November 28th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing series this day include Film School 101: Canon Fodder at IFC Center, the trib to masterproduction designer and iconic director William Cameron Menzies, Lonely Places: Film Noir and the American Landscape and The Hollywood Classics Behind Walkers at Museum of the Moving Image, Turkeys for Thanksgiving at BAM, and Jack Smith Selects (From the Grave) at Anthology Film Archives. The emulsified ebullience be thus;
IFC Center
TOKYO STORY (1953) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) Dir; Wes Craven
Nitehawk Cinema
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986) Dir; Woody Allen
THEY LIVE (1988) Dir; John Carpenter
THE RUNNING MAN (1988) Dir; Paul Michael Glaser
Film Forum
THINGS TO COME (1936) Dir; Alexander Korda
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (1943) Dir; Sam Wood
OUR TOWN (1940) Dir; Sam Wood
Museum of the Moving Image
Lonely Places: Film Noir and the American Landscape
THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959) Dir; Sam Fuller
CRY OF THE CITY (1948) Dir; Robert Siodmak
The Hollywood Classics Behind Walkers
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX (1979/2001) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
BAM Cinématek
SORCERER (1977) Dir; William Freidkin
DUNE (1984) Dir; David Lynch
Mid-Manhattan Library
VIVA LAS VEGAS (1964) Dir; George Sidney
Anthology Film Archives
Essential Cinema
THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) Dir; Jean Renoir
I WAS BORN, BUT... (1932) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
Jack Smith Selects (From the Grave)
ZERO FOR CONDUCT (1935) Dir; Jean Vigo
THE LEOPARD (1963) Dir; Luchino Visconti
THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS (1949) Dir; Roberto Rossellini
Today's Pick? Our collective cinematic cup brimmeth over this November 28th, and making a decision is like choosing you favorite sip. Do I return to Ozu so soon, having just made him my Pick yesterday, even though his tale of fatherhood's pain resonates strongly till? Do I embrace AFA's engaging series programmed from beyond, that features high watermark efforts from such luminaries as Vigo and Visconti and Rossellini? I'm most tempted by the prospect of David Lynch's DUNE in 35mm, yet I feel I exalt the Kwizatz Haderach too often as he rears his haed about. So today, to coincide with the shadowy emptiness we feel in our bellies in Thanksgiving's wake, I choose the external kind that only a good film noir may provide.
Sam Fuller's THE CRIMSON KIMONO and Robert Siodmak's CRY OF THE CITY screen as a potential 2-fer at Museum of the Moving Image, as part of the series Lonely Places: Film Noir and the American Landscape. The incredibly fair sum of $12 American gains you not only admittance to both films, on a first-come-first-seated basis of course, but also to the larger museum space, which I'm sure you know is crack cocaine candy to any cinephile, burgeoning or otherwise. One day I'll be allowed residency in the most exclusive neighborhood of Astoria, Queens. Only then will I feel I've made it. What are you laughing at?
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!
