December 26th-28th! Holiday Weekend Picks!
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Here's hoping you had a perfect Yuletide celebration yesterday, them Stockahz whats acknowledge and raise the huzzah over the 25th of December. The weather was mild, the trains ran on time, and I got a handcrafted Xmas tree ornament from my Godson. So points to this guy here.
As the season doesn't slow a knot until Bebeh '15 soils his first diaper, and as I have a calendar and podcast to prep, I'm taking advantage of this holiday weekend to once more bulk-brag of the rep circuit's doings. Are ya ready, Knucklehedz?
Friday December 26th
IFC Center
EASY LIVING (1937) Dir; Mitchell Leisen
THE FLY (1986) Dir; David Cronenberg
THE SHINING (1980) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
DIE HARD (1988) Dir; John McTiernan
Film Forum
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) Dir; Ernst Lubitsch
MoMA
THIEVES LIKE US (1974) Dir; Robert Altman
POPEYE (1980) Dir; Robert Altman
STREAMERS (1983) Dir; Robert Altman
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Dir; John Huston
BEAT THE DEVIL (1953) Dir; John Huston
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (1951) Dir; John Huston
THE DEAD (1987) Dir; John Huston
Nitehawk Cinema
THE SHINING (1980) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Today's Pick? Simple. What better way to wallow in Yultide Cheer's wake than to embrace its Shane Blackian peripheral involvement as background to an action flick, in one of the defining examples of the genre's modern era?
John McTiernan's DIE HARD Yippee-Kay-Yays tonight at the IFC Center. Now you have an excuse to watch shit blow up too. Ho Ho Ho.
Saturday December 27th
IFC Center
EASY LIVING (1937) Dir; Mitchell Leisen
THE FLY (1986) Dir; David Cronenberg
THE SHINING (1980) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
DIE HARD (1988) Dir; John McTiernan
Nitehawk Cinema
ANNIE (1982) Dir; John Huston
THE SHINING (1980) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Film Forum
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) Dir; Ernst Lubitsch
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964) Dir; John Huston
WISE BLOOD (1979) Dir; John Huston
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) Dir; John Huston
MoMA
HEALTH (1980) Dir; Robert Altman
SECRET HONOR (1983) Dir; Robert Altman
Today's Pick? Ernst Lubitch's THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER at Film Forum, a film that remains template for most every RomCom that followed, regrettably the subject of a Hanks/Ryan/Ephron update, though no upgrade, some 55 years later. Catch the original, discover a true sweetheart.
Sunday December 28th
Film Forum
MARY POPPINS (1964) Dir; Robert Stevenson
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) Dir; Ernst Lubitsch
IFC Center
EASY LIVING (1937) Dir; Mitchell Leisen
Nitehawk Cinema
ANNIE (1982) Dir; John Huston
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER (1966) Dir; John Huston
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) Dir; John Huston
THE UNFORGIVEN (1960) Dir; John Huston
THE KREMLIN LETTER (1970) Dir; John Huston
Mid-Manhattan Library
YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942) Dir; William A. Sieter
MoMA
COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN (1982) Dir; Robert Altman
O. C. & STIGGS (1987) Dir; Robert Altman
Today's Pick? Not a Disneyphile, not a lover of the Movie Musical genre, never warmed up to Dick Van Dyke. These reasons, coupled with its newly restored status, render no choice but MARY POPPINS at Film Forum the logical, nay the sane choice this day. Feed them birds, Bebeh. Mind outta the gutter, ya pests.
Back on Tuesday the 30th with the penultimate Pick of the Year. Til then Stockahz, safe, sound, make sure the next knucklehead is too. Excelsior!
- Joe Walsh
