All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Alamo is apparently bankrupt.
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/alamo-drafthouse-bankruptcy-chapter-11-sale-1234920558/

which is not to say that they're closing.

“Alamo Drafthouse had one of its most successful years in the company’s history in 2019 with the launch of its first Los Angeles theater and box office revenue that outperformed the rest of the industry,” Taylor said in a statement. “We’re excited to work with our partners at Altamont Capital Partners and Fortress Investment Group to continue on that path of growth on the other side of the pandemic, and we want to ensure the public that we expect no disruption to our business and no impact on franchise operations, employees and customers in our locations that are currently operating.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/movies/new-york-movie-theaters-guide.html

Lincoln Center is back on April 16

https://hyperallergic.com/629842/new-york-city-movie-theaters-reopening

Beard was developing an ambitious King Vidor program for Film at Lincoln Center with Dan Sullivan, an undertaking involving coordination with multiple archives.

*tries not to hyperventilate*
*fails*

http://www.movingimage.us/

Museum of Moving Image is coming back April 30

anyone catch any new directors/new films titles (remote or in-person)?

i imagine i'm not the only one feeling a lot of emotional twinges, skimming back over this thread this particular morning. i miss the movies, i miss these theaters. when it's possible, we should all go see something. and raise some glasses afterwards.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, October 22, 2020 9:23 AM (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Would anyone be interested in meeting up August 16 or 17 for something like this? (I'm making my Capitolfest [August 13-15] plans, and am trying to decide whether or not to come back via NYC and spend a few days.)

I'm open to the 16th! Leaving town to house-sit on the 17th.

some series notes:

* check off any Bogart you're missing at Film Forum, second half of July: https://filmforum.org/series/bogart

* next few days: Cinema Village doing a couple of Abel Ferrara films plus films picked by Ferrara, for five bucks a ticket. https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/abel-ferrara-s-cinema-village.html I caught El Topo the other night, might try and squeeze in The Projectionist

anthology and metrograph are still closed. quad is open with some new releases, MOMI and MOMA with some appealing repertory choices, BAM with a mix of both, but no elaborate programs yet from any of the above. FSLC is showing what they would have shown for last year's NYFF plus a few new restorations.

still hoping somebody gambles on an "in case you missed it" series running all the big 2020 movies i didn't get to see on the big screen. is anybody talking about that? a few of the oscar-honored movies got a brief boost in some of the chains, but NYC's theaters were barely even reopening at that time and they've since been replaced by F9, In the Heights, and two different horse movies for the whole family.

Wong Kar Wai at IFC all this month: https://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-world-of-wong-kar-wai/

Would anyone be interested in meeting up August 16 or 17 for something like this? (I'm making my Capitolfest [August 13-15] plans, and am trying to decide whether or not to come back via NYC and spend a few days.)

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, June 29, 2021 8:44 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

In the event anyone had this on their calendar, I will not be swinging by NYC after all. But I do hope to visit later in the year, in memory of Morbs.

Sure, please let us know.

right on.

into it

Updates: Anthology re-opened last month without too much fanfare. Metrograph re-opens this Friday!

Metrograph re-opens this Friday!

Showing Żuławski's Possession no less!

bummed their ticket price has inched up once again, but, yknow, pandemic, i get it.

Hate to see what they're asking for their giant candy now

it was truly the perfect MoviePass venue. i love seeing movies there, especially in the big room, but often feel like the schmanciness of everything in the front of the house is some sort of subtle signal that it's for rich people and i actually shouldn't be there.

You too can be rich with giant candy and eat carpaccio after

I see that MoMI is open today. Thinking of seeing the 6:30 screening of Bride of Frankenstein.

Go for it! I might try and catch it next weekend. I've been there a few times since reopening - Thief, Ran, Tenet. Really wish they could have built a wider/bigger screening room, but the quality of the projections themselves is always gorgeous.

So that was yesterday and maybe today The Old Dark House.

New print of that is gorgeous

Seems like the husband of The Bride is in it too.

Super charming movie iirc.

Four people here. Plenty of room if you are just passing by.

Sadly, MOMI is always a "destination" theater for me (Bushwick-based these days). Sit back, enjoy the show, have a potato.

Heh

Now I kind of want to read the book

This movie is a great favourite of mine, and I did read the book (Benighted by J. B. Priestley). My memory of it is a bit dim, but I do recall it being a bit of a slog to get through - it's very heavy on long, earnest discussions about life and love (some of which appear, in abbreviated form, in the film). Reading it satisfied my curiosity, but didn't really enhance my enjoyment of the film. And the performances and atmosphere in the film are so incredible that the book seems flat by comparison.

Thanks. Next question is how much trouble should I go to to see Gods and Monsters.

Speaking of MOMI, they've announced the next See It Big series, with the theme of "Extravaganzas." Some pretty fun stuff in there!

Film Forum's Road Movies series starts Friday the 12th and is chockablock with classics, plus a few lesser-known items. A ton of these are on my personal watchlist, woohoo!

well this will be interesting
https://gothamist.com/food/coming-soon-ny-movie-theaters-beer-wine

Toshiro Mifune at Film Forum, 2/11 to 3/10.

I still haven't seen several of the big Kurosawas, so I'm excited just for that. But I should try and branch out too... any recommendations?

all the samurai trilogy are great

Wow, my county’s liquor laws suck but we allow alcohol in theaters. Surprised you guys don’t have that.

Per the U.S. Constitution, liquor laws are devolved to the state level (and some of these states pass on the privilege to subjurisdictions). It's a matter of negotiating with one legislature at a time.

Dames, Janes, Dolls, and Canaries: Women Stars of the Pre-Code Era

If you have access to this and are NOT going, why the eff not? Hoping the AFI Silver/Capitolfest/National Gallery of Art programmers are taking notes....

good catch on that moma program, i might see the lubitsch tomorrow

Why do I bookmark this thread? I'm on the other side of the continent. If not for that fact, and the fact that I'm trying not to become infected, I would be at so many of these screenings. On my last trip to NY I saw "Call Her Savage" (a pre-code talkie w/Clara Bow) at MoMA. Excellent.

It feels like all of a sudden the great series are piling up frenetically and overwhelmingly on top of each other, just like old times. At BAM: Brazilian Modernism and Cicely Tyson. Film Forum's got the New York 1945-1955 thing. MOMI's got little short things, e.g. the Bogdanovich tribute that's just Saint Jack and At Long Last Love.... and now you tell me about this thing at MOMA!

One hour with you was a lot of fun!

That one is grebt!

I have been skeptical of the lubitsch musicals and chevalier in general but this was a humdinger, feels due for a remake

This number is incredibly catchy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24V9FPnsJs

Oh yeah, that look he throws.
It was a really really good print too

Wait, did you guys mention this yet?

The festival concludes with the North American premiere theatrical run (February 4–10) of Valerio Zurlini’s La prima notte di quiete (Indian Summer) (1972)—an austere, tragic romance starring Alain Delon as a failed poet—in its original, uncut Italian version.