All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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

btw i particularly recommend the Sat afternoon "Past Hits" silent comedies at MoMA on Saturday at 1:30, for the astonishing "Mind the Baby" starring Pal the Dog. See descrip from past notes here:

http://www.cruelandunusualcomedy.com/2009/05/may-29-at-4pm-animals-and-children.html

a college near me is counterprogramming vs the super bowl w 'tree of wooden clogs'

French fest at FSLC in March includes Bonello's Nocturama

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/complete-lineup-announced-for-rendez-vous-with-french-cinema/

Annual queer experimental fest now in Ridgewood, this weekend

https://mixnyc29.org/screenings

She Whose Blood is Clotting in My Underwear may be the ultimate German lesbian film title.

Everyone should go and see Nocturama.

The Quad Cinema reopens in April. Interview with owner Charles S. Cohen:

http://www.surfacemag.com/articles/architecture-developer-charles-s-cohens-growing-reel-estate/

at the Japan Society:

https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/romantic-weekend-meiko-kaji

Friday at Metrograph, Harlan County USA plus a Q&A with filmmaker Barbara Kopple and a musical performance by Jack Morris, son of Appalachian singer David Morris.

http://metrograph.com/film/film/288/harlan-county-u-s-a

Morbs did you see Metrograph now offers packs of 10 or 20 tickets at a discount?

no, i didn't!

that's too much

So, Toni Erdmann or Beat The Devil?

both

Okay, then Toni today and Truman tomorrow night.

BtD ends Thurs i think

Five diff versions of Wuthering Heights at FSLC

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/heathcliff-its-me-adapting-wuthering-heights/#films

New Directors/New Films schedule up (March 15-26)

http://www.newdirectors.org/##films

Canadian tax-shelter classics of the '70s and '80s at Anthology

https://www.artforum.com/film/id=66885

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46957

The Last Family is pretty good from that NDNF lineup.

I've only seen Class or 1984 and Atlantic City from that tax shelter list. Any of the others worth looking for?

I have been advised to see Skip Tracer. I saw The Brood long ago, v disturbing; horror mavens also dig Black Christmas.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is, as Pinkerton writes, "deeply icky."

Ticket to Heaven was well reviewed in the US in '81.

The description of Taking Shelter sounds amazing:

Breaking out of their imaginary purgatory and into temporal space, a disagreeable crew of aliens invade Canada, subjecting everyday life to the rules of cinema as a strategy for colonial domination.

Fragments of 434 Canadian feature films from 1970-89 are folded into this found-footage feature, many of them scandalously rare, and most of them products of the tax shelter era. The strong narrative line both stands on its own and unpacks its subject on two levels: the literal content of the films it repurposes, and the political/industrial context from which they emerged. Merging the innovations of found-footage pioneers like Bruce Conner and Arthur Lipsett with the anarchic pop omnivorousness of YouTube mashup culture, TAKING SHELTER is a groundbreaking experiment in freestanding collage cinema – no voiceover or titling, no non-diagetic commentary, just repurposed image and sound. It jolts the formative years of Canadian feature filmmaking into the present with all the trimmings of the Hollywood productions these films yearned to emulate – it’s funny, thrilling, and affecting.

MoMA retro for Mexican auteur Julio Bracho -- anyone familiar?

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3649?locale=en

Jean-Pierre Léaud retro at FSLC, Mar 29-April 6

https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/jean-pierre-leaud-career-retrospective-starts-march-29/

https://www.filmlinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Masculin-feminin-800x450.jpg

Celebrities that you would go back in time to...

anyone seen The Human Surge?

https://www.artforum.com/film/id=66957

heh, i saw assayas introduce 'irma vep' on sunday and he called leaud 'really weird'

prior to that i saw OA introduce bo widerberg's 'adalen 31', which i recommend if it plays yr neck of the woods

I saw The Human Surge. Didn't get it at all, but it has one or two incredible moments, so I'm giving it another shot at CPH:DOX. Like, the incredible moments are REALLY amazing.

hi dr!

ok FB, pushes me toward nyet.

heya morbs! i still watch films, sometimes ;)

quite a turnabout for the Quad

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/quad-cinema-reopen-new-york-1202001955/

also “We considered dine-in for about a minute, but to me, a first class moviegoing experience is not one where the person next to you is eating a steak.” STANDS AND APPLAUDS

bucking the trend there

full meals at these Drafthouse-type atrocities is the NYC equiv of this:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-cinepolis-junior-20170302-story.html?123

omg that is a living nightmare but i guess if you advertised the screenings with a warning in giant red letters it's like fine whatever

eating is one thing; that is a disaster on wheels

would be better if it had a dog run in the opposite aisle

why not just get your teeth cleaned and your prostate checked there while you're at it.

might as well be a major-league baseball park

'70s Canadian indies at Anthology

https://www.artforum.com/film/id=67040

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/47037

A friend was recently extolling the virtues of the NYC Alamo Drafthouse. Almost had me convinced. Still - not sure about watching a film while everyone around is chomping away at dinner. Does it smell like a restaurant in there?

Excited for the Leaud. Saw him in a Paris bookstore a couple of years back digging through magazines. I almost fainted like the fanboy I am but something about his demeanor definitely read "Ne me dérangez pas, Amerloc".

Have only been to one AD screening, it didn't smell really, food was *okay* but that whole style of movie watching imho only works when you're watching something kinda low-stakes, like everybody in the theater's just there to have a good time and hang around. This was a screening of 'Zu Warriors,' part of their like Wednesday night weird movies series or sth... Hong Kong children's sci fi adventure from 1980ish. Loose crowd with a lot of LOLs and applause for particularly great scenes/lines. So some beers and fries don't really wreck that IMHO but I would not do it for most movies.

i hear they keep lights on during the movie which immediately disqualifies it for me