July 22nd 2015. Pick of the Day.
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New and continuing series this day include True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor at MoMA, One-Film Wonders at Anthology Film Archives, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa at the Film Society, and Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek. 'Ere we go Stockahz, 'ere we go!
Film Forum
THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) Dir; Robert Wise
I WANT TO LIVE! (1958) Dir; Robert Wise
M (1933) Dir; Fritz Lang
THE THIRD MAN (1949) Dir; Carol Reed
MoMA
FRENCHMAN'S CREEK (1944) Dir; Mitchell Leisen
LADY IN THE DARK (1944) Dir; Mitchell Leisen
WESTERN UNION (1941) Dir; Fritz Lang
Anthology Film Archives
VENOM AND ETERNITY (1951) Dir; Isidore Isou
RETURN TO OZ (1985) Dir; Walter Murch
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa
THE GREEN YEARS (1963) Dir; Paulo Rocha
THE FEARMAKERS (1958) Dir; Jacques Tourneur
BAM Cinématek
TROUBLE IN MIND (1985) Dir; Alan Rudolph
Today's Pick? The sked is a deep one today, honoring several different factes and eras of the genre. I love the trib to the cinematic Eddie Gaedel's of the world at AFA, am entranced by the Technicolor valentine unspooling at MoMA, and well-stung by the nostalgia bee as concerns BAM's reappreciation of an era not merely unfairly maligned in terms celluloid, but also laying claim to my formative teen years and film fanatic status. However, I'm absolutely hyp-no-tized by the shadows looming at a certain cinematic temple on West Houston street, and the consequential doings and undoings that are unfolding unfolding within. In a rep film town that boasts of no less than FIVE-COUNT-'EM-FIVE top-tier series on offer today, this one takes the brass ring in my opinion. Actually it breaks into the vault, murders several guards and steals the brass ring. It's that kind'a program.
Two by master craftsman Robert Wise, 1945's THE BODY SNATCHER and 1958's I WANT TO LIVE!, unspool in spectacular 35mm at Film Forum, as part of the illegally enjoyable series True Crime! Make sure to count the silverware when entering and leaving the venue. Then ask yourself why you're bringing your own cutlery to a movie theater. Screwball.
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!
