November 4th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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It's about a year since Mark Cousins' excellent 15-hour doc THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY aired over the course of several weeks on Turner Classic Movies, 18 months since I viewed it for the first. All in all, I've watched it four times straight through. Over the weekend, I embarked on journey #5. It's essential viewing for any film fan, and it's still available via Netflix streaming. If you've procrastinated thus far, regardless of the why, put it off no further. You're welcome.
And now, back to the really big screens.
New and continuing series today include The Art of Sex and Seduction at the French Institute/Alliance Française, To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, and Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman at BAM Cinématek. The shenanigans as follows;
Film Forum
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) Dir; Orson Welles
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) Dir; Robert Weine
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) Dir; Alain Resnais
French Institute/Alliance Française
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972) Dir; Bernardo Bertolucci
MoMA
To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
MISS OKICHI (1935) Dir; Tatsunosuke Takashima
POPPY (1935) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
BAM Cinématek
Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman
THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION (1985) Dir; Derek Jarman
Today's Pick? It's to my ongoing delight that I may avail myself of NYC's glorious, thriving repertory cinema circuit in the service of crossing off major titles still languishing on my bucket list. I confess to both slight shame and whimsy whence having on occasion to admit such lacuna, titles like Fellini's I VITELLONI, Eisenstein's IVAN THE TERRIBLE Pts. 1 & 2, Huston's...oh hell, if I start feeding this beast it'll consume the entirety of the article. Suffice to say I am surely, if slowly, erasing these entries, and tonight a big one unravels. albatross-like, from its clutch around my neck. Scandalous in its day, notorious still, I've read countless pieces about the movie, long imagined exactly what manner of creature it be. I find out tonight.
Bernardo Bertolucci's LAST TANGO IN PARIS unspools tonight at the French Institute/Alliance Française as kickoff to their new series The Art of Sex and Seduction. If you can't bring your own beurre, beurre will be provided. C'est généreux!
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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!
