June 27th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing series this day include the 10-week trib to master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu at IFC Center, the slowly winding-down, for reals this time, Apu Trilogy at Film Forum, and the halfway mark-met Glorious Technicolor: From Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA. The kinetic granular gripery be thus;
IFC Center
THE ONLY SON (1936) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) Dir; Alejandro Jodorowsky
Film Forum
PATHER PANCHALI (1955) Dir; Satyajit Ray
APARAJITO (1956) Dir; Satyajit Ray
THE THIRD MAN (1949) Dir; Carol Reed
MoMA
Glorious Technicolor: From Eastman House and Beyond
SCARAMOUCHE (1952) Dir; George Sidney
CHAD HANNA (1940) Dir; Henry King
APACHE DRUMS (1951) Dir; Hugo Fregonese
Anthology Film Archives
OCTOBER (1928) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
OLD AND NEW (1929) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Today's Pick? First, the elimination round: recent choices such as Ray's Apu Trilogy at Film Forum and Glorious Technicolor at MoMA must be bypassed today, and longer term affairs such as IFC's Ozu trib and the new 4K DCP resto of the greatest movie ever made afford me time to select them. So what's crucial today, what's the essential screening? I'd love to select Kubrick's finest achievement, one of the greatest spectacles and most introspective wonders of the cinema, except that I've attended a screening of said masterpiece at IFC some years ago and it was amongst the worst prints ever offered for public consumption. Not to imply tonight's print will be less than impeccable, but Moving Image has booked the very same film for a 70mm series in August, so I'm including all these factors in my decision today. And going with a visionary director of equal worth if only slighter status. Which may change given the current renewed interest in his life and CV.
Alejandro Jodorowsky's THE HOLY MOUNTAIN screens at midnight tonight at the IFC Center. My ultimate validation of this film is a paraphrasing of the filmmaker's raison d'être: why not?
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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!
