All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

you might check if any NYC stores will rent you OOP Shoah discs.

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.

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/

Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

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

goin to anythg else this week?

i wish i could! today was really it, unless i find something worth hitting during the afternoon tmrow or fri

maybe will do 'the oak' @ moma @ 4 tomorrow

didn't realize we were having concurrent zulawski retros (going to a later-than-i'd-like screening of 'possession' tonight)

Our retro has better weather

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

Wow.

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

they must be cranky cuz this conflicts w/ dinner

I saw it again the other night and yeah, the renovation trip makes it feel very EXCLUSIVE.

Try not to sit near anybody.

the disgusting savage to my left just took his shoes off

haha, good, your'e getting the quintessential MoMA experience. Now hope he takes out a bag of plums and his dentures.

wait, whiney is a film snob?

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

reallY? Where is that?

cinefamily as well

jeeez. Maybe I should finally join Cinefamily. Going to any more Zulawski this w/e? Do we need an LA film snob thread?

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

I want to go to those too, but they will be last-minute calls, provided they don't sell out

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

hm interesting, i liked 'the oak' a lot btw

amazing, wasn't it... i'd forgotten nearly all of it since '92

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.

otm, irrespective of what film you are talking about

skipped Possession, I guess cuz I never liked Ghostbusters (that one time I saw it 28 years ago).

anyone seen Attenberg?

Yes, I've seen it. It is...of interest.

Is the Terrence Davies retrospective on at BAM?

next week.

you should go

yeah, I've never seen the Trilogy or Distant Voices..., probly will

If you've never seen Distant Voices Still Lives, you are in for a treat

Haven't seen Attenberg but I worked a little bit on and can briefly be seen in her prior feature.

awwww <3

Nina Menkes, anyone?

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=3&year=2012#showing-38862

wow, I didn't know Attenberg dir had NYU/UT connex, or was in Slacker.

menkes tonight. maybe.

Liked Queen of Diamonds

My friend's latest co-curated MoMA series: DUTCH silent-comedy shorts!

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1253

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!)

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...

Those Dutch shorts look great, I know Franz Zwartjes but the rest are an intriguing mystery

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?

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

yeah, i know some of the "film scene" here through her and m4rk i guess

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