All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

"BAM will also host retrospectives honoring Paul Newman (March 20-29), Danish auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer (March 13-31) and Japanese helmer Nagisa Oshima (April 1-14)."

those keywords neatly summarise the plot of ordet. i think a lot of the crazy guy's muttering goes unsubtitled anyway.

thanks for the bam info; the garrone season looks interesting too. oshima and dreyer retros should be great.

only related by virtue of being an italian film, there should be the new sorrentino that was playing at the festivals soon, right?

I think those keywords account for about half the dialogue.

jeg vil gerne ha en kop kaffe - I would like (would gladly have) a cup of coffee
Forget some letters, it should be
jeg vil gerne have en kop kaffe

Sirk vs Stahl?

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?show_date=2009-01-28

Sirk wins in every showdown I've seen (ya, every = both).

haha at Eric's new screenname.

i plan on hitting up sirk/stahl double feature tonight (when tomorrow comes/interlude)

I'm not sure I can do both -- of course, the Sirk isnt til 9.

Dave Kehr on Interlude: "For once Douglas Sirk seems totally defeated by the material, though he does manage some characteristically intense work near the end."

Fingers w/ Toback q&a on Sat:

http://filmlinc.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/like-quentin-tarantino-maybe-you-have-some-questions-for-legendary-filmmaker-james-toback/

dave kehr OTM, it was a bit flat. the stahl was fantastic tho

of course, I thought it was tonight. can't read. :(

Too much looking at intranets makes you go blind.

oh, WTC shows again Sat @ 4:30.

Reade has Oscar Micheaux / prewar black cinema series upcoming. I think I've only seen OM's fallen-preacher silent Body and Soul w/ Robeson, but some of his sound films are supposed to be unearthly strange.

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/micheaux/program.html

and then Film Comment Selects, w/ Guy Debord retro:

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/fcs09/program.html

The Frontier of Dawn & the guy who did duck season should be interesting.
i might catch just the stahl picture at the anthology on sunday.

I've only seen the preceding P Garrel film (Regular Lovers) and found it mostly stultifying despite dashing Louis' presence.

can't think of anywhere else to discuss this - has anyone made it to the class yet?

nope. I will, but my hopes aren't particularly high.

Thanks for the JM Stahl recommend, donna rouge!

Tom'w night I'm gonna try to do a Reade double of David Holzman's Diary and Scgrader's Blue Collar.

Jane Fonda only did Q&A for about 20 mins last night, a little white doggie in her lap the whole time. FTA is woth a look if you're into the period, but it's not of Winter Soldier caliber.

(FTA on DVD later this month)

the class is good. kinda reminded me of claire denis, it's bold enough to really discuss and present ambiguously, for the most part.

i got to stahl's magnificent obsession in the end and loved it.

& i have given up on paul schrader films entirely - is that the one he made last year?

glad you liked! the church sequence has stuck with me ever since i watched it

maybe it's even better than Love Affair (which I didn't realize was same year for Boyer-Dunne).

haha, no schlump, it's a '78 labor unrest film w/ maybe Richard Pryor's best acting role. Schrader says Pryor hit both Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto on the set.

re Oscar Micheaux, for Reade retro:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/life-comes-through-20090204

and Robt Downey Sr retro returns to Anthology:

http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/comedy/downey-sr-a-prince-but-also-a-man-possessed/

damn, trying to figure how I can squeeze in Chafed Elbows and No More Excuses!

gah, not sure i can do either this weekend, schoolwork starting to snowball again

Laszlo Szabo to do Q&A at Made In U.S.A screening at FF this Friday.

Japan Society "Shinjuku Ecstasy: Independent Films from the Art Theatre Guild of Japan" series, Feb 18-March 1:

http://www.japansociety.org/shinjuku_ecstasy

Throw Away Your Books, Let's Go into the Street has to be one of the best titles ever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/movies/11coop.html

^^yeah, pretty pissed off about this. this is a pretty bad time for film archives (and pretty much every other arts organization) right now

i'm down for funeral parade of roses

Wow, that really sucks. The FMC is necessary for most of these to be seen at all (particularly the parts of the collection that don't overlap with Canyon).

Like the kid in that photo, I was once a Co-op intern, and while I don't know all the details, it really doesn't seem like P.S. 1 would need all the space on that floor for the radio station (iirc, they've been running something similar from there for a while); the FMC collection fills only a small room. And even if they're able to find another space, moving all those films is a ton of work, as illustrated here.

a ton of potentially dangerous work if some of the prints are fragile (and i imagine in many cases they are)

Yeah, that's largely true, but the Co-op is primarily a distributor rather than an archive, so it's not like rare negatives are in danger of being destroyed. It's more a question of these movies' (relative) availability to the public than their existence somewhere.

Maybe that Sicilian town will house them.

I love this guy

Here's another good article about him.

Might go to 6/7:30 Depression double feature at the FF tonight.

I belong to a (semi-defunct) vintage comedy viewing group, one of whose members kept nitrate prints under the sink as a teen/YA. They exploded one day and totaled his parents' bathroom (no casualties).

trying to figure if i shd take double plunge tonight for Micheaux silent @Reade:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011870/

and then Vitaphone variety shorts at FF:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/breadlines.html#vitaphone

I've seen the Jolson picture, it's good.

I recently read a bunch of the Scott Eyman book about the transition to sound, so I'm pretty curious about the Vitaphones. Thanks for the tip. I might see you there.

That was pretty good and nice to run into you at the end. Did you hear me trying to shout down the cacklers?

no. not at Will Hays I hope...

Were you there for the Will Hays? They were hooting all the way through.

a rare instance of appropriate hooting, imho.

Even though it was Will Hays, it really bugged me all these people laughing at this guy acting like he was addressing a large theater audience and not knowing how to behave in front of a camera.

the arm gestures were pretty choice.

RIP new yorker films:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/end_of_the_road_for_new_yorker_films_legendary_distributor_of_difficult_cin/

ouch. rip

yikes, so much March stuff!

http://sallitt.blogspot.com/2009/02/assorted-screenings-in-nyc-march-2009.html

has anyone made it to 12 at the filmforum? i might go tonight but need to plot a chart assessing quality/length (160 min).