All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

slow days in filmland so far but i'm looking forward to seeing Birds of Passion at Film Forum tomorrow. Embrace of the Serpent was a fave and though the plot of this one looks tired (do not care about drug cartel movies), I'll try anything they do after that.

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/black-mother-review-khalik-allah-field-niggas-1201949049/

started watching the first film by khalik allah; it's heavy heavy stuff... slow mo explorations of black faces and black bodies with too real conversation in background; all filmed in harlem. looks like avedon studies. give it a peek:
https://vimeo.com/312790511

btw, Birds of Passion is spectacular; see it if you can.

I loved Embrace of the Serpent, looking forward to Birds of Passage

Couldn't be more different than Serpent in terms of approach and storytelling, but both are heavy on magical realism and both give deep credence and agency to the indigenous people that are at their stories' centers. Passage is a Shakespearean epic with spectacular music, stunning acting, masterful cinematography and probably seven to ten gasp-inducing visual moments; definitely going to be one of the best films I see this year.

anybody got the stomach/chutzpah to take one for the team and report back?

[CONTENT WARNING: These films contain scenes of explicit sexual contact, mutilation, rear female nudity, violence, frontal male nudity, dark humor, disembowelment, castration, nihilism, decapitation, suicide, Nazi imagery, deviant sex, depictions of murder, frontal female nudity, ejaculation, mental illness, rear male nudity, criminal mischief, on-screen urination, sexual perversion, blood, and adult language.]

Rendezvous with French Cinema begins Friday

https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema/#films

^Thursday, in fact

For most of March at MoMA,

William Fox Presents: More Restorations and Rediscoveries from the Fox Film Corporation

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5049?locale=en

George Romero at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/living-with-the-dead-the-films-of-george-a-romero

William Fox Presents: More Restorations and Rediscoveries from the Fox Film Corporation

If they are dipping into the Borzage and Ford boxes, "Rediscoveries" is a bit strong. But the other titles tempt me.

yeah, I have the Ford box, but they're showing some in 35mm, and there are some 4K restos.

I had heretofore missed this Criterion Top 10 by NYC film snob Georgia Hubley, who includes some excellent commentary on theaters past and present ("MOMA, popular dinner spot of many of NYC’s finest moviegoers"):

https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/132-georgia-hubley-s-top-10

Just confirmed or relooked up that she is related to, the daughter of those other Hubleys.

Oh wait, it's at the top of that link. D'oh!

Yes, as a child she's even on the soundtrack of a couple cartoons.

Okay, just read that properly. Really well-written and chosen.

Bertrand Blier at the Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/amour-or-less-a-blier-buffet/

New Directors/New Films at MoMA and FSLC

https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/new-directors-new-films-2019/##films

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/new-directors-new-films-2019-full-lineup-1202045664/

https://www.screenslate.com/articles/87

Aki Kaurismaki at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/215/total-kaurismki-show

Claire Denis at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/strange-desire-the-films-of-claire-denis

Radical Films from 1958-61 at Japan Society

https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/the-other-japanese-new-wave

trucker vehicles (hehe) at Anthology

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/50621

I've seen 5/10, would def recommend Hell Drivers and Le Camion... and they are showing a 35mm print of Duel.

is the movie theater in Union Square still open? the one that was on the same block/around the corner from Virgin. across the street from Forbidden Planet. I can't remember if it was an AMC or Loews

It is. I never go there bcz of the multiplex prices; I don't think they even have matinee discounts.

What Price Hollywood ("a focused look back at the nature of sexual politics on screen") begins at MoMA on Monday

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5063?locale=en

don't care much for the angelika but they got Amazing Grace so i suppose i gotta go

you could go to BAM! (beginning the 12th)

yeah, that's preferable if only barely.
looking forward to seeing Hail Satan next week.

Annoyed that I'm going to miss most of that trucker series even though I've seen most of them (I'm in NYC from 4/15-5/1) - except for Le Camion! (I can see it finally!)

Věra Chytilová (Daisies) retro at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/the-anarchic-cinema-of-vera-chytilova

caught the last of those Duel screenings thanks to your reminder itt, thanks morbs!

de nada, DC

trilogies at FF

https://filmforum.org/series/trilogies#now-playing

dat's a lotta movies

Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5053?locale=en

Nelson Pereira dos Santos midway at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/217/nelson-pereira-dos-santos

a month of Abel Ferrara at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5065

Black 90s at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/black-90s-a-turning-point-in-american-cinema

Jean-Claude Carrière at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5066?locale=en

German Genre Films from the Margins at Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/fighting-mad-german-genre-films-from-the-margins/

https://www.artforum.com/film/nick-pinkerton-on-fighting-mad-german-genre-films-from-the-margins-at-quad-cinema-79834

anticolonial cinema '66-81 at FF

http://filmforum.org/series/the-hour-of-liberation-decolonizing-cinema-1966-1981

Wow, I'd try and go to everything in that series :(

saw the Syrian film The Dupes (1973) last night at FF

last week of Ferrara retro, composer Joe Delia will be introducing King of New York and China Girl the next 2 nights

Kael at 100

https://quadcinema.com/program/losing-it-at-the-movies-pauline-kael-at-100/

been waiting forever to see this

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/5589

Worth it.

Yeah, it's a great watch

Damn that Kael lineup is great, I didn’t know she liked Shoot the Moon

Ermanno Olmi at FSLC (I haven't seen any)

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/ermanno-olmi/

so Manhattan's last single-screen theater looks done

https://deadline.com/2019/06/paris-theater-closing-new-york-film-community-laments-losing-another-prestige-picture-palace-1202634176/

Ugh