All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

which of these should i be seeing?
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015/

and please note i am prejudiced against french film from the start

forks, i just asked in the French s/d thread. Techine is pretty reliable but of course that will be released anyway. I may go for that and Honore, plus Fidelio for the twin hunk factor.

(oh yeah, Fidelio is not playing at IFC -- fest is shared with FSLC and BAM)

also before that, FC Selects -- looking fwd to another Michael Almereyda Shakespeare update, as Hawke was actually good in M.A.'s Hamlet 15 years ago:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/film-comment-selects-2015

Don't know much about that Danish auteur tho.

on the above; i'm going to the new Petzold and two in the Malmos retro

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-film-comment-selects-2015

wow that's so cool there's a malmros retrospective in nyc! he's from my hometown! "Tree of Knowledge" is surely his masterpiece, but I can also recommend "Facing the Truth" and "Pain of Love". Quite a controversial figure because of his "auto-fictional" control over other peoples' lives - the way he portrays his father in FtT, the way he depicts a young actress in Sorrow & Joy. The earlier films are beautifully shot on film by Jan Weincke too, you'll enjoy.

ToK and PoL are the ones I've bought. Unsure how widely Malmros previously been exposed in the US, but I don't recall ever reading about him before this.

Two rarely screened NYC early '70s entries in the Gordon Willis MOMI series on Saturday afternoon: Ashby's The Landlord (Beau Bridges buys a building w/ black tenants in Park Slope, moves in, appreciates Diana Sands) and Irvin Kershner's Loving w/ George Segal and Eva Marie Saint.

visiting old high school friends and one of them wanted to tell me about the most winceworthy scene ever in a horror movie and it was a part in the most recent final destination movie and he asked have you seen it and i said um i've heard of them, probably not for me and he says well you're a little bit of a FILM SNOB aren't you and then i told him about hard to be a god and he ended the night by saying how i only liked things that aren't narrative like hey that lemonade isn't NARRATIVE let me try some of THAT
anyway.

full ND/NF slate

http://newdirectors.org/

B&W in scope... shame The Hustler is digital, but planning to finally see Lonely Are the Brave. Maybe The Haunting too:

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/black-and-white-scope

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/04/10/detail/tsai-ming-liang/

haven't seen the documentary, Boys, and two others

Two rarely screened NYC early '70s entries in the Gordon Willis MOMI series on Saturday afternoon: Ashby's The Landlord (Beau Bridges buys a building w/ black tenants in Park Slope, moves in, appreciates Diana Sands) and Irvin Kershner's Loving w/ George Segal and Eva Marie Saint.

haven't seen the latter but the former is a lot of fun, /very/ late-60s mix of political correctness and incorrectness.

Two-week Wenders retro begins today at MoMA, with WW introductions / discussions

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1557

Handke will be there with him on Wednesday for Goalie's Anxiety.

Morbs, which is the best MOMI membership to get if you just want to see all their retros etc.

the one i have? "Film Lover" takes care of all the film/exhibit admissions

Real howler from Ian Buruma during tonight's Q&A.

You can watch here if you want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVE-VjC_ME

This is interesting and brief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IZPpkI32pc

Blacklisted screenwriters part 3 at Anthology; Walter Bernstein in person Saturday:

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43900

George Romero is introducing the Archers' Tales of Hoffmann tonight at 7 at Film Forum, just cuz he loves it.

Wow. Didn't see his name amidst the list of all the other introducers.

it's showing here all week too - hope to catch it but not sure how likely that'll be

I have a theory that "Grey Gardens" is, no matter the time of year, always playing somewhere in the city

so far I'm only going to Listen to Me Marlon at NDNF, bcz I don't trust c4lum m4rsh or anybody else that a fucking Neil Hamburger movie is a triumph.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2015-03-18/film/new-directors-new-films-moma/

finally seeing Bellocchio's China Is Near tonight at FF (ends Thurs)

La Sapienza moves to FF Friday

go see Amour Fou tonight

Wish I could take that advice, but don't think I can make it.

But maybe the Bellochio tonight I can do.

it's a little academic and Italy-specific, but i liked it well enough

Really wanted to see AF but couldn't do.

Max Ophuls' 1940 From Mayerling to Sarajevo opens at FF tomorrow:

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/an-imperial-romance-max-ophulss-from-mayerling-to-sarajevo

http://filmforum.org/film/from-mayerling-to-sarajevo-film-page

this weekend's Astoria series escaped my attention

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/03/28/detail/downtown-new-york-film-the-1970s-and-1980s-2/

Griffith's last silent epic, the Revolution-set America starring Lionel Barrymore and Neil "Commissioner Gordon" Hamilton, tonight at FF

http://filmforum.org/film/america-griffith-film

Morbs, how soon in advance should I be reserving spaces for the Tsai retro

I don't know -- I assume they are going to be in the big room? or is the Mad Men sidebar still going to be running?

Really, the acclaimed Tsai films haven't been that hard to see, so i don't know if they'd fill the main theater.

Ty - first time member

actually they had stand-alone Tsai schedules there yesterday, so i assume they're in the big theater.

BAM retro for "Kubrick's producer" and occasional director himself James B Harris (now 86; he'll be there). Anyone seen Some Call It Loving?

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/overdue-james-b-harris

Naughty Borowczyk movies

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/obscure-pleasures-the-films-of-walerian-borowczyk

"Laurel OR Hardy" program at Performing Arts Library, Saturday at 2:30. Free!

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

BAM Afrofuturism series, Hoberman on same:

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/space-is-the-place-afrofuturism-on-film

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/movies/space-is-the-place-offers-otherworldly-takes-on-identity.html

Borowczyk animated shorts tonight at 7, or vis a vis what i've seen, HIS LAST CHANCE

April 16-23, 2015 DC Punk from 1980 to 90 movie doc : Salad Days
New York, NY
Q&A after the screenings on April 16 with director Scott Crawford & author/Cro-Mag John Joseph
10:00pm screening is SOLD OUT
10:15pm screening is now on sale
IFC Center

I kinda liked it, although ilx poster Anon did not

Nelson Pereira dos Santos retro at MoMA

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1565

Amped to see Agnes Varda and her first feature this Friday; also Jenni Olson's The Royal Road along with shorts by Mark Rappaport on the 26th.

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-art-of-the-real-2015

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/art-of-the-real-2015

hopin to catch a later varda, sans filmmaker in person though. report back!

regular Tribecafest evening tix now cost $21.50, screw that.

how many of these Shakey films are worth paying to see, experts?

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-bernard-shakey-film-retrospective-neil-young-on-screen/