All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Wish I had gone to more of this retro, will be missing Allan Dwan when this is all over. A few films seem to be on youtube in some form: The Iron Mask and Chancds, both with Douglas Fairbanks, both with sound, Calendar Girl, a musical from 1947, and Gorilla- the Ritz Brothers meet Bela Lugosi. Streaming Netflix also has The Iron Mask, along with The River's Edge, Driftwood, Brewster's Millions and Heidi.

well, none of this weekend's films are sposed to be the cream... missed The Woman They Almost Lynched.

Don't know from cream, was really happy with what I saw and each one of those films turns out to have a reasonable reputation and respectable defenders, just wish I had seen more of the silents, those that can be seen.

Think you are being too harsh. Sands of Iwo Jima was one of his biggest budgets and biggest successes. And on those last ten films he made for Benedict Bogeaus he kept up the quality by pretty much always using John Alton as DP and Van Nest Polgase as art director, the latter being persona non grata at RKO proper because of his drinking problem.

See that John Alton has a credit on An American in Paris, for photographing the ballet. Guy got around.

Others on youtube: Silver Lode, Cattle Queen of Montana. I misspelled Chances up above.

Another weird credit I just noticed, Pierre Etaix in Pickpocket.

I think Dwan's rising profile means we'll be seeing more revivals.

Probably. Have you checked out that new biography? The guy wants an arm and a leg, but looks like it might be worth it, a history of cinema through the career of one guy who was there for pretty much all of it.

Just heard an express 7 rocket by overhead and thought there must be a Mets game running late and they were going to pick up spectators but no.

Watching The Mark of Zorro right now, wonder how Rouben Mamoulian's stock is holding up.

on Saturday afternoon, the Silent Clowns celebrate Edw Ev Horton:

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

Didn't you have some story about his moth-eaten sweater?

yes.

It was his friend, the voice of Rocky the Squirrel, her name escapes me right now, said they did a reading at the Museum of Television and Radio maybe, and when somebody asked about the worn-out piece of clothing he said, in that inimitable voice, "That's my college sweater!", right?

yes, cept it happened in the Bullwinkle studio and she told the story at MT&R when he was long dead.

(June Foray)

Astoria does Fun City

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-fun-city-new-york-in-the-movies-1967-75

last two days of Anthology's Simenon series :(

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/41318

FSLC's Cinema of Resistance series features Robert Kramer's Ice tonight at 6; maybe I'll finally see it.

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/ice

All of Hawks, all on film:

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2013/09/07/detail/the-complete-howard-hawks/

Well the 3 Sunday silents don't appear to be otherwise "available," as Soto would say, so I guess I'm going.

Hope I can get to some.

Wait, those are all today?!?

Three of them. There are more.

Yes, I see. One with Louise Brooks, pre-Pabst.

They can't spread em out over 8 weeks; silent pitchers are box-office POISON!

One Mann's poison

Did you go?

yes

And?

http://dgeneratefilms.com/chinese-cinema-events/performing-china-contemporary-chinese-film-and-media-at-the-wooster-group-new-york-city

dropping this here for myself

Redd, they're all worth watching; HH probably shows the most versatility in Fazil, a potboiler "mixed-race" romantic melodrama.

Arthur Lake (the future Dagwood in those Blondie B pictures) is very funny as a femalephobic frat boy in The Cradle Snatchers, which is incomplete in its salvaged form. Also, F Pangborn as a jealous husband.

Fig Leaves is cute, as is George O'Brien's chest. It's on YouTube, p crappy quality.

(presumably translated) chinese movie titles are so evocative

Cruel and unusual silent comedy shorts begin tom'w! Silent Edw Ev Horton! Snub Pollard!

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1413

3 weeks of JLG

http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013/series/nyff51-jean-luc-godard-the-spirit-of-the-forms

To Save and Project (Oct/Nov)

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1429

tix may still be available for 6:45

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/lost_now_found_the_three_stoog

enrhusiastic turnout including the immortal Joe Franklin and the Shtetl Husband from A Serious Man

your only chance to see the phallic chandeliers from Salo hanging at MoMA

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2918-the-worlds-of-dante-ferretti

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1415

Sorry for the street team post here, but my buddy Jeff who made "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" is showing his new movie doc "Led-Zeppelin-Played-Here" at Anthology Film Archives Friday at 6 pm and Saturday at 3 pm. It's a doc about whether or not Led Zep actually played the Wheaton, MD Community Center in 1969, and it covers other early rawk gigs from touring bands in those days before the rock industry had fully been established.

www.cbgb.com/films.php#!programmation=participant$led-zeppelin-played-here/1254

James Redd and Morbs, I think you will enjoy it

We'll see, but I see few films in October due to baseball, so I will possibly miss the entire Demy retro:

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/jacques_demy

://www.cbgb.com/films.php#!programmation=participant$bayou-maharash-the-tragic-genius-of-james-booker/1230

showing in NYC twice

James Redd would probably like this one too. Plus a Johnny Thunders one too I think

J Hoberman introducing Marienbad tomorrow at FF. Venez-vous?

I have to review a film regular ppl will actually read about.

Quel dommage.

i saw Marienbad last just a couple years ago; it's great but i don't need to see it again yet.

Me neither, I just want to see what Hoberman has to say. I enjoyed his commentary on Justine a little while back.

If I didn't have a review screening i'd likely opt for this

http://www.bam.org/film/2013/the-outfit

Looks good.

anyone care to argue me out of a bi-borough doubleheader tonight of Resnais swan song You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet and '70s nugget Cisco Pike (Krostofferson, Hackman, Karen Black)?