Well, Stockahz, it's that time of decade again, where I get to tear myself away from the chores of daily life and expand my horizons by traveling by ferry to New Jersey and testing the elasticity of my stomach by ingesting as much deep fried what-have-ye as is humanly possible! You call it culinary debauchery, they call it Clamfest, I call it Elysium. So as I'll be away from any modern form of technology as we've become accustomed to (again: New Jersey!) I've once more decided to bulk-post this weekend's Picks, in order to still sate yer interest and feel like I haven't abandoned my peeps. So here goes.

I dedicate today's Pick to a dear friend of mine, one who walked the earth with a blessed overstock of joviality and generosity. One who gifted me with an added knowledge in the realms of music and film and the written word. One who shared his keen and nearly insatiable interest in all things with anyone who'd listen, and those lucky bums who did so gained by yards not merely in knowledge but disposition. One who has now bequeathed me with a conviction that a life lived in celebration of the better angels of our nature, and in the promotion of these haloed constituents, leads not merely to a satisfied arc, but with all the love you can possibly put into the world ultimately coming back to you in spades. He was a great champion of the human race, of its spirit, and there is no way to mark his passage as anything but a damned loss, or to measure exactly how badly it damages our collective debit column. And yet I cannot help but feel that somewhere, wherever the collective waves and particles that once appeared in a form familiar to us now reside, he is happy that a theater-ful of film enthusiasts will sit down in a darkened space for Malick's BADLANDS this day. Farewell for now, my friend, and thank you. We'll have to continue the film conversation at some future point.

Continuing series this day include True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA, Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek, and This is Celluloid: 35mm Encore at Anthology Film Archives. How do I love the NYC rep film circuit? Let me rattle off the goods;

Continuing, returning, and concluding series this day include True Crime! at Film Forum, Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir from Mexican Cinema's Golden Age and Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA, Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek, and This is Celluloid 35mm: Encore at Anthology Film Archives. The anamorphic antics be thus;

Ongoing series this day includes True Crime! at Film Forum, and the closing moments for both Mexico at Midnight: Noir from Mexican Cinema's Golden Age & Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA. The silver halide hooliganism be thus;

Brevity, my dear Stockahz, is the soul of wit, but more importantly the key ingredient to my getting 4 hours of shut-eye today. So let's get to it!

New and continuing series this day include the Yasujiro Ozu trib and Superheroes 1.0, both at IFC Center, True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond and Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir from Mexican Cinema's Golden Age, both at MoMA, Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek, Frank at 100 at the Walter Reade Theater, This is Celluloid: 35mm Encore at Anthology Film Archives, and the preternaturally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum of Art. The big-screen brouhaha be thus;

New and continuing series this day include True Crime! at Film Forum, the still-unspooling Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond and the premiering Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir from Mexican Cinema's Golden Age, both at MoMA, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa at the Film Society, the comprehensive Indie 80's retrospective at BAM Cinématek, and the clever and concise One-Film Wonders at Anthology Film Archives. The rep rundown be thus;

New and continuing series this day include True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor at MoMA, One-Film Wonders at Anthology Film Archives, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa at the Film Society, and Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek. 'Ere we go Stockahz, 'ere we go!

Continuing series this day include True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor at MoMA, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa at the Film Society, Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek, CinéSalon - Jean-Claude Carrière: Writing the Impossible at the French Institute, and One-Film Wonders at Anthology Film Archives. Let us now praise the greatest repertory film scene in the world;

Today's continuing series include the Yasujiro Ozu trib at IFC Center, True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA, Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Essential John Ford at Astoria's Moving Image, and the enticing One-Film Wonders program at Anthology Film Archives. The wimwammery be thus;

New and continuing series this day include the Yasujiro Ozu trib at IFC Center, True Crime! at Film Forum, Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond at MoMA, Indie 80's at BAM Cinématek, The Essential John Ford at Museum of the Moving Image, the inspired One-Film Wonders at Anthology Film Archives, and the eternally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum of art. The 4-perf foofaraw be thus;