All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Ugh

think i've been there twice in twenty years; remember it being a nice enough room but they tend to book kinda boring stuff

I'm pretty sure in '80-81 I saw Truffaut's last two there (The Last Metro, The Woman Next Door). They booked all the Merchant-Ivory films in the '80s and '90s. Last time I was there was for Carol. Always packed in the 75-and-over crowd.

(also I believe it's where I almost crashed into Joe "Look Sharp" Jackson coming out of the men's room after a revival of Shoot the Piano Player)

Somehow I'd... never heard of this theater? Huh.

Came here to post this short series, clearly programmed for Morbs: Reagan at the Movies at Metrograph.

I've seen all of those except Rambo and Firefox.

Prison Images: Incarceration and the Cinema @ Anthology... I esp recommend Renoir's stellar The Elusive Corporal, which is harder to see than A Man Escaped or Le Trou.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/51027

It's hard to believe that Manhattan had only single-screen theaters until 1972, if that factoid is indeed true - supposedly the Quad was the first multi?

A little before my time, but I know of no others. They started dividing the single-screen midtown theaters by the mid '70s.

queer doings in Astoria

http://movingimage.us/programs/2019/06/21/detail/grit-and-glitter-before-and-after-stonewall/

Free films + popcorn + soda + talks at Lincoln Center starting tomorrow
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/free-talks/#schedule

Summer of Legrand at French Institute

https://fiaf.org/events/2019-season/cs-michel-legrand/

There will be post-film ML karaoke on July 30

I call dibs on "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"

I will see if I can rustle up the Bergmans to sit in judgement of the proceedings.

yikes

comedy shorts tonight at QED Astoria

https://qedastoria.com/collections/nelson-hughes-tommy-jose-stathes/products/that-slapstick-show-presents-1930s-talking-comedies

yikes

Men-in-prison double feature at Anthology this Monday night, Jean Genet's Un chant d'amour and Jonas Mekas's The Brig

oh I see the prison program was mentioned up thread

more Pasolini at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/232/pier-paolo-pasolini-a-future-life-part-2

documentaries from Kevin Rafferty (The Atomic Cafe, Feed) & co at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/235/secret-histories-the-films-of-kevin-rafferty-friends

Patrick Wang's "sprawling, Altmanesque comedy" A Bread Factory plays at BAM on Saturday.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/a-bread-factory-part-one-and-two/

https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2019/05/55142/

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/a-bread-factory

Burt Lancaster at FF (my #1 unmissable is the rarely screened Frankenheimer The Train, the best of their collaborations imho)

http://filmforum.org/series/burt-lancaster

been looking forward to catching a few in this one - i have, somewhat astonishingly, never seen a single film in which burt lancaster appears. atlantic city and sweet smell of success have been on my list for ages, but i'm also hoping to find time to just pick up some random roll-the-dice picks here, especially with the 2-for-1s.

Kiarostami retrospective at IFC July 26 to August 15
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/abbas-kiarostami-a-retrospective/

Dr C: The Leopard is essential

Machiko Kyo at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/238/machiko-ky

Dr. C: Criss Cross is my fave of the noirs. The Train is a must.

Thanks!

icymi La Flor is at FSLC

https://hyperallergic.com/511754/la-flor-mariano-llinas/

Based on Part 1, I can neither recommend nor discourage. I am dreading the spy story.

also at Lincoln Center

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/another-country-outsider-visions-of-america/#films

screening at the Metrograph all week, Juraj Herz's 1968 The Cremator

(see also J Hoberman in the NYT)

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-of-the-week-the-cremator/

http://metrograph.com/film/film/2196/the-cremator

(as you can see by the Janus credit, this is coming to Criterion)

'80s women filmmakers at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/punks-poets-valley-girls

widescreen Vincente Minnelli at Metrograph, starting Friday

http://metrograph.com/series/series/240/minnelli-widescreen

great Rip Torn vehicle at Spectacle

http://www.spectacletheater.com/payday/

^ Went to see this tonight. With no pre-announcement or explanation, instead of the film everyone paid to see they showed some fake trailers followed by a nearly hour-long European stop-motion animation film. The lady at the box office who was the sole staff member on duty - also the person who pressed the buttons on the computer to "project" the film - said, "So sorry! This is what the distributor sent us." She could not even guarantee me that Payday would actually show up for screening later in the month.

It was my first time there, so seriously wtf is up with this place?

jeez sorry. have only been there twice myself, never had a problem. they didn't give refunds?

They did, though I was perplexed that some people didn't accept theirs. I certainly took my $5 back.

spectacle rules; i'm sorry that happened!

Is it that one lady always running it?

J Hoberman presents the Reagan '80s at Linc Ctr

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/make-my-day-american-movies-in-the-age-of-reagan/#films

oh and the Scorsese/Cocks twinbills are well under way

https://filmforum.org/series/marty-and-jays-double-features#now-playing

I may do 2x2 this Sunday....

I can recommend Hoberman's new book, Make My Day, which is a continuation of The Dream Life and Army of Phantoms, covering 1975-1988

tix on sale for LC's September retro of Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/two-free-women-lily-tomlin-jane-wagner/#films

Shaw Sisters at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/239/shaw-sisters

Piotr Szulkin at LincCtr

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/sci-fi-visionary-piotr-szulkin/#films

intriguing body-snatching twinbill at BAM next Saturday

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/invisible-adversaries-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers

Antonio Banderas retro at Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/laws-of-desire-the-films-of-antonio-banderas/

5 by Bill Forsyth at MOMI

http://movingimage.us/programs/2019/09/27/detail/five-by-forsyth/

NYC '81 at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/247/nyc-81

And NYC horror coming up at BAM:

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/nyc-horror