All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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

Thanks. Could not figure out at all what that was from photo in the calendar. It first thought it was variant English language version of similarly titled Buñuel film.

morbs, you got me excited about "hard to be a god" so i'm going thursday... did you see it?

nope

2-week run i think

Where's it at?

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=02&year=2015#showing-43705

John Carpenter @ BAM

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/john-carpenter-master-of-fear

(one of his music-based rep selections is Forbidden Planet)

Timbuktu was pretty great and very affecting

Meant to go last weekend

I was a bit dissapointed. Liked loads of stuff, but the central characters were pretty two-dimensional, I thought, and the cinematography was hit-and-miss as well. But some really really strong scenes, especially that one shot of the lake at sunset.

Timbuktu was selling out last weekend; i like to wait for elbow room

this NYC black independents of '68-86 series at Lincoln Ctr will most definitely reward

http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/tell-it-like-it-is-black-independents-in-new-york

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/tell-it-like-it-is-black-independents-in-new-york-1968-1986

and 3 weeks of Charles Laughton at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/charles-laughton-series

i wasn't really drawn to timbuktu for character development, was more taken with the bumbling murderous ignorance of the sharia lawkeepers and the generally gorgeous shots. i've seen a lot of criticism that goes overboard though so i can see where some Ida-esque backlash is called for. it reminded me of Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar stories in some ways.

Brody, Melissa Anderson on the black indie series:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/lost-found

http://www.villagevoice.com/2015-02-04/film/indie-black-cinema-lincoln-center/

Hard to Be a God was monotonous and somewhat devoid of narrative and still kind of a knockout; the visuals are like Jodorowsky (but less psychedelic and more nihilistic) or Fellini (but without boundaries) and yet even more so. I'm inclined to think I would've liked it twice as much if it had been half as long but my god some of the images are never going to rattle out of my skull. Film Anthology didn't have the theater heated, i had gotten like three hours of sleep the night before and we misjudged the hour the film was starting so we got into the story 20 minutes in progress and even so i would recommend giving this a spin just as an experience. I've never seen anyone play quite so effectively with planes of space; there's often a separate story going on in the foreground. Exhaustingly in your face and so fully realized that it surpasses fetish.

the Rendezvous slate:

http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015-festival

The week of John Boorman starts today at FF, and obviously you should see Point Blank in 35mm if you never have. (I might prioritize, among my blind spots, Beyond Ranbgoon.) The trailer for his new one looks mighty bland, though.

http://filmforum.org/series/boorman-series-page

which of these should i be seeing?
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015/

and please note i am prejudiced against french film from the start

forks, i just asked in the French s/d thread. Techine is pretty reliable but of course that will be released anyway. I may go for that and Honore, plus Fidelio for the twin hunk factor.

(oh yeah, Fidelio is not playing at IFC -- fest is shared with FSLC and BAM)

also before that, FC Selects -- looking fwd to another Michael Almereyda Shakespeare update, as Hawke was actually good in M.A.'s Hamlet 15 years ago:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/film-comment-selects-2015

Don't know much about that Danish auteur tho.

on the above; i'm going to the new Petzold and two in the Malmos retro

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-film-comment-selects-2015

wow that's so cool there's a malmros retrospective in nyc! he's from my hometown! "Tree of Knowledge" is surely his masterpiece, but I can also recommend "Facing the Truth" and "Pain of Love". Quite a controversial figure because of his "auto-fictional" control over other peoples' lives - the way he portrays his father in FtT, the way he depicts a young actress in Sorrow & Joy. The earlier films are beautifully shot on film by Jan Weincke too, you'll enjoy.

ToK and PoL are the ones I've bought. Unsure how widely Malmros previously been exposed in the US, but I don't recall ever reading about him before this.

Two rarely screened NYC early '70s entries in the Gordon Willis MOMI series on Saturday afternoon: Ashby's The Landlord (Beau Bridges buys a building w/ black tenants in Park Slope, moves in, appreciates Diana Sands) and Irvin Kershner's Loving w/ George Segal and Eva Marie Saint.

visiting old high school friends and one of them wanted to tell me about the most winceworthy scene ever in a horror movie and it was a part in the most recent final destination movie and he asked have you seen it and i said um i've heard of them, probably not for me and he says well you're a little bit of a FILM SNOB aren't you and then i told him about hard to be a god and he ended the night by saying how i only liked things that aren't narrative like hey that lemonade isn't NARRATIVE let me try some of THAT
anyway.

full ND/NF slate

http://newdirectors.org/

B&W in scope... shame The Hustler is digital, but planning to finally see Lonely Are the Brave. Maybe The Haunting too:

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/black-and-white-scope