All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Sometimes I regret living here; too much, too much...

Youngest MoMA audience I've ever seen last night for Night of the Living Dead, maybe 35-40. And the 8pm screening looked younger still.

I'm pretty sure I've never seen Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (BAM for the next week).

But you probably DID see the Madonna video that ripped it off.

If it was after '86, don't bet on it.

7pm Germi tnite? (i won't be online, off today)

Like to, but no can do.

I have tickets for the MOMI Todd Haynes thing that night, but David Gatten is programming an evening of films about water (including JJ Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign) at the WORK Gallery in Red Hook on November 10th.

i'm not seeing any movies until after the GREs

Paradjanov! I've seen that, it was about 10 years ago though.. gorgeous. The Madonna video that ripped off scenes was Bedtime Story.. I remember talking to some Armenian girls when on study abroad & mentioning this.. they were absolutely mortified..

So you gave up on ILF too, huh?

who, me? (I'm thinking this is gonna be mostly for local screenings) I didn't promise to start posting on ILF more, like SOME PEOPLE.

Tonight Paradjanov (esp if I decide not to vote), maybe tom'w Terror's Advocate, Thurs another Germi? all tentative.

I think he was talking about me. Actually I officially gave up around here. but I've started some threads over there since then, like my Germi thread, and these two:
TS Carl Dreyer vs. Victor Erice
I Don't Think He'd Have Given It To Me If I Had Hair Like EXCELSIOR Or Little Legs Like An Alligator

Can anybody figure out where the hell the link is to get tix for the FF's Evening with Norman Lloyd on Nov 26?

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

I think you can only buy 7 days in advance.

(unless it's I'm Not There)

even with Norman Lloyd cultists champing at the bit?

Maybe you can pull some strings with Bruc3 G0ldstein?

Actually I officially gave up around here.

B-b-but that was the only thread there that had any life in it. Well, that and the rockism one.

The ILF excelsior thread, however, is classsic as is.

Indeed.

B-b-but that was the only thread there that had any life in it. Well, that and the rockism one.
I can't find the thread where I stopped posting in parentheses and Morbius accused me of some Weekend At Bernie's behavior.

Memories.

'S'all I got, and the few that remain are fading fast.

I got ticket to 9:30 Germi tomorrow, Thursday, which I intend to use, barring the not unlikely work, home or health emergency.

ah, 5:30 for me.

Anyone seen any Marc Recha?

http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=161

I'll take that as a no.

More Brakhage at Antholgy Sunday (Pittsburgh Trilogy)

There's a big Max Ophuls retro coming to BAM at month's end; don't see anything on their site, but here:

http://tinyurl.com/2zymrj

A friend of mine is trying to get me to go see Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation at The Anthology tomorrow or over the weekend. Looks like an interesting curiosity, but I dunno.

UGH @ ophuls competing w/ sembene!!

the brief clip i watched of the adaptation looked awesome. i suggest you get on line REEEEEAL early if you end up seeing it, tho

in my GRE-prompted cinema ban i didn't realize i missed ALL of the germis (except for divorce, italian style which i've already seen)

I am suspicious of Raiders Adaptation. For one, I haven't watched ROTLA 20x like everyone else has, apparently.

Also, Sembene v Ophuls v Pasolini.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/pasolini/program.html

I would focus on the otherwise unavailable OS & MO.

Jiri Menzel is at BAM tonight w/ his latest, but I know nothing about it.

I'm suspicious too, but I may have to go out of a social obligation.

the ophuls stuff is up on the website now, btw

Why is Summer With Monika in the Times today? New print?

yes. haven't seen it in eons.

Anyone seen/seeing the Albert Ayler doc at AFA?

I was sposta review it. They sent me a European DVD.

If anyone has MIX tips, speak:

http://www.mixnyc.org/index.html

Maybe I'd go to the 11pm Friday shorts, if I'm up.

after today, Divorce—Italian Style is only playing 9:20 pm at FF.

Get your Norman Lloyd tickets yet?

no, but I see they're available.

Yes, that's what I was trying to tell you.

o i c

Divorce was cute. Why anyone thinks it's GREAT, I'm not sure.

Saw it years ago, didn't make much of an impression. Wasn't he Oscar nominated?

yes, it got several; Germi too?

I hv my N Lloyd ticket.

Hoberman on Sembene (and Ophuls, briefly):

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0748,hoberman,78462,20.html

If I go to see Salo, should I bring someone to hold my hand?

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/pasolini/program.html

I would recommend any NY snob to see Letter from an Unknown Woman on its last night @BAM tonight; it fulfilled all of my expecs.

I would recommend any NY snob EVERYONE ON THE PLANET to see Letter from an Unknown Woman

fixed

Salò makes an even more problematic date movie than Jeanne Dielman!

Ophuls and Sembene have taken over my December.

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?

I guess for the one it is obv 15 Street-Prospect Park.

Maybe I can just go to BAM instead.

I used to watch this show religiously and may start watching again. Would kind of like to see what Gary Giddins says about The Third Man.
https://tv.cuny.edu/show/citycinematheque/PR2002890

I even once ran into the host one afternoon and had a nice little chat.

I'd be all over this series of UFOfology films at Anthology right now, but I've seen most of them more than once.

Got my eye on THE RUNNER at the Film Forum, probably can’t make it tonightz

Just enjoyed THE RUNNER. Which I gone 24 hours earlier though and seen the director in person.

wish i went with ya! i need to see banshees still.

We can always go see MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM. Oh wait. Please kill me first.

kill me in the bathroom

Heh. Reminds me of Adam Roth’s routine about Johnny Thunders.

Something about imaging or actually seeing the boots of a nodded-out Thunders peeking out in the CBGB’s bathroom like the Wicked Witch of the East’s ruby red slippers under the house of Dorothy Gale. Then a riff about people saying when he did die that it was a conspiracy. “Yeah, a conspiracy that he didn’t die soon.”

But I digress.

Sooner

Anyway NYC ILX film snobs should run don’t walk to The Film Forum and see THE RUNNER, which goes right up there to the top of of the list of films involving cute precocious kids and trains along with PATHER PANCHALI and THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE.

Really want to see the new Polish donkey movie.

andale andale mama EI EI EOoooooooooo

love this sign, love this story, love this banana bread
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/jacques-derrida-loves-banana-bread

My wife and I are making a rare trip to NYC this weekend and are supposed to see Welles' The Trial at Film Forum. Will be my second time there in my life.

(At FF, not New York)

get the bundt cake AND the banana bread imo
also an egg cream

Karen Cooper stepping down at the Film Forum?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/movies/karen-cooper-film-forum-new-york-director.html

She will still be around in an advisory capacity. Sonya Chung, who I am unfamilar with, will be taking over her role. Mike and Bruce will still be around so it sounds like a smooth transition.

https://www.artforum.com/news/karen-cooper-who-led-new-york-s-film-forum-for-fifty-years-to-step-down-89958

looks like minimal drama

pretty cool silent series here:

SILENT FILMS / LIVE MUSIC at Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey Street in Manhattan
Curated by John Schaefer
No RSVP is required. Seating is first come, first served. Free popcorn while supplies last.

https://bfplny.com/event/electric-appalachia/
ELECTRIC APPALACHIA on Jan 25 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by Mary Lattimore and William Tyler.
The Acclaimed Silent Films/Live Music series is back in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place!
Experience the first evening of the Silent Films/Live Music series with the New York premiere of “Electric Appalachia.” Using found archival footage, the film offers a meditation on electricity and modernity in East Tennessee. Compiled by Eric Dawson (director at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound – TAMIS) with score written and performed by guitarist William Tyler and harpist Mary Lattimore.

https://bfplny.com/event/the-kid/
The Kid on Jan 26 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by Yasmin Williams
The acclaimed Silent Films/Live Music series is back in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place! Join us for the second evening to watch the world premiere of Yasmin Williams’ new score set to the 1921 Charlie Chaplin classic, “The Kid.” This funny and deeply humane film stars a young Jackie Coogan in his first role and was Chaplin’s first full-length film as a director.

https://bfplny.com/event/passionofjoanofarc/
The Passion of Joan of Arc on Jan 27 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by David Cieri.
Join us for the finale of the Silent Film/Live Music series in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place with a film that is widely regarded as a landmark of cinema, “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” The finale is scored and performed by composer David Cieri with his ensemble of instruments and vocalists.

Thanks!

Came to post: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-regal-movie-theater-in-union-square-is-closing-012023
Have been there in ages so reallly don't care, maybe I should. Just so long as the Regal UA Kaufman Astoria stays open.

my snob note is that i havent seen a movie in a mainstream megaplex since gravity