All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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.

went and saw Her Man (1930) at MoMA today; it was great and Helen Twelvetrees is a find!
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/her-man-tay-garnett-1930/

Not sure how long this has been going on, but whoever's programming the Netflix-owned Paris Theater seems to have decided that if their venue is going to primarily be a vehicle for Netflix films to maintain awards qualification, they might as well also show other interesting stuff too. currently: a list of appealing titles (La Cienaga, Under the Skin, Kiarostami's Where Is The Friend's House?) that apparently inspired The Lost Daughter. coming up: a one-week Jane Campion retrospective, all on 35mm, in parallel with daily screenings of Power of the Dog (if, like me, you're wishing you'd seen it on a big-ass screen instead of an IFC basement room). i haven't been yet, but it seems like they've made a serious play for inclusion in the NYC repertory circuit!

Oh hi. I actually went and saw Power of the Dog there early on under the auspices of MUBI GO and yeah.

Eraserhead, FWWM and Mulholland Drive on 35mm coming up at BAM...

https://www.bam.org/film/2022/lynchian?alttemplate=MobileProgram

weeraseethakul's Memoria is coming back to the IFC for a post omicron run

Just breaking: disgruntled film patron stabs two MoMA employees after his membership is revoked.

Mike Rubin was there when it happened. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/nyregion/moma-stabbing.html

Wow, that's terrifying. Good to read that the victims are in stable condition, at least.

In some good news: Kim's Video collection is returning to NYC!

Also, wonder what is the deal with Bronco Bullfrog. I am intrigued.

ICYMI: IFC has started that second one-week run of Memoria.

Also, Film Forum has kicked off their month-long Poitier and His Contemporaries series, with a hell of a lineup:

https://filmforum.org/series/sidney-poitier-his-trailblazing-contemporaries

Got my eye on this Daniel Talbot memoir.

MOMA unveils jam-packed summer horror series, with ten week-long sub-themes and tons of big titles.

Coming up at Film Forum: 1962...1963...1964, featuring, well, films from those years.

They're also currently re-running some highlights from the Mifune series, ICYMI!

Update to the above: it's actually one-third of a mega-program, in tandem with FSLC (showing NYC experimental films of the period) and the Jewish Museum (exhibiting work by NYC artists of the period). Ticket stubs at each yield discounts for the other two!

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/new-york-1962-1964-underground-and-experimental-cinema/#schedule

https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/new-york-1962-1964

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/style/new-york-film-noir-cinema.html

Enjoyed MY OLD SCHOOL at the Film Forum. The director is supposed to be there for the last screenings on Friday and Saturday.

re: johnny crunch's link, I've been meaning to check out Film Noir for ages. Seems like Spectacle but with an even more idiosyncratic/individual taste guiding the programming (for better and for worse). I think I overlook it because the listings don't seem to consistently show up on Screen Slate (and often have no descriptions on the venue website).

What’s the closest/best subway stop for the Nitehawk?

Oh wait, are there two Nitehawks?