All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

so Rosa von Praunheim has a new doc at Newfest called Rent Boys:

http://newfest.slated.com/2011/films/rentboys_rosavonpraunheim_newfest2011

If you've never seen it in a theater, this is a must tonight:

http://altscreen.com/07/25/2011/alt-screen-presents-will-success-spoil-rock-hunter-1957/

anything good/essential coming up this week? might try to squeeze a movie in at some point while i'm in town

I would let Altscreen be your bible.

oh, the two Raoul Walsh pre-Code romcoms at Film Forum Tuesday night are FANTASTIC! Me and My Gal / Sailor's Luck.

Then Thursday there's Airport 1975 at the Chelsea, hosted by Hedda Lettuce.

tonight I guess I might finally see James Whale's Waterloo Bridge at FF

and I did.

Triple bill tonight is impossible, but maybe two, incl Union Depot

Totally wanted to go to FF on Sunday but didn't.

Union Depot is kind of funny, espesh. in terms of its gender politics. There's an implied hooker, IIRC

Hey guys, you should go and see LITTLEROCK this week, it was made by a friend of mine.

p sure it was included in talking head, at the anthology - did anyone see/has anyone seen scorsese's italianamerican? i was always curious about it.

yes, his parents are marvelously entertaining in it.

i oughtta see.
i think i am maybs in NY around the time of the film festival at the start of october; hope to coincide with something exciting. i always fuck up at festivals by seeing things that are just out, two months later, rather than never to be screened again.

The NYFF shows less 'never to be screened again' stuff every year, cept for the sidebars. I mean, they're showing the restored 1959 Ben-Hur this year!

i mean: i have never seen ben-hur, but i see your point. i sorta remember that period as being triply loaded in ny anyway, w/CMJ & the new yorker fest, so maybe it'll slide (or maybe i'll catch the ides of march, which i guess is playing.

Anyone know this noir playing at BAM tonight, The Locket, with Laraine Day and Robert Mitchum?

All day Buster Keaton Labor Day at FF.

at Cinema Village, i will try to see their two 4-hour assathons, Mysteries of Lisbon and this Japanese film Love Exposure...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/2011/08/31/review_love_exposure_is_four_hours_of_madhouse_kink/

Mysteries of Lisbon is totally engrossing, though, and it has an interval!

I'm sure it will zip by faster than Tron.

I couldn't tell you, I didn't see Tron. I can tell you that Mysteries of Lisbon has some exquisitely beautiful camera moves, too.

Ra(o)ul Ruiz 4Evah

This film is great, guys:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-autobiography-of-nicolae-ceausescu

ah yeah, dying to see that. in a cinema. because it's zipped around for a few years iirc & it will never screen here but it sounded interesting & novel.

prob somewhere better to post this, but is anyone catching margaret? surprised how enthusiastic the write ups have been

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2011/10/margaret-from-new-york-to-the-pacific.html

Have the other reviews been as positive? Brody finds something to get that frothy about at least once a week.

still at Sunshine, will go if there's time.

Keith loved it, but he loved Step Up to the Streets 2:

http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/film/2002495/review-margaret

lots of raves on twitter. Glenn Kenny liked it.

OK, it's got great stuff in it. Particularly Anna Paquin & Jeannie Berlin.

i went to nitehawk recently and was really impressed with the quality of the screen and seating, plus the food i had beforehand was pretty good. i think it's my top choice for watching movies now.

It's the MoMA preservation fest, with a 1968 Joe Dante 4-1/2-hr montage whatzit, and the amazing Corman-Shatner racial melodrama The Intruder:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1210

holy shit that series looks great

^^
man how is jean rouch's stuff so hard to see, every film of his i read about always sounds awesome

too much to do in NY a week from Sat: Soviet 1947 3D (see above), one ilxor playing a gig, another DJing...

The Heartbreak Kid at Lincoln Ctr, followed by Q&A w/ Charles Grodin & Jeannie Berlin!

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-heartbreak-kid

Part of their Jew Wave retro!

idk if you all already saw this, but edward yang retro at the lincoln center, w/a run for ABSD

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/a-rational-mind-the-films-of-edward-yang

:O

i am in town until the morning it starts/goddammit
i would totally get around to catching a brighter summer's day if it was running for a whole week, so annoyed

OTOH, the week's run means it is now eligible for 2011 lists/polls, so there's another 4 hours outta my life

though catching it is probably a good opportunity to sit in the dark and meditate on your list choices

ya! saw that yesterday when i was at LC for California Split. what's worth seeing besides summer's day and yi yi (which i might skip since i just re-watched it recently)?

I saw several of these in the '90s, so damned if I remember. A Confucian Confusion, maybe.

I'll be out of town for Lupino Lane:(

http://www.silentclowns.com/nowshowing.html

Should make it back for An Evening With Superstar Mario Montez

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2011/11/13/detail/an-evening-with-superstar-mario-montez

Gonna try and catch "The Bride Wore Black" tonight.

"The Bride Wore Black" is not that good.

Might try to catch Mario M at MoMA, easier to get to, but I'm drowning in film catchup as always.

I've seen more Lupino Lane than anyone under 85 should have.

ewwww, film ketchup

Were I in NYC and feeling bold I might attempt the superfecta of Yang films on Saturday. Alas.

Really? Should I go to the Diego Rivera preview at MOMA, instead?

I saw Charlie Chase last Saturday.

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2012/03/04/detail/news-from-home-with-chantal-akerman

Cool, thanks.

anyone seen Ken Jacobs' Seeking the Monkey King?

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2012#showing-38437