Continuing series this day include Film School 101: Canon Fodder at IFC Center, the trib to masterproduction designer and iconic director William Cameron Menzies, Lonely Places: Film Noir and the American Landscape and The Hollywood Classics Behind Walkers at Museum of the Moving Image, Turkeys for Thanksgiving at BAM, and Jack Smith Selects (From the Grave) at Anthology Film Archives. The emulsified ebullience be thus;

New, returning and ongoing series this day include Film School 101: Canon Fodder and Wes Craven's Nightmares at IFC Center, a tribute to filmmaker and innovative production designer William Cameron Menzies at Film Forum, Modern Matinees: The Film Library at Ten at MoMA, Turkeys for Thanksgiving at BAM Cinématek, Jack Smith Selects (From the Grave) and Essential Cinema at Anthology Film Archives, The Hollywood Classics Behind Walkers at Museum of the Moving Image, Justice in Film at the New York Historical Society, and SciFighters at the Nitehawk Cinema. And you thought yesterday's plate was full. The lenticular leftovers be thus;

I've much to give thanks for this year. The programmers who create the screenings and series I'm grateful to follow, cover and attend, cats like Bruce Goldstein at Film Forum, David Schwartz at Museum of the Moving Image, and John Woods, Caryn Coleman and Max Cavanaugh at the Nitehawk Cinema. The publicists and PR personnel, like Rachael Allen and Adam Walker at FF, Tomoko Kawamoto at MoMI, Austin Kennedy at the Film Society. The movie pals I'm richer for knowing and sharing the experience with, peeps like Will McKinley, Aurora, Joel Williams, Pamela Fallon Thornley, and Paula Guthat.

Continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: The Film Library at Ten and To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Turkeys for Thanksgiving at BAM Cinématek, and Wes Craven's Nightmares at IFC Center. The bijou brio before the beneficent bastery be thus;

Well, Stockahz, one more strutting of Macy's inflated mascots looms yet again. As this November '15 winds to a close I must offer the following; THE HELL DID THIS YEAR GO?!?!? I mean, look, I know I routinely grump about time's increasingly rapid passage, it comes with the territory; getting on in age goes hand in hand with a nostalgia for things past, such as movies, therefore this website. But c'mon! C'MON! There's a point where it just gets plain ridiculous how fast the iCal's boxes gets highlighted. It doesn't help that one of the films that first made me a cinema fanatic is unleashing it's 7th iteration in about three weeks, which gives me ample and sometimes unwanted contrast with my 7-year old self. It is in this spirit that I face this upcoming December, and do my usual damndest to engage the curious, convince the lazy, and generally do my best to try and inspire, if not your attendance at a classic film screening, then at least your desire to talk about it. Don't mind me, I'll be okay once pitchers and catchers report in February.

Continuing series this day include To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Turkeys for Thanksgiving at BAM Cinématek, and Sound and Fury: The Films of Cy Endfield at Anthology Film Archives. Make way for the emulsified ebullience;

New and continuing series this day include Film School 101: Canon Fodder at IFC Center, To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, a trib to Dalton Trumbo at Museum of the Moving Image,the equally blacklist-themed Sound and Fury: The Films of Cy Endfield at Anthology Film Archives, and Nobuhiko Obayashi: A Retrospective at the wonderful Japan Society. The sprockety splendiferous be thus;

Returning and continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: The Film Library at 10 and To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, and Jack Smith Selects (From the Grave) at Anthology Film Archives. The moving image mishegas be thus;

Continuing series this day are limited to one venue, MoMA; Modern Matinees: The Film Library at 10 and To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation. The limited but luminous lunacy be thus;

Apologies, Stockahz.

I'm painfully aware that I've been remiss in my duties, having missed posting the daily Pick for days now. For what is surely never to be the last time the real interfered with the reel last week. And that's absolutely as it should be, but when it revolves around great heartbreak the response is never gratitude toward the fates. However, I do want to offer my gratitude, and tsunami levels of it, to all who took a moment to provide a measure of solace last week during my hard time. It reminds that a series of pixels need not be a cold batch of 1's and 0's. They can be every bit as friendly as a handshake, and every bit as warm as a hug. Thanks.

Now let's get to it.

Continuing series this day include Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki at the Walter Reade Theater, and Jack Smith Selects (From the Grave) at Anthology Film Archives. The flickering foofaraw be thus;

New and continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: The Film Library at 10 and To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, both at MoMA (you guessed it!), and Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki at the Walter Reade Theater. The ubiquitous unspoolery be thus;