March 22nd 2016. Pick of the Day.
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Today's lone series is the slowly unwinding IT Girls: Flappers, Jazz Babies & Vamps at Film Forum. The wantonly wisecrackin' wimmenry be thus;
Film Forum
IT Girls: Flappers, Jazz Babies & Vamps
DAMES (1934) Dir; Ray Enright
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933) Dir; Mervyn LeRoy
SYNTHETIC SIN (1929) Dir; William A. Seiter
Today's Pick oh hell let's just get to it. The penultimate day of Film Forum's terrific series, IT Girls: Flappers, Jazz Babies & Vamps! Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is thus; arrive early for the 12:30pm screening of Ray Enright's DAMES, as it's offered as a two-fer with Mervyn LeRoy's GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933! Then get outside to enjoy some brisk fresh air, maybe grab a toasted bagel with butter and a coffee, offer some tourists helpful directions, y'know, be a human being fer chrissake, then return to the Forum for the 6:15pm screening of William A. Seiter's SYNTHETIC SIN, featuring onetime flapper icon Colleen Moore, and newly reunited with its origianl Vitaphone soundtrack. Okay for the last reel only, but hey! For something once thought lost forever and newly found that's a pretty damn good deal! You know how many socks I've wished that same fate for? I thank ye.
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P. S. Winter's icy grip seems to have loosened on our fair metropolis, but milder weather aside 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!
