January 25th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Today's continuing series include IFC Center's The Way He Was: Early Redford, and See It Big!: Musicals over at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image. Today's continuing replication of the ice house from DR. ZHIVAGO earns every expletive I and all other true New Yorkers can muster. The rundown runs thusly;
IFC Center
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) Dir; Alan J. Pakula
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Dir; George A. Romero
Nitehawk Cinema
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) Dir; John Hughes
Film Forum
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946) Dir; John Ford
Museum of the Moving Image
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) Dir; Robert Wise
Anthology Film Archives
THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) Dir; Jean Renoir
THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS (1950) Dir; Roberto Rossellini
I WAS BORN, BUT... (1932) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
Today's Pick? Why should Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael-Hall, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy suffer all by their lonesomes? Let's all go to Saturday morning H. S. detention in 1985! John Hughes may have been a middling talent at best, his long-standing noteworthiness tied to his capturing of the 80's zeitgiest like few others could or cared to do, but he did create one masterpiece; a film that I predicted back whence released would not only stand the test of time but become among the most quotable of its era. If you disagree with that assessment you aren't merely wrong, you're a neo-maxie-zoom-dweebie. And probably a parent's wet dream. Show Dick some respect!
The late great John Hughes' THE BREAKFAST CLUB unspools as part of the Nitehawk Cinema's 2nd anniversary celebration of its brunchtime screenings. Make sure you order the PB&J with the crusts cut off. Or the sushi. Or the pixie sticks Holy Jeezus do I remember way more of this film than I thought!
For more info on these and all NYC's classic screenings in January '14 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. And be sure to follow me on both Facebook, where I provide further info and esoterica on the rep film circuit and star birthdays, and Twitter, where I provide a daily feed for the day's screenings and other blathery. Back with a brand new Pick tomorrow, til then remember; screws fall out all the time sir, the world's an imperfect place.
-Joe Walsh
