All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

I liked, gave it 3 stars outta 4, but it's sort of limited -- you keep waiting for Toni Servillo to bend his performance to let more "naturalism" at least peek through, but the only new color after the first 5 minutes is that very theatrical confession scene.

Directors' Late Films @ BAM -- I'm thinking mostly about Cracking Up on Tuesday, then Aldrich and Wellman.

http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1051

"the late film" is the only may repertory thing that i'm excited about. thoughts on godard's king lear?

saw it when it came out; shrugged at it like most '80s Godard. The Burgess Meredith-Molly Ringwald scenes were at least ... something.

wow, Sarris & Haskell introducing El Dorado @BAM.

My friend Steve co-curated this MoMA series of silent comedy shorts at month's end with the magnetic title CRUEL AND UNUSUAL COMEDY!

http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/948

Note: "Since these films touch on a number of potentially sensitive issues, each screening features an introduction that will provide context." Beware, blackface and woman-beating!

also, I plan on going to the Julien Duvivier film today at 5:30.

I've meant to see that one for years. Sometimes I even think I've seen it, but what I'm confusing it with is something called Pattes Blanches.

Wow, I guess that's Hildegard Knef in that still from Holiday For Henrietta.

Cracking Up looks good, but traveling to BAM always seems a bit excessive to me. I wish AMMI would reopen already. I may try Age of Consent though. Have Edward Said's "On Late Style" on reserve to prepare.

Age of Consent really isn't very good.

The best in the series might be Good Morning and L'Argent.

I plan to be at all these programs... Only one for 9-to-5-ers tho.

Don’t miss “Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film” at MoMA! Five programs of rare silent comedy shorts from MoMA’s archive hand-picked by Ben Model, Steve Massa and Ron Magliozzi:

Weds May 20 at 4pm - “Drag Shows” - Charlie Murray, Wallace Beery, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Finlayson, Harry Myers, Buster Keaton and Roscoe Arbuckle

Weds May 27 at 4pm - “Race Riots” - David Morris, Henry Bergman, Harold Lloyd, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, Lige Conley, Spencer Bell, and Bert Williams

Weds May 27 at 7pm - “Gratuitous Violence” - Ford Sterling, Mack Sennett, Lloyd Hamilton and Bud Duncan (Ham & Bud), Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, James Parrott, Kalla Pasha, and Billie Ritchie

Fri May 29 at 4pm - “Animals and Children” - an unidentified elephant, George Ober, Our Gang, Pal the dog and an alligator, the Dippy Do-Dads, Billy Bevan and the Sennett Lions

Mon June 1 at 4pm - “Automobiles” - Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Hank Mann, Slim Summerville, Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Aubrey, Oliver Hardy, and Lige Conley.

MoMA’s website for the series is at:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/948

Film notes are at:
http://cruelandunusualcomedy.blogspot.com

bump for tomw night's "Gratuitous Violence" at MoMA, a certain sellout.

you guys know about Playtime at the Met on Friday?

also, http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/programs/outdoorcinema.php

Where are you seeing the Playtime listing? I can't find it anywhere.

Nevermind, it's here.

The Trintignant/Romy Schneider movie at the Film Forum has got something for everyone.

talking chimps?

There might be some during the Afro-nightclub scene.

Nick Ray fest at FF.

http://www.filmforum.org/films/nickray.html

Guess it's finally time to see Wind Across The Everglades.

I saw that at BAM. It's... interesting.

Looking forward to reading this new Imitation Of Life book.

have always wanted to see they live by night
i flicked through and saw that there's no in a lonely place in the listing, but it's on a week or two beforehand, introd by ray's widow

the BAM festival looks sweet. new bujalski film is playing.

This Windmill Movie coming to FF looks interesting. Like Le genou de Claire as filmed by Henry Jaglom.

hmm, maybe i will go to that if i can

Y'all should try to go to the Q&A tomorrow, well tonight I guess.

eager for The Beaches of Agnes!

hey, i met henry jaglom last week! he came into my place of work.

yr california correspondent reports: i am basically living at PFA this july and august:

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/

yay! i hate you, kind of.

The only film I've seen at PFA is Dirty Little Billy, which they're showing again on 8/20. Very strange dullish Michael J Pollard antiwestern.

lake tahoe is a beaut: playing at anthology, maybe with some director q/a action this weekend. total leaps and bounds ahead of duck season

Any recomendations on which Hirokazu Kore-eda film to see?
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1427

there's a film playing at the anthology with the following endorsement:

“Never have I looked so directly into hell.” –Werner Herzog

So there is. Looks interesting.

Thinking about the Nicholas Ray with Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan tonight.

Looking forward to this.

Songs from the Second Floor was really great.

Haha, I thought title was You, Living At Film Forum and it was some sort of answer film to Cinemaniacs.

it's great; surprised it's only coming out now. i think there's a couple of roy andersson threads, with links to his awesome commercials (cf socialist democrat party)

Guess it's finally time to see Wind Across The Everglades.

OK, it was pretty painful to watch until the last twenty minutes when Burl Ives was holding court. Niece of screenwriter Budd Schulberg was there and said her father producer Stuart Schulberg had to take over direction of the film because Nick was so strung out at the time.

Will try to see at least one of the double features next week. After that they are bringing in a Brit Noir series that looks pretty good.

can't remember which ones are playing as the double bills - i wish i'd caught the one with humphrey as a lawyer. this series has been fun. brit noir's kind of a turn off for me but the carol reed picture looks o k.

probably headed to Ray's Party Girl at 5:30.

anyone seen Loren Cass?

Nope.

Nick Ray's daughter introduced the 9:30 yesterday. In the audience were such luminaries as piano player/movie lover Anthony Coleman and film critic Gavin Smith.

RIP Cinemaniac Roberta Hill

oh no. Roberta obit? she seemed full-tilt bozo but i never imagined she was mortal.

Party girl was nice. Cinemaniac Bill was there.

oh no! RIP roberta. she would sometimes just come in to the AFA building when i worked there, before they even opened the box office, and just hang around. i'll always remember her complaining about the air conditioning in that downstairs theater

and her acccordion folder full of movie passes.

once spied her eating Spam out of a can.

Brit noir series is on now at FF. Would have liked to have seen The Small Back Room yesterday, but didn't make it.

The Criterion edition is excellent.

So bummed--almost checked out The Small Black Room from the Flushing Library, but went with multiple Chaplins instead. In the summer time, I just don't feel like spending so much time in movie theaters. As a type this, it sounds strange, as many people go just for the ac.

Two technicolor Brit Noirs tonight look kind of interesting.

They didn't do much for me (well, Valerie Hobson was a standout -- but the Stewart Granger wife-killer one was directed by the guy who helmed most of "Mr. Ed").

James Mason noirs prob at 7:50 for me, when it's barely cool enough to leave the house.

I probably liked them a little more than you did, but I think you've got it about right.

why is there separate admission for tonight's single Mason feature AND Edward Dmytryk's Obsession? Not very recession-friendly, Film Forum.

Headless Woman.
classic or dud?

might see today