November 25th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: The Film Library at Ten and To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Turkeys for Thanksgiving at BAM Cinématek, and Wes Craven's Nightmares at IFC Center. The bijou brio before the beneficent bastery be thus;
Film Forum
FAT CITY (1972) Dir; John Huston
MoMA
Modern Matinees: The Film Library at Ten
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Dir; John Huston
To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
PAN (1922) Dir; Harald Schwenzen
LATE SPRING (1949) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
BAM Cinématek
POPEYE (1980) Dir; Robert Altman
ROAR (1981) Dir; Noel Marshall
BowTie Chelsea Cinemas
BLONDE VENUS (1932) Dir; Josef von Sternberg
IFC Center
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) Dir; Wes Craven
Today's Pick? I'm sorely tempted to choose the generous gobble-gobble unspooling at BAM, but I'm averse to most things Altman, and while it would prove an enjoyable irony to watch nature's beasts strike back at humanity on the eve that finds turkeys country-wide practicing their Sidney Carton speech, I cannot find it within me to recommend Marshall's big-cat maulfest.
Instead, on this day before our official observance of gratitude, I will offer mine. Gratitude that one knucklehead writer/director named John Huston once existed among us, mastered the craft of filmmaking, and showed how it was done for five decades. What better way to celebrate than to catch his frosh effort from the director's chair, 1941's THE MALTESE FALCON, unspooling at MoMA as part of their wonderful series Modern Matinees: The Film Library at Ten, then hopping the F train down to the 4th street station and striding over to NYC's most beloved temple of rep film, West Houston Street's Film Forum, for another classic equally soiled but with the grit of a different decade; 1972's FAT CITY. Sure ya gotta swipe tha MetroCard twice. Sure, ya gotta pay two seperate admissions. But you tell me of a more effective testosterone injection than these two guy flicks? Nugenix can only blush.
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!
