All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

I'm trying Dear White People Tomorrow.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dear_white_people/

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 12:15 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i remember when this was just a kickstarter never expected it to be this big, glad it's getting good press

it's pretty good? both my friend and i were kinda sad it didn't go a little harder and maybe not make the characters so 2-D but I thought it was fairly aggressive and funny. Dude has a major hard-on for Spike for sure but there was a lot less misogyny than in Spike's films... plus the animus of John Hughes, I thought. It also smelled strongly of first film with a lot of flashy camera tricks: freeze frame moments of blackface, a vertigo zoom for no real reason, somewhat corny interstitial graphics. But good acting! Generally good writing! Definitely a step up from any mainstream comedy about race that I've seen lately but maybe not so drastically different from what shows up on How To Get Away With Murder and i dunno if that's a question of mass culture shift or just the impact of rimes' arrowhead or what exactly.
anyway, yeah, worth a watch.

definitely better than i thought it would be and (though i kinda need to go back and rewatch) at least as good as school daze

Pinkerton on Bill Morrison

http://www.artforum.com/film/id=48643

Heads up that you can purchase/reserve tix for the Welles Too Much Johnson program at MoMA beginning at 9:30 this morning.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/22222

well, it's your choice of long-sit matinees today

https://www.arthaps.com/show/EC-LA-R%C3%89GION-CENTRALE_1

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/batang-west-side

The Mishaps of Musty Suffer, 6pm at Performing Arts Library

http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2014/10/20/film-mishaps-musty-suffer

Fassbinder, Part 2

http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/rainer-werner-fassbinder-retrospective-romantic-anarchist-part-two

on To Save and Project (i guess George Chakiris was due for reclamation)

who's seen Madam Satan?

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-to-save-and-project-2014

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/22230

Derek Jarman at BAM

http://www.bam.org/film/2014/derek-jarman

Poltergeist in 35mm at MOMI tonight.

Newly uncovered Joseph Cornell film, + a restored Ken Jacobs, at MoMA tomw at 1:30.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/22242

http://www.bam.org/nykff

:)

rounding up RWF part 2 (I went to Baal last night, unfortunately had to snap myself awake frequently due to restless weekend)

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-fassbinder-romantic-anarchist-part-2

Anthology launches a 4-day tribute to the Austrian Film Museum midweek, including Peter Lorre's excellent lone directorial work The Lost One:

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43498

Recent restoration of Vertigo returning to the FF. Second blurb from the top is from some unknown Slant writer.

I have no desire to see some damn digitized version. (Do you think they would use that as a substitute quote?)

Do I need to see this tonight?

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/chilly-scenes-of-winter/

oh MIX NYC this week... too much

http://www.mixnyc.org/27/film-programs/

at month's end, Nastassja Kinski comes to town!

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/nastassja-kinski-from-the-heart

National Gallery held over again at FF, Wiseman appears twice next weekend

http://filmforum.org/film/national-gallery-film-page

highly recommended btw

sure, but I sighed that I don't have to go tonight, bcz there is no way i am staying awake til 11pm on a weeknight in a theater.

Jean Grémillon retro at MOMI

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/11/21/detail/jean-grmillon/

http://www.reverseshot.com/features/1941/gremillon_momi

http://www.bam.org/film/2014/sunshine-noir

!!! To Live and die in LA, Repo Man, Long Goodbye, Heat

Feels like omar little curated this

alas not the Warhol Heat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JkOk25TsbU

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was pretty fun.

It was. Hadn't realized it was finally out.

Two rarely screened, cultish crime adaptations in 35mm tom'w night:

http://www.bam.org/film/2014/miami-blues

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-moon-in-the-gutter

it begins

http://www.thelmagazine.com/2014/12/deep-cuts-altman-moma/

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1525

Migrating Forms at BAM

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-migrating-forms-2014

Anthology has a blacklistee writer series, tonight a feature w/ the irresistible title The Case Against Brooklyn -- anyone seen Carol Reed's The Key?:

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43564

That Migrating Forms thing looks interesting. Heinz Emigholz was a guest at the film festival I worked at last spring, and we showed The Airstrip. But because we always knew we would show the new one, we didn't get it on screener, and I couldn't be there at the showing, so I haven't seen it. But he is interesting, I would go and see what he has done.

Apparantly Loznitsa's Maidan opens one of these days in NYC, and I'd def say everyone should go see it. I've been thinking a lot about it since I saw it, really, really great.

Great take by ReverseShot:
http://www.reverseshot.com/reviews/entry/1972/maidan
My own blog-review:
http://centrifugue.blogspot.com/2014/11/cphdox-day-3-4-iron-ministry-maidan.html

Wm Greaves docs tonight

http://www.bam.org/film/2014/still-a-brother

http://www.bam.org/film/2014/the-fight

John Huston retro @ LincCtr beginning tomw. I don't recall ever knowing of the Garfield-Jennifer Jones Cuban film.

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/let-there-be-light-the-films-of-john-huston

http://www.wsj.com/articles/john-huston-a-look-at-his-influence-1418860047

So, it's not until february, but this year's Film Comment Selects will have a series of films from Danish director Nils Malmros. If there is one Danish director I think deserves more recognition, it's probably him. So yeah, I recommend that.

btw if you want to plan your holiday-break NYC rep house fare, this site is mostly updated thru New Years Day.

http://www.screenslate.com/

Steve Buscemi introduces Altman's Kansas City tonight at 7, MoMA

(it's in the small theater, may be on standby only)

tried to watch that a few months back, made it maybe 40 mins

well yeah, but i've seen all the good ones.

Last day for Dumont's Li'l Quinquin at FSLC.

Anthology has a series of TV plays by producer Robert Herridge, including a 1958 All the King's Men directed by Sidney Lumet.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43731

i heard mixed things on quinquin; anybody see it?

Too much of his usual shit. Done with him.

lauded Ukraine doc Maidan at MoMA tnite 7:30

It's great.

Goodbye to Language sold out for tonight :(

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/evolution-of-a-criminal/
^this suffered from a lot of first-time director problems and the guy is really still too close to his own experience to get perspective of just WHY he did this and this is maybe 20 minutes too long but there's some worthwhile work going on

Gordon Willis retro at MOMI... the print of his first film, End of the Road, looked great yesterday.

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/01/30/detail/see-it-big-gordon-willis/

The Widow Altman does a Q&A after California Split on his 90th birthday, Friday the 20th:

http://filmforum.org/events/event/altmans-california-split-event-page

also it's the last day at MoMA for the bananas-looking 1934 puppeteering melodrama I Am Suzanne!

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1539

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09jJM29BJc