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November 15th 2014. Pick of the Day.

Alright, so my choices today are naked Rainer Werner Fassbinder and naked Helen Mirren? Do you even need to read on past that sentence?

Continuing series this day include Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part 2 at the Film Society, To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy at Museum of the Moving Image, and The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema at the Japan Society. The moviola mishegoss be thus;

November 14th 2014. Pick of the Day.

Y'know, I try to judge these things by their qualities, their successes, not so much by their shortcomings. So, without giving anything away, I'll employ terms begat by my beloved game of baseball, and declare that while Christopher Nolan may well have hit a double that drove in two runs, perhaps even a triple that cleared the bags, he by no means has hit a grand slam with INTERSTELLAR. That ruling may change, I would gamble towards its positive assessment, but for now, bereft of any video replay, I'll stand by that endorsement.

Continuing series today 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, Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise to Democracy at Museum of the Moving Image, Justice in Film at the New York Historical Society, and the unwaveringly cool Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The rep hijinks be thus;

November 13th 2014. Pick of the Day.

First winter storm of 2014. New York Knicks the proud owners of a 2-7 record. A sequel to DUMB & DUMBER looming like the polar vortex to our northern horizons. I can only say one thing in repsonse; Chris Nolan! Matt McConaughey! You'd BETTER not let me down!!!

New and continuing series today 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, Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise to Democracyat Museu of the Moving Image, and the succintly-monickered The Deuce at the Nitehawk Cinema. Let's get to it, that blood ain't gonna drink itself;

November 12th 2014. Pick of the Day.

November 11th 2014. Pick of the Day.

New, continuing and concluding series today include, rounded out to the most pertinent integer, exactly, bupkis.

However, what screens is indeed among the choicest of repertory screenings. So don't get all hung up on quantity today. Quality reigns. It's what I tell all my girlfriends. I'll shut up now. The emulated emulsification be thus;

Being Joe Mankiewicz: Kent Jones Offers Some Final Thoughts On NYFF14's Director Retrospective.

Kent Jones, noted film essayist, critic and documentarian, has served as director of programming of the New York Film Festival lo these pleasingly skedaddled-past two years. He graciously offered some closing comments on last month's Mankrospective.

November 9th 2014. Pick of the Day.

Continuing and concluding series today include Film Forum Jr. at Film Forum, 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year at IFC Center, To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society, Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman at BAM Cinématek, and the Rouben Mamoulian Weekend at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image. In the words of Marty DeBergi, let's boogie;

November 8th 2014. Pick of the Day.

Today's Pick comes courtesy of the film-obssessed entity known only as the Ding Man, scourge of the cinematically corrupt, stalwart of the celluloid-starved. Despair, all ye who defend Godard and tempt his wrath. DESPAIR, sez I!

Ahem.

Continuing series today include 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year at IFC Center, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part 2 at the Film Society, To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Rouben Mamoulian Weekend at Museum of the Moving Image, and Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman at BAM Cinématek. The wimwammery be thus;

November 7th 2014. Pick of the Day.

I'm waiting for the Knicks to get back to .500. And so should you. Til then it's film. Film film film. Aw hell, it's always gonna be film, the recurring quandary is how much Knicks and how much film? The mind reels...

New and continuing series today include 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year at IFC Center, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, Part Two at the Film Society, Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43 and To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, the inviolable Rouben Mamoulian Weekend at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image, and the eternally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The motile mishegoss be thus;

November 6th 2014. Pick of the Day.

It occurs to me that the 25 year cut-off mark I employ when reporting on repertory cinema on this site is exactly the same year Tim Burton's BATMAN came out. Having said that, after days of thought, I think I've just figured out BIRDMAN. Whether or not that's a good or bad thing, check in with me on Letterboxd over the next few days. Until then...

Continuing and concluding series today includes Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43 and To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA, Scary Movies 8 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman at BAM Cinématek. The kino kerfuffle thus;

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