All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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.

monthlong Filipino retro at MoMA -- Lav Diaz and others in town for it

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3843?locale=en

BAM doing Varda in California

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/varda-in-california

Frank & Eleanor Perry @ Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/desperate-characters-the-cinema-of-frank-eleanor-perry/

monthlong filipino retro ............. lav diaz in person ....................... program is just 1x lav film, duration 1 month

I guess i never posted the FF Lubitsch link. A twinbill of blind spots for me tonight.

http://filmforum.org/series/the-lubitsch-touch

NYAFF slate

https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/full-lineup-16th-new-york-asian-film-festival/

Suffering of Ninko is one of the weirder films I've seen recently.

Someone go see the new Sabu and tell me if it's good.

btw Spielberg Summer is well underway

http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/06/03/detail/see-it-big-spielberg-summer/

bummed i already missed the jaws screenings / momi should screen jaws every weekend

i think you mean 1941!

Recommending Moka.

Aw man, I would have been totally down to see Duel in 35mm! Haven't seen Jurassic Park in a theater since its original run and I'm pretty sure I've never seen Jaws on the big screen (or with an audience). There's not a lot left that I'd really jump out of my seat for... hrm.

also, 1941 is unbearable though 'interesting'

Tavernier @ Quad

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4669-the-daily-bertrand-tavernier-at-the-quad

What's the unmissable Tavernier?

This isn't really NYC-specific, but now that I have a semi-modern smartphone, I'm wondering: is there a really great Android app for just checking what's playing in theaters? Ideally something that aggregates all the arthouse places together with multiplexes, and lets you edit down a list of theaters you give a shit about so you can just take stock of the offerings at a glance? I realize this might sound really demanding of the world but if someone coded that I would pay money to own it, cuz afaict the available offerings are all like Fandango and Google where you're forever scrolling past showings of the new Smurfs movie in New Jersey (''within five miles of your location!'') or whatever and it doesn't even HAVE Quad/Metrograph/whatever.

http://www.screenslate.com/ is the best place to do just that, though it's not an app

well he wants multiplexes too

i know zip

I mean I guess I'm okay with missing the multiplexes, since with those I'm usually after a specific current movie that I already know is playing (even though there are occasional weird things - a while back Smokey and the Bandit was playing at several AMCs for some reason, and I wish I'd checked it out). So yeah, Screenslate looks awesome, thanks ulysses! Not having to individually check FF, IFC, MOMI, MOMA, Metrograph, Angelika etc is super helpful.

cool; i think they're great. decent writing too!

Oh wait except it doesn't have a bunch of those! Weird. Well I'll still keep it bookmarked on my phone cause it DOES cut down on searching a bit. But next time I'm a millionaire with nothing better to do I'm going to hire an app developer to custom-build my dream NYC movie fan hoonja-doonja.

Southern Gothic at BAM (Renoir, Bunuel, Aldrich, Siegel's The Beguiled)

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/southern-gothic

NY in the '70s at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/new-york-in-the-70s-series

yeah I've been getting stoked for that last one, lotta "should have seen this ages ago" items, a few attractive two-for-ones, some stuff i've never heard of... cool.