All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Would love to see Perceval but think it would take a miracle.

Wim I'd like to see again: The State of Things.

MoMA is doing a series of Hasse Ekman, the "overshadowed Swede." Nick Pinkerton:

http://artforum.com/film/id=54800

My records indicate I saw Girl with the Hyacinths 5 years ago, of which I remember nothing.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1600

James Baldwin weekend at FSLC

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-devil-finds-work-james-baldwin-on-film/

De Sica at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/vittorio-de-sica-attore-regista-seduttore-series

Looking forward

I saw Perceval. Ehh.

Gold of Naples seems like an overlooked major work to me -- Toto, De Sica, and Sophia Loren are all stupendously funny in it, and there's a possible career performance in it by Silvana Mangano.

Definitely want to see that. With that cast it seemed like it was either going to be a misguided misfire or an overlooked whatsit like you said.

well you have 2 days

Aiming for Tuesday

ya go?

wd def recommend Ekman's The Banquet tonight at MoMA, altho i was nodding throughout last Saturday bcz of goddamn drug-induced sleep debt. Ekman and Eva Henning give great performances portraying a S/M marriage from hell.

also, '60s WW2 "missions" in 35mm:
Where Eagles Dare (Burton, Eastwood) at BAM tonight
The Guns of Navarone (Peck, Quinn, Niven) at Loews Jeresey City, Friday eve

btw Navarone was the top-grossing film of '61. i probably have only seen it panned & scanned on TV. Also in JC this weekend, Welles & the Rat Pack:

http://www.loewsjersey.org/films

Do you remember Dick Van Dyke episode in which The Guns of Navarone featured prominently?

ya go?

p sure i haven't watched a van Dyke episode in 30+ years.

Jerry Lewis at MOMI on Oct 6. If you're an admirer you should see him once; just be ready for anything.

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2015/10/06/detail/the-comedian-filmmaker-jerry-lewis

I know architecture documentaries aren't the most filmsnobby of films, but NY Design & Architecture Festival is next week, and I saw Concrete Love - The Böhm Family, and it's quite honestly one of the best films I've seen this year. Made by a 27 year old dude, who has worked on the film for five years, following 93 year old Gottfried Böhm and his architecture family, mostly just a collection of vignettes, where some are based on boring talking heads, but some are these amazing visual ruminations on creativity, aging, love, etc. It uses that visual style that Wim Wenders tries to do with his latest documentaries, but where Wenders never gets it to work imo, in this film there are several passages that are just completely stunning and new.

If this guy can get more funding, then in a couple of years he's a big name, and then you can say that you knew him from his first film!!

MoMA slate up for November's To Save and Project (Welles, Akerman, Fuller, early color, Crime Wave, Amarcord, Shampoo, Clara Bow, William K Howard):

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1623

Wojciech Has retro begins next week at BAM:

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/the-waking-dreams-of-wojciech-has

and starting tomw, Frederick Wiseman's New York at MOMI

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/10/09/detail/frederick-wisemans-new-york/

Really hope I can get to BAM for some Has.

Argh. Hoping to get to MOMI for those...

et you're here for a spell, again?

i think Central Park has no baseball conflict for me

Been here for over a month already (mentioned on one of the other NYC threads). Leaving on Wednesday.

trio of Kon Ichikawa 4K screenings

http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/fall-season-2015

Pialat retro at MOMI, incl 1971 miniseries in a couple weeks:

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/10/16/detail/maurice-pialat/

last night in Brooklyn (30 John St) for this weeklong run:

http://nymediacenter.com/events/event/?id=E970FD8D-3799-449C-A91854CC81923AB4&slugid=ifp-screen-forward-presents-field-niggas

http://truefalse.org/news/stimulating-life-a-conversation-with-khalik-allah-of-field-niggas/

^interview by Tape Store

afi fest announced their schedule today - anything any of you nyc-ers have caught and would recommend? the world cinema section alone is kinda overwhelming

http://afifest.afi.com/2015/sections

From New Auteurs, Mediterranea is awesome and Sworn Virgin + Until I Lose My Breath is kinda cool.

Saw The Club yesterday and loved it, prefer it to No. I'm going to see Aferim sunday, will report back. A new Porumpoio like The Treasure is always a mustsee. Tale of Tales didn't really work for me, and A War is awful crap.

45 Years is ok.

Mountains May Depart xp

cripes, the afi fest online ticketing system is more disastrous this year than it's been any other year i've attended but i did get manage to get tix for the new zhangke and the sembene documentary

at a glance, wd recommend (besides MMD) Field Niggas, In the Shadow of Women and The Forbidden Room.

Saw In the Shadow of Women yesterday, and yeah, it's good, better than Jealousy. But I'm still quite intimidated at the sheer amount of Garrel films to really dive into his filmography, though I think his newest would benefit from understanding more about the kind of stories he tells. Also checked out Le Revelateur, the silent film he made in 68. That one is really quite something.

thx for the recs all - not super keen on guy maddin usually but will take under advisement

well it's very maddinesque, bursting at the seams

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0416/nfl_u_madden1_200.jpg

wiseman will be on site at film forum for the new one. getcher tickets now

I've seen him do Q&A before, and he gives the impression that he'd rather not be there.

MoMA unveils early-section slate of The Contenders, including the Charlie Kaufman whatzit and Johnnie To's Office in 3-D.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1561

i was at a q+a via skype with him for berkeley; the impression i got was that he didn't suffer dumb questions gladly and i'm okay with that.

well, given the percentages, that's an excellent reason to not wanna be there.

Lino Brocka's 1976 Insiang in the midst of a MoMA run.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1559

December: FSLC w/ a dual Lynch/Rivette retro

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/lineup-for-lynchrivette-dual-retrospective-revealed/

Counting on some Mississippi Grind on the Contenders' back-end

still finalizing my AFI slate, some conflicting screenings i'm torn between:

chevalier (tsangari) v. evolution (hadzihalilovic)
and
aferim! (jude) v. in the shadow of women (garrel)

the "big" films i got tix for this year are 'the lobster' and 'carol' but i feel like i'd rather see stuff i think will have much more limited distribution (ie the new poromboiu)

I would take Aferim! over In the Shadow of Women, but both are worth seeing. Haven't seen the first two. And yeah, new Porumboiu!!

Fandor roundup on MoMA's To Save and Project... Homunculus looks intriguing... "a six-episode (1916) German science-fiction serial about a test-tube baby who grows into a world-destroying monster."

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-to-save-and-project-2015

Todd Haynes retro, with related films, at FSLC later this month -- I think we can figure out the "surprise" screening on the 21st.

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/todd-haynes-the-other-side-of-dreams/#films

about halfway thru AFI now, the two standouts for me so far are the new zhangke and 'those who feel the fire burning', poetic doc about refugees in europe

http://www.voxmagazine.com/2015/03/truefalse-film-review-those-who-feel-the-fire-burning/

appears that FF will be holding over Wiseman

DOC NYC:

http://www.docnyc.net/schedule/

In Jackson Heights is very good. As usual...

yeah, though maybe a bit less active than usual? I liked it.

Jax Hts pleasant, not insubstantial. Wouldn't go as far as great. Nor "as usual".

am i being short sighted or has it been a notably weak year for commercial/broadly distributed film in general?