July 24th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Brevity, my dear Stockahz, is the soul of wit, but more importantly the key ingredient to my getting 4 hours of shut-eye today. So let's get to it!
New and continuing series this day include the Yasujiro Ozu trib and Superheroes 1.0, both at IFC Center, True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond and Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir from Mexican Cinema's Golden Age, both at MoMA, Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek, Frank at 100 at the Walter Reade Theater, This is Celluloid: 35mm Encore at Anthology Film Archives, and the preternaturally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum of Art. The big-screen brouhaha be thus;
IFC Center
RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN (1947) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
SUPERMAN II (1981) Dir; Richard Lester
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
THE THING (1982) Dir; John Carpenter
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (1985) Dir; Tim Burton
Film Forum
10 RILLINGTON PLACE () Dir; Richard Fleischer
THE BOSTON STRANGLER () Dir; Richard Fleischer
THE THIRD MAN (1949) Dir; Carol Reed
MoMA
Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond
THE BLACK SWAN (1942) Dir; Henry King
SASKATCHEWAN (1954) Dir; Raoul Walsh
THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS (1952) Dir; Raoul Walsh
Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir from Mexican Cinema's Golden Age
NIGHT FALLS (1952) Dir; Roberto Gavaldón
THE KNEELING GODDESS (1947) Dir; Roberto Gavaldón
BAM Cinématek
RIVER'S EDGE (1986) Dir; Tim Hunter
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) Dir; Wes Craven
Film Society of Lincoln Center
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (1955) Dir; Otto Preminger
SOME CAME RUNNING (1959) Dir; Vincente Minnelli
Anthology Film Archives
This is Celluloid: 35mm Encore
THREE GODFATHERS (1948) Dir; John Ford
SIGN OF THE PAGAN (1954) Dir; Douglas Sirk
Target Bronx Community Center
NOTHING BUT A MAN (1964) Dir; Michael Rohmer
Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) Dir; Robert Zemeckis
WNYC Transmitter Park
LA DERIVE (1964) Dir; Paula Delsol
Rubin Museum of Art
CASANOVA (1975) Dir; Federico Fellini
Nitehawk Cinema
Q: THE WINGED SERPENT (1982) Dir; Larry Cohen
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
CANNIBAL FEROX (1981) Dir; Umberto Lenzi
Today's Pick? It's gotta be Ol' Blue Eyes, baby.
Otto Preminger's production code-busting THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM and Vincente Minnelli's masterpiece of postwar ennui SOME CAME RUNNING screen tonight as part of the Film Society's excellent weekend trib Frank at 100, celebrating the centennial of Sinatra's birth. From inauspicious celluloid fluff emerged one of our more adventurous, even ground-breaking actors. The Voice was just the beginning.
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!
