October 18th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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NYC: celebrating our 4th summer of 2014. You wish your city was our city.
Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, By Marguerite Duras at the Film Society, Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema at Anthology Film Archives, and The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema at the Japan Society. The repertory rigmarole as follows;
Film Forum
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) Dir; Frank Capra
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) Dir; Frank Capra
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) Dir; Alain Resnais
Nitehawk Cinema
EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960) Dir; Georges Franju
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) Dir; Tobe Hooper
Film Society of Lincoln Center
NATHALIE GRANGER (1972) Dir; Marguerite Duras
MADEMOISELLE (1966) Dir; Tony Richardson
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) Dir; Alain Resnais
Anthology Film Archives
Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema
JUAN MOREIRA (1973) Dir; Leonardo Favio
Japan Society
The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema
INFLATABLE SEX DOLL OF THE WASTELANDS (1967) Dir; Atsushi Yamatoya
IFC Center
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) Dir; Amy Heckerling
EL TOPO (1970) Dir; Alejandro Jodorowsky
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
PSYCHO (1960) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
Today's Pick? I'm slowly filling in my foreign film lacuna, and South America denotes one of my larger craters. So today let's go for the series curated by world cinema beacon Matías Piñeiro, who gladly accepted the invitation to organize an appreciation of his homeland's cinematic output, those films most interesting or important in his view. Today screens a classic from his native land, a biopic of a most famous Argentine outlaw, his country's equivalent of Jesse James. Drawing comparisons to Ford, Peckinpah and Spaghetti, this title entices greatly. I know nothing more. That only increases this screening's worth in my book.
Leonardo Favio's JUAN MOREIRA unspools in glorious 35mm at Anthology Film Archives, as part of Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema. Bandidos unidos.
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-Joe Walsh
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