August 24th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Ongoing series today include Classics in HD at Symphony Space, The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy at MoMA, See It Big! Hollywood Melodrama at Museum of the Moving Image, and Screenwriters and the Blacklist: Before, During and After at Anthology Film Archives. In other words, Summah Fun!!! Here be the listing of the listings;
Film Forum
THAT MAN FROM RIO (1964) Dir; Philippe de Broca
ACCIDENT (1967) Dir; Joseph Losey
THE SERVANT (1963) Dir; Joseph Losey
Symphony Space
SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) Dir; Akira Kurosawa
Mid-Manhattan Library
20,000 YEARS IN SING-SING (1932) Dir; Michael Curtiz
MoMA
The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy
THE TRAMP AT WAR (1918/40/56) Dir; Charlie Chaplin
THE SILLY SIDE OF WAR (1915/19/26) Dir; Various Artists
Museum of the Moving Image
See It Big! Hollywood Melodrama
THE LETTER (1940) Dir; William Wyler
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948) Dir; Max Ophuls
Anthology Film Archives
Screenwriters and the Blacklist: Before, During and After
THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR (1948) Dir; Joseph Losey
NORTHERN PURSUIT (1943) Dir; Raoul Walsh
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) Dir; George Stevens
Today's Pick? I've just recently chosen the HUAC tomfoolery at AFA, and thrown too much shade at MoMA's 8-week WWI trib. And the day is lousy with names like Losey, Kurosawa and Curtiz. However I'm going with the combo-pack at Astoria's Moving Image, if only because it comes complete with a pass to the museum attached to the screening space. But mainly because my fave Ophuls flick is unspooling, and any opportunity to watch the luminous Joan Fontaine in her signature perf is not to be casually tossed aside. Just ask Louis Jordan.
Max Ophuls' LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN screens at Museum of the Moving Image, along with William Wyler's THE LETTER, as part of the See It Big! Hollywood Melodrama series. Majestic malady knew no better broadcast. Sez me.
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-Joe Walsh
