Hoberman, even
― Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Shame that FF isn't showing OTHER MEN'S WOMEN. Those Forbidden Hollywood DVDs that have the pre-code Wellmans are pretty crummy.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 2 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
It's George Kuchar weekend
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/38584
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
helluva weekend btwn those programs, robert nelson, 'my hustler' and james whitney!
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
also whoa @ that wooster group series
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Program 3: Mass Destruction looks promising...
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
I don't remember ever reading about those films.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
Lucian Pintilie retro @ MoMA -- I loved The Oak 20 years ago. Who's seen others?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1251
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not me.
― Averroes's Search Engine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
who go to Zulawski films @ BAM? The plot summaries are exhausting.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― snack, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
you might check if any NYC stores will rent you OOP Shoah discs.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the link, I will check it out.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
goin to anythg else this week?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
i wish i could! today was really it, unless i find something worth hitting during the afternoon tmrow or fri
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
maybe will do 'the oak' @ moma @ 4 tomorrow
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
didn't realize we were having concurrent zulawski retros (going to a later-than-i'd-like screening of 'possession' tonight)
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Our retro has better weather
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Wow.
― Challoperator's Manual (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
they must be cranky cuz this conflicts w/ dinner
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I saw it again the other night and yeah, the renovation trip makes it feel very EXCLUSIVE.
Try not to sit near anybody.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
the disgusting savage to my left just took his shoes off
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
haha, good, your'e getting the quintessential MoMA experience. Now hope he takes out a bag of plums and his dentures.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
wait, whiney is a film snob?
― Challoperator's Manual (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
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
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
reallY? Where is that?
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
cinefamily as well
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
jeeez. Maybe I should finally join Cinefamily. Going to any more Zulawski this w/e? Do we need an LA film snob thread?
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
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
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
I want to go to those too, but they will be last-minute calls, provided they don't sell out
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 March 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
hm interesting, i liked 'the oak' a lot btw
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 March 2012 06:15 (twelve years ago) link
amazing, wasn't it... i'd forgotten nearly all of it since '92
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 March 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
caught possession at bam yesterday. hard to have thoughts on this one, other that i couldn't help wishing i was watching ghostbusters the whole time.
― snack, Sunday, 11 March 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
otm, irrespective of what film you are talking about
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Sunday, 11 March 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
skipped Possession, I guess cuz I never liked Ghostbusters (that one time I saw it 28 years ago).
anyone seen Attenberg?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link