January 18th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Forgive the brevity, January ice showers are so wearisome.
Continuing series this day include Screwball Romance at IFC Center, Film Forum Jr. and the Orson Welles trib at Film Forum, and the New York Jewish Film Festival 2015 at the Film Scoiety of Lincoln Center. The moving image mishegoss be thus;
IFC Center
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) Dir; Howard Hawks
Film Forum
MODERN TIMES (1935) Dir; Charlie Chaplin
JANE EYRE (1943) Dir; Robert Stevenson
TOMORROW IS FOREVER (1946) Dir; Irving Pichel
Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York Jewish Film Festival 2015
THREE WOMEN (1924) Dir; Ernst Lubitsch*
SOPHIE'S CHOICE (1982) Dir; Alan J. Pakula
DR. STRANGELOVE, or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
*Introduction by film critic Scott Foundas.
MoMA
THE BUBBLE (1964) Dir; Arch Oboler
Today's Pick? Let's just get this over with, as if the end of the world was imminent and reason rendered irrelevant. Which is kinda the circumstance today's masterpiece was produced under.
Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE, or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB unspools tonight in its digital 1's & 0's incarnation as part of the New York Jewish Film Festival 2015, hosted, as always, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Listen, if this wasn't a friendly post, you probably wouldn't even be getting it.
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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!
