All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Holy shit, this is a godsend: http://altscreen.com/

looks good

They have to add Spectacle. That little theater is showing amazing stuff. I subscribed to their feed and can barely tell when things are playing. They need a new website.

Yeah, totally. Though it's still unclear to me how underground that place wants to be. They seemed super hush-hush at first, but they have received a bunch of fairly high-profile mentions since then, so who knows.

I haven't been. It looks small...is it an OK place to see movies? Sometimes if a place is that small, I'm not sure if it's worth it!

Ha, well it depends what you mean by "OK". It's very comfortable, but it's not agonizing either (a little more legroom than Film Forum, at least). It seems like a lot of the stuff they show is from torrents and run from a drive, which could be a problem, image quality-wise. Everything I've seen there has looked okay, but I've only gone a couple times. But it's cheap, and they show stuff you're not going to see projected anywhere else, which is enough for me.

Why isn't there a rolling movie thread after award season? Is this it?

this thread mostly covers limited-release/repertory screenings that happen in nyc

never heard of Spectacle

Thank you for the explanation, donna rouge

very DIY/punk little venue:

http://spectacletheater.com/

showing some pretty serious stuff.

very well might go there at 4:50 for The Immortal Story

http://rooftopfilms.com/blog/2011/04/announcing-our-15th-annual-summer-series-lineup.html

This doc lineup is insane, includes most of my favorites of the past year (highlights: LA BOCCA DEL LUPO, FAMILY INSTINCT, EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY LIFE OF JOSE GONZALEZ, AT THE EDGE OF RUSSIA, FAKE IT SO REAL)

Have heard great things about almost all of the narratives.

havent bothered w/ all these Rudy Wurlitzer-penned films I've already seen at Anthology, but might try Glen and Randa tnite at 7.

A bunch of great stuff at MoMA's Cinema Tropical thing this weekend. Historias extraordinarias and Tropic of Cancer are among the best movies of the last decade imo.

http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1171

Is the Arbor worth seeing?

Sort of -- perhaps you read my 2.5-star review!

hoping to get to Historias on Sunday, if I've finished my work.

Haynes' Mildred Pierce also at MOMI, but that aint happening.

Monday at Film Forum, these are always fun:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/vitaphone2011.html

(extra credit if you come dressed as Joe Frisco)

The Arbor is good in a fussy, limited sort of way. Did anyone catch the trailer they were showing at FF? It strains hilariously to make the film look like an ultimately uplifting triumph-of-the-human-spirit kinda thing.

The Arbor is FANTASTIC

I missed your review, M.--you need to shamelessly promote yourself on FB more.

Can't do Mildred at MOMI either, because I am seeing Mark Rylance in Jerusalem. We need a theater snob thread.

taiwan season at the lincoln center looks good -

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/taiwan-stories-classic-and-contemporary-film-from-taiwan

edward yang popping up directing an episode of something

Haynes' Superstar in W'burg on Thurs along with a Garrel/Nico film:

http://spectacletheater.com/double-feature-musical-at-spectacle

anyone care to vouch for The Makioka Sisters as a must-see?

Ha, I was going to try to see it this weekend but didn't make it. Never seen it either.

being released on Criterion in a few weeks.

I've seen it on TV--it's sort of exactly what you would expect, but maybe it works better on the big screen. I preferred the book.

Fans of Dead of Night should head over to Film Forum to see Went The Day Well?

yeah, I have to, since predictably it's the last night and I've been "busy"

So a bunch of events, some free, to open the new Linc Ctr screens this weekend. Just got a FSLC email about the Coen Bros discussing their opening scenes (mod Noah Baumbach) Friday eve.

Cool. Did you see that Romanian thing at the FF?

long list of things I'm not going to...tonight at Spectacle two movies with soundtracks by Can that look pretty awesome.

yes, I recommend the Romanian adultery pic highly

is that tuesday, after christmas?

yep

have a res for tomw night's "Joel & Ethan Coen in conversation with Noah Baumbach" at Linc Ctr.

Would like to go to FF in next two days to see Rejoice and Shout or La Dolce Vita restoration but don't think I can make it.

Rejoice and Shout ends w/ Obama's election, so that rules it out for me (Armond otm)

I agree the Obama clip seemed out of place, most of the rest of it was good and worth seeing. I'm rather sorry it didn't do better.

Tried to go last night to the last show but didn't make it.

Le Rayon Vert coming July 1.

I just saw it at BAM, now it's coming to Film Forum.

Usually it's BAM that seems to show things after other places (maybe just my skewed perception).

no, that's the way

Film Forum is also showing Dial M for Murder in 3-D scheduled through 6/23.

Skolimowski's "The Shout" tonight in Queens. Just noticed that Jim Broadbent is in this.

Saw it about a year ago, strange piece of work.

Witchfinder General is playing at 92Y tomw night (8pm, I think).

intriguing series at the anthology:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/37703

richard brody wrote about the eustache film after it played a few months back, sounds interesting. i think this kind of thing sometimes sounds more compelling than it actually might end up being, so at least having the chance to see it in numbers locked in a dark room gives you reason to go.

& spectacle is screening Out 1, in full, over two days, if you're really at a loose end

I have about a week left in NYC before moving away. Any haps this week? Film, non-film, music, it's-hot-wanna-enjoy-life-before-it-ends-in-a-week kinda stuff, etc?

In the Heat of the Night free in Bryant Park tonight...

i'd be at the william lustig series at anthology this week, if i were you (hard-to-find '60s/'70s gritty potboilers, mostly)

Whoa, thanks. Totally badass.