All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Almodóvar retro underway

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3611?locale=en

and Ruiz begins tom'w at FSLC

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/life-is-a-dream-the-films-of-raul-ruiz-part-1/#films

Busby Berkeley at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/busby-berkeley-series

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

what is it?

oh ok, a Michael Shannon-Imogen Poots film

very little emotional payoff and a great deal of jerking around

new board description

this is on saturday, NYCers - looks fascinating, i'd try to catch at least part of it

http://www.lightindustry.org/pittsburghpolice

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.

Metrograph is still too damn expensive, still w/ no membership discounts, but the Maggie Cheung retro is underway.

i caught 'centre stage' last night - it was okay, not a big stanley kwan fan

the mifune documentary was... okay? it felt like supplemental material; interesting but not especially revealing.

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/moonlight-director-barry-jenkinss-films-and-inspirations-coming-in-january/

MOMI is doing its year-end thing 12/30-1/8

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/12/30/detail/curators-choice-2/

Nick Pinkerton on the Scorsese exhibition in Queens

https://www.artforum.com/film/id=65283

Steadicam films at FSLC, inventor Garrett Brown in attendance

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/going-steadi-40-years-of-steadicam/#films

Dino Risi retro at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3628?locale=en

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

great lineup!

including my favorite plus-sized trio, Ton o' Fun.

complete almodovar retro in LA this month, planning to fill in some gaps ( seeing 'pepi luci bom...' on saturday)

good luck, the Almodovar retro here was filled up every damn show and i never tried to get in.

ended up skipping PLB after all, may try to catch others tho. and yeah, most of the screenings have been selling out, but they're scheduling encores for some

Spielberg (5 in 35mm) curated by Molly Haskell at the Metrograph.... she will be introducing the great Empire of the Sun (her fave by S.S.) and signing her new book about him on Saturday.

http://metrograph.com/series/series/63/spielberg-by-haskell

Pirandello 150 at FF -- will try to see Kaos and maybe Henry IV.

http://filmforum.org/series/pirandello-150-series

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/theres-revelation-in-film-forums-celebration-of-pirandello-9549940

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/16/a-masterly-movie-adaptation-of-short-stories-by-luigi-pirandello

btw i particularly recommend the Sat afternoon "Past Hits" silent comedies at MoMA on Saturday at 1:30, for the astonishing "Mind the Baby" starring Pal the Dog. See descrip from past notes here:

http://www.cruelandunusualcomedy.com/2009/05/may-29-at-4pm-animals-and-children.html

a college near me is counterprogramming vs the super bowl w 'tree of wooden clogs'

French fest at FSLC in March includes Bonello's Nocturama

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/complete-lineup-announced-for-rendez-vous-with-french-cinema/

Annual queer experimental fest now in Ridgewood, this weekend

https://mixnyc29.org/screenings

She Whose Blood is Clotting in My Underwear may be the ultimate German lesbian film title.

Everyone should go and see Nocturama.

The Quad Cinema reopens in April. Interview with owner Charles S. Cohen:

http://www.surfacemag.com/articles/architecture-developer-charles-s-cohens-growing-reel-estate/

at the Japan Society:

https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/romantic-weekend-meiko-kaji

Friday at Metrograph, Harlan County USA plus a Q&A with filmmaker Barbara Kopple and a musical performance by Jack Morris, son of Appalachian singer David Morris.

http://metrograph.com/film/film/288/harlan-county-u-s-a

Morbs did you see Metrograph now offers packs of 10 or 20 tickets at a discount?

no, i didn't!

that's too much

So, Toni Erdmann or Beat The Devil?

both

Okay, then Toni today and Truman tomorrow night.

BtD ends Thurs i think

Five diff versions of Wuthering Heights at FSLC

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/heathcliff-its-me-adapting-wuthering-heights/#films

New Directors/New Films schedule up (March 15-26)

http://www.newdirectors.org/##films

Canadian tax-shelter classics of the '70s and '80s at Anthology

https://www.artforum.com/film/id=66885

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46957

The Last Family is pretty good from that NDNF lineup.

I've only seen Class or 1984 and Atlantic City from that tax shelter list. Any of the others worth looking for?

I have been advised to see Skip Tracer. I saw The Brood long ago, v disturbing; horror mavens also dig Black Christmas.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is, as Pinkerton writes, "deeply icky."

Ticket to Heaven was well reviewed in the US in '81.

The description of Taking Shelter sounds amazing:

Breaking out of their imaginary purgatory and into temporal space, a disagreeable crew of aliens invade Canada, subjecting everyday life to the rules of cinema as a strategy for colonial domination.

Fragments of 434 Canadian feature films from 1970-89 are folded into this found-footage feature, many of them scandalously rare, and most of them products of the tax shelter era. The strong narrative line both stands on its own and unpacks its subject on two levels: the literal content of the films it repurposes, and the political/industrial context from which they emerged. Merging the innovations of found-footage pioneers like Bruce Conner and Arthur Lipsett with the anarchic pop omnivorousness of YouTube mashup culture, TAKING SHELTER is a groundbreaking experiment in freestanding collage cinema – no voiceover or titling, no non-diagetic commentary, just repurposed image and sound. It jolts the formative years of Canadian feature filmmaking into the present with all the trimmings of the Hollywood productions these films yearned to emulate – it’s funny, thrilling, and affecting.

MoMA retro for Mexican auteur Julio Bracho -- anyone familiar?

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3649?locale=en

Jean-Pierre Léaud retro at FSLC, Mar 29-April 6

https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/jean-pierre-leaud-career-retrospective-starts-march-29/

https://www.filmlinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Masculin-feminin-800x450.jpg

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