July 18th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Today's continuing series include the Yasujiro Ozu trib at IFC Center, True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA, Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Essential John Ford at Astoria's Moving Image, and the enticing One-Film Wonders program at Anthology Film Archives. The wimwammery be thus;
IFC Center
BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE TODA FAMILY (1941) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (1978) Dir; Richard Donner
THE THING (1982) Dir; John Carpenter
Film Forum
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) Dir; Arthur Penn
THE THIRD MAN (1949) Dir; Carol Reed
MoMA
Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond
SASKATCHEWAN (1954) Dir; Raoul Walsh
THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS (1952) Dir; Raoul Walsh
QUO VADIS (1951) Dir; Mervyn LeRoy
BAM Cinématek
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984) Dir; Jim Jarmusch
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa
THE FEARMAKERS (1958) Dir; Jacques Tourneur
Museum of the Moving Image
THE SEARCHERS (1956) Dir; John Ford
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962) Dir; John Ford
Anthology Film Archives
BORDERLINE (1930) Dir; Kenneth MacPherson
RETURN TO OZ (1985) Dir; Walter Murch
WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER (1962) Dir; Timothy Carey
Landmark Sunshine Cinemas
MANHATTAN (1979) Dir; Woody Allen
Nitehawk Cinema
PHASE IV (1974) Dir; Saul Bass
Today's Pick? Let's cut to the chase: Ford, Tourneur, Walsh, LeRoy, Reed, Kubrick, why even Ozu himself, that most seemingly unassailable of the giants behind the bullhorn, all pale beside the would-be auteur who created a film so notorious, so potentially toxic & antagonistic, that he initially planned to screen each print with razor blades attached to the projector so they would be destroyed upon first display. No one ever accused antically affected character actor Timothy Carey of sanity. And no one ever will. Bless'im.
Timothy Carey's lone turn behind the cameras, the delightfully unhinged WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER, unspools tonight, sans razor blades, at Anthology Film Archives, as part of their recently kicked-off One-Film Wonders program. I give the film five farts. Quentin Tarantino, at least, will understand the reference.
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!
