January 31st. Pick of the Day.
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A word of wisdom, to those who'll listen; the so-called Super Bowl is but days away. After that, it's BAAAASEBAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!!
Harrumph.
Ongoing rep film shenanigans today include Orson Welles 100 at Film Forum, the Gordon Willis smoochery at Museum of the Moving Image, the inventively entitled French Classics of the 1930's-40's at Anthology Film Archives, and the honest boast Heating Up January at Journal Square's Landmark Jersey Loews. Here be the shenanigans;
Film Forum
THE TRIAL (1962) Dir; Orson Welles
MoMA
I AM SUZANNE (1933) Dir; Rowland V. Lee
Museum of the Moving Image
END OF THE ROAD (1970) Dir; Aram Avakian
THE GODFATHER (1972) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
Anthology Film Archives
French Classics of the 1930's-40's
UNE SI JOLIE LE PETITE PLAGE (1948) Dir; Yves Allégret
MARIUS (1931) Dir; Alexander Korda
FANNY (1932) Dir; Marc Allégret
Landmark Jersey Loews
WHITE HEAT (1949) Dir; Raoul Walsh
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) Dir; Sidney Lumet
Today's Pick? Easy. Were it the case at Casa De Mekas, otherwise known as Anthology Film Archives, that you'd be availed of a discounted tik for a two-fer or three-fer, I'd be all over their old school French cinematic excavation. In the know regarding the economic sit, I get why we're made to purchase separate admissions. Which begs the tempt of Moving Image's double-bill, as $13 bucks gains you admittance to both screenings and the museum entrie as well. A hard bargain to turn down. However; a venue more miraculous, more meritable, if only due to status singularly incredulous, bests MoMI this day. It will also cost you the time and monetary expenditure you'd gladly, and rightly, grant to Astoria's crown cinematic jewel, but with the added caveat of filling a seat in an honest-to-god movie palace. One built in 1929. The downside? $1 popcorn boxes? Photo Ops galore? Two masterpieces of the genre unspooling in thier native form? The downside is it's tonight only.
Raoul Walsh's WHITE HEAT and Sidney Lumet's DOG DAY AFTERNOON unspool as part of the Landmark Jersey Loews' Heating Up January weekend series! Any series that invokes he word heatover the course of these drab, bitter months, has my vote every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I still maintain Montana is a country.
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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!
