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 Caryn Coleman and Max Cavanaugh at the Nitehawk Cinema.

Today's pickin's be slim, but that sorta honors the whole notion of deprivation prior to feast, as this Wednesday before Thanksgiving traditionally & dietarily represents to some of us. Most of us. Okay me. I can never lie about film or roast turkey. I'm a glutton for both.

New and concluding series today include Sunshine Noir at BAM Cinématek, and Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part Two) at the Film Society. The Magick Lanternry be thus;

Today's lone series is the nearly-kaput Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part Two). Hey, it's the last week of the month, you expect your bread to be fresh too? The repertory rapscallionism be thus;

Continuing series today include Film Forum, Jr. at Film Forum, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society, and Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy and the Jean Grémillon retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image. Sunday, Bloody Mary Sunday, here we come;

As of today, we've been privileged beneficiaries of nearly three-quarters of a century of Terry Gilliam. I can't wait to see what he's working on when he reaches the centennial mark. Happy Birthday, sir.

Continuing series today include Jean Grémillon at Museum of the Moving Image, and To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA. Once more into the flicker;

Today, to honor the memory of a particularly brilliant talent, one recently and unfairly departed, who graciously shone his high beams on virtually every aspect of the artistic universe as we know it, I will sip a few Bourgons. He'll get it.

New and continuing series this day include Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43 and To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society, the Jean Grémillon retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, Justice in Film at the New York Historical Society, and the eternally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The tomfoolery as follows;

Okay, I'm beginning to get a bit miffed by how free the 20th of the month feels in just showing up like it does. No courtesy call, no advance warning, just invites itself into my life and decides to stay. For an entire day, no less. What's worse, it's progeny, all the other twenties, and sometimes even a couple of thirties, are soon to follow. And I'm expected to pay them with my time! This works how exactly? I demand an explanation!

New and coninuing series this day include Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43 and To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Chelsea Classics at the BowTie Chelsea Cinemas. To the warmest cinema!

It's the kind of cold today that makes the kind of cold commonly referenced regarding its degree of frigidity in comparison to a witch's, um, broomhandle, to make that kind of cold seek out a bonfire in Salem. Which I would normally just call Fenway Park, but that'll just make me pine for spring '15. Oh, damn, too late.
Continuing series this day include Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan. 1937-43 and To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, and Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society. The kino kerfuffle looks thus;

Polar Vortex. I'd love to say we hardly knew ye. Actually I'd love to say quite a bit more than that but this is a family website. Bastard.

Ongoing series today are limited to Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society and To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at, y'guessed it, MoMA. The quality quirk be thus;

Yeah. I know. The Knicks are 2-8. Wanna torch my DVD collection too, joykiller?

Ahem.

Ongoing series today include Film Forum Jr. at, well, Film Forum, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society, and Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy at Museum of the Moving Image. To the hijnks!