October 23rd 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Kansas City evens it up, heads to San Fran with World Series immortality within reach. I know how they feel, I remember when I slapped that Spaldeen over the chainlink and forced a game three at the lot behind Murray's Wash N' Wax. Springsteen wrote a song about it.
Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43 at MoMA, Film Comment Double Feature at the Film Society, Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema at Anthology Film Archives, and Chelsea Classics at the BowTie Chelsea Cinema. The wimwammery be thus;
Film Forum
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Dir; Frank Capra
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) Dir; Alain Resnais
MoMA
Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43
ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938) Dir; Michael Curtiz
Film Society of Lincoln Center
THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER/THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN (1975/76) Dir; Blake Edwards
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) Dir; Alain Resnais
Anthology Film Archives
Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema
JUAN MOREIRA (1973) Dir; Leonardo Favio
BowTie Chelsea Cinemas
FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) Dir; Sean Cunningham
Today's Pick? Before it concludes without my endorsement I'd like to shine the Kliegs on a special celebration of cinema from abroad, unspooling in our midst. Foreign film in general continues to represent a massive lacuna in my film education, and I don't take nearly enough advantage of these series when they come around, offering 35mm opportunities to scratchlist them. So tonight I'm choosing a film that depicts the tale of a famous South American bandit folk hero, one that apparently employs elements of both the Hollywood western and the version Spaghetti that it informed. All these factors collude to raise this film above today's pack, one that offers two choice examples of Blake Edwards' PINK PANTHER series, competing screenings of Resnais' seminal HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, and the Bob Clark/Herschell Gordon Lewis inspired FRIDAY THE 13TH (the original, and still the meh). You be the judge of this yardstick.
Leonardo Favio's JUAN MOREIRA screens tonight at Anthology Film Archives as part of the series Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema. Nos vemos allî, muchachos.
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-Joe Walsh
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