November 16th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Yeah. I know. The Knicks are 2-8. Wanna torch my DVD collection too, joykiller?
Ahem.
Ongoing series today include Film Forum Jr. at, well, Film Forum, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society, and Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy at Museum of the Moving Image. To the hijnks!
Film Forum
BUGS, DAFFY and FRIENDS (Various years & directors)
LE JOUR SE LEVE (1939) Dir; Marcel Carné
VERTIGO (1958) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
SYNTHETIC SIN (1929) Dir; William A. Seiter
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two
KAMIKAZE '89 (1982) Dir; Wolf Gremm
THE STATIONMASTER'S WIFE (1977) Dir; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
FEAR OF FEAR (1975) Dir; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
SHADOW OF ANGELS (1976) Dir; Daniel Schmid
BAM Cinématek
THE SACRIFICE (1986) Dir; Andrei Tarkovsky
Mid-Manhattan Library
DECEPTION (1946) Dir; Irving Rapper
Museum of the Moving Image
Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy
MAN OF IRON (1981) Dir; Andrzej Wajda
THE MOTHER OF KINGS (1982) Dir; Janusz Zaorski
Today's Pick? I know next to nothing about the cinema of Poland, even less about the period when the return of free and open elections were fought for and ultimately won, and absolutely zilch about the films on display today, save the synopses I've read. Which is exactly why I'm choosing them. I need to bone up on my foreign cinema, and what better place than that foreign land of Queens County to indulge my appetite? Bronx boy here.
Andrzej Wajda's MAN OF IRON and Janusz Zaorski's THE MOTHER OF KINGS unspool today as part of Museum of the Moving Image's excellent series Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy. Michal Oleszczyk, film critic and artistic director of the Film Fest in Gdynia, Poland's largest such event, will be on hand to introduce the latter film, to provide context both artistic and historic. $12 grants you admission not only to these fine two features and the film scholar that comes with them, but to the entire, awe-inspiring museum as well. As someone part Polski meself, I find this a most propitious proposition indeed.
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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!
