All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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.

is it true they "downsized" this year? their unwieldiness i found kinda offputting in the past

i am new to this and was totally thinking i could wait the long-ass time until denizens of the tri-state area could get tickets for things like whatever works. bummer. now i have to read through all the enthusiastic recommendations for horror imports.

85 films in it, down from 200+. I've seen 3 or 4, all underwhelming. Their press screenings are barely organized.

anything in particular you're looking forward to morbs?

what have you seen?

Rudo y Cursi - the "Tambien" brats in an even MORE insufferable comedy!

Easy Virtue - wrongheaded Noel Coward adap where they try to make the characters REAL.

Might try that Brit In the Looop today.

the line-up isn't that inspiring i gotta say. there's not that much to tempt me away from chillin with my nyc friends and eating things... one or two movies a day max

have you seen Treeless Mountain? or do you want to see Viridiana at Film Forum maybe Friday?

i haven't! and when is viridiana playing?

it starts at Film Forum on Friday. Treeless Mt just started there too.

also, there's a Shirley Clarke fest @ Anthology.

I can unreservedly recommend In the Loop, but IFC is releasing it in May.

Someone else told me the same thing. Thinking about seeing it at the FF members brunch, but might take the kids to see the Harold Lloyd instead.

also John Hurt is very touching playing Quentin Crisp again in An Englishman in New York, but it doesn't approach the earlier film.

FF Members Brunch was lots of fun. Bruce outdid himself.

any of you catch IL DIVO/anyone as enamoured as i was?

it sounds awesome from everything ive read
how long until its in non-snob theaters, if ever?

there's something on a blog about how it's been ghettoized into just the film center and sunshine, but will come out at some point. it's a masterpiece anyway: i like sorrentino's last two films plenty but could call him my favourite director after this - the function of the production design and cinematography, the language of the film, ahh.

I liked, gave it 3 stars outta 4, but it's sort of limited -- you keep waiting for Toni Servillo to bend his performance to let more "naturalism" at least peek through, but the only new color after the first 5 minutes is that very theatrical confession scene.

Directors' Late Films @ BAM -- I'm thinking mostly about Cracking Up on Tuesday, then Aldrich and Wellman.

http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1051

"the late film" is the only may repertory thing that i'm excited about. thoughts on godard's king lear?

saw it when it came out; shrugged at it like most '80s Godard. The Burgess Meredith-Molly Ringwald scenes were at least ... something.

wow, Sarris & Haskell introducing El Dorado @BAM.

My friend Steve co-curated this MoMA series of silent comedy shorts at month's end with the magnetic title CRUEL AND UNUSUAL COMEDY!

http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/948

Note: "Since these films touch on a number of potentially sensitive issues, each screening features an introduction that will provide context." Beware, blackface and woman-beating!

also, I plan on going to the Julien Duvivier film today at 5:30.

I've meant to see that one for years. Sometimes I even think I've seen it, but what I'm confusing it with is something called Pattes Blanches.

Wow, I guess that's Hildegard Knef in that still from Holiday For Henrietta.

Cracking Up looks good, but traveling to BAM always seems a bit excessive to me. I wish AMMI would reopen already. I may try Age of Consent though. Have Edward Said's "On Late Style" on reserve to prepare.

Age of Consent really isn't very good.

The best in the series might be Good Morning and L'Argent.

I plan to be at all these programs... Only one for 9-to-5-ers tho.

Don’t miss “Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film” at MoMA! Five programs of rare silent comedy shorts from MoMA’s archive hand-picked by Ben Model, Steve Massa and Ron Magliozzi:

Weds May 20 at 4pm - “Drag Shows” - Charlie Murray, Wallace Beery, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Finlayson, Harry Myers, Buster Keaton and Roscoe Arbuckle

Weds May 27 at 4pm - “Race Riots” - David Morris, Henry Bergman, Harold Lloyd, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, Lige Conley, Spencer Bell, and Bert Williams

Weds May 27 at 7pm - “Gratuitous Violence” - Ford Sterling, Mack Sennett, Lloyd Hamilton and Bud Duncan (Ham & Bud), Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, James Parrott, Kalla Pasha, and Billie Ritchie

Fri May 29 at 4pm - “Animals and Children” - an unidentified elephant, George Ober, Our Gang, Pal the dog and an alligator, the Dippy Do-Dads, Billy Bevan and the Sennett Lions

Mon June 1 at 4pm - “Automobiles” - Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Hank Mann, Slim Summerville, Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Aubrey, Oliver Hardy, and Lige Conley.

MoMA’s website for the series is at:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/948

Film notes are at:
http://cruelandunusualcomedy.blogspot.com

bump for tomw night's "Gratuitous Violence" at MoMA, a certain sellout.

you guys know about Playtime at the Met on Friday?

also, http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/programs/outdoorcinema.php