June 18th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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B stands today for Brevity, for needing a Break, for the exhausting Bustle of Manhattan, the eternal Bombast of its residents, and the unrelenting Battle to retain and even inject one's love for the old NYC into the ever-changing New New York. And it's L as in LADDER, Otis!
Sorry, I went the full Hackman on that last one. Forgive the outburst. And the irrelevance.
New and continuing series this day include the held-over Apu Trilogy, as well as the closing trib to legendary DP Gabriel Figueroa, both at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor and 3-D Summer! at MoMA, and This is Celluloid: 35mm! at Anthology Film Archives. The rigmarole be thus;
Film Forum
APARAJITO (1956) Dir; Satyajit Ray
APUR SANSARA (1959) Dir; Satyajit Ray
THE PEARL (1947) Dir; Dir; Emilio Fernàndez
AUTUMN DAYS (1962) Dir; Roberto Gavaldón
ENAMORADA (1946) Dir; Emilio Fernàndez
MoMA
Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond
AN AMERICAN ROMANCE (1944) Dir; King Vidor
NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1940) Dir; King Vidor
HONDO (1953) Dir; John Farrow
Anthology Film Archives
NOSTALGHIA (1983) Dir; Andrei Tarkovsky
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (1971) Dir; Monte Hellman
BowTie Chelsea Cinema
QUEEN BEE (1955) Dir; Ranald MacDougall
Today's Pick? I'm goin' with the twin Kings at MoMA today, Vidor's AN AMERICAN ROMANCE and NORTHWEST PASSAGE, two lustrous examples of Glorious Technicolor at perhaps its most perfect moment, boasting the kind of deep, lush and otherworldly tones one feels to this day not merely the desire but the possibility to sink within. Tix are ten bucks apiece unless you're a member, which you should definitely become at the low low rate of $85 a year. Plus, I understand there's a perfectly delightful musuem attached to the screening spaces? Can anyone verify this?
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!
