All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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....

Thinking about going to Lincoln center to see this Alf Sjöberg thing tonight.

I may go to The Girl with Hyacinths there at 5:15, after this at 2:

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

Did not go after all. Instead stayed home and watched a Resnais called Melo that I had borrowed from the NYPL.

Gonna try to hit DDR/DDR @Anthology at 6:30

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

my friend who works there told me they're canceling the screening (the print they rented is badly damaged)

thanks (tho I was likely skipping it)

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 19th
1930's Ambitious Women Pre-Code Matinee Double Feature
3:00 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 20th
Brunch 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

3 weeks of Anthony Mann at FF:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2003

NY Asian FF:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/nyasianff10.html

Really pleased that Mann retrospective lines up with the time I'll be in NYC

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...

aiming for Man of the West

i'm attempting the joan rivers doc/'marat/sade' two-fer at BAM tomorrow night. i wonder which one will be more punishing?

That's one hell of a double bill.

I have the Marat/Sade soundtrack!

is that with Joan in-person after? :o More frightening than any William Castle stunt.

Babs Stanwyck brings the scissors in The Furies tonight at FF

http://www.artforum.com/film/id=25942

want to go, not sure i can :/

'marat/sade' was incredible btw. did anyone attempt 'salo' on the 4th?

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

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?

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

What is Rehearsals For Retirement? Is that the Machinima one?

The Summer schedule at Doc looks great. Will probably make it out for the Borzage.

What is Rehearsals For Retirement? Is that the Machinima one?

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.

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

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.

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

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!

He's right, you should see Injury to One, it is good.

Two early, little-seen Mann noirs at FF today. von Stroheim!

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.

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.

so you can see all 8 hours of Warhol's Empire tom'w

(not me)

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

apparently 20 ppl out of 28 stuck around for all of 'empire'! i wonder if they ordered in pizza.

a friend went for about 30 mins, took photos and tweeted

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.

The Devils sold out tonight, I'm going tom'w.

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/kenrussell.html

Glenn Kenny on Film Forum 3D fest:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2133

Wish I lived in NYC,, The Safdies' "Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema" retrospective at BAM looks GREAT: http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2405

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.

I was at the 7:50!

Might go to Straight Time @BAM on Sunday if I can get back from CT

At Lincoln Center:

The Sign of Rohmer
August 18 to September 3

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.

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.

And I just saw Cinemaniac Jack again, walking the streets of Tribeca.

I guess I've never seen Rohmer's Sign of Leo, so I guess I'll go tonight!

didn't make it, actually

debating V Price / 3 Stooges

http://www.filmforum.org/films/classic3d.html#mad

gonna try FF's sole screening of When Strangers Marry tonight, Robert Mitchum's first starring role in a Wm Castle B.

FF membership just lapsed, please remind me to re-up.