April 12th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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I'm currently in the wondrous throes of a PARKS & RECREATION binge on Netflix, and can fully attest that Aubrey Plaza's bitter, chilly, and scabrous character, April, is so far properly monickered. Or so this month's first third would suggest.
Ongoing film series this day include Film Forum Jr. & Strictly Sturges at Film Forum, and Dick Miller: Onscreen and In Person! at Anthology Film Archives. The emulsified entice be thus;
Film Forum
THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) Dir; Wolfgang Petersen
EASY LIVING (1937) Dir; Mitchell Liesen
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) Dir; Mitchell Liesen
Museum of the Moving Image
THE WIZARD OF OZ in 3D (1939) Dir; Victor Fleming
THE HOUSE OF HATE (1918) Dir; George B. Seitz
Anthology Film Archives
Dick Miller: Onscreen and In Person!
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD (1976) Dirs; Joe Dante & Alan Arkush
THE HOWLING (1981) Dir; Joe Dante
Today's Pick? Love the Nitehawk, hate the STORY. The Sturges double-bill at Film Forum tempts, but is ultimately unconvincing. Honestly, although it remains a film cooled to in my adult years, there really is only one option this day. And it's reachable by weather balloon. Or the N train. But, really, weather balloon will get you there in a much more efficient fashion. Any resident of NYC's very own Oz will attest to the same.
Victor Fleming's THE WIZARD OF OZ in 3D screens twice and for the last today at Astoria's very own Museum of the Moving Image. Somewhere, over the 59th street bridge, dreams come true.
For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in April '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!
