December 29th 2013. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing series today inlcude Film Forum's nearly expired month-long trib to Barbara Stanwyck, the Film Society's equally exhaustive retrospective of the works of director George Cukor, IFC Center's The Way He Was: Early Redford, and Museum of the Moving Image's See It Big!: Great cinematographers. The bounteous booty be thus;
Film Forum
THE WIZARD OF OZ (2D & 3D) (1939) Dir; Victor Fleming
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) Dir; Mitchell Leisen
MEET JOHN DOE (1941) Dir; Frank Capra
IFC Center
THE WAY WE WERE (1973) Dir; Sydney Pollack
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Film Society of Lincoln Center
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) Dir; George Cukor
BORN YESTERDAY (1950) Dir; George Cukor
LES GIRLS (1957) Dir; George Cukor
Museum of the Moving Image
PERSONA (1964) Dir; Ingmar Bergman
DR. ZHIVAGO (1965) Dir; David Lean
Today's Pick? Frank Capra's MEET JOHN DOE, screening as part of the wind down of Film Forum's massive Babz Stanwyck trib. My long winded reason for choosing this film from amongst the pack today is simple; I'm just in the mood for a little genuine human decency around the holiday season, and Capra knew better than most how to deliver a potent dose of such to the masses, if only on that flickering screen.
For more info on this and all NYC's remaining classic screenings in what's left of 2013 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right side of the page. And be sure to follow me on Facebook and Twitter. Back tomorrow with a new Pick, til then start chilling your champange at approximately 38 degrees Fahrenheit and advise the other kids to do likewise. Excelsior, Stoopidz!
-Joe Walsh
