August 23rd 2014. Pick of the Day.
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New and ongoing series today include Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy at MoMA, See It Big!: Hollywood Melodrama at Museum of the Moving Image, Screenwriters and the Blacklist: Before, During and After at Anthology Film Archives, and the innocuously monickered vampier series Bite This! at the Nitehawk. Shall we play a game?
Film Forum
THAT MAN FROM RIO! (1964) Dir; Philippe de Broca
ACCIDENT (1967) Dir; Joseph Losey
THE SERVANT (1963) Dir; Joseph Losey
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi
KIN-DZA-DZA! (1968) Dir;
FREAK ORLANDO (1981) Dir; Ulrike Ottinger
IN THE DUST OF THE STARS (1976) Dir; Gottfired Kolditz
EOLOMEA (1972) Dir; Herrmann Zschoche
Mid-Manhattan Library
PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (1986) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
MoMA
The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy
THE LOST PATROL (1934) Dir; John Ford
CHANCES (1931) Dir; Allan Dwan
SEAS BENEATH (1931) Dir; John Ford
Museum of the Moving Image
See It Big!: Hollywood Melodrama
SOME CAME RUNNING (1958) Dir; Vincente Minnelli
Anthology Film Archives
Screenwriters and the Blacklist: Before, During and After
PRIDE OF THE MARINES (1946) Dir; Delmer Daves
THREE FACES WEST (1940) Dir; Bernard Vorhaus
FORCE OF EVIL (1948) Dir; Abraham Polonsky
THE LAWLESS BREED (1953) Dir; Raoul Walsh
IFC Center
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
Nitehawk Cinema
Bite This!
THE HUNGER (1983) Dir; Tony Scott
Today's Pick? Without further eloquence I simply plant my interstellar flag in the foreign terrain familiarly summarized as fringe, think-piece Sci-Fi, if only because anything that doesn't fall neatly under Hollywood's umbrella terminology must be regarded as either boring or way too hip/smart for the room. The fact that today's fare, all summarily had at a discounted price, arrive cannister-contained from regions alien yet familiar, only heightens the anticipation. So today, let's smarten ourselves up! Or at least pay for the apearance of such.
The specially-ticketed quartet of KIN-DZA-DZA!, FREAK ORLANDO, IN THE DUST OF THE STARS & EOLOMEA unspool as part of the Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. I've just taken my first step into a larger auditorium.
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-Joe Walsh
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