March 31st 2015. Pick of the Day.

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So March '15, this whole out-like-a-lamb thing, that just a colorful colloquialism with nothing more to back it up than poetry? Shall I expect this lamb sometime in April, perhaps at Easter dinner? Is it asking too much that you strangle Winter with your frigid, bitter fingers until it is dead at last? Seriously, if I'm asking too much just say so. I'm always anxiously demanding when MLB nears.

But really, though, Winter must die. See to it, willya?

Today's lone series is The Most Beautiful: The War Films of Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara. The nitrate stock nutjobbery be thus;

 

Film Forum

FROM MAYERLING TO SARAJEVO (1941) Dir; Max Ophüls

 

MoMA

THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN (1934) Dir; Joseph von Sternberg

 

Japan Society

The Most Beautiful: The War Films of Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara

SCANDAL (1950) Dir; Akira Kurosawa

 

Today's Pick? Easy. Joseph von Sternberg's THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN. Because Marlene.

 

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!

 

JoeW@NitrateStock.net

 

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!