All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

highly recommend people catch kaili blues if they can

I watched In Another Country the day before Christmas Eve in 2012 and three members of the seven-person audience walked out at the twenty-minute mark (I liked it).

over the weekend, saw Sembene's Black Girl at BAM (first time on the screen) and Dovzhenko's Earth at PACE with DakhaBrakha providing the music (stunning)

oh this

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/05/27/detail/mad-max-weekend/

hard boiled tonight and i can't believe it hasn't sold out yet

I tried to rewatch that at home maybe 2 years ago -- after loving it in the '90s -- and couldn't get past 30 minutes.

You going to see The Fallen Idol tonight?

That's so easy to see, and I heard the actor who played Phile on L Lopate yesterday.

Two Edw L Cahn Universals at MoMA -- one with Pat O'Brien as a wife killer!

NYAFF lineup announced http://www.subwaycinema.com/

I don't know how to begin to pick through that lineup.

Genre films directed by women at Film Forum... that means no friggin' Nora Ephron!

http://filmforum.org/series/genre-is-a-woman-series

yeah, that lineup looks good to me

what i meant is i literally don't know any of those NYAFF filmmakers

sorry, i meant the film forum lineup looked good.

ah ha

Kiyoshi Kurosawa seems the biggest must-see, though I don't think he's been that great since Tokyo Sonata. Journey to the Shore was a pretty big disappointment for me. I'll definitely go see it when I can, though.

Keyframe with a film-by-film roundup of the Hong retro, which starts tonight

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-tales-of-cinema-the-films-of-hong-sang-soo

Thom Andersen series + his new one at Anyhology

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45881

Vaguely famous French author John-Luke Goddard's About the Soufflé going to get rained on in Central Park tonight?

^bye

Taubin on Human Rights Watch Fest

http://www.artforum.com/film/id=60509

If anybody wants to see the late showing of this tomorrow I will get your ticket
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-wailing/

BTW, "Weiner" is devastating; poor Huma, poor Anthony, poor all of us.

taking care of your July

Warren Oates

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/warren-oates-hired-hand/#films

Leo McCarey (with lots of his early comedy shorts!)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1657?locale=en

US politics, scripted and less so

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/four-more-years-an-election-special

here's Keyframe's rundown on the NYAFF

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-new-york-asian-film-festival-2016

assorted comedians introduce my fave Scorsese film, including Gilbert Gottfried on Friday:

http://filmforum.org/film/the-king-of-comedy-film

and David Bordwell will be at MOMI this weekend to show some '40s Hollywood classics related to his new book.

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/06/24/detail/david-bordwell-how-1940s-critics-changed-american-film-culture/

Metrograph doing a holiday weekend run of Stephen Chow films

http://metrograph.com/series/series/25/stephen-chow

Japan Society's Japan Cuts film festival in July:
http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-cuts-2016

Theo Angelopoulos @ MOMI

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/07/08/detail/eternity-and-history-the-cinema-of-theo-angelopoulos/

Will Harvey the K be there?

does he even live in NY? and did he just do one with him?

Thought he lived in the same fancy TriBeCa residence as the Brother McMullen and his model wife.

i am not up on the residences.

coming up: Gena Rowlands doing some appearances at Metrograph for Cassavetes films

http://metrograph.com/series/series/27/cassavetesrowlands

in addition to the BAM series of political movies, this doc/moc one at MOMI:

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/07/16/detail/on-the-campaign-trail-documentaries-and-mockumentaries-2/

on the McCarey retro

http://artforum.com/film/id=62187

https://sistercelluloid.com/2016/07/14/leo-mccarey-seriously-funny/

that Charley Chase short Mighty Like a Moose is a winner btw!

opening night w/ jazz orch is standby tix only now

and at FF, Gabin-Ventura-Belmondo

http://filmforum.org/series/les-durs-series

Wha?!?

separately or together!

that's about 6 fests starting tomorrow

Sicilian clan has two out of three. Had to think for a second of who spoiled the trifecta.

Also I believe it was Lino Ventura's birthday two days ago. Easy to remember, especially for me.

Saw Le Doulos yesterday, enjoyed it, believe I'll be back for more in this series. Top picks (besides Breathless which I definitely want to catch)?

Gabin:
Pepe Le Moko
Le Jour Se Leve
Port of Shadows

Ventura:
Army of Shadows
Classe Tous Risques

Grand Illusion
Pierrot le Fou
Les Bas Fonds
Touchez-Pas au Grisbi

Yeah, those too

Awesome, thanks, both of you. Just scribbled a bunch of showtimes in my planner. If I manage to get over there for half of those I'll be really pleased with myself.

many of the Melvilles/Renoirs u can watch at home

Oh for sure, I just, I dunno, I mean there's a century of people discussing the special experience of going to the movies and I don't need to relate that (to you especially!), but where I'm at in my life, I really appreciate being made a captive audience to the film. It's just sooooo easy to take a break at home, even when this almost always lowers my enjoyment of the movie in great or small ways. The dollars do add up, but I mean if it's eight bucks for a movie versus a beer with tip, movie remains a pretty good value.

obviously you should see what you can on 35mm (i don't think there are any DCPs in this series).

The trailer they ran for Classe Tous Risques made it seem like an overstuffed mess with a million characters and plot threads, but not necessarily in a bad way, and maybe it all hangs together much more tightly than that. Got me at least somewhat curious.