Kansas City evens it up, heads to San Fran with World Series immortality within reach. I know how they feel, I remember when I slapped that Spaldeen over the chainlink and forced a game three at the lot behind Murray's Wash N' Wax. Springsteen wrote a song about it.

Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43 at MoMA, Film Comment Double Feature at the Film Society, Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema at Anthology Film Archives, and Chelsea Classics at the BowTie Chelsea Cinema. The wimwammery be thus;

I'm just wondering who Lorde is rooting for in this World Series.

Hey, if you can do better, submit yer jokes to joew@nitratestock.net! I'm all eyes!

Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, By Marguerite Duras at the Film Society, Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan at MoMA, and Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema at Anthology Film Archives. The cinematic scampery be thus;

The 110th face-off between baseball teams belonging to the American and National leagues begins tonight at 8:07pm. I'm a massive fan, fully embroiled in the match-up drama: Heartland versus West Coast, recent small money champ versus ancient small money champ, and of course, original rules versus the modern game. And yet I can't think of a better competition occurring today than three Resnais screenings going head-to-head-to-head. And I don't even like the guy. You want my job?

Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, By Marguerite Duras at the Film Society, Alain Resnais: Time, Memory and Imagination at the French Institute, and Monsters on Main Street! at the Tarrytown Music Hall. The wimwamerry be thus;

NYC: celebrating our 4th summer of 2014. You wish your city was our city.

Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, By Marguerite Duras at the Film Society, Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema at Anthology Film Archives, and The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema at the Japan Society. The repertory rigmarole as follows;

Over the course of the last month I've been fortunate to bear witness to both sides of the cinephile coin; the mean-spirited, self-aggrandizing misanthropes, and the genuinely welcoming and generous, in terms of both their time and knowledge. Film is a mass market industry still, but with much to be mined in its niche categories, just as the music industry still protects its classical and jazz legacy residuals.

Kansas City Royals, meet San Francisco Giants. World Series '14. Bring it awn.

Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937-43 at MoMA, By Marguerite Duras at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema at Anthology Film Archives, and Chelsea Classics at the Bowtie Chelsea Cinemas. The celluloid hugger mugger be thus;

Now that summer '14 has finally arrived for a day or two, I suggest you follow my lead; by which I mean slather on the sunblock, dig out all your loud tiki-themed clothing, and head to a nice, cool movie theater to beat the heat. Say what you will about my quiet desperation regarding the slow extinction of that unique phenomenon once known as a Manhattan summer. I'll take what I can get.

Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan at MoMA, and Matías Piñeiro Selects: Bridges Over Argentinian Cinema at Anthology Film Archives. Guess which series I'm ill-versed in? No matter: to the venues, mon freres!

I am almost fully decompressed from my attendance at this year's New York Film Fest, the 52nd iteration of said and my first as member of the fourth estate. I am also, but not quite, finished bragging about the latter fact. Cut a Cinegeek some slack, making these kinds of memories is like discovering gold in the Andes to me and my folk. Thankfully one NYFF series has yet to conclude, what I fondly came and will forever refer to as the Mankrospective, the Film Society's career overview of one-time Hollywood titan Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It encounters today, however, competition most stiff, butting up directly against Film Forum's equally persuasive hosannah to filmmaker Frank Capra. Who will win this battle for my affections? Read on...

Ongoing series today include CAPRA! at Film Forum, Joseph L. Mankiewicz - The Essential Iconoclast at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Monsters on Main Street! at the Tarrytown Music Hall. Forward, the Light Brigade!

Ongoing series today include Film Forum Jr. and CAPRA! at Film Forum (where else?), 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Year at IFC Center, Joseph L. Mankiewicz - The Essential Iconoclast at the Film Society, and Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien at Astoria's Moving Image. The pixilated peculiarity be thus;

Synopsis: A neurosurgeon employs psychiatric solutions to a young woman's erratic, neurotic behavior. Once he discovers it's Elizabeth Taylor he's treating, he blames the whole mishegoss on matriarch Katherine Hepburn. Once she's banished, the two kids live happily ever after. I'm pretty sure, anyway.