All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Jeez, you and comedy! It had its moments (about 3).

Do you not find any of Lewis's previous six movies funny, either? Because afaic they share the exact same pulse.

No. He didn't write 3oaC, and its relatively conventional narrative tendencies clash with his abstractions and protractions (ie, the 200 people exiting an elevator scene).

I mean, Fritz Feld is in it and he doesn't even pop his mouth!

He didn't? To the trash heap with it!

(Fritz Feld is from the '30s)

Sacrilege. When they had a guy on Lost In Space and on the Odd Couple doing that trick, was it actually Fritz Feld at that point or someone just copping his shtick?

Guess it was still him.

Today is last day of The Red Shoes. Might try for 7 or 9:30 show.

I just went to the 1pm, it was almost sold out.

The central ballet really makes the film.

OK, just reserved for the 7PM.

You are right, the central ballet really does make it. I always enjoy having seen this film but the actual sitting and watching it can be a little exhausting.

It's great as dance films go, but I heard ppl pooh-poohing the fatalism re marriage/art on the way out. (Powell = Lermontov?)

Fans of DR. MORBIUS can catch him in Jersey City tomw night at the Loews (Perspecta sound is great):

http://loewsjersey.org/alt/calendar-mainmenu-27/details/24-forbidden-planet.html

(Powell = Lermontov?)
Like that movie where Lou Castel = Fassbinder?

just for Eric: Fritz Feld was in Bringing Up Baby AND The Sunshine Boys!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270915/

Wow. 196 films/TV shows from 1917 to 1989. Not quite as many as Ian "Mr. Atoz" Wolfe or Paul "The Third Man Hotelier" Hörbiger, but still.

including Sternberg's The Last Command... and Barfly!

Should get one of the young 'uns to make an animated gif of one of those 'pops.'

I don't remember if he popped in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie.

I sometimes get him confused with the guy from the Preston Sturges movies, the guy on the ship with the pictures of the card sharps, Torben Meyer.

What about the Week of Whale at the FF?

no idea if I can catch the Sunday twinbill yet, wd like to see Waterloo Bridge.

via Rolling Doc:
Dear NYC,
You should seriously see LOOT and BIG RIVER MAN: http://www.ifccenter.com/

http://www.lootmovie.com/trailer.php?page=trailer

Ignore the reviews of LOOT, which seriously piss me off. Here's Karina Longworth on it:
"Darius Marder’s feature debut, which debuts on HBO in May, tracks two WWII veterans in their longshot quests to recover pillages valuables hidden since the end of the war. As much a film about the vagaries of memory and post-traumatic stress as it is a portrait of the charismatic car salesman-turned-treasure hunter who guides the veterans (one legally blind, the other blinded by his own hoarding habit), what’s most impressive about Loot is the way the narrative unfolds so effortlessly, with impeccable timing. It’s absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime story, which is not to say that the filmmaker simply got lucky: Marder doesn’t appear in the film or offer narration, but his presence, patience and diligence, his innate understanding of how to hook an audience, is felt in every frame."

And AJ of Alll These Wonderful Things:
"A thoroughly surprising, beautifully rendered look at loss and discovery that is as fresh and unexpected as the great, lost, no-star, indie narratives of the 1990s. Its provocative hook - a documentary about a treasure hunter - could almost overwhelm the simple, low key and alternately devastating and satisfying pleasures of this under-the-radar film. Despite its jury triumph in Los Angeles (and the check that came with it), the film has kept a low profile through the fall but it deserves full exposure as a fresh and provocative take on the nonfiction genre. A huge debut for director Marder."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce432_JmdB8
Manohla on BIG RIVER MAN: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/movies/04bigriver.html?hpw
Robert Koehler: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939358.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

fellow screwballs, shd I see If You Could Only Cook today?

http://www.filmforum.org/films/madcapmanhattan.html#if

You should. I would like to, but I think I am sticking to Queens today.

Playtime at MoMA at 8pm! I can't do it...

My Dinner w/ Andre Redux on Wednesday!

At Lincoln Center.

My first response was who's Andre Redux?

It's an Outkast side project tribute to John Updike.

(Sorry)

Missed the whole FF Madcap Manhattan series. Tonight is the final night with Taking Off and A Thousand Clowns. Milos Forman will be there.

Did you go see A Thousand Clowns? I liked it when I saw it a long time ago.

Nope. Didn't make it.

anyone feel like Stray Dog at 7?

Ha, I just came to post that I might try for the one before that.

I did Stray Dog on Monday!

i'm thinkin about getting a Film Forum membership and seeing as many of the films in the Kurasowa fest as possible

You won't regret it.

WGW, I somehow didn't know you lived here.

I do! i'm gonna do "Hidden Fortress" today!

I figure I have to see 13 movies for the membership to pay off, so i'm gonna get crackin

Houzu (House), the japanese cult movie was a pretty well spent 12.5$ i'd say.
idiotism made to perfection, if youre a fan of the genre.

will try to hit some Wiseman:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1028

i'm probably going to one of the shows tomorrow depending on what time i wake up

i went to their our hospitality/sherlock jr double feature on wednesday and had the best time ive had at the movies in a while

and that film forum documentary series theyre starting next week looks really good. basically moma is on fire right now

anyone seen this?

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/house/

Any weekend MoMA doc recommendations? Several I might be interested in, like Karl May, are also on DVD -- which aren't?

THE MIRROR and NOTICIAS are awesome

thx TS

also 45365 is great and AGRARIAN UTOPIA is one of the most gorgeously shot films I've seen this past year. CONSTANTIN AND ELENA is a lovely film, though I just saw a Mexican doc that is EXACTLY like it and I prefer it

by 'prefer it,' i mean the Mexican doc, which still hasn't screened in the US

I'm really happy MOMA is picking up these films, wish we had room in our program for some of them

oops, NOTICIAS = NEWS

I wonder if anyone is at the FF seeing Thelma S introduce The Red Shoes?