All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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

Emailing u

so do we need to change ttitle to "bicoastal"?

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.

also dr, I finally succumbed & got BAM Cinematek membership, so put curatorial staff on notice. ;)

but do you guys have a giant rock????

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.

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?

Eric now cops to hating movies, he is purged.

Sounds about right

xp

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

I'm having trouble watching movies myself these days but I did manage to see This Is Not a Film

T Davies essentials the next 2 nights at BAM (trilogy & DV,SL)

anybody been to ND/NF this year? just bought a ticket for Las Acacias at MoMA at 4pm.

I usually go on opening night but couldn't get over there this year

screening of Wild in the Streets on Tuesday @ The Kitchen, followed by panel w/ Greil Marcus:

http://thenewinquiry.com/features/11242/

Sara Driver, yay or nay? (Anthology)

^ was rather nonplussed bySleepwalk...

looking fwd to Walter Hill's Hard Times at BAM tomw tho

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

all the "alt" screenings yeah! let me know what you like....

http://altscreen.com/

thanks! may try to squeeze a screening in on monday or tuesday if something looks good

Hey snobs

http://whitney.org/Events/RareLosAngelesFilmsThomAndersen

can't make that but i've seen about half of them already now

wd like to see LAPI again

hope one of you new yorkers sees the markopouloseses at anthology tonight

those hadn't dented my brain, not sure I can.

The other Biennial screenings look good too:
http://whitney.org/FilmAndVideo

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

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'

whoa who made that last one?

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/daydream-therapy

christ, cinefamily needs to get someone to write better program copy. "the aching beauty of bela tarr"? "bone-chillingly stark beauty"? barf.

also 9:45 is awfully late to be starting a screening of 'werckmeister' but i have never seen it so

those are two completely different medical manifestations of beauty. xp

should I go see Bresson's first feature tonight or finish my tax returns?

Emancipate yourself.

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

bresson retro starts next week at the aero in santa monica which means i will likely not be going to any of them

I have to see Le Femme Douce on Sunday @ BAM

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

also beginning Friday around town, Rooftop Films:

http://rooftopfilms.com/blog/2012/05/check-out-our-2012-summer-series-schedule.html