All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

thanks! may try to squeeze a screening in on monday or tuesday if something looks good

Hey snobs

http://whitney.org/Events/RareLosAngelesFilmsThomAndersen

can't make that but i've seen about half of them already now

wd like to see LAPI again

hope one of you new yorkers sees the markopouloseses at anthology tonight

those hadn't dented my brain, not sure I can.

The other Biennial screenings look good too:
http://whitney.org/FilmAndVideo

Philip Kaufman mini-retro at MoMA... I will try for The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, and Henry & June:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1263

been at this year's orphan film symposium the past few days - some highlights so far:

- crazy german cola ads from the 70s (some of which featured donna summer)
- a panel all about motherhood and the family, inc. educational films about lamaze from france and the USSR
- evangelical puppet film about the birth of jesus/the end of the world directed by frank tashlin (!!!)
- a great short film i'd seen before about a black maid daydreaming about exacting fatal revenge on her pervy white employer, set to nina simone's 'pirate jenny'

whoa who made that last one?

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/daydream-therapy

christ, cinefamily needs to get someone to write better program copy. "the aching beauty of bela tarr"? "bone-chillingly stark beauty"? barf.

also 9:45 is awfully late to be starting a screening of 'werckmeister' but i have never seen it so

those are two completely different medical manifestations of beauty. xp

should I go see Bresson's first feature tonight or finish my tax returns?

Emancipate yourself.

I didn't.

Tribeca tix went on sale yesterday to 'everybody,' and I alreday have to get in the rush line for this:

http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/keep_the_lights_on-film42806.html

bresson retro starts next week at the aero in santa monica which means i will likely not be going to any of them

I have to see Le Femme Douce on Sunday @ BAM

Werner Schroeter complete retro @ MoMA starts next Friday:

http://brooklynrail.org/2012/05/film/shock-opera-the-first-north-american-film-retrospective-of-werner-schroeter

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1271

also beginning Friday around town, Rooftop Films:

http://rooftopfilms.com/blog/2012/05/check-out-our-2012-summer-series-schedule.html

celine and julie take the skinheads boating

― Cut Creator Has A Master Plan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, June 4, 2011 11:44 AM (11 months ago)

Two more days

I'd rather spend 3-1/2 hrs w/ Camper Van Beethoven

Last day. Do not screen if you hate fun

"I'm going to the movies!"

Returning by popular demand in a week.

might check out design for living tonight so Ernst can enter the directors-i've-seen-10+ films-by club (a club that is shamefully small now that i think about it)

Saturday @ BAM

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/the_family_jewels_lewis#ixzz1uqpxcoqD2

Tonight at IFC Center, the pansexual horror soft-porn comedy classic Thundercrack!

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

jealz

caught about half of a six-hour experimental film marathon last week, nothing i'd seen before (highlights off the top of my head: daina krumins, les blank, susan mogul)

fassbinder retro at the egyptian/american, nothing that isn't on dvd iirc and no "13 moons" sadly but i still haven't seen half of these:

http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/cruelly-madly-deeply-the-films-of-rainer-werner-fassbinder

btw I forgot that most of the Thundercrack! sex is, um, hardcore

perks for donations:

http://www.indiegogo.com/vfb

Aldrich's great Ulzana's Raid @ Anthology tomw night

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2012#showing-39290

paging dr morbius:
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=4395
saeed-vafa sounds v interesting from what i've heard of her. wrote the kiarostami book w/jon rosenbaum.

I know about this

just checkin

anyone in nyc catch the reis/cordeiro series at AFA? think i'm gonna hit up 'tras-os-montes' tonight

I'm sure most of you know about the retros of the two G Kellys, but there's also Robert Siodmak on Thursdays at Film Forum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/movies/robert-siodmak-retrospective-at-film-forum.html?_r=1

http://www.filmforum.com/movies/more/universal_100

and there's this, of course

http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2012/jul/13/the_clock_marclay/

^only took me an hour to get in at 10pm on Saturday!

from the nyer article abt that, i loved that some fairfield cty hedge fund mgr bought a copy & is using it as a screensaver

Criss Cross & The Killers tonight at FF. Don't think I will make it though.

going to K Kurosawa's Cure at Japan Society tonight!

How was it?

Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street at FF tonight.

But don't think I will make it to Manhattan tonight.

It was as creepy and top-shelf as last time.

Is this still the all-puprose film snob thread?

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/interview-carlos-reygadas/316

Anthology with a Secret Cinema program tom'w night:

PROGRAM 1: TOTALLY WIRED: THE FILMS OF BELL TELEPHONE
A program of short films from one of the major motion picture producers of the 20th century – the phone company! As the largest corporation in the world, Bell had unlimited resources, producing corporate films more skillfully and more entertainingly than most companies could. We will show an assortment of rare Bell sales films, in-house training films, commercials and public relations films, all on 16mm. As they depict the various missions and agendas of one business throughout the years, the movies also provide a revealing look at mid-century America in general.

Just a few of the highlights will be:
TELEPHONE HIGHLIGHTS (1947); WHAT’S IN A NAME? (1950S); DIAL “O” FOR OPERATOR (1965); INVISIBLE DIPLOMATS (1965); OPERATOR (1969); PICTURE PHONE (1970); and more!

PROGRAM 2: CREEPY PUPPET FILMS
Puppetry is an age-old art-form that has charmed and delighted both children and adults for countless generations. And puppets have been a source of inspiration to filmmakers almost since the movies began. So why do puppets become so…creepy when filmed and projected on a giant screen? The Secret Cinema will attempt to answer that question – or at least show our favorite examples of this peculiar genre of cinema. Using assorted educational and entertainment shorts from past decades, we’ll show films using hand puppets, marionettes, and stop-motion animated figures and claymation. Some were made by great masters of special effects like George Pal and Ray Harryhausen. Others were made by nameless hacks for forgotten educational film mills. Yet, they are all creepy.

A few highlights include:
HANSEL AND GRETEL (1951, dir. Ray Harryhausen); PHILLIPS CAVALCADE (1942, George Pal); MAKING CHANGE (1970s, Unknown); GUMBY: HOT ROD GRANNY (1957, Art Clokey); PIRRO AND THE SCALE (1948, Alvin J. Gordon); and much more!

i've seen some of those bell films before. nell cox directed 'operator' (who's mostly done tv work, eg M*A*S*H)