to see Viridiana at Film Forum maybe Friday?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i haven't! and when is viridiana playing?
― s1ocki, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
it starts at Film Forum on Friday. Treeless Mt just started there too.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
also, there's a Shirley Clarke fest @ Anthology.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I can unreservedly recommend In the Loop, but IFC is releasing it in May.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 April 2009 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 April 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
also John Hurt is very touching playing Quentin Crisp again in An Englishman in New York, but it doesn't approach the earlier film.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 April 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
FF Members Brunch was lots of fun. Bruce outdid himself.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 April 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
any of you catch IL DIVO/anyone as enamoured as i was?
― corps of discovery (schlump), Sunday, 3 May 2009 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
it sounds awesome from everything ive readhow long until its in non-snob theaters, if ever?
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 May 2009 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Sunday, 3 May 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 3 May 2009 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"the late film" is the only may repertory thing that i'm excited about. thoughts on godard's king lear?
― we were never being butthurt (donna rouge), Sunday, 3 May 2009 07:45 (fourteen years ago) link
saw it when it came out; shrugged at it like most '80s Godard. The Burgess Meredith-Molly Ringwald scenes were at least ... something.
wow, Sarris & Haskell introducing El Dorado @BAM.
My friend Steve co-curated this MoMA series of silent comedy shorts at month's end with the magnetic title CRUEL AND UNUSUAL COMEDY!
http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/948
Note: "Since these films touch on a number of potentially sensitive issues, each screening features an introduction that will provide context." Beware, blackface and woman-beating!
also, I plan on going to the Julien Duvivier film today at 5:30.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 3 May 2009 08:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I've meant to see that one for years. Sometimes I even think I've seen it, but what I'm confusing it with is something called Pattes Blanches.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I guess that's Hildegard Knef in that still from Holiday For Henrietta.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Cracking Up looks good, but traveling to BAM always seems a bit excessive to me. I wish AMMI would reopen already. I may try Age of Consent though. Have Edward Said's "On Late Style" on reserve to prepare.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 3 May 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Age of Consent really isn't very good.
The best in the series might be Good Morning and L'Argent.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 3 May 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I plan to be at all these programs... Only one for 9-to-5-ers tho.
Don’t miss “Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film” at MoMA! Five programs of rare silent comedy shorts from MoMA’s archive hand-picked by Ben Model, Steve Massa and Ron Magliozzi:
Weds May 20 at 4pm - “Drag Shows” - Charlie Murray, Wallace Beery, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Finlayson, Harry Myers, Buster Keaton and Roscoe Arbuckle
Weds May 27 at 4pm - “Race Riots” - David Morris, Henry Bergman, Harold Lloyd, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, Lige Conley, Spencer Bell, and Bert Williams Weds May 27 at 7pm - “Gratuitous Violence” - Ford Sterling, Mack Sennett, Lloyd Hamilton and Bud Duncan (Ham & Bud), Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, James Parrott, Kalla Pasha, and Billie Ritchie
Fri May 29 at 4pm - “Animals and Children” - an unidentified elephant, George Ober, Our Gang, Pal the dog and an alligator, the Dippy Do-Dads, Billy Bevan and the Sennett Lions Mon June 1 at 4pm - “Automobiles” - Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Hank Mann, Slim Summerville, Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Aubrey, Oliver Hardy, and Lige Conley.
MoMA’s website for the series is at:http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/948
Film notes are at:http://cruelandunusualcomedy.blogspot.com
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
bump for tomw night's "Gratuitous Violence" at MoMA, a certain sellout.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
you guys know about Playtime at the Met on Friday?
also, http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/programs/outdoorcinema.php
― Reggiano Jackson (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 June 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Where are you seeing the Playtime listing? I can't find it anywhere.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Nevermind, it's here.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The Trintignant/Romy Schneider movie at the Film Forum has got something for everyone.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
talking chimps?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 15 June 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
There might be some during the Afro-nightclub scene.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Nick Ray fest at FF.
http://www.filmforum.org/films/nickray.html
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Guess it's finally time to see Wind Across The Everglades.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw that at BAM. It's... interesting.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking forward to reading this new Imitation Of Life book.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
have always wanted to see they live by nighti flicked through and saw that there's no in a lonely place in the listing, but it's on a week or two beforehand, introd by ray's widow
the BAM festival looks sweet. new bujalski film is playing.
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
This Windmill Movie coming to FF looks interesting. Like Le genou de Claire as filmed by Henry Jaglom.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm, maybe i will go to that if i can
― Fidel Gastro (gabbneb), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Y'all should try to go to the Q&A tomorrow, well tonight I guess.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 June 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
eager for The Beaches of Agnes!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, i met henry jaglom last week! he came into my place of work.
yr california correspondent reports: i am basically living at PFA this july and august:
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/
― chronologymentully (donna rouge), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yay! i hate you, kind of.
The only film I've seen at PFA is Dirty Little Billy, which they're showing again on 8/20. Very strange dullish Michael J Pollard antiwestern.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
lake tahoe is a beaut: playing at anthology, maybe with some director q/a action this weekend. total leaps and bounds ahead of duck season
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Sunday, 12 July 2009 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Any recomendations on which Hirokazu Kore-eda film to see?http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1427
― mizzell, Monday, 27 July 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a film playing at the anthology with the following endorsement:
“Never have I looked so directly into hell.” –Werner Herzog
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Monday, 27 July 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
So there is. Looks interesting.
Thinking about the Nicholas Ray with Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan tonight.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 July 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking forward to this.
Songs from the Second Floor was really great.
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, I thought title was You, Living At Film Forum and it was some sort of answer film to Cinemaniacs.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
it's great; surprised it's only coming out now. i think there's a couple of roy andersson threads, with links to his awesome commercials (cf socialist democrat party)
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, it was pretty painful to watch until the last twenty minutes when Burl Ives was holding court. Niece of screenwriter Budd Schulberg was there and said her father producer Stuart Schulberg had to take over direction of the film because Nick was so strung out at the time.
Will try to see at least one of the double features next week. After that they are bringing in a Brit Noir series that looks pretty good.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 July 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
can't remember which ones are playing as the double bills - i wish i'd caught the one with humphrey as a lawyer. this series has been fun. brit noir's kind of a turn off for me but the carol reed picture looks o k.
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
probably headed to Ray's Party Girl at 5:30.
anyone seen Loren Cass?
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Nick Ray's daughter introduced the 9:30 yesterday. In the audience were such luminaries as piano player/movie lover Anthony Coleman and film critic Gavin Smith.
RIP Cinemaniac Roberta Hill
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no. Roberta obit? she seemed full-tilt bozo but i never imagined she was mortal.
Party girl was nice. Cinemaniac Bill was there.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 August 2009 07:20 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no! RIP roberta. she would sometimes just come in to the AFA building when i worked there, before they even opened the box office, and just hang around. i'll always remember her complaining about the air conditioning in that downstairs theater
― morbs morbs morbs how do you like it how do you like it (donna rouge), Friday, 7 August 2009 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
and her acccordion folder full of movie passes.
once spied her eating Spam out of a can.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 August 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Brit noir series is on now at FF. Would have liked to have seen The Small Back Room yesterday, but didn't make it.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The Criterion edition is excellent.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
So bummed--almost checked out The Small Black Room from the Flushing Library, but went with multiple Chaplins instead. In the summer time, I just don't feel like spending so much time in movie theaters. As a type this, it sounds strange, as many people go just for the ac.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Two technicolor Brit Noirs tonight look kind of interesting.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
They didn't do much for me (well, Valerie Hobson was a standout -- but the Stewart Granger wife-killer one was directed by the guy who helmed most of "Mr. Ed").
James Mason noirs prob at 7:50 for me, when it's barely cool enough to leave the house.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I probably liked them a little more than you did, but I think you've got it about right.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
why is there separate admission for tonight's single Mason feature AND Edward Dmytryk's Obsession? Not very recession-friendly, Film Forum.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 August 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Headless Woman.classic or dud?
― Zeno, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
might see today
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
might see tommorow
― Zeno, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 August 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Zeno, Friday, 28 August 2009 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 August 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
400th-best film of all time (per TSPDT) showing @ Reade tonight:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/watershed/thecloudcappedstar.html
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 September 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― peter falk's panther burns (schlump), Saturday, 5 September 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Daaaamn, that's hot.
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Sunday, 6 September 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Think I'll finally see this Monday:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/mason.html#pandora
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
also, NYFF tix on sale to gen public tomorrow. Only 2 films for me, pending increase in income.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
AFA's fall schedule is up: directed by jerry lewis retro in november!
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Saturday, 12 September 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
also roger corman, ulrike ottringer, warhol (inc. chelsea girls)
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Saturday, 12 September 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Last day of Odd Man Out.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 September 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Fat City and Claire Denis this week.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
35 Rhums is one I've liked more than any of hers in years.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you like Nenette and Boni back in the day?
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yes (google review of the recent disc)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah. Did you know that VBT was J4ck 4nstr31ch's ideal woman? At least back then.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
(Misspelled his name anyway. Doubly g00gleproofed)
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Still haven't made it to the FF this week. Wen to see Paradise at MoMA last night instead.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to get to that when I'm twiddling my thumbs @temp sinecure.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 September 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the Commodores dancingnsequence, the father-daughter horse riding on the train tracks, and the pots at the end are things to cherish.
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I like it fine -- but I thought the depressed metro retiree subplot didn't quite work.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Still haven't seen it- it was held over so hopefully can go soon- so trying not to read about it on this thread.
― Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
the best surprise about this film:inserting yet a new blood for the we've-seen-it-all-family-drama movies
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw it back at the Public many years ago. You gotta go!
― Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Tarr-nation!
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-10-20/film/s-aacute-t-aacute-ntang-oacute-turns-15-moma-throws-serious-party/
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I recommend that you all see LOOT today (Monday) at IFC: http://stfdocs.com/films/loot/
It's a fantastic, strange, emotional, eery documentary...
― ben folds' cover of "such great heights" (Tape Store), Monday, 2 November 2009 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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/
― ben folds' cover of "such great heights" (Tape Store), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 07:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Shatner in Corman's astounding Intruder tom'w night
http://www.villagevoice.com/events/the-intruder-1460597/
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Jerry Lewis retro @Anthology. I'll be at Three on a Couch either this Sat eve or a week from Thursday.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Three on a Couch is pretty fantastic, imo.
― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Sylvia Prieto at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday.
― Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Meade Lex Louis (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Morbs, you missed something pretty spectacular.
― Meade Lex Louis (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link
what can I tell ya, this time of year seeing new releases for free takes precedence.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I overheard the following conversation as I was walking out:"That one character, how did she fit in?""She was the MacGuffin."
― Meade Lex Louis (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
that was My Dog Tulip?
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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."
― Meade Lex Louis (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Xiffy Pup (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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).
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, Fritz Feld is in it and he doesn't even pop his mouth!
He didn't? To the trash heap with it!
― Xiffy Pup (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
(Fritz Feld is from the '30s)
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Meade Lex Louis (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Guess it was still him.
Today is last day of The Red Shoes. Might try for 7 or 9:30 show.
― Meade Lex Louis (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I just went to the 1pm, it was almost sold out.
The central ballet really makes the film.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, just reserved for the 7PM.
― It Ain't The Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― It Ain't The Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
It's great as dance films go, but I heard ppl pooh-poohing the fatalism re marriage/art on the way out. (Powell = Lermontov?)
Fans of DR. MORBIUS can catch him in Jersey City tomw night at the Loews (Perspecta sound is great):
http://loewsjersey.org/alt/calendar-mainmenu-27/details/24-forbidden-planet.html
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
(Powell = Lermontov?)Like that movie where Lou Castel = Fassbinder?
― It Ain't The Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
just for Eric: Fritz Feld was in Bringing Up Baby AND The Sunshine Boys!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270915/
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow. 196 films/TV shows from 1917 to 1989. Not quite as many as Ian "Mr. Atoz" Wolfe or Paul "The Third Man Hotelier" Hörbiger, but still.
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
including Sternberg's The Last Command... and Barfly!
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Should get one of the young 'uns to make an animated gif of one of those 'pops.'
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't remember if he popped in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I sometimes get him confused with the guy from the Preston Sturges movies, the guy on the ship with the pictures of the card sharps, Torben Meyer.
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
What about the Week of Whale at the FF?
― Ethel Slaughter Zachary (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 November 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
no idea if I can catch the Sunday twinbill yet, wd like to see Waterloo Bridge.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
via Rolling Doc:Dear NYC,You should seriously see LOOT and BIG RIVER MAN: http://www.ifccenter.com/
http://www.lootmovie.com/trailer.php?page=trailer
Ignore the reviews of LOOT, which seriously piss me off. Here's Karina Longworth on it:"Darius Marder’s feature debut, which debuts on HBO in May, tracks two WWII veterans in their longshot quests to recover pillages valuables hidden since the end of the war. As much a film about the vagaries of memory and post-traumatic stress as it is a portrait of the charismatic car salesman-turned-treasure hunter who guides the veterans (one legally blind, the other blinded by his own hoarding habit), what’s most impressive about Loot is the way the narrative unfolds so effortlessly, with impeccable timing. It’s absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime story, which is not to say that the filmmaker simply got lucky: Marder doesn’t appear in the film or offer narration, but his presence, patience and diligence, his innate understanding of how to hook an audience, is felt in every frame."
And AJ of Alll These Wonderful Things:"A thoroughly surprising, beautifully rendered look at loss and discovery that is as fresh and unexpected as the great, lost, no-star, indie narratives of the 1990s. Its provocative hook - a documentary about a treasure hunter - could almost overwhelm the simple, low key and alternately devastating and satisfying pleasures of this under-the-radar film. Despite its jury triumph in Los Angeles (and the check that came with it), the film has kept a low profile through the fall but it deserves full exposure as a fresh and provocative take on the nonfiction genre. A huge debut for director Marder."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce432_JmdB8Manohla on BIG RIVER MAN: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/movies/04bigriver.html?hpwRobert Koehler: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939358.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
― yr zing doesn't fix yr boring irl personality :( (Tape Store), Sunday, 6 December 2009 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
fellow screwballs, shd I see If You Could Only Cook today?
http://www.filmforum.org/films/madcapmanhattan.html#if
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 December 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
You should. I would like to, but I think I am sticking to Queens today.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 13 December 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Playtime at MoMA at 8pm! I can't do it...
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
My Dinner w/ Andre Redux on Wednesday!
― nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 January 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
At Lincoln Center.
― nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 January 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
My first response was who's Andre Redux?
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Monday, 4 January 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
It's an Outkast side project tribute to John Updike.
― nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 January 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
(Sorry)
Missed the whole FF Madcap Manhattan series. Tonight is the final night with Taking Off and A Thousand Clowns. Milos Forman will be there.
― nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you go see A Thousand Clowns? I liked it when I saw it a long time ago.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Nope. Didn't make it.
― nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone feel like Stray Dog at 7?
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, I just came to post that I might try for the one before that.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I did Stray Dog on Monday!
― laverne and shipley (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm thinkin about getting a Film Forum membership and seeing as many of the films in the Kurasowa fest as possible
― laverne and shipley (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
You won't regret it.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
WGW, I somehow didn't know you lived here.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I do! i'm gonna do "Hidden Fortress" today!
― i ben b bag all by myself (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 16 January 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I figure I have to see 13 movies for the membership to pay off, so i'm gonna get crackin
Houzu (House), the japanese cult movie was a pretty well spent 12.5$ i'd say.idiotism made to perfection, if youre a fan of the genre.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
will try to hit some Wiseman:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1028
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm probably going to one of the shows tomorrow depending on what time i wake up
i went to their our hospitality/sherlock jr double feature on wednesday and had the best time ive had at the movies in a while
and that film forum documentary series theyre starting next week looks really good. basically moma is on fire right now
― killah priest, Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone seen this?
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/house/
Any weekend MoMA doc recommendations? Several I might be interested in, like Karl May, are also on DVD -- which aren't?
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 February 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
THE MIRROR and NOTICIAS are awesome
― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
thx TS
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
also 45365 is great and AGRARIAN UTOPIA is one of the most gorgeously shot films I've seen this past year. CONSTANTIN AND ELENA is a lovely film, though I just saw a Mexican doc that is EXACTLY like it and I prefer it
― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
by 'prefer it,' i mean the Mexican doc, which still hasn't screened in the US
I'm really happy MOMA is picking up these films, wish we had room in our program for some of them
― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
oops, NOTICIAS = NEWS
― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if anyone is at the FF seeing Thelma S introduce The Red Shoes?
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 February 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
saw the last run
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 February 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-02-23/film/the-films-of-william-e-jones-at-anthology/
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Victor Fleming Festival is one week in and have seen nothing.
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 March 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Also: Limited Tickets Remain For Select Rendez-Vous Screenings
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 March 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
saw Lonelyhearts -- much too slow bowdlerization of Nathanael West's "Miss L" -- in the Monty Clift retro at BAM; the reel went askew in the last 5 minutes, then the celluloid burned twice. (It was a 16mm print from some archive, acc to the theater apologist.)
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Eddie Muller is introducing 7:40 show tonight of The Prowler.
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 March 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, I got a ticket.
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
too tired, will see next week
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll tell Eddie Muller you said hello.
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I do not know the fella
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
early advertising:one of my top three documentaries of last year (along w/ 45365 and BECAUSE WE WERE BORN), BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO, comes to Film Forum in Mayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO9vCcQsrZ4
― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
AFA just released their april-june calendar; '45365' is getting a weeklong run (i tried watching it online but wandered off after about 20 mins, would like to give it another go)
― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Saturday, 20 March 2010 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
also: kucharmania in april (i'll be missing most of it probably), pierre clementi, alain teller, 'punishment park'....
On Friday at the FF Bruce G was pushing the special screening tonight of The Docks Of New York. Would love to go but probably can't make it.
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 March 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
catching last night of Losey's Prowler at 7:40
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
donna rouge or ian going to go with?
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
dont think so
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 March 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
too bad for them.
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 March 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ian doesnt see many old movies, that was a special occasion when you ran into us. And dr I always assume has schoolwork.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 March 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
It's hard out there for a NYC ILX Film Snob.
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 March 2010 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
The second greatest film of all-time, Jack Chambers' The Hart of London (1969-70), is screening near you lucky fuckers very soon. You will walk outside afterward and nothing will ever again look the same.
The Hart of LondonJack Chambers, 16mm, 1970, 79 minsIntroduced by Carolee Schneemann (!!!!)Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 7:30pmLight Industry, 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 - _*PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS*_Tickets - $7, available at door.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
a mere two subway stops from my apartment. likely not going though :(
― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I could make the effort.
Also new print of Close-Up at FF; Criterion in June.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
also, Hart of London is on YouTube. :/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy goddamn! So it is! Wow. Well, I'm never one to say that you just GOTTA see it on film but...
Donna, at the VERY least, watch the fucker on YouTube.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking forward to Close-Up.
― King Creole Love Call (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone seen anything in the BAM Bill Gunn series besides The Landlord?
http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2056
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently not! Ganja & Hess?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 April 2010 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
getting my fill of screenings over the next few days at the orphan film symposium:
http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/orphans7/
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 April 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Last 2 shows of the season today and on the 25th:
Housekeeping and Bill Forsyth appearing at Film Forum on Thursday:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/forsyth.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 April 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
When you go to World On A Wire?
― A Century Of Elvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 April 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
next Sunday.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 April 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
(assuming my friend got the tix today)
Think I'm going Wednesday.
― A Century Of Elvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 April 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
3-1/2 hr film on a weeknight would exhaust me right now.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 April 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Going tomorrow. Hopefully my temperature whiplash-induced cold will have abated somewhat.
The Swedish Film series coming soon at Lincoln Center looks interesting.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone seen Renoir's Nana? At BAM tonight, but also there's a DVD I see...
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yo morbs i think i might see thundercrack! on saturday at AFA because after this week i need a respite of some sort. probably missing the fassbinder :/
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw T! once long ago, I wouldn't dissuade you ... but you know me, even jokey semi-porn is a little bit boring. :) I will probably try to see some of the new Kuchars on Sat or Sun.
Friend bought my Fassbinder ticket already.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
WoaW was as good as I remembered it from 13 years ago.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
any Alain Tanner recomms?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 April 2010 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah. Jonah, The Middle of the World, The Salamander, In The White City.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Argh. I've never seen Messidor and I won't get to see it this time.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
surprise subbing of Sirk's The Tarnished Angels into Film Forum newspaper series today!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
You gonna go?
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
1:35 (day off)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
They gave you your bday off?
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
TAKEN
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Caught world's slowest F train, so going to Sirk at 5:25.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Mrs Norman Maine returns to Reade:
http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/astar.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 April 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
She pops up a lot these days in anything written about Johnny Mercer.
FF's website seems to have been hacked.
Still have an eye out on the Swedish Festival at the Reade.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 April 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
A New Leaf tonight at the 92ndY Tribeca on Hudson St.
http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DMM5FA25
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Haven't been there yet. When did it open?
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
At least a year and a half ago?
I was going to see Renoir's Elena and Her Men at BAM, but now I see it's on Criterion. Hmmm....
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Thinking about going to Lincoln center to see this Alf Sjöberg thing tonight.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I may go to The Girl with Hyacinths there at 5:15, after this at 2:
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Did not go after all. Instead stayed home and watched a Resnais called Melo that I had borrowed from the NYPL.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 April 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Gonna try to hit DDR/DDR @Anthology at 6:30
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Minnelli & Minnelli's A Matter of Time at BAM tonight.
http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/05/26/because-im-alive-minnellis-a-matter-of-time
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
my friend who works there told me they're canceling the screening (the print they rented is badly damaged)
― a vaguely goofy lesbian (donna rouge), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks (tho I was likely skipping it)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
grey gardens festival this weekend @ maysles cinema
Friday, June 18th, 7:30 pm"Grey Gardens" (Dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, 1976, 94 min.)-Followed by a panel discussion with Albert Maysles, Lucy Barzun Donnelly (Executive Producer, HBO's Grey Gardens), other speakers TBA. Reception sponsored by Harlem's own Sugar Hill Beer!
Saturday, June 19th1930's Ambitious Women Pre-Code Matinee Double Feature3:00 pm "Blonde Venus" (Dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1932, 93 min)5:00 pm "Imitation of Life" (Dir. John M. Stahl, 1934, 111 min)Robert Drew's "Primary" & discussion with Albert Maysles**7:30 pm<"Primary" (Dir. Robert Drew, 1960, 60 min.)
Sunday, June 20thBrunch Screening with Jerry "The Marble Faun" Torre- Light brunch fare and mimosas available before, during and after the screenings/discussion.12:00pm "The Beales of Grey Gardens" (Dir. Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 2006, 91 min.)1:30pm "The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens" (Dir. Jason Hay & Steve Pelizza, work-in-progress, 13 min.)- Followed by a discussion with sculptor Jerry Torre, about his life with the Beales and beyond! Jason Haye and Steve Pelizza will also be on hand to discuss their work-in-progress film, The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127608487270716&ref=ts
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
3 weeks of Anthony Mann at FF:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2003
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 June 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
NY Asian FF:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/nyasianff10.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Really pleased that Mann retrospective lines up with the time I'll be in NYC
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 1 July 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I ended up seeing Kung Fu Chefs at the Walter Reade. It felt wrong in a lot of ways. Also, Sammo Hung punked out of his appearance.
Shame I missed the Raw Deal/T-Men double...
― Nhex, Thursday, 1 July 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
aiming for Man of the West
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 July 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm attempting the joan rivers doc/'marat/sade' two-fer at BAM tomorrow night. i wonder which one will be more punishing?
― querelle: the last fassbinder (donna rouge), Thursday, 1 July 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
That's one hell of a double bill.
I have the Marat/Sade soundtrack!
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 1 July 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
is that with Joan in-person after? :o More frightening than any William Castle stunt.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Babs Stanwyck brings the scissors in The Furies tonight at FF
http://www.artforum.com/film/id=25942
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
want to go, not sure i can :/
'marat/sade' was incredible btw. did anyone attempt 'salo' on the 4th?
― "slapsie" (donna rouge), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey guys you should go to this amazing programme:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/views.html#11
A couple of my friends have films in there and everything they are showing (that I have seen) is GREAT
― Chip Pan Buddha (admrl), Friday, 9 July 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a seriously great program. Injury to One (Morbs, have you seen this?), Rehearsals For Retirement, and the Kevin Everson films in particular.
Who are your friends, Adam?
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 9 July 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Um...they're in programs four and five =)
Bah, I just need to move to NYC like everybody else don't I? Programming out here is so laaame sometimes
― Chip Pan Buddha (admrl), Saturday, 10 July 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
What is Rehearsals For Retirement? Is that the Machinima one?
― Chip Pan Buddha (admrl), Saturday, 10 July 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
The Summer schedule at Doc looks great. Will probably make it out for the Borzage.
― lexicons of loaf (corey), Saturday, 10 July 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's one of Phil Solomon's Grand Theft Auto tributes to Mark LaPore. It's really pretty beautiful and strange. Not as gimmicky as it sounds.
You're in LA, right? It seems like you guys get all sorts of great stuff that rarely plays NY. It's hard to complain given the alternatives, but NY experimental/avant-garde programming is too insular and repetitive. Lincoln Center is particularly bad in this regard -- check the listings for recent Views From the Avant-Garde programs. It's the same 4 or 5 filmmakers every year.
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 10 July 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes I'm in LA. I think that most of these programs always show the same filmmakers. And SOME of the places that show interesting films here are certainly VERY good. I should have said that
― Chip Pan Buddha (admrl), Saturday, 10 July 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
No doubt there are great venues here too. Just a little frustrating that it's easier to see D@vid G@tt3n films than like older James Benning stuff or Rose Lowder.
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Two of my v talented friends have screenings at Rooftop this month:THE TIGHTROPE is a v beautiful film about a crumbling Mexican circus, and it plays TONIGHT (Saturday) (http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/films/85-the-tightrope).GREETINGS FROM THE WOODS is a v intriguing, v well-crafted observational documentary about the director's hometown (http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/films/107-greetings-from-the-woods). Sat July 24. Special ILX appeal: Mikel has made music videos for FEVER RAY!
I also want to see THE APE, another Swedish film that plays the day before GREETINGS
― exit through the (Tape Store), Saturday, 10 July 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
No, I haven't see any of that experimental stuff.
Also, I renewed my Film Society of Linc Ctr membership a MONTH ago and they STILL haven't sent me a new card, OR responded to my email. NEW MANAGEMENT on the ball!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 July 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
He's right, you should see Injury to One, it is good.
― Chip Pan Buddha (admrl), Saturday, 10 July 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Two early, little-seen Mann noirs at FF today. von Stroheim!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
How are they? I've seen T-Men and thought it was good, but was under the impression that he was more or less a "workman" director who was only good with the right photographer, but icbw.
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
These were both early B pictures that he brought plenty to (and they needed all they could get). I like several of the Stewart westerns, Fall of the Roman Empire (Gladiator 1.0) and especially The Furies.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so you can see all 8 hours of Warhol's Empire tom'w
(not me)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
well, I was all excited for Film Forum's always essential Vitaphone Varieties annual showing tonight... til I realized the 20th was LAST Tuesday, FUCK!
This year's lost program :( --
http://www.filmforum.org/films/hollywoodhudson/FFJULY20PROGRAMDOCv2.pdf
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently 20 ppl out of 28 stuck around for all of 'empire'! i wonder if they ordered in pizza.
― the numbing/spicy queen of the conservative band (donna rouge), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
a friend went for about 30 mins, took photos and tweeted
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Posted on the Reade b.o. window yeterday: In the Russell series, the prints of Mahler and one other (Music Lovers, maybe?) have faded to red.
Selfish pig buying tix for seemingly the entire series, it seemed, around 2pm took 20 MINUTES to make his purchase, while J4ck the Cinemani4c, who was in front of me, and I boiled. I wanted his liver.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The Devils sold out tonight, I'm going tom'w.
http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/kenrussell.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Glenn Kenny on Film Forum 3D fest:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2133
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Wish I lived in NYC,, The Safdies' "Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema" retrospective at BAM looks GREAT: http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2405
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Friday, 13 August 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoyed seeing new print of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on the big screen at FF last night, although did not enjoy waiting to get into the theater while the 3D setup was being tested for today.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I was at the 7:50!
Might go to Straight Time @BAM on Sunday if I can get back from CT
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
At Lincoln Center:
The Sign of RohmerAugust 18 to September 3The most complete North American retrospective of Rohmer’s work in more than a decade, including all of his feature films and the U.S. premiere of his 1980 TV film Catherine de Heilbronn. Plus special in-person appearances by key Rohmer collaborators.
The most complete North American retrospective of Rohmer’s work in more than a decade, including all of his feature films and the U.S. premiere of his 1980 TV film Catherine de Heilbronn. Plus special in-person appearances by key Rohmer collaborators.
― The Redd, The Blecch & Other Things (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Went to one of these today. Multiple cinemaniacs in the audience and a giant crowd of people outside with tight, tight security and Beatlemania screaming for some kind of Jonas Brothers event.
― The Redd, The Blecch & Other Things (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 August 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
And I just saw Cinemaniac Jack again, walking the streets of Tribeca.
― The Redd, The Blecch & Other Things (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I've never seen Rohmer's Sign of Leo, so I guess I'll go tonight!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 August 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't make it, actually
debating V Price / 3 Stooges
http://www.filmforum.org/films/classic3d.html#mad
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 August 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna try FF's sole screening of When Strangers Marry tonight, Robert Mitchum's first starring role in a Wm Castle B.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
FF membership just lapsed, please remind me to re-up.
― Poldark City (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
If you wanna go I can get you a ticket at lunch.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
No can go tonight, but thanks for the kind offer.
― Poldark City (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna try to hit Our Beloved Month of August at 6:30 @Anthology
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
You won't regret it. One of the best things I've seen this year.
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Also just noticed that Historias extraordinarias is at Latinbeat: http://www.filmlinc.org/wrt/onsale/latinbeat/extraordinarystorieshisto.html . There are way too many good films this month.
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, I don't think I can do a 4-hr film right after work anymore w/out dinner!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Must...find a way ... to see some of these.
― Redd Cadillac & A Blecch Moustache (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
So I won't be seeing you at Star Spangled to Death or Hitler: A Film From Germany? xp
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I have too much goin' on for those, most likely
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to see the one about Karl May!
― Redd Cadillac & A Blecch Moustache (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i plan on going to the hitler film (with birthday hangover in tow, probably)
― marilyn VO5 savant (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember seeing Sontag at some of those back in the day, when she had short hair growing back after the chemo. She said she loved her some long German films, her favorite being Heimat.
― Redd Cadillac & A Blecch Moustache (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/programs/retrospectives/hans-juergen
I remember when that film used to be called Our Hitler -- whose idea was that? So with the dinner break, that'll go from 2 to 10:30?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Tonight at IFC:
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-films-of-act-up/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 September 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Morbs (or anyone) did you like Month of August?
― /\/K/\/\, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I struggled to stay awake; I liked the documentary content more than the rest.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Awww, I loved it
― Nano McPhee (admrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
loved it too!
(although i think i need a break from those fiction vs reality/documenrty post modern films.)
― Zeno, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
ya i liked it quite a bit too, although im still kinda of unpacking some of the doc content
― /\/K/\/\, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe i wil try Historias extraordinarias after all
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
s1ocki loves that movie i tell you
― Nano McPhee (admrl), Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
My Man in Toronto had good things to say about new Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Daratt) and Aktan Arym Kubat's "Light Thief".
― Nano McPhee (admrl), Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The Gomes is one of the best things I've seen all year. Wasn't wild about Face You Deserve or the shorts.
So excited for Historias.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
If I wear my Forbidden Planet costume will you recognize me?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 September 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahah, yeah. But really you should just set aside six and half hours on Saturday, and come to Star Spangled to Death at Un1onD0cs.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
saw My Uncle at Film Forum yesterday. Tonight is the last night, don't sleep, it was the besssssssst
― let's have a toast for the cumlords (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not huge on Jacobs. xp
I never knew there was an alternate Englishcentric cut of Mon Oncle.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, i never saw the original, but I don't think it's TOO far removed from it, save a couple of overdubs
― let's have a toast for the cumlords (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the print was absolutely gorgeous and lush. You would never guess that movie was 50 years old
― let's have a toast for the cumlords (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, there's really an English version? Weird.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
English-centric. There's still a looot of French in it! Like they added a couple English overdubs and reshot a few scenes for US audiences.
― let's have a toast for the cumlords (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
hey i'm gonna be in NYC next week - anything i should check out?
― sarahel, Saturday, 25 September 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
try getting rush tix for NYFF screenings
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/
― william buttinski's 'the disintegration snoops' (donna rouge), Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
any particular films you'd recommend, d?
― sarahel, Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
also, donna, just wanna say that i've been totally loving your display names as of late
― oh, the delightful smell of home-baked molasses bread on my penis (sarahel), Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, thanks! can't say i can recommend anything (i have seen, and will only be seeing, one entry in the entire thing) but i'd really like to see the new reichardt and kiarostami features
― william buttinski's 'the disintegration snoops' (donna rouge), Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Come to this program!http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-saturday-october-2/views-from-the-avant-garde-since-you-were-here
It has my friends Norbert and Laida's films plus a film I worked on. They're all great, if I may humbly say so.
― Edgware Wolf in London (admrl), Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Or listen to C0l1n and go and see the Patrick Keiller. You'll gain some sorely needed info on the heritage industry in Britain.
― Edgware Wolf in London (admrl), Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Also you could go and see "Ruhr". I have yet to actually see it but I'm told it is fun for all the family!
― Edgware Wolf in London (admrl), Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
my friend co-curated this MoMA fest of silent comedy shorts:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1112
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
notes on the films here!
http://www.cruelandunusualcomedy.com/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Last day... medical comedies tonight!
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/10473
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
re FF heist series: Anyone seen The Sicilain Clan? (today)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 October 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Go!
― THE BOSS aka the steenspringer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 October 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
hey it's a Stanley Donen retro @ Reade... why Mike Nichols was chatting with him after Funny Face tonight I can't figure!
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/donen.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 November 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I will go to Movie Movie tonight (was funny in '78)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 November 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Todd Haynes' Poison coming to IFC Center for a week, T.H. appears Thursday night:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/poison_back_on_big_screen_for_20th_anniversary/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 November 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
so stoked to see ON THE BOWERY on the big screen next week!
Dr. Morbius' review: http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/on-the-bowery/5012
― Taylor McSwift (Tape Store), Thursday, 11 November 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yer mad, I don't know that guy.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 November 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ok missed ON THE BOWERY but had a blast w/ the Cannon series @ lincoln center
saw 52 pick up + operation thunderbolt + runaway train (!!!) + the apple (:D :D :D)
― Here we are in a sticky situation/ (Tape Store), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
had to skip Cannon, i am in year-end hell
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Did anyone see Farocki (or any of the films) at 16Beaver?
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm seldom familiar w/ subjects of your questions!
Every Man for Himself at 6:30, i think
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf! i missed a farocki retrospective? i watched some of his shorts on a tv while i was in nyc
― Here we are in a sticky situation/ (Tape Store), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
If you don't know Harun Farocki, Morbius, you are (maybe?) in for a treat
― Joseph Gordon-Levitation (admrl), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, yes you are!
― Here we are in a sticky situation/ (Tape Store), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoa, Morbs, you should get on that! Surprised you haven't seen Inextinguishable Fire.
It wasn't really a retro, more like a quasi seminar thing -- http://www.16beavergroup.org/farocki/ . Really disappointed I couldn't make it.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
love farocki, would've loved to have seen this
― chris and cosey and ted and alice (donna rouge), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Anything filmy that's unique to NYC worth going to from 11/25-12/2?
― Can you keep up? (Cheetah), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2800
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks! I won't vote THAT into the Gulag!
― Can you keep up? (Cheetah), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
tomw night @ MoMA's Weimar series, the 1933 Viktor und Viktoria
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I won't make it to Letter from an Unknown Woman @Reade this time, but anyone who can should.
http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/ff/letterfromanunknownwoman.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
fitst sound film shot at UFA, Farewell by Robert Siodmak, at 7pm at MoMA
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Wm Richert in person at Reade w/ his cuts of his films
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/richert.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 January 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Last three days of The Leopard
― A Man Needs A Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
no, Visconti didn't film the chapter where he dies.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
You got me that time.
― A Man Needs A Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
headed for 2:30 Leopard if anyone (incl me) can make it.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Shooting for 8
― Never Make Your Moog Too Soon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 January 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Did you make it?
― Never Make Your Moog Too Soon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yes. packed with snow casualties. I was even gonna stay for Eisenstein but wanted to get the curb-jumping over with.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't too crowded-or too snowy at 8- although I did have to sit in front of a bickering old couple.
― Never Make Your Moog Too Soon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, glad I made it there, and will be back for Fritz Land and Cluny Brown.
― Never Make Your Moog Too Soon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
you'd hate scenes from a marriagexp
― schlump, Friday, 28 January 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Fritz Land would be a grim theme park.
Did bickering old couple go "You cross yourself before every embrace! I've never seen your navel!"
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 January 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, no, not those exact words.
Also haha at description of "Fritz Land"
― Never Make Your Moog Too Soon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 January 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
'78 Oliveira longie in Astoria Saturday:
http://www.villagevoice.com/events/doomed-love-2358605/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 February 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Not film, but I hope to catch some of this next weekend:
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2011/02/11/detail/tv-party-a-panorama-of-public-access-television-in-new-york-city/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, go! my grad colleague is co-curating it, really wish i could go
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't been able to make a single one of the Soviet actions films @ Reade yet, of course. Aiming for 7:10 tonight.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
New Directors/New Films lineup:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2915
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
tix still available for Deneuve introducing Repulsion at BAM tonight.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously? Are you going?
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
no idea yet. perhaps not.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I checked and it seems you can't buy the tix online.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
First time I ever saw Repulsion was a 3 a.m. showing on TV about 30 years ago. Creeped me out tremendously.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
VP, it appears you can, here:
http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=40
also, not til 9:40. sleepy sleepy sleepy
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's kind of late to be stuck in Brooklyn watching Repulsion, but Catherine Deneuve!
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 4 March 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Could just hang out in the lobby and wait for her to walk to the car at 9:45!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Thieves & Genealogies of a Crime are both super, btw
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, don't encourage me, because I would do that!
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Manuel DeLanda at Anthology all weekend. Bummed I can't make it. Raw Nerves really blew me away -- it's concerns are familiar, but I've never seen anything else quite like it -- and these are hard to see. Good weekend at MMI too: Great batch of Resnais' and the David Perlov diaries.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 4 March 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw Muriel last week--it was quite boring. Going to try to catch Providence with Dirk Bogarde.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Muriel, boring?
― ilxor astro-ilx? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
seconding 'raw nerves', it's a blast
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc it was his senior thesis film at SVA?
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked Muriel. plz tell me Providence is not this weekend? ive been wanting to see it for 30+ years.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Not this weekend: don't worry. In a couple of weeks.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Which Resnais should I see this weekend? Is "I Want to Go Home" good? Other choices: Je T'aime, Je T'aime (seen it), Stavisky, Far From Vietnam, Not on the Lips.
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I didnt care for Not on the Lips, otherwise unable to help.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
off topic, but i'm working on the assumption that this thread is a honey-trap for film fans on ILX:
which raul ruiz should i see, first, availability pending? i think i have access to three crowns of a sailor. fwiw, i'd maybe be inflicting it on some others, too, so something vaguely enjoyable or interesting would be a plus.
it'd be nice to have a general film thread for general film geeking right now. i'm all full of enthusiasm for archipelago, & need to find counsel on where to go from here with eugene green films; don't know that there's a rolling arthouse thread, or whether one's worthwhile.
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll let snobbier film snobs answer the above. Just wanted to say that over the weekend I saw "Mon Oncle d'Amerique" -- super amusing.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't think Three Crowns is really the one to see, sorry. Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting or On Top of the Whale maybe.
― Blitzkrieg Bop Gun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
tons of his I haven't seen, but my faves from the '90s are Genealogies of a Crime, Three Lives and Only One Death, and the Proust movie.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I start with "Time Regained" then " Three Lives..." Then track down "Combat D'amour en songe " (sic) which is stellar.
― Winky Dinky Dawgz (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
has anybody been to this Indie Screen theater on Kent Ave in W'burg? It's the only place Cold Weather is showing now.
http://www.indiescreen.us/?page_id=74
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 March 2011 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Five Japanese Divas series starts tomorrow at FF.
― Phred "Psonic" Psmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Good series. Mother and Repastare among Naruse's best, iirc.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 31 March 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
I know i've seen Repast, not sure abt Mother
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Might try to catch The Life of Oharu.
― Ministry of Geir (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
So the new FSLC screens open in June:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/movies/film-society-of-lincoln-center-readies-art-house-complex.html
Maybe this means we won't have to wait YEARS before Film Socialisme gets shown again?
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Life Of Oharu still amazing. Hope I can get to more in this series.
― Pigmeat Arkham (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Holy shit, this is a godsend: http://altscreen.com/
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
looks good
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
They have to add Spectacle. That little theater is showing amazing stuff. I subscribed to their feed and can barely tell when things are playing. They need a new website.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, totally. Though it's still unclear to me how underground that place wants to be. They seemed super hush-hush at first, but they have received a bunch of fairly high-profile mentions since then, so who knows.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't been. It looks small...is it an OK place to see movies? Sometimes if a place is that small, I'm not sure if it's worth it!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, well it depends what you mean by "OK". It's very comfortable, but it's not agonizing either (a little more legroom than Film Forum, at least). It seems like a lot of the stuff they show is from torrents and run from a drive, which could be a problem, image quality-wise. Everything I've seen there has looked okay, but I've only gone a couple times. But it's cheap, and they show stuff you're not going to see projected anywhere else, which is enough for me.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Why isn't there a rolling movie thread after award season? Is this it?
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
this thread mostly covers limited-release/repertory screenings that happen in nyc
― Sittin' Fran (donna rouge), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
never heard of Spectacle
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you for the explanation, donna rouge
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
very DIY/punk little venue:
http://spectacletheater.com/
showing some pretty serious stuff.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
very well might go there at 4:50 for The Immortal Story
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 April 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://rooftopfilms.com/blog/2011/04/announcing-our-15th-annual-summer-series-lineup.html
This doc lineup is insane, includes most of my favorites of the past year (highlights: LA BOCCA DEL LUPO, FAMILY INSTINCT, EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY LIFE OF JOSE GONZALEZ, AT THE EDGE OF RUSSIA, FAKE IT SO REAL)
Have heard great things about almost all of the narratives.
― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
havent bothered w/ all these Rudy Wurlitzer-penned films I've already seen at Anthology, but might try Glen and Randa tnite at 7.
― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
A bunch of great stuff at MoMA's Cinema Tropical thing this weekend. Historias extraordinarias and Tropic of Cancer are among the best movies of the last decade imo.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 6 May 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1171
Is the Arbor worth seeing?
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Sort of -- perhaps you read my 2.5-star review!
hoping to get to Historias on Sunday, if I've finished my work.
Haynes' Mildred Pierce also at MOMI, but that aint happening.
Monday at Film Forum, these are always fun:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/vitaphone2011.html
(extra credit if you come dressed as Joe Frisco)
― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 May 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
The Arbor is good in a fussy, limited sort of way. Did anyone catch the trailer they were showing at FF? It strains hilariously to make the film look like an ultimately uplifting triumph-of-the-human-spirit kinda thing.
― C0L1N B..., Friday, 6 May 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
The Arbor is FANTASTIC
― love you like a frat kid loves Cake (Tape Store), Friday, 6 May 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
I missed your review, M.--you need to shamelessly promote yourself on FB more.
Can't do Mildred at MOMI either, because I am seeing Mark Rylance in Jerusalem. We need a theater snob thread.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 6 May 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
taiwan season at the lincoln center looks good -
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/taiwan-stories-classic-and-contemporary-film-from-taiwan
edward yang popping up directing an episode of something
― sensual bathtub (group: 698) (schlump), Saturday, 7 May 2011 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
Haynes' Superstar in W'burg on Thurs along with a Garrel/Nico film:
http://spectacletheater.com/double-feature-musical-at-spectacle
― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
anyone care to vouch for The Makioka Sisters as a must-see?
― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, I was going to try to see it this weekend but didn't make it. Never seen it either.
― stars on 45 my destination (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
being released on Criterion in a few weeks.
― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen it on TV--it's sort of exactly what you would expect, but maybe it works better on the big screen. I preferred the book.
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
Fans of Dead of Night should head over to Film Forum to see Went The Day Well?
― Spirit of the Me Hive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 June 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I have to, since predictably it's the last night and I've been "busy"
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2011 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
So a bunch of events, some free, to open the new Linc Ctr screens this weekend. Just got a FSLC email about the Coen Bros discussing their opening scenes (mod Noah Baumbach) Friday eve.
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Cool. Did you see that Romanian thing at the FF?
― Onimosapien (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
long list of things I'm not going to...tonight at Spectacle two movies with soundtracks by Can that look pretty awesome.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
yes, I recommend the Romanian adultery pic highly
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
is that tuesday, after christmas?
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
yep
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 11:47 (twelve years ago) link
have a res for tomw night's "Joel & Ethan Coen in conversation with Noah Baumbach" at Linc Ctr.
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 June 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
Would like to go to FF in next two days to see Rejoice and Shout or La Dolce Vita restoration but don't think I can make it.
― James & Bobby Quantify (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
Rejoice and Shout ends w/ Obama's election, so that rules it out for me (Armond otm)
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
I agree the Obama clip seemed out of place, most of the rest of it was good and worth seeing. I'm rather sorry it didn't do better.
― MrDasher, Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Tried to go last night to the last show but didn't make it.
Le Rayon Vert coming July 1.
― James & Bobby Quantify (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 June 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
I just saw it at BAM, now it's coming to Film Forum.
Usually it's BAM that seems to show things after other places (maybe just my skewed perception).
― MrDasher, Friday, 17 June 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
no, that's the way
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
Film Forum is also showing Dial M for Murder in 3-D scheduled through 6/23.
― MrDasher, Sunday, 19 June 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Skolimowski's "The Shout" tonight in Queens. Just noticed that Jim Broadbent is in this.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 24 June 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Saw it about a year ago, strange piece of work.
Witchfinder General is playing at 92Y tomw night (8pm, I think).
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 June 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
intriguing series at the anthology:http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/37703
richard brody wrote about the eustache film after it played a few months back, sounds interesting. i think this kind of thing sometimes sounds more compelling than it actually might end up being, so at least having the chance to see it in numbers locked in a dark room gives you reason to go.
― devoted to boats (schlump), Monday, 27 June 2011 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
& spectacle is screening Out 1, in full, over two days, if you're really at a loose end
― devoted to boats (schlump), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
I have about a week left in NYC before moving away. Any haps this week? Film, non-film, music, it's-hot-wanna-enjoy-life-before-it-ends-in-a-week kinda stuff, etc?
In the Heat of the Night free in Bryant Park tonight...
― You're runnin' with the (Cheetah), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
i'd be at the william lustig series at anthology this week, if i were you (hard-to-find '60s/'70s gritty potboilers, mostly)
― jesus and mary chapin carpenter (donna rouge), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa, thanks. Totally badass.
― You're runnin' with the (Cheetah), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, those look great. Too bad I'm swamped with projects and never get out.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 July 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
it's unfortunately ending right before i fly into nyc :/
― jesus and mary chapin carpenter (donna rouge), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
If you're around tonight, Spectacle is showing two GREAT films from Jean-Pierre Gorin's USA trilogy.
― C0L1N B..., Monday, 18 July 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
wau, is it the first two? i still have routine pleasures to watch, but poto & cabengo's a must
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Monday, 18 July 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
You should also check Screen Slate or Alt Screen for film listings.
― C0L1N B..., Monday, 18 July 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
It's Poto and Cabengo and My Crasy Life, which is easily the weakest of the three, but definitely worth hunting down.
― C0L1N B..., Monday, 18 July 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
so Rosa von Praunheim has a new doc at Newfest called Rent Boys:
http://newfest.slated.com/2011/films/rentboys_rosavonpraunheim_newfest2011
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 July 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
If you've never seen it in a theater, this is a must tonight:
http://altscreen.com/07/25/2011/alt-screen-presents-will-success-spoil-rock-hunter-1957/
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
anything good/essential coming up this week? might try to squeeze a movie in at some point while i'm in town
― rameau: first blood (donna rouge), Monday, 25 July 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
I would let Altscreen be your bible.
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh, the two Raoul Walsh pre-Code romcoms at Film Forum Tuesday night are FANTASTIC! Me and My Gal / Sailor's Luck.
Then Thursday there's Airport 1975 at the Chelsea, hosted by Hedda Lettuce.
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
tonight I guess I might finally see James Whale's Waterloo Bridge at FF
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
and I did.
Triple bill tonight is impossible, but maybe two, incl Union Depot
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Totally wanted to go to FF on Sunday but didn't.
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Union Depot is kind of funny, espesh. in terms of its gender politics. There's an implied hooker, IIRC
― smells like PENGUINS (remy bean), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Hey guys, you should go and see LITTLEROCK this week, it was made by a friend of mine.
― Elderflower Gimcrax Flores (admrl), Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
p sure it was included in talking head, at the anthology - did anyone see/has anyone seen scorsese's italianamerican? i was always curious about it.
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
yes, his parents are marvelously entertaining in it.
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
i oughtta see.i think i am maybs in NY around the time of the film festival at the start of october; hope to coincide with something exciting. i always fuck up at festivals by seeing things that are just out, two months later, rather than never to be screened again.
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Monday, 15 August 2011 10:51 (twelve years ago) link
The NYFF shows less 'never to be screened again' stuff every year, cept for the sidebars. I mean, they're showing the restored 1959 Ben-Hur this year!
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
i mean: i have never seen ben-hur, but i see your point. i sorta remember that period as being triply loaded in ny anyway, w/CMJ & the new yorker fest, so maybe it'll slide (or maybe i'll catch the ides of march, which i guess is playing.
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Monday, 15 August 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone know this noir playing at BAM tonight, The Locket, with Laraine Day and Robert Mitchum?
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
All day Buster Keaton Labor Day at FF.
― Hipster Shake Boogie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 September 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
at Cinema Village, i will try to see their two 4-hour assathons, Mysteries of Lisbon and this Japanese film Love Exposure...
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/2011/08/31/review_love_exposure_is_four_hours_of_madhouse_kink/
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
Mysteries of Lisbon is totally engrossing, though, and it has an interval!
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure it will zip by faster than Tron.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
I couldn't tell you, I didn't see Tron. I can tell you that Mysteries of Lisbon has some exquisitely beautiful camera moves, too.
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ra(o)ul Ruiz 4Evah
― Vendo Caramelos A Veces Sin Dinero (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 2 September 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
This film is great, guys:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-autobiography-of-nicolae-ceausescu
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
ah yeah, dying to see that. in a cinema. because it's zipped around for a few years iirc & it will never screen here but it sounded interesting & novel.
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Friday, 9 September 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
prob somewhere better to post this, but is anyone catching margaret? surprised how enthusiastic the write ups have been
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2011/10/margaret-from-new-york-to-the-pacific.html
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Friday, 7 October 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
Have the other reviews been as positive? Brody finds something to get that frothy about at least once a week.
― C0L1N B..., Sunday, 9 October 2011 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
still at Sunshine, will go if there's time.
Keith loved it, but he loved Step Up to the Streets 2:
http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/film/2002495/review-margaret
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 October 2011 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
lots of raves on twitter. Glenn Kenny liked it.
― Rory's new misogynist car (Gukbe), Sunday, 9 October 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
OK, it's got great stuff in it. Particularly Anna Paquin & Jeannie Berlin.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
i went to nitehawk recently and was really impressed with the quality of the screen and seating, plus the food i had beforehand was pretty good. i think it's my top choice for watching movies now.
― kaygee, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's the MoMA preservation fest, with a 1968 Joe Dante 4-1/2-hr montage whatzit, and the amazing Corman-Shatner racial melodrama The Intruder:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1210
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit that series looks great
― theosophy b. hawkins (donna rouge), Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
^^man how is jean rouch's stuff so hard to see, every film of his i read about always sounds awesome
― interspecies smalltalk (schlump), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
too much to do in NY a week from Sat: Soviet 1947 3D (see above), one ilxor playing a gig, another DJing...
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 October 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
The Heartbreak Kid at Lincoln Ctr, followed by Q&A w/ Charles Grodin & Jeannie Berlin!
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-heartbreak-kid
Part of their Jew Wave retro!
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
idk if you all already saw this, but edward yang retro at the lincoln center, w/a run for ABSD
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/a-rational-mind-the-films-of-edward-yang
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
:O
― vitameatawalloginavegamin (donna rouge), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
i am in town until the morning it starts/goddammiti would totally get around to catching a brighter summer's day if it was running for a whole week, so annoyed
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
OTOH, the week's run means it is now eligible for 2011 lists/polls, so there's another 4 hours outta my life
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
though catching it is probably a good opportunity to sit in the dark and meditate on your list choices
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
ya! saw that yesterday when i was at LC for California Split. what's worth seeing besides summer's day and yi yi (which i might skip since i just re-watched it recently)?
― /\/K/\/\, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
I saw several of these in the '90s, so damned if I remember. A Confucian Confusion, maybe.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
I'll be out of town for Lupino Lane:(
Should make it back for An Evening With Superstar Mario Montez
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2011/11/13/detail/an-evening-with-superstar-mario-montez
Gonna try and catch "The Bride Wore Black" tonight.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
"The Bride Wore Black" is not that good.
Might try to catch Mario M at MoMA, easier to get to, but I'm drowning in film catchup as always.
I've seen more Lupino Lane than anyone under 85 should have.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
ewwww, film ketchup
― GREENS (the putting kind) (donna rouge), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Were I in NYC and feeling bold I might attempt the superfecta of Yang films on Saturday. Alas.
― GREENS (the putting kind) (donna rouge), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Really? Should I go to the Diego Rivera preview at MOMA, instead?
I saw Charlie Chase last Saturday.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2012/03/04/detail/news-from-home-with-chantal-akerman
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
Cool, thanks.
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
anyone seen Ken Jacobs' Seeking the Monkey King?
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2012#showing-38437
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
now I have.
2 rare Bressons Tuesday night at FF.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
Would like to see some of the Bressons on the weekend but who knows. Also want to see Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and A Separation.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
the Jones-Rosenbaum article on Godard alluded to that obscure Bresson.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da was good. j "That Jackass" Hoberman otm
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Film Comment Selects has some wows & WTFs:
http://www.filmlinc.com/press/entry/fslc-announces-12th-edition-of-film-comment-selects-february-17-march-1
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace is wonky and unwieldy but I still liked it.
Role Models is solid but I'd like to read the explanation for its inclusion.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
cuz Wain has a newer film due they couldn't get?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
No, they're showing the new one too
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
ok, a 2fer
bought my Satantago ticket for Sunday; when i get out it will be BASEBALL SEASON
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
Don't hold your breath
― POLL Removal Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I should just ask KJB what the best underssen Wellmans are!
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/wellman
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
J Hobrerman?
― Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Hoberman, even
Shame that FF isn't showing OTHER MEN'S WOMEN. Those Forbidden Hollywood DVDs that have the pre-code Wellmans are pretty crummy.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 2 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
It's George Kuchar weekend
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/38584
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
helluva weekend btwn those programs, robert nelson, 'my hustler' and james whitney!
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
also whoa @ that wooster group series
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Folks,
I'll be in NYC during March 23 - 25th (Pop Conference time)... is anything good playing? I'm not v. interested in the Sara Driver retrospect.
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
j0e, there is also a Raquel Welch retro at W.Reade w/ Raq doing several Q&As. :o
remy, I think it's too early to know. French showcase is early March:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2012
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh, there's this in late March; my friend is co-curating a series of European silent comedy shorts from 1908-14!
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1253
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Program 3: Mass Destruction looks promising...
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://spectacletheater.com/middletown-thin-slices-of-america
would be psyched to catch some/all of middletown in a couple of weeks. i've only seen seventeen, which is a must.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
I don't remember ever reading about those films.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
there's a long article somewhere that coincided with the dvd rerelease last year; iirc tape store is a big fan. seventeen's just terrific; i just saw 45365, which has that flickering-portrait-of-a-town-through-vignettes thing going, & even though seventeen's focus is ostensibly school, teenagers, &c, it has the same effect, it somehow catches way more than it films, & is like the ur-text of high school ups and downs, like a verite take on one of the weird fast times/dazed & confused things (i can sorta feel this comparison alienating you but really it's good). i like it a bunch anyway. i don't know so much about the other eps.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
Seventeen is a thousand times better than the others. They're probably worth seeing -- the Leacock in particular -- but mostly because they give a sense of how deeply ingrained and unthinking that kinda modified direct cinema approach had become by the early 80s (there's a great, vicious Bill Nichols piece about this). The whole project doesn't add up to much.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
Lucian Pintilie retro @ MoMA -- I loved The Oak 20 years ago. Who's seen others?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1251
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not me.
― Averroes's Search Engine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't think I'll have time to see any of the DCPs of the classics at Film Forum -- I bet Strangelove is sold out already.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
who go to Zulawski films @ BAM? The plot summaries are exhausting.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
i'm going to try to catch a zuul or two. i think i'd be more excited about dcp if more of the selections weren't things you can catch at ifc around the corner every weekend midnight, yknow? (did 5 easy pieces though)
also, hi, im snack.
― snack, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know IFC was showing those films digitally yet... tho apparently we may never see 35mm prints of any of them again. Tragic.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
I doubt I will end up seeing any of them. The one scheduled for today is probably the most appealing to me but I don't feel like going.BAM is showing Shoah on March 25th. The director will be there. It is one screening, with breaks. I can't make it. Now I am thinking of just getting it on DVD. Apparently it's available as an import from South Korea.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
you might check if any NYC stores will rent you OOP Shoah discs.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Do you have any suggestions as to where? On the one hand, I don't know that it is something I would want to watch repeatedly, so renting might be a better way to go.On the other, I guess I like the idea of having it so I could just watch when I find the time and the correct mood, rather than being "forced" to watch in an alloted time period.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
well, I saw it in two big chunks at the Cinema Studio theater in the late '80s, so no sympathy there. :)
These guys have a lotta stuff:
http://worldofvideonewyork.com/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the link, I will check it out.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
BAMs march calendar is p great, i would go to a lot of stuff if i lived here, including Q&A sesh w/ james gray @ the end of the month
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
goin to anythg else this week?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
i wish i could! today was really it, unless i find something worth hitting during the afternoon tmrow or fri
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
maybe will do 'the oak' @ moma @ 4 tomorrow
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
didn't realize we were having concurrent zulawski retros (going to a later-than-i'd-like screening of 'possession' tonight)
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Our retro has better weather
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I guess the Stalker screening/panel (Walter Murch, Francine Prose, Phillip Lopate and Zona author Geoff Dyer) at the New School Saturday eve should go here too
http://nyihumanities.org/event/tarkovsky-interruptus
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Wow.
― Challoperator's Manual (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
4pm showing of oak @ moma - brought down 2 the theater in the elevator w/ abt 30 whiney sr citizen nyc film/art snobs - this better be good
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
they must be cranky cuz this conflicts w/ dinner
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I saw it again the other night and yeah, the renovation trip makes it feel very EXCLUSIVE.
Try not to sit near anybody.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
the disgusting savage to my left just took his shoes off
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
haha, good, your'e getting the quintessential MoMA experience. Now hope he takes out a bag of plums and his dentures.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
wait, whiney is a film snob?
― Challoperator's Manual (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
at the risk of making this the "all purpose bicoastal ilx film snob thread" apparently LA is also getting the queer/art/film series here too? john cameron mitchell intro'ing 'zero de conduite' later this month
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
reallY? Where is that?
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
cinefamily as well
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
jeeez. Maybe I should finally join Cinefamily. Going to any more Zulawski this w/e? Do we need an LA film snob thread?
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
i definitely plan on going to 'on the silver globe' on sunday and possibly 'third part of the night' tomorrow (my friend in nyc who's seen 'em highly recommends both), probably will catch a few others as well
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
I want to go to those too, but they will be last-minute calls, provided they don't sell out
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
well, I saw Pintilie's Reenactment tonight, a pretty hardcore political allegory of 1968 Romania... except for the first 12 minutes, thx to MoMA's idiotic tendency to seat people in the standby line after the film has begun. Fortunately it's all on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYQtDEMoJk
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 March 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
hm interesting, i liked 'the oak' a lot btw
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 March 2012 06:15 (twelve years ago) link
amazing, wasn't it... i'd forgotten nearly all of it since '92
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 March 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
caught possession at bam yesterday. hard to have thoughts on this one, other that i couldn't help wishing i was watching ghostbusters the whole time.
― snack, Sunday, 11 March 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
otm, irrespective of what film you are talking about
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Sunday, 11 March 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
skipped Possession, I guess cuz I never liked Ghostbusters (that one time I saw it 28 years ago).
anyone seen Attenberg?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, I've seen it. It is...of interest.
― Luomas (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Is the Terrence Davies retrospective on at BAM?
― Luomas (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
next week.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
you should go
― Luomas (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I've never seen the Trilogy or Distant Voices..., probly will
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
If you've never seen Distant Voices Still Lives, you are in for a treat
― Luomas (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't seen Attenberg but I worked a little bit on and can briefly be seen in her prior feature.
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
awwww <3
― Luomas (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Nina Menkes, anyone?
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=3&year=2012#showing-38862
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
wow, I didn't know Attenberg dir had NYU/UT connex, or was in Slacker.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
menkes tonight. maybe.
― snack, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Liked Queen of Diamonds
My friend's latest co-curated MoMA series: DUTCH silent-comedy shorts!
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
LA correspondent reporting:
impending bela tarr retro at cinefamily, via twitter (can't even fathom sitting seven hours in those seats tho, ugh)
and speaking of dutch shorts, friend of mine helped arrange a screening of '70s dutch A-G films at EPFC later this month: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/410599338955441/
(if i made a separate LA film snob thread would anyone post on it besides me and admrl? there's been some great stuff here lately!)
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Screw it, let's take this thread.
Jon Jost also here (LA) this weekend, I'm hoping to make some of the shows. Donna, we surely have some friends in common...
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Those Dutch shorts look great, I know Franz Zwartjes but the rest are an intriguing mystery
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
Also you guys can report back on the Menkes. I've seen Phantom Love and Bloody Child, but nothing else.
i bought a ticket for the saturday jost thing
i missed the whole menkes series :/
do you know m4rcy?
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
I've never met her but I know who she is, know her ex and am good friends with one of her co-workers.
I'll probably be at Angel City, too haha
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i know some of the "film scene" here through her and m4rk i guess
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
I've come to like our "film scene"! There's a lot of good people, it's exciting, etc. Things are happening. I don't really know any other similar scenes so I can't really make comparisons, but it seems healthy, diverse
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
Emailing u
so do we need to change ttitle to "bicoastal"?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
that might be nice, you know? But I am only kidding, we should honor your thread if you want to keep it that way. I try to have one eye on NYC and see what you guys are being treated to. Seems like we have a lot of parallel programs (Zulawski, Menkes, etc) right now.
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
also dr, I finally succumbed & got BAM Cinematek membership, so put curatorial staff on notice. ;)
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
but do you guys have a giant rock????
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Message from Original Poster: yes LA film snobs are of course welcome to use this thread, no need to change title. Eric is welcome too.
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
isn't LACMA the place I read about in the Thom Andersen FC article, where the admin/donors now force them to do staged readings of Reservoir Dogs instead of showing international retros?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
Eric now cops to hating movies, he is purged.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds about right
xp
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
it really is a shame that LACMA's film screenings are so lackluster now, the theater itself is terrific
lol i missed the giant rock en route
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 16 March 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm having trouble watching movies myself these days but I did manage to see This Is Not a Film
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 March 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
T Davies essentials the next 2 nights at BAM (trilogy & DV,SL)
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
anybody been to ND/NF this year? just bought a ticket for Las Acacias at MoMA at 4pm.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
I usually go on opening night but couldn't get over there this year
― Radio Boradman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
screening of Wild in the Streets on Tuesday @ The Kitchen, followed by panel w/ Greil Marcus:
http://thenewinquiry.com/features/11242/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Sara Driver, yay or nay? (Anthology)
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
^ was rather nonplussed bySleepwalk...
looking fwd to Walter Hill's Hard Times at BAM tomw tho
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
isn't there a website that aggregates all nyc film screenings for a particular day? damned if i can find the link, would like to have it as a ref for when i'm there next week
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
all the "alt" screenings yeah! let me know what you like....
http://altscreen.com/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
thanks! may try to squeeze a screening in on monday or tuesday if something looks good
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Hey snobs
http://whitney.org/Events/RareLosAngelesFilmsThomAndersen
― We Need To Talk About Trayvon (admrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
can't make that but i've seen about half of them already now
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
wd like to see LAPI again
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
hope one of you new yorkers sees the markopouloseses at anthology tonight
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
those hadn't dented my brain, not sure I can.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
The other Biennial screenings look good too:http://whitney.org/FilmAndVideo
― og (admrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Philip Kaufman mini-retro at MoMA... I will try for The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, and Henry & June:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1263
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
been at this year's orphan film symposium the past few days - some highlights so far:
- crazy german cola ads from the 70s (some of which featured donna summer)- a panel all about motherhood and the family, inc. educational films about lamaze from france and the USSR- evangelical puppet film about the birth of jesus/the end of the world directed by frank tashlin (!!!)- a great short film i'd seen before about a black maid daydreaming about exacting fatal revenge on her pervy white employer, set to nina simone's 'pirate jenny'
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Saturday, 14 April 2012 07:44 (eleven years ago) link
whoa who made that last one?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 April 2012 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/daydream-therapy
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Saturday, 14 April 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
christ, cinefamily needs to get someone to write better program copy. "the aching beauty of bela tarr"? "bone-chillingly stark beauty"? barf.
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
also 9:45 is awfully late to be starting a screening of 'werckmeister' but i have never seen it so
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
those are two completely different medical manifestations of beauty. xp
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
should I go see Bresson's first feature tonight or finish my tax returns?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
Emancipate yourself.
― i just believe in memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't.
Tribeca tix went on sale yesterday to 'everybody,' and I alreday have to get in the rush line for this:
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/keep_the_lights_on-film42806.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
bresson retro starts next week at the aero in santa monica which means i will likely not be going to any of them
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
I have to see Le Femme Douce on Sunday @ BAM
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
Werner Schroeter complete retro @ MoMA starts next Friday:
http://brooklynrail.org/2012/05/film/shock-opera-the-first-north-american-film-retrospective-of-werner-schroeter
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1271
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
also beginning Friday around town, Rooftop Films:
http://rooftopfilms.com/blog/2012/05/check-out-our-2012-summer-series-schedule.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
celine and julie take the skinheads boating
― Cut Creator Has A Master Plan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, June 4, 2011 11:44 AM (11 months ago)
Two more days
― Fule Runnings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
I'd rather spend 3-1/2 hrs w/ Camper Van Beethoven
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Last day. Do not screen if you hate fun
― Fule Runnings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
"I'm going to the movies!"
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Returning by popular demand in a week.
― The Unbassful Serpent (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 May 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
might check out design for living tonight so Ernst can enter the directors-i've-seen-10+ films-by club (a club that is shamefully small now that i think about it)
― snack, Sunday, 13 May 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
Saturday @ BAM
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/the_family_jewels_lewis#ixzz1uqpxcoqD2
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
Tonight at IFC Center, the pansexual horror soft-porn comedy classic Thundercrack!
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/thundercrack/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
jealz
caught about half of a six-hour experimental film marathon last week, nothing i'd seen before (highlights off the top of my head: daina krumins, les blank, susan mogul)
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
fassbinder retro at the egyptian/american, nothing that isn't on dvd iirc and no "13 moons" sadly but i still haven't seen half of these:
http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/cruelly-madly-deeply-the-films-of-rainer-werner-fassbinder
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Friday, 25 May 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
btw I forgot that most of the Thundercrack! sex is, um, hardcore
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 May 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
perks for donations:
http://www.indiegogo.com/vfb
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Aldrich's great Ulzana's Raid @ Anthology tomw night
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2012#showing-39290
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
paging dr morbius:http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=4395saeed-vafa sounds v interesting from what i've heard of her. wrote the kiarostami book w/jon rosenbaum.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Saturday, 23 June 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
I know about this
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 June 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
just checkin
― blossom smulch (schlump), Saturday, 23 June 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
anyone in nyc catch the reis/cordeiro series at AFA? think i'm gonna hit up 'tras-os-montes' tonight
― radical ferry (donna rouge), Friday, 6 July 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure most of you know about the retros of the two G Kellys, but there's also Robert Siodmak on Thursdays at Film Forum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/movies/robert-siodmak-retrospective-at-film-forum.html?_r=1
http://www.filmforum.com/movies/more/universal_100
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 July 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
and there's this, of course
http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2012/jul/13/the_clock_marclay/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
^only took me an hour to get in at 10pm on Saturday!
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 July 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
from the nyer article abt that, i loved that some fairfield cty hedge fund mgr bought a copy & is using it as a screensaver
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 July 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Criss Cross & The Killers tonight at FF. Don't think I will make it though.
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
going to K Kurosawa's Cure at Japan Society tonight!
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 July 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
How was it?
Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street at FF tonight.
― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
But don't think I will make it to Manhattan tonight.
― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
It was as creepy and top-shelf as last time.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 July 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Is this still the all-puprose film snob thread?
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/interview-carlos-reygadas/316
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
Anthology with a Secret Cinema program tom'w night:
PROGRAM 1: TOTALLY WIRED: THE FILMS OF BELL TELEPHONEA program of short films from one of the major motion picture producers of the 20th century – the phone company! As the largest corporation in the world, Bell had unlimited resources, producing corporate films more skillfully and more entertainingly than most companies could. We will show an assortment of rare Bell sales films, in-house training films, commercials and public relations films, all on 16mm. As they depict the various missions and agendas of one business throughout the years, the movies also provide a revealing look at mid-century America in general.
Just a few of the highlights will be:TELEPHONE HIGHLIGHTS (1947); WHAT’S IN A NAME? (1950S); DIAL “O” FOR OPERATOR (1965); INVISIBLE DIPLOMATS (1965); OPERATOR (1969); PICTURE PHONE (1970); and more!
PROGRAM 2: CREEPY PUPPET FILMSPuppetry is an age-old art-form that has charmed and delighted both children and adults for countless generations. And puppets have been a source of inspiration to filmmakers almost since the movies began. So why do puppets become so…creepy when filmed and projected on a giant screen? The Secret Cinema will attempt to answer that question – or at least show our favorite examples of this peculiar genre of cinema. Using assorted educational and entertainment shorts from past decades, we’ll show films using hand puppets, marionettes, and stop-motion animated figures and claymation. Some were made by great masters of special effects like George Pal and Ray Harryhausen. Others were made by nameless hacks for forgotten educational film mills. Yet, they are all creepy.
A few highlights include:HANSEL AND GRETEL (1951, dir. Ray Harryhausen); PHILLIPS CAVALCADE (1942, George Pal); MAKING CHANGE (1970s, Unknown); GUMBY: HOT ROD GRANNY (1957, Art Clokey); PIRRO AND THE SCALE (1948, Alvin J. Gordon); and much more!
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen some of those bell films before. nell cox directed 'operator' (who's mostly done tv work, eg M*A*S*H)
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
should i come back in from Brooklyn at 9:35 for COBRA WOMAN??
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
didn't.
would like to get a party together for Son of Paleface:
http://www.bam.org/film/2012/american-gagsters-great-comedy-teams
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't get to COBRA WOMAN either. Nor Spanish DRACULA
― Zing Can Really Hang You Up the Most (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
who's for Bob & Jane @ BAM, 9:15?
http://www.bam.org/film/2012/son-of-paleface
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 August 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
that's BOB. HOPE. JANE. RUSSELL. FRANK. TASHLIN.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
i would, but
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
I think Pialat's Police is hard to see, I'd pounce if I wuz you
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/15760
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
coming out on R1 blu ray soon iirc
― johnny crunch, Monday, 27 August 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
If I didn't have plans I wd go to MoMA's Sarris tribute, w/some doc footage and a Max Ophuls masterpiece.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/16150
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
i'm in town for a couple of days at the end of the month, so just started looking around to see if i could squeeze in a screening somewhere, & was thrilled to find there's a kidlat tahimik programme at the anthology, w/director in person. would zealously recommend perfumed nightmare to anyone who hasn't seen it, & will probably end up at that or turumba on the saturday.
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
buncha quality choices tonight, incl Nothing But a Man w/ Q&A at NYFF sidebar, a Jerry Lewis thing at NYPL Perf Arts, and this at Anthology:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2012#showing-39851
I will probly wind up at Glen and Randa / La Jetee @ BAM if I can stay awake.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
and Hoberman curates this year's To Save and Project at MoMA... my God... how am I going to take my medicine AND live there?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1325
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen 'call her savage', fairly racist but the gay bar scene is funny
wow @ farrokhzad/seidl/makavejev bill
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
and uh, Watergate figure Dwight Chapin presents his home movies of the Nixon White House?
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
hah i stopped scrolling before that (possibly out of jealousy) but wow
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
is anyone going to hear kiarostami talk tomorrow? wish-i-was-there, http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/hbo-directors-dialogue-abbas-kiarostami
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
more on the Project fest, hoping that Demy Lola print will get a full tour:
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-to-save-and-project-2012
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
AFI fest coming up, angelenos
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Anouk Aimee at MoMA this afternoon introducing, um, Justine.
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 October 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
and De Niro tonight introducing the latest elongation of Once Upon a Time in America. (My back can't take 4 hours of sitting right now.)
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 October 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
So I heard. (So I also heard. Sorry about that)
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 October 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty good. Hoberman was there too.
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Wonder what M. White would've thought?
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 October 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Is it worth seeing Harold Lloyd in "Dr. Jack" Monday night at Film Forum? If so, would anyone like to go?
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 15 October 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
seen it, it's good. I'll be resting.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 October 2012 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
saw Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D at Fim Forum and it was rad
― Mary Ty$ Band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 October 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
no idea how i'll feel tomw night, but Genghis Khan at MoMA looks promising:
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=855997&publicationSubCategoryId=70
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
any thoughts on this lineup?:
http://www.afi.com/afifest/pdf/AFI_FEST_2012_Quick_Guide.pdf
reading that the carax was well-liked at NYFF but i saw a short film that he made with that denis lavant character and thought it was terrible. i've heard good things about 'post tenebras lux' also.
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
if you're talking about his segment in Tokyo!, then that character is only in one scene. Heard it's great though.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Carax can try one's patience enormously, but I liked Pola X, so wd try this. He makes a film every dozen years or so now, pace Kubrick.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that's what i was thinking of. also it conflicts with the memphis 3 doc. hmmm
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
spose i wouldve taken a flyer on Tabu and Leviathan if i hadnt missed the whole NYFF.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
i've heard good things about 'post tenebras lux' also.
so awesome donna, go
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
that festival has a lot of good stuff playing, btw. i didn't know anything about the film w/leila hatami but it sounds interesting.
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
etc has mentioned Pierre Etaix before, I will try to get to at least a couple things at the retro.
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/pierre_etaix#nowplaying
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
10th anniv screening of a great doc on Monday night:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/love-diane
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
Went to see the Etaix last night. Pretty good. He looks like a combination of Keaton and the Italian Totò.
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 October 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
It was pretty good, like his version of Three on a Couch (more good gags tho).
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
got into the spillover theater for 'hitchcock' last night at AFI fest, and i have tickets to 9 more screenings between now and wednesday. gotta stock up on visine and snacks...
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 2 November 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
so was Alma Reville the secret genius of Psycho?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
not so much the genius as the bulwark. it's kinda lightweight and i'm not crazy about certain casting choices but it's fun and, thankfully, funny
caught 'post tenebras lux' tonight...like apichatpong w. doing 'tree of life' or something. bizarre and beautiful and i didn't totally understand it but i want to see it again!
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Saturday, 3 November 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
MoMA's showing Tenebras and a lotta other acclaimed stuff on their annual Contenders series:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1326
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
hey guys, has LEVIATHAN played in nyc yet? because if it hasn't yet and it does soon, you MUST MUST MUST see it, on the big screen
maybe the best film i've seen all year, really incredible
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Monday, 5 November 2012 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
just at the NYFF
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
ha yesss i thought it was kinda like lucretia martel doing tree of life or something; just at least someone w/more of a concrete humanism than malick, maybe. loved this film so much.
spoiler:
neil young
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Monday, 5 November 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
this Bill Morrison thing at BAM somehow flew over my head, i shd go
http://www.bam.org/film/2012/the-shooting-gallery
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
^didn't
Might try to make Mirage at MoMA tomw
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mirage/Film?oid=1067283
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 November 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
Seeing all of these 1912 movies this weekend:
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2012/11/10/detail/making-movies-in-new-york-1912/
I want to try one more time to read "Hollywood on the Hudson." Had to return it to nypl...thinking of getting my very own copy.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 11 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Envious.
― What Kind Of EOY POLL Do You Look Like Now? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 November 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
forgot about all that, but ive seen a few of those shorts.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Brooklyn on the upswing
(frankly, I don't need to watch movies in a bar)
http://www.indiewire.com/article/why-brooklyn-is-suddenly-new-yorks-best-moviegoing-borough
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
just discovered this annual fest starts tom'w -- in Gowanus....!
http://mixnyc.org/mix/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
i knew about it because, if you're a fan of them on FB, they send you a separate invite to EACH SCREENING
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't been to nitehawk or rerun or indiescreen but really take movie watching to seriously to want to desk with waiter service.
In other news started getting the daily Screen Slate emails. Great resource.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
the Altscreen blog has been down for a week, wish I could take credit after their calendar said O B A M A last Tuesday.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/mubi-presents-the-great-scott-in-new-york
― 乒乓, Monday, 19 November 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
so stoked.
― 乒乓, Monday, 19 November 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
hmmmmmm
Déjà Vu / So Dark the Night might be a gamble I'd take, but Dec is a mad month.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 November 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
what else is on the dock'?
― 乒乓, Monday, 19 November 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
Just caught The Man In The White Suit at the FF, which ends its run today.
― When Blecch Friday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 November 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
got the BAM email for this series titled MAXIMUM VON SYDOW.
http://www.bam.org/film/2012/max-von-sydow
Already regretting -- maybe -- passing up 35mm Flash Gordon for taht revived Stones doc at MoMA on Saturday.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
NYT has a feature article on the politics of Reade's Romania fest, so best to pounce on tix now:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/making-waves-new-romanian-cinema
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
since Altscreen has apparently imploded, new daily rep schedule:
http://www.screenslate.com/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
yr killin me here!
LA report: 'holy motors' (and one-off screenings of some other carax films) at cinefamily this week, might go tonight. and gunvor nelson's (apparently last-ever) screening in LA next week, which i'll be out of town for :(
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
and a mitchell leisen retro at UCLA. haven't even heard of any of these:
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2012-11-16/signature-style-films-mitchell-leisen
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
You already missed the only one I've seen, Midnight.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Remember the Night is another super Sturges script.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, think i'll make my way over for that one
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
and around the holiday week:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/see-it-in-70mm
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
def gonna see playtime
― 乒乓, Friday, 30 November 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
i'm gonna be gone for a bunch of these but i'm down for 2001 for sure
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 1 December 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
will prob go to those (again) if time permits. and Bamaka, and more?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 December 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
baRaka
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 December 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
Marky Ramone will be at 8:20 screening of Ginger Baker movie at FF
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Taverier's Death Watch at BAM tonight (Keitel, Romy Schneider, von Sydow)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Re that Lincoln Center 70mm series: Cheyenne Autumn with Swedish subtitles sounds weirdly interesting.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
Sure would like to go to this:http://boo-hooray.com/barbara-rubin/christmas-on-earth---barbara-rubin/
― dow, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
ooh i'll actually be in town for that!
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
don't forget The Clock comes back, to MoMA, on the 21st for a month.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1333
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
re Cheyenne Autumn, I've seen foreign prints w/ gratuitous subtitles before... now dreading hipster snickering. I'll bring a polo mallet.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Pasoloini @ MoMA
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-pasolini-moma
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 December 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Saint Jack in Anthology's Gazzara fest tonight
also Robbe-Grillet/Trintignant twinbill at FF
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
I booked my ticket for playtime on the 27
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
cool, I think I can go to that.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
cool lmk!
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
bummed that Keir Dullea will only be at Fri screening of 2001, not sure I can go
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
I'm missing both 2001 screenings unfortch
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
from BAM:
Out of respect for the victims of last week’s shooting and their families, today’s screenings of Female Trouble and Silent Night Bloody Night have been postponed. Instead, we will screen John Landis’ Trading Places.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
sold out of 2001 bcz i yam dumb
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 December 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
tonight's conundrum: 'daisies'/'first blood' at cinefamily v. 'an american in paris'/'gigi' at the egyptian
or stay in and watch 'x-files' idk
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
daisies/gigi wd be a good twinbill
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
holy hell this series looks great (and oddly "hip" for FF)
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/new_yawk_new_wave
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
well, they can't run Lubitsch or Stanwyck every season.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
Why not?
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
anthology's showing 'christmas on earth' and having taylor mead in person while i'm in town, which is nice of them
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
bcz we've seen em all, Redd.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
(dr, check with me on seeing NY/NW or any of The Clock... tho I'm disappointed they're showing one program of the same Kuchar shorts that get shown all the time.)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
will do!
AFA's 'film as a subversive art' series looks incredible
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/40458
― steaklife (donna rouge), Friday, 4 January 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
looks like The Cool World at FF today for me, have never seen it. Lead actor Rony Clanton at the 4:50 show.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 January 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
^this was amazing
on the NY nuwave series:
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-new-yawk-new-wave
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
bummed i'm missing all that. i did see taylor mead's ass tho
― steaklife (donna rouge), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
essential italics missing?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
by serendipity, Oshima films showing at MoMA tnite (Ceremony) and tomw (Shinjuku Thief)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
haha yes xp
― steaklife (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 January 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Worth seeing that one if you haven't.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 19 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait, is that for people who are on the free trial.
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
Or is it the last gasp of the old policy
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Kramer's low-budget revolutionary epic Ice at Film Forum tonight:
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=12168
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
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
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 January 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Kiarostami retro
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/a-close-up-of-abbas-kiarostami
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
and as prev noted, Amos Vogel faves
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
and the Film Forum shows 66 from 1933! (Six with Cagney.)
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/nineteenthurtythree
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait for some of these - going to gold diggers/sitting pretty this afternoon
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
i'm gonna try to make Sitting Pretty at 6:30
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
...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.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
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
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
ive seen that one plenty, but never Christopher Strong!
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 07:29 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 February 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
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*
― steaklife (donna rouge), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
id have to look up 'bonjour mr. lewis', no idea
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
nice
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
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
― steaklife (donna rouge), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
The Errand Boy has some good bits but not one of my faves. Bellboy much better.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
New book on The Searchers looks intriguing.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 March 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
anything especially worth seeing over the next week?
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 26 April 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Too busy, haven't looked.
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 April 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Malick-a-thon at BAM sunday.
― dan selzer, Friday, 26 April 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Now I remember, Film Forum is redoing the Pierre Étaix festival. By popular demand.
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 April 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Pierre Étaix
no the day the clown cried, no credibility!
― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 26 April 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
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
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
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
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 26 April 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
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 Permalinkheh, many pointed out that Certified Copy is kind of a remix! He most definitely knows it.― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:13 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:13 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 26 April 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
there is a region 2 bfi dvd of it, btw, with an excellent commentary by laura mulvey
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 26 April 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
oh, that was you!
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I had never seen Meshes til today, nor Bruce Connor's A Movie.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
Sorcerer appears to be sold out alas.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
:-(
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 26 April 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
It's possible I might go to that a-g program, not sure.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 06:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1371
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
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, T2Monday, May 27, 2013, 4:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 4:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2Monday, May 27, 2013, 4:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
this is a must-see fyi
Ah OK, Memorial Day.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
you wanna go, morbs?
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
might!
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
hi nyc snobs, my buddy helped put this one together. i recommend 'mademoiselle' if you've never seen
http://www.bam.org/film/2013/booed-at-cannes
― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Friday, 3 May 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
I doubt I will ever make it through The Mother and the Whore.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 May 2013 06:12 (ten years ago) link
(but yes, Madamoiselle I liked)
Silent Hitchcock restorations at BAM go on sale this week... Some of them are big-ticket ($35) cuz of live ensembles/opera-dance theater.
http://www.bam.org/film/2013/the-hitchcock-9
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 May 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
so this MoMA "Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions" series begins... I think my first target is Thursday night's Fuck Cinema.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:11 (ten years ago) link
I don't know this Wu Wenguang fella at all; sounds like I should go to Bumming in Beijing and the interview on Friday as well.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
morbs there was some talk in the sinosphere thread
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
ah ok. I have to check my membership guest rates, let me know when you're going.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:46 (ten years ago) link
乒乓, they're only showing the sequel but i think you would dig oxhide (ii) if you haven't seen it already. miniminiminamalist family drama.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
noted. this is a tough month for me but I would like to make it out to moma more
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
well of course the Wu Wenguang chat tomw night has no online tix left; standby line i guess.
i never fucking learn.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
the tickets magically reappeared, so I'm going tonight.
Delmer Daves retro this week at Anthology. Eager to see Garfield in Pride of the Marines.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
What's it like trying to watch The Mother and the Whore?
Would like to know before sacrificing my Sunday.
― Josefa, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
Thought it was incredible the first time I saw it, was completely mesmerized by it and really bought it into it as the summation and end of La Nouvelle Vague. Next time I saw it was kind of bored. No doubt if I ever get the opportunity and the chunk of time to see it again I will be mesmerized again. I like all his other films.
― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
I have seen the similarly titled Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte by another, more prolific, European director many times and was only bored the first one.
― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
i have not seen either! i did watch 'chinesisches roulette' when i was sick a few weeks ago and loved it tho
― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Friday, 10 May 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
i'll be holed up here all weekend: http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/events/2013/05/real-indies.html
― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Friday, 10 May 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
Thanks James, you've convinced me to go see The Mother and the Whore this Sunday.
I think I'll bring my mom along for a special Mother's Day treat.
― Josefa, Saturday, 11 May 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
Burt Lancaster mini-fest at Reade:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/man-of-steel-burt-lancaster-at-100
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 May 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
some links for the Chinese doc series
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-chinese-realitiesdocumentary-visions
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:33 (ten years ago) link
Last night of Voyage To Italy, which I still haven't seen.
― Beam Me Up (I Feel Like Being A) Doomsday Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 May 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
Seen it now. Michael Musto too.
― Beam Me Up (I Feel Like Being A) Doomsday Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
Used copies of George Sanders's Memoirs of a Professional Cad going for about three hundred and fifty bucks these days.
― Beam Me Up (I Feel Like Being A) Doomsday Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
He didn't think much of Rossellini, apparently.
This film is the parent of both Certified Copy and Eyes Wide Shut, I think.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link
Still have to see Certified Copy.
Thought the penultimate scene was going to be the ending, when they are walking across the ruins saying "Life is short." Was getting some kind of vibe similar to the end of The Third Man.
― Beam Me Up (I Feel Like Being A) Doomsday Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 May 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
hi NYC film snobs, this rather groovy painting was in the lobby of the MoMA cinema - does anyone know who made it?
http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc497/WardFowler/107LobbyatMoMAcinema152013_zpsee9ff723.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
sol lewitt iirc
― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
ty, that sounds right! after spending a couple of hours there, i was getting my lewitts mixed up w/ my frank stellas and robert indianas
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
yes, a google search confirms it is 'Wall Drawing #1144' by LeWitt (2004)
what a treat to see it before a screening - opens up the peepers!
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
ty?
― Oulipo Traces (on a Cigarette) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
"thank you," Mr Atoz
Ted Kotcheff at Duddy Kravitz on Friday at FF btw.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
Plein Soleil (aka Purple Noon; Clément, 1960) - 8/10. Amazing just to look at, for one thing.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Sunday, March 10, 2013 10:40 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
watched this earlier - yeah, wow it has really got that crisp euro 60s gleem
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
oh whoops, meant for last (x) thread
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
going to see Duddy Kravitz and Ted Kotcheff tonight btw
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 May 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
do any nyc theaters sell cronuts. can u bring cronuts in the theater with u
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 31 May 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
#cronut
Thought I was a cronut, you tried to glaze me
― Oulipo Traces (on a Cigarette) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 May 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
MoMA launches retros on both Hollywood lifer Allan Dwan and the recently passed Harris Savides:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1374
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.de/2013/06/manhandled-1924-allan-dwan-dossier.html
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1373
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/harris-savides-at-moma
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
NY Asian fest at month's end, Lincoln Center. Any tips?
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/new-york-asian-film-festival-2013
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
would NOT recommend 'the bullet vanishes'
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:18 (ten years ago) link
'cold war' is fun if overstuffed
FUCK 'drug war' is premiering in america ;_;
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
^ the irony is, i mean, that i am going to be in hk when it shows.
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
another Swanson/Dwan comedy tnite at MoMA, Stage Struck
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/18193
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
I'd advise you to get your Hitchcock silents tix now if you haven't, given Kehr's NYT piece today. (I'm going to four.)
Jackie Chan today thru Thurs at Linc Ctr.
Bigscreen epics at BAM Harvey in July. Because I haven't seen it in the longest time, tempted by Doctor Zhivago.
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/latinbeat-2013
http://www.bam.org/film/2013/big-screen-epics
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 June 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
duh, correct link for Chan:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/the-jackie-chan-experience
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 June 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
Lawrence of Arabia in digital projection? say it ain't so....
― ryan, Sunday, 23 June 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
***SPOILER ALERT***It now starts with 3D CGI motorcycle crash
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 June 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
Last Ozu = teh awesome
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
Should have said Ultimate Ozu
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link
NYAFF tip sheet
http://www.indiewire.com/article/10-must-see-movies-at-the-new-york-asian-film-festival
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 June 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
coming toward end of Dwan retro, will beat the heat at his last one today:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/18574
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 July 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Maybe I'll see you there.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 July 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
i haven't watched any films in weeks :(
― IKEA-Guinea (donna rouge), Friday, 5 July 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Sorry. I finally started watching stuff on Mubi when they went on the 30 day schedule which got me back in the habit.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 July 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
it's half laziness (i have a netflix and a hulu acct at home) and half living in a neighborhood where most theatres are about an hour (or more) away from me transit-wise
― IKEA-Guinea (donna rouge), Friday, 5 July 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
Back for more at MoMa, admiring the Pour Vous covers on the walls before grabbing a seat.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 July 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
looks like tomw for Slightly Scarlet after all. I change plans every 3 hrs tho.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 July 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
You are the MX moviegoer.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 July 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
Sitting right behind Gavin Smith.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 July 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
More flame throwers.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 July 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Wish I had gone to more of this retro, will be missing Allan Dwan when this is all over. A few films seem to be on youtube in some form: The Iron Mask and Chancds, both with Douglas Fairbanks, both with sound, Calendar Girl, a musical from 1947, and Gorilla- the Ritz Brothers meet Bela Lugosi. Streaming Netflix also has The Iron Mask, along with The River's Edge, Driftwood, Brewster's Millions and Heidi.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 July 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
well, none of this weekend's films are sposed to be the cream... missed The Woman They Almost Lynched.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 July 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
Don't know from cream, was really happy with what I saw and each one of those films turns out to have a reasonable reputation and respectable defenders, just wish I had seen more of the silents, those that can be seen.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 July 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Think you are being too harsh. Sands of Iwo Jima was one of his biggest budgets and biggest successes. And on those last ten films he made for Benedict Bogeaus he kept up the quality by pretty much always using John Alton as DP and Van Nest Polgase as art director, the latter being persona non grata at RKO proper because of his drinking problem.
See that John Alton has a credit on An American in Paris, for photographing the ballet. Guy got around.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
Others on youtube: Silver Lode, Cattle Queen of Montana. I misspelled Chances up above.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 July 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link
Another weird credit I just noticed, Pierre Etaix in Pickpocket.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 July 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
I think Dwan's rising profile means we'll be seeing more revivals.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 July 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
Probably. Have you checked out that new biography? The guy wants an arm and a leg, but looks like it might be worth it, a history of cinema through the career of one guy who was there for pretty much all of it.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 July 2013 04:23 (ten years ago) link
Just heard an express 7 rocket by overhead and thought there must be a Mets game running late and they were going to pick up spectators but no.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 July 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
Watching The Mark of Zorro right now, wonder how Rouben Mamoulian's stock is holding up.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 July 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link
on Saturday afternoon, the Silent Clowns celebrate Edw Ev Horton:
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Didn't you have some story about his moth-eaten sweater?
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
yes.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
It was his friend, the voice of Rocky the Squirrel, her name escapes me right now, said they did a reading at the Museum of Television and Radio maybe, and when somebody asked about the worn-out piece of clothing he said, in that inimitable voice, "That's my college sweater!", right?
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
yes, cept it happened in the Bullwinkle studio and she told the story at MT&R when he was long dead.
(June Foray)
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Astoria does Fun City
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-fun-city-new-york-in-the-movies-1967-75
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 August 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
last two days of Anthology's Simenon series :(
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/41318
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
FSLC's Cinema of Resistance series features Robert Kramer's Ice tonight at 6; maybe I'll finally see it.
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/ice
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
All of Hawks, all on film:
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2013/09/07/detail/the-complete-howard-hawks/
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Well the 3 Sunday silents don't appear to be otherwise "available," as Soto would say, so I guess I'm going.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 September 2013 04:43 (ten years ago) link
Hope I can get to some.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 September 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link
Wait, those are all today?!?
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 September 2013 04:47 (ten years ago) link
Three of them. There are more.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 September 2013 04:56 (ten years ago) link
Yes, I see. One with Louise Brooks, pre-Pabst.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 September 2013 05:02 (ten years ago) link
They can't spread em out over 8 weeks; silent pitchers are box-office POISON!
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 September 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
One Mann's poison
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 September 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
Did you go?
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 September 2013 02:25 (ten years ago) link
yes
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
And?
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 September 2013 12:11 (ten years ago) link
http://dgeneratefilms.com/chinese-cinema-events/performing-china-contemporary-chinese-film-and-media-at-the-wooster-group-new-york-city
dropping this here for myself
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
Redd, they're all worth watching; HH probably shows the most versatility in Fazil, a potboiler "mixed-race" romantic melodrama.
Arthur Lake (the future Dagwood in those Blondie B pictures) is very funny as a femalephobic frat boy in The Cradle Snatchers, which is incomplete in its salvaged form. Also, F Pangborn as a jealous husband.
Fig Leaves is cute, as is George O'Brien's chest. It's on YouTube, p crappy quality.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
(presumably translated) chinese movie titles are so evocative
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
Cruel and unusual silent comedy shorts begin tom'w! Silent Edw Ev Horton! Snub Pollard!
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1413
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
3 weeks of JLG
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013/series/nyff51-jean-luc-godard-the-spirit-of-the-forms
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
To Save and Project (Oct/Nov)
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1429
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
tix may still be available for 6:45
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/lost_now_found_the_three_stoog
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 September 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
enrhusiastic turnout including the immortal Joe Franklin and the Shtetl Husband from A Serious Man
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
your only chance to see the phallic chandeliers from Salo hanging at MoMA
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2918-the-worlds-of-dante-ferretti
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1415
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 October 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Sorry for the street team post here, but my buddy Jeff who made "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" is showing his new movie doc "Led-Zeppelin-Played-Here" at Anthology Film Archives Friday at 6 pm and Saturday at 3 pm. It's a doc about whether or not Led Zep actually played the Wheaton, MD Community Center in 1969, and it covers other early rawk gigs from touring bands in those days before the rock industry had fully been established.
www.cbgb.com/films.php#!programmation=participant$led-zeppelin-played-here/1254
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 October 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
James Redd and Morbs, I think you will enjoy it
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
We'll see, but I see few films in October due to baseball, so I will possibly miss the entire Demy retro:
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/jacques_demy
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
://www.cbgb.com/films.php#!programmation=participant$bayou-maharash-the-tragic-genius-of-james-booker/1230
showing in NYC twice
James Redd would probably like this one too. Plus a Johnny Thunders one too I think
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 October 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
J Hoberman introducing Marienbad tomorrow at FF. Venez-vous?
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 October 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
I have to review a film regular ppl will actually read about.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
Quel dommage.
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
i saw Marienbad last just a couple years ago; it's great but i don't need to see it again yet.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
Me neither, I just want to see what Hoberman has to say. I enjoyed his commentary on Justine a little while back.
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
If I didn't have a review screening i'd likely opt for this
http://www.bam.org/film/2013/the-outfit
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Looks good.
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
anyone care to argue me out of a bi-borough doubleheader tonight of Resnais swan song You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet and '70s nugget Cisco Pike (Krostofferson, Hackman, Karen Black)?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
Morbius, are you turning into J4ck 4nstr31ch?
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 October 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
likely not, but i often wait til the 'last' opportunity to see something, and this is it x2.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
C Akerman at MoMA tomw night
http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-10-23/film/chantal-akerman-s-new-york/
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
In person?
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
yes she's introducing both programs, acc to moma's site
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
friend told me that when CA intro'ed 'la region centrale' at light industry she was super-cantankerous and wearing a sleep mask
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
Do you know that my friend who directed Annenberg used to say that Chantal Ackerman was her godmother? Well her and Melina Mercouri and Anouk Aimee. Probably already told you this before, perhaps on this very thread.
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
whatberg
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, Attenberg.
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
in case you missed (sorry to be losing his DVD column in Sunday NYT):
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/moma-names-dave-kehr-adjunct-curator-in-department-of-film
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 October 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
you know, I don't think I was ever in this store more than once, all locations included.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/10/ohlingers-movie-photo-shop-closes-its-doors.html
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 October 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Looked in the windows now and then but only maybe went in once myself.
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
Also, Herzog Nosferatu worth a look-see.
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
Schnabels' Lou concert film at MOMI on Sat night
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2013/11/02/detail/lou-reeds-berlin
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 November 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
Henry King's Tol'able David (the Silent Clowns fest goes serious) tnite at 6 at the Perf Arts Library.
http://reeldaddy.com/blog/node/285
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 November 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.docnyc.net/films-events/#all
what's good
― 乒乓, Thursday, 7 November 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
going only to Mekons probly; a bunch of those are already thru the release cycle. i can wait for Gondry-Chomsky.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 November 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
it's the time of year where im already at NO NO NO MORE MOVIES
IFC Ctr is continuing their daily showing of Touch of Sin, so MAYBE i won't get sold out of that again.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 November 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
i have about 15 AFI fest tickets, whoops
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Friday, 8 November 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
Cukor fest tix at FSLC now on sale
Silent Running at BAM tonight
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
and tomw, Chimes at Midnight @ Anthology
http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2013/11/20/the-best-old-movies-on-a-big-screen-this-week
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
J'ai deux mots pour vous: Cousin Jules.
― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
J'ai deux mots encore: Mauvais Sang
― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 November 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
New Yorkers, you should go see the movie doc "The Last Song Before the War" about the Malian Festival in the Desert
Directed by Kiley Kraskouskas, 2013, 89 m, Mali/USA, Documentary, French/English subt. Q&A after screening.Sunday, December 8th @ 3:00 PM – Quad CinemaFollowed by Q & A with Banning Eyre, Senior Editor of Afropop Worldwide; world musician Leni Stern; and the filmmakers.
Tuesday, December 10th @ 8:30 PM – ChapelFollowed by Q & A with Chris Nolan, North American Liaison for the Festival in the Desert, and the filmmakers.
Quad is at 34 West 13th Street; Chapel is at Teachers College, Columbia University 525 West 120th Street
http://nyadiff.org/the-last-song-before-the-war/New York, NY
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 December 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
bump
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 December 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
go see nate dogg's national film registered hours for jerome on tuesday, it's the most beautiful film
http://www.lightindustry.org/calendar
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Monday, 9 December 2013 06:13 (ten years ago) link
Cukor begins today! I wonder if I'll get to 3 of the 50.
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-the-discreet-charm-of-george-cukor
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 December 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
hm, five films for $25 is a good deal! LC theater not too accessible for me tho...
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Bogdo introducing Adam's Rib!
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
What do you think his go-with imitation will be: Kate Hepburn? Ruth Gordon?
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
he'd do Cary Grant introducing I Am Curious (Yellow)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
classic conflict tonight of Sylvia Scarlett at Reade (which I don't think I've seen, and isn't on disc) vs two Stanwyck CinemaScope westerns (love Forty Guns, haven't seen The Violent Men, but both are on home media).
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 December 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
that stanwyck retrospective is tempting
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
have never seen Stella Dallas, aiming for that
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
... or Clash by Night either
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/stanwyck#nowplaying
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 December 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
hoping to be back in town for The Grandmaster at filmlinc (Gilman screen) tomw night at 9
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 December 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
Film Comment Selects slate: new Hong, Bertolucci, Moodysson
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/film-comment-selects-hong-sang-soo-our-sunhi-bernardo-bertolucci-me-and-you
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
See It Big! Musicals in Astoria
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/01/24/detail/see-it-big-musicals/
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
Vengeful Women coming to BAM (first retro to include The Heiress and Ms 45?)
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/vengeance-is-hers
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
i saw "like father, like son" and "stranger at the lake" and was struck by how both allowed insider access to cultures and settings utterly outside of my world. both are recommended but the former requires some patience with watching intensely cute kids have their hearts broken and the latter requires patience with watching men blow each other
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
different skillsets
I remember the US release of this Margarethe von Trotta film in '81 under the title Marianne and Julianne. Tonight at Spectacle in W'burg, MvT and Barbara Sukowa (!) will be introducing it at Spectacle in Williamsburg.
http://www.screenslate.com/whats-showing-today/friday-january-31
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
anyone planning on the 6-hr matthew barney thing in a few weeks? i had an inkling of coming down but i dont think i can swing it now, need some reliable feedback on it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
I'm allergic to him
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
btw I went to Spectacle, and was surprised to find it has exactly 30 seats.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
I'll be in town for the weekend portion of this:http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/42223
― Kornblud (admrl), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
oh that looks wonderful
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
New Directors/New Films
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/new-directors-new-films-2014-lineup-film-society-lincoln-center-moma
probably most interested in Albert Serra's, also Moroccan gay thing
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
I've said this before, but Strange Little Cat is a fine little film. I'd see that one as well. It's really not what the description says it is, in my opinion, but it's fine.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 February 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
ok. I tend not to note what ppl say about a lot of non-US films until there's an immediate opportunity to see them in New York.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 February 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
Oh, it's not that. It's just that I've only seen a few films outside of the main arthouse stuff, so I've probably mentioned stuff like Closed Curtain, Harmony Lessons and Strange Little Cat way too often... They're all good, though.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 February 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
and oh boy, Mad Mad World and 1941 on a big screen in the same series. No mention of earplug distribution.
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/03/15/detail/see-it-big-comedies/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 February 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
all the extant Hitchcock features... I think I have 8-9 left to see?
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/the_complete_hitchcock
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
so do i need to see some Jon Jost?
http://www.spectacletheater.com/jon-jost/
(again, 30 seats in that joint)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
You'd probably hate it, but yeah
― Kornblud (admrl), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
well, it gone
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
(I didn't realize I had an avant garde-hating reputation)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
tons of "Vienna movies" at MoMA for 8 weeks, from silent Lubitsch to Jem Cohen
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1460
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
@ScreenSlateIs there a bulk discount if you go see LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD on 35mm every single day?
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/last-year-at-marienbad
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
seeing this tomorrowhttp://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/childs_pose
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
my Silent Clowns peeps are showing a quartet of Chaplin shorts made at Essanay (all 1915) Saturday afternoon at the Lincoln Center library:
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Walsh/Scorsese kicks off tonight at BAM with Regeneration, shot on the Bowery a century ago.
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/under-the-influence-scorsese-walsh
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
German version of Murder! on Sunday.
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
A highly perceptive critic on FB:
Film Forum should put the words YOU ARE NOT SUPERIOR TO THE MOVIE onscreen between shows, in gigantic text, and occasionally have some voice of authority read it aloud. Maybe Morgan Freeman.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
having just joined film forum, i am kinda bemused at how louche and luxuriant the culture in the theater isTitus is hella crusty and IFC is very brusque; FForum was about nobody leaving the theater because everyone wanted to explain the movie to their circle of friendsi am all about egg creams and chocolate orange bundt cake while watching previews tho
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
You going to Meet The Programmers Brunch this Saturday?
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
i am kinda bemused at how louche and luxuriant the culture in the theater is
I miss the old days on Watts Street: NO POPCORN. Always sitting near fuckers now who crunch on one kernel at a time.
what's Titus?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
oh right MoMA. I've seen old folx munching on plums there.
Ha. Couldn't figure out what Titus was either. Never heard it referred to that way except on ticket stub.
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
oh man, when i first came to NYC as a couch surfer moma was showing films starting at 10am and going until around 10pm in the titus and they were doing a history of film series. I basically lived there and was by far the youngest regular. saw probably a hundred films amongst the elderly. pretty great experience; i have a deep fondness for that theater and its antics... at a showing of birth of a nation there was at least a good hour of heavy snoring from different parts of the room. it was a unique soundtrack
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure I've mentioned I saw Berlin Alexanderplatz in one weekend there in '96. "Shut up!" "You shut up!"
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
ha, yeah that's the titusSHHHHNO YOU SHHHH
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
anyway, likely heading to Reade at 6:15 for this acclaimed Japanese film:
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/himizu-20645
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Once a man at the Film Forum complained to me about people complaining to him about his loud popcorn eating. I didn't say anything. They were probably right.I dislike the people loudly discussing the ending of one part of a double feature as others are just entering to begin with the other.Love the crazy olds at MOMA. I am not an aggressive shusher so I appreciate those who are. Those same people used to be at AMMI or MOMI or whatever they're calling it now.
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
there's a higher degree of "MY VOICE SHOULD BE HEARD" at film forum than at any place i've been at since college
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
at IFC the main interaction comes if someone has to find the cell phone they dropped last show
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
for something like Auteurs Gone Wild, you can always find someone who writes “Perhaps Countess (from Hong Kong) really is Chaplin’s greatest work, his most personal and poetic.”
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-auteurs-gone-wild
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/42271
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 March 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
Yup.
Enjoyed that Kent Jones piece you posted upthread about similar thing. Also recently read some interesting stuff by this guy who was in the Vulgar Boatmen, Robert B. Ray. He is a bit of a gadfly, with lots of interesting ideas, although he thinks the entire Douglas Sirk revival was a case of Auteurism Gone WIld- now that's going to far.
In other news, saw the opening night feature at the NDNF- it's a hit! Rode up on the train next to a top critic (hint he was once accused of "freaking out on arthouse acid".) Introduced myself and talked to him a little bit, he was very nice.
― Redd Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 March 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
prob my only NDNF tonight -- black metal content!
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/a-spell-to-ward-off-the-darkness
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
Ernest and Celestine was charming and loads of fun.Trying Jodorowsky's Dune tonight. nerdfest.
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
and not just on the screen. "It aaaaaalll comes beeacck to Jodoroooowsky man"... aieeee fuckoff.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
did you see it already morbs?
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Not a chance! I've never seen any of the films he's actually made, either.
I will admit to LOLing at the trailer when he said he didn't read the book but his friend said it was great.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
well i'm excited.
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
I always miss the Fritz Lang/Kurt Weill You and Me whenever it screens, so I shd go to Anthology tonight at 7, over Hitchcock's Manxman at FF, right? (There'll be more chances, presumably, to see the restored Hitch, and I have a PD copy at home that I've never watched.)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Yes/thread_starter
― Bristol Stomper's Breakout (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
My favorite underseen Truffaut, The Green Room, is playing at FF tonight. I thought about making it a traveling double feature w/ Scorpio (Lancaster and Delon as spies) at MoMA, but no one seems to like it much.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Thinking about going to see The Raid 2 tonight which may not be very snobby but maybe should be
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Crossposted with ILM,Punk/new wave doc & concert stuff showing Thursdays and Fridays 6pm (starting this week) at the Museum of Art & Design, and girl punk movies at BAM (in May):
http://www.madmuseum.org/series/go-nightclubbing-archive
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/punk-rock-girls
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
raid 2 not very snobbish btw but WAAAAAAAAAY too long and full of itself. great fight scenes tho
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
hey i liked strange little cat, frederik
― schlump, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
made me effusive for digital, too
i'm off to see waterfacei mean watermark
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
x-post: Oh, cool! Is that festival going on right now? I saw Story of my Death today, it's... long... and different. But also beautiful and with images I can't get out of my head. But my god it's long.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
I suspect I will go see this low-budget '64 comedy by Theodore J Flicker and Buck Henry at Anthology at 7:30 bcz Letterboxd reports "No one has seen this film."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058690/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Some stathound at 538 should whip up year by year analysis of IMDB ratings and Rotten Tomatoes scores and such to determine the greatest year in film, worldwide.
(post inspired by What’s The Greatest Year In Film? - http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/14/freedom-to-fail/ )
― Oren Zombarchi (WilliamC), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
Linklater's Boyhood opens BAMCinemafest on June 18
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/bamcinemafest2014
http://www.indiewire.com/article/richard-linklaters-much-loved-boyhood-will-open-bamcinemafest
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
I can't skip any '30s (or '20s) John Barrymore film I haven't seen, so Reunion in Vienna tonight:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/20463
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
I just saw Morgiana last week and liked it quite a bit. The only other Juraj Herz film I can find on dvd is Cremator but I heard mixed things about that. I think he might have some short films on YouTube. Anyone seen his films much?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Keep an eye out for the Obergammergau players, Morbs.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
I should know that quote, but don't. The middle act of RiV is hilarious tho.
First of 2-part Fassbinder (plus) retro at FSLC in May:
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/rainer-werner-fassbinder-retrospective-film-society-of-lincoln-center
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
MARKETA LAZAROVA looked and sounded really good but somehow I didn't manage to understand what was going on for two and a half hours.
SZINDBAD. A guy walks around talking to women (and one guy, if I remember correctly) about his relationships with women across his life. I'm not sure if his observations are supposed to be particularly good but the film has some nice sequences. Constant close-ups on food, flowers and anything with nice colours and textures. I liked the general approach of this film in terms of the non-linear structure and how the camera seeks out pretty things.
LEGEND OF THE SURAMI FORTRESS. I really love Parajanov's style and approaches but I never love the films as a whole. Some really great shots in there with the repetitive rhythmic movements and dances. Obviously great costumes.
I have to say that I don't understand the ejaculatory praises for most of the arthouse canon I've seen. I vastly prefer the style of these directors to most films but I often think that critics overrate films because they want to encourage the more interesting things (even if they aren't totally great) because they have to see so much slush, so they cultivate the approaches they prefer. Does anyone really watch Bergman, Tarkovsky etc.. saying to themselves "this is fucking amazing!"?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
Lucky them (you?)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
Very much so.
But even then, I think it's completely right for critics to talk up interesting and different things even if they aren't totally great. Film - and culture in general - should be seen more like a stream, rather than as a collection of separated entities. Criticism should be a companion to film, a way to follow up after people have left the cinema, rather than just saying 'this is great' / 'this is a bit less than great'. IMO. Otherwise, you end up with nit-picking ridiculousness, such as critics arguing over whether that penultimate shot in Stray Dogs would have been better at 11 min rather than 13, etc.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
Does anyone really watch Bergman, Tarkovsky etc.. saying to themselves "this is fucking amazing!"?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, April 27, 2014 8:18 AM (17 minutes ago)
I consider myself a very poor "reader" of films -- I pretty much have to have my hand held through any level beyond the most basic narrative/textual level -- and I definitely do. Especially Bergman and Ozu.
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
But the dvd boxes are always covered in words like "astonishing masterpiece!", "an overwhelmingly emotional revelation!" and to be honest, I'm not sure I've seen more than a small handful of films that merit that kind of praise. Even when I enjoy them, I sit wondering where all this pleasure comes from.
I think nitpicking can be constructive.
I am a big fan of alternative animation sometimes. A lot of it from Russia, Hungary and Belarus in 60s-early 90s. Last year I discovered Gyorgy Kovasznai and I was hugely impressed but I can imagine it boring some people.
Would anyone be interested in a animation for snobs thread? No Disney, Pixar, mainstream anime; Stuff like Quay Bros, Svankmajer, Russian guys?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Another vote for "amazing!" And Frederik B. otm.
Can't speak to what goes on in the bemused poster's mind but I seem to remember what went in on in my own when I first started to watch this stuff and was feeling uncomfortable, felt like it might be a con, or that it was attacking the classic Hollywood style or questioning my existence or something. Eventually came to think- if there are boring moments in the film-there are plenty of boring moments in life, and without those you wouldn't get the epiphanies, such as they are. The existence that it is being challenged, if that is what is going on, is not necessarily mine, but that of the characters or the director or his proxy. Finally I don't view it as a threat to the Classic Hollywood Style but the other side of the same coin, one which needs to be flipped over every now and then.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
also, Manakamana has ice cream
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Basically you, RAG, are expressing some kind of fear of an aesthetic elitism and arguing against it with a simplistic arithmetic elitism -"there is only room at the top for a handful of masterpieces, thereby these guys must be overreacting."
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Your proposed thread seems interesting however, although I don't know much about that stuff.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Lol, the icecream scene in Manakamana was so amazing to watch at the theater. First, a bit of uncertain laughter - we're supposed to be watching art, you know. Then, as the scene becomes more and more absurd, it slowly spread. And as the two women themselves starts laughing, the whole theater errupts in relief. Such an astonishing masterpiece. Also: goat-butt!
― Frederik B, Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
I wouldnt use the M word, but tons better than Leviathan
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
http://grandoldmovies.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/lorre-agent.jpg
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
Peter Lorre as anticipatory plagiarist of Biz Markie.
"You say she's just a friend, don't you, Rick?"
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Sorry.
Anyway, not in the business of using the M word myself- for one thing, don't want get into those "Is! Is not!" discussions, but I am aware that others use it and try to take it with a grain of salt if I have to.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
is RAG secretly Dan Kois attempting to reignite the "cultural vegetable" shitstorm?
Don't know how anyone can watch the Bell sequence in Andrei Rublev and not be overwhelmed.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
James Redd and the Blecchs says "Basically you, RAG, are expressing some kind of fear of an aesthetic elitism"
I wouldn't say so at all, the world needs far better aesthetic standards and I'm always complaining about it. I was way more perplexed and frustrated as a teen but now I'm just a bit more curious about how and why other people enjoy this stuff. Kim Ki Duk does long slow quiet scenes, many characters never speak but I've never found him remotely boring. Everything seems so tight and disciplined. The general aesthetics of "snobby" films are rarely a problem for me. It's usually the clarity of the story and the tightness of the pacing that I have problems with, but I'm more than happy to be told that I just don't get some films. I generally don't enjoy the social realist approach, I prefer films that are closer to purely visual and don't really have to make much sense. I really liked Malle's Black Moon but I've got the impression that most of his fans hated it.
I really do love that ending semi-famous scene from Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors. That is precisely the kind of thing I want from films.
I haven't seen Andrei Rublev yet.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
Really? You should give it a try if you have time although be forewarned that you might have problems with the clarity of the story and the tightness of the pacing.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't say so at all, the world needs far better aesthetic standards and I'm always complaining about it.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
I made the animation thread with an appropriately snobby title.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
i'd like to see manakamanamakanmanaana soon
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
I was just glad IFC Center hasn't put it in one of the 40-seat 'galleries' yet
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 April 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah, shit. i gotta get on that now before that happens.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 April 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
double dose of '70s Holmes revisionism tomw night
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/sherlock-holmes-debunked
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
Mizoguchi in Astoria
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/05/02/detail/mizoguchi/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Mizoguchi Time!
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I want to come back to what I was talking about above a bit. This isn't just a thing I get with the art house canon, I feel a similar disillusionment with culture in general, it's kind of like that Absurd Child Sydrome thing that was discussed in another thread, it's kind of a constant way I feel about most culture. I think sometimes the critical assessment of some things need to be downgraded significantly. Especially when I'll admit even many of my favourite things are severely flawed and need to be recommended with major cautions and reservations. My problem with hyperbole and words like "master" and "masterpiece" is that it creates totally unreal expectations with people who are unfamiliar with whatever genre/medium the piece of work is in and almost inevitably results in a bad comedown that can leave a sour taste that makes you reluctant to come back. I think calling creators "a master" is particularly bad one because it suggests to me that a creator does something about as well as it could be done and rarely puts a foot wrong. I can't think of anyone in any medium who can live up to that. Even the very best of creators struggle to get their best results and it usually doesn't work out that well most of the time.
I can see how it might be a necessary evil to overrate things because I could imagine being a critic who thinks a director is extremely promising compared to most of the crap they have to sit through and would like more films like this but doesn't truly feel is the sort of revelation they say but maybe that is a white lie that is needed to push against the blockbuster fluff. But again I think it can turn people away from alternative cinema when you keep promising orgasmic epiphanies.
I'm not sure why films seem to me like more of a minefield than other things. Every now and then I'll be pleased about something like Piano Teacher, Page Turner, Innocence, The Hunt; some bits of directors like Fellini, Maya Deren, Brakhage, Maddin, Parajanov, Wim Wenders and Kim Ki Duk. But most of the time I feel like for the time and money is far more of a risk than music(probably the most rewarding, beautiful medium there is).
There is quite a lot of stuff I'm still curious about but I'm always tempted to spend the time/money on books instead. It's really daunting.
Can anyone recommend directors closer to pure visual pleasure without story concerns? Does Kenneth Anger fit that?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 May 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Who cares about your hypothetical straweveryman, doesn't he already have enough incoherent but easy to follow junk to gorge on?
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
manakamana was superbit shifted to one of the shoeboxes btw
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 May 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, not saying The Enterprise should be hauling garbage that everything out there is incoherent junk, some stuff might be coherent junk, some incoherent non-junk, some neither. Maybe I should ask, which exact masterpiece mavens are causing this alleged problem? Name names. Gavin Smith? Kent Jones?
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
RAG, you like Apichatpong Weeraseethakul?
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 May 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Or more rambunctiously, Stephen Chow?
Gavin Smith is at p much every movie i've gone to this week
Ellen Burstyn did a v nice pre-film interview at Resurrection last night.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 May 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I used to see him all the time at screenings too.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
The plentiful junk isn't something I enjoy and I don't know how I gave the impression I ever wanted that. Name critics? Whoever's quotes cover the disc boxes. Obviously all sorts of films and books have unreasonably high praise covering them but I thought that better film labels would resist that.
Boonme and Tropical Malady are on my list.
The only Chow film I've seen is Kung Fu Hustle(some lovely moments but too much fakey special effects), but I didn't think he would be considered non-mainstream.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 May 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
If you don't see a name you recognize who cares what the blurb says?
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
I know very few critics. Many of the people picking up these boxes won't know either. I think it's just kind of a natural assumption that a label that deals with higher quality films would want to be more fair and sensible about the quotes they use. When you know more about the stuff you are buying, you tend to not even look at the blurbs.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 May 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I refer you to the thread title- this is the official NYC Film Snob thread, not the random timid seeker of challenging but not too challenging cinematic fare - challoptics.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
But then the problem really isn't with critics but with marketing.
Boonme is the biggest masterpiece of the decade. Apichatbong Weeresethakul is a master who never puts a foot wrong. Well, except for Mekong Hotel. And Blissfully Yours is a bit long as well, though it's obviously a masterpiece.
― Frederik B, Friday, 2 May 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
True (actually I never noticed the NYC part before) but I'm fairly sure the the type of films I want to see are in this area and this might be a fine place to ask for recommendations. My favourite films are stuff like Inland Empire and Possession, so it isn't too far removed.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 May 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
If you are looking for recs you've come to the right place and Morbius is your man.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
I request recommendations for lush visuals and aesthetic power with the story/characters taking back seat. That's the sort of stuff I talked up in the animation snob thread because I love the expressive visuals and ambiguity that you can lose yourself in. Please.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 May 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Well have you tried Sweetgrass / Leviathan / Manakamana?
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 May 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
let me know when this guy's gone
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 May 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Forksclovetofu, they look pretty good.
Morbius recommends I fuck off. I'll be quiet but I welcome any more recommendations.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 May 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Anything I may have recommended upthread I rerecommend.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
this may have been posted here before but i'm happy to be on their mailing list nowhttp://www.screenslate.com/category/whats-showing-todaysort of a brooklyn vegan for film
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
I wish their updates were more regularly posted 3-4 days in advance, but that's life.
kicking whoever programmed China is Near at MoMA only during Ky Derby and 4:30 today.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/anti-art-extra-film-non-para-pseudo-semi-video-cinema-at-the-60th-international-short-film-festival-oberhausen
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
John Hubley animation the next 2 Tuesdays
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/john_hubley_two_centennial_tri
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
late-period Jerry Lewis this weekend, incl the amazing/trying WW2 comedy Which Way to the Front?
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/42577
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
do we have a cannes 2014 thread?
― display name changed. (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=99591
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Nick Pinkerton on Marcel Hanoun, subject of an Anthology retro
http://artforum.com/film/id=46996
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
caught the last night of M de Oliveira's most recent, quite splendid.
NY Asian fest lineup, featuring a 3-hr Taiwanese baseball epic:
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/new-york-asian-film-festival-film-society-of-lincoln-center-lineup
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Gebo and the Shadow? Yeah, that one is good, though also pretty extreme in a way. Really not that much variation.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
oh I liked the visual 'minimalism' (like the setup that's 90% of the first half hour) plus a lot of the dialogue about "Good fortune is when nothing changes" struck me close given my ongoing life event.
People seem most divided about whether Ricardo Trepa is a bad actor or that's just the character.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Looking back on it, I really love the minimalism of it as well. But watching the film, and not knowing that much about de Oliveira, I was pretty shocked at how little happened. But it's good.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
welll I think kind of a lot happens, w/out camera gyrations
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
for symmetry I saw Lonsdale tonight, 45 years earlier, in Marcel Hanoun's Le printemps
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 June 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
I might come out of the woods for the new Lav Diaz film later this month. Sad I'm going to miss Melancholia!
― Kornblud (admrl), Friday, 6 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
if yall snobs can stomach watching on vimeo, alex ross perrys impolex is up for a week -http://nobudge.com/main/2014/6/11/alex-ross-perrys-debut-impolex
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
in case you missed it, Guinness at FF
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/alec_guinness_100_festival
I didn't really 'get' Impolex and am told it's probably bcz I haven't read Pynchon.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Sat night, Hoberman does a dual projection, White House Butler Down at Light Industry.
http://www.lightindustry.org/hoberman
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 June 2014 05:25 (nine years ago) link
everybody go see the best movie about teenagers ever made SEVENTEEN, https://m.facebook.com/events/1430574573876670
― schlump, Monday, 16 June 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
I guess I have to see this latest Lav Diaz film, as it's a shortie for him (4 hrs)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 June 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
also, '60s/70s Italian crime films at Anthology
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/42737
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 June 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
NYC film snobs, should I go see Ida? Just now arriving in my flyover city.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
There are better options
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 June 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
yeah for sure catch something elsei can't remember what the contemporary snobby nyc cinema listings site is but somebody should let you know
mad at this thread if you all didn't catch SEVENTEENbut let us know how the diaz was if you catch it, morbius?
― schlump, Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
The Diaz is very good, though perhaps not quite the masterpiece the reviews from cannes sorta made it out to be. But go see it!
― Frederik B, Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
contemporary snobby nyc cinema listings site = http://www.screenslate.com/
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 June 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
I am down this week. Will see the Diaz, maybe Duncan Campbell at MoMa...what else is good?
― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Sunday, 22 June 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Sorta tempted by the Pierre Huyghe film that is supposed to be terrible
― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Sunday, 22 June 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
it looks like Thurs night closer for Diaz if i can make that.
NY Asian fest is starting Friday, and I just, well:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff14/3d-naked-ambition/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
I assume you're gonna go see Kano
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
not esp likely
i don't like baseball movies really
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
Snowpiercer starts Thursday, I am hella hyped.maybe not snobby enough for y'all but i am into it.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
i hear Harvey the Hutt ruined this one too
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
i thought bong got final cut at the end of that?
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
OK, you're right, with a caveat....
The Weinstein Company has since agreed to release the director's cut of Snowpiercer in the U.S., with the trade-off being that the movie will no longer receive a wide release.
http://screenrant.com/snowpiercer-deleted-scenes-us-theatrical-cut-version/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
given the geek content, this will run 'forever' here so i'm in no hurry as it's not really my cup of dystopia.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Sunday at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/rubydee
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
last day of Norte btw
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 June 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Norte is 1/6 of a day long iirc
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
free screening of Doc Pomus doc at FSLC tonight (reserve online)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 June 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Aargh, don't think I can make it
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 June 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
low-budget crime gems, uptown and down
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1488
http://filmforum.org/series/femmes-noirs-series-page
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
Intriguing Fonda-O'Sullivan-Bellamy pic tonight (and Friday) in the MoMA Columbia series:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/21435
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
and Don Luis at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/bunuel
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
If you liked This Is Not A Film run over to the FF to see Torn Curtain Closed Curtain
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 July 2014 04:21 (nine years ago) link
I'll be in nyc from the 15th to the 23rd of august. Are there any good series in that timeframe, and where do I check it?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
MoMA has World War I-themed films, mostly contemporaneous.
http://www.moma.org/visit/films/upcoming
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/all-series
http://filmforum.org/coming_soon
http://www.movingimage.us/films/
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Chris Marker at BAM
http://www.bam.org/BAMcinematek
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
(the only wide-net page I know of is ScreenSlate, but never more than the next 3-4 days up there)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! Chris Marker sounds especially great, especially Sans Soleil on 35mm.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
I consider this to be a tough Saturday afternoon choice
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/21464
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
went to the Mary Pickford, which was quite stimulating as non-legendary silent drama goes.
as mentioned above, MoMA doing the Great War for 7 weeks:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1490
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
Portuguese gay gilmmaker has his retro @Lincoln Center, incl week's run of his new first-person doc What Now? Remind Me
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/a-life-less-ordinary-the-films-of-joaquim-pinto
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Sam Fuller stuff at MoMA tomorrow
― Dedekind Cut Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 August 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
^all week
Planning to catch Pabst's Westfront 1918 at MoMA this weekend (Fri night or Sat aftnoon) and maybe the James Whale film of Remarque's sequel to All Quiet on Sunday. (and Borzage's Seventh Heaven tonight)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
two blacklist-related series -- highly recommend Red Hollywood, Force of Evil, Hell Drivers, Pride of the Marines, Taxi!
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/red-hollywood-and-the-blacklist
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/42990
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 August 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Nick Pinkerton tours some old cinemas of Queens (the Fair in JH, lol):
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/bombast-queens-city-of-cinema
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/bombast-queens-city-of-cinema-part-two
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/09/12/detail/also-like-life-the-films-of-hou-hsiao-hsien/
Fuck yeah
― 龜, Sunday, 17 August 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
nu prints of all of those wd be nice
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 August 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
i haven't seen any hou hsiao-hsien; should prob remedy that
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
dang @ that retro. even just its sidebars.
― schlump, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Man, you guys are lucky. Puppetmaster is my favorite, but have never seen an hhh on the big screen.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 17 August 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
never occurred to me but: yeah me neither. of everything i've seen puppetmaster felt like it was suffering the most from home viewing. would so love a season. i think about café lumiere maybe most days.
― schlump, Sunday, 17 August 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
Puppetmaster is my favorite...
to nap to.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 August 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
planning to see the restored digital Zulu tonight @ Reade
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
http://dgeneratefilms.com/chinese-cinema-events/two-week-tibetan-film-series-starts-today-at-moma
― 龜, Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
int'l scifi at LincCtr
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-strange-lands-international-sci-fi
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/strange-lands-international-sci-fi
gonna try for Fab World of Verne, 10th Victim
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Cool
― I Am the COSMOGRAIL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/09/12/detail/also-like-life-the-films-of-hou-hsiao-hsien-2/
Schedule is up
Friend of mine knows the guy who organized it, says it was incredibly hard getting a 35mm print of Puppetmaster so that should be pretty high on everybody's priorities
― 龜, Saturday, 6 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
as i said on the hhh thread, i might double feature cute girl and puppetmaster next saturday, ironman style. haven't seen either and don't know anything abt cute girl really except that it seems pretty rare--can't even find it on k4r4garga.
― adam, Saturday, 6 September 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
having recently moved to nyc the prospect of seeing actual prints of repertory films (instead of burned dvds haphazardly projected onto the walls of art spaces) is, like, giddying. so hype.
― adam, Saturday, 6 September 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
What's the word on Fedora?
― Good Time Charlie Don't Surf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
i saw it about 20 years ago and liked it.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Should I be upset that I am going to miss Flowers of Shanghai due to work?
Will probably check out Puppetmaster.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Flowers is great, but you should be able to find a DVD of that.
I don't think I can pull the trigger on Puppetmaster a third time, it let me cold twice.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
Restored original silent Chicago (co-directed by deMille), Monday night only
http://filmforum.org/film/chicago-film-page
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Final day for Fedora at the Film Forum.
― Santiniketan Go Straight To The Ghat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 September 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
I resaw last night -- it could be BW's best post-Apartment film inho (tho I might go with Kiss Me, Stupid).
Pretty much ruined by the FF's condescending guffawers, of course. Fucking shits.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
anybody see Starred Up? Rave reviews yet ending at both FSLC and IFC today, very strange.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
aw, i wish i had known that; was wanting to see shortly.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
it's on amazon VOD which probably takes some wind out of theatrical sails
― adam, Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
still, given that the actor is the star of the big year-end Jolie movie.
Anthology's Ed Wood retro includes some of the later sexytime movies:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43153
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Goddammit I keep missing every 35mm screening of The Cobweb, like tonight when I have baseball tix. Fortunately I know where to get a DVD.
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/a-tribute-to-lauren-bacall
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Rudolph Grey presents Ed Wood miscellanea tonight at Anthology, 7:30
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
bird people is worth seeing; feels like there's an amazing film in there somewhere but the pacing is overly fatuous and there are numerous tactical errors... the use of Bowie and a painfully long skype are particular culprits. But the bird's eye (and bird tracking) footage is amazing and the new-yorkeresque storyline are fascinating when they're not abused.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:39 (nine years ago) link
has anyone discovered Georgian cinema, previously?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1510
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
IFC Center tribute to Gordon Willis at 8 tonight with 35mm print of The Purple Rose of Cairo.
Anyone seen Memphis or Stop the Pounding Heart?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
zero theorem is sadly sort of rote gilliam, never boring but sophomoric in its philosophy and politics
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
Nick Cave movie held over at FF btw
http://filmforum.org/film/20000-days-on-earth-film-page
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
Stephen Chow movies at BAM coming soon
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
Journey to the West on Oct. 12; i may try to catch at least that.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
good stuff
― schlump, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
ICYM the "with introduction by" part of this - http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2014/10/05/detail/the-sandwich-man
― benbbag, Sunday, 5 October 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
Marguerite Duras retro:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/by-marguerite-duras
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 October 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
MoMA's To Save and Project schedule (incl the Welles footage, if you haven't watched it online yet):
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1521
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 October 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
Now that I'm back all the fun stuff is over :-(
― 龜, Monday, 13 October 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
I saw The Plea in the Georgian MoMA series yesterday and it was phenomenal (of course, not screening again). A City of Sadness was completely full in Astoria, i had to sit on a plastic portable chair.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 October 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
You disappeared after CoS ... The series ends this Fri ... I'm looking forward to having some more free time.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying Dear White People Tomorrow.http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dear_white_people/
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
i did not disappear, i was walkin' around
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
also, there was a mob.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 10:58 (nine years ago) link
FSLC just moved their sole screening of Mankiewicz's The Honey Pot tonight up one hour from 6:30 to 5:30, which means I can't go, need to get a refund, and will never ever see it.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
^and they just reversed it to 6:30, and pushed back the film after. Someone figured out that a few ppl who go to FSLC work for a living.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
Bill "Decasia" Morrison retro at NY MoMA incl 3 live performances
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1524
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
btw BAM put a premiere-eve screening of Citizenfour on sale this afternoon and it sold out in less than two hours. Fuck people and their apps.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
DOC NYC fest next month includes, among others, features on Elliott Smith, '80s DC hardcore, the Penn State scandal, new Yes Men, and the long-gestating one on WFMU (discreetly titled Sex and Broadcasting):
http://www.docnyc.net/films-events/
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 12:15 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i remember when this was just a kickstarter never expected it to be this big, glad it's getting good press
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
it's pretty good? both my friend and i were kinda sad it didn't go a little harder and maybe not make the characters so 2-D but I thought it was fairly aggressive and funny. Dude has a major hard-on for Spike for sure but there was a lot less misogyny than in Spike's films... plus the animus of John Hughes, I thought. It also smelled strongly of first film with a lot of flashy camera tricks: freeze frame moments of blackface, a vertigo zoom for no real reason, somewhat corny interstitial graphics. But good acting! Generally good writing! Definitely a step up from any mainstream comedy about race that I've seen lately but maybe not so drastically different from what shows up on How To Get Away With Murder and i dunno if that's a question of mass culture shift or just the impact of rimes' arrowhead or what exactly.anyway, yeah, worth a watch.
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
definitely better than i thought it would be and (though i kinda need to go back and rewatch) at least as good as school daze
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Pinkerton on Bill Morrison
http://www.artforum.com/film/id=48643
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 October 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Heads up that you can purchase/reserve tix for the Welles Too Much Johnson program at MoMA beginning at 9:30 this morning.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/22222
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 October 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
well, it's your choice of long-sit matinees today
https://www.arthaps.com/show/EC-LA-R%C3%89GION-CENTRALE_1
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/batang-west-side
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 October 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
The Mishaps of Musty Suffer, 6pm at Performing Arts Library
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2014/10/20/film-mishaps-musty-suffer
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 October 2014 11:48 (nine years ago) link
Fassbinder, Part 2
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/rainer-werner-fassbinder-retrospective-romantic-anarchist-part-two
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
on To Save and Project (i guess George Chakiris was due for reclamation)
who's seen Madam Satan?
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-to-save-and-project-2014
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/22230
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Derek Jarman at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/derek-jarman
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Poltergeist in 35mm at MOMI tonight.
Newly uncovered Joseph Cornell film, + a restored Ken Jacobs, at MoMA tomw at 1:30.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/22242
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bam.org/nykff
:)
― 龜, Sunday, 2 November 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
rounding up RWF part 2 (I went to Baal last night, unfortunately had to snap myself awake frequently due to restless weekend)
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-fassbinder-romantic-anarchist-part-2
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 November 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Anthology launches a 4-day tribute to the Austrian Film Museum midweek, including Peter Lorre's excellent lone directorial work The Lost One:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43498
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Recent restoration of Vertigo returning to the FF. Second blurb from the top is from some unknown Slant writer.
― fgtbaoutit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
I have no desire to see some damn digitized version. (Do you think they would use that as a substitute quote?)
Do I need to see this tonight?
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/chilly-scenes-of-winter/
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
oh MIX NYC this week... too much
http://www.mixnyc.org/27/film-programs/
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
at month's end, Nastassja Kinski comes to town!
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/nastassja-kinski-from-the-heart
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
National Gallery held over again at FF, Wiseman appears twice next weekend
http://filmforum.org/film/national-gallery-film-page
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 November 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
highly recommended btw
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
sure, but I sighed that I don't have to go tonight, bcz there is no way i am staying awake til 11pm on a weeknight in a theater.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Jean Grémillon retro at MOMI
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/11/21/detail/jean-grmillon/
http://www.reverseshot.com/features/1941/gremillon_momi
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/sunshine-noir
!!! To Live and die in LA, Repo Man, Long Goodbye, Heat
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Feels like omar little curated this
alas not the Warhol Heat
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 04:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JkOk25TsbU
― Junior Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 06:08 (nine years ago) link
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was pretty fun.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 06:44 (nine years ago) link
It was. Hadn't realized it was finally out.
― Junior Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:26 (nine years ago) link
Two rarely screened, cultish crime adaptations in 35mm tom'w night:
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/miami-blues
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-moon-in-the-gutter
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
it begins
http://www.thelmagazine.com/2014/12/deep-cuts-altman-moma/
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1525
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Migrating Forms at BAM
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-migrating-forms-2014
Anthology has a blacklistee writer series, tonight a feature w/ the irresistible title The Case Against Brooklyn -- anyone seen Carol Reed's The Key?:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43564
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
That Migrating Forms thing looks interesting. Heinz Emigholz was a guest at the film festival I worked at last spring, and we showed The Airstrip. But because we always knew we would show the new one, we didn't get it on screener, and I couldn't be there at the showing, so I haven't seen it. But he is interesting, I would go and see what he has done.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 11 December 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
Apparantly Loznitsa's Maidan opens one of these days in NYC, and I'd def say everyone should go see it. I've been thinking a lot about it since I saw it, really, really great.
Great take by ReverseShot:http://www.reverseshot.com/reviews/entry/1972/maidanMy own blog-review:http://centrifugue.blogspot.com/2014/11/cphdox-day-3-4-iron-ministry-maidan.html
― Frederik B, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Wm Greaves docs tonight
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/still-a-brother
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/the-fight
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 December 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
John Huston retro @ LincCtr beginning tomw. I don't recall ever knowing of the Garfield-Jennifer Jones Cuban film.
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/let-there-be-light-the-films-of-john-huston
http://www.wsj.com/articles/john-huston-a-look-at-his-influence-1418860047
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
So, it's not until february, but this year's Film Comment Selects will have a series of films from Danish director Nils Malmros. If there is one Danish director I think deserves more recognition, it's probably him. So yeah, I recommend that.
― Frederik B, Monday, 22 December 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
btw if you want to plan your holiday-break NYC rep house fare, this site is mostly updated thru New Years Day.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Steve Buscemi introduces Altman's Kansas City tonight at 7, MoMA
(it's in the small theater, may be on standby only)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 January 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
tried to watch that a few months back, made it maybe 40 mins
― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
well yeah, but i've seen all the good ones.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Last day for Dumont's Li'l Quinquin at FSLC.
Anthology has a series of TV plays by producer Robert Herridge, including a 1958 All the King's Men directed by Sidney Lumet.
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43731
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
i heard mixed things on quinquin; anybody see it?
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Too much of his usual shit. Done with him.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 January 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
lauded Ukraine doc Maidan at MoMA tnite 7:30
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
It's great.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Goodbye to Language sold out for tonight :(
― 龜, Friday, 16 January 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/evolution-of-a-criminal/^this suffered from a lot of first-time director problems and the guy is really still too close to his own experience to get perspective of just WHY he did this and this is maybe 20 minutes too long but there's some worthwhile work going on
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 January 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Gordon Willis retro at MOMI... the print of his first film, End of the Road, looked great yesterday.
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/01/30/detail/see-it-big-gordon-willis/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 February 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
The Widow Altman does a Q&A after California Split on his 90th birthday, Friday the 20th:
http://filmforum.org/events/event/altmans-california-split-event-page
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 February 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
also it's the last day at MoMA for the bananas-looking 1934 puppeteering melodrama I Am Suzanne!
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1539
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09jJM29BJc
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 February 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Thanks. Could not figure out at all what that was from photo in the calendar. It first thought it was variant English language version of similarly titled Buñuel film.
― Sweet Melissus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 February 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
morbs, you got me excited about "hard to be a god" so i'm going thursday... did you see it?
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 February 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
nope
2-week run i think
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 February 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Where's it at?
― Sweet Melissus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 February 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=02&year=2015#showing-43705
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 February 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
John Carpenter @ BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/john-carpenter-master-of-fear
(one of his music-based rep selections is Forbidden Planet)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 07:19 (nine years ago) link
Timbuktu was pretty great and very affecting
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 07:20 (nine years ago) link
Meant to go last weekend
― Sweet Melissus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 10:37 (nine years ago) link
I was a bit dissapointed. Liked loads of stuff, but the central characters were pretty two-dimensional, I thought, and the cinematography was hit-and-miss as well. But some really really strong scenes, especially that one shot of the lake at sunset.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
Timbuktu was selling out last weekend; i like to wait for elbow room
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
this NYC black independents of '68-86 series at Lincoln Ctr will most definitely reward
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/tell-it-like-it-is-black-independents-in-new-york
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/tell-it-like-it-is-black-independents-in-new-york-1968-1986
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
and 3 weeks of Charles Laughton at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/charles-laughton-series
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
i wasn't really drawn to timbuktu for character development, was more taken with the bumbling murderous ignorance of the sharia lawkeepers and the generally gorgeous shots. i've seen a lot of criticism that goes overboard though so i can see where some Ida-esque backlash is called for. it reminded me of Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar stories in some ways.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link
Brody, Melissa Anderson on the black indie series:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/lost-found
http://www.villagevoice.com/2015-02-04/film/indie-black-cinema-lincoln-center/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Hard to Be a God was monotonous and somewhat devoid of narrative and still kind of a knockout; the visuals are like Jodorowsky (but less psychedelic and more nihilistic) or Fellini (but without boundaries) and yet even more so. I'm inclined to think I would've liked it twice as much if it had been half as long but my god some of the images are never going to rattle out of my skull. Film Anthology didn't have the theater heated, i had gotten like three hours of sleep the night before and we misjudged the hour the film was starting so we got into the story 20 minutes in progress and even so i would recommend giving this a spin just as an experience. I've never seen anyone play quite so effectively with planes of space; there's often a separate story going on in the foreground. Exhaustingly in your face and so fully realized that it surpasses fetish.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 07:52 (nine years ago) link
the Rendezvous slate:
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015-festival
The week of John Boorman starts today at FF, and obviously you should see Point Blank in 35mm if you never have. (I might prioritize, among my blind spots, Beyond Ranbgoon.) The trailer for his new one looks mighty bland, though.
http://filmforum.org/series/boorman-series-page
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
which of these should i be seeing?http://www.ifccenter.com/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015/
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
and please note i am prejudiced against french film from the start
forks, i just asked in the French s/d thread. Techine is pretty reliable but of course that will be released anyway. I may go for that and Honore, plus Fidelio for the twin hunk factor.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
(oh yeah, Fidelio is not playing at IFC -- fest is shared with FSLC and BAM)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
also before that, FC Selects -- looking fwd to another Michael Almereyda Shakespeare update, as Hawke was actually good in M.A.'s Hamlet 15 years ago:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/film-comment-selects-2015
Don't know much about that Danish auteur tho.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
on the above; i'm going to the new Petzold and two in the Malmos retro
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-film-comment-selects-2015
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
wow that's so cool there's a malmros retrospective in nyc! he's from my hometown! "Tree of Knowledge" is surely his masterpiece, but I can also recommend "Facing the Truth" and "Pain of Love". Quite a controversial figure because of his "auto-fictional" control over other peoples' lives - the way he portrays his father in FtT, the way he depicts a young actress in Sorrow & Joy. The earlier films are beautifully shot on film by Jan Weincke too, you'll enjoy.
― niels, Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
ToK and PoL are the ones I've bought. Unsure how widely Malmros previously been exposed in the US, but I don't recall ever reading about him before this.
Two rarely screened NYC early '70s entries in the Gordon Willis MOMI series on Saturday afternoon: Ashby's The Landlord (Beau Bridges buys a building w/ black tenants in Park Slope, moves in, appreciates Diana Sands) and Irvin Kershner's Loving w/ George Segal and Eva Marie Saint.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
visiting old high school friends and one of them wanted to tell me about the most winceworthy scene ever in a horror movie and it was a part in the most recent final destination movie and he asked have you seen it and i said um i've heard of them, probably not for me and he says well you're a little bit of a FILM SNOB aren't you and then i told him about hard to be a god and he ended the night by saying how i only liked things that aren't narrative like hey that lemonade isn't NARRATIVE let me try some of THATanyway.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 February 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
full ND/NF slate
http://newdirectors.org/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
B&W in scope... shame The Hustler is digital, but planning to finally see Lonely Are the Brave. Maybe The Haunting too:
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/black-and-white-scope
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/04/10/detail/tsai-ming-liang/
― 龜, Friday, 27 February 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen the documentary, Boys, and two others
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 February 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen the latter but the former is a lot of fun, /very/ late-60s mix of political correctness and incorrectness.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 27 February 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Two-week Wenders retro begins today at MoMA, with WW introductions / discussions
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1557
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
Handke will be there with him on Wednesday for Goalie's Anxiety.
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 March 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Morbs, which is the best MOMI membership to get if you just want to see all their retros etc.
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
the one i have? "Film Lover" takes care of all the film/exhibit admissions
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Real howler from Ian Buruma during tonight's Q&A.
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 March 2015 04:55 (nine years ago) link
You can watch here if you wanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVE-VjC_ME
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 March 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
This is interesting and brief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IZPpkI32pc
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
Blacklisted screenwriters part 3 at Anthology; Walter Bernstein in person Saturday:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43900
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 March 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
George Romero is introducing the Archers' Tales of Hoffmann tonight at 7 at Film Forum, just cuz he loves it.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 March 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Wow. Didn't see his name amidst the list of all the other introducers.
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
it's showing here all week too - hope to catch it but not sure how likely that'll be
― donna rouge, Monday, 16 March 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
I have a theory that "Grey Gardens" is, no matter the time of year, always playing somewhere in the city
― 龜, Monday, 16 March 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
so far I'm only going to Listen to Me Marlon at NDNF, bcz I don't trust c4lum m4rsh or anybody else that a fucking Neil Hamburger movie is a triumph.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2015-03-18/film/new-directors-new-films-moma/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
finally seeing Bellocchio's China Is Near tonight at FF (ends Thurs)
La Sapienza moves to FF Friday
go see Amour Fou tonight
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Wish I could take that advice, but don't think I can make it.
― Big Iron Shirt Wearer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
But maybe the Bellochio tonight I can do.
― Big Iron Shirt Wearer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
it's a little academic and Italy-specific, but i liked it well enough
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
Really wanted to see AF but couldn't do.
― Big Iron Shirt Wearer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Max Ophuls' 1940 From Mayerling to Sarajevo opens at FF tomorrow:
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/an-imperial-romance-max-ophulss-from-mayerling-to-sarajevo
http://filmforum.org/film/from-mayerling-to-sarajevo-film-page
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
this weekend's Astoria series escaped my attention
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/03/28/detail/downtown-new-york-film-the-1970s-and-1980s-2/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Griffith's last silent epic, the Revolution-set America starring Lionel Barrymore and Neil "Commissioner Gordon" Hamilton, tonight at FF
http://filmforum.org/film/america-griffith-film
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 March 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
Morbs, how soon in advance should I be reserving spaces for the Tsai retro
― 龜, Monday, 30 March 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
I don't know -- I assume they are going to be in the big room? or is the Mad Men sidebar still going to be running?
Really, the acclaimed Tsai films haven't been that hard to see, so i don't know if they'd fill the main theater.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 March 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Ty - first time member
― 龜, Monday, 30 March 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
actually they had stand-alone Tsai schedules there yesterday, so i assume they're in the big theater.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 March 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
BAM retro for "Kubrick's producer" and occasional director himself James B Harris (now 86; he'll be there). Anyone seen Some Call It Loving?
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/overdue-james-b-harris
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 March 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Naughty Borowczyk movies
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/obscure-pleasures-the-films-of-walerian-borowczyk
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
"Laurel OR Hardy" program at Performing Arts Library, Saturday at 2:30. Free!
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
BAM Afrofuturism series, Hoberman on same:
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/space-is-the-place-afrofuturism-on-film
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/movies/space-is-the-place-offers-otherworldly-takes-on-identity.html
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
Borowczyk animated shorts tonight at 7, or vis a vis what i've seen, HIS LAST CHANCE
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
April 16-23, 2015 DC Punk from 1980 to 90 movie doc : Salad Days New York, NY Q&A after the screenings on April 16 with director Scott Crawford & author/Cro-Mag John Joseph 10:00pm screening is SOLD OUT 10:15pm screening is now on sale IFC Center
I kinda liked it, although ilx poster Anon did not
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
Nelson Pereira dos Santos retro at MoMA
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1565
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 12:02 (eight years ago) link
Amped to see Agnes Varda and her first feature this Friday; also Jenni Olson's The Royal Road along with shorts by Mark Rappaport on the 26th.
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-art-of-the-real-2015
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/art-of-the-real-2015
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 April 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
hopin to catch a later varda, sans filmmaker in person though. report back!
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 13 April 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
regular Tribecafest evening tix now cost $21.50, screw that.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
how many of these Shakey films are worth paying to see, experts?
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-bernard-shakey-film-retrospective-neil-young-on-screen/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 April 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
FSLC's latest European auteur series:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/i-put-a-spell-on-you-the-films-of-bertrand-bonello/2015/04/29
and BAM covers 3D of this century, from Ken Jacobs to Resident Evil to Bieber:
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/3d-in-the-21st-century
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
well! Haskell, Schrader, Biskind, Pena panel
One Hundred Years: Film Studies in Past, Present and Future
Saturday, May 2 at 3pmFilm Society of Lincoln CenterWalter Reade Theater
Complimentary tickets may be picked up at the box office one hour before the event.
http://cufilmfest.com/m-a-panel/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
William Wellman's Beggars of Life (Louise Brooks) w/ piano at FF tnite at 7:50
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 May 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
Howard Shore Q&A with Naked Lunch at BAM tonight
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 12:32 (eight years ago) link
the Silent Clowns present monthly (free) Hal Roach programs at the Performing Arts Library thru August... This Saturday, brothers Charley (Chase) and James Parrott.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
also new print of Mikey & Nicky, nightly 8pm thru Friday at MoMA
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
and early Japanese talkies
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1579
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 May 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
we just announced our cinema festival lineup for the summer. do you ever come to the festival?
― surm, Saturday, 9 May 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bam.org/programs/2015/bamcinemafest
― surm, Saturday, 9 May 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
lotsa cool stuff there, i like sean baker a lot & its amazing & delightful theres a uncle kent sequel
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 May 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
cool, i don't really know much about movies but want to go
the opening night party will be at the masonic temple right across the street from my house!
― surm, Saturday, 9 May 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
next Monday night at IFC Center, Paul Schrader and that Damn Helen Mirren in attendance for a 35mm screening of The Comfort of Strangers:
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-comfort-of-strangers/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 May 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
that's my birthday! good birthday movie?
― surm, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:38 (eight years ago) link
if you like sadistic house parties, i think? (haven't seen it, read the book)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 10:57 (eight years ago) link
Comfort of Strangers didn't seem all that special at the time - the Venetian setting and air of menace couldn't help but bring to mind Don't Look Now, to which it is markedly inferior - but I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually aged quite well. Pinter screenplay, iirc.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 11:01 (eight years ago) link
interesting. i'm kind of fascinated and want to go. might be a funny way to spend a bday.
― surm, Thursday, 14 May 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
last full day of Pather Panchali at FF (scattered screenings through remaining 3 weeks of the Apu series)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 May 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
think i'm going to see Dior and I at Film Forum tomorrow night instead, followed by dessert and a martini
― surm, Sunday, 17 May 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
Nick Pinkerton on the current Anthology series of that writer (?) Philip Yordan (need to hit that Ryan-Ives western):
http://artforum.com/film/id=52176
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
i liked Dior and I a lot
― surm, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
foreign B&W scope at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/black-and-white-scope-international-cinema
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 May 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
and a 35mm fest at Anthology, from Borzage to V Gallo
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/44254
http://www.wsj.com/articles/classics-return-to-the-screen-at-celluloid-celebration-1432767565
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2015 02:21 (eight years ago) link
two months of Technicolor at MoMA
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1583
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
last day for Gueros at FF
http://filmforum.org/film/gueros-film-page
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Thought it was pretty good.
― Faron Young Folks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
it was!
another key series at MoMA, on the Great Migration... good luck ever seeing these projected again:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1580
and theater 2 fills up quickly!
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
and the great DP Gabriel Figueroa (Bunuel, Huston, Siegel et al) gets his own retro at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/gabriel-figueroa-series
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
Yay! 16mm print of Maria Candelaria, though.
― Faron Young Folks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
i've seen it there before
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link
Print is from MoMA, apparently.
― Faron Young Folks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
who has seen Victims of Sin, that is the question
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2015 11:14 (eight years ago) link
and has the FF 2-for-1 admission disappeared?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2015 11:15 (eight years ago) link
Didn't notice.
― Faron Young Folks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 June 2015 11:37 (eight years ago) link
Perf Arts Library, Sat at 2:30:
When sound arrived, the folks at Roach sometimes looked back at their silent output for ideas for new productions. Two fascinating side-by-side examples are films in which both Laurel & Hardy appear in both the originals and the sound remakes! Our line-up includes DUCK SOUP ('27) and ANOTHER FINE MESS ('30), plus CHICKENS COME HOME ('31) and LOVE ‘EM AND WEEP ('27)!
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
New screen name in honor of that Film Forum series
― Maria Felix Kept On Walking (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 June 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
And this upcoming cine negro series:https://www.moma.org/m/calendar/film_series/1589
― Maria Felix Kept On Walking (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
Hondo in 3D, also a rarities program
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1587
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 June 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/new-york-asian-film-festival-2015
!!
― 龜, Friday, 19 June 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
taking a quick breeze through city on fire and cold war are both great
― 龜, Friday, 19 June 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
NYAFF 2015 Schlump in Attendance
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 19 June 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
I would really like to see Chasuke's Journey. Yeah, City on Fire is good. Tokyo Tribe is a must see as well, batshit crazy, though I preferred Why Don't You Play In Hell.
― Frederik B, Friday, 19 June 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
city on fire w/ ringo lam q+a tomorrow night, got my tickets, psyched to see a 35mm print as i've only ever seen it on vhs
― adam, Friday, 26 June 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
adam i might be at that!
― 龜, Friday, 26 June 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
House Party showing tonight at momi
― 龜, Friday, 26 June 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
do any of you have a subscription to the paper version of cahiers du cinema? if so i have a question.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
i didn't realize aaron kwok was in town and at both last night and today's screening of port of call :(
― 龜, Saturday, 27 June 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
i understand city on fire's influence but it's not a great film
'full alert' was full stop great and i hope a blu ray gets released at some point
― 龜, Monday, 29 June 2015 00:23 (eight years ago) link
couldn't make it to full alert, sadly. were you at city on fire? ringo lam sat right in front of me! until he bailed after the shower scene
i think the stuff that city on fire does right (stylish bits, danny lee) outweighs the bad stuff (tonal insanity)
― adam, Monday, 29 June 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
tonal insanity kind of comes w/ that era of HK movies though. do you not like john woo either?
school on fire is even better than city on fire IMO.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 June 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
speaking of tonal insanity, i just re-watched "8 diagram pole fighter." man, does that film have some mood swings. it's also kind of the ne plus ultra of one kind of kinetic filmmaking. i think i'll watch it again tonight.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 June 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
i still am waiting for world film culture to catch up w/ HK action cinema. i know it's a big deal and has been for a while, but it still seems very "niche." maybe that's all it'll ever be.
for example on that sight & sound poll from a few years back barely any critics mentioned films by lau kar-leung, cheng cheh, tsui hark, etc. -- even king hu (the wu xia director who everyone likes) didn't really make a strong showing.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 June 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
― adam, Monday, June 29, 2015 5:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Yeah I was 3rd row dead center
― 龜, Monday, 29 June 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
am i think the tonal insanity is part of the charm but i also think that may be stockholm syndrome after imprinting very heavily on hard boiled as a kid
― adam, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 00:54 (eight years ago) link
tonal shifts are a feature, not a bug! Or at least, yes, you have to "put up with it" if you're interested in a lot of popular cinema. popular indian cinema will make your head spin. when i first encountered the so-called "masala" films from the 80s-90s (which are, self-consciously, even more tonally diverse than your typical 3-hour bollywood extravaganza), i was a little shocked, not to say outraged, by the way the films would seemingly turn on a dime from searing social critique to sadean violence (minus the graphic-ness of some HK films) to insipid romance. not to mention the musical numbers! i still find myself a little unsettled by it, but less so.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
i always found it kind of interesting that john woo was the HK filmmaker who had the greatest success in Hollywood. obviously, as a stylist he's extremely accomplished. but the thematics and emotional appeals of his films are far from the most "sophisticated" (putting that in scare quotes b/c by saying this i don't mean to disparage them) in HK. i find that students sometimes laugh at the more over-the-top stuff in "a better tomorrow" and "the killer". woo cannily modulated that for his hollywood films... but not /that/ much. i would have thought that tsui hark would have had more success in hollywood but i guess he was just too much of a manic control freak to work easily within that system. (also, his filmmaking powers were already waning by the time he made it to los angeles.)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
Village Voice (Michael Atkinson) assessment of NYAFF today was 'it aint what it used to be'.
MOMI does 'essential' Pappy:
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/07/03/detail/the-essential-john-ford/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
had a dream that a few more of ford's early westerns at universal were discovered (most are lost). woke up really excited, then grudgingly went back to sleep when i realized it wasn't real.
still, too bad they aren't showing 'straight shooting'. i don't know if it's 'essential,' but it's fantastic.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, July 1, 2015 1:15 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
part of this is the fact that the male-bonding, brotherhood aspects of his films don't translate super well into western culture (not to say that bro-iness isn't a thing in the_west but it's done on very different terms)
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
I thought guns were the reason Woo did better in America.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
unscientific ranking of the fords i've seen (NB some of these i've seen only once, others probably one or two dozen times)
how green was my valleymy darling clementinethey were expendablethe searchersshe wore a yellow ribbonfort apachethe sun shines brightwagon masteryoung mr. lincolnthe quiet manwee willie winkiesteamboat 'round the bendjudge prieststagecoachthe man who shot liberty valancerio grandetwo rode togetherdrums along the mohawkair mailthe long voyage homepilgrimagethe long gray linestraight shootingjust pals7 womenthe horse soldiersthe grapes of wrath3 godfathersthe prisoner of shark islandmogambo3 bad menfleshthe last hurrahfour sonsthe whole town's talkingthe iron horsehangman's housegideon's daythe informerbucking broadwaycheyenne autumn (this has some beautiful things in it, but it also rehases stuff from his earlier films in a very coarse way that makes me embarassed for ford)the lost patrollightnin'mother machreesalutethe fugitivedonovan's reefarrowsmith (redeemed--barely--by some excellent cinematography)four men and a prayerwhat price glorythe plough and the starsup the riverthe world moves onborn recklessmary of scotland (hoo-boy)
i don't even know /what/ to do with 'tobacco road' btw
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
btw the first four or five of those rank with the best films made by anyone anywhere anytime
i do like the title of this Tadanobu Asano vehicle
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/ruined-heart-another-love-story-between-a-criminal-a-whore
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 July 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
Intrigued by some of these James Naremore books but have never read anything by him.
― How I Wrote Matchstick Men (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
i'd go to this at ABC No Rio if my life wasn't a shitstorm right now
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/break-the-rules
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
Japan Cuts begins Thursday
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/deep-cuts-the-challenging-pleasures-of-this-years-japan-cuts-film-fest-7330194
http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-cuts-2015
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
almost always amazing lineup there and i'm always booked, sadface.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link
sounds interesting... maybe i'll try to make it down for some
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 05:06 (eight years ago) link
4 weeks of true crime at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/true-crime-series
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 July 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
hitting up _voice of water_ and _and the mud ship sails away_ at japan cuts, should be a good time.
thinking about _heavenly creatures_ in 35mm at film forum
― adam, Friday, 10 July 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
http://dgeneratefilms.com/chinese-cinema-events/best-of-beijing-independent-film-festival-coming-to-new-york-city
― 龜, Saturday, 11 July 2015 11:33 (eight years ago) link
cool! are you familiar with any of the programming? idk none of that
― adam, Saturday, 11 July 2015 13:10 (eight years ago) link
nope! all i know it was banned one year in beijng
― 龜, Saturday, 11 July 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
directors w/ one feature only
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/44498
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 04:08 (eight years ago) link
6 weeks of indie '80s at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/indie-80s
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 July 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
should've tipped before... Mexican noir at MoMA. Saw In the Palm of Your Hand last night, a good one by Roberto Gavaldon.
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-mexico-at-midnight
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1589
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 July 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
That Mexican series looks good, never saw anything from that era or those directors I didn't like.
― Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 July 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
most films are gone but the asian american international film festival is happening this weekend and a lil bit of this week and next
― 龜, Sunday, 26 July 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
dang, wish I heard about that earlier. didn't realize they'd run that so soon after the NYAFF
― Nhex, Sunday, 26 July 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
there's an amazing close to Night Falls involving a dog and a poster
also the MoMA audience was yukking it up like the Film Forum
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 July 2015 03:18 (eight years ago) link
I saw Badlands in Bryant Park last week and really appreciated that the audience didn't yuk it up at all, but just took it in.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 27 July 2015 03:39 (eight years ago) link
whoa! will you be here for Fringe as well?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 July 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
and that kabuki Glover performance
CLARISSSSSSSSSSA
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 July 2015 03:41 (eight years ago) link
(sorry rong thread)
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 July 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
Wish I was there for Fringe - just had something job-related for a couple days but had Monday night free.
Actually left Badlands about 10 minutes before the end, when one of the sprinklers on the lawn started up and sprayed a circle of moviegoers.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 27 July 2015 03:43 (eight years ago) link
i don't know this guy, but maybe i can go Sunday
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/07/31/detail/politics-as-spectacle-the-films-of-mani-ratnam/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
anyone seen Jem Cohen's Counting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmY5lQ47b5k
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/counting/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
^It's pretty good, especially if you (theoretically) like Coney in winter or have done a lotta F train time.
Richard Lester at FSLC:
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/richard-lester-the-running-jumping-pop-cinema-iconoclast/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
Here to recommend the Brando doc.
― Eternal Return To Earth (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 August 2015 02:34 (eight years ago) link
hey now
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats will screen and discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini's MEDEA and sign copies of his debut novel, WOLF IN WHITE VAN, on August 31 as part of our Print Screen series.
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/print-screen-john-darnielle-pier-paolo-pasolini-medea/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 August 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
heads-up that last FF Third Man show is 6:10 tonight
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
dang @ pasolini. i haven't seen that one.hey has anyone been going to the bam '80s stuff
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
just Henry:Killer and Trouble in Mind; othwise a lot of stuff i've seen
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
Anthology's "One Film Wonders" resumes
Spring Night, Summer Night sounds intriguing.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 August 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=B_b0LAp3jG4
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_b0LAp3jG4
hey has anyone been going to the bam '80s stuff
Saw Vortex (1982). Lydia Lunch is just funny. It made me wonder if there was any way she could have become a legit film star. It's like she had everything but technique.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 02:03 (eight years ago) link
AIP series, Roger Corman in person Friday night
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/44549
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 August 2015 08:22 (eight years ago) link
This will probably be my night for The Iron Ministry at MoMA
http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/make-it-real-the-cinema-of-transition/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
really wanna see that in theaters
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 August 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, it's really worth seeing in a theater. Sounds really interesting with the other independent documentaries, hope I get the chance to see them someday.
― Frederik B, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
I didn't know Icarus Films was distributing it nationwide... might be dicey seeing it theatrically in the city after MoMA tho, forks.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 August 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
thanks for the heads up, may try the 27th
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 August 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
double-barreled Ingrid centennial tributes
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1592
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/ingrid-bergman
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 August 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
BAM wraps up Indie 80s tonight with this splendid satire (based on a troo story, as they say)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtO71l46sLA
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 August 2015 11:51 (eight years ago) link
28 Wenders films, w/ Q&As
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/wim-wenders-portraits-along-the-road/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
Hope he brings Handke along for a few.
― Exile's Return To Sender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
i got Wim'd out at MoMA, may just try to get to Alice in the Cities.
The Marquise of O and other period Rohmers at BAM:
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/period-rohmer
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 August 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
Alice in the Cities is great and Kings of the Road is even better. I should have seen more when they were in Copenhagen, but didn't have time. Saw Marquise of O recently to see how much it looked like Amour Fou. The answer was quite a lot, but a lot of that is decor and costumes. What I've heard about Perceval - metal trees! - and The Lady and the Duke - early digital - makes me really interested. But just in general Rohmer is one of my major blind spots. Still.
― Frederik B, Friday, 28 August 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Would love to see Perceval but think it would take a miracle.
Wim I'd like to see again: The State of Things.
― Exile's Return To Sender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 August 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
MoMA is doing a series of Hasse Ekman, the "overshadowed Swede." Nick Pinkerton:
http://artforum.com/film/id=54800
My records indicate I saw Girl with the Hyacinths 5 years ago, of which I remember nothing.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1600
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 September 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
James Baldwin weekend at FSLC
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-devil-finds-work-james-baldwin-on-film/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 September 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
De Sica at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/vittorio-de-sica-attore-regista-seduttore-series
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 September 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 September 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
I saw Perceval. Ehh.
― it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Sunday, 13 September 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Gold of Naples seems like an overlooked major work to me -- Toto, De Sica, and Sophia Loren are all stupendously funny in it, and there's a possible career performance in it by Silvana Mangano.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 September 2015 03:41 (eight years ago) link
Definitely want to see that. With that cast it seemed like it was either going to be a misguided misfire or an overlooked whatsit like you said.
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 September 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
well you have 2 days
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 September 2015 04:14 (eight years ago) link
Aiming for Tuesday
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 September 2015 04:35 (eight years ago) link
ya go?
wd def recommend Ekman's The Banquet tonight at MoMA, altho i was nodding throughout last Saturday bcz of goddamn drug-induced sleep debt. Ekman and Eva Henning give great performances portraying a S/M marriage from hell.
also, '60s WW2 "missions" in 35mm: Where Eagles Dare (Burton, Eastwood) at BAM tonightThe Guns of Navarone (Peck, Quinn, Niven) at Loews Jeresey City, Friday eve
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
btw Navarone was the top-grossing film of '61. i probably have only seen it panned & scanned on TV. Also in JC this weekend, Welles & the Rat Pack:
http://www.loewsjersey.org/films
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 September 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
Do you remember Dick Van Dyke episode in which The Guns of Navarone featured prominently?
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 September 2015 01:28 (eight years ago) link
p sure i haven't watched a van Dyke episode in 30+ years.
Jerry Lewis at MOMI on Oct 6. If you're an admirer you should see him once; just be ready for anything.
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2015/10/06/detail/the-comedian-filmmaker-jerry-lewis
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
I know architecture documentaries aren't the most filmsnobby of films, but NY Design & Architecture Festival is next week, and I saw Concrete Love - The Böhm Family, and it's quite honestly one of the best films I've seen this year. Made by a 27 year old dude, who has worked on the film for five years, following 93 year old Gottfried Böhm and his architecture family, mostly just a collection of vignettes, where some are based on boring talking heads, but some are these amazing visual ruminations on creativity, aging, love, etc. It uses that visual style that Wim Wenders tries to do with his latest documentaries, but where Wenders never gets it to work imo, in this film there are several passages that are just completely stunning and new.
If this guy can get more funding, then in a couple of years he's a big name, and then you can say that you knew him from his first film!!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 8 October 2015 10:46 (eight years ago) link
MoMA slate up for November's To Save and Project (Welles, Akerman, Fuller, early color, Crime Wave, Amarcord, Shampoo, Clara Bow, William K Howard):
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1623
Wojciech Has retro begins next week at BAM:
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/the-waking-dreams-of-wojciech-has
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 October 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
and starting tomw, Frederick Wiseman's New York at MOMI
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/10/09/detail/frederick-wisemans-new-york/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 October 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
Really hope I can get to BAM for some Has.
― That Thin, Wild Mercury Poisoning (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
Argh. Hoping to get to MOMI for those...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 October 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
et you're here for a spell, again?
i think Central Park has no baseball conflict for me
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
Been here for over a month already (mentioned on one of the other NYC threads). Leaving on Wednesday.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 October 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
trio of Kon Ichikawa 4K screenings
http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/fall-season-2015
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
Pialat retro at MOMI, incl 1971 miniseries in a couple weeks:
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/10/16/detail/maurice-pialat/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
last night in Brooklyn (30 John St) for this weeklong run:
http://nymediacenter.com/events/event/?id=E970FD8D-3799-449C-A91854CC81923AB4&slugid=ifp-screen-forward-presents-field-niggas
http://truefalse.org/news/stimulating-life-a-conversation-with-khalik-allah-of-field-niggas/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 October 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
^interview by Tape Store
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 October 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
afi fest announced their schedule today - anything any of you nyc-ers have caught and would recommend? the world cinema section alone is kinda overwhelming
http://afifest.afi.com/2015/sections
― donna rouge, Friday, 23 October 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
From New Auteurs, Mediterranea is awesome and Sworn Virgin + Until I Lose My Breath is kinda cool.
Saw The Club yesterday and loved it, prefer it to No. I'm going to see Aferim sunday, will report back. A new Porumpoio like The Treasure is always a mustsee. Tale of Tales didn't really work for me, and A War is awful crap.
45 Years is ok.
― Frederik B, Friday, 23 October 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Mountains May Depart xp
― 龜, Saturday, 24 October 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
cripes, the afi fest online ticketing system is more disastrous this year than it's been any other year i've attended but i did get manage to get tix for the new zhangke and the sembene documentary
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
at a glance, wd recommend (besides MMD) Field Niggas, In the Shadow of Women and The Forbidden Room.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Saw In the Shadow of Women yesterday, and yeah, it's good, better than Jealousy. But I'm still quite intimidated at the sheer amount of Garrel films to really dive into his filmography, though I think his newest would benefit from understanding more about the kind of stories he tells. Also checked out Le Revelateur, the silent film he made in 68. That one is really quite something.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
thx for the recs all - not super keen on guy maddin usually but will take under advisement
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
well it's very maddinesque, bursting at the seams
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0416/nfl_u_madden1_200.jpg
― You're a Big URL Now (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
wiseman will be on site at film forum for the new one. getcher tickets now
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 October 2015 06:03 (eight years ago) link
I've seen him do Q&A before, and he gives the impression that he'd rather not be there.
MoMA unveils early-section slate of The Contenders, including the Charlie Kaufman whatzit and Johnnie To's Office in 3-D.
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1561
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
i was at a q+a via skype with him for berkeley; the impression i got was that he didn't suffer dumb questions gladly and i'm okay with that.
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
well, given the percentages, that's an excellent reason to not wanna be there.
Lino Brocka's 1976 Insiang in the midst of a MoMA run.
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1559
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
December: FSLC w/ a dual Lynch/Rivette retro
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/lineup-for-lynchrivette-dual-retrospective-revealed/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 October 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Counting on some Mississippi Grind on the Contenders' back-end
― Neb! (benbbag), Saturday, 31 October 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
still finalizing my AFI slate, some conflicting screenings i'm torn between:
chevalier (tsangari) v. evolution (hadzihalilovic)andaferim! (jude) v. in the shadow of women (garrel)
the "big" films i got tix for this year are 'the lobster' and 'carol' but i feel like i'd rather see stuff i think will have much more limited distribution (ie the new poromboiu)
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 23:26 (eight years ago) link
I would take Aferim! over In the Shadow of Women, but both are worth seeing. Haven't seen the first two. And yeah, new Porumboiu!!
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link
Fandor roundup on MoMA's To Save and Project... Homunculus looks intriguing... "a six-episode (1916) German science-fiction serial about a test-tube baby who grows into a world-destroying monster."
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-to-save-and-project-2015
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
Todd Haynes retro, with related films, at FSLC later this month -- I think we can figure out the "surprise" screening on the 21st.
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/todd-haynes-the-other-side-of-dreams/#films
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 November 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
about halfway thru AFI now, the two standouts for me so far are the new zhangke and 'those who feel the fire burning', poetic doc about refugees in europe
http://www.voxmagazine.com/2015/03/truefalse-film-review-those-who-feel-the-fire-burning/
― donna rouge, Monday, 9 November 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
appears that FF will be holding over Wiseman
DOC NYC:
http://www.docnyc.net/schedule/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
In Jackson Heights is very good. As usual...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah, though maybe a bit less active than usual? I liked it.
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
Jax Hts pleasant, not insubstantial. Wouldn't go as far as great. Nor "as usual".
― Neb! (benbbag), Friday, 13 November 2015 06:41 (eight years ago) link
am i being short sighted or has it been a notably weak year for commercial/broadly distributed film in general?
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
it's hard to say, as i think it's been consistently horrible for ~5 years
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
Desplechin 'epic' at FIAF
http://www.fiaf.org/events/fall2015/2015-11-17-cs-sexlife.shtml
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
and Friday is the start of BAM's annual fest of box-office turkeys, with Dune, 1941, Showgirls all in 35mm
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/turkeys-for-thanksgiving
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/chung-mong-hong
anybody know anything about this guy?? this stuff sounds RIGHT UP MY ALLEY i wish it were playing during a weekend
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 01:01 (eight years ago) link
quit yr job
i'd never heard of him of course
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
Halfway to my commemorative Out 1 pin; 3 & 4 were a lot more enjoyable than 1 & 2.
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 05:50 (eight years ago) link
:o
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
btw i have 2 tix for full Welles/Shakespeare at MoMA tomw, 6:30
catch is u hafta go with me
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 23:36 (eight years ago) link
full as in 'sold out'
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
would be into it if i didn't have a date already. enjoy!
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2015 05:03 (eight years ago) link
ticket still available, last call
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Aargh
― (Don't Go Blecch To) Reddville (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
well i will just gift some soul in the standby line
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
There...is a...chance that...James Redd...might come.
― (Don't Go Blecch To) Reddville (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
when wd he know?he'd have to look for irish-amer falstaff at the film desk at 6:15
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
I believe he may not know until the last minute but has another way to get a ticket in any event, but thanks anyway
― (Don't Go Blecch To) Reddville (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
Maddin's Forbidden Room at MoMA tonight, if you haven't seen it
must get to a couple at the Cy Endfield retro:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/44983
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
new Late Spring digital edition at 6:45 at MoMA, now serves as a Setsuko Hara memorial.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
i caught the desplechin, gave up on rivette after missing the one and the two
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Theory (benbbag), Thursday, 26 November 2015 06:26 (eight years ago) link
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 25, 2015 3:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's so appropriate--for a woman whose privacy was almost inviolable for 50+ years-- that we learn of her death nearly three months after it occurs.
i've read in a few places (and heard from a few folks) that hara never really enjoyed acting, and that the choice to leave the profession was not difficult. which provides a slightly sad cast to her many performances (many of which are already quite melancholy).
not enough people mention her performance in naruse's 'sound of the mountain,' which is quite different--more animated, more overtly expressive--than her performances in many ozu films, in which her mix of warmth and impenetrability (sp?) is sort of the point.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 07:03 (eight years ago) link
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES, PART 2: BIKERS, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45142
Aiming for Gas-s-s and Machine-Gun Kelly.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 December 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
last night to see the v good dramedy Christmas, Again at MoMA. Filmmaker operated an actual tree mart in Greenpoint (for 3 years!) to write the script. (also streaming i think)
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
and for you planners, two 70mm screenings of The Wild Bunch right after Christmas
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2015/12/27/detail/the-wild-bunch-in-70mm
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
^alas there is no presentable 70mm print of TWB, but they ARE showing it in 35 on Sat/Sun
and Sirk at FSLC begins today
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link
coming in a month, Jane Birkin/Charlotte Gainsbourg tribute at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-society-to-celebrate-jane-birkin-and-charlotte-gainsbourg/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 January 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
la piscine is really good
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 2 January 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
Spectacle is showing the '89 version of Hard to Be a God
http://www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spectacle-2015/#god
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
inneresting.
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
Keith Baxter, who plays the wily Prince Hal in Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight, will introduce the 7:30 screening on Wednesday at Film Forum.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 January 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Someone please go see Benjamin Naishtat's El Movimento tonight at Film Society of Lincoln Center, so that you can tell me if it's good. His History of Violence was very promising.
http://www.screenslate.com/whats-showing-today/thursday-january-7-el-movimiento-at-film-society-of-lincoln-center
The Goldbug Variations is pretty fun as well.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link
Also, in that series, The Club is very very good, and I really want to hear if Ixcanul is good!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
can't do tonight. figure Larrain and Ripstein will be playing soon.
http://remezcla.com/lists/12-latin-american-movies-can-see-nyc-played-worlds-illustrious-film-festivals/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
seeing The Treasure on Saturday and it's fairly ILX unsearchable... anybody seen it already?
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Yup. I'm a huge fan of Porumbiu and I really liked it. Funny, droll, beautiful, one if the best endings of the year. I also love thinking about it, it's subtly smart.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
cool! i'm gonna try to double feature that with (of all things) the theatrical re-release of studio ghibli's "Only Yesterday"
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
i'm happy that movie finally came over. saw a fansub VHS in my teens, was charmed.
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
it's a US debut, yes
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link
Pinkerton on First Look at MOMI
http://artforum.com/film/id=57243
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 January 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
so they're showing Serge's Jane movie on Jan 30 in the FSLC retro, and this caught my eye:
Q&A WITH JANE BIRKIN AND JOE DALLESANDRO
http://www.filmlinc.org/films/je-taime-moi-non-plus/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and The Man Who Fell to Earth will screen at the Walter Reade Theater tomorrow at 6:30pm and 9:00pm, respectively.
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-society-to-present-free-david-bowie-films-and-jonas-mekas-talk/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 January 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
and TV this weekend at the Paley Center
http://www.paleycenter.org/david-bowie-sound-vision
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 January 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
nyc: manoel de oliveira's 'frustrated love' tetralogy plays at the end of feb at lincoln center:
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/manoel-de-oliveiras-rare-tetralogy-of-frustrated-love-this-february/
caught 'doomed love' on a fairly beat-up 16mm print last night in LA, would like to see the rest of these somehow
― donna rouge, Monday, 18 January 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
that's a pretty awesome series title
i saw Doomed Love about 5 years ago, which means of course i remember nothing.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 January 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
j. rosenbaum's review from 1981: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1981/06/the-masterpiece-you-missed-doomed-love/
it's got a very funny scene set in a convent. i really only got restless in the half-hour before the intermission due to hunger (i smuggled in a burrito)
― donna rouge, Monday, 18 January 2016 03:15 (eight years ago) link
Joe, please come and comment on Preston Sturges: The PurPOLL one, with the pluuuuuuuuuuuumes at the hips.
― Blackstar Linus Must Comp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 January 2016 03:20 (eight years ago) link
at FIAF, Brody introduces a film i've never gotten past the first 20 mins of
http://www.fiaf.org/events/winter2016/2016-01-19-cs-maman.shtml
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
Seen it a few times. Fascinated or bored upon alternate viewings.
― Blecchstar Linus Must Comp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Film Comment Selects begins Feb 17: the T Davies, Akerman's Golden Eighties, Jacquot, Bellocchio, spotlight on Andrzej Żuławski etc
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/lineup-announced-for-16th-edition-of-film-comment-selects/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
Akerman's Tomorrow We Move tonight at Reade, the doc about her before it
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/tomorrow-we-move/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
New rep house at Canal and Ludlow opens next month:
Metrograph, New York City's new two-screen indie movie house, has announced its first season of programming, and it can only be described as cinephile heaven. The theater, which is officially opening at 7 Ludlow Street (at Canal Street) on Friday, February 19, will be hosting several must-see retrospectives and special programs throughout March and April, some of which enticingly include Fassbinder's top 10 films all projected on 35mm.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/new-york-new-indie-movie-theater-unveils-stellar-first-season-of-programming-metrograph-20160120
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
niiiiiice
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
and on the other side of the ledger, RIP Ziegfeld
https://www.thewrap.com/ziegfeld-theatre-to-close-within-weeks/
(other news orgs seem to have been fooled into suggesting that the old legit/vaudeville theater of the same name was in this building, which opened in '69)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 January 2016 06:19 (eight years ago) link
Self Styled Siren: "Real estate killed the Ziegfeld's audience." Amen amen amen.
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.de/2016/01/in-memoriam-ziegfeld-theater-1969-2016.html
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 January 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
man holy shit at the metro prgmming
― bloat laureate (schlump), Friday, 22 January 2016 02:32 (eight years ago) link
the Eustaches have arrived
https://twitter.com/MetrographNYC/status/689933459268222976
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 January 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
Film Forum is open today. Showing Fargo, of course.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Ziegfield article otm
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 January 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
Damn I'll be in France of all places when the Eustache retrospective is going on. I shouldn't complain but I am a big fan so ... dommage.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 January 2016 06:16 (eight years ago) link
based on the first 20 minutes of Mother and the Whore, i'd rather be in France.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 January 2016 07:02 (eight years ago) link
Wish you'd get past your boredom/indifference, Morbs, and watch the thing. It's his best and the praise is well deserved.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 January 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
someday
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
a last visit to the Ziegfeld
The first movie to play in this theater, back in 1969, was Marooned, a space-age thriller....
We hear Thursday may be the last day.
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-ziegfeld.html
My dad most definitely took me to see Marooned in Manhattan in '69, so I have to think it was here.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
Anthology does AIP part 3
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45275
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
new weeraseethakul, opening in early marchhttp://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-new-us-trailer-apichatpong-weerasethakuls-cemetery-of-splendour-20160127
― ulysses, Thursday, 28 January 2016 05:04 (eight years ago) link
http://nypost.com/2016/01/28/the-ziegfeld-theatre-will-close-tonight/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
RIP
― We Built This City On Rick Roll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 January 2016 06:21 (eight years ago) link
on the current Friends with Benefits group retro at FSLC (i saw Fort Buchanan last night, it's funny and French alright)
http://brooklynrail.org/2016/02/film/boys-to-men-friends-with-benefits-at-film-society-of-lincoln-center
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 February 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
nyc snob adjacent - yale is counterprogramming the sb by showing last yr @ marienbad in 35 mmhttp://its.yale.edu/sites/default/files/imce/Marienbad_2.pdf
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 7 February 2016 15:32 (eight years ago) link
no schedule yet, but MoMA does Jerry Lewis's 90th, March 1-15
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1621?locale=en
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 February 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
JL sked up now.
Starting today, Argentinian postwar noir! Richard Wright in Native Son (1951) included.
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1616?locale=en
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
Pinkerton on the A-noir
http://artforum.com/film/id=58064
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 February 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link
LA: cinefamily's getting its own version of the indie '80s series
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/underground-usa-indie-cinema-of-the-80s/
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
http://www.fiaf.org/events/winter2016/2016-03-cinesalon.shtml
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 03:28 (eight years ago) link
And while I'm here - let me point out the silliness of including the O in your "MOMI" (it was AMMI, but I guess is Un-American now?) but not "FSLC" (I go with the filmlinc webmanteau, which is at least pronounceable). Even MoMA drops the case, mami.
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 03:30 (eight years ago) link
p horrendous program cept for V Suicides
also, eat shit
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 03:31 (eight years ago) link
I really liked Girlhood, have a lot of time for Drive (soz Morbs). Eden was my cinematic disappointment of 2015.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
Also good job on not screening Oblivion. Points off for no Electroma.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
Curious what you would think of Love at First Fight. It has some good imagery of landscape and weather.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 12:53 (eight years ago) link
FC Selects underway tonight, with Zulawski spotlight now an in memoriam (the long scifi thing scares me)
http://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/film-comment-selects/#films
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
i saw 'on the silver globe' - my brain just shut down sometime around the second hour
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
the NY library has it, so that's my out
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
witches at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/witches-brew
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
nice. they end with the best one, too.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
i have strangely never seen Bell, Book and Candle except for a few minutes on broadcast TV
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
it's a good movie, but i was referring to Day of Wrath!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:50 (eight years ago) link
i have seen it
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
"bell, book, and candle" is a great title btw. almost a better title than a film.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
full ND/NF sked out
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/complete-lineup-announced-for-45th-new-directors-new-films/
silent witches w/ piano tnite
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/haxan
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 February 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
The Mask of Satan/Black Sunday/whatever it's called was really good
― 龜, Thursday, 18 February 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
From ND/NF there is one film that has been a triumph throughout Europe, and which is a must-see or whatever, and that is Lost and Beautiful. It was at Locarno, at CPH:DOX everyone agreed it was by far best in comp - except the judges who gave the two awards to two rubbish American indie-crap - and then it won best debut at Gothenburg. Really, it's a great debut!
Behemoth is pretty cool as well. Film geeks should check out 5+ hour japanese film Happy Hour. It has some pretty unique sequences, but it wasn't quite the great film I'd hoped it would be.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 18 February 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
there's this diagnosable guy who goes to every rep theater in NY who desperately tries to engage total starngers, alone or in groups, in conversation, and i am going to physically attack him very soon. Recognize him by his plastic knapsack, and tendency to ask if you're reading the Times "HOW"S THE GREY LADY TONIGHT?"
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 February 2016 03:56 (eight years ago) link
If it is the same guy I am thinking of, I believe someone I know sort of befriended him and told me his real name once. I remember his catchphrase as being "How did you like the MOVIE?" or "What did you think of the MOVIE?" He would sort of linger or lurk right outside the theater lobby and then kind of run up to somebody of his choosing on the way out to pose his exit interview question.
― Thank You For Cosmic Jive Talkin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 February 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
tonight he was muttering (after 1922's Haxan) "1903, year of the Red Line."
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 February 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
It's not the 30-(40-?)something krishna-ish dude, is it?
""HOW"S THE GREY LADY TONIGHT?""
now i know my opening line with morbs.
"i am going to physically attack him very soon."
you might want to work on that issue.
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Friday, 19 February 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
yeah, not serious, you troglodyte
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 February 2016 04:33 (eight years ago) link
I also think I have run into this guy
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 February 2016 06:54 (eight years ago) link
Btw I meant to post about how much I hated mustang, just seemed unjustifiably exploitative and manipulative and utterly disregarding of characterization or depth. Kind of offensive portrayal of some very disturbing issues imo
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 February 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
forks you ... just posted abt it
― bloat laureate (schlump), Friday, 19 February 2016 07:02 (eight years ago) link
well I meant to
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 February 2016 07:04 (eight years ago) link
TRY THE WINE
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Saturday, 20 February 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link
more events at the new LES rep theater (a couple too effing cute for my taste)
http://www.indiewire.com/article/new-yorks-new-indie-movie-theater-is-teaming-up-with-the-criterion-collection-20160219
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 February 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
hoping to squeeze in Chris Marker's film on Kurosawa at FF between work and Akerman's Golden Eighties tonight.
Rosenbaum on John Gianvito's 4-1/2-hour Wake (Subic) screening at MoMA this Saturday (I be there):
http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/an-epic-of-understanding-john-gianvitos-wake-subic/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:46 (eight years ago) link
http://asiasociety.org/new-york/ghosts-samurai-and-war-series-classic-japanese-film
― 龜, Friday, 26 February 2016 12:11 (eight years ago) link
otm, also noah bibimbap should be put down
― bloat laureate (schlump), Saturday, 27 February 2016 02:52 (eight years ago) link
Jerryfest begins today; intrigued to see the turnout
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1621
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
Arabian Nights in its 6+ hour entirety at MOMI
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2016/03/05/detail/arabian-nights
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
in the Metrograph opening weekend fare, a cult indie rarity of 1970
http://metrograph.com/film/film/41/the-projectionist
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 March 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
http://filmforum.org/series/it-girls-flappers-jazz-babies-vamps-series
So much fun stuff here. Will personally vouch for MADAME SATAN, CALL HER SAVAGE and BABY FACE.
― Nhex, Saturday, 5 March 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
on BAM's Migrating Forms series
http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/04/at-bams-migrating-forms-film-festival-internet-obsessed-millennials-and-war-torn-countries-collide/
http://artforum.com/film/id=58558
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
Akerman retro at BAM in April
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/chantal-akerman
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
Eustache retro at Metrograph begins today
http://metrograph.com/series/series/8/jean-eustache
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
and obviously, this
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/a-brighter-summer-day
(dcp ahead of the blu, but anyway)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 March 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
i'm seeing that today at 2
― 龜, Saturday, 12 March 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link
lincoln center's pre-stonewall queer cinema retro looks outstanding
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/queer-cinema-stonewall-lineup-announced/
― donna rouge, Monday, 14 March 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
here in LA we're getting a city-wide chantal akerman retro
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/underground-usa-focus-on-ucla/#chantal-akerman-contre-loubliagainst-oblivion
― donna rouge, Monday, 14 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
has anyone actually been to metrograph yet?
http://metrograph.com/series/series/6/welcome-to-metrographa-to-z
― 龜, Monday, 14 March 2016 23:16 (eight years ago) link
nope, i've had other repertory priorities.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 11:20 (eight years ago) link
ND/NF roundup by Slant (no way, Weiner)
http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/new-directors-new-films-2016
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
film comment podcast on ndnf is really interesting. some gd taubin trash talk.
― bloat laureate (schlump), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 06:04 (eight years ago) link
BAM's Evergreen Review retro: Godard, Warhol, Robbe-Grillet etc
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/from-the-third-eye
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 March 2016 11:53 (eight years ago) link
I learned one main thing from that podcast, and that is that I can't stand Taubin. The talk about whether the travelogue was 'a film' was amazingly awful.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 17 March 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
not sure where else to put this, but... powerful stuff: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/03/22/our-daily-barbarisms-leo-hurwitzs-strange-victory-1948/
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
Saw Strange Victory on Sunday in Brooklyn. Fine liberal, integrationist propaganda, drew a good crowd. Also impossible not to be depressed about in the current historical moment.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
that's the key note bordwell strikes, and it's a sad one.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
anyone gonna try Happy Hour? I generally prefer at-home options now for single-sit 5-hour films.
http://filmmakermagazine.com/97860-happy-hour-the-best-317-minutes-of-new-directorsnew-films-2016/#.VvWageIrJhE
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1903?locale=en
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 March 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
It's worth seeing. The review mentions Rivette, and yeah, there's a couple of that kind of sequences, and they're great (and by far the greatest thing in it).
― Frederik B, Friday, 25 March 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
ok i am skittish...
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 March 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
i wonder how the Peckinpah retro will do up against Akerman.
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/bring-me-the-head-of-sam-peckinpah/#films
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/bloodied-and-out-of-time-sam-peckinpah-fights-on-at-lincoln-center-8450451
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
going to be out of town for most of next week so i'm missing much of the akerman retro here (including the musical, which i think i'm most bummed about)
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah keep an eye out for that in future
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
the WFMU doc runs for 9 days (or more?) at IFC; appearances by radio stars, and a must for fans.
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/sex-broadcasting/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
was gonna go see the new Malick at MOMI tonight, but it seems to be my only open date to see this Helen Twelvetrees pre-Code thing:
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1620?locale=en
A week from Sunday, Jerry Lewis appears at MoMA after a screening of what will likely be his last starring vehicle.
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1991?locale=en
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 April 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
i'm catching comrades almost a love story at metrograph on sunday
― 龜, Friday, 1 April 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
might try that but it'd have to be the early one
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
Belated RIP to MoMA's Charles Silver: http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/in-memoriam-charles-silver/
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
^I must've seen him do at least 3-4 intros last year.
Straub/Huillet series coming in May
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1641?locale=en
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
metrograph is a nice theater but how do they make money
― 龜, Thursday, 7 April 2016 02:50 (seven years ago) link
just opened, maybe they're not.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
My totally unsupported assumption is that they are a passion project.
IFCis trying to add six more screens.
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 April 2016 04:55 (seven years ago) link
Metrograph sells liquor and has a restaurant eh? I wonder if the movies are the loss leader
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 April 2016 04:59 (seven years ago) link
it's even harder to make money on restaurants than movies
― 龜, Thursday, 7 April 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
Starting Friday, the Japan Society in New York presents Japan Sings! The Japanese Musical Film, ten films, all on 35mm. OK, who has seen any of these besides Miike's?
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-japan-sings
http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-sings-the-japanese-musical-film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gY8kNqh_nQ
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
(and the Oshima is on the Eclipse '60s set)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
my comment about metrograph was also related to the fact that they showed like 100 movies in 3 days for opening, and they were all shown at weird times like only showing at 1 PM on a friday
― 龜, Thursday, 7 April 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
I am gonna try to see some of those japanese musicals fer sure
I have no idea how metrograph is gonna make it but i hope they do!
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 April 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
i'm kinda mystified why people i can seldom drag to other rep houses have already been to Metrograph.
MOMI has a 9-film Sidney Poitier retro (avoids some of his popular hits, has Buck and the Preacher and the two hit comedies with Cosby)
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/04/09/detail/sidney-poitier-retrospective/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
wow morbz @ me next time
― 龜, Friday, 8 April 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link
heh i didnt mean you, i didnt even see that post...
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link
;)
i go wherever the sinosphere films are showing
― 龜, Friday, 8 April 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
wide-ranging Maysles series at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/the-maysles-co.-series#now-playing
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 April 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
syndicate BK is doing a coen brothers trivia night but unfortunately their twitter account has been spelling 'coen' wrong all night and nobody's had the heart to correct them. they also have less than 100 followers
http://i.imgur.com/pmr4Xel.png
https://twitter.com/syndicatedbk
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
haaa.
has anyone been there yet? it's a hop and skip from my place but just haven't gotten around to it. was gonna go the other night for no country actually but my night got all crowded up. the cheapo tickets are very appealing but i have no idea what kinda room/screen it actually is.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 04:42 (seven years ago) link
sounds like a bar that shows Blu-rays of 'comfort movies' to 30yo's
otoh this is the snob thread
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
Soviet-era synthesizer documentary Elektro Moskva is screening at the Spectacle Theater on Friday.https://www.facebook.com/events/1782741198620295/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
ha i'm pretty unqualified to be a snob tbh - much of the stuff in the calendar at Syndicated is famous "everyone's seen it" movies that I never saw.
if i see only one Maysles joint, what should it be?
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
v hard to say, and i haven't seen all that much. Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens are p easy to get hold of. Salesman to start maybe.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 April 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Pinkerton on the suppressed Yugoslav film Plastic Jesus, running for a week at MoMA:
http://artforum.com/film/id=59490
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1635?locale=en
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 April 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
apparently i get a second shot at 'golden eighties' because the first print they ran didn't have english subtitles on it, mdr mdr
― donna rouge, Friday, 15 April 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
Evening for Tony Conrad at MoMA tnite
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1950?locale=en
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
If we help you, Doctor Casino, you have to start the film equivalent of In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time.
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
idk i'd feel obligated to have the length of my devastating hot-take posts scale up to match the difference between your basic four-minute blues rock deal and your basic 90-140-minute feature film. could crash the server.
meanwhile i'm actually in knoxville for a while dealing with family stuff. but they have amazon prime and the evenings stretch long so there's some watching. unfortunately all i have watched straight through is lol 'noah' but i have been trying to keep at 'thief of baghdad' and i started 'the blue angel' the other night but i kinda wasn't in the zone for it.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
slept on this at Anthology, but hey no time
ENTANGLED FORMS: AFRICAN AND FRENCH FILM IN CONVERSATIONApril 15 – April 22
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45582
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
Zsigmond mini-retro at MOMI
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/04/22/detail/see-it-big-vilmos-zsigmond-2/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
probably not everything snobworthy but here's the SummerStage line-up of free film programming:
Film at SummerStage 2016: DJ Hard Hittin’ Harry / Film Screening: AfripediaJune 13 – Monday - 7:00pm – Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOWFilm Screening: In My Father’s House – Q&A with Che “Rhymefest” SmithJune 20 – Monday - 7:00pm - Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOWDJ Gringo – Film Screening: Queen Nanny – Legendary Maroon ChieftainessJune 26 – Sunday - 7:00pm - Betsy Head Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOWFelix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue – Film Screening: 20 Feet From StardomJune 27 – Monday - 7:00pm – Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOWLisa Simone – Film Screening: What Happened, Miss Simone?June 28 – Tuesday - 7:00pm - Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOWJeremy McQueen’s The Black Iris Project – Film Screening: A Ballerina’s TalePre-Show Panel DiscussionJune 29 – Wednesday - 7:00pm - Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOWFelix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue – Film Screening: We Like It Like ThatJuly 15 – Friday – 7:00pm – St. Mary’s Park, Bronx – FREE SHOWDJ Djib Sayo – Film Screening: Kirikou and The Wild Beasts and Orisha’s JourneyAugust 3 – Wednesday – 7:00pm – Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island – FREE SHOW
DJ Hard Hittin’ Harry / Film Screening: AfripediaJune 13 – Monday - 7:00pm – Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW
Film Screening: In My Father’s House – Q&A with Che “Rhymefest” SmithJune 20 – Monday - 7:00pm - Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW
DJ Gringo – Film Screening: Queen Nanny – Legendary Maroon ChieftainessJune 26 – Sunday - 7:00pm - Betsy Head Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW
Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue – Film Screening: 20 Feet From StardomJune 27 – Monday - 7:00pm – Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW
Lisa Simone – Film Screening: What Happened, Miss Simone?June 28 – Tuesday - 7:00pm - Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW
Jeremy McQueen’s The Black Iris Project – Film Screening: A Ballerina’s TalePre-Show Panel DiscussionJune 29 – Wednesday - 7:00pm - Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue – Film Screening: We Like It Like ThatJuly 15 – Friday – 7:00pm – St. Mary’s Park, Bronx – FREE SHOW
DJ Djib Sayo – Film Screening: Kirikou and The Wild Beasts and Orisha’s JourneyAugust 3 – Wednesday – 7:00pm – Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island – FREE SHOW
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 02:14 (seven years ago) link
2 weekends from now, in 35mm
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/under-the-cherry-moon/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 April 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
into it
― ulysses, Friday, 22 April 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
We should all go together and shout out "WRECKA STOW" in unison at the appropriate moment.
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 April 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
im super stoked for this http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1644?locale=en
― 龜, Saturday, 23 April 2016 02:16 (seven years ago) link
last week for this at FF; might try Sunday matinee
http://filmforum.org/film/king-hus-a-touch-of-zen-film-page
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
beavers/markopoulos/chomont at lincoln center tonight - only seen the chomont but his films are beautiful and should be screened a lot more imho
http://www.filmlinc.org/films/oblivion-winged-dialogue/
― donna rouge, Friday, 29 April 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
it was a tough choice but i am opting for Akerman's La Captive at BAM
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 April 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
also a fine choice!
'golden eighties' was terrific btw
― donna rouge, Friday, 29 April 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
in case you missed it:
The Film Society of Lincoln Center‘s announced that Nicolas Rapold is new editor of Film Comment, following the departure of Gavin Smith. And Michael Koresky will take on a newly created position, editorial director of the FSLC. He’ll “oversee planning, strategy, and development of all editorial content for the organization as well as for Film Comment and its platforms.” Rapold‘s posted word that he, FC managing editor Laura Kern and digital editor Violet Lucca are “already hard at work on expanding and deepening our coverage, maintaining the high standards of film criticism which you’ve come to expect over the past 50-plus years, and developing new ways of sharing the fruits of our labors with you.”
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-society-film-comment-michael-koresky-nicolas-rapold/
http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/note-new-editor/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
cool, two more white guys
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
well, I don't know that FSLC can be called a culprit in that field, as their exec director is a woman, and Dennis Lim is director of programming.
http://www.filmlinc.org/about-us/our-staff-and-board/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
koresky is a good guy and a good choice
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
complete T Davies retro
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/05/07/detail/terence-davies/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 May 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
sked now up for Mark Lee Ping-Bing retro at MoMA incl his appearances
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
MOMI retro of Hong Sang-soo coming in June
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/06/03/detail/tales-of-cinema-the-films-of-hong-sang-soo/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 May 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
ooh! i dunno any of those
― 龜, Friday, 13 May 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
I've been jumping on his stuff fairly regularly since Woman Is the Future of Man, but there are several i've missed.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 May 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
More currently, I don't seem to have mentioned the Universal 1928-1937 series at MoMA, including the restored James Whale sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front:
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1642?locale=en
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 May 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Quick ranking of the seven I've seen. I enjoy his less structuralist tales the most, It's all about the long takes and the beautiful digital images. And the soju!
1) Woman on the Beach2) Our Sunhi3) Nobody's Daughter Haewon4) Tale of Cinema5) HaHaHa6) Hill of Freedom7) In Another Country
― Frederik B, Friday, 13 May 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
Anna Magnani retro at FSLC begins Wednesday
https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/celluloid-retrospective-films-anna-magnani/
http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/la-lupa-a-celebration-of-anna-magnani
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
i lol'd
https://twitter.com/NickPinkerton/status/732005471712903169
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
http://filmforum.org/events/event/putney-swope-with-robert-downey-in-person-eventMay 20 at Film Forum - Downey Sr. introducing Putney Swope! Can't imagine that won't be fun.
― ulysses, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/2120?locale=en
Was anybody able to get tix? Lol
― 龜, Friday, 20 May 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
didn't even hear about that
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 May 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
highly recommend people catch kaili blues if they can
― 龜, Sunday, 22 May 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
I watched In Another Country the day before Christmas Eve in 2012 and three members of the seven-person audience walked out at the twenty-minute mark (I liked it).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 May 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
over the weekend, saw Sembene's Black Girl at BAM (first time on the screen) and Dovzhenko's Earth at PACE with DakhaBrakha providing the music (stunning)
― ulysses, Monday, 23 May 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
oh this
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/05/27/detail/mad-max-weekend/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
hard boiled tonight and i can't believe it hasn't sold out yet
― 龜, Friday, 27 May 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
I tried to rewatch that at home maybe 2 years ago -- after loving it in the '90s -- and couldn't get past 30 minutes.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 May 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
You going to see The Fallen Idol tonight?
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
That's so easy to see, and I heard the actor who played Phile on L Lopate yesterday.
Two Edw L Cahn Universals at MoMA -- one with Pat O'Brien as a wife killer!
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 May 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
NYAFF lineup announced http://www.subwaycinema.com/
― 龜, Thursday, 2 June 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
I don't know how to begin to pick through that lineup.
Genre films directed by women at Film Forum... that means no friggin' Nora Ephron!
http://filmforum.org/series/genre-is-a-woman-series
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
yeah, that lineup looks good to me
― ulysses, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
what i meant is i literally don't know any of those NYAFF filmmakers
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
sorry, i meant the film forum lineup looked good.
― ulysses, Thursday, 2 June 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
ah ha
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
Kiyoshi Kurosawa seems the biggest must-see, though I don't think he's been that great since Tokyo Sonata. Journey to the Shore was a pretty big disappointment for me. I'll definitely go see it when I can, though.
― Frederik B, Friday, 3 June 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
Keyframe with a film-by-film roundup of the Hong retro, which starts tonight
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-tales-of-cinema-the-films-of-hong-sang-soo
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 June 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Thom Andersen series + his new one at Anyhology
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45881
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 June 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
Vaguely famous French author John-Luke Goddard's About the Soufflé going to get rained on in Central Park tonight?
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 11:33 (seven years ago) link
^bye
Taubin on Human Rights Watch Fest
http://www.artforum.com/film/id=60509
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 June 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
If anybody wants to see the late showing of this tomorrow I will get your tickethttp://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-wailing/
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 19 June 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
BTW, "Weiner" is devastating; poor Huma, poor Anthony, poor all of us.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 19 June 2016 05:36 (seven years ago) link
taking care of your July
Warren Oates
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/warren-oates-hired-hand/#films
Leo McCarey (with lots of his early comedy shorts!)
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1657?locale=en
US politics, scripted and less so
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/four-more-years-an-election-special
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
here's Keyframe's rundown on the NYAFF
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-new-york-asian-film-festival-2016
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
assorted comedians introduce my fave Scorsese film, including Gilbert Gottfried on Friday:
http://filmforum.org/film/the-king-of-comedy-film
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
and David Bordwell will be at MOMI this weekend to show some '40s Hollywood classics related to his new book.
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/06/24/detail/david-bordwell-how-1940s-critics-changed-american-film-culture/
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
Metrograph doing a holiday weekend run of Stephen Chow films
http://metrograph.com/series/series/25/stephen-chow
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
Japan Society's Japan Cuts film festival in July:http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-cuts-2016
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
Theo Angelopoulos @ MOMI
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/07/08/detail/eternity-and-history-the-cinema-of-theo-angelopoulos/
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
Will Harvey the K be there?
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
does he even live in NY? and did he just do one with him?
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Thought he lived in the same fancy TriBeCa residence as the Brother McMullen and his model wife.
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
i am not up on the residences.
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
coming up: Gena Rowlands doing some appearances at Metrograph for Cassavetes films
http://metrograph.com/series/series/27/cassavetesrowlands
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 July 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
in addition to the BAM series of political movies, this doc/moc one at MOMI:
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/07/16/detail/on-the-campaign-trail-documentaries-and-mockumentaries-2/
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
on the McCarey retro
http://artforum.com/film/id=62187
https://sistercelluloid.com/2016/07/14/leo-mccarey-seriously-funny/
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
that Charley Chase short Mighty Like a Moose is a winner btw!
opening night w/ jazz orch is standby tix only now
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
and at FF, Gabin-Ventura-Belmondo
http://filmforum.org/series/les-durs-series
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 July 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
Wha?!?
― Gabba Gabba Hey in the Hayloft (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 July 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
separately or together!
that's about 6 fests starting tomorrow
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 July 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Sicilian clan has two out of three. Had to think for a second of who spoiled the trifecta.
― Gabba Gabba Hey in the Hayloft (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 July 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
Also I believe it was Lino Ventura's birthday two days ago. Easy to remember, especially for me.
― Gabba Gabba Hey in the Hayloft (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 July 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Saw Le Doulos yesterday, enjoyed it, believe I'll be back for more in this series. Top picks (besides Breathless which I definitely want to catch)?
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 16 July 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
Gabin:Pepe Le MokoLe Jour Se LevePort of Shadows
Ventura:Army of ShadowsClasse Tous Risques
― Gabba Gabba Hey in the Hayloft (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 July 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
Grand IllusionPierrot le FouLes Bas FondsTouchez-Pas au Grisbi
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, those too
― Gabba Gabba Hey in the Hayloft (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link
Awesome, thanks, both of you. Just scribbled a bunch of showtimes in my planner. If I manage to get over there for half of those I'll be really pleased with myself.
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
many of the Melvilles/Renoirs u can watch at home
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 July 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
Oh for sure, I just, I dunno, I mean there's a century of people discussing the special experience of going to the movies and I don't need to relate that (to you especially!), but where I'm at in my life, I really appreciate being made a captive audience to the film. It's just sooooo easy to take a break at home, even when this almost always lowers my enjoyment of the movie in great or small ways. The dollars do add up, but I mean if it's eight bucks for a movie versus a beer with tip, movie remains a pretty good value.
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
obviously you should see what you can on 35mm (i don't think there are any DCPs in this series).
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 July 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
The trailer they ran for Classe Tous Risques made it seem like an overstuffed mess with a million characters and plot threads, but not necessarily in a bad way, and maybe it all hangs together much more tightly than that. Got me at least somewhat curious.
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
The plot may not be as complicated confusing as it may seem, since most of those elements occur in sequence and not in parallel. There a lots of great scenes and a relatively rare chance to see Ventura in a lead role- in which he gives an excellent performance - as opposed to a heavy.
― Gabba Gabba Hey in the Hayloft (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
on the BAM election series:
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-four-more-years-an-election-special
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
and coming in August, Joe Dante hits and picks
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/joe-dante-at-the-movies
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 July 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
midway thru "Mondo" shockudocs at Anthology
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45997
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Wonder if I should try to see On the Silver Globe this weekend.
― Zing Ad Hoc (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 July 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link
i saw the first 40 mins on DVD recently and had to stop. Massively annoying, almost presidential-convention level.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 July 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link
I hated that one they always show on Mubi, Infidelity, but recently finally saw Possession which I liked.
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 July 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, Fidelity
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 July 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link
I sat thru all of On the Silver Globe in the theater, p sure my brain just shut off entirely halfway thru it (I don't really mean this in any sort of complimentary way)
― donna rouge, Saturday, 30 July 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
How does it compare with Hard To Be A God
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
Okay may try tomorrow, perhaps I will hate as much as you two. Meanwhile, MoMA has at 5PM both Love Affair and Le Plaisir. Can't decide.
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
I guess I liked On The Silver Globe more than you guys.
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 July 2016 05:45 (seven years ago) link
So between stomach illness and going to the beach I had to curtail my ambitious "Les Durs" screening schedule, but I wanted to thank James Redd and Morbius again for the recommendations - ended up catching Port of Shadows and Classe Tous Risques, and enjoying both! Will try and catch Breathless in their upcoming two-for-the-price-of-one series...
― we're gonna live in spatula city (Doctor Casino), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Metrograph goes disco:
http://metrograph.com/series/series/31/dim-all-the-lights-disco-and-the-movies
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
Gaumont retro underway at MoMA
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1658?locale=en
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
http://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2016/daily/nyff-revivals-jacques-rivette-robert-bresson-kenji-mizoguchi/
― 龜, Thursday, 4 August 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
free screening of Cronenberg's The Fly at SVA next Monday night
http://svatheatre.com/events/the-fly-free-30th-anniversary-screening/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 August 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
Pinkerton on Anthology's José Luis Guerín series:
http://artforum.com/film/id=63110
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46147
I would not have guessed that the make of In the City of Sylvia made a feature doc about The Quiet Man's shooting location.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
Robert Frank's Candy Mountain at BAM tonight
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/candy-mountain/Film?oid=1054643
http://www.bam.org/film/2016/candy-mountain
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
MOMI on FB:
The 70mm print of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is 20 reels and weighs over 500 pounds! And it screens this weekend only.
I hear you can feel every pound dropping on your head.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 September 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Charles Burnett at FSLC for Q&As:
http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-glass-shield/
http://www.filmlinc.org/films/to-sleep-with-anger/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 September 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
Aldrich retro at Metrograph, appears to be all-35mm. Unless you own Ulzana's Raid as i do, i commend it unto you.
http://metrograph.com/series/series/38/the-associates-and-aldrich
Any snobs going to Alexanderplatz at MoMA this weekend? You should see it in a theater once in a lifetime.
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/2721?locale=en
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
Can't go, unfortunately. Did it already in a past lifetime, fortunately.
― Sigue Sigue Kaputnik (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950 opens tomorrow at Anthology Film Archives and runs through September 28.
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46227
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/rare-classic-films-by-female-directors
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
Thursday the 29th, new batch of Vitaphone shorts at FF
http://filmforum.org/film/unseen-vitaphone-varieties-part-i-from-bowery-to-hollywood-vaudevilles-lega
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
retrospective of apichatpong w's short films coming soon to LA
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
i'm sorry, but we all missed FF's Marx Brothers costume contest. Apparently a child came as Zeppo.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
I was thinking about checking out one of the last couple days of their Marx Bros/vaudeville series, which seems to include a fair number of two-for-ones. I have never seen a single Marx Brothers film despite their being on countless lists of greatest comedies, etc. Have always had the vague sense that they were kind of goofy, but would love to discover that to my surprise I find them hilarious.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 September 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
tsk tsk Dr
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 September 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
I think I kind of have them mixed up with the Three Stooges, who have never much drawn me in. I mean, I'm given to understand they're very different, but in my brain they get mushed together - oh, looks like in this one they're house painters, who knows what hijinks may ensue? The titles don't help with this to be honest. Anyway - reckon I'll check something out, though I also want to see La Notte and/or Elevator to the Gallows, also ending this week. It's hard to get used to the NYC embarrassment of riches sometimes.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 September 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
damn dawgsee night at the opera and just take it in
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 05:17 (seven years ago) link
Ughhh this week has ended up such a mess for trying to go to anything. Maybe tomorrow!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Vitaphone shorts tonight at 6:10, i'll be there
Duck Soup follows at 10 (i won't be there)
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
damn - was thinking i'd do La Notte at 7:10 and then, if I still have cinema stamina, Duck Soup at 10.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
that would be a weird sequence... Jeanne Moreau wandering the mean streets, coming upon Edgar Kennedy's lemonade stand.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
Russian/Georgian auteur Marlen Khutsiev at MoMA (and Harvard)
http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3603?locale=en
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-marlen-khutsiev
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
i spontaneously went to Robert Beavers' From the Notebooks of... today and enjoyed it.
alas the Henry Hathaway Fourteen Hours was cancelled!
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Is it called that because that is how long Hathaway argued with Dennis Hopper?
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
not that film
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
Of course.
Saw a few minutes of 2001 out of the corner of my eye this evening and was thinking maybe we should do a Leonard Rossiter poll.
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
AFI fest sched is up - seeing as there's a good chance i still will not have a job when this gets rolling, i may go a little wild...
http://afifest.afi.com/2016/sections
― donna rouge, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
maggie cheung retrospective at metrograph http://metrograph.com/series/series/46/maggie-cheung-center-stage
― 龜, Thursday, 27 October 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
http://www.chinaonscreen.org/
probably the worst designed website of all time but films showing in new york during november
― 龜, Monday, 31 October 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
i guess you can just go to the asia society's web page
― 龜, Monday, 31 October 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
3-D JLG film is very good.
― TS: "A-11" vs. "Track 12" (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 November 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
Finally did Duck Soup btw - y'all were right, those dudes were hilarious! Hadn't laughed that hard at a movie in a long time. Kids near me were cracking up too.
Is it the original of the "person pretends to be someone else's mirror image" bit? Or is that old vaudeville stuff?
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 November 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
i imagine that's as old as mirrors tbhyou really really need to do night at the opera
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Sunday, 13 November 2016 06:46 (seven years ago) link
there is at least one silent film directed by McCarey that also has the same mirror bit.
ANatO is also essential, but has the 'fat' of the love interest for 'regular people' in the audience. ("What people?" asked Pauline Kael.) None of that shit in Duck Soup.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 November 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Will keep my eyes out for the next time it comes through one of the big screens - probably won't have to wait too long. Had such fun with Duck Soup as part of an audience, feel like I'd be losing out to just get it from the library.
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 November 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
That reminds me of seeing Duck Soup on the big screen in Boston many years ago. The audience was in hysterics.
― jmm, Sunday, 13 November 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
well under way: To Save and Project: The 14th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3614?locale=en
the Suzan Pitt animated program tonight has been postponed.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
saw some of those edison kinetophones at a conference earlier this yr, fascinating
posted about it on otherwise-moribund ILF but in case you're wondering, the new xavier dolan is merde
― donna rouge, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
i saw! XD has made the two OK films that were in him, i think.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
not sure i can make Tree of Wooden Clogs at MoMA this week, but obv the 4K is a prelude to the Criterion in February.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Verhoeven's rarely screened Turkish Delight ('73 sex comedy w/ Rutger Hauer) 6:30 tonight at Reade.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
holiday films at MOMI, from Die Hard to Fanny & Alexander to Eyes Wide Shut!
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/11/19/detail/see-it-big-holiday-films-2/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
Almodóvar retro underway
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3611?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
and Ruiz begins tom'w at FSLC
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/life-is-a-dream-the-films-of-raul-ruiz-part-1/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
Busby Berkeley at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/busby-berkeley-series
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
Frankie and Lola was overwrought, woman-as-object, "oh the impotence of men's rage" film noir with knockout performances by the leads but very little emotional payoff and a great deal of jerking around
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, 8 December 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
what is it?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
oh ok, a Michael Shannon-Imogen Poots film
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
very little emotional payoff and a great deal of jerking around
new board description
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
this is on saturday, NYCers - looks fascinating, i'd try to catch at least part of it
http://www.lightindustry.org/pittsburghpolice
― donna rouge, Friday, 9 December 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
Hardly snobbish but I might make Wizard of Oz at UPCA on Sunday my first trip up there since King Kong a couple years back. Never seen it on the big screen and it's such a cool venue.
― walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 December 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
Metrograph is still too damn expensive, still w/ no membership discounts, but the Maggie Cheung retro is underway.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
i caught 'centre stage' last night - it was okay, not a big stanley kwan fan
― 龜, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
the mifune documentary was... okay? it felt like supplemental material; interesting but not especially revealing.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/moonlight-director-barry-jenkinss-films-and-inspirations-coming-in-january/
― 龜, Monday, 12 December 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
MOMI is doing its year-end thing 12/30-1/8
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/12/30/detail/curators-choice-2/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Nick Pinkerton on the Scorsese exhibition in Queens
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=65283
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 December 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
Steadicam films at FSLC, inventor Garrett Brown in attendance
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/going-steadi-40-years-of-steadicam/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 December 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
Dino Risi retro at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3628?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 December 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
Jan 13-26, MoMA's latest fest of their collection's silent comedy shorts. Opening night: Chaplin imitators!
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3630?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
great lineup!
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
including my favorite plus-sized trio, Ton o' Fun.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
complete almodovar retro in LA this month, planning to fill in some gaps ( seeing 'pepi luci bom...' on saturday)
― donna rouge, Friday, 6 January 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
good luck, the Almodovar retro here was filled up every damn show and i never tried to get in.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
ended up skipping PLB after all, may try to catch others tho. and yeah, most of the screenings have been selling out, but they're scheduling encores for some
― donna rouge, Monday, 9 January 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
Spielberg (5 in 35mm) curated by Molly Haskell at the Metrograph.... she will be introducing the great Empire of the Sun (her fave by S.S.) and signing her new book about him on Saturday.
http://metrograph.com/series/series/63/spielberg-by-haskell
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2017 05:40 (seven years ago) link
Pirandello 150 at FF -- will try to see Kaos and maybe Henry IV.
http://filmforum.org/series/pirandello-150-series
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/theres-revelation-in-film-forums-celebration-of-pirandello-9549940
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/16/a-masterly-movie-adaptation-of-short-stories-by-luigi-pirandello
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link
btw i particularly recommend the Sat afternoon "Past Hits" silent comedies at MoMA on Saturday at 1:30, for the astonishing "Mind the Baby" starring Pal the Dog. See descrip from past notes here:
http://www.cruelandunusualcomedy.com/2009/05/may-29-at-4pm-animals-and-children.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 January 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
a college near me is counterprogramming vs the super bowl w 'tree of wooden clogs'
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 January 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
French fest at FSLC in March includes Bonello's Nocturama
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/complete-lineup-announced-for-rendez-vous-with-french-cinema/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
Annual queer experimental fest now in Ridgewood, this weekend
https://mixnyc29.org/screenings
She Whose Blood is Clotting in My Underwear may be the ultimate German lesbian film title.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Everyone should go and see Nocturama.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link
The Quad Cinema reopens in April. Interview with owner Charles S. Cohen:
http://www.surfacemag.com/articles/architecture-developer-charles-s-cohens-growing-reel-estate/
― Josefa, Monday, 6 February 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
at the Japan Society:
https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/romantic-weekend-meiko-kaji
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 February 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
Friday at Metrograph, Harlan County USA plus a Q&A with filmmaker Barbara Kopple and a musical performance by Jack Morris, son of Appalachian singer David Morris.
http://metrograph.com/film/film/288/harlan-county-u-s-a
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
Morbs did you see Metrograph now offers packs of 10 or 20 tickets at a discount?
― 龜, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
no, i didn't!
that's too much
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
So, Toni Erdmann or Beat The Devil?
― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 February 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
both
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 February 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link
Okay, then Toni today and Truman tomorrow night.
― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 February 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
BtD ends Thurs i think
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 February 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
Five diff versions of Wuthering Heights at FSLC
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/heathcliff-its-me-adapting-wuthering-heights/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
New Directors/New Films schedule up (March 15-26)
http://www.newdirectors.org/##films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2017 19:31 (seven years ago) link
Canadian tax-shelter classics of the '70s and '80s at Anthology
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=66885
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46957
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
The Last Family is pretty good from that NDNF lineup.
― Frederik B, Friday, 24 February 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
I've only seen Class or 1984 and Atlantic City from that tax shelter list. Any of the others worth looking for?
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link
I have been advised to see Skip Tracer. I saw The Brood long ago, v disturbing; horror mavens also dig Black Christmas.
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is, as Pinkerton writes, "deeply icky."
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
Ticket to Heaven was well reviewed in the US in '81.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
The description of Taking Shelter sounds amazing:
Breaking out of their imaginary purgatory and into temporal space, a disagreeable crew of aliens invade Canada, subjecting everyday life to the rules of cinema as a strategy for colonial domination.Fragments of 434 Canadian feature films from 1970-89 are folded into this found-footage feature, many of them scandalously rare, and most of them products of the tax shelter era. The strong narrative line both stands on its own and unpacks its subject on two levels: the literal content of the films it repurposes, and the political/industrial context from which they emerged. Merging the innovations of found-footage pioneers like Bruce Conner and Arthur Lipsett with the anarchic pop omnivorousness of YouTube mashup culture, TAKING SHELTER is a groundbreaking experiment in freestanding collage cinema – no voiceover or titling, no non-diagetic commentary, just repurposed image and sound. It jolts the formative years of Canadian feature filmmaking into the present with all the trimmings of the Hollywood productions these films yearned to emulate – it’s funny, thrilling, and affecting.
Fragments of 434 Canadian feature films from 1970-89 are folded into this found-footage feature, many of them scandalously rare, and most of them products of the tax shelter era. The strong narrative line both stands on its own and unpacks its subject on two levels: the literal content of the films it repurposes, and the political/industrial context from which they emerged. Merging the innovations of found-footage pioneers like Bruce Conner and Arthur Lipsett with the anarchic pop omnivorousness of YouTube mashup culture, TAKING SHELTER is a groundbreaking experiment in freestanding collage cinema – no voiceover or titling, no non-diagetic commentary, just repurposed image and sound. It jolts the formative years of Canadian feature filmmaking into the present with all the trimmings of the Hollywood productions these films yearned to emulate – it’s funny, thrilling, and affecting.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:10 (seven years ago) link
MoMA retro for Mexican auteur Julio Bracho -- anyone familiar?
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3649?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 13:00 (seven years ago) link
Jean-Pierre Léaud retro at FSLC, Mar 29-April 6
https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/jean-pierre-leaud-career-retrospective-starts-march-29/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
https://www.filmlinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Masculin-feminin-800x450.jpg
Celebrities that you would go back in time to...
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
anyone seen The Human Surge?
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=66957
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
heh, i saw assayas introduce 'irma vep' on sunday and he called leaud 'really weird'
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
prior to that i saw OA introduce bo widerberg's 'adalen 31', which i recommend if it plays yr neck of the woods
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
I saw The Human Surge. Didn't get it at all, but it has one or two incredible moments, so I'm giving it another shot at CPH:DOX. Like, the incredible moments are REALLY amazing.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
hi dr!
ok FB, pushes me toward nyet.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
heya morbs! i still watch films, sometimes ;)
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
quite a turnabout for the Quad
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/quad-cinema-reopen-new-york-1202001955/
also “We considered dine-in for about a minute, but to me, a first class moviegoing experience is not one where the person next to you is eating a steak.” STANDS AND APPLAUDS
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
bucking the trend there
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
full meals at these Drafthouse-type atrocities is the NYC equiv of this:
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-cinepolis-junior-20170302-story.html?123
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
omg that is a living nightmare but i guess if you advertised the screenings with a warning in giant red letters it's like fine whatever
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
eating is one thing; that is a disaster on wheels
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
would be better if it had a dog run in the opposite aisle
― badg, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
why not just get your teeth cleaned and your prostate checked there while you're at it.
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
might as well be a major-league baseball park
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
'70s Canadian indies at Anthology
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=67040
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/47037
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
A friend was recently extolling the virtues of the NYC Alamo Drafthouse. Almost had me convinced. Still - not sure about watching a film while everyone around is chomping away at dinner. Does it smell like a restaurant in there?
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
Excited for the Leaud. Saw him in a Paris bookstore a couple of years back digging through magazines. I almost fainted like the fanboy I am but something about his demeanor definitely read "Ne me dérangez pas, Amerloc".
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Have only been to one AD screening, it didn't smell really, food was *okay* but that whole style of movie watching imho only works when you're watching something kinda low-stakes, like everybody in the theater's just there to have a good time and hang around. This was a screening of 'Zu Warriors,' part of their like Wednesday night weird movies series or sth... Hong Kong children's sci fi adventure from 1980ish. Loose crowd with a lot of LOLs and applause for particularly great scenes/lines. So some beers and fries don't really wreck that IMHO but I would not do it for most movies.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
i hear they keep lights on during the movie which immediately disqualifies it for me
― 龜, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
Lights are minimal
― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 March 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I would remember if it was distracting, cause I can get REAL distracted by lights.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 March 2017 18:47 (seven years ago) link
Went two weeks ago with kids and will say Dr. Casino's prior post is otm.
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 March 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Taipei Story showing at BAM in a week
― 龜, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
LA: new restoration of marcel ophuls' "the memory of justice" screening this sunday (anyone seen it?)
https://www.oscars.org/events/west-coast-restoration-premiere-memory-justice
― donna rouge, Monday, 13 March 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
http://metrograph.com/series/series/74/the-singularity
― 龜, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
kinda underwhelmed by this? ^^
lotta good stuff ive already seen
more likely to dip once or twice here
http://metrograph.com/series/series/77/universal-in-the-70s-part-two
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Sci-fi series is cool IMO, at least for me since it's got a few things I've always meant to get around to. Though obv. there's no shortage of chances to see The Terminator in this world, but in general this place seems to do a decent balance of room-fillers and slightly chancier offerings? I've still not been but it reminds me a bit of the very well-programmed cinema at the University of Georgia student union when I was there - canny mix of bring-out-the-nostalgia midnight offerings and new arthouse fare.
I can't tell, which Blade Runner is it that they're showing? United Palace is screening the Final Cut the very next day. Having never seen the film (I know, I know) I've been planning on going to that, but is that the version I should see?
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
only a replicant can answer that; i lost track of the versions around 3.0
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
last 2 nights for Taipei Story
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/taipei-story
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
bets on when the blu-ray is coming out?
― 龜, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
no bet needed, May from CC as part of this box
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1258-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-2
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
so i gotta pay $100 for this? dang
― 龜, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
suspect might be individually available later.
"Beyond Godzilla" retro at Japan Society
This seven-film series, a modified version of the program organized for the 2016 Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy by film critic and writer Mark Schilling, goes beyond Toho's superstar monster to introduce a selection of titles that display the wide-ranging imagination of the Japanese sci-fi/fantasy genre, including innovative B-movies, kaiju eiga ("monster movies") and non-Godzilla classics involving director Ishiro Honda and effects maestro Eiji Tsuburaya.
http://www.villagevoice.com/event/beyond-godzilla-alternative-futures-and-fantasies-in-japanese-cinema-9791835
https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/beyond-godzilla-alternative-futures-and-fantasies-in-japanese-cinema
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
it's the Brit New Wave at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/the-brit-new-wave-from-angry-young-men-to-swinging-london-series
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/brit-new-wave
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
I scribbled down a bunch of those when the calendar first came out - really haven't seen almost anything here. Not sure how many I'll be making it to in the end but am curious about Girl With Green Eyes / The Leather Boys, Billy Liar, Darling, The Entertainer, Pumpkin Eater, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Georgy Girl, Alfie, and Tom Jones.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
I've seen a lot of em (mostly long ago), might do a couple repeats of ones that've become scarce, esp on film (The Entertainer, Seance, Morgan, Georgy), and ones I've missed til now (L-Shaped Room, Sparrows Can't Sing, Whistle Down the Wind).
As usual, I will probably really make it to... two.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
all the early Tony Richardson stuff is kind of essential, but also the easiest to see elsewhere (mostly)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
eg, the Criterion edition of A Taste of Honey is quite lovely (well, for Manchester).
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the tips!
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
v fond memories of billy liar if you've never seen, dc
― schlump, Thursday, 23 March 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
I have not - that's good to know!
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 23 March 2017 05:22 (seven years ago) link
Another vote for Billy Liar. As well as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2017 08:45 (seven years ago) link
Billy Liar is probably my least liked Courtenay, Christie *or* Schlesinger film in the series.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2017 10:57 (seven years ago) link
séance is really good
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 23 March 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link
restorations by Scorsese's Film Foundation in Astoria
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/03/26/detail/martin-scorsese-great-restorations/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
forgot he was in it. i just think the Walter Mittyesque sequences are nothin' special.
Robert Kramer epic at BAM on Sunday:
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/robert-kramer-route-one-usa
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
You must have blinked when he was twisting to "Twisterella," words and music by Crabtree & Fisher.
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
tickets now available for James Gray with his new one in 35mm at the Metrograph, Apr 12, goin fast
http://metrograph.com/events/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 March 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Loving all the British New Wave chatter, gave me a lot to add to my calendar. And then I got the flu and so I haven't been to anything yet! Ugh.
If anybody is looking to check out the Alamo ambience we were just discussing, my friend is introducing a screening of Cleopatra Jones in 35mm tomorrow night. Dunno how snob-level that is but I've never seen it, so hey.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
Tony Conrad doc
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=03&year=2017#showing-47009
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
re Metrograph Bunuel:
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/bunuel-in-france
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
MoMA's early Czech film series:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3816?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 April 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
and some rarities at this BAM retro of Anne-Marie Miéville
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/anne-marie-mieville
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 April 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
Film Forum launches their complete Wiseman survey
http://filmforum.org/series/the-complete-wiseman-part-i-early-wiseman-series
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
lots there i need to make time to see.
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
oh, de Niro series underway at Linc Ctr
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/no-bullst-starring-robert-de-niro/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
and Lina Wertmuller series at the Quad
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/lina-wertmuller-female-trouble
Some of their guest pairings are intriguing...
https://quadcinema.com/appearances/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 April 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
Checked out Titicut Follies last night at FF, with Laura Poitras introducing. My first Wiseman, and wow. That'll stick with me.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 16 April 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
I have to admit I have scaled back my Wiseman plans after seeing, since my last check, that the NY Public Library has acquired almost all the films in this series on DVD.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 April 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
thanks for the heads up on that!
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Sunday, 16 April 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
It was kind of fascinating to see with an audience tbh. The laughter at, to me, not-at-all-funny things was maybe more depressing than anything in the film. But yeah I wouldn't need to see em all in that fashion, and living a couple of blocks from the BPL has been a real boon to me trying to catch up on miscellaneous films. (In that vein, I also finished MASH yesterday...)
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 16 April 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
you mean the series?
week from Sat at the Loews Jersey, organ concert + His Girl Friday, free:
http://loewsjersey.org/come-celebrate-the-jersey-journals-150th-anniversary-with-free-movie/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
anybody been to quad city cinemas yet?
― 龜, Monday, 17 April 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
In Iowa or Alabama?
― stet, where is thy Zing? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 April 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
I believe the one in Alabama was where Jonathan Rosenbaum got his start- it was owned by his family- as well as Arthur Alexander's recording career, along with the Muscle Shoals Sound.
― stet, where is thy Zing? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 April 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
i have not even been to the reborn 13th St Quad
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
no, the film! Somehow had managed to see 5-6 other Altman flicks before getting to this one. Just trying to use my library card to help me cover some canonical ground. Last night was Steamboat Bill, Jr.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
And thanks for the Jersey tip - been meaning to get out to that space, the only one of the five Wonder Theaters I've not yet ogled, and I'd certainly see HGF again.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
xpost
I've seen probably 2/3 of Altman's films and yet I still have never seen MASH.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
It's... something. Kind of "Sexual Harassment: The Movie!" Sometimes it's easy to perceive that as deliberate and thematically interwoven with what the doctors aren't letting themselves deal with. But since none of the female characters are really treated as people, and the whole thing winds up with an endless wacky football game, it kinda just feels like the film identifies with its lovable rascal protags (surely, to its box-office benefit). The "fairy" sequence also plays VERY differently now than I imagine it did at the time...
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
MoMA's series on black stardom
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/making-faces-film
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3817?locale=en
strongly recommend the Robeson/Micheaux Body and Soul tonight
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Saturday night... this doesn't pop up too often in 35mm
https://quadcinema.com/film/the-day-of-the-locust/
(Probably my fave Schlesinger film, but then I read a lot (all?) of Nathanael West in college.)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
Melville centennial retro at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/melville-series
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/jean-pierre-melvilles-cinema-of-resistance
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
Oh these all look good!
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 April 2017 02:26 (six years ago) link
I loved Le Doulous in the French gangster series last year and was bummed I couldn't follow up y'all's recommendations for Army of Shadows and Breathless (also here with not much explanation on the poster). I also remember finding something fascinating in the original book of Silence de la Mer so that'd be interesting...
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 April 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
Have liked everything I have seen by him quite a bit, but haven't seen all of it yet.
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 April 2017 02:35 (six years ago) link
A couple essential Melvilles - both starring Belmondo - missing in that FF retro, though: L'Ainé des Ferchaux / Leon Morin
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 28 April 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
Leon Morin has been restored by 11 minutes and gets its own run in 2 weeks.
http://filmforum.org/film/leon-morin-priest-film
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 April 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
In an hour Annette Insdorf introducing The Saragossa Manuscript at MoMI and signing her new book.
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
Jiang Wen retro at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/jiang-wen-rising
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 May 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
will check a few of those out
― 龜, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
ban james redd for announcing anything is at momi ........... in an hour
― schlump, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
I ban myself for living about a half hour away from MoMI and not being able to make it to that event.
― ... Monkey Man or Astro-Monkey Man? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
will you be attending the Caan Film Festival?
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/05/19/detail/the-caan-film-festival/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
nigerian director moustapha alassane mini-retro at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3819
― donna rouge, Friday, 5 May 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
Oh, wow, I want that one brought to Copenhagen! Will anyone go and tell me what is good?
― Frederik B, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/lLohfqb.gif
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 5 May 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
Metrograph Mother's Day program next weekend includes the 1976 body-switcheroo Freaky Friday starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster.
http://metrograph.com/series/series/91/mothers-day
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
Linc Ctr showing 2 Demme films, $5 each on Sunday
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/demme-x-2-married-mob-stop-making-sense/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 May 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
Been having a ball with the Melville series btw. Even the really dry and slow ones aren't exactly boring. Saw Silence de la Mer and Army of Shadows today - the latter was incredible and possibly my favorite, though aspects of Bob might stick with me just as much.
So interesting to see the French resistance/underground stuff rendered so much like his gangster films - not surprising in itself since obviously the way he thinks about gangsters, gangster-movie codes of ethics and brotherhood, and the preoccupation with the fate of informants, come from his Resistance experience. But more that this is a film about the underground where you see almost nothing in the way of killing Germans or sabotaging things, except where it has to do with escaping, or reaching an imprisoned resistance member. That stuff is hinted at but basically off-camera, so we just get the army of shadows dealing with issues of the army of shadows. Totally fascinating.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 May 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
Whereas Silence, in sticking very very closely to the original resistance novella - to a degree that renders it pretty stodgy and clumsy in its unfolding - is very much about the confrontation between French and the occupying German force, but not in a conventional guerilla/resistance way. For me it had startling resonances with the James Baldwin doc just now wrapping up its run, where Baldwin identifies moments like Sidney Poitier jumping off the train in The Defiant Ones as revealing the oppressive power's desperate, pathetic need to be reassured that the oppressed really like them, love them, redeem them. The Nicest Possible German in Silence is clearly in agony that he just cannot get this family to tell him he's a really great guy and they don't blame him for the whole invasion-and-occupation thing. Hrm.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 May 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
weekend BAM fest of Twin Peaks cast members
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/peak-performances
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
No "The Wraith," surely some mistake.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 13 May 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
i have a ticket for the George C Scott desert-isle incest movie at the Quad Thursday. "Agonizing!" said Pauline Kael.
https://quadcinema.com/film/the-savage-is-loose/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
gonna be juggling Caan in Astoria w/ Marcello at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/marcello-mastroianni/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 May 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
https://nypost.com/2017/05/18/lower-east-sides-landmark-sunshine-cinema-to-close/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 20 May 2017 07:36 (six years ago) link
must admit i haven't gone there in awhile, i could see whatever they were showing uptown or at BAM
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
Dietrich at the Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/85/marlene
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
Miracle Mile showing at the Metrograph with Steve De Jarnatt, Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham in person
http://metrograph.com/film/film/856/miracle-mile
Unbelievably pissed that I'm not going to be in NYC for this, but I hope that someone on this thread goes.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 May 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
monthlong Filipino retro at MoMA -- Lav Diaz and others in town for it
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3843?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 May 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
BAM doing Varda in California
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/varda-in-california
Frank & Eleanor Perry @ Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/desperate-characters-the-cinema-of-frank-eleanor-perry/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
monthlong filipino retro ............. lav diaz in person ....................... program is just 1x lav film, duration 1 month
― schlump, Thursday, 1 June 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
I guess i never posted the FF Lubitsch link. A twinbill of blind spots for me tonight.
http://filmforum.org/series/the-lubitsch-touch
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 June 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
NYAFF slate
https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/full-lineup-16th-new-york-asian-film-festival/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
Suffering of Ninko is one of the weirder films I've seen recently.
Someone go see the new Sabu and tell me if it's good.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
btw Spielberg Summer is well underway
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/06/03/detail/see-it-big-spielberg-summer/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
bummed i already missed the jaws screenings / momi should screen jaws every weekend
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
i think you mean 1941!
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
Recommending Moka.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 June 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link
Aw man, I would have been totally down to see Duel in 35mm! Haven't seen Jurassic Park in a theater since its original run and I'm pretty sure I've never seen Jaws on the big screen (or with an audience). There's not a lot left that I'd really jump out of my seat for... hrm.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 16 June 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
also, 1941 is unbearable though 'interesting'
Tavernier @ Quad
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4669-the-daily-bertrand-tavernier-at-the-quad
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
What's the unmissable Tavernier?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
This isn't really NYC-specific, but now that I have a semi-modern smartphone, I'm wondering: is there a really great Android app for just checking what's playing in theaters? Ideally something that aggregates all the arthouse places together with multiplexes, and lets you edit down a list of theaters you give a shit about so you can just take stock of the offerings at a glance? I realize this might sound really demanding of the world but if someone coded that I would pay money to own it, cuz afaict the available offerings are all like Fandango and Google where you're forever scrolling past showings of the new Smurfs movie in New Jersey (''within five miles of your location!'') or whatever and it doesn't even HAVE Quad/Metrograph/whatever.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 26 June 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
http://www.screenslate.com/ is the best place to do just that, though it's not an app
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 26 June 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
well he wants multiplexes too
i know zip
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 June 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
I mean I guess I'm okay with missing the multiplexes, since with those I'm usually after a specific current movie that I already know is playing (even though there are occasional weird things - a while back Smokey and the Bandit was playing at several AMCs for some reason, and I wish I'd checked it out). So yeah, Screenslate looks awesome, thanks ulysses! Not having to individually check FF, IFC, MOMI, MOMA, Metrograph, Angelika etc is super helpful.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 26 June 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
cool; i think they're great. decent writing too!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
Oh wait except it doesn't have a bunch of those! Weird. Well I'll still keep it bookmarked on my phone cause it DOES cut down on searching a bit. But next time I'm a millionaire with nothing better to do I'm going to hire an app developer to custom-build my dream NYC movie fan hoonja-doonja.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
Southern Gothic at BAM (Renoir, Bunuel, Aldrich, Siegel's The Beguiled)
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/southern-gothic
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
NY in the '70s at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/new-york-in-the-70s-series
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
yeah I've been getting stoked for that last one, lotta "should have seen this ages ago" items, a few attractive two-for-ones, some stuff i've never heard of... cool.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
i haven't seen 7 of them (including Cruising), but most of those are on DVD
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
Gloria?
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
no i saw that last year, and The Hot Rock just a few months ago.
the others areThe WizEyes of Laura MarsDeath WishThey Might Be GiantsCops and RobbersMarathon Man
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
Have fond memories of The Hot Rock. Wonder how it holds up.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Paul Sand and Ron Leibman are esp funny
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
Wonder how you will like Cops and Robbers. At the time it seemed to me like a lesser Hot Rock, but who knows.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
Soon at MoMA, "Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction" has some rarely screened stuff, like the Borges-written Invasión, along with more familiar and recent titles:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3855?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
most of those are on DVD
true but i dig goin to the movies. just got back from Midnight Cowboy, on (sometimes rather battered) 35mm, with a pretty good-size crowd, and i do think i received the film differently than i would have otherwise.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 6 July 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
surprised you haven't seen The Wiz though! iirc it's pretty flawed but worth it for the design work and (some of) the songs by themselves. and yeah some cool use of rather offbeat new york locations in places.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 6 July 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
yeah, but for the unseen i listed, i can live with DVDs. (Except I will probably go to They Might Be Giants.) I've seen Midnight Cowboy projected, probably more than once.
I was in high school when The Wiz came out and it got horrible reviews.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 July 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
I always feel a tinge of loyalty to the people I went to high school with, for whom it was a beloved childhood classic watched many times over, and hailed with delight when it was wheeled into the classroom as study-hall filler at the end of the year or after the PSATs or whatever the occasion was for devoting school time to a "fun" movie. Not having grown up with it I've never been able to quite love it, but I do think there's some neat stuff to look at. Feels like it'd be the most fun with a big audience - it crops up as an outdoor summer movie pretty often and I think that makes sense, but it's also a cool choice in this series.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 6 July 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
Bava at the Quad
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4712-the-daily-mario-bava-at-the-quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/mondo-bava/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 July 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
Has anyone subscribed to FilmStruck? App like netflix that has arty movies. Seems to be the only way to see mike leigh movies in the US
― calstars, Friday, 7 July 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
Yes.Filmstruck
― Cannibal Adderley (WilliamC), Friday, 7 July 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
Alain Tanner @ Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/95/alain-tanner
https://hyperallergic.com/389836/john-berger-and-alain-tanners-films-about-life-after-political-failure/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
Nellie Killian out as MAMcinematek programmer
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 July 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
*BAMcinematek
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 July 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
Yvonne Rainer @ LincCtr
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/talking-pictures-the-cinema-of-yvonne-rainer/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
more on the MoMA uncanny scifi
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4745-the-daily-goings-on-sci-fi-at-moma-and-more
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
Is there a rolling film fest '17 thread around? Did anyone catch Bad Genius at the NY Asian Film Festival?
― etc, Thursday, 20 July 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
Considering going to that screening with you this evening
― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 July 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
im not 100% sure (if youre talking to me)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 July 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
Yes. Also, what about this crazy Ulrike Ottinger movie at Lincoln Center?
― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 July 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
I guess the Alain Tanner series is already over. Well, not quite, I see.
― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 July 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
Serge Loznitsa's top 10 docs + his own stuff at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/96/sergei-loznitsas-top-ten
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
Carlo di Palma retro at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/shot-by-carlo-di-palma-from-rome-to-new-york/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
I want to see that Ermler doc so bad.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 27 July 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
Demme retro at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/jonathan-demme-heart-of-gold
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/08/01/kindness-is-contagious/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
and Lincoln Center covers '77 with 33 films, from The Car to Ceddo to Smokey and the Bandit
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/77-series/#films
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
Sokurov scifi Days of Eclipse from '88 (by Stalker authors) at MoMA tonight; anyone seen? 2.55:1, too.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3320?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 August 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
Yeah, saw it a few years back. It's very good, very clearly his breakout film, but a bit less personal than a lot of what he did otherwise.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 August 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
They also wrote the book that was the basis of Hard to be a God, btw.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 August 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
Boxing films (part 1) at Anthology
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/47709
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
MOMI this weekend
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/09/02/detail/jerry-lewis-tribute-two-masterpieces-by-the-total-filmmaker/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
4 with Teri Garr at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/4-by-teri-garr
35mm of the Scorsese and Coppola films hard to resist
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 September 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
Lynch and related antecedents at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/107/gotta-light
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 September 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
Jane Campion at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/jane-campions-own-stories/#films
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 September 2017 06:59 (six years ago) link
also kelly reichardt at moma, will likely go to see her speakhttps://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3878?locale=en
plus new wiseman (with the man in person on the 13 and 14) and a week or two of currently running wisemaniahttp://filmforum.org/film/ex-libris-the-new-york-public-library-filmhttp://filmforum.org/series/the-complete-wiseman-part-ii-1986-1996-series#now-playing
Speaking of film forum, i saw The Teacher and while it's predictable and not enthralling it was certainly worth the time
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 8 September 2017 07:03 (six years ago) link
Sam Fuller at war at MOMI
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/09/15/detail/film-is-like-a-battleground-sam-fullers-war-movies/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
international musicals at the Quad
http://www.4columns.org/pinkerton-nick/the-whole-world-sings
https://quadcinema.com/program/the-whole-world-sings-international-musicals/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
Lena Horne at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/lena-horne-100
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 September 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
christopher doyle's hong kong trilogy at metrograph, plus a bunch of recent chinese crime films on dCP
― 龜, Thursday, 21 September 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link
"Black Intimacy" at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3877?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
Vitaphones + The Jazz Singer today/tonight at Film Forum
https://filmforum.org/film/the-jazz-singer-vitaphone-varieties-1926-1927-double-feature
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
You can see this with a live orchestral score at 6pm, if you like
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2017/films/pandoras-box/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
at the Metrograph, Garrel and King
http://metrograph.com/series/series/118/philippe-garrel-part-1
http://metrograph.com/series/series/114/written-by-stephen-king
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
Paul Bartel at Anthology!
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/48031
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
'70s and '80s 3-D at the Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/comin-at-ya-35mm-3-d/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
Poverty Row 'B' pics at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3880?locale=en
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=71713
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 October 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
David Bordwell appears at MOMI re his '40s Hollywood book
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/10/27/detail/reinventing-hollywood-how-1940s-filmmakers-changed-movie-storytelling/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
MoMA presents Film at Club 57
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3890?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 October 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
ICYMI, Stewart-Fonda series has begun at FF
https://filmforum.org/series/hank-and-jim-series
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
Stanisław Lem series at Anthology: http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/48261
Stoked that I'm in NYC for this.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 November 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
I'll def go to something(s) in that, ET! I'll get in touch.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
the more I read about Ikarie XB-1, I think i have to go tonight.
Dennis Hopper-directed films at Metrograph:
http://metrograph.com/series/series/120/directed-by-dennis-hopper
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
oh shit, was thinking I'd go see Lady Bird tonight but should I see The Last Movie instead??
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
I only saw it once, it's innnnnnnnnnteresting i suppose
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
Good grief yes! Anything Juráček or Juráček-adjacent is a must see!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 November 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
Juráček Park?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
The Quad had a Louis CK-curated series scheduled to begin yesterday which has been cancelled.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 November 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
metrograph programming for the next few days is wild. audition in 35mm! don't look now in 35 mm!!!!
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 November 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
postwar German films at LincCtr
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-lost-years-of-german-cinema-1949-1963/#films
(scheduling the Lorre film on Turkey Eve and Day is kind of infuriating, tho i've seen it twice)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 November 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
7:30 tonight at Light Industry in Brooklyn
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/i-pierre-riviere
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
William Wyler @ Quad
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/12/01/william-wylers-demanding-sets-were-a-rite-of-passage-for-hollywoods-greatest-stars/
https://quadcinema.com/program/william-wyler-more-than-meets-the-eye/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
complete Antonioni @ MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3894?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
Roman Hollywood at FF has lots of rare (and reputedly nonclassic) stuff this month, but also all 3 Godfathers on Saturday if you need to dodge SantaCon.
https://filmforum.org/series/roman-hollywood-series#now-playing
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
does a morbs have a moviepass yet?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 8 December 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
i have no smartphone and will never have one
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
melodramas at FSLC
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5196-the-daily-emotion-pictures-at-the-fslc
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/emotion-pictures-international-melodrama/#films
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Any good shit happening mid-Jan
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3909?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
back to the present, year-end retro in Astoria
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/12/15/detail/curators-choice-2017/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah I saw that moma thing, wondered if there was something more secret but will check nearer the time
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
http://deadline.com/2017/12/lincoln-plaza-cinema-landlord-says-space-to-stay-a-movie-theater-after-renovations-1202228973/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
icymi, happening again
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3861?locale=en
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3862?locale=en
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3863?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
Antonioni's 1972 China doc at MoMA for a week
http://www.screenslate.com/features/675
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 December 2017 05:30 (six years ago) link
Has anyone been to the Roxy Tribeca? I suddenly started noticing it in Screenslate and MoviePass recently. Real theater experience or like a room off of the bar/lobby?
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
No eye deer
― Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
I've been - more like the latter, but it's a pretty nice theater! It's downstairs with a little waiting room space outside their nightclub. I liked it.
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
not me
With the Lincoln Plaza apparently on its last legs, Dan Talbot has died.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/12/29/saying-so-long-to-lincoln-plaza-the-upper-west-sides-home-for-schlemiels-and-cinephiles-alike/
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5235-the-daily-remembering-dan-talbot
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
Hotel guests get to go for free so you do get random people just wandering in for 5 minutes and then leaving
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
it's a boutique theater
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
good to know, thanks y'all. i don't mind a little-room theater... spectacle rules, i've really enjoyed some videology screenings for example, n i keep meaning to check out film noir in greenpoint... but one has to be in the right mood.
next question: is there an exact closing date for the landmark sunshine? news reports say its lease is up "in january" which i thought meant december 31st would be it, but it looks like they're promoting screenings through at least 1/27 so maybe it's a 1/31 deal?
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
It's a bigger theater than some of the IFC screens!
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
lol i've apparently never ended up in the one really really bad IFC screen but a friend told me about it recently. be nice if they'd let you know in advance. "the movie you've selected will be roughly the size of a generously-proportioned TV set."
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
I can usually tell by the number of showings and how long it's been running...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
Oh wait, I walked by that Roxy Theater when I went to see my friend play at The Django in the same hotel
― Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
oh man, theater 5 at IFC, that's the rough one. seen a few films at that front row far right...
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
I went and saw a movie in one of the tiny IFC rooms after I had half a weed gummy bear and thought I was going to have a panic attack
― badg, Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
this is the year I've really started to register the embarrassment of riches effect. tonight i'm choosing between three things at metrograph alone. though not being blasted into bits by the wailing winds also has a certain appeal tbh.
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 31 December 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
some of these are better shorter...
https://quadcinema.com/program/the-way-i-see-it-directors-cuts/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
weirdly, Blade Runner Final Cut is described as "released 10 years after the theatrical cut" - which would be true of the director's cut. i admit it's kinda neat that places will continue to screen things like that and the 1980 Close Encounters "special edition" even though they've been superseded by later variations. not sure anybody actually wants to see the "inside the mothership" cut though....
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
'new' Fassbinder series gets a Jan 20 marathon screening
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3908?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
Hmm, do I really want to spend a big chunk of my short stay in New York watching 10 hours of fassbinder? Yes, yes I do. It'll be even more ideal if I can arrange to be hungover for it following some kind of FAP.How does booking tickets normally work for these things?
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Thursday, 4 January 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
Wins, fwiw the Fassbinder serial is available in the UK on a very nice Arrow Blu-Ray set, so is not hard to see here (and as it was conceived and shot for television, is perfectly suited to home viewing in discrete episodes).
― Akdov Telmig (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 4 January 2018 10:57 (six years ago) link
film tix for MoMA become available exactly 2 weeks before the screening dates.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link
(you can book them online from the film's page, and I am always very bad at guessing which will 'sell out' in advance)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:31 (six years ago) link
Ah cool, thxxp to ward that's handy to know but I really am into the idea of spending one of the days of my holiday on this (and I meant 8 hours above obviously, duh): it's the kind of cheap solitary activity I'm looking for honestly. Plus I love RWF, and I've seen a few tv things at the cinema recently - not the new twin peaks sadly - and usually enjoy it
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
also you'll get to experience the banter of MoMA film audiences, which during my 1997 Berlin Alexanderplatz weekend included "Shut up!" "No, YOU shut up!"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
😕
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
wins you might want to consider a membership to moma as all films are free with membership and booking an advance film ticket is five bucks via website.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
but he's not staying, alas
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
well an individual membership is $85 and benefits kick in immediately and for the year. Moma tix are $12 so if you're gonna see seven films? Likely not.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
there are other goodies in the preservation fest btw
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
Max Ophuls at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/132/max-ophls
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
reminder that the MoMA restoration fest commences Thursday
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
self-explanatory
http://metrograph.com/series/series/135/belle-and-sebastian-dream-double-feature
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
btw last night for Wang Bing's Bitter Money at Anthology
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2018#showing-48472
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
finally trying metrograph for "wages of fear", kinda hyped to see that big screeni am aware this is not a very snobby post
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
it would be if you claimed Sorcerer is better.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Thought the Wang Bing was a bit disappointing. Really interested in seeing his other couple new films, especially Mrs Fang.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
more on To Save and Project... I think for the Fassbinder series I will wait til Film Forum.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5283-the-daily-to-save-and-project-2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:21 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark
almost went but then the thought of a slow cinema documentary that's 2.5 hours long put fear in me
― 龜, Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
coward! :)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
I really want see any Wang Bing rn..
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
saw WoF at MG last week, was a great experience and i think the supense played really well with being in an audience. i've been hitting that place up a lot since moviepass... super convenient location for me, interesting programming, comfy seats, good picture and sound... even the smaller room is a genuinely Big Screen. no interest at all in the bougie restaurant and treats but they don't affect me.
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:18 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark
already pissed i had to miss jia zhangke at moma because of work!
― 龜, Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
well that was an old one
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
I'm going to the metrograph tonight for WR: mysteries of the organism, which I've never seen & always wanted to
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
I was tempted by the losey as it's a favourite of mine but went to gig instead
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
count the old hippies!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
Its great, go! That remindds me I didn't put Makavejev in my top 50 and he is definitely that.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
metrograph is a block or two away from mission chinese and fat radish; which overpriced NYC hipster foodery should i prioritize
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
Old hippie count: 0, i think I was the oldest person there
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Friday, 19 January 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
Times has a feature story on the MoMA Cinerama Sunday, so get tix now if you wanna
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
Also on Sunday, Jerry Schatzberg will be at the Metrograph to present a 35 mm print of his 1970 film Puzzle of a Downfall Child with Faye Dunaway.
http://metrograph.com/film/film/693/puzzle-of-a-downfall-child
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
Hmmm I may check it out - hoping to finally get to the new museum today so will be in the neighbourhood. Might be all cinema'd out for one week tho.I stuck it out till the end of the fassbinder - surprisingly enough given that I felt my eyelids beginning to droop during the introduction. I liked it (and was surprised by how good-natured it all was) but it's so not meant to be watched in this way - whoever it is that's showing it over a few weekends has the right idea I think.
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Sunday, 21 January 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
Glad you survived, wins, unlike these people
Old cemetery remains have been unearthed underneath Anthology Film Archives by construction workers https://t.co/ivcCjeZwQT— Film Quarterly (@FilmQuarterly) January 22, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
yow
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
it appears Lincoln Plaza will close Sunday
https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/01/goodbye-lincoln-plaza-cinemas.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
supposed to reopen soon; we'll see
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 26 January 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
as what tho? Michael Moore showed up yesterday:
http://deadline.com/2018/01/michael-moore-at-memorial-for-lincoln-plaza-film-giant-dan-talbot-capitalism-killed-this-cinema-1202272092/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
as a theater supposedly, according to the link in the piece you just posted!https://deadline.com/2017/12/lincoln-plaza-cinema-landlord-says-space-to-stay-a-movie-theater-after-renovations-1202228973/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
Let's see what they book if so, though.
Women filmmakers retro at Metrograph:
http://metrograph.com/series/series/138/tell-me-women-filmmakers-womens-stories
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
Republic Pictures restorations at MoMA
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5350-the-daily-republic-rediscovered
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3932?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
Second part of Lincoln Center's Raul Ruiz retro. Melvil Poupaud Q&A on Sat night!
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/life-is-a-dream-the-films-of-raul-ruiz-part-2/#films
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/fado-major-and-minor/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
oh yeah, 5 weeks of Bergman starts today at FF
https://filmforum.org/series/ingmar-bergman-centennial-retrospective-series
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
Hi snobs
Is there a single listing anywhere that will tell me what's playing at all the arthouse/repertory theatres?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
Or even just a list of such theatres so I can check their listings myself...
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:41 (six years ago) link
Great! Thank you
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:15 (six years ago) link
This gets asked often! Here's my bookmark list; would like to hear suggested additions.
http://www.ifccenter.com/https://filmforum.org/https://www.moma.org/calendar/filmhttps://www.bam.org/http://metrograph.com/https://quadcinema.com/https://drafthouse.com/nyc/calendar/downtown-brooklynhttp://www.spectacletheater.com/http://www.movingimage.us/http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/http://www.lightindustry.org/calendar/http://www.roxycinematribeca.com/category/now-showing/https://www.filmlinc.org/https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/nychttps://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/filmhttps://nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg/http://syndicatedbk.com/events/https://www.citycinemas.com/villageeast/showtimes-and-tickets/now-playinghttps://www.landmarktheatres.com/new-york-city/the-landmark-at-57-west
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.filmnoircinema.com/
^^^ i haven't been to this place yet but the programming looks cool? i'm assuming it's a spectacle-type venue or a smaller version of such.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
yeah, they were just in the Times todayhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/arts/horror-film-school-miskatonic-institute.html
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
For tonight’s presentation, Light Industry and Inpatient Press have assembled a sampler of erotic films from the early 20th century to the early 1960s.
http://www.lightindustry.org/thesmoker
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
Film Comment Selects opens tonight
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5417-the-daily-film-comment-selects-2018
https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/film-comment-selects/#films
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
He Who Gets Slapped at FF
http://www.screenslate.com/features/735
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
intriguing exhibition of the Warhol screen tests Thursday at the Kent Theatre in Brooklyn... and they'll give you a screen test?
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/mfw50x50/#
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Latin American fest at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/neighboring-scenes-new-latin-american-cinema/#films
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
Antonio One, Two, Three is so great.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
excited to see an elephant standing still at ndnf
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to hear what you think about it.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
so many retros, so little time... Emilio Fernández at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/4950?locale=it
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/01/the-films-of-emilio-fernandez-display-the-man-behind-the-swagger/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
women and the labor movement at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/women-at-work
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
a week of William Klein at the Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/the-eyes-of-william-klein/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
and after that, a couple weeks of Al Pacino. He'll be doing 3 appearances.
https://quadcinema.com/program/pacinos-way/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
and sonuvabitch, the Sea of Love Q&A is sold out already.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
Did any of y'all go to the FF screening of Skidoo on Thursday? The Q&A with Austin Pendleton afterwards was one of the more entertaining such things I've ever seen. Dude's first film and he was opposite Jackie Gleason and, for one day's shooting, Groucho Marx. They were up late wining and dining the night before and were finally told they had to head out at 6 am for the shoot because the sea would be calm. Groucho: "Sure, the sea will be calm, but what about Preminger?"Also a very very cute moment where they brought Jonathan Lynn (who directed Pendleton in My Cousin Vinny) onstage - Pendleton originated the role of Motel in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, and Lynn did the same in London, which is how they met. Neat! Some nice anecdotes from Pendleton about directing Elizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes. Etc., etc.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
My comedian friend went. Did AP say anything about OP verbally bullying Groucho?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 March 2018 11:45 (six years ago) link
No, but he agreed with the host's suggestion that it didn't seem like Groucho was having a good time in the picture. TBF, almost all of Groucho's scenes are just him in one room, sometimes with Alexandra Hay or Donyale Luna, so who knows how long he was even shooting and what his interactions with Preminger were like.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 March 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
Fassbinder TV mini now open at FF
https://filmforum.org/film/eight-hours-dont-make-a-day-film
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Michel Piccoli retro at FF
https://filmforum.org/series/michel-piccoli-series
Point Counterpoint: Avant-Garde Film Scores, 1955–1973 at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/4952?locale=en
¡Sí Se Puede! Pioneers of Chicano Cinema at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/si-se-puede
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
an evening of computer films tonight at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/4117
http://www.screenslate.com/features/764
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
You're welcome for the seat
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link
limited FF screenings of Fassbinder continue Fri-Sun
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Slant previews NDNF
https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/new-directors-new-films-2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
Winter Brothers is great, too bad they aren't showing Team Hurricane, those too are the best Danish debuts in ages.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
ugh tix for elphant standing still are already on standby only for the sunday i can make it
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
I have to think Film Forum or someone else will give that a run by fall
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
I love that that one is getting the attention it's getting, but yikes is it a tough sit.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 March 2018 01:00 (six years ago) link
i sat through a brighter summer day in theaters and it wasn't bad, i'm guessing this one is more non narrative or 'slow'
― 龜, Thursday, 29 March 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
The reviews are far from unanimous.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 07:17 (six years ago) link
I've sitten through a bunch of Lav Diaz, but they are much more... 'fun', than this is. Still, it's undoubtedly an impressive achievement.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 March 2018 10:07 (six years ago) link
warning taken
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
i moved some things around so i'll catch it this sunday. morbs are you going?
― 龜, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to discussing it with you.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
haven't planned my weekend yet but doubtful
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
the gay experimental fest is on in Ridgewood
https://mix30nyc.org/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 March 2018 07:21 (five years ago) link
Kazuo Miyagawa: Japan's Greatest Cinematographer, a joint series between MoMA and the Japan Society
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/4955?locale=en
https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/miyagawa
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 April 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
Alan Rudolph at the Quad (several appearances by AR and Keith Carradine)
https://www.artforum.com/film/nick-pinkerton-on-the-alan-rudolph-retrospective-at-quad-cinema-75154
https://quadcinema.com/program/alan-rudolphs-everyday-lovers/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
Woah, a bunch of these look super interesting. Never even heard of the guy before (though I remember admiring the poster for Roadie over in the claustrophobic caricature thread).
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 28 April 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
He's Altman Junior, basically. There's a bunch I haven't seen since they were released, but at the top I'd put Choose Me, then Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Equinox, Breakfast of Champions, Mortal Thoughts, Remember My Name, The Moderns, Trouble in Mind, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Afterglow.
Roadie is not well regarded, but I'd like to see Songwriter.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
There was a big turnout for Welcome to LA last night, so I'd advise advance tix for any screenings w/ Rudolph and his signature star Keith Carradine doing Q&A's.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
http://metrograph.com/series/series/156/sylvia-chang
looks great
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
have seen more of those than i thought
BAM approaching midpoint of their '67-80 American women filmmakers series
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/a-different-picture
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
Fox Film Corp restorations, 1926-34 at MoMA begins tomorrow
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
http://www.filmjournal.com/moma-series-reveals-movie-gems-william-fox-era
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 May 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
Hammer films (part I) at the Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/hammers-house-of-horror-part-i-the-classic-years-1956-1967/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala retro, featuring James Ivory appearances
https://quadcinema.com/program/in-her-words-ruth-prawer-jhabvala-the-woman-behind-merchant-ivory/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
Visconti at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/visconti/#films
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 June 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
apparently the Video Free Brooklyn store *will* be reopening as was promised, oh, 18 months ago
Update time! We're very sorry for the long delay in re-opening @vfbrooklyn at the Alamo Drafthouse. We intended to be open much sooner, but the initial plan for the store design ran into some serious design and logistical snags. We needed to rethink, redesign and start over.— Alamo Drafthouse NYC (@AlamoNYC) May 4, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 June 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
Lincoln Plaza rebirth
https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/06/lincoln-plaza-cinema-reboot.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
Elizabeth Taylor, the sublime and the ridiculous
https://quadcinema.com/program/essential-liz/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
your July 4 btwn oh, noon and 8
http://metrograph.com/film/film/1589/star-spangled-to-death
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 July 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link
The New York Woman at the Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/the-new-york-woman/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 07:16 (five years ago) link
On Whiteness at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/on-whiteness
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 July 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link
the complete Astaire-Rogers this weekend at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/fred-and-ginger/#films
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
Part II of the Quad's Hammer series:
https://quadcinema.com/program/hammers-house-of-horrors-part-ii-the-decadent-years-1968-1976/
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
Z Channel Presents at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/169/z-channel-presents
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
early women filmmakers at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/pioneers-first-women-filmmakers
suspect i will go to one of the Lois Weber programs and the Mabel Normand
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Cartier-Bresson on film at Anthology
https://www.artforum.com/film/nick-pinkerton-on-henri-cartier-bresson-in-motion-at-anthology-film-archives-76026
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
female cinematographers at Lincoln Center
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-female-gaze/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 July 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Japan Cuts
https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-cuts-2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
Gérard Blain at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/164/grard-blain
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Film Forum reopens tomorrow... it'll be The Smallest Show on Earth for me.
This looks like a good silent series, several I haven't seen:
https://filmforum.org/series/steve-sterner-selects
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
so has anyone seen Milla at Anthology?
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/milla
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 August 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
at MoMA, Aug 9-23: Martin Scorsese Presents Republic Rediscovered: New Restorationsfrom Paramount Pictures, Part 2
Marty introduces Wake of the Red Witch at Thursday night's kickoff
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/4990?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 August 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
roundup on the Republic series
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5853-republic-pictures-rediscovered-and-restored
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Pixelvision at FSLC; two of the essential programs are tonight (Sadie Benning, Almereyda's Another Girl, Another Planet). Members get free tix btw.
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/flat-beautiful-strange-case-pixelvision/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
Utterly Winona at the Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/utterly-winona/
If you're a fan of hilariously bad movies, The House of the Spirits is a must.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
aw bummer, i was reading that entry this morning and was like "dammmn this cast looks awesome, how have i not heard of this?"
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
There's a scene where Winona is tortured by military goon Vincent Gallo that plays like the Amnesty International version of Heathers.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
Mmmm, prime Bille August. When he is bad... Winner of two Golden Palms, btw. Danish cinema at it's finest.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
at BAM starting Friday, Say It Loud: Cinema in the Age of Black Power, 1966—1981
some rarely exhibited stuff here
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/say-it-loud
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
if anybody hasn't been to the reopened film forum yet, i give it a tentative thumbs up. those new seats are massively more comfortable, maybe the most comfortable i've ever encountered. but, surely there are fewer seats in the room? which would bode poorly for things selling out. :-/
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
theater 1 looks the same
was in the new space last night... i think the existing 3 stayed the same?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
i was in 3 last night for "grisbi" and i could swear it was fewer seats - i mean the new ones are wider and the room is the same size so surely....? but maybe!
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 August 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
They're pretty good about adjusting theater assignments w/ films... they had Becker running in 2 rooms the last night.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 August 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
There's a rock series running at Anthology, featuring a lot of stuff that many of us have seen. Although I've never endured all of Woodstock... I'd link but the website is having connectivity problems. Check Screen Slate.
Truffaut (all 35mm) and Makoto Shinkai ongoing at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/166/truffaut-x-7
http://metrograph.com/series/series/168/makoto-shinkai
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 August 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
Arriving in NYC on Tuesday night. I'll be around for at least a month and lurking/bumping this thread.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 August 2018 07:28 (five years ago) link
hi elvis!
Germaine Dulac at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/germaine-dulac/#films
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/queer-now-1928/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 August 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
As there was no soundtrack/score on the print, FSLC ran last night's 7pm Dulac silent feature in total silence. Terrible idea. Put on a record to drown out the patrons' yawns and gurgling stomachs.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
Haha, I remember seeing von Sternberg's Underworld that way at the Film Forum. A totally ridiculous way to screen a film.
― Josefa, Sunday, 26 August 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
Otm. If I watch something silent at home and don’t like the soundtrack they’ve added to it I mute it and play something else.
― The Vermilion Sand Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 August 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
looks like the whole series is that way
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
bring your own headphones
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Monday, 27 August 2018 06:28 (five years ago) link
or a boombox - make it a better ride for everyone!
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Monday, 27 August 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
A rap supergroup of ex-Village Voice writers will be convening for a postmortem panel @MovingImageNYC on 7 PM, Tuesday, Oct. 2. @MelissEAnderson, @haskmoll, @BilgeEbiri, Michael Atkinson, J. Hoberman, Amy Taubin, and ya boy, me.— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) September 3, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
Movie rentals, books, vinyl, apparel, board games, pints, pins and much more. Your friendly neighborhood video store reimagined. Video Vortex is officially open for your shopping pleasure. #rewindyourmind ⏮🧠 pic.twitter.com/3zzdiBYNLr— Alamo Drafthouse NYC (@AlamoNYC) August 29, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Alain Delon at Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/lhomme-fatal-alain-delon/
"1968" and...
http://metrograph.com/series/series/172/everything-was-now-1968-circa-1968
Jack Smith at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/173/jack-smith
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
starting Friday at the Quad, a series I didn't know I needed -- the anthology film. Godard was part of a lot of them.
https://quadcinema.com/program/some-are-better-than-others-the-curious-case-of-the-anthology-film/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
hip hop movies at FF
https://filmforum.org/series/hip-hop-on-film-1979-1986
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
up at Columbia, a two-weekend series honoring NY indie booster Ira Deutchman.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 September 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
i esp recommend the Aussie new-wave musical Starstruck
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 September 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
oh cool, i was looking at that one! looks great. if i can compel myself to be that far uptown at that hour i might just make it.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 September 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
Make the trip... Starstruck is great.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 September 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
yeah wow that was great! thanks for the recommendations, y'all, they helped push us over the top and we had a ball.the theater (one floor up, in columbia's new, quasi-dystopian manhattanville campus) is a nice room too, more of a wide black box theater than just a dinky little screening room. screen felt big, could really dive into the colors. sound was kind of painfully loud a few times, not sure if that was specific to the film, the settings in the control room, or the acoustics. but i'd def see a movie there again.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 16 September 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
wish i had been able to go, but i was uptown early and wd've had to kill 5 hours
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 September 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Unknown Jerry at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5019?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
Hammer Frankenstein at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5010?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link
some worthy retro doings at FF
https://filmforum.org/film/orphans-of-new-york
https://filmforum.org/film/abbott-costello-in-who-done-it-plus-a-tale-of-two-kitties-ffjr-fall-2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 October 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
Shaw Brothers at IFC Center
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/shaw-brothers-spectaculars/
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 14 October 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
whyyyy must all of IFC's interesting repertory be midnight series? there are nerds in this city besides NYU first-years, people!!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 October 2018 11:34 (five years ago) link
NY Architecture/Design Film Festival just started up: https://adfilmfest.com/site/ny2018 (annoyed that the Dieter Rams documentary is sold out already)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
lots of horror, mostly not for me cept Vincent Price
http://metrograph.com/series/series/180/shaw-brothers-horror
https://quadcinema.com/program/tres-outre-the-sinister-visions-of-jean-rollin/
https://quadcinema.com/program/victoria-price-presents-vincent-price-x-3/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 October 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
Some of those Jean Rollin films are quite interesting - The Iron Rose and The Nude Vampire for example
― Josefa, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Karpo Godina, auteur of Yugoslav cinema (unknown to me til now)
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5011?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 October 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
MoMA's "The Contenders" series in Nov/Dec, including appearances by Steve McQueen, Paul Schrader, Spike Lee, Paul Dano, Tamara Jenkins etc.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5025?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
what, orson welles is too busy to show up?looks great, in all seriousness.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
protip: the popular films all sell out quickly when they go on sale (14 days in advance).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
I need to figure out if there's a way for me to advance-book the free student tix I get cause it's such a huge huge resource of which I've almost utterly failed to take advantage.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
radical Catalan cinema '68-78
https://www.archynety.com/entertainment/the-catalan-cinema-of-the-end-of-the-franco-regime-arrives-at-the-moma/
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5012?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 October 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
At some point I want to see the Portabella one.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 28 October 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
almost over, but some choice Japanese postwar horror remains the next 2 nights at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/ghosts-and-monsters
(maybe just tonight? have never seen Mothra)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
Margarethe von Trotta at Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/margarethe-von-trotta-the-political-is-personal/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
Women at Work at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/women-at-work-domestic-is-not-free
Scorsese in NY at MoMA (just a few in 35mm)
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5024?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
ooh thanks, missed that. is this the week I finally see Goodfellas and KoC??
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 2 November 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
thanks to netflix we are all NYC film snobs today
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 2 November 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
Ida Lupino (acting and directing) at FF
https://filmforum.org/series/ida-lupino-100
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
thanks to netflix we are all NYC film snobs today― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, November 2, 2018 9:16 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, November 2, 2018 9:16 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Darlings, I'll believe that when I can stream all those recently restored Fox Films titles. One at AFI and two at Capitolfest does not make the grade.
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Claude Lanzmann at Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/claude-lanzmanns-cinema-of-remembrance/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
next Saturday night, The Big Parade and The Great Dictator at the Loews Jersey in J.C.
http://loewsjersey.org/calendar/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
tix now on sale for the FF run of the Aretha concert doc Amazing Grace
https://filmforum.org/film/amazing-grace
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
Bill duke at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/185/bill-duke
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
some new titles in MoMA's Contenders series, incl b.o. dud First Man on the 26th
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 November 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
Wang Bing all over the place this weekend
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6043-wang-bing-in-new-york
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 November 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
Darius Khondji at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/186/darius-khondji
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 November 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
Ten days of Silent Comedy International at MoMA ... many shorts that have barely been seen in a century.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5021?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
The Quad is too loud, says a kvetch who lives upstairs. Eviction in the works?
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/nycs-quad-cinema-may-be-evicted-due-to-noise-complaints/
― Josefa, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
In response, the indie theater stopped using its subwoofers and turned down the default volume of its flicks to a “Level 4” out of 10
this may explain why viewings there are often mildly derailed by the honking chatter of people ascending the staircase to the apartments above
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Petzold at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/christian-petzold-the-state-we-are-in/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
Ugo Tognazzi retro underway at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5023?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 December 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
Is Barbarella in there?
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
i don't see it.
Orson Welles, actor-for-hire
https://quadcinema.com/program/actor-for-hire-the-other-side-of-orson-welles/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 December 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
3 weeks of Jacques Tourneur begins Friday at FilmLinc... I think they've got just about everything, including shorts.
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/jacques-tourneur-fearmaker-film-society-of-lincoln-center-trailer-1202027048/
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/jacques-tourneur-fearmaker/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Rated X at the Quad (I've seen nearly 20 of these)
https://quadcinema.com/program/rated-x/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 December 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
Pervert.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
Keir Dullea followed 2001 by starring in the awful De Sade. In imdb rating terms that's going from an 8.3 to a 3.4
I think I've seen 22 of those Rated X's
― Josefa, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
Of course most of those X films don't deserve the rating
― Josefa, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
yes. many of them = not hot
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
Is The Servant on there?
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
The Servant predates the MPAA by at least 5 years. Are you thinking of a different Dirk Bogarde vehicle?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
It was X-certificate, sorry, different thing
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
Tourneur tomorrow?
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link
7pm for sure for Experiment Perilous.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 07:53 (five years ago) link
might stay for Night of the Demon, but I've seen the earlier two already this time
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 07:57 (five years ago) link
MoMA's To Save and Project starts Friday
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5036?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:54 (five years ago) link
Henry James adaps at the Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/pictures-of-polite-society-henry-james-at-the-movies/
Kay Francis: Queen of Pleasure at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/202/kay-francis-the-queen-of-pleasure
NY Jewish Film Fest in progress at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/new-york-jewish-film-festival/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
'far-out' 70s comedies at FF
https://filmforum.org/series/far-out-in-the-70s-a-new-wave-of-comedy-19691979
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 January 2019 12:56 (five years ago) link
really stoked for that one, have had a bunch of it scribbled in my calendar since it first got announced. gonna fill in some gaps!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 18 January 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
RIP Jonas Mekashttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/23/jonas-mekas-titan-of-underground-filmmaking-dies-aged-96
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
Hou and Selznick ongoing at Metrograph
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
i was startled and momentarily tempted seeing Gone With The Wind pop up in screenslate over the weekend. four hours.... might have to save that one for retirement or something.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
well worth seeing projected once, if the print is good.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
Lee Chang-dong at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5043?locale=en
Yorgos Lanthimos at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/yorgos-lanthimos/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
Film Comment Selects at Linc Ctr
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6187-film-comment-selects-2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
Marlon Riggs at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/race-sex-cinema-the-world-of-marlon-riggs
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
Doc Fortnight at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5044?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
Somebody tell me if Arcadia is any good!
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
slow days in filmland so far but i'm looking forward to seeing Birds of Passion at Film Forum tomorrow. Embrace of the Serpent was a fave and though the plot of this one looks tired (do not care about drug cartel movies), I'll try anything they do after that.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/black-mother-review-khalik-allah-field-niggas-1201949049/
started watching the first film by khalik allah; it's heavy heavy stuff... slow mo explorations of black faces and black bodies with too real conversation in background; all filmed in harlem. looks like avedon studies. give it a peek:https://vimeo.com/312790511
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
btw, Birds of Passion is spectacular; see it if you can.
I loved Embrace of the Serpent, looking forward to Birds of Passage
― Dan S, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:22 (five years ago) link
Couldn't be more different than Serpent in terms of approach and storytelling, but both are heavy on magical realism and both give deep credence and agency to the indigenous people that are at their stories' centers. Passage is a Shakespearean epic with spectacular music, stunning acting, masterful cinematography and probably seven to ten gasp-inducing visual moments; definitely going to be one of the best films I see this year.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
anybody got the stomach/chutzpah to take one for the team and report back?
[CONTENT WARNING: These films contain scenes of explicit sexual contact, mutilation, rear female nudity, violence, frontal male nudity, dark humor, disembowelment, castration, nihilism, decapitation, suicide, Nazi imagery, deviant sex, depictions of murder, frontal female nudity, ejaculation, mental illness, rear male nudity, criminal mischief, on-screen urination, sexual perversion, blood, and adult language.]
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
Rendezvous with French Cinema begins Friday
https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
^Thursday, in fact
For most of March at MoMA,
William Fox Presents: More Restorations and Rediscoveries from the Fox Film Corporation
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5049?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
George Romero at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/living-with-the-dead-the-films-of-george-a-romero
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
If they are dipping into the Borzage and Ford boxes, "Rediscoveries" is a bit strong. But the other titles tempt me.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
yeah, I have the Ford box, but they're showing some in 35mm, and there are some 4K restos.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
I had heretofore missed this Criterion Top 10 by NYC film snob Georgia Hubley, who includes some excellent commentary on theaters past and present ("MOMA, popular dinner spot of many of NYC’s finest moviegoers"):
https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/132-georgia-hubley-s-top-10
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
Just confirmed or relooked up that she is related to, the daughter of those other Hubleys.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
Oh wait, it's at the top of that link. D'oh!
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
Yes, as a child she's even on the soundtrack of a couple cartoons.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
Okay, just read that properly. Really well-written and chosen.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
Bertrand Blier at the Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/amour-or-less-a-blier-buffet/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
New Directors/New Films at MoMA and FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/new-directors-new-films-2019/##films
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/new-directors-new-films-2019-full-lineup-1202045664/
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/87
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 07:37 (five years ago) link
Aki Kaurismaki at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/215/total-kaurismki-show
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
Claire Denis at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/strange-desire-the-films-of-claire-denis
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
Radical Films from 1958-61 at Japan Society
https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/the-other-japanese-new-wave
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
trucker vehicles (hehe) at Anthology
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/50621
I've seen 5/10, would def recommend Hell Drivers and Le Camion... and they are showing a 35mm print of Duel.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
is the movie theater in Union Square still open? the one that was on the same block/around the corner from Virgin. across the street from Forbidden Planet. I can't remember if it was an AMC or Loews
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
It is. I never go there bcz of the multiplex prices; I don't think they even have matinee discounts.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
What Price Hollywood ("a focused look back at the nature of sexual politics on screen") begins at MoMA on Monday
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5063?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
don't care much for the angelika but they got Amazing Grace so i suppose i gotta go
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
you could go to BAM! (beginning the 12th)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
yeah, that's preferable if only barely.looking forward to seeing Hail Satan next week.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
Annoyed that I'm going to miss most of that trucker series even though I've seen most of them (I'm in NYC from 4/15-5/1) - except for Le Camion! (I can see it finally!)
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 7 April 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
Věra Chytilová (Daisies) retro at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/the-anarchic-cinema-of-vera-chytilova
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
caught the last of those Duel screenings thanks to your reminder itt, thanks morbs!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 April 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
de nada, DC
trilogies at FF
https://filmforum.org/series/trilogies#now-playing
dat's a lotta movies
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 April 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5053?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
Nelson Pereira dos Santos midway at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/217/nelson-pereira-dos-santos
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
a month of Abel Ferrara at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5065
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
Black 90s at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/black-90s-a-turning-point-in-american-cinema
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 May 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
Jean-Claude Carrière at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5066?locale=en
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
German Genre Films from the Margins at Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/fighting-mad-german-genre-films-from-the-margins/
https://www.artforum.com/film/nick-pinkerton-on-fighting-mad-german-genre-films-from-the-margins-at-quad-cinema-79834
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 May 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link
anticolonial cinema '66-81 at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/the-hour-of-liberation-decolonizing-cinema-1966-1981
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 May 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Wow, I'd try and go to everything in that series :(
― Frederik B, Friday, 24 May 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
saw the Syrian film The Dupes (1973) last night at FF
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
last week of Ferrara retro, composer Joe Delia will be introducing King of New York and China Girl the next 2 nights
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
Kael at 100
https://quadcinema.com/program/losing-it-at-the-movies-pauline-kael-at-100/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 June 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
been waiting forever to see this
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/5589
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 June 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
Worth it.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 June 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's a great watch
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 June 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
Damn that Kael lineup is great, I didn’t know she liked Shoot the Moon
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
Ermanno Olmi at FSLC (I haven't seen any)
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/ermanno-olmi/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 June 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
so Manhattan's last single-screen theater looks done
https://deadline.com/2019/06/paris-theater-closing-new-york-film-community-laments-losing-another-prestige-picture-palace-1202634176/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
Ugh
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
think i've been there twice in twenty years; remember it being a nice enough room but they tend to book kinda boring stuff
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
I'm pretty sure in '80-81 I saw Truffaut's last two there (The Last Metro, The Woman Next Door). They booked all the Merchant-Ivory films in the '80s and '90s. Last time I was there was for Carol. Always packed in the 75-and-over crowd.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
(also I believe it's where I almost crashed into Joe "Look Sharp" Jackson coming out of the men's room after a revival of Shoot the Piano Player)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Somehow I'd... never heard of this theater? Huh.
Came here to post this short series, clearly programmed for Morbs: Reagan at the Movies at Metrograph.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
I've seen all of those except Rambo and Firefox.
Prison Images: Incarceration and the Cinema @ Anthology... I esp recommend Renoir's stellar The Elusive Corporal, which is harder to see than A Man Escaped or Le Trou.
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/51027
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
It's hard to believe that Manhattan had only single-screen theaters until 1972, if that factoid is indeed true - supposedly the Quad was the first multi?
― Josefa, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
A little before my time, but I know of no others. They started dividing the single-screen midtown theaters by the mid '70s.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
queer doings in Astoria
http://movingimage.us/programs/2019/06/21/detail/grit-and-glitter-before-and-after-stonewall/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 June 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
Free films + popcorn + soda + talks at Lincoln Center starting tomorrowhttps://www.filmlinc.org/series/free-talks/#schedule
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
Summer of Legrand at French Institute
https://fiaf.org/events/2019-season/cs-michel-legrand/
There will be post-film ML karaoke on July 30
I call dibs on "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
I will see if I can rustle up the Bergmans to sit in judgement of the proceedings.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
yikes
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
comedy shorts tonight at QED Astoria
https://qedastoria.com/collections/nelson-hughes-tommy-jose-stathes/products/that-slapstick-show-presents-1930s-talking-comedies
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Men-in-prison double feature at Anthology this Monday night, Jean Genet's Un chant d'amour and Jonas Mekas's The Brig
― Josefa, Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
oh I see the prison program was mentioned up thread
― Josefa, Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
more Pasolini at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/232/pier-paolo-pasolini-a-future-life-part-2
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
documentaries from Kevin Rafferty (The Atomic Cafe, Feed) & co at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/235/secret-histories-the-films-of-kevin-rafferty-friends
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
Patrick Wang's "sprawling, Altmanesque comedy" A Bread Factory plays at BAM on Saturday.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/a-bread-factory-part-one-and-two/
https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2019/05/55142/
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/a-bread-factory
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
Burt Lancaster at FF (my #1 unmissable is the rarely screened Frankenheimer The Train, the best of their collaborations imho)
http://filmforum.org/series/burt-lancaster
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
been looking forward to catching a few in this one - i have, somewhat astonishingly, never seen a single film in which burt lancaster appears. atlantic city and sweet smell of success have been on my list for ages, but i'm also hoping to find time to just pick up some random roll-the-dice picks here, especially with the 2-for-1s.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Kiarostami retrospective at IFC July 26 to August 15http://www.ifccenter.com/series/abbas-kiarostami-a-retrospective/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Dr C: The Leopard is essential
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 July 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Machiko Kyo at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/238/machiko-ky
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
Dr. C: Criss Cross is my fave of the noirs. The Train is a must.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 July 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
icymi La Flor is at FSLC
https://hyperallergic.com/511754/la-flor-mariano-llinas/
Based on Part 1, I can neither recommend nor discourage. I am dreading the spy story.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
also at Lincoln Center
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/another-country-outsider-visions-of-america/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 August 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
screening at the Metrograph all week, Juraj Herz's 1968 The Cremator
(see also J Hoberman in the NYT)
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-of-the-week-the-cremator/
http://metrograph.com/film/film/2196/the-cremator
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 August 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
(as you can see by the Janus credit, this is coming to Criterion)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 August 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
'80s women filmmakers at BAM
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/punks-poets-valley-girls
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 August 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
widescreen Vincente Minnelli at Metrograph, starting Friday
http://metrograph.com/series/series/240/minnelli-widescreen
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
great Rip Torn vehicle at Spectacle
http://www.spectacletheater.com/payday/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 August 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
^ Went to see this tonight. With no pre-announcement or explanation, instead of the film everyone paid to see they showed some fake trailers followed by a nearly hour-long European stop-motion animation film. The lady at the box office who was the sole staff member on duty - also the person who pressed the buttons on the computer to "project" the film - said, "So sorry! This is what the distributor sent us." She could not even guarantee me that Payday would actually show up for screening later in the month.
It was my first time there, so seriously wtf is up with this place?
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 August 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
jeez sorry. have only been there twice myself, never had a problem. they didn't give refunds?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
They did, though I was perplexed that some people didn't accept theirs. I certainly took my $5 back.
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
spectacle rules; i'm sorry that happened!
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
Is it that one lady always running it?
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
J Hoberman presents the Reagan '80s at Linc Ctr
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/make-my-day-american-movies-in-the-age-of-reagan/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
oh and the Scorsese/Cocks twinbills are well under way
https://filmforum.org/series/marty-and-jays-double-features#now-playing
I may do 2x2 this Sunday....
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
I can recommend Hoberman's new book, Make My Day, which is a continuation of The Dream Life and Army of Phantoms, covering 1975-1988
― Josefa, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
tix on sale for LC's September retro of Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/two-free-women-lily-tomlin-jane-wagner/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
Shaw Sisters at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/239/shaw-sisters
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
Piotr Szulkin at LincCtr
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/sci-fi-visionary-piotr-szulkin/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
intriguing body-snatching twinbill at BAM next Saturday
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/invisible-adversaries-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Antonio Banderas retro at Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/laws-of-desire-the-films-of-antonio-banderas/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
5 by Bill Forsyth at MOMI
http://movingimage.us/programs/2019/09/27/detail/five-by-forsyth/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
NYC '81 at Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/247/nyc-81
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
And NYC horror coming up at BAM:
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/nyc-horror
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
now running at Quad
https://quadcinema.com/film/the-cotton-club-encore/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
and starting Friday... won't be able to hit as many as i'd like
https://filmforum.org/series/shitamachi-tales-of-downtown-tokyo
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 October 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
yeah, that looks fucking awesomehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_3ASO62lc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
Blake Edwards, selected by Julie Andrews, at Metrograph (and you will pay more to see Julie's appearances)
metrograph.com/series/series/248/blake-edwards-a-film-selection-by-julie-andrews
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
Julie Andrews is still alive?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
Bite your tongue! Of course she is
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
with the sound of...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
muesli
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
― Dan S, Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
re Shitamachi, also a Japan Society series
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6637-tokyo-in-new-york
https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/tokyo-stories-japan-in-the-global-imagination
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
Wow! Netflix is apparently saving — at least temporarily — New York's historic Paris Theatre, for showings of MARRIAGE STORY. If they actually acquire and reopen the place, they will generate a *lot* of goodwill in New York film circles.— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) October 18, 2019
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
It would be a smart move, yes. it's a lovely theater but their curation has been mostly uninteresting since at least the turn of the century.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
MoMA's Contenders:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5092
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
and a wide-ranging avant garde series
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5094
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
saw that Satantango will play again in December, feel like I should make the trip
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 October 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/movies/golden-age-of-mexican-cinema.html
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 October 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
shd've posted these Ritwik Ghatak links on Friday
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/poetry-and-partition-the-films-of-ritwik-ghatak/
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6668-ritwik-ghatak-non-conformist
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 November 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
Doubt I can make but yeah.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 November 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
any of you NYC snobs want to go to a free screening of the new Todd Haynes tnite at 6:00? Walter Reade @ LicCtr, and youd have to go with me.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
Would take you up on it but already spoken for tonight!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 November 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
Patricia Mazuy retro
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/rebel-spirit-the-films-of-patricia-mazuy/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
Lee Grant at FF... have never seen any of her documentaries, but it's strange that phase of her career seems forgotten.
https://filmforum.org/series/lee-grant-actor-filmmaker
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 November 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
Yeah. I didn’t recall that until I went to the FF site.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 November 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Korea '96-03 at LincCtr
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/relentless-invention-new-korean-cinema-1996-2003/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 November 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
woah this looks dope
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 November 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
They really are writing Kim Ki-duk out of the story, lol. Not complaining, would be much more interested in seeing those films.
― Frederik B, Friday, 22 November 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
Trying to remember the last Kim Ki-duk movie that even had any sort of cachet in the U.S. 3-Iron maybe?
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 22 November 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
He won the UCR award in Cannes in 2011, and the Golden Lion the year after. He also assaulted a lot of women, and has been consistently suing anyone who speaks out about it. Except for his former leading man, who basically confirmed the allegations.
― Frederik B, Friday, 22 November 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
Right, I'm just trying to remember the last time anyone seemed to gaf about his stuff in general here.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 22 November 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
(Side note: Gah, the last three Golden Lion winners.)
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 22 November 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
i am financially strapped so i note a number of these are on Amaz0n Prime for free
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 November 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
about two weeks of Scorcese docs and non-fiction at Film Forum, December 6 to 17https://filmforum.org/series/scorsese-nonfiction#now-playingmarty in person on the 7th doing a Q&A with Kent Jones for ItalianAmerican and an intro to Last WaltzSchoonmaker introducing My Voyage to Italy on the 8th
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
Museum of Moving Image in Queensdoing an end of year curator's choice 12/20 to 1/12:
From festival favorites like The Souvenir, American Factory, Rafiki, Black Mother, and The Hottest August, to direct-to-streaming releases such as Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé and Cutting My Mother, to theatrical hits like Midsommar: Director’s Cut, Ad Astra, and The Lighthouse, to underappreciated masterstrokes such as Peterloo and Our Time, a multiplicity of forms and formats nevertheless witnessed a commonality of high quality.The 2019 edition of Curators’ Choice also includes personal appearances by filmmakers Ari Aster with Midsommar: Director’s Cut; Alex Ross Perry with Her Smell, Kent Jones with Diane, which stars Mary Kay Place, winner of Best Actress, Los Angeles Film Critics Association; Penny Lane with Hail Satan?; Brett Story with The Hottest August; Julia Reichert, Steve Bognar, and Jeff Reichert with American Factory; and with more to be announced soon. The series kicks off with a week-long 35mm engagement of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood.
The 2019 edition of Curators’ Choice also includes personal appearances by filmmakers Ari Aster with Midsommar: Director’s Cut; Alex Ross Perry with Her Smell, Kent Jones with Diane, which stars Mary Kay Place, winner of Best Actress, Los Angeles Film Critics Association; Penny Lane with Hail Satan?; Brett Story with The Hottest August; Julia Reichert, Steve Bognar, and Jeff Reichert with American Factory; and with more to be announced soon. The series kicks off with a week-long 35mm engagement of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
might go to Peterloo (chose to let my subscription lapse, which i will make pointless by paying gen public admission)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Varda at Lincoln Center
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/varda-a-retrospective/#films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
next month, as part of To Save and Project
The new restoration of MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933) premieres Jan. 17 & 20 at @MoMAFilm! Restored by the Archive and @Film_Foundation with funding from the George Lucas Family Foundation. https://t.co/0M4fl4gSky pic.twitter.com/pBgjryWkRV— UCLA Film & TV Archive (@UCLAFTVArchive) December 18, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 December 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
Single show screenings of oscar shortlist documentaries this Sunday through next Thursday.I will be rewatching Honeyland and seeing Aquarela on the big screen for sure. Prob catching Midnight Family; would do more but already heavily booked.http://www.ifccenter.com/series/oscars-spotlight-documentaries-2020/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
At MoMA, Show Me Love: International Teen Cinema
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6311
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
and, a Jack Lemmon matinee series!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 January 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
I saw Phffft! only bcz it was a holiday
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
Silent Clowns' new season launches Saturday with W.C. Fields in "So's Your Old Man" (1926)
special guest speaker: Dr. Harriet Fields, granddaughter of W.C. Fields
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
was phffft worth it?
i like this idea for a play, $20 tix:https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/the-conversationalists
James & Jerome create an original movie that plays only inside the audience's minds. This live "movie" is an international melodrama about the triangular friendship (and sometimes enemyship) between a Colombian-born Mexican-raised pop-ranchera star, her teenage son, and a Palestinian-born Jordanian-raised owner of a chess shop in Greenwich Village. The Conversationalists is experienced at once as a theater piece, a concert, a radio play, a night of storytelling, and a movie dreamed together.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
Phffft! was! I'd always wanted to see it and he and Judy Holliday are real good in it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
To Save and Project
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5188
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
I've seen a lot of these, but you should if you haven't
BLACK WOMENTrailblazing African American Performers & Images, 1920 – 2001
https://filmforum.org/series/black-women-trailblazing-african-american-performers-images-1920-2001
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 January 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
yeah, that's a good looking lineup!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 17 January 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
American Indies, 1980–1989 at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5190
I've seen all of these except Bless Their Little Hearts.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
“Now We Think as We Fuck” Queer Liberation to Activism
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5186
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 January 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.screenslate.com/features/1584https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6360LA Plays Itself and Sex Garage tonight didn't we have a guy/sock on here at one point who was "into" tailpipe fucking?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
wish I had planned better to make it up for the Come and See premiere at FF (right?) but it's in a couple weeks and it'll come here sometime this year
― flappy bird, Sunday, 2 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
weeklong Angela Schanelec retro at LincCtr... entirely unknown to me, but i aint asking Fred
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/dreamed-paths-the-films-of-angela-schanelec/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
If anyone else is interested, the best three imo are Passing Summer, The Dreamed Path and I Was at Home, But...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
more, by Pinkerton
https://www.artforum.com/film/nick-pinkerton-on-the-films-of-angela-schanelec-82115
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 February 2020 03:46 (four years ago) link
Television Movies: Big Pictures on the Small Screen (Fassbinder, Rossellini, Penn etc)
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5197
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
Preferred adjacent bar by NYC rep venue:Anthology- KGBBAM- Frank's I guess?Film Forum- n/aQuad- SpainMetrograph- Clockwork Lincoln Center- Ugh Malachy'sMoMA- Subway Inn but usually wind up at the nearer Judge Roy Bean or unbelievably atrocious Whiskey Trader— 𝖜𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖎𝖓 𝖉𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗 (@NickPinkerton) February 24, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
My choices would be
Anthology - LucienBAM - Frank's or OleaFilm Forum - good question, I dunnoQuad - Gene'sMetrograph - Kiki'sLincoln Center - Bar Bouloud? Not ideal thoughMoMA - St Regis Hotel, cuz you only live once
― Josefa, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
nice to see spain’s still kickin’
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
hi!
Makavejev at Anthology
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/52088
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
http://movingimage.us/programs/2020/03/04/detail/philip-k-dick-film-festival-2020/March 4 to March 8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 27 February 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
Black heroines at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5194
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2020 22:00 (four years ago) link
The Women Behind Hitchcock -- ie, films involving producer/writer Joan Harrison, and/or Alma Reville, with and without Hitch -- begins at Film Forum tomorrow. Weirdly, the FF site has been unreachable for hours, am I right?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
it is back
https://filmforum.org/series/the-women-behind-hitchcock
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
Daniel Craig retro at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5201
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
as well as Biograph/Edison restorations
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5199
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
Film Forum still opem, limiting capacity to 50%.
IFC and BAM still seem to be open.
I think that's it, among rep/art houses.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
Quad and Metrograph and Angelika are open.
Everyone is doing the 50% crowds thing; I guess that's what the mayor's office is demanding at the moment.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
Yes, got an email from local restaurant about implementing this policy as well.
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Nitehawk and Alamo are open. Spectacle has shut down.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
Nitehawk is cancelling all screenings. MOMA and MOMI out too.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
BAM doing 50% for now.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
(Siff in Seattle is closing, staff furloughed unfortunately)
― silby, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
dang, nitehawk JUST wrote me with their schedule. shit's still moving fast.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 13 March 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
not so film snobby, but, AMC theaters nationwide going to 50%, and max 250 seats.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 14 March 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
AMC Uptown (DC) just closed for good. My sister was constantly repeating rumors that AMC wanted to drop the place.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Saturday, 14 March 2020 03:11 (four years ago) link
IFC is closed through end of the month at least
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 March 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link
Alamo's out.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 14 March 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
Worth noting that the first screening to be cancelled by the Anthology shut-down was Robert Longo's Johnny Mneumonic (1995), which begins thusly. pic.twitter.com/bWKYO5ehYF— 𝖇𝖎𝖌 𝖇𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖓 𝖆𝖉𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 (@NickPinkerton) March 13, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 March 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
So has the Quad made a permanent decision to cut way back on their repertory screenings? They don't even print a monthly guide anymore. Was this because of the ownership change I read about a while back?
― Josefa, Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
that happened months ago, and yes, it seems
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
bummer, their programming used to rule. i basically stopped going for financial reasons - member price at FF or student price at Anthology just clobbers $16 for a not-super-great viewing experience.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
I had been looking fwd to this rarity in their scheduled Sellers sampler
https://quadcinema.com/film/mr-topaze/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
i like the quad! but its not as good as ff or anthology, i agree.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
BAM cinemas now closed, with no timely notice on their site til mid-afternoon to save me a trip. I shan't be renewing my membership anyway.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 March 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
Film Forum now closed too.
― MrDasher, Sunday, 15 March 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
well, I might as well be living in a basement in Sandusky now. Making a better living.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 March 2020 03:41 (four years ago) link
Quad is closed now too; I think they were the last.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 March 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
Sorry snobs :(
― silby, Monday, 16 March 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
I had no use for them but RIP anyway
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
ScreenSlate, Light Industry, and others have started a fundraiser to support NYC movie theater employees out of work because of COVID-19. I know one or two affected folks and I'm sure y'all do as well. Consider kicking in, say, what you might have spent on movies and concessions this week, and share in your networks!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
Spectacle is doing Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/spectaclenyc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/marquee
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
the hungarian film archives are streaming 39 classic hungarian films for free on their website - jancsó's the only one i've heard of here, anyone seen any of the others?
https://filmarchiv.hu/en/news/hungarian-classics-free-to-watch
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
You never heard of Colonel Redl?
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
Autocorrect wanted Colonel Redd.
Anyway, thanks, this will be yet another way to test my pitiful Duolingo Plus Hungarian.
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
Hong, Friday
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/yourself-and-yours/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
Amplifying Anthology Film Archives latest outreach; full links and additional statement of purpose here: https://mailchi.mp/anthologyfilmarchives/update_6_03_2020-622592
Since Anthology is, after all, a cinema and film archive, with a conviction that movies can foster engagement rather than distraction, we’d like to use the cinema as a lens to focus attention more squarely on the struggle, by sharing a list of films (available online from various sources) whose continuing relevance has been underlined in the wake of further instances of police brutality and the gross infringement of civil rights. The list itself (a highly selective and partial one) suggests, even at a glance, how entrenched racism has been and continues to be in our society, and illustrates the courage of those activists who have waged the fight for generations. • The 6-part documentary series REST IN POWER: THE TRAYVON MARTIN STORY (Jenner Furst & Julia Willoughby Nason, 2018) is an in-depth chronicle of the Trayvon Martin killing and its aftermath. • CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Stephen Maing, 2018) exposes systemic corruption within the NYPD via the story of the NYPD12, a group of NYC police officers who brought a lawsuit against the city and the department over racist and illegal policing practices. • WHOSE STREETS? (Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis, 2017) is one of the most important documentaries to emerge from the killing of Michael Brown and the subsequent protest movement in Ferguson/St. Louis. • Among the best of the films produced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Rodney King incident, John Ridley’s LET IT FALL: LOS ANGELES 1982-1992 (2017) is available on many different platforms. • Roger Guenveur Smith & Spike Lee’s RODNEY KING (2017) documents Smith’s one-man theatrical production. • Yance Ford’s personal documentary STRONG ISLAND (2017) charts the aftermath of the killing of his brother William Ford Jr. by a 19-year-old white mechanic, who was acquitted following an investigation that treated Ford more as a suspect than a murder victim. • FOR AHKEEM (Landon Van Soest & Jeremy S. Levine, 2017), an intimate and moving portrait of the daily life of a St. Louis high school student, was filmed over the course of two years, a period that saw the killing of Michael Brown and the subsequent protest movement. • Available to watch for free, STAY WOKE: THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT (Laurens Grant, 2016) chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement. • Two exposés of America’s system of mass incarceration and its devastating and disproportionate impact on African Americans: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (Eugene Jarecki, 2012) and Ava DuVernay’s 13th (2016). • THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 (Goran Hugo Olsson, 2011) is drawn from 16mm material shot by visiting Swedish journalists who documented some of the leading figures of the Black Power Movement, including Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, and Eldridge Cleaver. • Sherry Millner & Ernest Larsen’s 41 SHOTS (2000) is a short reflection on the murder of Amadou Diallo. • The 14-part history of the Civil Rights Movement that aired on PBS from 1987-90, EYES ON THE PRIZE remains a monumental achievement. • Shot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 (Howard Alk, Mike Gray & Film Group, 1969) charts the unlikely relationship between the Black Power movement in Chicago and the Young Patriots, a primarily white group that was beginning to organize around issues of social mobility, police brutality, and income inequity. • Santiago Alvarez’s still-vital short film NOW! (1965), depicting the civil rights struggle (and the brutal crackdown it incurred), can be viewed for free here. • James Blue’s classic film THE MARCH (1964) documents the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. • Madeline Anderson’s INTEGRATION REPORT 1 (1960) – the first known documentary film by an African American female director – examines the struggle for black equality in Alabama, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/new-yorks-indie-movie-theaters-are-cautiously-preparing-reopen
Because of the challenge of operating a restaurant within the theater — and having nearly 180 employees who’d need to feel safe coming back to work — Viragh said Nitehawk may not open until next year, and he doesn’t expect business to get back to pre-pandemic levels for another 18 months to two years.Meanwhile, at Film Forum in SoHo, the full expectation is to reopen next month... “So my colleagues and I have been developing programming to start July 29th.” Cooper said that when the theater reopens, attendees will be seated in a checkerboard pattern, so no one is directly next to or behind anyone. Certain staff members will be solely dedicated to cleaning and disinfecting. And ticket-sellers and concessionists will work behind plexiglass windows.For now, Film at Lincoln Center has pivoted to showing movies in virtual, online screening rooms (as have Film Forum and Nitehawk). Executive Director Lesli Klainberg said the viewership so far has been minimal. Klainberg said her organization’s biggest event of the year, the New York Film Festival, is still on for its scheduled start date of September 25th. But depending on the reopening guidelines — and what feels safe — she and her staff are considering a mix of outdoor screenings, digital screenings, and events at other sites besides the Walter Reade.“My secret fear is that everyone is sitting at home watching every movie they’ve ever wanted to watch that they never had time to watch,” Klainberg said. “And when they come out of this, and everyone feels safe, we’re going to have to offer them something that’s new and unique and special, because that’s what they come to the movies for.”
Meanwhile, at Film Forum in SoHo, the full expectation is to reopen next month... “So my colleagues and I have been developing programming to start July 29th.” Cooper said that when the theater reopens, attendees will be seated in a checkerboard pattern, so no one is directly next to or behind anyone. Certain staff members will be solely dedicated to cleaning and disinfecting. And ticket-sellers and concessionists will work behind plexiglass windows.
For now, Film at Lincoln Center has pivoted to showing movies in virtual, online screening rooms (as have Film Forum and Nitehawk). Executive Director Lesli Klainberg said the viewership so far has been minimal. Klainberg said her organization’s biggest event of the year, the New York Film Festival, is still on for its scheduled start date of September 25th. But depending on the reopening guidelines — and what feels safe — she and her staff are considering a mix of outdoor screenings, digital screenings, and events at other sites besides the Walter Reade.
“My secret fear is that everyone is sitting at home watching every movie they’ve ever wanted to watch that they never had time to watch,” Klainberg said. “And when they come out of this, and everyone feels safe, we’re going to have to offer them something that’s new and unique and special, because that’s what they come to the movies for.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 12 June 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
Why is that a secret fear? Finally a challenge for studios more than programmers. This is as much if not more of an existential threat to theaters as TV was in the 1950s. There should be far more repertory programming in EVERY movie theater, and not just the same 20 Hollywood classics you see on posters and murals at Cinemarks and Cinebistros. Get stuff in there from literally any time. and SCREEN NETFLIX FILMS!
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 04:24 (three years ago) link
i imagine i'm not the only one feeling a lot of emotional twinges, skimming back over this thread this particular morning. i miss the movies, i miss these theaters. when it's possible, we should all go see something. and raise some glasses afterwards.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 22 October 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
Yeah, i am in.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 22 October 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
I'd love to come up to NYC for something like that.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 22 October 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
So, odd question maybe.
But why would a festival such as DOCNYC throttle streaming of their films online, so that screenings actually 'sell out'? What purpose does that serve? Like, I'd love to pay to screen a film or two, and it simply won't allow me to do so.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
I can only guess some unfathomable rights issues. All I know is that certain AFI Silver online streams are limited to households in the Washington, DC area, and others are more generally available. Were you required to put in a Zip code before being told that the screening was "sold out"?
(There are historic reasons for rights issues, including market-by-market rights deals and incompatible formats in different territories. But it BOILS MY BUTTOCKS when contemporary media submits to this throttling.)
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
No postal code required, streaming available throughout the US. But Sold Out, somehow?
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
I guess that to me, it snacks of... gatekeeper tendencies that the subject of the documentary in question would frown down upon. But, I digress.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
some guesses:1 - gives everyone the ability to point to "sold out DOC NYC" status 2 - continues to allow for the arbitrary assignment of "ticket cost" to each viewing and allows for specific minimum and maximum rights payments to the film owners so that the event organizers don't get submarined by paying too much or the creators by getting paid too little to screen3 - level playing field for everyone showing in the festival4 - technical issues that could potentially crash DOC NYC's backend
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
5 - ILPLEX, btw
Those all kiiiind of make sense, but still reek of gatekeeper tendencies, and sort of fall flat when everyone could be making more money if they just opened it up.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 19 November 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
Besides tech issues, the one that seems possible to me is being able to say "SOLD OUT at [x festival]," but in this instance that could easily be "OVERFLOW or SCREENINGS ADDED at [x festival]!"
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 November 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
also i imagine everyone wants to limit exposure somewhat so that they can eventually do a theatrical run somewhere and/or run it for sale of their own website and/or sell it to a digital distributor who knows it hasn't been fully saturated on the interwebs
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
THAT is convincing to me and not entirely based on bullshit.
Sorry for derail, btw, I was just very angry that I couldn't watch the new Wojnarowicz documentary.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 19 November 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah i am looking forward to that too and will let u know when it lands on ilplex
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
Thanks forks
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 20 November 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
"21st Century Japan: Films from 2001-2020" online film series hosted by Japan Society up now in the US. Keen to watch the new Sion Sono - anything else I should check out?
https://film.japansociety.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=film
― donna rouge, Sunday, 7 February 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
the New York African Film Festival is up now too, hope to catch something here: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/page/new-york-african-film-festival/
― donna rouge, Sunday, 7 February 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7286-jean-claude-carri-re-harvester-of-cinema
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
https://mailchi.mp/ifccenter.com/reopening
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
Film Forum too, in April, I think
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
Friday, April 2nd.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
Angelika is coming back: https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/nyc/showtimes-and-tickets/now-playing/2021-03-05
Anthology taking a wait and see attitude, which makes sense given that a lot of their staff likely volunteers.
BAM, Quad, Metrograph, MoMa, Spectacle, Lincoln Center, Nitehawk all still on radio silence.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
MoMA is open in some capacity. Maybe I can ask around about public screenings.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 February 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
meantime, screen slate revamped its website and is now listing select time-sensitive online screenings, and hosting some titles for streaming too
https://www.screenslate.com/
― donna rouge, Sunday, 28 February 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
yeah, i like them a lot.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 February 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
Nitehawk just announced a 25% reopen on friday... that and alamo are probably the riskiest of theatershttps://nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark/covid-prevention-at-nitehawk/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
yeah the dine-in model seems particularly tough to imagine going back to, at least until the numbers (vaccines, new cases, etc.) get wayyyyyyyy better. i am itching to finally spend the Nitehawk credit i got by returning a ticket to a show schedule for 3/12/20. but it can wait.
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
Seems about right?
Here’s what you can expect at IFC Center when we reopen:Mandatory masks at all times:Mandatory face coverings on staff and customers throughout the building at all timesNo concessions will be sold, and no eating or drinking allowed in the theaters, so there will be no reason for anyone to remove their masksSocial distancing:Reserved seating at all shows, so that you don’t have to arrive early to get the seat you wantAt least 6 feet of distance between seats available for purchase Reduced capacity of only 25% in all theaters—our biggest house is limited to a maximum of 50 moviegoers; the smaller rooms will have fewer seatsOnline and contactless ticketing and ticket scanning Longer gaps between shows so you won’t have to line up to wait for your theater to open for seatingFeatures (not the preshows) begin at the showtime to allow you to control the amount of time you’re in the building: Arrive 15 minutes before the showtime to catch the trailers and a short film before the feature, with lights up until showtime; or show up right at showtime if you only want to catch the main eventBuilding sanitation:Newly installed hospital-grade MERV-13 air filtrationSeats will be sanitized in between showsTouchless hand-sanitizer stations will be available throughout the complexBathrooms will be sanitized hourlyYour cooperation with our new guidelines will be important for everyone's safety, so we appreciate your diligence. These policies and instructions will be visible on signage throughout the building as well. And as always, if you are feeling sick, please stay home.
Mandatory masks at all times:Mandatory face coverings on staff and customers throughout the building at all timesNo concessions will be sold, and no eating or drinking allowed in the theaters, so there will be no reason for anyone to remove their masksSocial distancing:Reserved seating at all shows, so that you don’t have to arrive early to get the seat you wantAt least 6 feet of distance between seats available for purchase Reduced capacity of only 25% in all theaters—our biggest house is limited to a maximum of 50 moviegoers; the smaller rooms will have fewer seatsOnline and contactless ticketing and ticket scanning Longer gaps between shows so you won’t have to line up to wait for your theater to open for seatingFeatures (not the preshows) begin at the showtime to allow you to control the amount of time you’re in the building: Arrive 15 minutes before the showtime to catch the trailers and a short film before the feature, with lights up until showtime; or show up right at showtime if you only want to catch the main eventBuilding sanitation:Newly installed hospital-grade MERV-13 air filtrationSeats will be sanitized in between showsTouchless hand-sanitizer stations will be available throughout the complexBathrooms will be sanitized hourlyYour cooperation with our new guidelines will be important for everyone's safety, so we appreciate your diligence. These policies and instructions will be visible on signage throughout the building as well. And as always, if you are feeling sick, please stay home.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
man.... i miss the movies so bad but i'm not sure what the pandemic stats would have to look like for this to feel safe. i don't have any sense that there's even like, a strong, growing core of vaccinated folks in nyc at this moment.50 people in that big room at IFC feels both bleakly depopulated and, virus-wise, still way way too crowded.any of their other rooms... O_o
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I'm laughing at what safe would mean in terms of IFC's smallest room (Theater 5, I think they call it). The screen is barely six feet from the seats. Maybe a person/couple in each corner of the room and a fifth person/couple in the middle?
― Josefa, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:19 (three years ago) link
if that... that room is like a glorified corridor, i would guess they don't even use it at first.
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 12:06 (three years ago) link
i can't imagine them using theater 5 for anything other than private parties until the necessity of masks pass.in general, I'm going to hold off until i'm two weeks past my second jab but I'm willing to try to see if I can watch a movie under a mask. gonna miss popcorn though.
also:
New York City’s iconic arthouse cinema, Angelika Film Center & Cafe (the “Angelika”), owned and operated by Reading International, Inc. (NASDAQ:RDI), will welcome back film lovers on Friday, March 5 at its flagship location in Soho. The Angelika will open with extensive sanitization and safety measures creating an environment carefully designed to address COVID-19 concerns.In alignment with the reopening, two Manhattan theaters – Village East Cinema at 189 2nd Avenue and Cinema 123 at 1001 Third Avenue in Manhattan – have joined the Angelika Film Center circuit and will now be known as Village East by Angelika (“Village East”) and Cinema 123 by Angelika (“Cinema 123”), respectively. The Village East is known by Manhattan moviegoers for its landmark auditorium, formerly home to the Jaffe Art Theater. In more recent years, the Village East has delighted cinephiles with stunning 70 mm and 35 mm programming, alongside curated repertory series and an eclectic mix of indie hits and arthouse gems. Cinema 123 has been a neighborhood staple since 1962, and now features luxury recliner seats in its three auditoriums. This Midtown spot always provides audiences with a signature blend of high caliber blockbusters with the industry’s latest awards-worthy arthouse films, alongside its Intelligentsia coffee and café treats. We are so thrilled to finally welcome back movie lovers and are proud to maintain the integrity of these two Manhattan staples while bringing them the Angelika’s standard for best-in-class arthouse, independent and international film,” said Kelley Anderson, the Angelika’s director of marketing.
In alignment with the reopening, two Manhattan theaters – Village East Cinema at 189 2nd Avenue and Cinema 123 at 1001 Third Avenue in Manhattan – have joined the Angelika Film Center circuit and will now be known as Village East by Angelika (“Village East”) and Cinema 123 by Angelika (“Cinema 123”), respectively.
The Village East is known by Manhattan moviegoers for its landmark auditorium, formerly home to the Jaffe Art Theater. In more recent years, the Village East has delighted cinephiles with stunning 70 mm and 35 mm programming, alongside curated repertory series and an eclectic mix of indie hits and arthouse gems.
Cinema 123 has been a neighborhood staple since 1962, and now features luxury recliner seats in its three auditoriums. This Midtown spot always provides audiences with a signature blend of high caliber blockbusters with the industry’s latest awards-worthy arthouse films, alongside its Intelligentsia coffee and café treats.
We are so thrilled to finally welcome back movie lovers and are proud to maintain the integrity of these two Manhattan staples while bringing them the Angelika’s standard for best-in-class arthouse, independent and international film,” said Kelley Anderson, the Angelika’s director of marketing.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
as an aside: i've seen a few movies at IFC (jiro dreams of sushi comes to mind) where i showed up late to theater 5 and got jammed into the farthermost front row seat on the right or left... it's like being at a drive-in and staring straight up
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
Publicly traded art house!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
Quad is opening tomorrow as wellhttps://quadcinema.com/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
Alamo is apparently bankrupt.https://variety.com/2021/film/news/alamo-drafthouse-bankruptcy-chapter-11-sale-1234920558/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
which is not to say that they're closing.
“Alamo Drafthouse had one of its most successful years in the company’s history in 2019 with the launch of its first Los Angeles theater and box office revenue that outperformed the rest of the industry,” Taylor said in a statement. “We’re excited to work with our partners at Altamont Capital Partners and Fortress Investment Group to continue on that path of growth on the other side of the pandemic, and we want to ensure the public that we expect no disruption to our business and no impact on franchise operations, employees and customers in our locations that are currently operating.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/movies/new-york-movie-theaters-guide.html
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 March 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
Lincoln Center is back on April 16
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
https://hyperallergic.com/629842/new-york-city-movie-theaters-reopening
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 March 2021 10:51 (three years ago) link
Beard was developing an ambitious King Vidor program for Film at Lincoln Center with Dan Sullivan, an undertaking involving coordination with multiple archives.
*tries not to hyperventilate**fails*
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 26 March 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link
http://www.movingimage.us/
Museum of Moving Image is coming back April 30
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
anyone catch any new directors/new films titles (remote or in-person)?
― donna rouge, Monday, 3 May 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
i imagine i'm not the only one feeling a lot of emotional twinges, skimming back over this thread this particular morning. i miss the movies, i miss these theaters. when it's possible, we should all go see something. and raise some glasses afterwards.― Doctor Casino, Thursday, October 22, 2020 9:23 AM (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, October 22, 2020 9:23 AM (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Would anyone be interested in meeting up August 16 or 17 for something like this? (I'm making my Capitolfest [August 13-15] plans, and am trying to decide whether or not to come back via NYC and spend a few days.)
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
I'm open to the 16th! Leaving town to house-sit on the 17th.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
some series notes:* check off any Bogart you're missing at Film Forum, second half of July: https://filmforum.org/series/bogart* next few days: Cinema Village doing a couple of Abel Ferrara films plus films picked by Ferrara, for five bucks a ticket. https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/abel-ferrara-s-cinema-village.html I caught El Topo the other night, might try and squeeze in The Projectionistanthology and metrograph are still closed. quad is open with some new releases, MOMI and MOMA with some appealing repertory choices, BAM with a mix of both, but no elaborate programs yet from any of the above. FSLC is showing what they would have shown for last year's NYFF plus a few new restorations. still hoping somebody gambles on an "in case you missed it" series running all the big 2020 movies i didn't get to see on the big screen. is anybody talking about that? a few of the oscar-honored movies got a brief boost in some of the chains, but NYC's theaters were barely even reopening at that time and they've since been replaced by F9, In the Heights, and two different horse movies for the whole family.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Monday, 5 July 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link
Wong Kar Wai at IFC all this month: https://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-world-of-wong-kar-wai/
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
Would anyone be interested in meeting up August 16 or 17 for something like this? (I'm making my Capitolfest [August 13-15] plans, and am trying to decide whether or not to come back via NYC and spend a few days.)― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, June 29, 2021 8:44 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, June 29, 2021 8:44 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
In the event anyone had this on their calendar, I will not be swinging by NYC after all. But I do hope to visit later in the year, in memory of Morbs.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 25 July 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
Sure, please let us know.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 July 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
right on.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 25 July 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
Updates: Anthology re-opened last month without too much fanfare. Metrograph re-opens this Friday!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
Metrograph re-opens this Friday!
Showing Żuławski's Possession no less!
― Josefa, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
bummed their ticket price has inched up once again, but, yknow, pandemic, i get it.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
Hate to see what they're asking for their giant candy now
― Josefa, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
it was truly the perfect MoviePass venue. i love seeing movies there, especially in the big room, but often feel like the schmanciness of everything in the front of the house is some sort of subtle signal that it's for rich people and i actually shouldn't be there.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
You too can be rich with giant candy and eat carpaccio after
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
I see that MoMI is open today. Thinking of seeing the 6:30 screening of Bride of Frankenstein.
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
Go for it! I might try and catch it next weekend. I've been there a few times since reopening - Thief, Ran, Tenet. Really wish they could have built a wider/bigger screening room, but the quality of the projections themselves is always gorgeous.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
So that was yesterday and maybe today The Old Dark House.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 October 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link
New print of that is gorgeous
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
Seems like the husband of The Bride is in it too.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 October 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
Super charming movie iirc.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 24 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
Four people here. Plenty of room if you are just passing by.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
Sadly, MOMI is always a "destination" theater for me (Bushwick-based these days). Sit back, enjoy the show, have a potato.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 24 October 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Heh
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 October 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
Now I kind of want to read the book
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 October 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
This movie is a great favourite of mine, and I did read the book (Benighted by J. B. Priestley). My memory of it is a bit dim, but I do recall it being a bit of a slog to get through - it's very heavy on long, earnest discussions about life and love (some of which appear, in abbreviated form, in the film). Reading it satisfied my curiosity, but didn't really enhance my enjoyment of the film. And the performances and atmosphere in the film are so incredible that the book seems flat by comparison.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 25 October 2021 02:59 (two years ago) link
Thanks. Next question is how much trouble should I go to to see Gods and Monsters.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
Speaking of MOMI, they've announced the next See It Big series, with the theme of "Extravaganzas." Some pretty fun stuff in there!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
Film Forum's Road Movies series starts Friday the 12th and is chockablock with classics, plus a few lesser-known items. A ton of these are on my personal watchlist, woohoo!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
well this will be interestinghttps://gothamist.com/food/coming-soon-ny-movie-theaters-beer-wine
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 January 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
Toshiro Mifune at Film Forum, 2/11 to 3/10.
I still haven't seen several of the big Kurosawas, so I'm excited just for that. But I should try and branch out too... any recommendations?
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
all the samurai trilogy are great
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 February 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link
Wow, my county’s liquor laws suck but we allow alcohol in theaters. Surprised you guys don’t have that.
― Chris L, Thursday, 3 February 2022 06:40 (two years ago) link
Per the U.S. Constitution, liquor laws are devolved to the state level (and some of these states pass on the privilege to subjurisdictions). It's a matter of negotiating with one legislature at a time.
Dames, Janes, Dolls, and Canaries: Women Stars of the Pre-Code Era
If you have access to this and are NOT going, why the eff not? Hoping the AFI Silver/Capitolfest/National Gallery of Art programmers are taking notes....
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 3 February 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
good catch on that moma program, i might see the lubitsch tomorrow
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 February 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
Why do I bookmark this thread? I'm on the other side of the continent. If not for that fact, and the fact that I'm trying not to become infected, I would be at so many of these screenings. On my last trip to NY I saw "Call Her Savage" (a pre-code talkie w/Clara Bow) at MoMA. Excellent.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 4 February 2022 07:55 (two years ago) link
It feels like all of a sudden the great series are piling up frenetically and overwhelmingly on top of each other, just like old times. At BAM: Brazilian Modernism and Cicely Tyson. Film Forum's got the New York 1945-1955 thing. MOMI's got little short things, e.g. the Bogdanovich tribute that's just Saint Jack and At Long Last Love.... and now you tell me about this thing at MOMA!
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link
One hour with you was a lot of fun!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
That one is grebt!
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
I have been skeptical of the lubitsch musicals and chevalier in general but this was a humdinger, feels due for a remake
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
This number is incredibly catchy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24V9FPnsJs
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, that look he throws.It was a really really good print too
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
Wait, did you guys mention this yet?
The festival concludes with the North American premiere theatrical run (February 4–10) of Valerio Zurlini’s La prima notte di quiete (Indian Summer) (1972)—an austere, tragic romance starring Alain Delon as a failed poet—in its original, uncut Italian version.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
went and saw Her Man (1930) at MoMA today; it was great and Helen Twelvetrees is a find!https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/her-man-tay-garnett-1930/
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 February 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link
Not sure how long this has been going on, but whoever's programming the Netflix-owned Paris Theater seems to have decided that if their venue is going to primarily be a vehicle for Netflix films to maintain awards qualification, they might as well also show other interesting stuff too. currently: a list of appealing titles (La Cienaga, Under the Skin, Kiarostami's Where Is The Friend's House?) that apparently inspired The Lost Daughter. coming up: a one-week Jane Campion retrospective, all on 35mm, in parallel with daily screenings of Power of the Dog (if, like me, you're wishing you'd seen it on a big-ass screen instead of an IFC basement room). i haven't been yet, but it seems like they've made a serious play for inclusion in the NYC repertory circuit!
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 7 March 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
Oh hi. I actually went and saw Power of the Dog there early on under the auspices of MUBI GO and yeah.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
Eraserhead, FWWM and Mulholland Drive on 35mm coming up at BAM...
https://www.bam.org/film/2022/lynchian?alttemplate=MobileProgram
― Priory, Friday, 11 March 2022 12:31 (two years ago) link
weeraseethakul's Memoria is coming back to the IFC for a post omicron run
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
Just breaking: disgruntled film patron stabs two MoMA employees after his membership is revoked.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link
Mike Rubin was there when it happened. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/nyregion/moma-stabbing.html
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:22 (two years ago) link
Wow, that's terrifying. Good to read that the victims are in stable condition, at least.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 March 2022 03:07 (two years ago) link
In some good news: Kim's Video collection is returning to NYC!
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
Also, wonder what is the deal with Bronco Bullfrog. I am intrigued.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 March 2022 21:26 (two years ago) link
ICYMI: IFC has started that second one-week run of Memoria.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 April 2022 12:17 (one year ago) link
Also, Film Forum has kicked off their month-long Poitier and His Contemporaries series, with a hell of a lineup:
https://filmforum.org/series/sidney-poitier-his-trailblazing-contemporaries
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 April 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
Got my eye on this Daniel Talbot memoir.
― 20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
MOMA unveils jam-packed summer horror series, with ten week-long sub-themes and tons of big titles.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
Coming up at Film Forum: 1962...1963...1964, featuring, well, films from those years.
They're also currently re-running some highlights from the Mifune series, ICYMI!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 July 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
Update to the above: it's actually one-third of a mega-program, in tandem with FSLC (showing NYC experimental films of the period) and the Jewish Museum (exhibiting work by NYC artists of the period). Ticket stubs at each yield discounts for the other two!
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/new-york-1962-1964-underground-and-experimental-cinema/#schedule
https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/new-york-1962-1964
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/style/new-york-film-noir-cinema.html
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 21 July 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
Enjoyed MY OLD SCHOOL at the Film Forum. The director is supposed to be there for the last screenings on Friday and Saturday.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
re: johnny crunch's link, I've been meaning to check out Film Noir for ages. Seems like Spectacle but with an even more idiosyncratic/individual taste guiding the programming (for better and for worse). I think I overlook it because the listings don't seem to consistently show up on Screen Slate (and often have no descriptions on the venue website).
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
What’s the closest/best subway stop for the Nitehawk?
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 August 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Oh wait, are there two Nitehawks?
I guess for the one it is obv 15 Street-Prospect Park.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 August 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Maybe I can just go to BAM instead.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 August 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
I used to watch this show religiously and may start watching again. Would kind of like to see what Gary Giddins says about The Third Man.https://tv.cuny.edu/show/citycinematheque/PR2002890
― When Harpo Played His ARP (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
I even once ran into the host one afternoon and had a nice little chat.
I'd be all over this series of UFOfology films at Anthology right now, but I've seen most of them more than once.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 November 2022 06:45 (one year ago) link
Got my eye on THE RUNNER at the Film Forum, probably can’t make it tonightz
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Just enjoyed THE RUNNER. Which I gone 24 hours earlier though and seen the director in person.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
wish i went with ya! i need to see banshees still.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 November 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
We can always go see MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM. Oh wait. Please kill me first.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 06:52 (one year ago) link
kill me in the bathroom
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Heh. Reminds me of Adam Roth’s routine about Johnny Thunders.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
Something about imaging or actually seeing the boots of a nodded-out Thunders peeking out in the CBGB’s bathroom like the Wicked Witch of the East’s ruby red slippers under the house of Dorothy Gale. Then a riff about people saying when he did die that it was a conspiracy. “Yeah, a conspiracy that he didn’t die soon.” But I digress.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
Sooner
Anyway NYC ILX film snobs should run don’t walk to The Film Forum and see THE RUNNER, which goes right up there to the top of of the list of films involving cute precocious kids and trains along with PATHER PANCHALI and THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
Really want to see the new Polish donkey movie.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
andale andale mama EI EI EOoooooooooo
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
love this sign, love this story, love this banana breadhttps://www.screenslate.com/articles/jacques-derrida-loves-banana-bread
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 November 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
My wife and I are making a rare trip to NYC this weekend and are supposed to see Welles' The Trial at Film Forum. Will be my second time there in my life.
― Chris L, Friday, 9 December 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
(At FF, not New York)
― Chris L, Friday, 9 December 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
get the bundt cake AND the banana bread imoalso an egg cream
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 December 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
Karen Cooper stepping down at the Film Forum?
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/movies/karen-cooper-film-forum-new-york-director.html
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
She will still be around in an advisory capacity. Sonya Chung, who I am unfamilar with, will be taking over her role. Mike and Bruce will still be around so it sounds like a smooth transition.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.artforum.com/news/karen-cooper-who-led-new-york-s-film-forum-for-fifty-years-to-step-down-89958
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
looks like minimal drama
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
pretty cool silent series here:
SILENT FILMS / LIVE MUSIC at Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey Street in ManhattanCurated by John SchaeferNo RSVP is required. Seating is first come, first served. Free popcorn while supplies last.
https://bfplny.com/event/electric-appalachia/ELECTRIC APPALACHIA on Jan 25 at 7:30pmScored and performed live by Mary Lattimore and William Tyler.The Acclaimed Silent Films/Live Music series is back in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place!Experience the first evening of the Silent Films/Live Music series with the New York premiere of “Electric Appalachia.” Using found archival footage, the film offers a meditation on electricity and modernity in East Tennessee. Compiled by Eric Dawson (director at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound – TAMIS) with score written and performed by guitarist William Tyler and harpist Mary Lattimore.
https://bfplny.com/event/the-kid/The Kid on Jan 26 at 7:30pmScored and performed live by Yasmin WilliamsThe acclaimed Silent Films/Live Music series is back in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place! Join us for the second evening to watch the world premiere of Yasmin Williams’ new score set to the 1921 Charlie Chaplin classic, “The Kid.” This funny and deeply humane film stars a young Jackie Coogan in his first role and was Chaplin’s first full-length film as a director.
https://bfplny.com/event/passionofjoanofarc/The Passion of Joan of Arc on Jan 27 at 7:30pmScored and performed live by David Cieri.Join us for the finale of the Silent Film/Live Music series in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place with a film that is widely regarded as a landmark of cinema, “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” The finale is scored and performed by composer David Cieri with his ensemble of instruments and vocalists.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
Thanks!Came to post: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-regal-movie-theater-in-union-square-is-closing-012023Have been there in ages so reallly don't care, maybe I should. Just so long as the Regal UA Kaufman Astoria stays open.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:30 (one year ago) link
my snob note is that i havent seen a movie in a mainstream megaplex since gravity
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 January 2023 21:03 (one year ago) link
Film at Lincoln Center announces Unspeakable: The Films of Tod Browning, a retrospective of the pioneering filmmaker’s career consisting of 17 films presented almost entirely on 35mm, running from March 17 through 26.
Tod Browning (1880–1962) ranks among the most original and enigmatic filmmakers of his time. Born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., son of a middle-class family, he ran away from his Kentucky home at age 16 to join the circus, where he took jobs as a barker, a contortionist, a clown, and a somnambulist buried alive in a box with its own ventilation system. Following a stint in vaudeville and adopting the moniker Tod (German for “death”), Browning eventually found a home in cinema as an actor until a life-altering car accident placed him behind the camera. He went on to direct a series of underworld melodramas, including nine films starring Priscilla Dean (Outside the Law and Drifting), before making some of the most bizarre and eerily atmospheric films of the silent era with Lon Chaney (in a 10-film collaboration including The Unknown, widely considered Browning’s masterpiece). Chaney’s death in 1930 coincided with the director’s transition to sound, notably with his genre-defining version of Dracula starring Bela Lugosi and his transgressive, career-tarnishing Freaks, later reappraised by Andrew Sarris as “one of the most compassionate films ever made.” Browning has been described as one of cinema’s thorniest humanists as well as “the first diabolist of the cinema,” whose influence can be seen in the work of David Lynch, John Waters, Guillermo del Toro, and David Cronenberg. Though Browning’s films retain complex moral ambiguities, a glance at this transgressive body of work reveals a visionary with an eye for stylization and memorable performances from Hollywood stars and non-professional actors. His groundbreaking achievements in horror and underworld melodramas were typified by incisive manifestations of beauty, alongside lifelong personal obsessions with the sideshow milieu, criminality and retribution, and psychosexual innuendo.
The series will almost entirely be comprised of 35mm screenings of Browning’s films, including the beloved Dracula, considered the director’s only true horror film and an understated and elegantly stylized masterpiece of the uncanny; Freaks, a transgressive, unnerving work pitched somewhere between daringly compassionate and—despite its infamous “one of us” chant—charged with the very horrors it denounces; The Unholy Three, an unsettling melodrama that stars Lon Chaney as a ventriloquist and follows a trio of swindlers and former sideshow castmates who impersonate a respectable family of shopkeepers; and the rarely screened Dollar Down, a partially lost morality tale pertaining to a different kind of horror: that of a middle-class family living beyond their means and falling prey to moneylenders. The series will also feature a new restoration of The Unknown—a Freudian pile-up of repressed desires, castration anxiety, and Oedipal subtext, and widely considered Browning’s crowning achievement—including approximately 10 minutes of previously lost shots and sequences.
Select screenings of Browning’s silent films will feature live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin, one of the foremost silent film composers in the world, with 49 years of performing at major film festivals and archives, joined by Joanna Seaton for Outside the Law (1920).
Tickets go on sale on Thursday, February 23 at noon, with early access for FLC Members beginning Wednesday, February 22 at noon. Tickets are $15 for the General Public; $12 for Students, Seniors, and Persons with Disabilities; and $10 for FLC Members. See more and save with a 3+ Film Package (discount automatically applied in cart). Limited $79 All-Access Passes and $39 Student All-Access Passes also available.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 February 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
Cool. Dave Kehr is wild about OUTSIDE THE LAW.
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 February 2023 04:16 (one year ago) link
If I had nothing going on, an $80 all-Browning fortnight sounds good.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 February 2023 05:05 (one year ago) link
RIght. No doubt you will be at IFC during some of that, wearing your Carpenter(s) tee.
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 February 2023 05:07 (one year ago) link
Sorry, that was coming from a place of camaraderie, but feel to FP me if you must.
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 February 2023 05:08 (one year ago) link
tee's long since worn out but i likely will be at this during thathttps://www.ifccenter.com/films/midnight-run/
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 February 2023 05:09 (one year ago) link
just checked my schedule and it's a busy calendar block... i think i'm out every night on that run already!
https://shuckedmusical.com/https://roulette.org/event/rafael-riqueni-flamenco-guitar-master-rba/https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/la-mezcla-255https://roulette.org/event/lucie-vitkova-pieces-from-darkness/https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/ecstatic-music-william-tyler-yasmin-williams/https://roulette.org/event/string-theories-2-the-string-orchestra-of-brooklyn-and-andrew-yee/https://ra.co/events/1658764https://www.targetmargin.org/pericles/https://roulette.org/event/john-zorns-new-masada-quartet-2/
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 February 2023 05:12 (one year ago) link
i am terrified of what shucked is gonna be but i love brandy clark so
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 February 2023 05:14 (one year ago) link
TS Jean Moreau vs. Tod Browning
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/movies/lumiere-an-actress-destined-to-be-in-the-light.html
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/flc-and-janus-films-welcome-you-to-the-dirty-stories-of-jean-eustache/
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 June 2023 12:06 (nine months ago) link
How did I miss this thread?
Anybody catch the Béla Tarr films screening at Lincoln Center?
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 06:49 (nine months ago) link
Finally saw The Mother and the Whore all the way through. Amazing. It feels like the last and best new wave film.
― Josefa, Monday, 3 July 2023 02:28 (eight months ago) link
Josefa otm. But came to post that I am intrigued by Winter Kills at the Film Forum.
― Zing Harvest (Has Surely Come) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 August 2023 12:28 (seven months ago) link
It's not bad.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 August 2023 12:32 (seven months ago) link
But not as good as you might be led to think it is
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 August 2023 01:22 (seven months ago) link
Stoked to get tickets for the Oct 9 showing of Wiseman's Menus-Plaisirs les Troisgros at NYFF
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 07:45 (six months ago) link
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-long-strange-trips-of-wojciech-jerzy-has/
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 March 2024 23:25 (two weeks ago) link
^Annette Insdorf will introduce THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT this evening
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 March 2024 16:23 (six days ago) link
Still holds up
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 March 2024 01:56 (five days ago) link
And the intro was entertaining and useful
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 March 2024 01:57 (five days ago) link