All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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

I ban myself for living about a half hour away from MoMI and not being able to make it to that event.

will you be attending the Caan Film Festival?

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/05/19/detail/the-caan-film-festival/

nigerian director moustapha alassane mini-retro at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3819

Oh, wow, I want that one brought to Copenhagen! Will anyone go and tell me what is good?

http://i.imgur.com/lLohfqb.gif

Metrograph Mother's Day program next weekend includes the 1976 body-switcheroo Freaky Friday starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster.

http://metrograph.com/series/series/91/mothers-day

Linc Ctr showing 2 Demme films, $5 each on Sunday

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/demme-x-2-married-mob-stop-making-sense/

Been having a ball with the Melville series btw. Even the really dry and slow ones aren't exactly boring. Saw Silence de la Mer and Army of Shadows today - the latter was incredible and possibly my favorite, though aspects of Bob might stick with me just as much.

So interesting to see the French resistance/underground stuff rendered so much like his gangster films - not surprising in itself since obviously the way he thinks about gangsters, gangster-movie codes of ethics and brotherhood, and the preoccupation with the fate of informants, come from his Resistance experience. But more that this is a film about the underground where you see almost nothing in the way of killing Germans or sabotaging things, except where it has to do with escaping, or reaching an imprisoned resistance member. That stuff is hinted at but basically off-camera, so we just get the army of shadows dealing with issues of the army of shadows. Totally fascinating.

Whereas Silence, in sticking very very closely to the original resistance novella - to a degree that renders it pretty stodgy and clumsy in its unfolding - is very much about the confrontation between French and the occupying German force, but not in a conventional guerilla/resistance way. For me it had startling resonances with the James Baldwin doc just now wrapping up its run, where Baldwin identifies moments like Sidney Poitier jumping off the train in The Defiant Ones as revealing the oppressive power's desperate, pathetic need to be reassured that the oppressed really like them, love them, redeem them. The Nicest Possible German in Silence is clearly in agony that he just cannot get this family to tell him he's a really great guy and they don't blame him for the whole invasion-and-occupation thing. Hrm.

weekend BAM fest of Twin Peaks cast members

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/peak-performances

No "The Wraith," surely some mistake.

i have a ticket for the George C Scott desert-isle incest movie at the Quad Thursday. "Agonizing!" said Pauline Kael.

https://quadcinema.com/film/the-savage-is-loose/

gonna be juggling Caan in Astoria w/ Marcello at FSLC

https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/marcello-mastroianni/#films

https://nypost.com/2017/05/18/lower-east-sides-landmark-sunshine-cinema-to-close/

must admit i haven't gone there in awhile, i could see whatever they were showing uptown or at BAM

Dietrich at the Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/85/marlene

Miracle Mile showing at the Metrograph with Steve De Jarnatt, Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham in person

http://metrograph.com/film/film/856/miracle-mile

Unbelievably pissed that I'm not going to be in NYC for this, but I hope that someone on this thread goes.