March 13th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Today's continuing series include The Complete Hitchcock at Film Forum, Vienna Unveiled and An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, Under the Influence: Scorsese/Walsh at BAM Cinematek, Richie's Electric Light: The Bold and the Daring at the Japan Society, and Overdue: Richard Fleischer at Anthology Film Archives. Sucks it's also gonna be 2 degrees while all this excellence is unspooling. The seductive celluloid as follows;
Film Forum
SABOTAGE (1936) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
NUMBER 17 (1932) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
JE T'AIME, JE T'AIME (1968) Dir; Alain Resnais
PSYCHO (1960) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
MoMA
NOTHING BUT A MAN (1964) Dir; Michael Roemer
THE WEDDING MARCH (1926-28) Dir; Erich Von Stroheim
BAM Cinematek
MEAN STREETS (1973) Dir; Martin Scorsese
Bowtie Chelsea Cinemas
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Dir; Billy Wilder
Japan Society
SUMMER VACATION 1999 (1988) Dir; Shusuke Kaneko
Anthology Film Archives
VIOLENT SATURDAY (1955) Dir; Richard Fleischer
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950) Dir; Richard Fleischer
Today's Pick? The Japan Society's trib to Donald Richie, the hugely influential film scholar/promoter of world cinema, the Japanese variety in particular, who left us sadly just over a year ago at the criminally young age of 88. Tonight, in his honor, the Society presents Shusuke Kanejo's SUMMER VACATION 1999, a gender-bending tale of suicide at an all-boys school in which the leads are portrayed, with no explanation, by teenage girls. Aside from that and Richie's generous imprimatur I know nothing about this flick, which is just all the more reason to choose it. Arigato, Richie-san. Anata ga nogashite iru.
For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in March '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 you go away, Polar Vortex!!! You go away and DIE!!!
-Joe Walsh
P. S. Should you be feeling charitable during this harsh weather period please remember to check in with the good folks over at Occupy Sandy. Some of our NY neighbors are still feeling the effects of last year's hurricane. Be a mensch.
