October 7th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Entering day seven of the Mankrospective; eight films in the books, five, perhaps more, to go. It's been a wonderful experience thus far, made all the more so by the swift, exacting and generous efforts by the folks at Lincoln Center's Film Society. I was nervous about beginning the journey, now wallowing in the experience. Soon to dread its conclusion. However, before maudlin's creep let's focus on this day's lively sked.
Ongoing series today include NYFF52 - Revivals and Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Essential Iconoclast at the Film Society, Alain Resnais: Time, Memory and Imagination at the French Institute/Alliance Française, and Monsters on Main Street at the Tarrytown Music Hall. The doings? Thus;
Film Society of Lincoln Center
JAMIACA INN (1939) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Essential Iconoclast
A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949) Dir; Joseph L. Mankiewicz
FIVE FINGERS (1952) Dir; Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Film Forum
VENGANCE IS MINE (1982) Dir; Michael Roemer
French Institute/Alliance Française
Alain Resnais: Time, Memory and Imagination
MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE (1982) Dir; Alain Resnais
Tarrytown Music Hall
Monsters on Main Street
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) Dir; Don Seigel
Today's Pick? Although I'll be attending, and most gratefully so, this evening's screening of A LETTER TO THREE WIVES, as part of the Film Society's Joe Mankiewicz shoeshine, one long-awaited and well-deserved might I add, I have to best my bias in service to what I mean to be the site's greatest merits, not only listings comprehensive but focus fairly employed. So in that spirit I choose a venue that has seen its share of fits and starts whence kickstarting a continuous rep film program. But this time they are aided by one David Schwartz in their efforts, he of chief curator status at Astoria's glorious Museum of the Moving Image. Those of you ready to downsize this series' status as just another Halloween-themed October program, lemme advise you otherwise; try walking down a deserted Main Street still seemingly stuck in the 1950's once you've witnessed or re-witnessed a classic work of celluloid writ boogah boogah. Where's yer protective sense of irony now, Kiddo?
Don Siegel's original and still unsurpassed INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS unspools tonight at the Tarrytown Music Hall, as part of their month-long series Monsters on Main Street. You're next.
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-Joe Walsh
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