All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

and coming in August, Joe Dante hits and picks

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/joe-dante-at-the-movies

midway thru "Mondo" shockudocs at Anthology

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45997

Wonder if I should try to see On the Silver Globe this weekend.

i saw the first 40 mins on DVD recently and had to stop. Massively annoying, almost presidential-convention level.

I hated that one they always show on Mubi, Infidelity, but recently finally saw Possession which I liked.

Sorry, Fidelity

I sat thru all of On the Silver Globe in the theater, p sure my brain just shut off entirely halfway thru it (I don't really mean this in any sort of complimentary way)

How does it compare with Hard To Be A God

Okay may try tomorrow, perhaps I will hate as much as you two. Meanwhile, MoMA has at 5PM both Love Affair and Le Plaisir. Can't decide.

I guess I liked On The Silver Globe more than you guys.

So between stomach illness and going to the beach I had to curtail my ambitious "Les Durs" screening schedule, but I wanted to thank James Redd and Morbius again for the recommendations - ended up catching Port of Shadows and Classe Tous Risques, and enjoying both! Will try and catch Breathless in their upcoming two-for-the-price-of-one series...

Metrograph goes disco:

http://metrograph.com/series/series/31/dim-all-the-lights-disco-and-the-movies

Gaumont retro underway at MoMA

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1658?locale=en

http://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2016/daily/nyff-revivals-jacques-rivette-robert-bresson-kenji-mizoguchi/

free screening of Cronenberg's The Fly at SVA next Monday night

http://svatheatre.com/events/the-fly-free-30th-anniversary-screening/

Pinkerton on Anthology's José Luis Guerín series:

http://artforum.com/film/id=63110

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46147

I would not have guessed that the make of In the City of Sylvia made a feature doc about The Quiet Man's shooting location.

Robert Frank's Candy Mountain at BAM tonight

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/candy-mountain/Film?oid=1054643

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/candy-mountain

MOMI on FB:

The 70mm print of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is 20 reels and weighs over 500 pounds! And it screens this weekend only.

I hear you can feel every pound dropping on your head.

Charles Burnett at FSLC for Q&As:

http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-glass-shield/

http://www.filmlinc.org/films/to-sleep-with-anger/

Aldrich retro at Metrograph, appears to be all-35mm. Unless you own Ulzana's Raid as i do, i commend it unto you.

http://metrograph.com/series/series/38/the-associates-and-aldrich

Any snobs going to Alexanderplatz at MoMA this weekend? You should see it in a theater once in a lifetime.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/2721?locale=en

Can't go, unfortunately. Did it already in a past lifetime, fortunately.

Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950 opens tomorrow at Anthology Film Archives and runs through September 28.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46227

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/rare-classic-films-by-female-directors

Thursday the 29th, new batch of Vitaphone shorts at FF

http://filmforum.org/film/unseen-vitaphone-varieties-part-i-from-bowery-to-hollywood-vaudevilles-lega

retrospective of apichatpong w's short films coming soon to LA

i'm sorry, but we all missed FF's Marx Brothers costume contest. Apparently a child came as Zeppo.

I was thinking about checking out one of the last couple days of their Marx Bros/vaudeville series, which seems to include a fair number of two-for-ones. I have never seen a single Marx Brothers film despite their being on countless lists of greatest comedies, etc. Have always had the vague sense that they were kind of goofy, but would love to discover that to my surprise I find them hilarious.

tsk tsk Dr

I think I kind of have them mixed up with the Three Stooges, who have never much drawn me in. I mean, I'm given to understand they're very different, but in my brain they get mushed together - oh, looks like in this one they're house painters, who knows what hijinks may ensue? The titles don't help with this to be honest. Anyway - reckon I'll check something out, though I also want to see La Notte and/or Elevator to the Gallows, also ending this week. It's hard to get used to the NYC embarrassment of riches sometimes.

damn dawg
see night at the opera and just take it in

Ughhh this week has ended up such a mess for trying to go to anything. Maybe tomorrow!

Vitaphone shorts tonight at 6:10, i'll be there

Duck Soup follows at 10 (i won't be there)

damn - was thinking i'd do La Notte at 7:10 and then, if I still have cinema stamina, Duck Soup at 10.

that would be a weird sequence... Jeanne Moreau wandering the mean streets, coming upon Edgar Kennedy's lemonade stand.

Russian/Georgian auteur Marlen Khutsiev at MoMA (and Harvard)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3603?locale=en

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-marlen-khutsiev

i spontaneously went to Robert Beavers' From the Notebooks of... today and enjoyed it.

alas the Henry Hathaway Fourteen Hours was cancelled!

Is it called that because that is how long Hathaway argued with Dennis Hopper?

not that film

Of course.

Saw a few minutes of 2001 out of the corner of my eye this evening and was thinking maybe we should do a Leonard Rossiter poll.

AFI fest sched is up - seeing as there's a good chance i still will not have a job when this gets rolling, i may go a little wild...

http://afifest.afi.com/2016/sections

maggie cheung retrospective at metrograph http://metrograph.com/series/series/46/maggie-cheung-center-stage

http://www.chinaonscreen.org/

probably the worst designed website of all time but films showing in new york during november

i guess you can just go to the asia society's web page

3-D JLG film is very good.

Finally did Duck Soup btw - y'all were right, those dudes were hilarious! Hadn't laughed that hard at a movie in a long time. Kids near me were cracking up too.

Is it the original of the "person pretends to be someone else's mirror image" bit? Or is that old vaudeville stuff?

i imagine that's as old as mirrors tbh
you really really need to do night at the opera

there is at least one silent film directed by McCarey that also has the same mirror bit.

ANatO is also essential, but has the 'fat' of the love interest for 'regular people' in the audience. ("What people?" asked Pauline Kael.) None of that shit in Duck Soup.

Will keep my eyes out for the next time it comes through one of the big screens - probably won't have to wait too long. Had such fun with Duck Soup as part of an audience, feel like I'd be losing out to just get it from the library.

That reminds me of seeing Duck Soup on the big screen in Boston many years ago. The audience was in hysterics.

well under way: To Save and Project: The 14th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3614?locale=en

the Suzan Pitt animated program tonight has been postponed.

saw some of those edison kinetophones at a conference earlier this yr, fascinating

posted about it on otherwise-moribund ILF but in case you're wondering, the new xavier dolan is merde