June 12th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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New and continuing series this day include the closing days of the glorious 4K resto of The Apu Trilogy, as well as the trib to legendary DP Gabriel Figueroa at Film Forum, Black & White 'Scope: International Cinema at BAM Cinématek, both A Road 300 Years Long: Cinema and the Great Migration and Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA, This is Celluloid: 35mm! at Anthology Film Archives, Films on the Green 2015 at Washington Square Park, and the forever swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The silver in them seats be thus;
Film Forum
APARAJITO (1956) Dir; Satyajit Ray
PANTHER PANCHALI (1955) Dir; Satyajit Ray
THE PEARL (1947) Dir; Emilio Fernàndez
LOS OLVIDADOS (1950) Dir; Luis Buñuel
UNDER THE VOLCANO (1984) Dir; John Huston
BAM Cinématek
Black & White 'Scope: International Cinema
THE INNOCENTS (1963) Dir; Jack Clayton
THE DAMNED (1963) Dir; Joseph Losey
MoMA
A Road 300 Years Long: Cinema and the Great Migration
TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990) Dir; Charles Burnett
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond
THE TOLL OF THE SEA (1922) Dir; Chester M. Franklin
REDSKIN (1929) Dir; Victor Schertzinger
Anthology Film Archives
RUMBLEFISH (1983) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
NEVER TOO YOUNG TO ROCK (1975) Dir; Dennis Abey
Washington Square Park
PEPE LE MOKO (1937) Dir; Julien Duvivier
Rubin Museum of Art
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
IFC Center
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1970) Dir; Alejandro Jodorowsky
EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (1988) Dir; Julien Temple
Nitehawk Cinema
VIDEODROME (1982) Dir; David Cronenberg
Today's Pick? I'm going with my first outdoor selection of the summer, Julien Duvivier's PEPE LE MOKO, screening at Washington Square Park under what promise to be exceptional circumstancs weather-wise. Whether you get bombarded by hipsters who'd rather talk their fave Kombucha and Seitan pairings, I leave to the fates.
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in June '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. The warm cuddle of the sun's friendlier disposition seems finally to have arrived, 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!
