All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

I might need a second look, it really left me intrigued but dubious. Don't know if there'll be time tho.

ken = relentless vaudevillian

http://www.chrisbeetles.com/img/pictures/artists/Snowdon/C25046-b.jpg

Film Comment Selects in Feb: Rivette, Assayas, Seidl etc.

http://www.filmref.com/notes/archives/2008/01/2008_film_comment_selects_prog.html

gonna try to catch last year at marienbad at film forum tomorrow after work.

The Rivette is opening fairly soon, no?

think so

(not that I'll go -- he's a boring old bastard)

Haha, he's one of my favorites, but I've heard the new film is pretty dull.

Va savoir was totally forgettable too.

I wish!

Did yall catch Woman on the Beach? Good stuff! I liked Hong's Tale of Cinema too. Rohmer w/ hint of Charlie Kaufman.

I liked Woman on the Beach, but not as much as previous Hong. I hope he's not drifting too far into comedy of manners territory. I'd like to see it again, though -- is it still playing in the city?

not acc to Voice listings. I heard crowds were thinnish at FF.

at least as of an hour ago, MoMA still has tix for tomw night's Bert Williams program:

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=7520

Tribeca fest to slash prices, be more selective:

http://www.thereeler.com/the_blog/tribeca_comes_home.php

I bought 5 tix for Film Comment Selects, including Joy Division and the pair of fleischers.

A little off-topic and I can't find any info online, but I heard that A1 Film Lab closed. It was easily the worst lab in the city, but it's always sad when businesses like this close and I guess it means that PacLab is the only place left to process super-8.

Reade French series:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/rendezvous08/program.html

Tarkovsky's The Mirror, Reade 6:30

Filmforum

has anyone caught any of the lin cheng-sheng series at AFA? saw two last night and enjoyed them both (murmur of youth = very un-typical first same-sex experience tale; sweet degeneration = tastefully done if slightly oblique man-on-the-skids-returns-to-alienated-family drama, with added incest subplot for good measure); the latter has tsai ming-liang regular lee kang-sheng in it, who i will watch in just about anything

oh, i read about those about a month ago. So many films...

Punishment Park and State Legislature this weekend.

Mandingo at WRT tomorrow, I wonder if the audience will fracture...

Are you going?

doesn't James Mason walk barefoot on a Nee-gro slave in that one?

no, he rests his gouty feet on a boy slave. I think it's a provocative, flawed corrective to GWTW etc.

90 minutes of old & new stuff Kuchar brothers' stuff @Anthology, Thursday at 7:30 only.

Mike Kuchar
TALES OF THE BRONX (1970, 16 minutes, 16mm)
“From the elephant house of Bronx Zoo to the eight-story-tall Tabonga Terrace apartments on Sedgwich Avenue, living Mammals scream for their place in the Sun and drop heavy brown excretions in pots of porcelain that splash and clog and suck like huge toothless mouths on the lily-white mounds that lower into the hollow half submerged ovals, creating stagnant damp vacuums that cling and grab.” –M.K.

George Kuchar
BLIPS (1979, 31 minutes, 16mm)
“An enigmatic movie that’s like an enigmatic enema.” –G.K.

Mike Kuchar
ZOOLOGY (2006, 20 minutes, 16mm)
“It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existence is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions stirred up by memory.” –M.K.

George Kuchar
VISTAVISIONS (2007, 15 minutes, video)
“A tribute to people everywhere who spread their glorious visions on canvases both large and small, beaded or lenticular, glossy or mat finished. A joyous celebration of lofty peaks and deep dished delights all basking in the limelight of luminous imagery from the visionaries of tomorrow who create today so that yesterday is not forgotten.” –G.K.

Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.

I guess I'm going to Kim Ki-Young's The Housemaid tonight, as it seems I can't afford to miss.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/infernalmachines/program.html

Franju at Anthology? anyone seen HEAD AGAINST THE WALL?

or THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX?

yeah, Kael liked that one.

ok hoberman series @ BAM is killin' it this week: jeanne dielman tonight, rock n' roll high school/assault on precinct 13 (with free booze in between) tomorrow, and andrei rublev wednesday

and for the sake of inclusion, a cloud-capped star on thursday, which i know absolutely nothing about

I can't deal with any of that, probably, esp as I am heading home tonight to watch opening day baseball. My only retro outing might be Planet of the Apes, and I want to see No Country while it's still in a theater.

http://www.clearviewcinemas.com/classics/classics-ziegfeld.shtml

Not with a bang, etc

anyone seen anything by Robert Breer, getting a retro @Anthology?

Nope.

I wonder what's playing at that Paris Underground cinema?

rock n' roll high school/assault on precinct 13 (with free booze in between)

annoying sound issues aside, this was awesome

During May it's going to be '60s, '60s, '60s:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/1968/program.html

http://www.filmforum.org/films/godards60.html

http://loewsjersey.org/

Sarris & Haskell introduce Cluny Brown (good Lubitsch) tonight @Reade!

and tnite, T Schoonmaker intros an Archers film I havent seen:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/jenniferjones/gonetoearth.html

Thelma did a generous 30-min Q&A.

For the Charles Boyer series, i highly recommend History Is Made at Night but won't be back from weekend trip in time.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/charlesboyer/historyismadeatnight.html

There are a few Peter Hutton screenings left at MOMA. What I've caught has been really great so far.

Two of Dali's fave silents at MoMA tonight, The Freshman and The General.

also, does anyone know which of these Robbe-Grillet films I should prioritize? (I don't mean Marienbad)

http://bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=194

are all the film snobs "summering" elsewhere?

Friday at 7pm at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Columbus & 58th St, a program of silents that feature NYC locations; actualities from the 1900’s, plus these comedy shorts – All On Account of a Transfer (Edison Co., 1913), Plagues and Puppy Love (Larry Semon, 1917), Coney Island (Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, 1917) – pipe organ accomp – tix are “free will offering” (pay what you like)

who's doing the 10 hours of The Human Condition at FF?

...not me.

I think I'll go to Oshima's "Boy" on Sat.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/kawakita/program.html

Film snobs, please go to see Classe Tous Risques tomorrow at the FF, which I saw today. And yeah, of course you should probably watch Le Doulos as well.

Saw both fairly recently...

I might go to that Mexican director's retro @Reade one night this week... Macario?

also need to use my free admission card this week at FF; Diabolique, probly.

I think I am going to use mine for The Sicilian Clan.