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.

last week of Ferrara retro, composer Joe Delia will be introducing King of New York and China Girl the next 2 nights

Kael at 100

https://quadcinema.com/program/losing-it-at-the-movies-pauline-kael-at-100/

been waiting forever to see this

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/5589

Worth it.

Yeah, it's a great watch

Damn that Kael lineup is great, I didn’t know she liked Shoot the Moon

Ermanno Olmi at FSLC (I haven't seen any)

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/ermanno-olmi/

so Manhattan's last single-screen theater looks done

https://deadline.com/2019/06/paris-theater-closing-new-york-film-community-laments-losing-another-prestige-picture-palace-1202634176/

Ugh

think i've been there twice in twenty years; remember it being a nice enough room but they tend to book kinda boring stuff

I'm pretty sure in '80-81 I saw Truffaut's last two there (The Last Metro, The Woman Next Door). They booked all the Merchant-Ivory films in the '80s and '90s. Last time I was there was for Carol. Always packed in the 75-and-over crowd.

(also I believe it's where I almost crashed into Joe "Look Sharp" Jackson coming out of the men's room after a revival of Shoot the Piano Player)

Somehow I'd... never heard of this theater? Huh.

Came here to post this short series, clearly programmed for Morbs: Reagan at the Movies at Metrograph.

I've seen all of those except Rambo and Firefox.

Prison Images: Incarceration and the Cinema @ Anthology... I esp recommend Renoir's stellar The Elusive Corporal, which is harder to see than A Man Escaped or Le Trou.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/51027

It's hard to believe that Manhattan had only single-screen theaters until 1972, if that factoid is indeed true - supposedly the Quad was the first multi?

A little before my time, but I know of no others. They started dividing the single-screen midtown theaters by the mid '70s.

queer doings in Astoria

http://movingimage.us/programs/2019/06/21/detail/grit-and-glitter-before-and-after-stonewall/

Free films + popcorn + soda + talks at Lincoln Center starting tomorrow
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/free-talks/#schedule

Summer of Legrand at French Institute

https://fiaf.org/events/2019-season/cs-michel-legrand/

There will be post-film ML karaoke on July 30

I call dibs on "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"

I will see if I can rustle up the Bergmans to sit in judgement of the proceedings.

yikes

comedy shorts tonight at QED Astoria

https://qedastoria.com/collections/nelson-hughes-tommy-jose-stathes/products/that-slapstick-show-presents-1930s-talking-comedies

yikes

Men-in-prison double feature at Anthology this Monday night, Jean Genet's Un chant d'amour and Jonas Mekas's The Brig

oh I see the prison program was mentioned up thread

more Pasolini at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/232/pier-paolo-pasolini-a-future-life-part-2

documentaries from Kevin Rafferty (The Atomic Cafe, Feed) & co at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/235/secret-histories-the-films-of-kevin-rafferty-friends

Patrick Wang's "sprawling, Altmanesque comedy" A Bread Factory plays at BAM on Saturday.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/a-bread-factory-part-one-and-two/

https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2019/05/55142/

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/a-bread-factory

Burt Lancaster at FF (my #1 unmissable is the rarely screened Frankenheimer The Train, the best of their collaborations imho)

http://filmforum.org/series/burt-lancaster

been looking forward to catching a few in this one - i have, somewhat astonishingly, never seen a single film in which burt lancaster appears. atlantic city and sweet smell of success have been on my list for ages, but i'm also hoping to find time to just pick up some random roll-the-dice picks here, especially with the 2-for-1s.

Kiarostami retrospective at IFC July 26 to August 15
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/abbas-kiarostami-a-retrospective/

Dr C: The Leopard is essential

Machiko Kyo at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/238/machiko-ky

Dr. C: Criss Cross is my fave of the noirs. The Train is a must.

Thanks!

icymi La Flor is at FSLC

https://hyperallergic.com/511754/la-flor-mariano-llinas/

Based on Part 1, I can neither recommend nor discourage. I am dreading the spy story.

also at Lincoln Center

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/another-country-outsider-visions-of-america/#films

screening at the Metrograph all week, Juraj Herz's 1968 The Cremator

(see also J Hoberman in the NYT)

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-of-the-week-the-cremator/

http://metrograph.com/film/film/2196/the-cremator

(as you can see by the Janus credit, this is coming to Criterion)

'80s women filmmakers at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/punks-poets-valley-girls

widescreen Vincente Minnelli at Metrograph, starting Friday

http://metrograph.com/series/series/240/minnelli-widescreen

great Rip Torn vehicle at Spectacle

http://www.spectacletheater.com/payday/

^ Went to see this tonight. With no pre-announcement or explanation, instead of the film everyone paid to see they showed some fake trailers followed by a nearly hour-long European stop-motion animation film. The lady at the box office who was the sole staff member on duty - also the person who pressed the buttons on the computer to "project" the film - said, "So sorry! This is what the distributor sent us." She could not even guarantee me that Payday would actually show up for screening later in the month.

It was my first time there, so seriously wtf is up with this place?

jeez sorry. have only been there twice myself, never had a problem. they didn't give refunds?

They did, though I was perplexed that some people didn't accept theirs. I certainly took my $5 back.

spectacle rules; i'm sorry that happened!

Is it that one lady always running it?

J Hoberman presents the Reagan '80s at Linc Ctr

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/make-my-day-american-movies-in-the-age-of-reagan/#films

oh and the Scorsese/Cocks twinbills are well under way

https://filmforum.org/series/marty-and-jays-double-features#now-playing

I may do 2x2 this Sunday....

I can recommend Hoberman's new book, Make My Day, which is a continuation of The Dream Life and Army of Phantoms, covering 1975-1988