February 24th 2016. Pick of the Day.
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New and continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: A Pioneer Cowboy at MoMA, A Body in Places: Eiko at Anthology Film Archives at, well, guess where? We also got the concluding entries in BAM's coven-centric Witches' Brew and the finl day of the Film Society's Film Comment Selects. The Arriflex aspirations be thus;
Film Forum
CITY OF WOMEN (1980) Dir; Federico Fellini
MoMA
Modern Matinees: A Pioneer Cowboy
WILD BILL HICKOK (1923) Dir; Clifford S. Smith
Anthology Film Archives
A Body in Places: Eiko at Anthology Film Archives
KANAL (1956) Dir; Andrzej Wajda
BAM Cinématek
BELL, BOOK & CANDLE (1958) Dir; Richard Quine
Film Society of Lincoln Center
GOLDEN EIGHTIES (1986) Dir; Chantal Akerman
Today's Pick? The tribs to William S. Hart, who aid the groundwork for the movie western as we know it, as well as the unspooling of Wadja's KANAL, which I only witness wit me own peepers just a couple of years ago, both sorely tempt. To be honest, my sentimental fave is Quine's ode to bohemian culture in 50's Greenwich Village, metaphorically repped as the tale of a contemporary coven blending in with the beatniks. However, if not for the fact that she recently departed our corporeal plane, then surely for the fact that she numbered amongst a handful of female auteurs working in the male-dominated film world of the 60's and 70's, alongside fellow countrywoman Anges Varda and international sisters Elaine May and Joan Micklin Silver, I must shine this site's modest Kliegs upon her incorporation into the Film Society's fest, perhaps appropriately enough on its final day. I remain, woefully, among the uninitiated as regards her considerable canon. I'll try to remedy this status tonight.
Chantal Akerman's GOLDEN EIGHTIES unspools in glorious 35mm at the Walter Reade Theater as the closing entry to this year's Film Comment Selects! Adieu, Madame Réalisateur. Et Bon Voyage.
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in February '16 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!
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