full meals at these Drafthouse-type atrocities is the NYC equiv of this:
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-cinepolis-junior-20170302-story.html?123
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
omg that is a living nightmare but i guess if you advertised the screenings with a warning in giant red letters it's like fine whatever
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
eating is one thing; that is a disaster on wheels
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
would be better if it had a dog run in the opposite aisle
― badg, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
why not just get your teeth cleaned and your prostate checked there while you're at it.
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
might as well be a major-league baseball park
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
'70s Canadian indies at Anthology
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=67040
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/47037
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
A friend was recently extolling the virtues of the NYC Alamo Drafthouse. Almost had me convinced. Still - not sure about watching a film while everyone around is chomping away at dinner. Does it smell like a restaurant in there?
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
Excited for the Leaud. Saw him in a Paris bookstore a couple of years back digging through magazines. I almost fainted like the fanboy I am but something about his demeanor definitely read "Ne me dérangez pas, Amerloc".
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Have only been to one AD screening, it didn't smell really, food was *okay* but that whole style of movie watching imho only works when you're watching something kinda low-stakes, like everybody in the theater's just there to have a good time and hang around. This was a screening of 'Zu Warriors,' part of their like Wednesday night weird movies series or sth... Hong Kong children's sci fi adventure from 1980ish. Loose crowd with a lot of LOLs and applause for particularly great scenes/lines. So some beers and fries don't really wreck that IMHO but I would not do it for most movies.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
i hear they keep lights on during the movie which immediately disqualifies it for me
― 龜, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
Lights are minimal
― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 March 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I would remember if it was distracting, cause I can get REAL distracted by lights.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 March 2017 18:47 (seven years ago) link
Went two weeks ago with kids and will say Dr. Casino's prior post is otm.
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 March 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Taipei Story showing at BAM in a week
― 龜, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
LA: new restoration of marcel ophuls' "the memory of justice" screening this sunday (anyone seen it?)
https://www.oscars.org/events/west-coast-restoration-premiere-memory-justice
― donna rouge, Monday, 13 March 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
http://metrograph.com/series/series/74/the-singularity
― 龜, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
kinda underwhelmed by this? ^^
lotta good stuff ive already seen
more likely to dip once or twice here
http://metrograph.com/series/series/77/universal-in-the-70s-part-two
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Sci-fi series is cool IMO, at least for me since it's got a few things I've always meant to get around to. Though obv. there's no shortage of chances to see The Terminator in this world, but in general this place seems to do a decent balance of room-fillers and slightly chancier offerings? I've still not been but it reminds me a bit of the very well-programmed cinema at the University of Georgia student union when I was there - canny mix of bring-out-the-nostalgia midnight offerings and new arthouse fare.
I can't tell, which Blade Runner is it that they're showing? United Palace is screening the Final Cut the very next day. Having never seen the film (I know, I know) I've been planning on going to that, but is that the version I should see?
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
only a replicant can answer that; i lost track of the versions around 3.0
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
last 2 nights for Taipei Story
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/taipei-story
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
bets on when the blu-ray is coming out?
― 龜, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
no bet needed, May from CC as part of this box
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1258-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-2
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
so i gotta pay $100 for this? dang
― 龜, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
suspect might be individually available later.
"Beyond Godzilla" retro at Japan Society
This seven-film series, a modified version of the program organized for the 2016 Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy by film critic and writer Mark Schilling, goes beyond Toho's superstar monster to introduce a selection of titles that display the wide-ranging imagination of the Japanese sci-fi/fantasy genre, including innovative B-movies, kaiju eiga ("monster movies") and non-Godzilla classics involving director Ishiro Honda and effects maestro Eiji Tsuburaya.
http://www.villagevoice.com/event/beyond-godzilla-alternative-futures-and-fantasies-in-japanese-cinema-9791835
https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/beyond-godzilla-alternative-futures-and-fantasies-in-japanese-cinema
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
it's the Brit New Wave at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/the-brit-new-wave-from-angry-young-men-to-swinging-london-series
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/brit-new-wave
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
I scribbled down a bunch of those when the calendar first came out - really haven't seen almost anything here. Not sure how many I'll be making it to in the end but am curious about Girl With Green Eyes / The Leather Boys, Billy Liar, Darling, The Entertainer, Pumpkin Eater, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Georgy Girl, Alfie, and Tom Jones.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
I've seen a lot of em (mostly long ago), might do a couple repeats of ones that've become scarce, esp on film (The Entertainer, Seance, Morgan, Georgy), and ones I've missed til now (L-Shaped Room, Sparrows Can't Sing, Whistle Down the Wind).
As usual, I will probably really make it to... two.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
all the early Tony Richardson stuff is kind of essential, but also the easiest to see elsewhere (mostly)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
eg, the Criterion edition of A Taste of Honey is quite lovely (well, for Manchester).
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the tips!
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
v fond memories of billy liar if you've never seen, dc
― schlump, Thursday, 23 March 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
I have not - that's good to know!
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 23 March 2017 05:22 (seven years ago) link
Another vote for Billy Liar. As well as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2017 08:45 (seven years ago) link
Billy Liar is probably my least liked Courtenay, Christie *or* Schlesinger film in the series.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2017 10:57 (seven years ago) link
séance is really good
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 23 March 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link
restorations by Scorsese's Film Foundation in Astoria
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/03/26/detail/martin-scorsese-great-restorations/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
forgot he was in it. i just think the Walter Mittyesque sequences are nothin' special.
Robert Kramer epic at BAM on Sunday:
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/robert-kramer-route-one-usa
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
You must have blinked when he was twisting to "Twisterella," words and music by Crabtree & Fisher.
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
tickets now available for James Gray with his new one in 35mm at the Metrograph, Apr 12, goin fast
http://metrograph.com/events/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 March 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Loving all the British New Wave chatter, gave me a lot to add to my calendar. And then I got the flu and so I haven't been to anything yet! Ugh.
If anybody is looking to check out the Alamo ambience we were just discussing, my friend is introducing a screening of Cleopatra Jones in 35mm tomorrow night. Dunno how snob-level that is but I've never seen it, so hey.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
Tony Conrad doc
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=03&year=2017#showing-47009
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
re Metrograph Bunuel:
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/bunuel-in-france
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
MoMA's early Czech film series:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3816?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 April 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
and some rarities at this BAM retro of Anne-Marie Miéville
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/anne-marie-mieville
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 April 2017 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Film Forum launches their complete Wiseman survey
http://filmforum.org/series/the-complete-wiseman-part-i-early-wiseman-series
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
lots there i need to make time to see.
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link
oh, de Niro series underway at Linc Ctr
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/no-bullst-starring-robert-de-niro/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link