All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

I saw Badlands in Bryant Park last week and really appreciated that the audience didn't yuk it up at all, but just took it in.

whoa! will you be here for Fringe as well?

and that kabuki Glover performance

CLARISSSSSSSSSSA

(sorry rong thread)

Wish I was there for Fringe - just had something job-related for a couple days but had Monday night free.

Actually left Badlands about 10 minutes before the end, when one of the sprinklers on the lawn started up and sprayed a circle of moviegoers.

i don't know this guy, but maybe i can go Sunday

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/07/31/detail/politics-as-spectacle-the-films-of-mani-ratnam/

anyone seen Jem Cohen's Counting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmY5lQ47b5k

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/counting/

^It's pretty good, especially if you (theoretically) like Coney in winter or have done a lotta F train time.

Richard Lester at FSLC:

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/richard-lester-the-running-jumping-pop-cinema-iconoclast/

Here to recommend the Brando doc.

hey now

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats will screen and discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini's MEDEA and sign copies of his debut novel, WOLF IN WHITE VAN, on August 31 as part of our Print Screen series.

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/print-screen-john-darnielle-pier-paolo-pasolini-medea/

heads-up that last FF Third Man show is 6:10 tonight

dang @ pasolini. i haven't seen that one.
hey has anyone been going to the bam '80s stuff

just Henry:Killer and Trouble in Mind; othwise a lot of stuff i've seen

Anthology's "One Film Wonders" resumes

Spring Night, Summer Night sounds intriguing.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/44498

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=B_b0LAp3jG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_b0LAp3jG4

hey has anyone been going to the bam '80s stuff

Saw Vortex (1982). Lydia Lunch is just funny. It made me wonder if there was any way she could have become a legit film star. It's like she had everything but technique.

AIP series, Roger Corman in person Friday night

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/44549

This will probably be my night for The Iron Ministry at MoMA

http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/make-it-real-the-cinema-of-transition/

really wanna see that in theaters

Yeah, it's really worth seeing in a theater. Sounds really interesting with the other independent documentaries, hope I get the chance to see them someday.

I didn't know Icarus Films was distributing it nationwide... might be dicey seeing it theatrically in the city after MoMA tho, forks.

thanks for the heads up, may try the 27th

double-barreled Ingrid centennial tributes

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1592

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/ingrid-bergman

BAM wraps up Indie 80s tonight with this splendid satire (based on a troo story, as they say)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtO71l46sLA

28 Wenders films, w/ Q&As

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/wim-wenders-portraits-along-the-road/

Hope he brings Handke along for a few.

i got Wim'd out at MoMA, may just try to get to Alice in the Cities.

The Marquise of O and other period Rohmers at BAM:

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/period-rohmer

Alice in the Cities is great and Kings of the Road is even better. I should have seen more when they were in Copenhagen, but didn't have time. Saw Marquise of O recently to see how much it looked like Amour Fou. The answer was quite a lot, but a lot of that is decor and costumes. What I've heard about Perceval - metal trees! - and The Lady and the Duke - early digital - makes me really interested. But just in general Rohmer is one of my major blind spots. Still.

Would love to see Perceval but think it would take a miracle.

Wim I'd like to see again: The State of Things.

MoMA is doing a series of Hasse Ekman, the "overshadowed Swede." Nick Pinkerton:

http://artforum.com/film/id=54800

My records indicate I saw Girl with the Hyacinths 5 years ago, of which I remember nothing.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1600

James Baldwin weekend at FSLC

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-devil-finds-work-james-baldwin-on-film/

De Sica at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/vittorio-de-sica-attore-regista-seduttore-series

Looking forward

I saw Perceval. Ehh.

Gold of Naples seems like an overlooked major work to me -- Toto, De Sica, and Sophia Loren are all stupendously funny in it, and there's a possible career performance in it by Silvana Mangano.

Definitely want to see that. With that cast it seemed like it was either going to be a misguided misfire or an overlooked whatsit like you said.

well you have 2 days

Aiming for Tuesday

ya go?

wd def recommend Ekman's The Banquet tonight at MoMA, altho i was nodding throughout last Saturday bcz of goddamn drug-induced sleep debt. Ekman and Eva Henning give great performances portraying a S/M marriage from hell.

also, '60s WW2 "missions" in 35mm:
Where Eagles Dare (Burton, Eastwood) at BAM tonight
The Guns of Navarone (Peck, Quinn, Niven) at Loews Jeresey City, Friday eve

btw Navarone was the top-grossing film of '61. i probably have only seen it panned & scanned on TV. Also in JC this weekend, Welles & the Rat Pack:

http://www.loewsjersey.org/films

Do you remember Dick Van Dyke episode in which The Guns of Navarone featured prominently?

ya go?

p sure i haven't watched a van Dyke episode in 30+ years.

Jerry Lewis at MOMI on Oct 6. If you're an admirer you should see him once; just be ready for anything.

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2015/10/06/detail/the-comedian-filmmaker-jerry-lewis

I know architecture documentaries aren't the most filmsnobby of films, but NY Design & Architecture Festival is next week, and I saw Concrete Love - The Böhm Family, and it's quite honestly one of the best films I've seen this year. Made by a 27 year old dude, who has worked on the film for five years, following 93 year old Gottfried Böhm and his architecture family, mostly just a collection of vignettes, where some are based on boring talking heads, but some are these amazing visual ruminations on creativity, aging, love, etc. It uses that visual style that Wim Wenders tries to do with his latest documentaries, but where Wenders never gets it to work imo, in this film there are several passages that are just completely stunning and new.

If this guy can get more funding, then in a couple of years he's a big name, and then you can say that you knew him from his first film!!

MoMA slate up for November's To Save and Project (Welles, Akerman, Fuller, early color, Crime Wave, Amarcord, Shampoo, Clara Bow, William K Howard):

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1623

Wojciech Has retro begins next week at BAM:

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/the-waking-dreams-of-wojciech-has

and starting tomw, Frederick Wiseman's New York at MOMI

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/10/09/detail/frederick-wisemans-new-york/

Really hope I can get to BAM for some Has.

Argh. Hoping to get to MOMI for those...

et you're here for a spell, again?

i think Central Park has no baseball conflict for me

Been here for over a month already (mentioned on one of the other NYC threads). Leaving on Wednesday.