All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

and obviously, this

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/a-brighter-summer-day

(dcp ahead of the blu, but anyway)

i'm seeing that today at 2

lincoln center's pre-stonewall queer cinema retro looks outstanding

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/queer-cinema-stonewall-lineup-announced/

here in LA we're getting a city-wide chantal akerman retro

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/underground-usa-focus-on-ucla/#chantal-akerman-contre-loubliagainst-oblivion

has anyone actually been to metrograph yet?

http://metrograph.com/series/series/6/welcome-to-metrographa-to-z

nope, i've had other repertory priorities.

ND/NF roundup by Slant (no way, Weiner)

http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/new-directors-new-films-2016

film comment podcast on ndnf is really interesting. some gd taubin trash talk.

BAM's Evergreen Review retro: Godard, Warhol, Robbe-Grillet etc

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/from-the-third-eye

I learned one main thing from that podcast, and that is that I can't stand Taubin. The talk about whether the travelogue was 'a film' was amazingly awful.

not sure where else to put this, but... powerful stuff: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/03/22/our-daily-barbarisms-leo-hurwitzs-strange-victory-1948/

Saw Strange Victory on Sunday in Brooklyn. Fine liberal, integrationist propaganda, drew a good crowd. Also impossible not to be depressed about in the current historical moment.

that's the key note bordwell strikes, and it's a sad one.

anyone gonna try Happy Hour? I generally prefer at-home options now for single-sit 5-hour films.

http://filmmakermagazine.com/97860-happy-hour-the-best-317-minutes-of-new-directorsnew-films-2016/#.VvWageIrJhE

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1903?locale=en

It's worth seeing. The review mentions Rivette, and yeah, there's a couple of that kind of sequences, and they're great (and by far the greatest thing in it).

ok i am skittish...

i wonder how the Peckinpah retro will do up against Akerman.

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/bring-me-the-head-of-sam-peckinpah/#films

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/bloodied-and-out-of-time-sam-peckinpah-fights-on-at-lincoln-center-8450451

going to be out of town for most of next week so i'm missing much of the akerman retro here (including the musical, which i think i'm most bummed about)

yeah keep an eye out for that in future

the WFMU doc runs for 9 days (or more?) at IFC; appearances by radio stars, and a must for fans.

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/sex-broadcasting/

was gonna go see the new Malick at MOMI tonight, but it seems to be my only open date to see this Helen Twelvetrees pre-Code thing:

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1620?locale=en

A week from Sunday, Jerry Lewis appears at MoMA after a screening of what will likely be his last starring vehicle.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1991?locale=en

i'm catching comrades almost a love story at metrograph on sunday

might try that but it'd have to be the early one

Belated RIP to MoMA's Charles Silver: http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/in-memoriam-charles-silver/

^I must've seen him do at least 3-4 intros last year.

Straub/Huillet series coming in May

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1641?locale=en

metrograph is a nice theater but how do they make money

just opened, maybe they're not.

My totally unsupported assumption is that they are a passion project.

IFCis trying to add six more screens.

Metrograph sells liquor and has a restaurant eh? I wonder if the movies are the loss leader

it's even harder to make money on restaurants than movies

Starting Friday, the Japan Society in New York presents Japan Sings! The Japanese Musical Film, ten films, all on 35mm. OK, who has seen any of these besides Miike's?

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-japan-sings

http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-sings-the-japanese-musical-film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gY8kNqh_nQ

(and the Oshima is on the Eclipse '60s set)

my comment about metrograph was also related to the fact that they showed like 100 movies in 3 days for opening, and they were all shown at weird times like only showing at 1 PM on a friday

I am gonna try to see some of those japanese musicals fer sure

I have no idea how metrograph is gonna make it but i hope they do!

i'm kinda mystified why people i can seldom drag to other rep houses have already been to Metrograph.

MOMI has a 9-film Sidney Poitier retro (avoids some of his popular hits, has Buck and the Preacher and the two hit comedies with Cosby)

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/04/09/detail/sidney-poitier-retrospective/

wow morbz @ me next time

heh i didnt mean you, i didnt even see that post...

;)

i go wherever the sinosphere films are showing

wide-ranging Maysles series at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/the-maysles-co.-series#now-playing

syndicate BK is doing a coen brothers trivia night but unfortunately their twitter account has been spelling 'coen' wrong all night and nobody's had the heart to correct them. they also have less than 100 followers

http://i.imgur.com/pmr4Xel.png

https://twitter.com/syndicatedbk

haaa.

has anyone been there yet? it's a hop and skip from my place but just haven't gotten around to it. was gonna go the other night for no country actually but my night got all crowded up. the cheapo tickets are very appealing but i have no idea what kinda room/screen it actually is.

sounds like a bar that shows Blu-rays of 'comfort movies' to 30yo's

otoh this is the snob thread

Soviet-era synthesizer documentary Elektro Moskva is screening at the Spectacle Theater on Friday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1782741198620295/

ha i'm pretty unqualified to be a snob tbh - much of the stuff in the calendar at Syndicated is famous "everyone's seen it" movies that I never saw.

if i see only one Maysles joint, what should it be?

v hard to say, and i haven't seen all that much. Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens are p easy to get hold of. Salesman to start maybe.

Pinkerton on the suppressed Yugoslav film Plastic Jesus, running for a week at MoMA:

http://artforum.com/film/id=59490

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1635?locale=en

apparently i get a second shot at 'golden eighties' because the first print they ran didn't have english subtitles on it, mdr mdr

Evening for Tony Conrad at MoMA tnite

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1950?locale=en

If we help you, Doctor Casino, you have to start the film equivalent of In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time.

idk i'd feel obligated to have the length of my devastating hot-take posts scale up to match the difference between your basic four-minute blues rock deal and your basic 90-140-minute feature film. could crash the server.

meanwhile i'm actually in knoxville for a while dealing with family stuff. but they have amazon prime and the evenings stretch long so there's some watching. unfortunately all i have watched straight through is lol 'noah' but i have been trying to keep at 'thief of baghdad' and i started 'the blue angel' the other night but i kinda wasn't in the zone for it.