March 29th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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My thoughts and concern go out to those displaced, injured and/or finacially distressed by last Thursday's disaster on 2nd Avenue. I urge those who share my worry to visit the following link should you wish to donate/volunteer to help those most drastically affected. NYC is nothing if not the sum total of its people, and we are always at our best when things are at their worst.
Ongoing series this day are limited to, but not by, Film Forum Jr. at Film Forum, and The Killer Must Kill Again!: Giallo Fever, Part Two at Anthology Film Archives. The four-perf foofaraw be thus;
Nitehawk Cinema
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919) Dir; Robert Weine
Film Forum
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) Dir; Robert Zemeckis
FROM MAYERLING TO SARAJEVO (1940) Dir; Max Ophüls
Museum of the Moving Image
THE GODFATHER (1972) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
Mid-Manhattan Library
JEOPARDY (1953) Dir; John Sturges
Anthology Film Archives
The Killer Must Kill Again!: Giallo Fever, Part Two
TENEBRAE (1982) Dir; Dario Argento
THE SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS (1971) Dir; Aldo Lado
THE PSYCHIC (1977) Dir; Lucio Fulci
LOS OLVIDADOS (1950) Dir; Luis Buñuel
Today's Pick? It's crowded field todat from noon to night. AFA's Giallo series proposes a doozy of a trip-bill. However, because it's not an actual trip-bill, I think I must find favor elsewheres. Nitehawk cracks open the CABINET a wee might too early for these sorry bones, and Zemeckis isn simply a non-starter for me. So the pre-noontime shenanigans are a pass. I would almost make the Sturges my choice today, but a far more enticing bill draws me in like a Death Star tractor beam. Not only are they two of the finest American films ever produced, not only do they exemplify the New Hollywood of the 70's, not only are they master theses on the promise of the immigrant experience and the corruption said met and ultimately succumbed to in one fashion or another, they are also a genuine double-bill today, and they screen in a theater attached to the finest moving image museum our movie-mad metropolis may offer. I, sadly, cannot attend, but if you have access to this special event DROP EVERYTHING and head to Astoria. Today, it'll be the closest thing to Little Italy the city has to offer.
Francis Ford Coppola's THE GODFATHER and THE GODFATHER II screen back-to-back today at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image. It's an offer you can't yeah okay I'm not gonna say it.
For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in March '15 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. 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 mercifully feeling the loosening of winter's embrace, but 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!
