February 10th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Well, January was quite the knucklehead hoot, but February, I have to say, is shaping up as quite the successor. In sports, Pete Carroll literally handed over a sure Super Bowl victory, while Knicks owner Slippin' Jimmy Dolan told disgruntled fans everywhere, and one specifically, to go become a Brooklyn Nets fan. In politics, the Supreme Court told Alabama to grow the fuck up already, while Prez "candidates" Rand Paul and Chris Christie sided with parents who are still iffy about the whole childhood vaccination thing. And at Sunday night's Grammy's, Kanye West proved just one more confused soul to prove Barack Obama a solid judge of character. Here's praying things simmer down goin' forward. unless we're talking 'bout the weather, in which case it can't heat up soon enough.
Yep, that's my ba-dum-dum. It's February, okay, you got better?
Continuing series today include the Charles Laughton hot stone massagery at Film Forum, Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Cinema at MoMA, and Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-86 at the Film Society. The shenanigans be thus;
Film Forum
FOREVER AND A DAY (1943) Dir; René Clair
THIS LAND IS MINE (1943) Dir; Jean Renoir
MoMA
Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Cinema
TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932) Dir; Ernst Lubitsch
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-86
LOSING GROUND (1982) Dir; Kathleen Collins
Today's Pick? The Laughton program entices, and I've just chosen Kathleen Collins' long unsung film, considered her finest two hours and a major work heralding a strong new talent, just this past weekend. But even if neither had been the case, c'mon. You really think I'm takin' sides against The Touch?
Ernst Lubitsch's TROUBLE IN PARADISE screens today alongside Grace Cunard's 1917 UNMASKED, as part of the series Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Cinema, unspooling at MoMA. If ever an example of Lubitsch's scorn for immorality and condone of amorality existed, here 'tis.
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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!
