Continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: The Film Library Grows at MoMA, and the monumentally melodramatic Imitations of Life: The Films of Douglas Sirk at the Walter Reade Theater. The rep circuit's Night Before Xmas be thus;

The pickin's today be slim, but cherce. Here goes;

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;

Continuing series this day include Women Crime Writers at Film Forum, the Lynch/Rivette compare/contrast at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Antonio Pietrangeli retro at MoMA, and American International Pictures, Part 2: Bikers, Drugs and Rock & Roll, unspooling at he maddeningly brevity-obsessed Anthology Film Archives. The halide hijinks be thus;

Continuing series this day include Film School 101: Canon Fodder and Rated Xmas: Holiday Classics, Naughty and Nice, both at IFC Center, the deliciously diabolical Women Crime Writers at Film Forum, the slowly winding down Antonio Pietrangeli: A Retrospective at MoMA, and the delightfully unhinged trib to one perhaps the most important film school of all time, American International Pictures, Part 2: Drugs, Bikers, and Rock & Roll at Anthology Film Archives. The filmic fandango be thus;

New and continuing series this day include Film School 101: Canon Fodder and the newly traditional Rated Xmas: Holiday Classics Naughty and Nice, both at IFC Center, the superbly sordid Women Crime Writers at Film Forum, Modern Matinees: The Film Library Grows and Antonio Pietrangeli: A Retrospective, both at MoMA, Lynch/Rivette at the Film Society at Lincoln Center, American International Pictures, Part 2: Bikers, Drugs, and Rock & Roll at Anthology Film Archives, Lonely Places: Film Noir and the American Landscape at Museum of the Moving Image, and the eternally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The emulsified ebullience be thus;

Continuing series this day include the closing days of the William Cameron Menzies trib at Film Forum, Modern Matinees: The Film Library Grows and Antonio Pietrangeli: A Retrospective, both at MoMA, Print Screen at the Walter Reade Theater, American International Pictures Part 2: Bikers, Drugs, and Rock & Roll at Anthology Film Archives, and the Nitehawk Cinema's montlhy trib to Times Square's glorious grindhouse past, The Deuce. The projectionist pyrotechnics be thus;

Continuing series this day include the trib to innovative production designer and iconicfilmmaker William Cameron Menzies at Film Forum, and both the ongoing Modern Matineesprogram and Antonio Pietrangeli: A Retrospective at MoMA. The sprockety splendiferous be thus;

New and continuing series this day include the William Cameron Menzies crowd-surf at Film Forum, Antonio Petrangeli: A Retrospective at MoMA, and Sound and Fury:The Films of Cy Endfield and American International Pictu

Hallo Stockahz! And a Happy Yuletide Season to yaz all from Nitrate Stock! It always blows my mind when this time of year rolls around, it's power to induce reflection on the last 12 months' passage unstemmable. And I don't care if that last word isn't a word. It is now.