November 2nd 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Sunday. November 2nd. All Saint's Day's wake. The day now universally regarded as the first day of the wait for the first day of Xmas. Prospectors from the North are soon to increase in number, fir trees their equivalent of the pick axe. Santa caricatures' residence at our local Duane Reades imminent. Pandora's infusion of Yuletide music to the woefully weak resistence of our internal soundtracks inevitable. Still, ain't it grand we got another Xmas to look forward to?
Oh hell, let's just get to it.
Continuing series this day include 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year at IFC Center, Film Forum Jr. at Film Forum, To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, and Scary Movies 8 at the Film Society. Once more into the seats;
IFC Center
1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) Dir; Victor Fleming
Film Forum
ANNIE (1982) Dir; John Huston
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) Dir; Orson Welles
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) Dir; Robert Weine
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) Dir; Alain Resnais
MoMA
To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
CARAVAGGIO (1986) Dir; Derek Jarman
TO THE LAST MAN (1933) Dir; Henry Hathaway
ANOTHER MAN'S POISON (1951) Dir; Irving Rapper
Film Society of Lincoln Center
THE PACK (1977) Dir; Robert Clouse
A REFLECTION OF FEAR (1973) Dir; William A. Fraker
Mid-Manhattan Library
WATCH ON THE RHINE (1943) Dir; Herman Shumlin
Anthology Film Archives
CRIME WAVE (1984) Dir; John Paizs
Today's Pick? Oh hell, I could never resist Tanya's chili. Although the candy bars, especially so soon after Halloween, are what's really gonna get me. Or the hooch. Or a bullet from my partner on the force. Jeezus, I never til now fully grasped what Orson Welles was truly up against in this film!
Welles' TOUCH OF EVIL unspools its digital 1's and 0's in a brand new 4K DCP spitshine this day at Film Forum. Chili, candy bars, hooch and a bullet are, by the way, all offered at the Forum's concession stand. Or as it's more commonly referred to, their cappucino. I kid because I love.
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P. S. We're swiftly returning to the winter climate, and believe it or not some of our fellow NY'ers have still yet to be made whole in the wake of the 2012 storm. Should you be feeling charitable please visit the folks at OccupySandy.net, follow their hammer-in-hand efforts to restore people's lives, and donate/volunteer if you have the inclination and availability. Be a collective mensch, Stockahz!
