All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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.

that would be a weird sequence... Jeanne Moreau wandering the mean streets, coming upon Edgar Kennedy's lemonade stand.

Russian/Georgian auteur Marlen Khutsiev at MoMA (and Harvard)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3603?locale=en

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-marlen-khutsiev

i spontaneously went to Robert Beavers' From the Notebooks of... today and enjoyed it.

alas the Henry Hathaway Fourteen Hours was cancelled!

Is it called that because that is how long Hathaway argued with Dennis Hopper?

not that film

Of course.

Saw a few minutes of 2001 out of the corner of my eye this evening and was thinking maybe we should do a Leonard Rossiter poll.

AFI fest sched is up - seeing as there's a good chance i still will not have a job when this gets rolling, i may go a little wild...

http://afifest.afi.com/2016/sections

maggie cheung retrospective at metrograph http://metrograph.com/series/series/46/maggie-cheung-center-stage

http://www.chinaonscreen.org/

probably the worst designed website of all time but films showing in new york during november

i guess you can just go to the asia society's web page

3-D JLG film is very good.

Finally did Duck Soup btw - y'all were right, those dudes were hilarious! Hadn't laughed that hard at a movie in a long time. Kids near me were cracking up too.

Is it the original of the "person pretends to be someone else's mirror image" bit? Or is that old vaudeville stuff?

i imagine that's as old as mirrors tbh
you really really need to do night at the opera

there is at least one silent film directed by McCarey that also has the same mirror bit.

ANatO is also essential, but has the 'fat' of the love interest for 'regular people' in the audience. ("What people?" asked Pauline Kael.) None of that shit in Duck Soup.

Will keep my eyes out for the next time it comes through one of the big screens - probably won't have to wait too long. Had such fun with Duck Soup as part of an audience, feel like I'd be losing out to just get it from the library.

That reminds me of seeing Duck Soup on the big screen in Boston many years ago. The audience was in hysterics.

well under way: To Save and Project: The 14th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3614?locale=en

the Suzan Pitt animated program tonight has been postponed.

saw some of those edison kinetophones at a conference earlier this yr, fascinating

posted about it on otherwise-moribund ILF but in case you're wondering, the new xavier dolan is merde

i saw! XD has made the two OK films that were in him, i think.

not sure i can make Tree of Wooden Clogs at MoMA this week, but obv the 4K is a prelude to the Criterion in February.

Verhoeven's rarely screened Turkish Delight ('73 sex comedy w/ Rutger Hauer) 6:30 tonight at Reade.

holiday films at MOMI, from Die Hard to Fanny & Alexander to Eyes Wide Shut!

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/11/19/detail/see-it-big-holiday-films-2/

Almodóvar retro underway

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3611?locale=en

and Ruiz begins tom'w at FSLC

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/life-is-a-dream-the-films-of-raul-ruiz-part-1/#films

Busby Berkeley at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/busby-berkeley-series

Frankie and Lola was overwrought, woman-as-object, "oh the impotence of men's rage" film noir with knockout performances by the leads but very little emotional payoff and a great deal of jerking around

what is it?

oh ok, a Michael Shannon-Imogen Poots film

very little emotional payoff and a great deal of jerking around

new board description

this is on saturday, NYCers - looks fascinating, i'd try to catch at least part of it

http://www.lightindustry.org/pittsburghpolice

Hardly snobbish but I might make Wizard of Oz at UPCA on Sunday my first trip up there since King Kong a couple years back. Never seen it on the big screen and it's such a cool venue.

Metrograph is still too damn expensive, still w/ no membership discounts, but the Maggie Cheung retro is underway.

i caught 'centre stage' last night - it was okay, not a big stanley kwan fan

the mifune documentary was... okay? it felt like supplemental material; interesting but not especially revealing.

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/moonlight-director-barry-jenkinss-films-and-inspirations-coming-in-january/

MOMI is doing its year-end thing 12/30-1/8

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2016/12/30/detail/curators-choice-2/

Nick Pinkerton on the Scorsese exhibition in Queens

https://www.artforum.com/film/id=65283

Steadicam films at FSLC, inventor Garrett Brown in attendance

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/going-steadi-40-years-of-steadicam/#films

Dino Risi retro at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3628?locale=en

Jan 13-26, MoMA's latest fest of their collection's silent comedy shorts. Opening night: Chaplin imitators!

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3630?locale=en

great lineup!

including my favorite plus-sized trio, Ton o' Fun.

complete almodovar retro in LA this month, planning to fill in some gaps ( seeing 'pepi luci bom...' on saturday)

good luck, the Almodovar retro here was filled up every damn show and i never tried to get in.

ended up skipping PLB after all, may try to catch others tho. and yeah, most of the screenings have been selling out, but they're scheduling encores for some

Spielberg (5 in 35mm) curated by Molly Haskell at the Metrograph.... she will be introducing the great Empire of the Sun (her fave by S.S.) and signing her new book about him on Saturday.

http://metrograph.com/series/series/63/spielberg-by-haskell

Pirandello 150 at FF -- will try to see Kaos and maybe Henry IV.

http://filmforum.org/series/pirandello-150-series

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/theres-revelation-in-film-forums-celebration-of-pirandello-9549940

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/16/a-masterly-movie-adaptation-of-short-stories-by-luigi-pirandello