All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Mmmm, prime Bille August. When he is bad... Winner of two Golden Palms, btw. Danish cinema at it's finest.

at BAM starting Friday, Say It Loud: Cinema in the Age of Black Power, 1966—1981

some rarely exhibited stuff here

https://www.bam.org/film/2018/say-it-loud

if anybody hasn't been to the reopened film forum yet, i give it a tentative thumbs up. those new seats are massively more comfortable, maybe the most comfortable i've ever encountered. but, surely there are fewer seats in the room? which would bode poorly for things selling out. :-/

theater 1 looks the same

was in the new space last night... i think the existing 3 stayed the same?

i was in 3 last night for "grisbi" and i could swear it was fewer seats - i mean the new ones are wider and the room is the same size so surely....? but maybe!

They're pretty good about adjusting theater assignments w/ films... they had Becker running in 2 rooms the last night.

There's a rock series running at Anthology, featuring a lot of stuff that many of us have seen. Although I've never endured all of Woodstock... I'd link but the website is having connectivity problems. Check Screen Slate.

Truffaut (all 35mm) and Makoto Shinkai ongoing at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/166/truffaut-x-7

http://metrograph.com/series/series/168/makoto-shinkai

Arriving in NYC on Tuesday night. I'll be around for at least a month and lurking/bumping this thread.

hi elvis!

Germaine Dulac at FSLC

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/germaine-dulac/#films

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/queer-now-1928/

As there was no soundtrack/score on the print, FSLC ran last night's 7pm Dulac silent feature in total silence. Terrible idea. Put on a record to drown out the patrons' yawns and gurgling stomachs.

Haha, I remember seeing von Sternberg's Underworld that way at the Film Forum. A totally ridiculous way to screen a film.

Otm. If I watch something silent at home and don’t like the soundtrack they’ve added to it I mute it and play something else.

looks like the whole series is that way

bring your own headphones

or a boombox - make it a better ride for everyone!

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Alain Delon at Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/lhomme-fatal-alain-delon/

"1968" and...

http://metrograph.com/series/series/172/everything-was-now-1968-circa-1968

Jack Smith at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/173/jack-smith

starting Friday at the Quad, a series I didn't know I needed -- the anthology film. Godard was part of a lot of them.

https://quadcinema.com/program/some-are-better-than-others-the-curious-case-of-the-anthology-film/

hip hop movies at FF

https://filmforum.org/series/hip-hop-on-film-1979-1986

up at Columbia, a two-weekend series honoring NY indie booster Ira Deutchman.

i esp recommend the Aussie new-wave musical Starstruck

oh cool, i was looking at that one! looks great. if i can compel myself to be that far uptown at that hour i might just make it.

Make the trip... Starstruck is great.

yeah wow that was great! thanks for the recommendations, y'all, they helped push us over the top and we had a ball.

the theater (one floor up, in columbia's new, quasi-dystopian manhattanville campus) is a nice room too, more of a wide black box theater than just a dinky little screening room. screen felt big, could really dive into the colors. sound was kind of painfully loud a few times, not sure if that was specific to the film, the settings in the control room, or the acoustics. but i'd def see a movie there again.

wish i had been able to go, but i was uptown early and wd've had to kill 5 hours

Unknown Jerry at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5019?locale=en

Hammer Frankenstein at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5010?locale=en

some worthy retro doings at FF

https://filmforum.org/film/orphans-of-new-york

https://filmforum.org/film/abbott-costello-in-who-done-it-plus-a-tale-of-two-kitties-ffjr-fall-2018

Shaw Brothers at IFC Center

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/shaw-brothers-spectaculars/

whyyyy must all of IFC's interesting repertory be midnight series? there are nerds in this city besides NYU first-years, people!!

NY Architecture/Design Film Festival just started up: https://adfilmfest.com/site/ny2018 (annoyed that the Dieter Rams documentary is sold out already)

lots of horror, mostly not for me cept Vincent Price

http://metrograph.com/series/series/180/shaw-brothers-horror

https://quadcinema.com/program/tres-outre-the-sinister-visions-of-jean-rollin/

https://quadcinema.com/program/victoria-price-presents-vincent-price-x-3/

Some of those Jean Rollin films are quite interesting - The Iron Rose and The Nude Vampire for example

Karpo Godina, auteur of Yugoslav cinema (unknown to me til now)

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5011?locale=en

MoMA's "The Contenders" series in Nov/Dec, including appearances by Steve McQueen, Paul Schrader, Spike Lee, Paul Dano, Tamara Jenkins etc.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5025?locale=en

what, orson welles is too busy to show up?

looks great, in all seriousness.

protip: the popular films all sell out quickly when they go on sale (14 days in advance).

I need to figure out if there's a way for me to advance-book the free student tix I get cause it's such a huge huge resource of which I've almost utterly failed to take advantage.

radical Catalan cinema '68-78

https://www.archynety.com/entertainment/the-catalan-cinema-of-the-end-of-the-franco-regime-arrives-at-the-moma/

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5012?locale=en

At some point I want to see the Portabella one.

almost over, but some choice Japanese postwar horror remains the next 2 nights at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2018/ghosts-and-monsters

(maybe just tonight? have never seen Mothra)

Margarethe von Trotta at Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/margarethe-von-trotta-the-political-is-personal/

Women at Work at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2018/women-at-work-domestic-is-not-free

Scorsese in NY at MoMA (just a few in 35mm)

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5024?locale=en

ooh thanks, missed that. is this the week I finally see Goodfellas and KoC??

thanks to netflix we are all NYC film snobs today

Ida Lupino (acting and directing) at FF

https://filmforum.org/series/ida-lupino-100

thanks to netflix we are all NYC film snobs today

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Darlings, I'll believe that when I can stream all those recently restored Fox Films titles. One at AFI and two at Capitolfest does not make the grade.

Claude Lanzmann at Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/claude-lanzmanns-cinema-of-remembrance/

next Saturday night, The Big Parade and The Great Dictator at the Loews Jersey in J.C.

http://loewsjersey.org/calendar/