September 2nd 2014. Pick of the Day.
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I trust Labor day '14 has left you all sufficiently sated, spent, and snoozed, ready to embrace a new workweek, another falling of the leaves, a changeover from one American sporting pastime to three others, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, death and oblivion. See, ya didn't realize the signifigance of yesterday's BBQ, didj'ya? No matter! We have a brand new fall program of classic repertory film screenings to harmonize our whistling past the graveyard, upcoming splendiferocity including tribs to awfteurs John Waters and Edward D. Wood Jr., a retrospective of the films of Taiwan New Wave titan Hou Hsiao-hsien, and a most anticipated embiggening of one of Sergio Leone's greatest epic films! Lots to get excited about, but for the moment let's focus on today's doings. Ongoing series this September 2nd include The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy at MoMA, Classics in HD at Symphony Space, and Screenwriters and the Blacklist: Before, During and After at Anthology Film Archives. The lowdown be thus;
Film Forum
THAT MAN FROM RIO! (1964) Dir; Philippe de Broca
THE CONFORMIST (1971) Dir; Bernardo Bertolucci
MoMA
The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy
DR. HART'S DIARY (1917) Dir; Paul Leni
VERDUN, VISION OF HISTORY (1928) Dir; Leon Poirier
HAT CHECK GIRL (1932) Dir; Sidney Lanfield
Symphony Space
BLACK ORPHEUS (1959) Dir; Marcel Camus
Anthology Film Archives
Screenwriters and the Blacklist: Before, During and After
TOM, DICK AND HARRY (1941) Dir; Garson Kanin
TAXI! (1932) Dir; Roy Del Ruth
Today's Pick? I'm going with the final day of AFA's Blacklist series, concluding the first of a three part program examining the consequences HUAC's sins had on some of Tinseltown's most talented scribes, tonight focusing on Paul Jarrico's work on Garson Kanin's TOM, DICK AND HARRY, and John Bright's contribution to Roy Del Ruth's TAXI! Causes like this one, re-establishing the reputations of unfairly pilloried artists, and reminding that bullies of all stripes lurk ever at the opportunistic ready, never get old. Neither do the films.
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-Joe Walsh
