All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

No eye deer

I've been - more like the latter, but it's a pretty nice theater! It's downstairs with a little waiting room space outside their nightclub. I liked it.

not me

With the Lincoln Plaza apparently on its last legs, Dan Talbot has died.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/12/29/saying-so-long-to-lincoln-plaza-the-upper-west-sides-home-for-schlemiels-and-cinephiles-alike/

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5235-the-daily-remembering-dan-talbot

Hotel guests get to go for free so you do get random people just wandering in for 5 minutes and then leaving

it's a boutique theater

good to know, thanks y'all. i don't mind a little-room theater... spectacle rules, i've really enjoyed some videology screenings for example, n i keep meaning to check out film noir in greenpoint... but one has to be in the right mood.

next question: is there an exact closing date for the landmark sunshine? news reports say its lease is up "in january" which i thought meant december 31st would be it, but it looks like they're promoting screenings through at least 1/27 so maybe it's a 1/31 deal?

It's a bigger theater than some of the IFC screens!

lol i've apparently never ended up in the one really really bad IFC screen but a friend told me about it recently. be nice if they'd let you know in advance. "the movie you've selected will be roughly the size of a generously-proportioned TV set."

I can usually tell by the number of showings and how long it's been running...

Oh wait, I walked by that Roxy Theater when I went to see my friend play at The Django in the same hotel

oh man, theater 5 at IFC, that's the rough one. seen a few films at that front row far right...

I went and saw a movie in one of the tiny IFC rooms after I had half a weed gummy bear and thought I was going to have a panic attack

this is the year I've really started to register the embarrassment of riches effect. tonight i'm choosing between three things at metrograph alone. though not being blasted into bits by the wailing winds also has a certain appeal tbh.

some of these are better shorter...

https://quadcinema.com/program/the-way-i-see-it-directors-cuts/

weirdly, Blade Runner Final Cut is described as "released 10 years after the theatrical cut" - which would be true of the director's cut. i admit it's kinda neat that places will continue to screen things like that and the 1980 Close Encounters "special edition" even though they've been superseded by later variations. not sure anybody actually wants to see the "inside the mothership" cut though....

'new' Fassbinder series gets a Jan 20 marathon screening

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3908?locale=en

Hmm, do I really want to spend a big chunk of my short stay in New York watching 10 hours of fassbinder? Yes, yes I do. It'll be even more ideal if I can arrange to be hungover for it following some kind of FAP.

How does booking tickets normally work for these things?

Wins, fwiw the Fassbinder serial is available in the UK on a very nice Arrow Blu-Ray set, so is not hard to see here (and as it was conceived and shot for television, is perfectly suited to home viewing in discrete episodes).

film tix for MoMA become available exactly 2 weeks before the screening dates.

(you can book them online from the film's page, and I am always very bad at guessing which will 'sell out' in advance)

Ah cool, thx

xp to ward that's handy to know but I really am into the idea of spending one of the days of my holiday on this (and I meant 8 hours above obviously, duh): it's the kind of cheap solitary activity I'm looking for honestly. Plus I love RWF, and I've seen a few tv things at the cinema recently - not the new twin peaks sadly - and usually enjoy it

also you'll get to experience the banter of MoMA film audiences, which during my 1997 Berlin Alexanderplatz weekend included "Shut up!" "No, YOU shut up!"

😕

wins you might want to consider a membership to moma as all films are free with membership and booking an advance film ticket is five bucks via website.

but he's not staying, alas

well an individual membership is $85 and benefits kick in immediately and for the year. Moma tix are $12 so if you're gonna see seven films? Likely not.

there are other goodies in the preservation fest btw

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3908?locale=en

Max Ophuls at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/132/max-ophls

reminder that the MoMA restoration fest commences Thursday

self-explanatory

http://metrograph.com/series/series/135/belle-and-sebastian-dream-double-feature

btw last night for Wang Bing's Bitter Money at Anthology

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2018#showing-48472

finally trying metrograph for "wages of fear", kinda hyped to see that big screen
i am aware this is not a very snobby post

it would be if you claimed Sorcerer is better.

Thought the Wang Bing was a bit disappointing. Really interested in seeing his other couple new films, especially Mrs Fang.

more on To Save and Project... I think for the Fassbinder series I will wait til Film Forum.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5283-the-daily-to-save-and-project-2018

btw last night for Wang Bing's Bitter Money at Anthology

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2018#showing-48472

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:21 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark

almost went but then the thought of a slow cinema documentary that's 2.5 hours long put fear in me

coward! :)

I really want see any Wang Bing rn..

saw WoF at MG last week, was a great experience and i think the supense played really well with being in an audience. i've been hitting that place up a lot since moviepass... super convenient location for me, interesting programming, comfy seats, good picture and sound... even the smaller room is a genuinely Big Screen. no interest at all in the bougie restaurant and treats but they don't affect me.

coward! :)

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:18 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark

already pissed i had to miss jia zhangke at moma because of work!

well that was an old one

I'm going to the metrograph tonight for WR: mysteries of the organism, which I've never seen & always wanted to

I was tempted by the losey as it's a favourite of mine but went to gig instead

count the old hippies!

Its great, go! That remindds me I didn't put Makavejev in my top 50 and he is definitely that.

metrograph is a block or two away from mission chinese and fat radish; which overpriced NYC hipster foodery should i prioritize

Old hippie count: 0, i think I was the oldest person there

Times has a feature story on the MoMA Cinerama Sunday, so get tix now if you wanna

Also on Sunday, Jerry Schatzberg will be at the Metrograph to present a 35 mm print of his 1970 film Puzzle of a Downfall Child with Faye Dunaway.

http://metrograph.com/film/film/693/puzzle-of-a-downfall-child

Hmmm I may check it out - hoping to finally get to the new museum today so will be in the neighbourhood. Might be all cinema'd out for one week tho.

I stuck it out till the end of the fassbinder - surprisingly enough given that I felt my eyelids beginning to droop during the introduction. I liked it (and was surprised by how good-natured it all was) but it's so not meant to be watched in this way - whoever it is that's showing it over a few weekends has the right idea I think.