November 20th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Okay, I'm beginning to get a bit miffed by how free the 20th of the month feels in just showing up like it does. No courtesy call, no advance warning, just invites itself into my life and decides to stay. For an entire day, no less. What's worse, it's progeny, all the other twenties, and sometimes even a couple of thirties, are soon to follow. And I'm expected to pay them with my time! This works how exactly? I demand an explanation!
New and coninuing series this day include Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43 and To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Chelsea Classics at the BowTie Chelsea Cinemas. To the warmest cinema!
Film Forum
LE JOUR SE LEVE (1939) Dir; Marcel Carné
MoMA
Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43
WINTER CARNIVAL (1939) Dir; Charles F. Reisner
To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
THE FATE OF A MAN (1959) Dir; Sergey Bondarchuk
3-D FUNHOUSE (1948-53) Dirs; Various
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two
THE DAMNED (1968) Dir; LuchinoVisconti
BAM Cinématek
THE SACRIFICE (1986) Dir; Andrei Tarkovsky
BowTie Chelsea Cinemas
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1955) Dir; Jean Negulesco
Today's Pick? I've still time to make my Pick of both Carné's proto-Noir at Film Fourm and Tarkovsky's proto-Aronofsky at BAM, but I've already recently chosen both of MoMA's excellent series as well as Lincoln Center's Fassbinder smoochery. What does that leave us? BACALL, bebeh! And them's no scant shakes, either!
Jean Negulesco's frothy widescreen Technicolor romp HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE graces the screens at Chelsea's BowTie Cinemas as part of their effervescent Thursday Classics series. In addition to the sultry Mrs. Bogart we get additional blondage from WW2 über-pinup Betty Grable and contempo-Lorelei Marilyn Monroe. Slim's the real draw tonight, however, as reports of her demise have proven most premature indeed.
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P. S. We're fully entwined in winter's embrace, 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!
