All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

trying to figure if i shd take double plunge tonight for Micheaux silent @Reade:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011870/

and then Vitaphone variety shorts at FF:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/breadlines.html#vitaphone

I've seen the Jolson picture, it's good.

I recently read a bunch of the Scott Eyman book about the transition to sound, so I'm pretty curious about the Vitaphones. Thanks for the tip. I might see you there.

That was pretty good and nice to run into you at the end. Did you hear me trying to shout down the cacklers?

no. not at Will Hays I hope...

Were you there for the Will Hays? They were hooting all the way through.

a rare instance of appropriate hooting, imho.

Even though it was Will Hays, it really bugged me all these people laughing at this guy acting like he was addressing a large theater audience and not knowing how to behave in front of a camera.

the arm gestures were pretty choice.

RIP new yorker films:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/end_of_the_road_for_new_yorker_films_legendary_distributor_of_difficult_cin/

ouch. rip

yikes, so much March stuff!

http://sallitt.blogspot.com/2009/02/assorted-screenings-in-nyc-march-2009.html

has anyone made it to 12 at the filmforum? i might go tonight but need to plot a chart assessing quality/length (160 min).

not me. no time for this or that Ferreri film @ BAM.

if ferreri is the dillinger film, i think that's winning the battle for my evening. then stahl soon at filmforum!, too. i really regret not seeing more of the anthology retro.

wish i'd remembered about the film at the lincoln last night too

Hurt Locker tomw @WRT for me

Kuchar Bros fest begins tom'w @ Anthology. Brilliant, hilarious precursors to John Waters, among other niches.

http://www.movingimagesource.us/events/a-lust-for-ecstasy-brand-new-20090311

hi today i got to fix some sprocket holes in the LoC print of the quiet man

i predict that maybe 1 person will find this at all interesting and that person probably posts to this thread

present!

Catch Leave It to Heaven att ff if you haven't; about 25 ppl at my show, derisive chuckles from at least 6 throughout... The color is as stupendous as is some of the later Sirks; wow Gene Tierney on a horse with an urn!

Wow, gotta see that. Saw about five seconds of some Scorcese doc about history of cinema and the clips from that really stood out. Plus look at the disparate group of characters that are repping for it on the FF website: guy that wrote some Godard books, guy that wrote some film noir books, Guy Maddin, and many of the usual suspects, among others.

climaxes w/ most surreal abstract courtroom sequence ever.

I think my Kuchars sched is Friday 9pm, Saturday 5 & 7, Tuesday 7.

The color is as stupendous as is some of the later Sirks;

yeah, it's like le mepris or something. totally great.

OK, went to see this last night. Lives up to the hype.

oh by the way: le mepris actually came to mind way more watching DILLINGER IS DEAD. did any of you get to it? i owe myself ferreri films now.

last Kuchar programs tnite at 7 & 9

What should I see from the BAM series of Nagisa Oshima films?
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1017

as much as possible.

S/D: Nagisa Oshima, renegade filmmaker

since my week is insanely imploding already, I'll probably screw it and go to the Dreyer silent at BAM tnite:

http://onfilm.chicagoreader.com/movies/capsules/6016_MASTER_OF_THE_HOUSE

planning on BAM Oshima tomw & Thurs.

forgot about that. i will probably randomly pick a couple. has anyone ever seen that bresson film that's really hard to get that's called something like four nights of a dreamer or something? one of the oshima pics reminded me of it, synopsis wise

As posted on Rolling Documentary thread, you guys need to see this, imo it's one of the best documentaries of the past couple years (/ever). Don't do any research at all before you go to it, it could kinda ruin the experience.

Also, I'm starting to dip my toes into the distribution world. What theaters do you guys recommend for documentaries? Rooftop? IFC? BAM?

IFC deffo (not that i go to many of them but they've got the whole stranger than fiction series)

Film Forum premieres a lot.

Oooh, forgot Film Forum, I've heard good things!

I might as well get into specifics (I should point out that I'm not actually distributing either of these films, but I am trying to give advice). The first is a ridiculously well-shot film about poor br4zilian boys, looks amazing on a big screen. Kinda like Kiarostami. The director is a colleague of the Dardenne brothers. The other film is a surprisingly well-shot and well-edited coming-of-age doc that follows these Jackass-obsessed kids...sorta feels like cult classic material?

Does that change any answers?

the first of those sounds like FF, second IFC.

Thanks!

If you need to contact anybody at the Film Society At Lincoln Center these days, you'll have to go straight to the top, Richard Peña, as he seems to be the only one left over there.

you/someone mentioned the dardenne/french film before, and i remember struggling to find much of a presence online. good luck anyhow.

Yeah, that's mostly because it's being promoted under its Portuguese title in France. Also because it's obscure.

Also, another reminder: Forbidden Lie$ is playing at Cinema Village and you need to see it. Without doing any research, really, i'm not joking.

Also, Time Out's review is painfully wrong, perhaps the worst blurb of the year.

"Yesterday's news"? Like WTF, did you even get the point of the film? Or watch past the first 25 minutes?

Ayo, http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/forbiddenlies

think i will get to Oshima 4:30 @BAM, Three Resurrected Drunkards

dr spaceman was excellent as norma's husband in forbidden lies

Chaplin Essanays @ NY Hist Society on CPW at 2

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

any tribeca plans?

nope! :D

looks like i am going to see moon... blank city... the eclipse... defamation?

what else is good playing at tribs? honestly the line-up is not wowing me.