July 11th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Ongoing series this day include the weekends with Yasujiro Ozu at IFC Center, True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA, I Found This Funny: The Comedy World of Judd Apatow at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Essential John Ford at Museum of the Moving Image, and the always awesome Silent Clowns Film Series at Lincoln Center's Library for the Performing Arts. The weekend's wimwammery be thus;
IFC Center
WHAT DID THE LADY FORGET? (1937) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1972) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Nitehawk Cinema
THEM (1955) Dir; Gordon Douglas
FROGS! (1972) Dir; George McCowan
ANGST (1983) Dir; Gerald Kargl
Film Forum
IN COLD BLOOD (1967) Dir; Richard Brooks
THE THIRD MAN (1949) Dir; Carol Reed
MoMA
Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) Dir; Victor Fleming
REAP THE WILD WIND (1942) Dir; Cecil B. DeMille
SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949) Dir; Cecil B. DeMille
Film Society of Lincoln Center
I Found This Funny: The Comedy World of Judd Apatow
BEING THERE (1980) Dir; Hal Ashby
Museum of the Moving Image
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) Dir; John Ford
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1945) Dir; John Ford
Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts
ROCKIN' THE ROACH: WAVE TWO! (1918-25) Dirs; Various
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) Dir; George Miller
Today's Pick?Just went with MoMI's Ford trib yesterday, Miller's WARRIOR mere weeks ago in advance of his new FURY ROAD, Kubrick's CLOCKWORK seems to never be OFFscreen in our movie-mad burg, Reed's THIRD MAN will simply have to wait a mere few weeks before I can make it my choice once more, and those of you who know me know that Fleming's WIND, in my humble opinion, needs to obey its prophetic title. A man can yawn only so much. So these titles are an automatic scratch, meaning we're left with what? Ozu always tempts, Ashby's BEING THERE is a rare occurence on our screens, and McCowan's absolutely unhinged eco-horror/southern gothic nightmare compels, actually. But ultimately, I gotta go with a rarer screening, assembled by a team dedicated to silent film screening in its proper format and venue: 35mm projection in a theater, with live piano accompaniment. Some clowns deserve our appreciation. Not the POLTERGEIST maniac, to be sure, but the ones who care about their audience. Let's show this micro-set a little love today.
Bruce Lawton, Steve Massa, and pianist extraordinaire Ben Model, collectively known as the Silent Clowns, present today a quintet of producer/studio head/gagman Hal Roach's chercest comedy shorts; DO HUSBANDS DECIEVE?, JUS' PASSIN' THROUGH, SOMEWHERE IN SOMEWHERE, SHERLOCK SLEUTH, and STARVATION BLUES, as part of the new series ROCKIN' THE ROACH! - WAVE TWO, unspooling at Lincoln Center's Library for the Perfoming Arts. The event is free to attend but insanely popular, so be sure to arrive ealry enough to claim your real estate and keep from becoming a fire hazard. Trust me.
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in July '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!
