September 19th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Go on. G'WAN, sez me, go and win your World Series, whatever team I may be prematurely addressing! GO! And boast and brag, burn down your post offices, flood the streets with the red fluid known as Gatorade Fierce, GO I say! Know your momentary triumph. Bask in the glow your enemy's blood reflects in the moonlight. Enjoy. And know this, no matter how you raze and ravage and plunder and do your best to topple the very foundations of the world you claim victory within;
Derek Jeter will never be yours. He may leave this plane, but he will forever look down upon you from an elevated realm.
Okay, I've vented. New and continuing series today are limited to but one choice; 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year at IFC Center. You may log your requisite complaints with the following venues;
IFC Center
1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year
WHEN TOMORROW COMES (1939) Dir; John M. Stahl
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1971) Dir; Alejandro Jodorowsky
TAXI DRIVER (1976) Dir; Martin Scorsese
Film Forum
ROME, OPEN CITY (1945) Dir: Roberto Rossellini
THE CONFORMIST (1970) Dir; Bernardo Bertolucci
New York Philharmonic
MODERN TIMES (1935) Dir; Charlie Chaplin
Today's Pick? DUH! Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece of industrial-age farce, marrying Dickensian melodrama with Fritz Lang's visual grandeur and Rene Clair's humanist, humorist back-slap. Tonight the red flag-waver, if more committedly offscreen than on, unfolds amidst the pleasing din of NYC's very own Philharmonic, for the first of a two-night stand. The Little Tramp celebrates his centennial this year, so it seems only fitting that his 2014 tribs began in venues humble as Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives and the Library at Lincoln Center, and concludes now being feted by the city's most storied orchestra. Or maybe not. Maybe it'd be more appropriate the other way around, or without any spectacle involved whatsoever. Whatehvz, the most proper and empathetic employment of the square black moustache screens large this eve, and the auteur's own composition, Smile, will most likely never sound better.
Charles Chaplin's MODERN TIMES unspools its digitized 1's and 0's tonight at Avery Fisher Hall to the what will surely be the stirring accompaniment of the New York Philharmonic. Happy 100 LT.
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-Joe Walsh
