December 14th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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It's Sunday morning. Header be damned, let's get to it.
Continuing series today include Film Forum Jr. and Chandler, Hammett, Woolrich and Cain at Film Forum, Screwball Romance and Rated Xmas: Holiday Classics, Naughty and Nice at IFC Center, The Last Laugh: An Alternate History of Spanish Comedy at IFC Center, the comprehensive career retrospective of Robert Altman at MoMA, Screenwriters and the Blacklist: Before, During and After at Anthology Film Archives, and the Jean Grémillon cuillère at Museum of the Moving Image. On Stockahz!
Film Forum
BRINGING UP BABY (1938) Dir; Howard Hawks
Chandler, Hammett, Woolrich and Cain
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Dir; Billy Wilder
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1938) Dir; Tay Garnett
THE PASSIONATE THIEF (1960) Dir; Mario Monicelli
IFC Center
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1944) Dir; Preston Sturges
Rated Xmas: Holiday Classics, Naughty and Nice
SCROOGED (1988) Dir; Richard Donner
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Dir; Frank Capra
Film Society of Lincoln Center
The Last Laugh: An Alternate History of Spanish Comedy
CAUTION TO THE WIND (1980) Dir; Carles Mira
NOT ON YOUR LIFE (1963) Dir; Luis García Berlanga
MoMA
BODYGUARD (1948) Dir; Richard Fleischer
THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) Dir; Robert Altman
CALIFORNIA SPLIT (1974) Dir; Robert Altman
Mid-Manhattan Library
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1938) Dir; Howard Hawks
Anthology Film Archives
Screenwriters and the Blacklist: Before, During and After
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY (1951) Dir; Zoltan Korda
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE (1954) Dir; Luis Buñuel
TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958) Dir; Joseph H. Lewis
BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF CITY (1927) Dirs; Karl Freund, Carl Mayer, Walter Ruttmann
Museum of the Moving Image
WHITE PAWS (1949) Dir; Jean Grémillon
L'AMOUR D'UNE FEMME (1954) Dir; Jean Grémillon
Tarrytown Music Hall
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1948) Dir; George Seaton
Today's Pick? Easy. It's a chilly December Sunday, anticipating the spiritual uplift and warming of the heart's more unvisited chambers that this time of year never fails to thankfully provide. What better expenditure of a Cinegeek's time than attending a classic Christmas yarn's unspooling in a most enchanting town, within a most enchanted venue?
George Seaton's MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET unspools at the Tarrytown Music Hall tonight as part of their wonderful Xmas classic series. Why? The three M's: Maureen, the Macy's parade, and Maybe I'm not as good a lawyer as I thought.
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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!
