All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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.

The plot may not be as complicated confusing as it may seem, since most of those elements occur in sequence and not in parallel. There a lots of great scenes and a relatively rare chance to see Ventura in a lead role- in which he gives an excellent performance - as opposed to a heavy.

on the BAM election series:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-four-more-years-an-election-special

and coming in August, Joe Dante hits and picks

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/joe-dante-at-the-movies

midway thru "Mondo" shockudocs at Anthology

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45997

Wonder if I should try to see On the Silver Globe this weekend.

i saw the first 40 mins on DVD recently and had to stop. Massively annoying, almost presidential-convention level.

I hated that one they always show on Mubi, Infidelity, but recently finally saw Possession which I liked.

Sorry, Fidelity

I sat thru all of On the Silver Globe in the theater, p sure my brain just shut off entirely halfway thru it (I don't really mean this in any sort of complimentary way)

How does it compare with Hard To Be A God

Okay may try tomorrow, perhaps I will hate as much as you two. Meanwhile, MoMA has at 5PM both Love Affair and Le Plaisir. Can't decide.

I guess I liked On The Silver Globe more than you guys.

So between stomach illness and going to the beach I had to curtail my ambitious "Les Durs" screening schedule, but I wanted to thank James Redd and Morbius again for the recommendations - ended up catching Port of Shadows and Classe Tous Risques, and enjoying both! Will try and catch Breathless in their upcoming two-for-the-price-of-one series...

Metrograph goes disco:

http://metrograph.com/series/series/31/dim-all-the-lights-disco-and-the-movies

Gaumont retro underway at MoMA

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1658?locale=en

http://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2016/daily/nyff-revivals-jacques-rivette-robert-bresson-kenji-mizoguchi/

free screening of Cronenberg's The Fly at SVA next Monday night

http://svatheatre.com/events/the-fly-free-30th-anniversary-screening/

Pinkerton on Anthology's José Luis Guerín series:

http://artforum.com/film/id=63110

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46147

I would not have guessed that the make of In the City of Sylvia made a feature doc about The Quiet Man's shooting location.

Robert Frank's Candy Mountain at BAM tonight

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/candy-mountain/Film?oid=1054643

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/candy-mountain

MOMI on FB:

The 70mm print of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is 20 reels and weighs over 500 pounds! And it screens this weekend only.

I hear you can feel every pound dropping on your head.

Charles Burnett at FSLC for Q&As:

http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-glass-shield/

http://www.filmlinc.org/films/to-sleep-with-anger/

Aldrich retro at Metrograph, appears to be all-35mm. Unless you own Ulzana's Raid as i do, i commend it unto you.

http://metrograph.com/series/series/38/the-associates-and-aldrich

Any snobs going to Alexanderplatz at MoMA this weekend? You should see it in a theater once in a lifetime.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/2721?locale=en

Can't go, unfortunately. Did it already in a past lifetime, fortunately.

Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950 opens tomorrow at Anthology Film Archives and runs through September 28.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46227

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/rare-classic-films-by-female-directors

Thursday the 29th, new batch of Vitaphone shorts at FF

http://filmforum.org/film/unseen-vitaphone-varieties-part-i-from-bowery-to-hollywood-vaudevilles-lega

retrospective of apichatpong w's short films coming soon to LA

i'm sorry, but we all missed FF's Marx Brothers costume contest. Apparently a child came as Zeppo.

I was thinking about checking out one of the last couple days of their Marx Bros/vaudeville series, which seems to include a fair number of two-for-ones. I have never seen a single Marx Brothers film despite their being on countless lists of greatest comedies, etc. Have always had the vague sense that they were kind of goofy, but would love to discover that to my surprise I find them hilarious.

tsk tsk Dr

I think I kind of have them mixed up with the Three Stooges, who have never much drawn me in. I mean, I'm given to understand they're very different, but in my brain they get mushed together - oh, looks like in this one they're house painters, who knows what hijinks may ensue? The titles don't help with this to be honest. Anyway - reckon I'll check something out, though I also want to see La Notte and/or Elevator to the Gallows, also ending this week. It's hard to get used to the NYC embarrassment of riches sometimes.

damn dawg
see night at the opera and just take it in

Ughhh this week has ended up such a mess for trying to go to anything. Maybe tomorrow!

Vitaphone shorts tonight at 6:10, i'll be there

Duck Soup follows at 10 (i won't be there)

damn - was thinking i'd do La Notte at 7:10 and then, if I still have cinema stamina, Duck Soup at 10.