All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

id have to look up 'bonjour mr. lewis', no idea

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

nice

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

The Errand Boy has some good bits but not one of my faves. Bellboy much better.

New book on The Searchers looks intriguing.

anything especially worth seeing over the next week?

Too busy, haven't looked.

Malick-a-thon at BAM sunday.

http://www.screenslate.com/

Now I remember, Film Forum is redoing the Pierre Étaix festival. By popular demand.

Pierre Étaix

no the day the clown cried, no credibility!

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

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

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

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)

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.

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heh, many pointed out that Certified Copy is kind of a remix! He most definitely knows it.

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there is a region 2 bfi dvd of it, btw, with an excellent commentary by laura mulvey

oh, that was you!

I had never seen Meshes til today, nor Bruce Connor's A Movie.

Sorcerer appears to be sold out alas.

:-(

It's possible I might go to that a-g program, not sure.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1371

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, T2
Monday, May 27, 2013, 4:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2

this is a must-see fyi

Ah OK, Memorial Day.

you wanna go, morbs?

might!

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

I doubt I will ever make it through The Mother and the Whore.

(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

so this MoMA "Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions" series begins... I think my first target is Thursday night's Fuck Cinema.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1371

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.

morbs there was some talk in the sinosphere thread

ah ok. I have to check my membership guest rates, let me know when you're going.

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.

noted. this is a tough month for me but I would like to make it out to moma more

well of course the Wu Wenguang chat tomw night has no online tix left; standby line i guess.

i never fucking learn.

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.

What's it like trying to watch The Mother and the Whore?

Would like to know before sacrificing my Sunday.

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.

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.

i have not seen either! i did watch 'chinesisches roulette' when i was sick a few weeks ago and loved it tho

i'll be holed up here all weekend: http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/events/2013/05/real-indies.html

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.

Burt Lancaster mini-fest at Reade:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/man-of-steel-burt-lancaster-at-100

some links for the Chinese doc series

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-chinese-realitiesdocumentary-visions

Last night of Voyage To Italy, which I still haven't seen.

Seen it now. Michael Musto too.

Used copies of George Sanders's Memoirs of a Professional Cad going for about three hundred and fifty bucks these days.