All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Man, you guys are lucky. Puppetmaster is my favorite, but have never seen an hhh on the big screen.

never occurred to me but: yeah me neither. of everything i've seen puppetmaster felt like it was suffering the most from home viewing. would so love a season. i think about café lumiere maybe most days.

Puppetmaster is my favorite...

to nap to.

planning to see the restored digital Zulu tonight @ Reade

http://dgeneratefilms.com/chinese-cinema-events/two-week-tibetan-film-series-starts-today-at-moma

int'l scifi at LincCtr

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-strange-lands-international-sci-fi

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/strange-lands-international-sci-fi

gonna try for Fab World of Verne, 10th Victim

Cool

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/09/12/detail/also-like-life-the-films-of-hou-hsiao-hsien-2/

Schedule is up

Friend of mine knows the guy who organized it, says it was incredibly hard getting a 35mm print of Puppetmaster so that should be pretty high on everybody's priorities

as i said on the hhh thread, i might double feature cute girl and puppetmaster next saturday, ironman style. haven't seen either and don't know anything abt cute girl really except that it seems pretty rare--can't even find it on k4r4garga.

having recently moved to nyc the prospect of seeing actual prints of repertory films (instead of burned dvds haphazardly projected onto the walls of art spaces) is, like, giddying. so hype.

What's the word on Fedora?

i saw it about 20 years ago and liked it.

Should I be upset that I am going to miss Flowers of Shanghai due to work?

Will probably check out Puppetmaster.

Flowers is great, but you should be able to find a DVD of that.

I don't think I can pull the trigger on Puppetmaster a third time, it let me cold twice.

Restored original silent Chicago (co-directed by deMille), Monday night only

http://filmforum.org/film/chicago-film-page

Final day for Fedora at the Film Forum.

I resaw last night -- it could be BW's best post-Apartment film inho (tho I might go with Kiss Me, Stupid).

Pretty much ruined by the FF's condescending guffawers, of course. Fucking shits.

anybody see Starred Up? Rave reviews yet ending at both FSLC and IFC today, very strange.

aw, i wish i had known that; was wanting to see shortly.

it's on amazon VOD which probably takes some wind out of theatrical sails

still, given that the actor is the star of the big year-end Jolie movie.

Anthology's Ed Wood retro includes some of the later sexytime movies:

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43153

Goddammit I keep missing every 35mm screening of The Cobweb, like tonight when I have baseball tix. Fortunately I know where to get a DVD.

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/a-tribute-to-lauren-bacall

Rudolph Grey presents Ed Wood miscellanea tonight at Anthology, 7:30

bird people is worth seeing; feels like there's an amazing film in there somewhere but the pacing is overly fatuous and there are numerous tactical errors... the use of Bowie and a painfully long skype are particular culprits. But the bird's eye (and bird tracking) footage is amazing and the new-yorkeresque storyline are fascinating when they're not abused.

has anyone discovered Georgian cinema, previously?

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1510

IFC Center tribute to Gordon Willis at 8 tonight with 35mm print of The Purple Rose of Cairo.

Anyone seen Memphis or Stop the Pounding Heart?

zero theorem is sadly sort of rote gilliam, never boring but sophomoric in its philosophy and politics

Nick Cave movie held over at FF btw

http://filmforum.org/film/20000-days-on-earth-film-page

Stephen Chow movies at BAM coming soon

Journey to the West on Oct. 12; i may try to catch at least that.

good stuff

ICYM the "with introduction by" part of this - http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2014/10/05/detail/the-sandwich-man

Marguerite Duras retro:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/by-marguerite-duras

MoMA's To Save and Project schedule (incl the Welles footage, if you haven't watched it online yet):

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1521

Now that I'm back all the fun stuff is over :-(

I saw The Plea in the Georgian MoMA series yesterday and it was phenomenal (of course, not screening again). A City of Sadness was completely full in Astoria, i had to sit on a plastic portable chair.

You disappeared after CoS ... The series ends this Fri ... I'm looking forward to having some more free time.

I'm trying Dear White People Tomorrow.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dear_white_people/

i did not disappear, i was walkin' around

also, there was a mob.

FSLC just moved their sole screening of Mankiewicz's The Honey Pot tonight up one hour from 6:30 to 5:30, which means I can't go, need to get a refund, and will never ever see it.

^and they just reversed it to 6:30, and pushed back the film after. Someone figured out that a few ppl who go to FSLC work for a living.

Bill "Decasia" Morrison retro at NY MoMA incl 3 live performances

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1524

btw BAM put a premiere-eve screening of Citizenfour on sale this afternoon and it sold out in less than two hours. Fuck people and their apps.

DOC NYC fest next month includes, among others, features on Elliott Smith, '80s DC hardcore, the Penn State scandal, new Yes Men, and the long-gestating one on WFMU (discreetly titled Sex and Broadcasting):

http://www.docnyc.net/films-events/

I'm trying Dear White People Tomorrow.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dear_white_people/

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 12:15 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i remember when this was just a kickstarter never expected it to be this big, glad it's getting good press

it's pretty good? both my friend and i were kinda sad it didn't go a little harder and maybe not make the characters so 2-D but I thought it was fairly aggressive and funny. Dude has a major hard-on for Spike for sure but there was a lot less misogyny than in Spike's films... plus the animus of John Hughes, I thought. It also smelled strongly of first film with a lot of flashy camera tricks: freeze frame moments of blackface, a vertigo zoom for no real reason, somewhat corny interstitial graphics. But good acting! Generally good writing! Definitely a step up from any mainstream comedy about race that I've seen lately but maybe not so drastically different from what shows up on How To Get Away With Murder and i dunno if that's a question of mass culture shift or just the impact of rimes' arrowhead or what exactly.
anyway, yeah, worth a watch.

definitely better than i thought it would be and (though i kinda need to go back and rewatch) at least as good as school daze

Pinkerton on Bill Morrison

http://www.artforum.com/film/id=48643

Heads up that you can purchase/reserve tix for the Welles Too Much Johnson program at MoMA beginning at 9:30 this morning.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/22222