January 29th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Finishing up my year-end reviews, my Top Ten list of '14. Prepping the site's Feb '15 calendar, the new month's podcast. Scribbling my rookie commentary track. Prepping this site's inaugural screening. And somehow, in the middle of all this, I'm finding time for that most important action, the one that provides perspective; the eating of Funions. Masticating the plastic gold over here so they don't...uh...something something...over there oh let's just get to it shall we?
New and continuing series today include Orson Welles 100 at Film Forum, the Joan Bennett feather-fanning at MoMA, and French Classics of the 1930's-40's at Anthology Film Archives. The Jumping Jehosephats be thus;
Film Forum
MR. ARKADIN (1955) Dir; Orson Welles
TOUCH OF EVIL - Theatrical Release Version (1958) Dir; Orson Welles
MoMA
THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947) Dir; Jean Renoir
I AM SUZANNE! (1933) Dir; Rowland V. Lee
Anthology Film Archives
French Classics of the 1930's-40's
LES VISITEURS DU SOIR (1942) Dir; Marcel Carné
HOTEL DU NORD (1939) Dir; Marcel Carné
Today's Pick? It's well nigh time I got around to hoisting Rowland V. Lee's eccentric, audacious tale of puppeteers and the love that drives them to fever dreams, 1933's I AM SUZANNE!, unspooling as encore to its inclusion in last autumn's To Save and Project series at the very same institution, the Museum of Modern Art. Never seen, but much coveted. Hopefully I get to break that commandment tonight.
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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!
