November 9th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing and concluding series today include Film Forum Jr. at Film Forum, 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year at IFC Center, To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society, Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman at BAM Cinématek, and the Rouben Mamoulian Weekend at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image. In the words of Marty DeBergi, let's boogie;
Film Forum
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (1985) Dir; Tim Burton
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939) Dir; Howard Hawks
WHY BE GOOD? (1929) Dir; William A. Seiter
IFC Center
1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) Dir; Victor Fleming
Nitehawk Cinema
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964) Dir; Sergio Leone
MoMA
To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
THE BUBBLE (1966) Dir; Arch Oboler
BARE KNEES (1928) Dir; Erle C. Kenton
RAMONA (1928) Dir; Edwin Carewe
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two
BAAL (1970) Dir; Volker Schlöndorff
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (1974) Dir; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DESPAIR (1978) Dir; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
BAM Cinématek
Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman
SEBASTIANE (1985) Dir; Derek Jarman
Mid-Manhattan Library
OLD ACQUAINTANCE (1943) Dir; Vincent Sherman
Museum of the Moving Image
QUEEN CHRISTINA (1935) Dir; Rouben Mamoulian
Anthology Film Archives
THERE WAS A FATHER (1942) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) Dir; Jean Renoir
THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS (1949) Dir; Roberto Rossellini
Today's Pick? I can think of no better punishment for one's decadence than nursing a hangover to the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He'd be pleased to know such self-inflicted malady thrives still in this world. So I'm going wth the trifecta at Lincoln Center's Film Society, part of the series Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two; the Volker Schlöndorff-helmed BAAL, and the subsequent unspoolings of Fassbinder's own FOX AND HIS FRIENDS and DESPAIR. All three can be had for a modestly priced multi-film pass, so aside from a deep haunting sense of specifically American puritanical shame, I can't imagine why you'd pass this Sunday Funday enterprise up. Not a smoker, maybe?
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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!
