All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Criss Cross & The Killers tonight at FF. Don't think I will make it though.

going to K Kurosawa's Cure at Japan Society tonight!

How was it?

Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street at FF tonight.

But don't think I will make it to Manhattan tonight.

It was as creepy and top-shelf as last time.

Is this still the all-puprose film snob thread?

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/interview-carlos-reygadas/316

Anthology with a Secret Cinema program tom'w night:

PROGRAM 1: TOTALLY WIRED: THE FILMS OF BELL TELEPHONE
A 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 FILMS
Puppetry 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!

i've seen some of those bell films before. nell cox directed 'operator' (who's mostly done tv work, eg M*A*S*H)

should i come back in from Brooklyn at 9:35 for COBRA WOMAN??

didn't.

would like to get a party together for Son of Paleface:

http://www.bam.org/film/2012/american-gagsters-great-comedy-teams

Didn't get to COBRA WOMAN either. Nor Spanish DRACULA

who's for Bob & Jane @ BAM, 9:15?

http://www.bam.org/film/2012/son-of-paleface

that's BOB. HOPE. JANE. RUSSELL. FRANK. TASHLIN.

i would, but

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

coming out on R1 blu ray soon iirc

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

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.

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.

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

i've seen 'call her savage', fairly racist but the gay bar scene is funny

wow @ farrokhzad/seidl/makavejev bill

and uh, Watergate figure Dwight Chapin presents his home movies of the Nixon White House?

hah i stopped scrolling before that (possibly out of jealousy) but wow

is anyone going to hear kiarostami talk tomorrow? wish-i-was-there, http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/hbo-directors-dialogue-abbas-kiarostami

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

AFI fest coming up, angelenos

Anouk Aimee at MoMA this afternoon introducing, um, Justine.

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.)

So I heard. (So I also heard. Sorry about that)

Pretty good. Hoberman was there too.

Wonder what M. White would've thought?

Is it worth seeing Harold Lloyd in "Dr. Jack" Monday night at Film Forum? If so, would anyone like to go?

seen it, it's good. I'll be resting.

saw Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D at Fim Forum and it was rad

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

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.

if you're talking about his segment in Tokyo!, then that character is only in one scene. Heard it's great though.

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.

yeah, that's what i was thinking of. also it conflicts with the memphis 3 doc. hmmm

spose i wouldve taken a flyer on Tabu and Leviathan if i hadnt missed the whole NYFF.

i've heard good things about 'post tenebras lux' also.

so awesome donna, go

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.

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

10th anniv screening of a great doc on Monday night:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/love-diane

Went to see the Etaix last night. Pretty good. He looks like a combination of Keaton and the Italian Totò.

It was pretty good, like his version of Three on a Couch (more good gags tho).

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...

so was Alma Reville the secret genius of Psycho?

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!

MoMA's showing Tenebras and a lotta other acclaimed stuff on their annual Contenders series:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1326