All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

the WFMU doc runs for 9 days (or more?) at IFC; appearances by radio stars, and a must for fans.

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/sex-broadcasting/

was gonna go see the new Malick at MOMI tonight, but it seems to be my only open date to see this Helen Twelvetrees pre-Code thing:

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1620?locale=en

A week from Sunday, Jerry Lewis appears at MoMA after a screening of what will likely be his last starring vehicle.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1991?locale=en

i'm catching comrades almost a love story at metrograph on sunday

might try that but it'd have to be the early one

Belated RIP to MoMA's Charles Silver: http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/in-memoriam-charles-silver/

^I must've seen him do at least 3-4 intros last year.

Straub/Huillet series coming in May

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1641?locale=en

metrograph is a nice theater but how do they make money

just opened, maybe they're not.

My totally unsupported assumption is that they are a passion project.

IFCis trying to add six more screens.

Metrograph sells liquor and has a restaurant eh? I wonder if the movies are the loss leader

it's even harder to make money on restaurants than movies

Starting Friday, the Japan Society in New York presents Japan Sings! The Japanese Musical Film, ten films, all on 35mm. OK, who has seen any of these besides Miike's?

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-japan-sings

http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-sings-the-japanese-musical-film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gY8kNqh_nQ

(and the Oshima is on the Eclipse '60s set)

my comment about metrograph was also related to the fact that they showed like 100 movies in 3 days for opening, and they were all shown at weird times like only showing at 1 PM on a friday

I am gonna try to see some of those japanese musicals fer sure

I have no idea how metrograph is gonna make it but i hope they do!

i'm kinda mystified why people i can seldom drag to other rep houses have already been to Metrograph.

MOMI has a 9-film Sidney Poitier retro (avoids some of his popular hits, has Buck and the Preacher and the two hit comedies with Cosby)

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/04/09/detail/sidney-poitier-retrospective/

wow morbz @ me next time

heh i didnt mean you, i didnt even see that post...

;)

i go wherever the sinosphere films are showing

wide-ranging Maysles series at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/the-maysles-co.-series#now-playing

syndicate BK is doing a coen brothers trivia night but unfortunately their twitter account has been spelling 'coen' wrong all night and nobody's had the heart to correct them. they also have less than 100 followers

http://i.imgur.com/pmr4Xel.png

https://twitter.com/syndicatedbk

haaa.

has anyone been there yet? it's a hop and skip from my place but just haven't gotten around to it. was gonna go the other night for no country actually but my night got all crowded up. the cheapo tickets are very appealing but i have no idea what kinda room/screen it actually is.

sounds like a bar that shows Blu-rays of 'comfort movies' to 30yo's

otoh this is the snob thread

Soviet-era synthesizer documentary Elektro Moskva is screening at the Spectacle Theater on Friday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1782741198620295/

ha i'm pretty unqualified to be a snob tbh - much of the stuff in the calendar at Syndicated is famous "everyone's seen it" movies that I never saw.

if i see only one Maysles joint, what should it be?

v hard to say, and i haven't seen all that much. Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens are p easy to get hold of. Salesman to start maybe.

Pinkerton on the suppressed Yugoslav film Plastic Jesus, running for a week at MoMA:

http://artforum.com/film/id=59490

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1635?locale=en

apparently i get a second shot at 'golden eighties' because the first print they ran didn't have english subtitles on it, mdr mdr

Evening for Tony Conrad at MoMA tnite

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1950?locale=en

If we help you, Doctor Casino, you have to start the film equivalent of In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time.

idk i'd feel obligated to have the length of my devastating hot-take posts scale up to match the difference between your basic four-minute blues rock deal and your basic 90-140-minute feature film. could crash the server.

meanwhile i'm actually in knoxville for a while dealing with family stuff. but they have amazon prime and the evenings stretch long so there's some watching. unfortunately all i have watched straight through is lol 'noah' but i have been trying to keep at 'thief of baghdad' and i started 'the blue angel' the other night but i kinda wasn't in the zone for it.

slept on this at Anthology, but hey no time

ENTANGLED FORMS: AFRICAN AND FRENCH FILM IN CONVERSATION
April 15 – April 22

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45582

Zsigmond mini-retro at MOMI

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/04/22/detail/see-it-big-vilmos-zsigmond-2/

probably not everything snobworthy but here's the SummerStage line-up of free film programming:

Film at SummerStage 2016:

DJ Hard Hittin’ Harry / Film Screening: Afripedia
June 13 – Monday - 7:00pm – Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

Film Screening: In My Father’s House – Q&A with Che “Rhymefest” Smith
June 20 – Monday - 7:00pm - Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

DJ Gringo – Film Screening: Queen Nanny – Legendary Maroon Chieftainess
June 26 – Sunday - 7:00pm - Betsy Head Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue – Film Screening: 20 Feet From Stardom
June 27 – Monday - 7:00pm – Saratoga Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

Lisa Simone – Film Screening: What Happened, Miss Simone?
June 28 – Tuesday - 7:00pm - Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

Jeremy McQueen’s The Black Iris Project – Film Screening: A Ballerina’s Tale
Pre-Show Panel Discussion
June 29 – Wednesday - 7:00pm - Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue – Film Screening: We Like It Like That
July 15 – Friday – 7:00pm – St. Mary’s Park, Bronx – FREE SHOW

DJ Djib Sayo – Film Screening: Kirikou and The Wild Beasts and Orisha’s Journey
August 3 – Wednesday – 7:00pm – Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island – FREE SHOW

2 weekends from now, in 35mm

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/under-the-cherry-moon/

into it

We should all go together and shout out "WRECKA STOW" in unison at the appropriate moment.

im super stoked for this http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1644?locale=en

last week for this at FF; might try Sunday matinee

http://filmforum.org/film/king-hus-a-touch-of-zen-film-page

beavers/markopoulos/chomont at lincoln center tonight - only seen the chomont but his films are beautiful and should be screened a lot more imho

http://www.filmlinc.org/films/oblivion-winged-dialogue/

it was a tough choice but i am opting for Akerman's La Captive at BAM

also a fine choice!

'golden eighties' was terrific btw

in case you missed it:

The Film Society of Lincoln Center‘s announced that Nicolas Rapold is new editor of Film Comment, following the departure of Gavin Smith. And Michael Koresky will take on a newly created position, editorial director of the FSLC. He’ll “oversee planning, strategy, and development of all editorial content for the organization as well as for Film Comment and its platforms.” Rapold‘s posted word that he, FC managing editor Laura Kern and digital editor Violet Lucca are “already hard at work on expanding and deepening our coverage, maintaining the high standards of film criticism which you’ve come to expect over the past 50-plus years, and developing new ways of sharing the fruits of our labors with you.”

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-society-film-comment-michael-koresky-nicolas-rapold/

http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/note-new-editor/

cool, two more white guys

well, I don't know that FSLC can be called a culprit in that field, as their exec director is a woman, and Dennis Lim is director of programming.

http://www.filmlinc.org/about-us/our-staff-and-board/

koresky is a good guy and a good choice

complete T Davies retro

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/05/07/detail/terence-davies/

sked now up for Mark Lee Ping-Bing retro at MoMA incl his appearances

MOMI retro of Hong Sang-soo coming in June

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/06/03/detail/tales-of-cinema-the-films-of-hong-sang-soo/

ooh! i dunno any of those