December 31st. Final Pick of 2014!
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Didn't we just do this 12 months ago?
Continuing series this day include MoMA's tribs to legendary actress Joan Bennett and cult filmmaking icon Robert Altman, and the Film Society's comprehaensive career overview of one of Hollywood's maverick auteurs, one John Huston. The filmic foofaraw be thus;
Film Forum
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) Dir; Ernst Lubitsch
MoMA
CARELESS LADY (1932) Dir; Kenneth MacKenna
ARIA (1987) Dir; Robert Altman, Various
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
THE MACKINTOSH MAN (1973) Dir; John Huston
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (1951) Dir; John Huston
VICTORY (1981) Dir; John Huston
IN THIS OUR LIFE (1942) Dir; John Huston
Today's Pick? What best manner does the rep film circuit this day afford the resolute Cinegeek, one wishing to bid farewell our collective 2014? It's been a good year to be sure, filled with the discovery of new friends, the conquering of new challenges, and the wonder of existence itself ever expanded. Yet it's been a hard one by all accounts as well, tragedies opportunized, bitterness' flames fanned, hope for connection and communication sometimes seemingly, increasingly, impossibly beyond reach. What better way, I ask, to shoo off the departing year and welcome the forthcoming, than bearing witness to disgruntled enmity's alchemical transformation to true love. And with free booze no less!
Ernst Lubitsch's THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER unspools all day today at the Film Forum. Attendees of the 7pm and 9:15pm screenings will find themselves the lucky beneficiaries of a free champagne toast. As no equal opportunity exists for the classic film fan to avail him and/or herself of such pure and exquisite bubbly both bottled and projected, The Touch gets to play Old Man '14. As is usually the scenario he will no doubt jazz up the proceedings and send the ho-hum packin'. To old aquaintance, Stockahz.
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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!
