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;

Continuing series this day include CinéSalon: Lhomme Behind the Camera at the French Institute, and the supernatural shenanigans unspooling during Witches' Brew at BAM Cinématek. The halide high-fives be thus;

Continuing series this day include Film Comment Selects at the Film Society, the femme phantasmogoric Witches' Brew at BAM Cinématek, and American International Pictures, Part Three at Anthology Film Archives. The cinematic surfeit be thus;

New and continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: A Pioneer Cowboy at MoMA, the salaciously satanic Witches' Brew at BAM Cinématek, the third leg of Anthology Film Archives' trib to American International Pictures, surely the most important and influential independent studio of the postwar era, Film Comment Selects at BAM Cinématek. and the eternally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The emulsified ebullience be thus;

Today's pickin's be slim, yet mighty. New and continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: A Pioneer Cowboy at MoMA, and the supremely seductive Witches' Brew at BAM. The filmic fantabulous be thus;

Reminder; we'e just under two weeks away from the this site's sophmore in-person meetup event, the 2nd Annual Nitrate Stock Oscar Bash! For those of you unfamilair with the foofaraw, you can check this page's announcement here, or head to the Facebook event page here. We'll be awarding prizes to the winning ballots, the Grand Megillah being the Quentin Tarantino BluRay box set, everything the man's directed from RESERVOIR DOGS through INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, and as a bonus his scripted-only TRUE ROMANCE! 2nd & 3rd prizes will be BluRay copies of Ridley Scott's THE MARTIAN and George Miller's MAD MAX FURY ROAD! We'll have specialty cocktails, excellent grub, and a movie-mad mob fully invested in the proceedings! If it turns out to e anything like last year, it'll be quite the whatfor, so feel free to contact me to reserve table and/or bar space and arrive early to secure your seat! The purchase of a boozy bev or delectible comestible grants you entry into the competition. and remeber; boo Afleck the minute you get the chance!

And now, onto the site's true focus: NYC's rep film scene.

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, y'know, and the coven-coveting Witches' Brew at BAM. The spindle's unspoolery be thus;

To those Stockahz who survived this year's version of 2014's Polar Vortex, I have a few questions; did you manage to hold onto your soul? Are there any murders you wish to confess to? Is the old widow in the apartment upstairs who had all that bottled water stored in case of emergency still alive? Also, what's it like to have surrendered your soul? Don't answer right away, we all went through the same winter blast, all made the same sacrifices, in some cases painful decisions, all have the same horrible misdeeds we'd like to confess. So who's going to start. Huh? I SAID WHO'S GOING TO F*@%ING START?!?!?

Ahem.

New, continuing and concluding series this day include Death is My Dance Partner: Film Noir in Postwar Argentina at MoMA, and CinéSalon: Lhomme Behind the Camera at the French Institute/Alliance Française. The repertory rapscallionery be thus;

New and ongoing series this day include Modern Matinees: A Pioneer Cowboy and Death is My Dance Partner: Film Noir in Postwar Argentina, both at MoMA, Heat and Vice: The Films of Michael Mann at BM Cinématek, Valentine's Day Massacre '16 at Anthology Film Archives, Justice in Film at The New York Historical Society, and the continuing trib to one of filmdom's true giants, Christopher Lee at IFC Center. The kino kerfuffle be thus;

Ongoing series today include Modern Matinees: A Pioneer Cowboy and Death is My Dance Partner: Film Noir in Postwar Argentina at MoMA, Valentine's Day Massacre 2016! at Anthology Film Archives, and The Deuce at the Nitehawk Cinema. The rep rigamrole be thus;

Friends, Stockahz, Countrymen! I come here not to bury Oscar, but to capitalize on AMPAS' annual getting the whole damn thing wrong, with a boozy fest celebrating the very thing the ceremony truly means to all who regularly watch the whole shebang; OSCAR POOLS! That's right! To all you wonderful lads and lasses who made last year's event so successful and memorable, the 1st ever public event to be hosted by this website, here's the official word that we will, indeed, be doing it all again! The 2nd Annual Nitrate Stock Oscar Bash is less than three weeks away, Sunday evening the 28th of February, and just like last year we'll be offering up swag to the ballot winners, specialty cocktails, and the finest pub grub the isle of Manhattan has to offer. But you already knew about that last part. So let's get to that swag!