May 3rd 2013. Pick Of The Day.
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Roberto Rossellini's examination of a marriage's peaks, pitfalls and potential end, VOYAGE TO ITALY, enters day three of its 9-day week at Film Forum in its brand new DCP incarnation.
BAM's trib to the magnificently maniacal William Friedkin trods through the second of its five day retrospective, today offfering his twin examinations of NYC's gay subculuture, which just so happened to bookend the decade for the filmmaker. 1970's THE BOYS IN THE BAND precedes 1980's CRUISING. Both interesting as time capsules of their respective eras and insight into the director's psyche. Methinks.
The Weimar Touch, MOMA's series dedicated to German Expressionist cinema of the 1920's and its immediate and enduring influence on Hollywood filmmaking, today offers Alfred Hitchcock's lone effort with star Monty Clift, I CONFESS. Styles acting and clapboarding clash but the resulting film is aight.
Sally Kellerman is on hand to intro and discuss Robert Altman's M.A.S.H. at the high temple of cinema the Landmark Jersey Loews tonight. Lord I loves me some Sal!
The Nitehawk Cinema offers up two vastly different types of dinner request at midnight with dual screenings of Bob Rafelson's FIVE EASY PIECES and Umberto Lenzi's CANNIBAL FEROX. "Stick it between your knees" is a request in both these flicks. Even if it isn't. Trust me.
Over at the IFC Center Monty Python is still mulling over THE MEANING OF LIFE 30 years hence. Plus Kubrick's 2001 continues to pick winners and losers 45 years later. And Jeff Goldblum is still trying to figure out David Cronenberg's flesh in his remake of THE FLY. What possible misunderstanding could be caused by those statements?
Tonight, however, is what it means to be pill-popping decadent sorta young, which was an early title for the STREETS OF FIRE theme. Tonight belongs to Sharon Tate, Patty Duke and Barbara Parkins, in Mark Robson's cat-scratchingly iconic adap of the then-tawdry Jacqueline Susanne novel VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Screens at midnight at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema.
That's that. Still powering down after the IRON MAN marathon at Kip's Bay. Brevity is the soul of something I'm told, so hopefully I've got soul.
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