All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

it's the Brit New Wave at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/the-brit-new-wave-from-angry-young-men-to-swinging-london-series

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/brit-new-wave

I scribbled down a bunch of those when the calendar first came out - really haven't seen almost anything here. Not sure how many I'll be making it to in the end but am curious about Girl With Green Eyes / The Leather Boys, Billy Liar, Darling, The Entertainer, Pumpkin Eater, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Georgy Girl, Alfie, and Tom Jones.

I've seen a lot of em (mostly long ago), might do a couple repeats of ones that've become scarce, esp on film (The Entertainer, Seance, Morgan, Georgy), and ones I've missed til now (L-Shaped Room, Sparrows Can't Sing, Whistle Down the Wind).

As usual, I will probably really make it to... two.

all the early Tony Richardson stuff is kind of essential, but also the easiest to see elsewhere (mostly)

eg, the Criterion edition of A Taste of Honey is quite lovely (well, for Manchester).

Thanks for the tips!

v fond memories of billy liar if you've never seen, dc

I have not - that's good to know!

Another vote for Billy Liar. As well as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

Billy Liar is probably my least liked Courtenay, Christie *or* Schlesinger film in the series.

séance is really good

restorations by Scorsese's Film Foundation in Astoria

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/03/26/detail/martin-scorsese-great-restorations/

Billy Liar is probably my least liked Courtenay, Christie *or* Schlesinger film in the series.

forgot he was in it. i just think the Walter Mittyesque sequences are nothin' special.

Robert Kramer epic at BAM on Sunday:

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/robert-kramer-route-one-usa

You must have blinked when he was twisting to "Twisterella," words and music by Crabtree & Fisher.

tickets now available for James Gray with his new one in 35mm at the Metrograph, Apr 12, goin fast

http://metrograph.com/events/

Loving all the British New Wave chatter, gave me a lot to add to my calendar. And then I got the flu and so I haven't been to anything yet! Ugh.

If anybody is looking to check out the Alamo ambience we were just discussing, my friend is introducing a screening of Cleopatra Jones in 35mm tomorrow night. Dunno how snob-level that is but I've never seen it, so hey.

Tony Conrad doc

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=03&year=2017#showing-47009

re Metrograph Bunuel:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/bunuel-in-france

MoMA's early Czech film series:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3816?locale=en

and some rarities at this BAM retro of Anne-Marie Miéville

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/anne-marie-mieville

Film Forum launches their complete Wiseman survey

http://filmforum.org/series/the-complete-wiseman-part-i-early-wiseman-series

lots there i need to make time to see.

oh, de Niro series underway at Linc Ctr

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/no-bullst-starring-robert-de-niro/#films

and Lina Wertmuller series at the Quad

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/lina-wertmuller-female-trouble

Some of their guest pairings are intriguing...

https://quadcinema.com/appearances/

Checked out Titicut Follies last night at FF, with Laura Poitras introducing. My first Wiseman, and wow. That'll stick with me.

I have to admit I have scaled back my Wiseman plans after seeing, since my last check, that the NY Public Library has acquired almost all the films in this series on DVD.

thanks for the heads up on that!

It was kind of fascinating to see with an audience tbh. The laughter at, to me, not-at-all-funny things was maybe more depressing than anything in the film. But yeah I wouldn't need to see em all in that fashion, and living a couple of blocks from the BPL has been a real boon to me trying to catch up on miscellaneous films. (In that vein, I also finished MASH yesterday...)

you mean the series?

week from Sat at the Loews Jersey, organ concert + His Girl Friday, free:

http://loewsjersey.org/come-celebrate-the-jersey-journals-150th-anniversary-with-free-movie/

anybody been to quad city cinemas yet?

In Iowa or Alabama?

I believe the one in Alabama was where Jonathan Rosenbaum got his start- it was owned by his family- as well as Arthur Alexander's recording career, along with the Muscle Shoals Sound.

i have not even been to the reborn 13th St Quad

you mean the series?

no, the film! Somehow had managed to see 5-6 other Altman flicks before getting to this one. Just trying to use my library card to help me cover some canonical ground. Last night was Steamboat Bill, Jr.

And thanks for the Jersey tip - been meaning to get out to that space, the only one of the five Wonder Theaters I've not yet ogled, and I'd certainly see HGF again.

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I've seen probably 2/3 of Altman's films and yet I still have never seen MASH.

It's... something. Kind of "Sexual Harassment: The Movie!" Sometimes it's easy to perceive that as deliberate and thematically interwoven with what the doctors aren't letting themselves deal with. But since none of the female characters are really treated as people, and the whole thing winds up with an endless wacky football game, it kinda just feels like the film identifies with its lovable rascal protags (surely, to its box-office benefit). The "fairy" sequence also plays VERY differently now than I imagine it did at the time...

MoMA's series on black stardom

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/making-faces-film

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3817?locale=en

strongly recommend the Robeson/Micheaux Body and Soul tonight

Saturday night... this doesn't pop up too often in 35mm

https://quadcinema.com/film/the-day-of-the-locust/

(Probably my fave Schlesinger film, but then I read a lot (all?) of Nathanael West in college.)

Melville centennial retro at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/melville-series

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/jean-pierre-melvilles-cinema-of-resistance

Oh these all look good!

I loved Le Doulous in the French gangster series last year and was bummed I couldn't follow up y'all's recommendations for Army of Shadows and Breathless (also here with not much explanation on the poster). I also remember finding something fascinating in the original book of Silence de la Mer so that'd be interesting...

Have liked everything I have seen by him quite a bit, but haven't seen all of it yet.

A couple essential Melvilles - both starring Belmondo - missing in that FF retro, though: L'Ainé des Ferchaux / Leon Morin

Leon Morin has been restored by 11 minutes and gets its own run in 2 weeks.

http://filmforum.org/film/leon-morin-priest-film

In an hour Annette Insdorf introducing The Saragossa Manuscript at MoMI and signing her new book.

Jiang Wen retro at BAM

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/jiang-wen-rising

will check a few of those out

ban james redd for announcing anything is at momi ........... in an hour