February 4th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing series this day include the Charles Laughton Love-A-Thon at Film Forum, the Ginger Rogers footbathery & general inflatable castle romp dedicated to women in film at MoMA, and the silver halide worship otherwise known as Celluloid Dreams at IFC Center. The big screen blathery be thus;
Film Forum
JAMAICA INN (1939) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
MoMA
TOP HAT (1935) Dir; Mark Sandrich
Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Cinema
DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM U.S.A. (1946) Dir; Spencer Williams
IFC Center
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO (1990) Dir; John Patrick Shanley
Today's Pick? Oh Hell, it's Sandrich's TOP HAT, screening as part of MoMA's series Acteurism: Ginger Rogers. I dare any film today to top the sequence that finds Astaire strutting his stuff, stopping the film in so doing, and then lulling downstairs complaintant Ginger Rogers, and by proxy his own damn self, to sleep, by performing a soft-shoe shuffle in an actual blanket of sand on his hotel room floor. You got better today?
For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in February '15 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. For the monthly overview and other audio tomfoolery check out the Podcast. and follow me on SoundCloud! For reviews of contemporary cinema and my streaming habits (keep it clean!) check out my Letterboxd page. And be sure to follow me on both Facebook, where I provide further info and esoterica on the rep film circuit and star birthdays, and Twitter, where I provide a daily feed for the day's screenings and other blathery. Back soon with new Picks 'n perks, til then safe, sound, make sure the next knucklehead is too!
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!
