February 23rd 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Today's continuing series include IFC Center's inventively monickered American Hustlers, Film Forum's massive The Complete Hitchcock, Moving Image's effusive See It Big! Musicals, and Anthology Film Archives' weekend trib to Russ Meyer & Roger Ebert. The cinematic debauchery is as follows;
IFC Center
THE STING (1973) Dir; George Roy Hill
Film Forum
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
THE LODGER (1927) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
Nitehawk Cinema
THE KARATE KID (1984) Dir; John G. Avildsen
Museum of the Moving Image
NETWORK (1976) Dir; Sidney Lumet
Special screening hosted by Keith Olbermann and author David Itzkoff (Mad as Hell: The Making of Network)
SHOWBOAT (1936) Dir; James Whale
Mid-Manhattan Library
SUMMER STOCK (1950) Dir; Charles Walters
Anthology Film Archives
UP! (1976) Dir; Russ Meyer
BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA-VIXENS (1979) Dir; Russ Meyer
Today's Pick? I always feel like I just chose this mere weeks ago and should exclude it from the pack, but should that even be the case I can't think of a more essential screening today than Sidney Lumet's prescient masterpiece NETWORK, unspooling at MoMI in 35mm to commemorate journalist Dave Itzkoff's new book Mad as Hell: The Making of Network. TV anchor Keith Olbermann will be on hand to moderate and provide oh you know exactly what who're we kidding? Attendance mandatory. And stick around for SHOWBOAT. There's your day. You're welcome.
For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in February '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 tomorrow with a brand new Pick, til then if you can't work up a winter passion for me you owe me your goddam loyalty at least! Wait, where am I again...?
-Joe Walsh
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