June 20th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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I lobby with great reticence on behalf of any event not related to big-screen viewings of repertory cinema, yet I make exceptions on rare occasions. And here's one of them. If you're a collector of classic films please be aware that Barnes & Noble is winding down its magnificent DVD & BluRay sale, one that slashes 40% of the list price. Items like the newly remastered and restored MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, William Dieterle's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, and Stanley Kramer's JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, as well as newer, cultier selections like the Pam Grier vehicles COFFEY, FOXY BROWN and FRIDAY FOSTER, and let's not forget the entire Shout/Scream Factory catalogue, are your to be had for a very VERY reasonable price. My advance apologies to those who've credit ratings I've just inadvertently destroyed. But hey, it's worth it.
And now, to the rep circuit.
Continuing series this day include the three month Yasujiro Ozu trib at IFC Center, the yet again held-over Apu Trilogy at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA, and This is Celluloid: 35mm! at Anthology Film Archives. The popcorn-panoplied projectionery be thus;
IFC Center
THERE WAS A FATHER (1942) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
Nitehawk Cinema
EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (1988) Dir; Julien Temple
THE BROOD (1979) Dir; David Cronenberg
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
THE I DON'T CARE GIRL (1953) Dir; Lloyd Bacon
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) Dir; Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) Dir; Vincente Minnelli
Anthology Film Archives
EXCALIBUR (1981) Dir; John Boorman
NOSTALGHIA (1983) Dir; Andrei Tarkovsky
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (1970) Dir; Monte Hellman
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1925) Dir; Carl Th. Dreyer
Videology
JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg
Today's Pick? Those of you familiar with this site know that I hate to go back to the same well too often, instead choosing to spread the love to all our cherished rep houses in near-equal measure. However, I'm going with a particular venue for what is now the fourth time in the last five days and the sixth trip overall this month. What can I say, the combination of what remains the lushest, most sumptuous color film process ever devised, along with the hoofery and gumption of three of the greatest co-stars to ever grace the screen, weighed greatly in my decision-making. As it should in yours.
Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen's SINGIN' IN THE RAIN pairs up with Vincente Minnelli's AN AMERICAN IN PARIS tonight as part of MoMA's wonderful series Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond! If indeed Gene Kelly's toeses are the roses you supposes, there is no better way to view them feets than in Herbert and Natalie Kalmus' spectral cinematic miracle.
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!
