November 23rd 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing series today include Film Forum, Jr. at Film Forum, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society, and Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy and the Jean Grémillon retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image. Sunday, Bloody Mary Sunday, here we come;
Film Forum
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS () Dir; Stanley Donen
LE JOUR SE LEVE (1939) Dir; Marcel Carné
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two
QUERELLE (1984) Dir; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
BAM Cinématek
THE SACRIFICE (1986) Dir; Andrei Tarkovsky
Museum of the Moving Image
Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy
SHIVERS (1981) Dir; Wojciech Marczewski
LADY KILLER (1937) Dir; Jean Grémillon
THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937) Dir; Leo McCarey
Intro'd by film critic/historian/author Farran Smith Nehme, who will also be signing copies of her new, and first, novel; Missing Reels.
Mid-Manhattan Library
DEAD RINGER (1964) Dir; Paul Henried
Today's Pick? I've been the privileged beneficiery of the work of one Farran Smith Nehme for quite some time now, she also known by the monicker that strikes fear into the hearts of the classic film underworld - the Self-Styled Siren! None who have approached her with purported but falsified cinematic lore have looked upon her ethereal, monochromatic visage, AND LIVED!
Nah, she's totally cool. I'm just a sucker for hyperbole. Did I mention I'm the single greatest living writer on the planet?
For years now, I believe close to a decade, Smith Nehme has graced us with her classic film blog, Self-Styled Siren, and offered wisdom, insight and counsel friendly on all occasions, seeking to expand the cinephiliac base, not retract it. Today she not only hosts a screening of one of the boilerplate screwball comedies ever filmed, she also appears to hawk her first work of fiction, a tale of film-obsessed young lovers in Manhattan's Alphabet City circa the early-80's, a setting which now sadly has more in common with children's soup than narcotic gradation. There goes my Nick Tosches emulation again.
The film is Leo McCarey's THE AWFUL TRUTH, and the novel is titled Missing Reels. Today you may indulge in both, and acquire fer yerself a signed copy of the latter. What Leo McCarey would give for the opportunity...
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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!
