All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

ok, a 2fer

bought my Satantago ticket for Sunday; when i get out it will be BASEBALL SEASON

Don't hold your breath

I guess I should just ask KJB what the best underssen Wellmans are!

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/wellman

J Hobrerman?

Hoberman, even

Shame that FF isn't showing OTHER MEN'S WOMEN. Those Forbidden Hollywood DVDs that have the pre-code Wellmans are pretty crummy.

It's George Kuchar weekend

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/38584

helluva weekend btwn those programs, robert nelson, 'my hustler' and james whitney!

also whoa @ that wooster group series

Folks,

I'll be in NYC during March 23 - 25th (Pop Conference time)... is anything good playing? I'm not v. interested in the Sara Driver retrospect.

j0e, there is also a Raquel Welch retro at W.Reade w/ Raq doing several Q&As. :o

remy, I think it's too early to know. French showcase is early March:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2012

oh, there's this in late March; my friend is co-curating a series of European silent comedy shorts from 1908-14!

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1253

Program 3: Mass Destruction looks promising...

http://spectacletheater.com/middletown-thin-slices-of-america

would be psyched to catch some/all of middletown in a couple of weeks. i've only seen seventeen, which is a must.

I don't remember ever reading about those films.

there's a long article somewhere that coincided with the dvd rerelease last year; iirc tape store is a big fan. seventeen's just terrific; i just saw 45365, which has that flickering-portrait-of-a-town-through-vignettes thing going, & even though seventeen's focus is ostensibly school, teenagers, &c, it has the same effect, it somehow catches way more than it films, & is like the ur-text of high school ups and downs, like a verite take on one of the weird fast times/dazed & confused things (i can sorta feel this comparison alienating you but really it's good). i like it a bunch anyway. i don't know so much about the other eps.

Seventeen is a thousand times better than the others. They're probably worth seeing -- the Leacock in particular -- but mostly because they give a sense of how deeply ingrained and unthinking that kinda modified direct cinema approach had become by the early 80s (there's a great, vicious Bill Nichols piece about this). The whole project doesn't add up to much.

Lucian Pintilie retro @ MoMA -- I loved The Oak 20 years ago. Who's seen others?

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1251

Not me.

I really don't think I'll have time to see any of the DCPs of the classics at Film Forum -- I bet Strangelove is sold out already.

who go to Zulawski films @ BAM? The plot summaries are exhausting.

i'm going to try to catch a zuul or two.
i think i'd be more excited about dcp if more of the selections weren't things you can catch at ifc around the corner every weekend midnight, yknow? (did 5 easy pieces though)

also, hi, im snack.

I didn't know IFC was showing those films digitally yet... tho apparently we may never see 35mm prints of any of them again. Tragic.

I doubt I will end up seeing any of them. The one scheduled for today is probably the most appealing to me but I don't feel like going.
BAM is showing Shoah on March 25th. The director will be there. It is one screening, with breaks. I can't make it. Now I am thinking of just getting it on DVD. Apparently it's available as an import from South Korea.

you might check if any NYC stores will rent you OOP Shoah discs.

Do you have any suggestions as to where?
On the one hand, I don't know that it is something I would want to watch repeatedly, so renting might be a better way to go.
On the other, I guess I like the idea of having it so I could just watch when I find the time and the correct mood, rather than being "forced" to watch in an alloted time period.

well, I saw it in two big chunks at the Cinema Studio theater in the late '80s, so no sympathy there. :)

These guys have a lotta stuff:

http://worldofvideonewyork.com/

Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

BAMs march calendar is p great, i would go to a lot of stuff if i lived here, including Q&A sesh w/ james gray @ the end of the month

goin to anythg else this week?

i wish i could! today was really it, unless i find something worth hitting during the afternoon tmrow or fri

maybe will do 'the oak' @ moma @ 4 tomorrow

didn't realize we were having concurrent zulawski retros (going to a later-than-i'd-like screening of 'possession' tonight)

Our retro has better weather

I guess the Stalker screening/panel (Walter Murch, Francine Prose, Phillip Lopate and Zona author Geoff Dyer) at the New School Saturday eve should go here too

http://nyihumanities.org/event/tarkovsky-interruptus

Wow.

4pm showing of oak @ moma - brought down 2 the theater in the elevator w/ abt 30 whiney sr citizen nyc film/art snobs - this better be good

they must be cranky cuz this conflicts w/ dinner

I saw it again the other night and yeah, the renovation trip makes it feel very EXCLUSIVE.

Try not to sit near anybody.

the disgusting savage to my left just took his shoes off

haha, good, your'e getting the quintessential MoMA experience. Now hope he takes out a bag of plums and his dentures.

wait, whiney is a film snob?

at the risk of making this the "all purpose bicoastal ilx film snob thread" apparently LA is also getting the queer/art/film series here too? john cameron mitchell intro'ing 'zero de conduite' later this month

reallY? Where is that?

cinefamily as well

jeeez. Maybe I should finally join Cinefamily. Going to any more Zulawski this w/e? Do we need an LA film snob thread?

i definitely plan on going to 'on the silver globe' on sunday and possibly 'third part of the night' tomorrow (my friend in nyc who's seen 'em highly recommends both), probably will catch a few others as well

I want to go to those too, but they will be last-minute calls, provided they don't sell out

well, I saw Pintilie's Reenactment tonight, a pretty hardcore political allegory of 1968 Romania... except for the first 12 minutes, thx to MoMA's idiotic tendency to seat people in the standby line after the film has begun. Fortunately it's all on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYQtDEMoJk

hm interesting, i liked 'the oak' a lot btw