September 13th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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New and continuing series today include 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year at IFC Center, Nonesuch Records on Film at BAM Cinématek, The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy at MoMA, Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien at Museum of the Moving Image, The 10th Dimension: Edward D. Wood, Jr. at Anthology Film Archives, and 50 Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take? at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The tomfoolery be thus;
IFC Center
1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year
GUNGA DIN (1939) Dir; George Stevens
TAXI DRIVER (1976) Dir; Martin Scorsese
Film Forum
ROME OPEN CITY (1946) Dir; Roberto Rossellini
THE CONFORMIST (1971) Dir; Bernardo Bertolucci
BAM Cinématek
SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (1960) Dir; Françios Truffaut
MoMA
The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy
THE DAWN PATROL (1930) Dir; Howard Hawks
THE DAWN PATROL (1938) Dir; Edmond Goulding
WINGS (1927) Dir; William A. Wellman
Museum of the Moving Image
Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien
CUTE GIRL (1980) Dir; Hou Hsiao-hsien
Anthology Film Archives
The 10th Dimension: Edward D. Wood, Jr.
THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST (1958) Dir; Edward D. Wood, Jr.
THE SINISTER URGE (1960) Dir; Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
50 Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take?
PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) Dir; John Waters
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
LABYRINTH (1986) Dir; Jim Henson
Today's Pick? Don'chya know me by now. Anything Howard Hawks bests the competiton. Unless John Ford's on the menu. Which, today, he ain't.
Actually I'm choosing the entirety of MoMA's sked today, free to museum members but requesting of sums paltry for those non-affiliated. The full rundown boasts Howard Hawks' first sound feature, 1930's THE DAWN PATROL, Edmund Goulding's inferior yet still entertaining 1938 remake starring Errol Flynn and David Niven, and William A.Wellman's silent flying ace epic, the first to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, 1927's WINGS. Ace piano accompianist Ben Model will be on hand to further enhance the former screening. There it is.
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-Joe Walsh
