@ScreenSlateIs there a bulk discount if you go see LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD on 35mm every single day?
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/last-year-at-marienbad
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
seeing this tomorrowhttp://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/childs_pose
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
my Silent Clowns peeps are showing a quartet of Chaplin shorts made at Essanay (all 1915) Saturday afternoon at the Lincoln Center library:
http://www.silentclowns.com/nowshowing.html
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Walsh/Scorsese kicks off tonight at BAM with Regeneration, shot on the Bowery a century ago.
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/under-the-influence-scorsese-walsh
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
German version of Murder! on Sunday.
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
A highly perceptive critic on FB:
Film Forum should put the words YOU ARE NOT SUPERIOR TO THE MOVIE onscreen between shows, in gigantic text, and occasionally have some voice of authority read it aloud. Maybe Morgan Freeman.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
having just joined film forum, i am kinda bemused at how louche and luxuriant the culture in the theater isTitus is hella crusty and IFC is very brusque; FForum was about nobody leaving the theater because everyone wanted to explain the movie to their circle of friendsi am all about egg creams and chocolate orange bundt cake while watching previews tho
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
You going to Meet The Programmers Brunch this Saturday?
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
i am kinda bemused at how louche and luxuriant the culture in the theater is
I miss the old days on Watts Street: NO POPCORN. Always sitting near fuckers now who crunch on one kernel at a time.
what's Titus?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
oh right MoMA. I've seen old folx munching on plums there.
Ha. Couldn't figure out what Titus was either. Never heard it referred to that way except on ticket stub.
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
oh man, when i first came to NYC as a couch surfer moma was showing films starting at 10am and going until around 10pm in the titus and they were doing a history of film series. I basically lived there and was by far the youngest regular. saw probably a hundred films amongst the elderly. pretty great experience; i have a deep fondness for that theater and its antics... at a showing of birth of a nation there was at least a good hour of heavy snoring from different parts of the room. it was a unique soundtrack
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure I've mentioned I saw Berlin Alexanderplatz in one weekend there in '96. "Shut up!" "You shut up!"
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
ha, yeah that's the titusSHHHHNO YOU SHHHH
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
anyway, likely heading to Reade at 6:15 for this acclaimed Japanese film:
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/himizu-20645
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Once a man at the Film Forum complained to me about people complaining to him about his loud popcorn eating. I didn't say anything. They were probably right.I dislike the people loudly discussing the ending of one part of a double feature as others are just entering to begin with the other.Love the crazy olds at MOMA. I am not an aggressive shusher so I appreciate those who are. Those same people used to be at AMMI or MOMI or whatever they're calling it now.
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
there's a higher degree of "MY VOICE SHOULD BE HEARD" at film forum than at any place i've been at since college
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
at IFC the main interaction comes if someone has to find the cell phone they dropped last show
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
for something like Auteurs Gone Wild, you can always find someone who writes “Perhaps Countess (from Hong Kong) really is Chaplin’s greatest work, his most personal and poetic.”
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-auteurs-gone-wild
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/42271
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 March 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
Yup.
Enjoyed that Kent Jones piece you posted upthread about similar thing. Also recently read some interesting stuff by this guy who was in the Vulgar Boatmen, Robert B. Ray. He is a bit of a gadfly, with lots of interesting ideas, although he thinks the entire Douglas Sirk revival was a case of Auteurism Gone WIld- now that's going to far.
In other news, saw the opening night feature at the NDNF- it's a hit! Rode up on the train next to a top critic (hint he was once accused of "freaking out on arthouse acid".) Introduced myself and talked to him a little bit, he was very nice.
― Redd Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 March 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
prob my only NDNF tonight -- black metal content!
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/a-spell-to-ward-off-the-darkness
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
Ernest and Celestine was charming and loads of fun.Trying Jodorowsky's Dune tonight. nerdfest.
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
and not just on the screen. "It aaaaaalll comes beeacck to Jodoroooowsky man"... aieeee fuckoff.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
did you see it already morbs?
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Not a chance! I've never seen any of the films he's actually made, either.
I will admit to LOLing at the trailer when he said he didn't read the book but his friend said it was great.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
well i'm excited.
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
I always miss the Fritz Lang/Kurt Weill You and Me whenever it screens, so I shd go to Anthology tonight at 7, over Hitchcock's Manxman at FF, right? (There'll be more chances, presumably, to see the restored Hitch, and I have a PD copy at home that I've never watched.)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Yes/thread_starter
― Bristol Stomper's Breakout (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
My favorite underseen Truffaut, The Green Room, is playing at FF tonight. I thought about making it a traveling double feature w/ Scorpio (Lancaster and Delon as spies) at MoMA, but no one seems to like it much.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
Thinking about going to see The Raid 2 tonight which may not be very snobby but maybe should be
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Crossposted with ILM,Punk/new wave doc & concert stuff showing Thursdays and Fridays 6pm (starting this week) at the Museum of Art & Design, and girl punk movies at BAM (in May):
http://www.madmuseum.org/series/go-nightclubbing-archive
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/punk-rock-girls
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
raid 2 not very snobbish btw but WAAAAAAAAAY too long and full of itself. great fight scenes tho
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
hey i liked strange little cat, frederik
― schlump, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
made me effusive for digital, too
i'm off to see waterfacei mean watermark
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
x-post: Oh, cool! Is that festival going on right now? I saw Story of my Death today, it's... long... and different. But also beautiful and with images I can't get out of my head. But my god it's long.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
I suspect I will go see this low-budget '64 comedy by Theodore J Flicker and Buck Henry at Anthology at 7:30 bcz Letterboxd reports "No one has seen this film."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058690/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
Some stathound at 538 should whip up year by year analysis of IMDB ratings and Rotten Tomatoes scores and such to determine the greatest year in film, worldwide.
(post inspired by What’s The Greatest Year In Film? - http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/14/freedom-to-fail/ )
― Oren Zombarchi (WilliamC), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 02:40 (ten years ago) link
Linklater's Boyhood opens BAMCinemafest on June 18
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/bamcinemafest2014
http://www.indiewire.com/article/richard-linklaters-much-loved-boyhood-will-open-bamcinemafest
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
I can't skip any '30s (or '20s) John Barrymore film I haven't seen, so Reunion in Vienna tonight:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/20463
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
I just saw Morgiana last week and liked it quite a bit. The only other Juraj Herz film I can find on dvd is Cremator but I heard mixed things about that. I think he might have some short films on YouTube. Anyone seen his films much?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Keep an eye out for the Obergammergau players, Morbs.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
I should know that quote, but don't. The middle act of RiV is hilarious tho.
First of 2-part Fassbinder (plus) retro at FSLC in May:
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/rainer-werner-fassbinder-retrospective-film-society-of-lincoln-center
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
MARKETA LAZAROVA looked and sounded really good but somehow I didn't manage to understand what was going on for two and a half hours.
SZINDBAD. A guy walks around talking to women (and one guy, if I remember correctly) about his relationships with women across his life. I'm not sure if his observations are supposed to be particularly good but the film has some nice sequences. Constant close-ups on food, flowers and anything with nice colours and textures. I liked the general approach of this film in terms of the non-linear structure and how the camera seeks out pretty things.
LEGEND OF THE SURAMI FORTRESS. I really love Parajanov's style and approaches but I never love the films as a whole. Some really great shots in there with the repetitive rhythmic movements and dances. Obviously great costumes.
I have to say that I don't understand the ejaculatory praises for most of the arthouse canon I've seen. I vastly prefer the style of these directors to most films but I often think that critics overrate films because they want to encourage the more interesting things (even if they aren't totally great) because they have to see so much slush, so they cultivate the approaches they prefer. Does anyone really watch Bergman, Tarkovsky etc.. saying to themselves "this is fucking amazing!"?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link
yes
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:19 (ten years ago) link
Lucky them (you?)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:33 (ten years ago) link
Very much so.
But even then, I think it's completely right for critics to talk up interesting and different things even if they aren't totally great. Film - and culture in general - should be seen more like a stream, rather than as a collection of separated entities. Criticism should be a companion to film, a way to follow up after people have left the cinema, rather than just saying 'this is great' / 'this is a bit less than great'. IMO. Otherwise, you end up with nit-picking ridiculousness, such as critics arguing over whether that penultimate shot in Stray Dogs would have been better at 11 min rather than 13, etc.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
Does anyone really watch Bergman, Tarkovsky etc.. saying to themselves "this is fucking amazing!"?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, April 27, 2014 8:18 AM (17 minutes ago)
I consider myself a very poor "reader" of films -- I pretty much have to have my hand held through any level beyond the most basic narrative/textual level -- and I definitely do. Especially Bergman and Ozu.
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:40 (ten years ago) link
But the dvd boxes are always covered in words like "astonishing masterpiece!", "an overwhelmingly emotional revelation!" and to be honest, I'm not sure I've seen more than a small handful of films that merit that kind of praise. Even when I enjoy them, I sit wondering where all this pleasure comes from.
I think nitpicking can be constructive.
I am a big fan of alternative animation sometimes. A lot of it from Russia, Hungary and Belarus in 60s-early 90s. Last year I discovered Gyorgy Kovasznai and I was hugely impressed but I can imagine it boring some people.
Would anyone be interested in a animation for snobs thread? No Disney, Pixar, mainstream anime; Stuff like Quay Bros, Svankmajer, Russian guys?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
Another vote for "amazing!" And Frederik B. otm.
Can't speak to what goes on in the bemused poster's mind but I seem to remember what went in on in my own when I first started to watch this stuff and was feeling uncomfortable, felt like it might be a con, or that it was attacking the classic Hollywood style or questioning my existence or something. Eventually came to think- if there are boring moments in the film-there are plenty of boring moments in life, and without those you wouldn't get the epiphanies, such as they are. The existence that it is being challenged, if that is what is going on, is not necessarily mine, but that of the characters or the director or his proxy. Finally I don't view it as a threat to the Classic Hollywood Style but the other side of the same coin, one which needs to be flipped over every now and then.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link