The Nitehawk Cinema in bright and bubbly B-Burg gets the day in classic screenings going with twin brunchtime unspoolings of Walter Hill's THE LONG RIDERS and Ivan Reitman's GHOSTBUSTERS. Both great ensemble pieces that depicted gunslingers of vastly differing variety, and accompanied by the theater's usual fine fare, but misses as my Pick today. It's gonna be 95 degrees today.

Everybody enjoy their 4th? Stomachs stuffed, bikinis stuffed, lobsters stuffed? Grills managed expertly, fireworks observed with the requisite amount of awe, Nathan's hot dog eating contestant vomit through his nose? All in all a pleasant celebration of our great nation's 237th?

Great! Same here! Now let's get back to the blessed pursuit of classic film screenings in the 5 boroughs! And today's LOADED with Cinegeek goodness!

America's birthday has rolled around once more, Stockahz, and while we take advantage of the day off to watch hot dog eating contests, contestants vomiting through their nose at hot dog eating contests, baseball, bikinis and simply the finest annual fireworks display this side of any country with stringent safety regulations, let's also take a second to remember General Washington's efforts and those of his starving troops, as well as the men and women in the Armed Forces at home and around the world today, who respectively secured our independence and maintain it, so we may watch grown men

Ah, July. Mother Nature's Abel to January's Cain. Baseball, bike rides and movies movies movies. Those of us who enjoy multiple weekly screenings and even hopping between cinemas twice and sometimes 3 times a day find themselves that much more fleet of foot at this point on the calendar, due not merely to the shedding of Winter wardrobe for a spell but the sometimes desperate flight toward the next air-conditioned venue. This month our esteemed rep screens give us plenty of reason to attend their classic programming beyond the desire for cooler climes.

The Nitehawk Cinema in beaming, bustling B-Burg offers up two vastly different brunchtime experiences this afternoon. Carl Theodore Dryer's THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC screens side by side with Zucker-Abrams-Zucker's AIRPLANE!

Film Forum's exhaustive and slowly winding down tribute to Yasujiro Ozu begins today with an early afternoon memorial service to the writer who did more than anyone else to bring the cinematic sensei's work in particular, and Japanese film in general, to the world's attention. Donald Richie left us this past February at the too-young age of 88, and his scholarly panache looms large over this retrospective.

The Nitehawk Cinema in bubbly, bustling B-Burg gets things started on this impossibly gorgeous June day with a screening of the Mel Brooks' masterpiece YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, which paradoxically screens quite often and not frequently enough in our film-mad metropolis. Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle lead the merry march, which includes troupers Terri Garr, Marty Feldman, and the screen chewing antics of the great Cloris Leachmen and Madeline Khan!

Billy Wilder's Oscar-minting THE APARTMENT, the director's wry and sometimes scathing dissection of post-WWII American corporate ladder-climbing, is evicted after today's 1:30pm screening as part of MoMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film series.

Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT, the director's Oscar-winning skewering of corporate ladder-climbing culture in post-WWII America, screens today at 1:30pm as part of MoMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film series.

Film Forum's massive trib to master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu merrily skips through its second week, today offering the auteur's EARLY SUMMER and TOKYO CHORUS.