June 19th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Calendar updated to include the newly announced Ozu series at IFC Center and the extended Apu Trilogy screenings at Film Forum. Plus, ICE CREAM! Okay, maybe no ice cream but I gotta do something to snag the youth audience while they're young. How 'bout, plus SOUR PATCH KIDS oh hell let's just get to it.
New and continuing series this day include the 3-month trib to Yasujiro Ozu at IFC Center, the second reprieve of Satyajit Ray's newly restored Apu Trilogy at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor and 3-D Summer! at MoMA, This is Celluloid: 35mm! at Anthology Film Archives, and Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The kino kaos be thus;
IFC Center
THERE WAS A FATHER (1942) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) Dir; Alejandro Jodorowsky
HAUSU (1977) Dir; Nobuhiko Obayashi
Film Forum
PATHER PANCHALI (1955) Dir; Satyajit Ray
APARAJITO (1956) Dir; Satyajit Ray
GOODFELLAS (1990) Dir; Martin Scorsese
MoMA
Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954) Dir; Douglas Sirk
CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT (1955) Dir; Douglas Sirk
HONDO (1953) Dir; John Farrow
Anthology Film Archives
NEVER TOO YOUNG TO ROCK (1975) Dir; Dennis Abey
Rubin Museum of Art
BRAZIL (1985) Dir; Terry Gilliam
Nitehawk Cinema
THE BROOD (1979) Dir; David Cronenberg
Today's Pick? Already picked Ray's brilliant early craftwork within the last 2 weeks, and I have a full 7 days to choose Scorsese's modern gangster classic. And as concerns the Ozu series, well, I have months to spotlight the wonderful work from one of the masters of world cinma. The midnight fare at both IFC and Nitehawk entice but don't convince. And as tempted as I am to recommend the suave atmosphere, slinky skirts and swank screening lounge at the Rubin Museum, I can't pass up an opportunity to endorse a screening at one of our more hallowed museums which could potentially find itself accompanied by cries of "it's comin' right AT ME!!!" And nor should you.
John Farrow's HONDO screens in its original dimension-intrusive glory as part of the series 3-D Summer!, currently unspooling at MoMA. John Wayne never seemed so life-like!
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!
