March 26th 2016. Pick of the Day.
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NY'ers know, year in and year out; we can exult over mild winters, we can huddle like frightened chickens through wholly malevolent winters. Depends on the year. What never changes is the month known as March. Spitefully disregardful of whatever weather has preceded it, March will do its damndest to wholly confuse us, even worse: to punish us with to-the-minute weather shifts. T-shirt in the afternoon? Good luck freezin' yer chess pieces off that night. Layered for the cold? Good luck sweatin' yer checkers off that night. Hey, I'm tryin' to keep it clean. I have nothing but the utmost respect for this adversary, a sometime ally against my greatest foes on the calendar: January & February. Yet much as I respect this formidable 31 days, I never mourn its passage. Because that passage only bodes well: Baseball, warmer weather, longer daytimes, the annual Clamfest out in the Highlands. No, I do not mourn the passage of March, whose end looms closely. And, in true samurai fashion, it will not mourn my own. Arigato.
New and continuing series this day includes Bark at the Moon at the Nitehawk Cinema, From the Third Eye: Evergreen Review on Film at BAM Cinématek, and See It Big: Jack Fisk! and Movie Freak: A Day With Owen Gleiberman at Museum of the Moving Image. The widescreen wimwammery be thus:
Nitehawk Cinema
THE WOLF MAN (1941) Dir; George Waggner
THE HOWLING (1981) Dir; Joe Dante
Film Forum
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
Mid-Manhattan Library
ROBOCOP (1987) Dir; Paul Verhoeven
BAM Cinématek
From the Third Eye: Evergreen Review on Film
WEEKEND (1967) Dir; Jean-Luc Godard
Museum of the Moving Image
RAGGEDY MAN (1980) Dir; Jack Fisk
MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973) Dirs; Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz
Movie Freak: A Day With Owen Gleiberman
NASHVILLE (1975) Dir; Robert Altman
Anthology Film Archives
WHO'S CRAZY (1966) Dir; Thomas White
IFC Center
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) Dir; Alejandro Jodorowsky
Today's Pick? I'm resisting the double-dip regarding George Waggner's seminal werewolf flick, the Lon Chaney Jr.-starring THE WOLF MAN, as I just chose Landis' WEREWOLF IN LONDON yesterday. Altman's NASHVILLE has never done it for me. And I'm hlding ont Lynch's VELVET for a later date, as I've got a full week to make it my Pick. So why don't I single out a library screning for a change. I know it isn't 35mm, I know it's not the desired venue. But let's not be snobs, okay? While it might be a glorified DVD projection, there is some actual programming going on here, and they're working with what they got. So why not celebrate their efforts, no?
Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP screens at the Mid-Manhattan Library as part of their Saturday Movies series! Dead or alive, you're going to the library to enjoy this flick! I realize that makes not a whole lot of sense, but I don't care.
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in March '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!
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!
