November 17th 2015. Pick of the Day. Good To Be Back.
New York City's premiere resource for classic film screenings in the metropolitan area. Offering reviews, recommendations, venues and a host of links keeping classic film and the silver screens alive.
Apologies, Stockahz.
I'm painfully aware that I've been remiss in my duties, having missed posting the daily Pick for days now. For what is surely never to be the last time the real interfered with the reel last week. And that's absolutely as it should be, but when it revolves around great heartbreak the response is never gratitude toward the fates. However, I do want to offer my gratitude, and tsunami levels of it, to all who took a moment to provide a measure of solace last week during my hard time. It reminds that a series of pixels need not be a cold batch of 1's and 0's. They can be every bit as friendly as a handshake, and every bit as warm as a hug. Thanks.
Now let's get to it.
Continuing series this day include Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki at the Walter Reade Theater, and Jack Smith Selects (From the Grave) at Anthology Film Archives. The flickering foofaraw be thus;
Film Forum
JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) Dir; Nicholas Ray
MOANA WITH SOUND (1926/80) Dirs; Robert, Frances and Monica Flaherty
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki
CARMEN FROM KAWACHI (1966) Dir; Seijun Suzuki
KANTO WANDERER (1963) Dir; Seijun Suzuki
Anthology Film Archives
Jack Smith Selects (From the Grave)
WHITE SAVAGE (1943) Dir; Arthur Lubin
Today's Pick? No contest. Nick Ray's baroque, operatic, wholly over-the-top western melodrama JOHNNY GUITAR, screening in a brand new 4K DCP resto at the Film Forum. Look, you simply haven't lived until you've seen Mildred Pierce go toe-to-the with the future voice of the Devil. And if you don't get those references, then ho boy, we've got some film discussion to get to.
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in November '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 warmer, fiercer cuddle of the sun's sunnier disposition has begun its annual wane, 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!
