February 7th 2015. Pick of the Day!
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The Oscars approacheth. I'm finalizing my reviews, securing my Picks. And planning the first and biggest bash this site has ever hosted. Still, if THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL gets snubbed, I'll be in bits.That's just me.
Continuing series this day include Screwball Romance at IFC Center, Nitehawk Naughties at the Nitehawk Cinema, the Charles Laughton backslap at Film Forum, Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Film at MoMA, Tell It Like It Is: Black Independent Voices in NYC 1968-86 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and John Carpenter: Master of Fear atvBAM Cinématek.The results of the negotiations be thus;
IFC Center
THE PALM BEACH STORY (1942) Dir; Preston Sturges
JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg
Nitehawk Cinema
TAXI DRIVER (1976) Dir; Martin Scorsese
MANHATTAN (1980) Dir; Woddy Allen
LANGUAGE OF LOVE (1969) Dir; Torgny Wickman
Film Forum
JAMAICA INN (1939) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
THE PARADINE CASE (1948) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
MoMA
Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Film
THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS (1966) Dir; Ida Lupino
THE YOUNG LOVERS (1950) Dir; Ida Lupino
THE STUDENT NURSES (1970) Dir; Stephanie Rothman
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tell It Like It Is: Black Independent Voices in NYC 1968-86
LOSING GROUND (1982) Dir; Kathleen Collins
GANJA AND HESS (1973) Dir; Bill Gunn
BAM Cinématek
John Carpenter: Master of Fear
THE THING (1982) Dir; John Carpenter
Today's Pick? Hard to say no to three distinct filmmakers from the groundbreaking 70's, Woody, Marty and Steve. But I must. Equally difficult to spurn works of significant import by directors like Sturges, cult voices like Steph Rothman and Kathleen Collins, and, of course, extremely angsty to take sides against my first hero, one John Carpenter. Yet, I must direct the Kliegs tis day toward another singular voice, one that also bucked the tide, perhaps without that intent, but fully up to the emblematic task once embraced. How do I love Ida Lupino? Let me list the ways...
Ms. Lupino's THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS and THE YOUNG LOVERS screen today at MoMA as part of the series Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Film! Be a man! Support the gender not your own!
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