All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

wish I had planned better to make it up for the Come and See premiere at FF (right?) but it's in a couple weeks and it'll come here sometime this year

weeklong Angela Schanelec retro at LincCtr... entirely unknown to me, but i aint asking Fred

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/dreamed-paths-the-films-of-angela-schanelec/

If anyone else is interested, the best three imo are Passing Summer, The Dreamed Path and I Was at Home, But...

more, by Pinkerton

https://www.artforum.com/film/nick-pinkerton-on-the-films-of-angela-schanelec-82115

Television Movies: Big Pictures on the Small Screen (Fassbinder, Rossellini, Penn etc)

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5197

Preferred adjacent bar by NYC rep venue:

Anthology- KGB
BAM- Frank's I guess?
Film Forum- n/a
Quad- Spain
Metrograph- Clockwork
Lincoln Center- Ugh Malachy's
MoMA- Subway Inn but usually wind up at the nearer Judge Roy Bean or unbelievably atrocious Whiskey Trader

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My choices would be

Anthology - Lucien
BAM - Frank's or Olea
Film Forum - good question, I dunno
Quad - Gene's
Metrograph - Kiki's
Lincoln Center - Bar Bouloud? Not ideal though
MoMA - St Regis Hotel, cuz you only live once

nice to see spain’s still kickin’

hi!

Makavejev at Anthology

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/52088

http://movingimage.us/programs/2020/03/04/detail/philip-k-dick-film-festival-2020/
March 4 to March 8

Black heroines at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5194

The Women Behind Hitchcock -- ie, films involving producer/writer Joan Harrison, and/or Alma Reville, with and without Hitch -- begins at Film Forum tomorrow. Weirdly, the FF site has been unreachable for hours, am I right?

it is back

https://filmforum.org/series/the-women-behind-hitchcock

Daniel Craig retro at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5201

as well as Biograph/Edison restorations

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5199

Film Forum still opem, limiting capacity to 50%.

IFC and BAM still seem to be open.

I think that's it, among rep/art houses.

Quad and Metrograph and Angelika are open.

Everyone is doing the 50% crowds thing; I guess that's what the mayor's office is demanding at the moment.

Yes, got an email from local restaurant about implementing this policy as well.

Nitehawk and Alamo are open. Spectacle has shut down.

Nitehawk is cancelling all screenings. MOMA and MOMI out too.

BAM doing 50% for now.

(Siff in Seattle is closing, staff furloughed unfortunately)

dang, nitehawk JUST wrote me with their schedule. shit's still moving fast.

not so film snobby, but, AMC theaters nationwide going to 50%, and max 250 seats.

AMC Uptown (DC) just closed for good. My sister was constantly repeating rumors that AMC wanted to drop the place.

IFC is closed through end of the month at least

Alamo's out.

Worth noting that the first screening to be cancelled by the Anthology shut-down was Robert Longo's Johnny Mneumonic (1995), which begins thusly. pic.twitter.com/bWKYO5ehYF

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So has the Quad made a permanent decision to cut way back on their repertory screenings? They don't even print a monthly guide anymore. Was this because of the ownership change I read about a while back?

that happened months ago, and yes, it seems

bummer, their programming used to rule. i basically stopped going for financial reasons - member price at FF or student price at Anthology just clobbers $16 for a not-super-great viewing experience.

I had been looking fwd to this rarity in their scheduled Sellers sampler

https://quadcinema.com/film/mr-topaze/

i like the quad! but its not as good as ff or anthology, i agree.

BAM cinemas now closed, with no timely notice on their site til mid-afternoon to save me a trip. I shan't be renewing my membership anyway.

Film Forum now closed too.

well, I might as well be living in a basement in Sandusky now. Making a better living.

Quad is closed now too; I think they were the last.

Sorry snobs :(

I had no use for them but RIP anyway

ScreenSlate, Light Industry, and others have started a fundraiser to support NYC movie theater employees out of work because of COVID-19. I know one or two affected folks and I'm sure y'all do as well. Consider kicking in, say, what you might have spent on movies and concessions this week, and share in your networks!

Spectacle is doing Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/spectaclenyc

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/marquee

the hungarian film archives are streaming 39 classic hungarian films for free on their website - jancsó's the only one i've heard of here, anyone seen any of the others?

https://filmarchiv.hu/en/news/hungarian-classics-free-to-watch

You never heard of Colonel Redl?

Autocorrect wanted Colonel Redd.

Anyway, thanks, this will be yet another way to test my pitiful Duolingo Plus Hungarian.

Hong, Friday

https://www.filmlinc.org/films/yourself-and-yours/

Amplifying Anthology Film Archives latest outreach; full links and additional statement of purpose here:
https://mailchi.mp/anthologyfilmarchives/update_6_03_2020-622592

Since Anthology is, after all, a cinema and film archive, with a conviction that movies can foster engagement rather than distraction, we’d like to use the cinema as a lens to focus attention more squarely on the struggle, by sharing a list of films (available online from various sources) whose continuing relevance has been underlined in the wake of further instances of police brutality and the gross infringement of civil rights. The list itself (a highly selective and partial one) suggests, even at a glance, how entrenched racism has been and continues to be in our society, and illustrates the courage of those activists who have waged the fight for generations.

• The 6-part documentary series REST IN POWER: THE TRAYVON MARTIN STORY (Jenner Furst & Julia Willoughby Nason, 2018) is an in-depth chronicle of the Trayvon Martin killing and its aftermath.

• CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Stephen Maing, 2018) exposes systemic corruption within the NYPD via the story of the NYPD12, a group of NYC police officers who brought a lawsuit against the city and the department over racist and illegal policing practices.

• WHOSE STREETS? (Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis, 2017) is one of the most important documentaries to emerge from the killing of Michael Brown and the subsequent protest movement in Ferguson/St. Louis.

• Among the best of the films produced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Rodney King incident, John Ridley’s LET IT FALL: LOS ANGELES 1982-1992 (2017) is available on many different platforms.

• Roger Guenveur Smith & Spike Lee’s RODNEY KING (2017) documents Smith’s one-man theatrical production.

• Yance Ford’s personal documentary STRONG ISLAND (2017) charts the aftermath of the killing of his brother William Ford Jr. by a 19-year-old white mechanic, who was acquitted following an investigation that treated Ford more as a suspect than a murder victim.

• FOR AHKEEM (Landon Van Soest & Jeremy S. Levine, 2017), an intimate and moving portrait of the daily life of a St. Louis high school student, was filmed over the course of two years, a period that saw the killing of Michael Brown and the subsequent protest movement.

• Available to watch for free, STAY WOKE: THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT (Laurens Grant, 2016) chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement.

• Two exposés of America’s system of mass incarceration and its devastating and disproportionate impact on African Americans: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (Eugene Jarecki, 2012) and Ava DuVernay’s 13th (2016).

• THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 (Goran Hugo Olsson, 2011) is drawn from 16mm material shot by visiting Swedish journalists who documented some of the leading figures of the Black Power Movement, including Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, and Eldridge Cleaver.

• Sherry Millner & Ernest Larsen’s 41 SHOTS (2000) is a short reflection on the murder of Amadou Diallo.

• The 14-part history of the Civil Rights Movement that aired on PBS from 1987-90, EYES ON THE PRIZE remains a monumental achievement.

• Shot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 (Howard Alk, Mike Gray & Film Group, 1969) charts the unlikely relationship between the Black Power movement in Chicago and the Young Patriots, a primarily white group that was beginning to organize around issues of social mobility, police brutality, and income inequity.

• Santiago Alvarez’s still-vital short film NOW! (1965), depicting the civil rights struggle (and the brutal crackdown it incurred), can be viewed for free here.

• James Blue’s classic film THE MARCH (1964) documents the 1963 civil rights March on Washington.

• Madeline Anderson’s INTEGRATION REPORT 1 (1960) – the first known documentary film by an African American female director – examines the struggle for black equality in Alabama, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C.

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/new-yorks-indie-movie-theaters-are-cautiously-preparing-reopen

Because of the challenge of operating a restaurant within the theater — and having nearly 180 employees who’d need to feel safe coming back to work — Viragh said Nitehawk may not open until next year, and he doesn’t expect business to get back to pre-pandemic levels for another 18 months to two years.

Meanwhile, at Film Forum in SoHo, the full expectation is to reopen next month... “So my colleagues and I have been developing programming to start July 29th.” Cooper said that when the theater reopens, attendees will be seated in a checkerboard pattern, so no one is directly next to or behind anyone. Certain staff members will be solely dedicated to cleaning and disinfecting. And ticket-sellers and concessionists will work behind plexiglass windows.

For now, Film at Lincoln Center has pivoted to showing movies in virtual, online screening rooms (as have Film Forum and Nitehawk). Executive Director Lesli Klainberg said the viewership so far has been minimal. Klainberg said her organization’s biggest event of the year, the New York Film Festival, is still on for its scheduled start date of September 25th. But depending on the reopening guidelines — and what feels safe — she and her staff are considering a mix of outdoor screenings, digital screenings, and events at other sites besides the Walter Reade.

“My secret fear is that everyone is sitting at home watching every movie they’ve ever wanted to watch that they never had time to watch,” Klainberg said. “And when they come out of this, and everyone feels safe, we’re going to have to offer them something that’s new and unique and special, because that’s what they come to the movies for.”

Why is that a secret fear? Finally a challenge for studios more than programmers. This is as much if not more of an existential threat to theaters as TV was in the 1950s. There should be far more repertory programming in EVERY movie theater, and not just the same 20 Hollywood classics you see on posters and murals at Cinemarks and Cinebistros. Get stuff in there from literally any time. and SCREEN NETFLIX FILMS!