All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

I think Pialat's Police is hard to see, I'd pounce if I wuz you

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/15760

coming out on R1 blu ray soon iirc

If I didn't have plans I wd go to MoMA's Sarris tribute, w/some doc footage and a Max Ophuls masterpiece.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/16150

i'm in town for a couple of days at the end of the month, so just started looking around to see if i could squeeze in a screening somewhere, & was thrilled to find there's a kidlat tahimik programme at the anthology, w/director in person. would zealously recommend perfumed nightmare to anyone who hasn't seen it, & will probably end up at that or turumba on the saturday.

buncha quality choices tonight, incl Nothing But a Man w/ Q&A at NYFF sidebar, a Jerry Lewis thing at NYPL Perf Arts, and this at Anthology:

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2012#showing-39851

I will probly wind up at Glen and Randa / La Jetee @ BAM if I can stay awake.

and Hoberman curates this year's To Save and Project at MoMA... my God... how am I going to take my medicine AND live there?

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1325

i've seen 'call her savage', fairly racist but the gay bar scene is funny

wow @ farrokhzad/seidl/makavejev bill

and uh, Watergate figure Dwight Chapin presents his home movies of the Nixon White House?

hah i stopped scrolling before that (possibly out of jealousy) but wow

is anyone going to hear kiarostami talk tomorrow? wish-i-was-there, http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/hbo-directors-dialogue-abbas-kiarostami

more on the Project fest, hoping that Demy Lola print will get a full tour:

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-to-save-and-project-2012

AFI fest coming up, angelenos

Anouk Aimee at MoMA this afternoon introducing, um, Justine.

and De Niro tonight introducing the latest elongation of Once Upon a Time in America. (My back can't take 4 hours of sitting right now.)

So I heard. (So I also heard. Sorry about that)

Pretty good. Hoberman was there too.

Wonder what M. White would've thought?

Is it worth seeing Harold Lloyd in "Dr. Jack" Monday night at Film Forum? If so, would anyone like to go?

seen it, it's good. I'll be resting.

saw Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D at Fim Forum and it was rad

no idea how i'll feel tomw night, but Genghis Khan at MoMA looks promising:

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=855997&publicationSubCategoryId=70

any thoughts on this lineup?:

http://www.afi.com/afifest/pdf/AFI_FEST_2012_Quick_Guide.pdf

reading that the carax was well-liked at NYFF but i saw a short film that he made with that denis lavant character and thought it was terrible. i've heard good things about 'post tenebras lux' also.

if you're talking about his segment in Tokyo!, then that character is only in one scene. Heard it's great though.

Carax can try one's patience enormously, but I liked Pola X, so wd try this. He makes a film every dozen years or so now, pace Kubrick.

yeah, that's what i was thinking of. also it conflicts with the memphis 3 doc. hmmm

spose i wouldve taken a flyer on Tabu and Leviathan if i hadnt missed the whole NYFF.

i've heard good things about 'post tenebras lux' also.

so awesome donna, go

that festival has a lot of good stuff playing, btw. i didn't know anything about the film w/leila hatami but it sounds interesting.

etc has mentioned Pierre Etaix before, I will try to get to at least a couple things at the retro.

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/pierre_etaix#nowplaying

10th anniv screening of a great doc on Monday night:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/love-diane

Went to see the Etaix last night. Pretty good. He looks like a combination of Keaton and the Italian Totò.

It was pretty good, like his version of Three on a Couch (more good gags tho).

got into the spillover theater for 'hitchcock' last night at AFI fest, and i have tickets to 9 more screenings between now and wednesday. gotta stock up on visine and snacks...

so was Alma Reville the secret genius of Psycho?

not so much the genius as the bulwark. it's kinda lightweight and i'm not crazy about certain casting choices but it's fun and, thankfully, funny

caught 'post tenebras lux' tonight...like apichatpong w. doing 'tree of life' or something. bizarre and beautiful and i didn't totally understand it but i want to see it again!

MoMA's showing Tenebras and a lotta other acclaimed stuff on their annual Contenders series:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1326

hey guys, has LEVIATHAN played in nyc yet? because if it hasn't yet and it does soon, you MUST MUST MUST see it, on the big screen

maybe the best film i've seen all year, really incredible

just at the NYFF

caught 'post tenebras lux' tonight...like apichatpong w. doing 'tree of life' or something. bizarre and beautiful and i didn't totally understand it but i want to see it again!

ha yesss i thought it was kinda like lucretia martel doing tree of life or something; just at least someone w/more of a concrete humanism than malick, maybe. loved this film so much.

spoiler:

neil young

this Bill Morrison thing at BAM somehow flew over my head, i shd go

http://www.bam.org/film/2012/the-shooting-gallery

^didn't

Might try to make Mirage at MoMA tomw

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mirage/Film?oid=1067283

Seeing all of these 1912 movies this weekend:

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2012/11/10/detail/making-movies-in-new-york-1912/

I want to try one more time to read "Hollywood on the Hudson." Had to return it to nypl...thinking of getting my very own copy.

Envious.

forgot about all that, but ive seen a few of those shorts.

Brooklyn on the upswing

(frankly, I don't need to watch movies in a bar)

http://www.indiewire.com/article/why-brooklyn-is-suddenly-new-yorks-best-moviegoing-borough

just discovered this annual fest starts tom'w -- in Gowanus....!

http://mixnyc.org/mix/

i knew about it because, if you're a fan of them on FB, they send you a separate invite to EACH SCREENING

I haven't been to nitehawk or rerun or indiescreen but really take movie watching to seriously to want to desk with waiter service.

In other news started getting the daily Screen Slate emails. Great resource.

the Altscreen blog has been down for a week, wish I could take credit after their calendar said O B A M A last Tuesday.

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/mubi-presents-the-great-scott-in-new-york