November 28th 2012. Pick Of the Day.
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Bunuel's DISCREET CHARM and Leone's AMERICA continue their week long runs at their respective venues for the next couple of days, and they are giants of not only both men's CV but the lexicon of modern cinema as well. I bypass these works of genius.
BAM trods forth into day two of its Von Sydow campaign with the sixth of his umpteen collaborations with Ingmar Bergman (sixth in 3 years!) THE VIRGIN SPRING, which finds our beloved Spruce Goose contemplating revenge for his daughter's murder. Just misses my mark.
And I'm terribly tempted, ring of Sauron tempted to choose MOMA's screening of the 50's faux doc curio ON THE BOWERY, which presents a fictional character enduring a fictional plight in order to examine the very real characters and conditions of this once dire flop area of Manhattan. Where all hope once went to die now all self-respect suffers similar fate. How the nabe's changed. Important, but I resist naming this my Pick today. For a different take on a forgotten people.
No. My Pick Of The Day features Donald Pleasance and Christopher Lee as London detectives who discover a subterranean race of proto-cave people cannibalizing Tube passengers. I mean, how do you top that. Seriously.
RAW MEAT screens tonight at 7:30pm at the 92YTribeca. Buy your tix early and often.
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