All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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".

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.

i hear they keep lights on during the movie which immediately disqualifies it for me

Lights are minimal

Yeah I would remember if it was distracting, cause I can get REAL distracted by lights.

Went two weeks ago with kids and will say Dr. Casino's prior post is otm.

Taipei Story showing at BAM in a week

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

http://metrograph.com/series/series/74/the-singularity

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

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?

only a replicant can answer that; i lost track of the versions around 3.0

last 2 nights for Taipei Story

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/taipei-story

bets on when the blu-ray is coming out?

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

so i gotta pay $100 for this? dang

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

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

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.

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.

all the early Tony Richardson stuff is kind of essential, but also the easiest to see elsewhere (mostly)

eg, the Criterion edition of A Taste of Honey is quite lovely (well, for Manchester).

Thanks for the tips!

v fond memories of billy liar if you've never seen, dc

I have not - that's good to know!

Another vote for Billy Liar. As well as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

Billy Liar is probably my least liked Courtenay, Christie *or* Schlesinger film in the series.

séance is really good

restorations by Scorsese's Film Foundation in Astoria

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/03/26/detail/martin-scorsese-great-restorations/

Billy Liar is probably my least liked Courtenay, Christie *or* Schlesinger film in the series.

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

You must have blinked when he was twisting to "Twisterella," words and music by Crabtree & Fisher.

tickets now available for James Gray with his new one in 35mm at the Metrograph, Apr 12, goin fast

http://metrograph.com/events/

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.

Tony Conrad doc

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=03&year=2017#showing-47009

re Metrograph Bunuel:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/bunuel-in-france

MoMA's early Czech film series:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3816?locale=en

and some rarities at this BAM retro of Anne-Marie Miéville

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/anne-marie-mieville

Film Forum launches their complete Wiseman survey

http://filmforum.org/series/the-complete-wiseman-part-i-early-wiseman-series

lots there i need to make time to see.

oh, de Niro series underway at Linc Ctr

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/no-bullst-starring-robert-de-niro/#films

and Lina Wertmuller series at the Quad

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/lina-wertmuller-female-trouble

Some of their guest pairings are intriguing...

https://quadcinema.com/appearances/

Checked out Titicut Follies last night at FF, with Laura Poitras introducing. My first Wiseman, and wow. That'll stick with me.

I have to admit I have scaled back my Wiseman plans after seeing, since my last check, that the NY Public Library has acquired almost all the films in this series on DVD.

thanks for the heads up on that!

It was kind of fascinating to see with an audience tbh. The laughter at, to me, not-at-all-funny things was maybe more depressing than anything in the film. But yeah I wouldn't need to see em all in that fashion, and living a couple of blocks from the BPL has been a real boon to me trying to catch up on miscellaneous films. (In that vein, I also finished MASH yesterday...)

you mean the series?

week from Sat at the Loews Jersey, organ concert + His Girl Friday, free:

http://loewsjersey.org/come-celebrate-the-jersey-journals-150th-anniversary-with-free-movie/

anybody been to quad city cinemas yet?

In Iowa or Alabama?