December 16th 2015. Pick of the Day.
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Prepping for one more and last all-nighter movie marathon of 2015, one that begins in the morrow's antemeridian and releases us back into what will surely seem like a more mundane realm sometime before midnight on the same day. I'll be posting pics 'n vids from that event from a gala far, far away, in the hopes of raising some dough for charity, exactly like I did back in April for the Marvel Movie Marathon. So if you wanna get on board please click this link and read the exacts, or at least spread the word. It's a Xmas mitzvah, two descriptive terms which never normally intersect. But hey, such is the power of The Force. That's then though, let's get to now.
Continuing and slowly concluding series this day include the trib to Women Crime Writers at Film Forum, Modern Matinees: The Film Library Grows and the Antonio Pietrangeli festa at MoMA, and the Lynch/Rivette makeout sessio at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The propitious projectionery be thus;
IFC Center
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Dir; Frank Capra
Film Forum
LA RUPTURE (1970) Dir; Claude Chabrol
DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952) Dir; Roy Ward Baker
MoMA
Modern Matinees: The Film Library Grows
STELLA DALLAS (1925) Dir; Henry King
Antonio Pietrangeli: A Retrospective
THE VISITOR (1963) Dir; Antonio Pietrangeli
Film Society of Lincoln Center
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
Today's Pick? I think it's about damn time I shone the Kliegs into the Film Forum's delightfully black shadows, in particular their dazzingly dark trib to Women Crime Writers, in even more particular Roy Ward Baker's DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK, which served not only as film debut to the luminous Anne Bancroft, but as first lead role to a little lady named Marilyn Monroe. The 6:50pm showing boats an intro by Library of America editor-in-chief Geoffrey O'Brien, who will no doubt discuss source novel MISCHIEF and its author Charlotte Armstrong. Nothing else about the joint is diabolical. Except maybe the popcorn. Which may actually be downright criminal. And I mean that in the best possible sense.
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in December '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!
