June 25th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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The two lone continuing series this day are the extended Apu Trilogy at Film Forum and Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA. Hey, whaddaya want? This is what the end of June looks like. Let's see if you're this callously cocky once July rolls up and even the most ardent rep film fanatic is challenged by ten, twenty, even so much as a thousand classic screenings in a single day. Okay, a thousand might count as a slight overreach, but you just wait, smug knuckleheads. Filmpocalypse looms. Today's tomfoolery be thus;
Film Forum
APARAJITO (1956) Dir; Satyajit Ray
APUR SANSAR (1959) Dir; Satyajit Ray
GOODFELLAS (1990) Dir; Martin Scorsese
MoMA
Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) Dirs; Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
THE I DON'T CARE GIRL (1953) Dir; Lloyd Bacon
Bowtie Chelsea Cinemas
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1963) Dir; Robert Aldrich
Anthology Film Archives
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
Long Island City Landing Events Space
KING KONG (1933) Dirs; Ernest B. Shoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Today's Pick? Like I'm taking sides against the big guy?
Ernest B. Shoedsack and Merian C. Cooper's KING KONG screens at Long Island City's Landing Events Space in Hunter's Point South Park. Yes, this is a place. And if anyone can find it, Kong can.
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!
