December 22nd 2013. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing series today include Film Forum's essential Barbara Stanwyck trib, the Film Society's equally fantastic George Cukor retrospective, IFC Center's The Way He Was: Early Redford, and Museum of the Moving Image's See It Big! Great Cinematographers. The proceedings as follows;
IFC Center
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Dir; Frank Capra
DOWNHILL RACER (1969) Dir; Michael Ritchie
BowTie Chelsea Cinemas
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Dir; Frank Capra
Film Forum
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) Dir; Vincente Minnelli
GOLDEN BOY (1939) Dir; Rouben Mamoulian
STELLA DALLAS (1937) Dir; King Vidor
Film Society of Lincoln Center
SUSAN AND GOD (1940) Dir; George Cukor
EDWARD, MY SON (1949) Dir; George Cukor
ZAZA (1938) Dir; George Cukor
Mid-Manhattan Library
MIDNIGHT (1939) Dir; Mitchell Leisen
Museum of the Moving Image
BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) Dirs; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
LOLA (1961) Dir; Jacques Demy
United Palace of Cultural Arts
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Dir; Frank Capra
Today's Pick? While the fates seem to be pointing me toward a particular holiday classic unfolding in three-count-'em-three separate venues today, I'm compelled to choose a different masterpiece on today's sked, and it ain't 'cause I got a thing for nuns. Which I don't. Ahem. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's BLACK NARCISSUS, screening today in its recent and glorious DCP resto at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image, may not be a Xmas film, and some might say it has no biz making my Pick when we're so close to the Yule itself, but any chance to watch the luminous DP work of the great Jack Cardiff in so esteemed a venue as MoMI leaves other competitive screenings firmly in its wake. Plus the Clodagh/Ruth thing's hot. I DON'T have a nun thing!
For more info on these and all NYC's remaining classic screenings in 2013 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. And be sure to follow me on Facebook and Twitter! Back tomorrow with a new Pick, til then make sure the stockings are hung by the chimney with care and pass that on to the other kids! Three days til Santa! Whoo!
-Joe Walsh
