I sense today a disturbance in NYC's rep film circuit, as if a thousand souls cried out at once and said HEY WINTER BLOW THIS ARCTIC TAKEOVER OF OUR MOVIE MAD METROPOLIS OUT YER TAILPIPE! Or some such invective. Anyway we got a lotta great classic cinema to choose from should you be bold enough to venture past your couch. New and continuing series today include both the winding-down Roadshow: the Fall of Film Musicals in the 60's and the ongoing Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, BAM's awesome Vengeance is Hers, the Film Society's Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, Museum of the Moving Image's See It Big! Musicals, and the Rubin Museum's swellagant Cabaret Cinema. The hijinks be thus;

New and continuing series today include MoMA's slowly expiring Roadshow: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 60's, and their ongoing Auteurist History of Film, and the Nitehawk Cinema's Driven! The utter savagery as follows;

Mebbe...mebbe if I stop using the word winter it'll just go away on its own? Mebbe? Go...go away...please?

Goddam Canada! It's all their fault! First Bieber and now this friggin' sleetstorm that's going from door to door in search of the firstborn! Whatehvz! Today's series include MoMA's short-run Roadshow: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 60's and their ongoing Auteurist History of Film, and the Film Society's opening salvo in their Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema. The excellence worthy of your sopping wet hikery be thus;

Whassap, Stockahz?!? Incredibly enough it's already the second month of the new-ish year, and you know what that means; football's dead, winter's dying and baseball is mere days away from its annual rebirth! Can I get a Hallelloo? C'mon just one?

Punxsutawney Phil? Done! NFL? Done! Madden's Turducken? In the oven! What more could I ask for today? John Carpenter announcing he's finally making his western? Okay, I'll rein in the greed...

Ongoing series today include MoMA's Roadshow: The Fall of the Film Musical in the 60's, and Moving Image's See It Big! Musicals! I sense a trend. The non-gridiron whistles as follow;

Welcome to month two of the new year, me fellow Cinegeek! Glad to see you made it to the other side of the Polar Vortex with me! One more day and we can kiss Punxsutawney Phil, the NFL and the last of the frozen marrow in our bones adios! Today's lone series is MoMA's Roadshow: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 60's. The tomfoolery as follows;

HALLELLOO, HALLELLOO, IT'S 37 DEGREES, HALLELLOO!!!

To those of you who think I obsess over the weather in NYC far too much for a site dedicated to classic film screenings, I understand and share your obssession with all the excellent Cinegeekery offered up daily in our movie mad metropolis, and probably should focus more on matters cinematic. On the other hand, though, SHADDAP! It's my blog and I'll rant and moan about any damn thing I please, and this weather is my oldest and most hated foe! Soon, Winter, soon, the NFL will be put in its temporary grave, pitchers and catchers will report, and Spring will vanquish your black heart once more. MWAHAHAHA!

Anyway, new and continuing series this balmy evening include MoMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film, Moving Image's See It Big!:Musicals, and the Rubin Museum's swank Cabaret Cinema. The goods look thusly;

Alright. Once again it's way too cold for any of this nonsense. Stay under the blankets until this all blows over, sometime in July. Should ya choose to sacrifice body, mind and indeed soul to this day's crucifying elements, however, the rundown be thus;

For those of you Cinegeeks who thought yesterday's slate of three-count-'em-three classic film screenings was simply too much of a conundrum, a cinematic Sophie's Choice with no satisfactory solution, I give you today's simpler challenge, and the lone continuing series; MoMA's Auteurist History of Film. The quagmire as follows;

You want classic film screenings? We got classic film screenings! We got exactly THREE classic film screenings happening in our movie mad metropolis today! A plethora! A veritable cornucopia!

Alright, before ya crack wise, hear me out; what with the post-Holiday hangover, the Polar Vortex's imitation of the party guest that won't take the hint and leave, the lead up to another friggin' useless Super Bowl, and the Golden Globes awards and Oscar nominations being announced, let's all agree to give the repertory film programmers at the various screenig venues that we're lucky to be surrounded by a break for the month of January, and just dig the goodies we do have to choose from. The continuing programs amongst the pack tonight are the French Institute's CineSalon, celebrating decades of classic French cinema in newly restored iterations, and the monthly VICE Presents: The Film Foundation Screening Series at the beloved Nitehawk Cinema in follically festooned Billyburg, The breakdown looks like this;