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.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 September 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
tsk tsk Dr
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 September 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 September 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
damn dawgsee night at the opera and just take it in
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 05:17 (seven years ago) link
Ughhh this week has ended up such a mess for trying to go to anything. Maybe tomorrow!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Vitaphone shorts tonight at 6:10, i'll be there
Duck Soup follows at 10 (i won't be there)
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
damn - was thinking i'd do La Notte at 7:10 and then, if I still have cinema stamina, Duck Soup at 10.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
that would be a weird sequence... Jeanne Moreau wandering the mean streets, coming upon Edgar Kennedy's lemonade stand.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
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
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
i spontaneously went to Robert Beavers' From the Notebooks of... today and enjoyed it.
alas the Henry Hathaway Fourteen Hours was cancelled!
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Is it called that because that is how long Hathaway argued with Dennis Hopper?
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
not that film
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― donna rouge, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
maggie cheung retrospective at metrograph http://metrograph.com/series/series/46/maggie-cheung-center-stage
― 龜, Thursday, 27 October 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
http://www.chinaonscreen.org/
probably the worst designed website of all time but films showing in new york during november
― 龜, Monday, 31 October 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
i guess you can just go to the asia society's web page
― 龜, Monday, 31 October 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
3-D JLG film is very good.
― TS: "A-11" vs. "Track 12" (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 November 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
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?
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 November 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
i imagine that's as old as mirrors tbhyou really really need to do night at the opera
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Sunday, 13 November 2016 06:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 November 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 November 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
That reminds me of seeing Duck Soup on the big screen in Boston many years ago. The audience was in hysterics.
― jmm, Sunday, 13 November 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
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
― donna rouge, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
i saw! XD has made the two OK films that were in him, i think.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
not sure i can make Tree of Wooden Clogs at MoMA this week, but obv the 4K is a prelude to the Criterion in February.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Verhoeven's rarely screened Turkish Delight ('73 sex comedy w/ Rutger Hauer) 6:30 tonight at Reade.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
holiday films at MOMI, from Die Hard to Fanny & Alexander to Eyes Wide Shut!
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/11/19/detail/see-it-big-holiday-films-2/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
Almodóvar retro underway
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3611?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
and Ruiz begins tom'w at FSLC
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/life-is-a-dream-the-films-of-raul-ruiz-part-1/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
Busby Berkeley at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/busby-berkeley-series
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
Frankie and Lola was overwrought, woman-as-object, "oh the impotence of men's rage" film noir with knockout performances by the leads but very little emotional payoff and a great deal of jerking around
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, 8 December 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
what is it?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
oh ok, a Michael Shannon-Imogen Poots film
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
very little emotional payoff and a great deal of jerking around
new board description
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
this is on saturday, NYCers - looks fascinating, i'd try to catch at least part of it
http://www.lightindustry.org/pittsburghpolice
― donna rouge, Friday, 9 December 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
Hardly snobbish but I might make Wizard of Oz at UPCA on Sunday my first trip up there since King Kong a couple years back. Never seen it on the big screen and it's such a cool venue.
― walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 December 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
Metrograph is still too damn expensive, still w/ no membership discounts, but the Maggie Cheung retro is underway.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
i caught 'centre stage' last night - it was okay, not a big stanley kwan fan
― 龜, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
the mifune documentary was... okay? it felt like supplemental material; interesting but not especially revealing.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/moonlight-director-barry-jenkinss-films-and-inspirations-coming-in-january/
― 龜, Monday, 12 December 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
MOMI is doing its year-end thing 12/30-1/8
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/12/30/detail/curators-choice-2/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Nick Pinkerton on the Scorsese exhibition in Queens
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=65283
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 December 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
Steadicam films at FSLC, inventor Garrett Brown in attendance
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/going-steadi-40-years-of-steadicam/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 December 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
Dino Risi retro at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3628?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 December 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
Jan 13-26, MoMA's latest fest of their collection's silent comedy shorts. Opening night: Chaplin imitators!
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3630?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
great lineup!
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
including my favorite plus-sized trio, Ton o' Fun.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
complete almodovar retro in LA this month, planning to fill in some gaps ( seeing 'pepi luci bom...' on saturday)
― donna rouge, Friday, 6 January 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link