All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

gonna be juggling Caan in Astoria w/ Marcello at FSLC

https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/marcello-mastroianni/#films

https://nypost.com/2017/05/18/lower-east-sides-landmark-sunshine-cinema-to-close/

must admit i haven't gone there in awhile, i could see whatever they were showing uptown or at BAM

Dietrich at the Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/85/marlene

Miracle Mile showing at the Metrograph with Steve De Jarnatt, Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham in person

http://metrograph.com/film/film/856/miracle-mile

Unbelievably pissed that I'm not going to be in NYC for this, but I hope that someone on this thread goes.

monthlong Filipino retro at MoMA -- Lav Diaz and others in town for it

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3843?locale=en

BAM doing Varda in California

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/varda-in-california

Frank & Eleanor Perry @ Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/desperate-characters-the-cinema-of-frank-eleanor-perry/

monthlong filipino retro ............. lav diaz in person ....................... program is just 1x lav film, duration 1 month

I guess i never posted the FF Lubitsch link. A twinbill of blind spots for me tonight.

http://filmforum.org/series/the-lubitsch-touch

NYAFF slate

https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/full-lineup-16th-new-york-asian-film-festival/

Suffering of Ninko is one of the weirder films I've seen recently.

Someone go see the new Sabu and tell me if it's good.

btw Spielberg Summer is well underway

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/06/03/detail/see-it-big-spielberg-summer/

bummed i already missed the jaws screenings / momi should screen jaws every weekend

i think you mean 1941!

Recommending Moka.

Aw man, I would have been totally down to see Duel in 35mm! Haven't seen Jurassic Park in a theater since its original run and I'm pretty sure I've never seen Jaws on the big screen (or with an audience). There's not a lot left that I'd really jump out of my seat for... hrm.

also, 1941 is unbearable though 'interesting'

Tavernier @ Quad

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4669-the-daily-bertrand-tavernier-at-the-quad

What's the unmissable Tavernier?

This isn't really NYC-specific, but now that I have a semi-modern smartphone, I'm wondering: is there a really great Android app for just checking what's playing in theaters? Ideally something that aggregates all the arthouse places together with multiplexes, and lets you edit down a list of theaters you give a shit about so you can just take stock of the offerings at a glance? I realize this might sound really demanding of the world but if someone coded that I would pay money to own it, cuz afaict the available offerings are all like Fandango and Google where you're forever scrolling past showings of the new Smurfs movie in New Jersey (''within five miles of your location!'') or whatever and it doesn't even HAVE Quad/Metrograph/whatever.

http://www.screenslate.com/ is the best place to do just that, though it's not an app

well he wants multiplexes too

i know zip

I mean I guess I'm okay with missing the multiplexes, since with those I'm usually after a specific current movie that I already know is playing (even though there are occasional weird things - a while back Smokey and the Bandit was playing at several AMCs for some reason, and I wish I'd checked it out). So yeah, Screenslate looks awesome, thanks ulysses! Not having to individually check FF, IFC, MOMI, MOMA, Metrograph, Angelika etc is super helpful.

cool; i think they're great. decent writing too!

Oh wait except it doesn't have a bunch of those! Weird. Well I'll still keep it bookmarked on my phone cause it DOES cut down on searching a bit. But next time I'm a millionaire with nothing better to do I'm going to hire an app developer to custom-build my dream NYC movie fan hoonja-doonja.

Southern Gothic at BAM (Renoir, Bunuel, Aldrich, Siegel's The Beguiled)

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/southern-gothic

NY in the '70s at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/new-york-in-the-70s-series

yeah I've been getting stoked for that last one, lotta "should have seen this ages ago" items, a few attractive two-for-ones, some stuff i've never heard of... cool.

i haven't seen 7 of them (including Cruising), but most of those are on DVD

Gloria?

no i saw that last year, and The Hot Rock just a few months ago.

the others are
The Wiz
Eyes of Laura Mars
Death Wish
They Might Be Giants
Cops and Robbers
Marathon Man

Have fond memories of The Hot Rock. Wonder how it holds up.

Paul Sand and Ron Leibman are esp funny

Wonder how you will like Cops and Robbers. At the time it seemed to me like a lesser Hot Rock, but who knows.

Soon at MoMA, "Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction" has some rarely screened stuff, like the Borges-written Invasión, along with more familiar and recent titles:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3855?locale=en

most of those are on DVD

true but i dig goin to the movies. just got back from Midnight Cowboy, on (sometimes rather battered) 35mm, with a pretty good-size crowd, and i do think i received the film differently than i would have otherwise.

surprised you haven't seen The Wiz though! iirc it's pretty flawed but worth it for the design work and (some of) the songs by themselves. and yeah some cool use of rather offbeat new york locations in places.

yeah, but for the unseen i listed, i can live with DVDs. (Except I will probably go to They Might Be Giants.) I've seen Midnight Cowboy projected, probably more than once.

I was in high school when The Wiz came out and it got horrible reviews.

I always feel a tinge of loyalty to the people I went to high school with, for whom it was a beloved childhood classic watched many times over, and hailed with delight when it was wheeled into the classroom as study-hall filler at the end of the year or after the PSATs or whatever the occasion was for devoting school time to a "fun" movie. Not having grown up with it I've never been able to quite love it, but I do think there's some neat stuff to look at. Feels like it'd be the most fun with a big audience - it crops up as an outdoor summer movie pretty often and I think that makes sense, but it's also a cool choice in this series.

Bava at the Quad

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4712-the-daily-mario-bava-at-the-quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/mondo-bava/

Has anyone subscribed to FilmStruck? App like netflix that has arty movies. Seems to be the only way to see mike leigh movies in the US

Yes.
Filmstruck

Alain Tanner @ Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/95/alain-tanner

https://hyperallergic.com/389836/john-berger-and-alain-tanners-films-about-life-after-political-failure/

Nellie Killian out as MAMcinematek programmer

*BAMcinematek

Yvonne Rainer @ LincCtr

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/talking-pictures-the-cinema-of-yvonne-rainer/#films

more on the MoMA uncanny scifi

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4745-the-daily-goings-on-sci-fi-at-moma-and-more

Is there a rolling film fest '17 thread around? Did anyone catch Bad Genius at the NY Asian Film Festival?

Considering going to that screening with you this evening

im not 100% sure (if youre talking to me)