All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Sometimes I regret living here; too much, too much...

Youngest MoMA audience I've ever seen last night for Night of the Living Dead, maybe 35-40. And the 8pm screening looked younger still.

I'm pretty sure I've never seen Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (BAM for the next week).

But you probably DID see the Madonna video that ripped it off.

If it was after '86, don't bet on it.

7pm Germi tnite? (i won't be online, off today)

Like to, but no can do.

I have tickets for the MOMI Todd Haynes thing that night, but David Gatten is programming an evening of films about water (including JJ Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign) at the WORK Gallery in Red Hook on November 10th.

i'm not seeing any movies until after the GREs

Paradjanov! I've seen that, it was about 10 years ago though.. gorgeous. The Madonna video that ripped off scenes was Bedtime Story.. I remember talking to some Armenian girls when on study abroad & mentioning this.. they were absolutely mortified..

So you gave up on ILF too, huh?

who, me? (I'm thinking this is gonna be mostly for local screenings) I didn't promise to start posting on ILF more, like SOME PEOPLE.

Tonight Paradjanov (esp if I decide not to vote), maybe tom'w Terror's Advocate, Thurs another Germi? all tentative.

I think he was talking about me. Actually I officially gave up around here. but I've started some threads over there since then, like my Germi thread, and these two:
TS Carl Dreyer vs. Victor Erice
I Don't Think He'd Have Given It To Me If I Had Hair Like EXCELSIOR Or Little Legs Like An Alligator

Can anybody figure out where the hell the link is to get tix for the FF's Evening with Norman Lloyd on Nov 26?

http://www.filmforum.org/films/norman.html

I think you can only buy 7 days in advance.

(unless it's I'm Not There)

even with Norman Lloyd cultists champing at the bit?

Maybe you can pull some strings with Bruc3 G0ldstein?

Actually I officially gave up around here.

B-b-but that was the only thread there that had any life in it. Well, that and the rockism one.

The ILF excelsior thread, however, is classsic as is.

Indeed.

B-b-but that was the only thread there that had any life in it. Well, that and the rockism one.
I can't find the thread where I stopped posting in parentheses and Morbius accused me of some Weekend At Bernie's behavior.

Memories.

'S'all I got, and the few that remain are fading fast.

I got ticket to 9:30 Germi tomorrow, Thursday, which I intend to use, barring the not unlikely work, home or health emergency.

ah, 5:30 for me.

Anyone seen any Marc Recha?

http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=161

I'll take that as a no.

More Brakhage at Antholgy Sunday (Pittsburgh Trilogy)

There's a big Max Ophuls retro coming to BAM at month's end; don't see anything on their site, but here:

http://tinyurl.com/2zymrj

A friend of mine is trying to get me to go see Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation at The Anthology tomorrow or over the weekend. Looks like an interesting curiosity, but I dunno.

UGH @ ophuls competing w/ sembene!!

the brief clip i watched of the adaptation looked awesome. i suggest you get on line REEEEEAL early if you end up seeing it, tho

in my GRE-prompted cinema ban i didn't realize i missed ALL of the germis (except for divorce, italian style which i've already seen)

I am suspicious of Raiders Adaptation. For one, I haven't watched ROTLA 20x like everyone else has, apparently.

Also, Sembene v Ophuls v Pasolini.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/pasolini/program.html

I would focus on the otherwise unavailable OS & MO.

Jiri Menzel is at BAM tonight w/ his latest, but I know nothing about it.

I'm suspicious too, but I may have to go out of a social obligation.

the ophuls stuff is up on the website now, btw

Why is Summer With Monika in the Times today? New print?

yes. haven't seen it in eons.

Anyone seen/seeing the Albert Ayler doc at AFA?

I was sposta review it. They sent me a European DVD.

If anyone has MIX tips, speak:

http://www.mixnyc.org/index.html

Maybe I'd go to the 11pm Friday shorts, if I'm up.

after today, Divorce—Italian Style is only playing 9:20 pm at FF.

Get your Norman Lloyd tickets yet?

no, but I see they're available.

Yes, that's what I was trying to tell you.

o i c

Divorce was cute. Why anyone thinks it's GREAT, I'm not sure.

Saw it years ago, didn't make much of an impression. Wasn't he Oscar nominated?

yes, it got several; Germi too?

I hv my N Lloyd ticket.

Hoberman on Sembene (and Ophuls, briefly):

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0748,hoberman,78462,20.html

If I go to see Salo, should I bring someone to hold my hand?

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/pasolini/program.html

I would recommend any NY snob to see Letter from an Unknown Woman on its last night @BAM tonight; it fulfilled all of my expecs.

I would recommend any NY snob EVERYONE ON THE PLANET to see Letter from an Unknown Woman

fixed

Salò makes an even more problematic date movie than Jeanne Dielman!

Ophuls and Sembene have taken over my December.

there were maybe 15 people at last night's 7:45 show of Guelwaar.

I am trying to figure out how to squeeze in Skolimowski's Deep End...

AFA is doing a full Weerasethakul retro in mid-Jan.

BAM is doing a Manoel de Oliveira centennial retro in Feb or March! I wonder if he'll fly in!?

Haha, at last year's NYFF-screening of Belle toujours, Kent Jones or whoever basically said "uh, you guys didn't expect him to be here did you?"

He came to the NYFF about 6 years ago. Still, he was a sprig of 93 then.

AFA seems to have retros planned for olivier assayas, charles burnett and albert brooks (!) as well

haha AND a new print of myra breckinridge!!

snobs, I think I can only make 1 tonight -- which? None are on DVD.

1) Camp de Thiaroye (Sembene) - saw it maybe 12 years ago, it's fine
2) Caught (Ophuls) - never seen
3) Deep End (Skolimowski) - never seen (last night of week run)

What time is Deep End?

7 & 9.

Ophuls is 7 only.

and I could only make 7:30 of Sembene (it's long).

I thought about running 10 mins to the F from BAM to get to Anthology, but the odds are vs that.

as close as these places all are to each other they are also NOT CLOSE ENOUGH

(probably not seeing any of those tonight, trivia)

I guess I will go to Ophuls and see if splices shorten the running time enough to dash to Deep End.

Any Joan Blondell fans in the house?

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=6736

also, FOSSE!

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/allthatfosse/program.html

also I'm going to try to take children to City Lights.

Otto!

http://www.filmforum.org/films/preminger.html

Expect I'll see Daisy Kenyon at last tomw night, tho I've seen Laura plenty.

if i'd woken up at a reasonable hour today, i would probably be doing that

Patricia Neal and Jill Haworth will be introducing next Tuesday's 8pm show of In Harm's Way at FF.

If you feel like seeing some "Ford at Fox" on a big screen, which I'd recommend for some of the epics:

http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/mainpage/john_ford.html

Seen any Paskaljevic? I liked Midwinter Night's Dream and cabaret Balkan, haven't seen any older.

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=7195

Any Japanese film snobs interested in some 60s action at the Japan Society on Friday?

http://www.japansociety.org/content.cfm/event_detail?eid=4517028a

Japan Society shows some great stuff with the one caveat that sometimes the prints are not so good (and sometimes 16mm although this says 35mm)

that's true.

I likely won't stick around for that as we get outta work at 3 Friday.

thought you guys might dig these

http://originalalamo.blogspot.com/2008/01/heavy-metal-director-t-shirts.html

i'm getting the herzog & bergmans.

"bergmans"

It's "Joe" weekend.

http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule

Might try for shorts, tonight & tomw.

"Joe"? Joe Dallesandro or Peter Boyle?

I'm going to try for Syndromes and a Century.

yeah i still haven't seen syndromes, might try to make that sunday.

Von Sternberg?

OK, I get it.

I might need a second look, it really left me intrigued but dubious. Don't know if there'll be time tho.

ken = relentless vaudevillian

http://www.chrisbeetles.com/img/pictures/artists/Snowdon/C25046-b.jpg

Film Comment Selects in Feb: Rivette, Assayas, Seidl etc.

http://www.filmref.com/notes/archives/2008/01/2008_film_comment_selects_prog.html

gonna try to catch last year at marienbad at film forum tomorrow after work.

The Rivette is opening fairly soon, no?

think so

(not that I'll go -- he's a boring old bastard)

Haha, he's one of my favorites, but I've heard the new film is pretty dull.

Va savoir was totally forgettable too.

I wish!

Did yall catch Woman on the Beach? Good stuff! I liked Hong's Tale of Cinema too. Rohmer w/ hint of Charlie Kaufman.

I liked Woman on the Beach, but not as much as previous Hong. I hope he's not drifting too far into comedy of manners territory. I'd like to see it again, though -- is it still playing in the city?

not acc to Voice listings. I heard crowds were thinnish at FF.

at least as of an hour ago, MoMA still has tix for tomw night's Bert Williams program:

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=7520

Tribeca fest to slash prices, be more selective:

http://www.thereeler.com/the_blog/tribeca_comes_home.php

I bought 5 tix for Film Comment Selects, including Joy Division and the pair of fleischers.

A little off-topic and I can't find any info online, but I heard that A1 Film Lab closed. It was easily the worst lab in the city, but it's always sad when businesses like this close and I guess it means that PacLab is the only place left to process super-8.

Reade French series:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/rendezvous08/program.html

Tarkovsky's The Mirror, Reade 6:30

Filmforum

has anyone caught any of the lin cheng-sheng series at AFA? saw two last night and enjoyed them both (murmur of youth = very un-typical first same-sex experience tale; sweet degeneration = tastefully done if slightly oblique man-on-the-skids-returns-to-alienated-family drama, with added incest subplot for good measure); the latter has tsai ming-liang regular lee kang-sheng in it, who i will watch in just about anything

oh, i read about those about a month ago. So many films...

Punishment Park and State Legislature this weekend.

Mandingo at WRT tomorrow, I wonder if the audience will fracture...

Are you going?

doesn't James Mason walk barefoot on a Nee-gro slave in that one?

no, he rests his gouty feet on a boy slave. I think it's a provocative, flawed corrective to GWTW etc.

90 minutes of old & new stuff Kuchar brothers' stuff @Anthology, Thursday at 7:30 only.

Mike Kuchar
TALES OF THE BRONX (1970, 16 minutes, 16mm)
“From the elephant house of Bronx Zoo to the eight-story-tall Tabonga Terrace apartments on Sedgwich Avenue, living Mammals scream for their place in the Sun and drop heavy brown excretions in pots of porcelain that splash and clog and suck like huge toothless mouths on the lily-white mounds that lower into the hollow half submerged ovals, creating stagnant damp vacuums that cling and grab.” –M.K.

George Kuchar
BLIPS (1979, 31 minutes, 16mm)
“An enigmatic movie that’s like an enigmatic enema.” –G.K.

Mike Kuchar
ZOOLOGY (2006, 20 minutes, 16mm)
“It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existence is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions stirred up by memory.” –M.K.

George Kuchar
VISTAVISIONS (2007, 15 minutes, video)
“A tribute to people everywhere who spread their glorious visions on canvases both large and small, beaded or lenticular, glossy or mat finished. A joyous celebration of lofty peaks and deep dished delights all basking in the limelight of luminous imagery from the visionaries of tomorrow who create today so that yesterday is not forgotten.” –G.K.

Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.

I guess I'm going to Kim Ki-Young's The Housemaid tonight, as it seems I can't afford to miss.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/infernalmachines/program.html

Franju at Anthology? anyone seen HEAD AGAINST THE WALL?

or THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX?

yeah, Kael liked that one.

ok hoberman series @ BAM is killin' it this week: jeanne dielman tonight, rock n' roll high school/assault on precinct 13 (with free booze in between) tomorrow, and andrei rublev wednesday

and for the sake of inclusion, a cloud-capped star on thursday, which i know absolutely nothing about

I can't deal with any of that, probably, esp as I am heading home tonight to watch opening day baseball. My only retro outing might be Planet of the Apes, and I want to see No Country while it's still in a theater.

http://www.clearviewcinemas.com/classics/classics-ziegfeld.shtml

Not with a bang, etc

anyone seen anything by Robert Breer, getting a retro @Anthology?

Nope.

I wonder what's playing at that Paris Underground cinema?

rock n' roll high school/assault on precinct 13 (with free booze in between)

annoying sound issues aside, this was awesome

During May it's going to be '60s, '60s, '60s:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/1968/program.html

http://www.filmforum.org/films/godards60.html

http://loewsjersey.org/

Sarris & Haskell introduce Cluny Brown (good Lubitsch) tonight @Reade!

and tnite, T Schoonmaker intros an Archers film I havent seen:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/jenniferjones/gonetoearth.html

Thelma did a generous 30-min Q&A.

For the Charles Boyer series, i highly recommend History Is Made at Night but won't be back from weekend trip in time.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/charlesboyer/historyismadeatnight.html

There are a few Peter Hutton screenings left at MOMA. What I've caught has been really great so far.

Two of Dali's fave silents at MoMA tonight, The Freshman and The General.

also, does anyone know which of these Robbe-Grillet films I should prioritize? (I don't mean Marienbad)

http://bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=194

are all the film snobs "summering" elsewhere?

Friday at 7pm at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Columbus & 58th St, a program of silents that feature NYC locations; actualities from the 1900’s, plus these comedy shorts – All On Account of a Transfer (Edison Co., 1913), Plagues and Puppy Love (Larry Semon, 1917), Coney Island (Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, 1917) – pipe organ accomp – tix are “free will offering” (pay what you like)

who's doing the 10 hours of The Human Condition at FF?

...not me.

I think I'll go to Oshima's "Boy" on Sat.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/kawakita/program.html

Film snobs, please go to see Classe Tous Risques tomorrow at the FF, which I saw today. And yeah, of course you should probably watch Le Doulos as well.

Saw both fairly recently...

I might go to that Mexican director's retro @Reade one night this week... Macario?

also need to use my free admission card this week at FF; Diabolique, probly.

I think I am going to use mine for The Sicilian Clan.

My second one that is. For some reason I got two.

That Roberto Gavaldón festival looks good, don't know if I will get to see any of it.

Sicilian Clan tonight. Did you use your coupon yet, Morbius?

no, and i'm not going to. :( Going to Macario at WRT tonight.

who want Tarr's The Man from London at MoMA at 6?

If you've missed most of Oshima (tonight and Sunday left for me, I think), Andrzej Wajda retro upcoming @Reade:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/wajda/program.html

tonight ... Sharif & Palance & Cuba, oh my!

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/fcs/che.html

I yam going to The Wild Child tonight.

snobs for a Farber program?

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/mannyfarber/program.html

sheeit, Voyage to Italy is only playing once in Reade's Farber series, tomw at 6:30.

$48 for Bogdanovich talking to Jerry Lewis. I'd be tempted if I hadn't seen Jer in Damn Yankees.

http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/timescenter/events.php?month=11&year=2008&day=22

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/movies/homevideo/09dvds.html?ref=arts

yeah, I might be able to get through that box over my remaining lifespan. (The Keaton and Sturges boxes that I own have hardly been touched.)

I watched all the Sturges box a few times except for the science pic, which I still haven't seen.

It's fascinating! as far as I recall.

we should get to the movies some year, Ken ... don't know if there are possibilities this month.

Yeah, I'm kind of under a rock for the rest of the this year myself.

This weekend I am under my screener disc of Che.

I ordered that Borzage box a few hours ago. Fun times ahead!

everyone shd go see In the City of Sylvia at Anthology. Best nouvelle vagure film of the new century.

Laugh and Live: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks

December 17, 2008–January 12, 2009

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=10945&ref=calendar

Douglas Fairbanks was a thirty-five-year-old veteran of live theater when he made his first films in 1915 for D. W. Griffith's Fine Arts studio. There, he created the character of "Doug," a breezy, all-American go-getter who seemed to move effortlessly though life and across the screen. Still, Fairbanks never quite fit in with the Griffith ensemble, and within eighteen months he was working independently, eventually becoming one of the founders of United Artists in 1919. The following year, with the release of The Mark of Zorro, he moved into the production of big-budget costume films, averaging one a year for the rest of the 1920s.

This series—which takes its title from Fairbanks's 1917 book of the same name, in which he promoted his optimistic outlook as the key to happiness and success—celebrates the seventieth anniversary of MoMA's acquisition of the Douglas Fairbanks Collection. Jeffrey Vance, author of Douglas Fairbanks (University of California Press & Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2008), introduces the December 17 screening of The Gaucho.

it's the last day of a milos forman pic at BAM tomorrow. he did a q & a a week ago that i didn't know about - damn.

what's the anthology like? i might try and get to in the city of sylvia.

i saw in the city of sylvia tonight, it was great! tomorrow's the last day to see it i think. go go!

also best stalker film in awhile.

Anyone seen Schrader's Mishima? he's doing Q&A Friday at FF.

Haven't seen it and can't go, but I saw him on a panel once and he was very entertaining so I recommend you go.

man, i hope it isn't the last day, i wanna see the forman pic. mmmmmmmm.
i've seen mishima - not great, kinda like all his stuff. i saw him q & a on it and he was pretty interesting, funny stories about reagan getting shot and subsequent fbi phonecalls etc. some of the glass score is great, particularly when re-done by the kronos quartet.

but ehhh.

yes, I've seen him a couple times, like at NYFF after 'the Bob Crane movie'

I quite like Blue Collar, Patty Hearst ... and Touch!

Saw Mishima last night, but left before the q+a.

patty hearst is so sanitised though. have you seen the docu, guerrilla? it's terrific. i saw it first, and the auster pic comes across as way too sympathetic. the original tapes of hearst's messages, telling her mom not to wear the black dress, are really amazing relics, but the film's kinda revisionist. i seem to remember that she was involved.

Never seen Patty Hearst. The only Schrader I like is Affliction and maybe Light Sleeper, but it's been years since I've seen it.

I have an extra ticket to this 1919 Douglas Fairbanks comedy at 6 tonight if anyone wants to join me. (If you're not a MoMA member I think I can get you in for $5.)

http://moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=11270

i saw in the city of sylvia tonight, it was great! tomorrow's the last day to see it i think. go go!

i saw and l o v e d this in the end, so thanks! ilx. imdb-ing tells me there's an interesting looking companion piece, if one goes to the lengths of tracking down the dvd.
i loved the anthology too. going in it felt like i was going to be watching a film in a school, with all the white plaster and molded chairs, but the cinema was great/surprisingly great.

I can't believe they put new seats in, at last.

If not exhausted, will go to Fairbanks' A Modern Musketeer at MoMA at 6.

Would anyone like to see Nicholas Ray's "Bigger Than Life" perhaps tonight at Film Forum?? I just read
the very interesting New Yorker article that inspired the movie (there is a pdf of it at the FF site).

http://www.filmforum.org/films/bigger.html

That's a great movie, Virginia, you should definitely go.

i'm going to see bigger than life at some point, am not sure which screening though ..?
i've alwaysw been dying to see his 'they live by night'.

I've seen it once, will prob go again Monday eve tho.

I'm seeing it tonight. I've wanted to see this for a long time.

something about filmforum makes me sleepy. i have to buy tea to make sure i can last through.
i might go to 7.50 or 9.50 tonight anyhow.

I saw it years ago at the Thalia, back in the 80s.

How much are tickets at Film Forum? I can't find any info on their website

They're $11 now, I think.

To see a movie in mice-infested theaters with seats less comfortable than those at places with a lot less money.

Dear god, that's insane.

All they do is show movies Criterion Collection gives them to promote upcoming DVD releases

brut stanton ruining my thread.

That's more about what Rialto distributes and at least they're showing prints. It's the IFC Center that just screens (or used to screen) Criterion DVDS at full price.

I was going to swing by to catch Bigger Than Life, but $11... that's a real chin scratcher there.

Well, it's probably healthy for you to vary what you scratch.

$11 is fine for a film that doesnt seem to be on the DVD horizon. Plis u shd be a member.

caveat: most of the under-40 FF audience will laugh all the way thru BtL.

James Mason here I come.

I'm glad the FF guffaws were mostly confined to "God was wrong!"

Anyone going to Playtime at Reade tonight? $15, $12 members.

i'm not, but you should: it's such a great film to see projected, both aesthetically and with the ambient sound design.

I've seen it projected at least 3x, and still may go tonight.

Jacques Tati's "Playtime" - restored print

since we're here: i was flicking through the anthology film archives catalogue for the next few months, and then for the last few months, and noticed that i'd missed a robert frank retro. so bummed out. i'd heard cocksucker blues was playing, which i've seen projected once, but i can't believe i missed me and my brother etc. did anyone go? is anything else momentous on the horizon? i moved here just after that total eustache run a while back and still kick myself ...

No, I missed all that Frank, incl Cksuker.

I'd call the Kuchar brothers' retro at Anthology from March 11-17 pretty momentous. I've seen just about everything of theirs that's been shown locally in the last 15 years, but this is probably the most of their work that's been shown in one place since George's retro at AMMI around '93. Their shorts, esp from the '50s and '60s, are indescribable... like a Kenneth Anger fan's ramshackle dream of John Waters?

oh cool. i really ought to get around to seeing those kenneth anger shorts dvds too. the next few months of anthology screenings kind of mystified me, but i might chance some of the new filmmaker nights etc.

i have a great copy of cocksucker blues at a friend's - it's an amazing film, a tapestry of well-observed short takes and moments, so identifiably by frank. you're welcome to borrow if i can retrieve my copy. i believe the retro preceded an expensive dvd release of some of his stuff.

btw, did silent light only just come out here? i saw it forever ago but keep thinking of it.

I saw Silent Light at the NYFF '07. Then it ran at MoMA for a week last year, and now this FF run.

I just remembered once back in more halcyon days Morbius was asking about some Kenneth Anger stuff and we were checking some of the now-defunct video stores like Evergreen to see if they had it. RIP, Bricks and Mortar.

yes, where am I going to rent with last week's demise of Mondo Kim's? Kim's West Village?

I had Vol. 1 of Anger out of the library last week.

i'll be at playtime tonight!

the handful of kuchars i've seen are awesome. john waters has credited them for inspiring him to make films

are you going at 6, joe?

I have a combo Waters/Kuchars book I bought at A Different Light in SF!

8:30

I had Vol. 1 of Anger out of the library last week.

cool beans. i've just reserved billy the kid from mid-manhattan, but am trying to get to the cinema rather than watch stuff at home right now.

i have an idea that park slope's good for renting stuff, but that may be based on copious video outlets rather than quality or selection.

yeah, I'd rather go to a store near work in Chelsea than hop off the F to rent in PkSlope, then get back on to go home! What's that place around 22nd & 9th that looks like a bomb hit it? is it even still there?

but the f has lovely views around smith

Yeah, that store on 22nd and 9th is still there.

is one westside, too, maybe on christopher?, betwixt sex and smoke shops. it has ozu boxsets in the window and stuff.

playtime = wow wow wow wow wow wow wow

is there a good production history of this movie anywhere? i really would love to know more about how eg the nightclub scene was handled by tati

The David Bellos Tati bio has a chapter on the production, it's not a great book though. There's some info in Stuart Klawan's Film Follies too. It's often referenced and hugely mythologized--Tati bankrupted himself making the film--but there doesn't seem to be much detail available in English.

I'm sad I missed the Walter Reed. I've seen it projected before, but not in 70mm.

^Walter Reed screening.

dr, there's also a 2-hr doc on Tati's career (made by his daughter) on the recent Criterion DVD of Trafic, which has some footage of the Playtime shoot and succinct history.

(didn't go last night, hemorrhaging $ this week)

i saw a documentary - i remember it as being specifically about playtime, but it may well have been an extract of a general bio. there was footage of them disassembling the set after shooting finished, walls falling buster keaton style. i'd thought there was a book too, i forget.

I have a combo Waters/Kuchars book I bought at A Different Light in SF!

I had this book, too. I bought it at the Compendium going out of business sale.

If you can tolerate pitch-black (as in rape and murder-flavored) comedies about pre-glasnost Russia, I highly recommend Cargo 200 at Cinema Village. (it goes to a late-night only sched after tonight)

I'm excited for Made in America at FF. Morbs, you were right about the crowd for Bigger Than Life. I actually
preferred the New Yorker article, which portrayed cortisone-induced mania, rather than Mason's peculiar brand of
insanity.

FF draws such a contemptibly smug demog to the revivals.

I like Masonmania. "You didn't want to go on living?"

I like that Mason got worked up in this one, even if it was just a side effect of the cortisone. Usually I find him a little bland, in a Herbert Marshall style.

Although I guess he was tough in North By Northwest.

They went w/ the stuntmen a really long time at the climax, plenty of time to see it's not Mason and Matthau.

Busby Berkeley / Carmen Miranda tomw night @Reade (new color print):

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/doc09/thegang_sallhere.html

+ Eugene Pallette And Edward Everett Horton!

geez, I get outta work early today -- anyone for Made in USA at 4:40?

You still thinking about doing this?

YES

are you a FF member? Go in on my double discount card.

Thanks, but I re-upped this year so I got my own. Not quite sure I can make it though.

I went at 8:20; so crowded.

think i'm gonna catch some of these finnish melodramas at AFA today, one of which apparently has a "stella dallas" thing going on so i expect i'll be happy

(SD itself is screening at walter reade on feb. 13 for the lonely hearts club. i wonder if that'll be more crushing than seeing umbrellas of cherbourg on v-day at film forum like i did several yrs ago)

havent gone to MiUSA yet... i saw that Finnish SD! good.

thats the silent Stella Dallas!

Jeanne Dielman at FF for a week starting tom'w

isn't akerman having a retro somewhere? maybe not even in ny. but it sounds interesting; i've always wanted to see toute une nuit.

http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2009/01/q-with-chantal-akerman-jeanne-dielman.html

i might try to catch jeanna this weekend. the anthology are playing ordet, but without subtitles, which is frustrating because seeing one of the tuovo pictures showing just made me want to see ordet on a screen.

They are speaking Danish it's true, but they are speaking it VERY SLOWLY so maybe you will have a chance of understanding it.

i kinda thought about going because i have a hazy memory of what happens and it isn't like it's dialogue driven. i'd go to watch the camera move alone. but maybe next time.

schlump, BAM is having a Dreyer retro soon -- March? wait til then.

JANE in person @ IFC:

FTA (1972, Francine Parker), the Vietnam War-era documentary, will be shown in a rare archival screening with former FTA cast member Jane Fonda in person, Monday, February 2 at 7:00pm. Following the screening, Jane Fonda will talk about the film and her work in the controversial antiwar touring show in a discussion moderated by David Zeiger, director of the recent documentary Sir, No Sir! A portion of the proceeds from the evening will benefit Iraq Veterans against the War, a nonprofit advocacy organization for ending the war and for providing support to returning service members.

“The show the Pentagon couldn’t stop,” the FTA (which stood for Free Theater Associates, and also Free - or another F-word - The Army) revue brought antiwar entertainment to military personnel at the height of Vietnam. Performers like Ms. Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Holly Near toured towns near military bases around the US and overseas, lending their support to troops who opposed the war. The film documents the troupe’s performances at US military bases on the Pacific Rim - Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines - as they attempt to encourage opposition to the war among the rank-and-file of US forces.

Tickets to this special event are $12 for IFC Center members, $15 for non-members.

xpost:
Here are a few key Danish words and phrases to help you

mor = mother
far = father
farvel min pige = goodbye my girl
en kop kaffe = a cup of coffee
jeg vil gerne ha en kop kaffe - I would like (would gladly have) a cup of coffee

"BAM will also host retrospectives honoring Paul Newman (March 20-29), Danish auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer (March 13-31) and Japanese helmer Nagisa Oshima (April 1-14)."

those keywords neatly summarise the plot of ordet. i think a lot of the crazy guy's muttering goes unsubtitled anyway.

thanks for the bam info; the garrone season looks interesting too. oshima and dreyer retros should be great.

only related by virtue of being an italian film, there should be the new sorrentino that was playing at the festivals soon, right?

I think those keywords account for about half the dialogue.

jeg vil gerne ha en kop kaffe - I would like (would gladly have) a cup of coffee
Forget some letters, it should be
jeg vil gerne have en kop kaffe

Sirk vs Stahl?

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?show_date=2009-01-28

Sirk wins in every showdown I've seen (ya, every = both).

haha at Eric's new screenname.

i plan on hitting up sirk/stahl double feature tonight (when tomorrow comes/interlude)

I'm not sure I can do both -- of course, the Sirk isnt til 9.

Dave Kehr on Interlude: "For once Douglas Sirk seems totally defeated by the material, though he does manage some characteristically intense work near the end."

Fingers w/ Toback q&a on Sat:

http://filmlinc.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/like-quentin-tarantino-maybe-you-have-some-questions-for-legendary-filmmaker-james-toback/

dave kehr OTM, it was a bit flat. the stahl was fantastic tho

of course, I thought it was tonight. can't read. :(

Too much looking at intranets makes you go blind.

oh, WTC shows again Sat @ 4:30.

Reade has Oscar Micheaux / prewar black cinema series upcoming. I think I've only seen OM's fallen-preacher silent Body and Soul w/ Robeson, but some of his sound films are supposed to be unearthly strange.

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/micheaux/program.html

and then Film Comment Selects, w/ Guy Debord retro:

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/fcs09/program.html

The Frontier of Dawn & the guy who did duck season should be interesting.
i might catch just the stahl picture at the anthology on sunday.

I've only seen the preceding P Garrel film (Regular Lovers) and found it mostly stultifying despite dashing Louis' presence.

can't think of anywhere else to discuss this - has anyone made it to the class yet?

nope. I will, but my hopes aren't particularly high.

Thanks for the JM Stahl recommend, donna rouge!

Tom'w night I'm gonna try to do a Reade double of David Holzman's Diary and Scgrader's Blue Collar.

Jane Fonda only did Q&A for about 20 mins last night, a little white doggie in her lap the whole time. FTA is woth a look if you're into the period, but it's not of Winter Soldier caliber.

(FTA on DVD later this month)

the class is good. kinda reminded me of claire denis, it's bold enough to really discuss and present ambiguously, for the most part.

i got to stahl's magnificent obsession in the end and loved it.

& i have given up on paul schrader films entirely - is that the one he made last year?

glad you liked! the church sequence has stuck with me ever since i watched it

maybe it's even better than Love Affair (which I didn't realize was same year for Boyer-Dunne).

haha, no schlump, it's a '78 labor unrest film w/ maybe Richard Pryor's best acting role. Schrader says Pryor hit both Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto on the set.

re Oscar Micheaux, for Reade retro:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/life-comes-through-20090204

and Robt Downey Sr retro returns to Anthology:

http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/comedy/downey-sr-a-prince-but-also-a-man-possessed/

damn, trying to figure how I can squeeze in Chafed Elbows and No More Excuses!

gah, not sure i can do either this weekend, schoolwork starting to snowball again

Laszlo Szabo to do Q&A at Made In U.S.A screening at FF this Friday.

Japan Society "Shinjuku Ecstasy: Independent Films from the Art Theatre Guild of Japan" series, Feb 18-March 1:

http://www.japansociety.org/shinjuku_ecstasy

Throw Away Your Books, Let's Go into the Street has to be one of the best titles ever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/movies/11coop.html

^^yeah, pretty pissed off about this. this is a pretty bad time for film archives (and pretty much every other arts organization) right now

i'm down for funeral parade of roses

Wow, that really sucks. The FMC is necessary for most of these to be seen at all (particularly the parts of the collection that don't overlap with Canyon).

Like the kid in that photo, I was once a Co-op intern, and while I don't know all the details, it really doesn't seem like P.S. 1 would need all the space on that floor for the radio station (iirc, they've been running something similar from there for a while); the FMC collection fills only a small room. And even if they're able to find another space, moving all those films is a ton of work, as illustrated here.

a ton of potentially dangerous work if some of the prints are fragile (and i imagine in many cases they are)

Yeah, that's largely true, but the Co-op is primarily a distributor rather than an archive, so it's not like rare negatives are in danger of being destroyed. It's more a question of these movies' (relative) availability to the public than their existence somewhere.

Maybe that Sicilian town will house them.

I love this guy

Here's another good article about him.

Might go to 6/7:30 Depression double feature at the FF tonight.

I belong to a (semi-defunct) vintage comedy viewing group, one of whose members kept nitrate prints under the sink as a teen/YA. They exploded one day and totaled his parents' bathroom (no casualties).

trying to figure if i shd take double plunge tonight for Micheaux silent @Reade:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011870/

and then Vitaphone variety shorts at FF:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/breadlines.html#vitaphone

I've seen the Jolson picture, it's good.

I recently read a bunch of the Scott Eyman book about the transition to sound, so I'm pretty curious about the Vitaphones. Thanks for the tip. I might see you there.

That was pretty good and nice to run into you at the end. Did you hear me trying to shout down the cacklers?

no. not at Will Hays I hope...

Were you there for the Will Hays? They were hooting all the way through.

a rare instance of appropriate hooting, imho.

Even though it was Will Hays, it really bugged me all these people laughing at this guy acting like he was addressing a large theater audience and not knowing how to behave in front of a camera.

the arm gestures were pretty choice.

RIP new yorker films:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/end_of_the_road_for_new_yorker_films_legendary_distributor_of_difficult_cin/

ouch. rip

yikes, so much March stuff!

http://sallitt.blogspot.com/2009/02/assorted-screenings-in-nyc-march-2009.html

has anyone made it to 12 at the filmforum? i might go tonight but need to plot a chart assessing quality/length (160 min).

not me. no time for this or that Ferreri film @ BAM.

if ferreri is the dillinger film, i think that's winning the battle for my evening. then stahl soon at filmforum!, too. i really regret not seeing more of the anthology retro.

wish i'd remembered about the film at the lincoln last night too

Hurt Locker tomw @WRT for me

Kuchar Bros fest begins tom'w @ Anthology. Brilliant, hilarious precursors to John Waters, among other niches.

http://www.movingimagesource.us/events/a-lust-for-ecstasy-brand-new-20090311

hi today i got to fix some sprocket holes in the LoC print of the quiet man

i predict that maybe 1 person will find this at all interesting and that person probably posts to this thread

present!

Catch Leave It to Heaven att ff if you haven't; about 25 ppl at my show, derisive chuckles from at least 6 throughout... The color is as stupendous as is some of the later Sirks; wow Gene Tierney on a horse with an urn!

Wow, gotta see that. Saw about five seconds of some Scorcese doc about history of cinema and the clips from that really stood out. Plus look at the disparate group of characters that are repping for it on the FF website: guy that wrote some Godard books, guy that wrote some film noir books, Guy Maddin, and many of the usual suspects, among others.

climaxes w/ most surreal abstract courtroom sequence ever.

I think my Kuchars sched is Friday 9pm, Saturday 5 & 7, Tuesday 7.

The color is as stupendous as is some of the later Sirks;

yeah, it's like le mepris or something. totally great.

OK, went to see this last night. Lives up to the hype.

oh by the way: le mepris actually came to mind way more watching DILLINGER IS DEAD. did any of you get to it? i owe myself ferreri films now.

last Kuchar programs tnite at 7 & 9

What should I see from the BAM series of Nagisa Oshima films?
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1017

as much as possible.

S/D: Nagisa Oshima, renegade filmmaker

since my week is insanely imploding already, I'll probably screw it and go to the Dreyer silent at BAM tnite:

http://onfilm.chicagoreader.com/movies/capsules/6016_MASTER_OF_THE_HOUSE

planning on BAM Oshima tomw & Thurs.

forgot about that. i will probably randomly pick a couple. has anyone ever seen that bresson film that's really hard to get that's called something like four nights of a dreamer or something? one of the oshima pics reminded me of it, synopsis wise

As posted on Rolling Documentary thread, you guys need to see this, imo it's one of the best documentaries of the past couple years (/ever). Don't do any research at all before you go to it, it could kinda ruin the experience.

Also, I'm starting to dip my toes into the distribution world. What theaters do you guys recommend for documentaries? Rooftop? IFC? BAM?

IFC deffo (not that i go to many of them but they've got the whole stranger than fiction series)

Film Forum premieres a lot.

Oooh, forgot Film Forum, I've heard good things!

I might as well get into specifics (I should point out that I'm not actually distributing either of these films, but I am trying to give advice). The first is a ridiculously well-shot film about poor br4zilian boys, looks amazing on a big screen. Kinda like Kiarostami. The director is a colleague of the Dardenne brothers. The other film is a surprisingly well-shot and well-edited coming-of-age doc that follows these Jackass-obsessed kids...sorta feels like cult classic material?

Does that change any answers?

the first of those sounds like FF, second IFC.

Thanks!

If you need to contact anybody at the Film Society At Lincoln Center these days, you'll have to go straight to the top, Richard Peña, as he seems to be the only one left over there.

you/someone mentioned the dardenne/french film before, and i remember struggling to find much of a presence online. good luck anyhow.

Yeah, that's mostly because it's being promoted under its Portuguese title in France. Also because it's obscure.

Also, another reminder: Forbidden Lie$ is playing at Cinema Village and you need to see it. Without doing any research, really, i'm not joking.

Also, Time Out's review is painfully wrong, perhaps the worst blurb of the year.

"Yesterday's news"? Like WTF, did you even get the point of the film? Or watch past the first 25 minutes?

Ayo, http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/forbiddenlies

think i will get to Oshima 4:30 @BAM, Three Resurrected Drunkards

dr spaceman was excellent as norma's husband in forbidden lies

Chaplin Essanays @ NY Hist Society on CPW at 2

http://www.silentclowns.com/nowshowing.html

any tribeca plans?

nope! :D

looks like i am going to see moon... blank city... the eclipse... defamation?

what else is good playing at tribs? honestly the line-up is not wowing me.

is it true they "downsized" this year? their unwieldiness i found kinda offputting in the past

i am new to this and was totally thinking i could wait the long-ass time until denizens of the tri-state area could get tickets for things like whatever works. bummer. now i have to read through all the enthusiastic recommendations for horror imports.

85 films in it, down from 200+. I've seen 3 or 4, all underwhelming. Their press screenings are barely organized.

anything in particular you're looking forward to morbs?

what have you seen?

Rudo y Cursi - the "Tambien" brats in an even MORE insufferable comedy!

Easy Virtue - wrongheaded Noel Coward adap where they try to make the characters REAL.

Might try that Brit In the Looop today.

the line-up isn't that inspiring i gotta say. there's not that much to tempt me away from chillin with my nyc friends and eating things... one or two movies a day max

have you seen Treeless Mountain? or do you want to see Viridiana at Film Forum maybe Friday?

i haven't! and when is viridiana playing?

it starts at Film Forum on Friday. Treeless Mt just started there too.

also, there's a Shirley Clarke fest @ Anthology.

I can unreservedly recommend In the Loop, but IFC is releasing it in May.

Someone else told me the same thing. Thinking about seeing it at the FF members brunch, but might take the kids to see the Harold Lloyd instead.

also John Hurt is very touching playing Quentin Crisp again in An Englishman in New York, but it doesn't approach the earlier film.

FF Members Brunch was lots of fun. Bruce outdid himself.

any of you catch IL DIVO/anyone as enamoured as i was?

it sounds awesome from everything ive read
how long until its in non-snob theaters, if ever?

there's something on a blog about how it's been ghettoized into just the film center and sunshine, but will come out at some point. it's a masterpiece anyway: i like sorrentino's last two films plenty but could call him my favourite director after this - the function of the production design and cinematography, the language of the film, ahh.

I liked, gave it 3 stars outta 4, but it's sort of limited -- you keep waiting for Toni Servillo to bend his performance to let more "naturalism" at least peek through, but the only new color after the first 5 minutes is that very theatrical confession scene.

Directors' Late Films @ BAM -- I'm thinking mostly about Cracking Up on Tuesday, then Aldrich and Wellman.

http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1051

"the late film" is the only may repertory thing that i'm excited about. thoughts on godard's king lear?

saw it when it came out; shrugged at it like most '80s Godard. The Burgess Meredith-Molly Ringwald scenes were at least ... something.

wow, Sarris & Haskell introducing El Dorado @BAM.

My friend Steve co-curated this MoMA series of silent comedy shorts at month's end with the magnetic title CRUEL AND UNUSUAL COMEDY!

http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/948

Note: "Since these films touch on a number of potentially sensitive issues, each screening features an introduction that will provide context." Beware, blackface and woman-beating!

also, I plan on going to the Julien Duvivier film today at 5:30.

I've meant to see that one for years. Sometimes I even think I've seen it, but what I'm confusing it with is something called Pattes Blanches.

Wow, I guess that's Hildegard Knef in that still from Holiday For Henrietta.

Cracking Up looks good, but traveling to BAM always seems a bit excessive to me. I wish AMMI would reopen already. I may try Age of Consent though. Have Edward Said's "On Late Style" on reserve to prepare.

Age of Consent really isn't very good.

The best in the series might be Good Morning and L'Argent.

I plan to be at all these programs... Only one for 9-to-5-ers tho.

Don’t miss “Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film” at MoMA! Five programs of rare silent comedy shorts from MoMA’s archive hand-picked by Ben Model, Steve Massa and Ron Magliozzi:

Weds May 20 at 4pm - “Drag Shows” - Charlie Murray, Wallace Beery, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Finlayson, Harry Myers, Buster Keaton and Roscoe Arbuckle

Weds May 27 at 4pm - “Race Riots” - David Morris, Henry Bergman, Harold Lloyd, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, Lige Conley, Spencer Bell, and Bert Williams

Weds May 27 at 7pm - “Gratuitous Violence” - Ford Sterling, Mack Sennett, Lloyd Hamilton and Bud Duncan (Ham & Bud), Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, James Parrott, Kalla Pasha, and Billie Ritchie

Fri May 29 at 4pm - “Animals and Children” - an unidentified elephant, George Ober, Our Gang, Pal the dog and an alligator, the Dippy Do-Dads, Billy Bevan and the Sennett Lions

Mon June 1 at 4pm - “Automobiles” - Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Hank Mann, Slim Summerville, Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Aubrey, Oliver Hardy, and Lige Conley.

MoMA’s website for the series is at:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/948

Film notes are at:
http://cruelandunusualcomedy.blogspot.com

bump for tomw night's "Gratuitous Violence" at MoMA, a certain sellout.

you guys know about Playtime at the Met on Friday?

also, http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/programs/outdoorcinema.php

Where are you seeing the Playtime listing? I can't find it anywhere.

Nevermind, it's here.

The Trintignant/Romy Schneider movie at the Film Forum has got something for everyone.

talking chimps?

There might be some during the Afro-nightclub scene.

Nick Ray fest at FF.

http://www.filmforum.org/films/nickray.html

Guess it's finally time to see Wind Across The Everglades.

I saw that at BAM. It's... interesting.

Looking forward to reading this new Imitation Of Life book.

have always wanted to see they live by night
i flicked through and saw that there's no in a lonely place in the listing, but it's on a week or two beforehand, introd by ray's widow

the BAM festival looks sweet. new bujalski film is playing.

This Windmill Movie coming to FF looks interesting. Like Le genou de Claire as filmed by Henry Jaglom.

hmm, maybe i will go to that if i can

Y'all should try to go to the Q&A tomorrow, well tonight I guess.

eager for The Beaches of Agnes!

hey, i met henry jaglom last week! he came into my place of work.

yr california correspondent reports: i am basically living at PFA this july and august:

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/

yay! i hate you, kind of.

The only film I've seen at PFA is Dirty Little Billy, which they're showing again on 8/20. Very strange dullish Michael J Pollard antiwestern.

lake tahoe is a beaut: playing at anthology, maybe with some director q/a action this weekend. total leaps and bounds ahead of duck season

Any recomendations on which Hirokazu Kore-eda film to see?
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1427

there's a film playing at the anthology with the following endorsement:

“Never have I looked so directly into hell.” –Werner Herzog

So there is. Looks interesting.

Thinking about the Nicholas Ray with Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan tonight.

Looking forward to this.

Songs from the Second Floor was really great.

Haha, I thought title was You, Living At Film Forum and it was some sort of answer film to Cinemaniacs.

it's great; surprised it's only coming out now. i think there's a couple of roy andersson threads, with links to his awesome commercials (cf socialist democrat party)

Guess it's finally time to see Wind Across The Everglades.

OK, it was pretty painful to watch until the last twenty minutes when Burl Ives was holding court. Niece of screenwriter Budd Schulberg was there and said her father producer Stuart Schulberg had to take over direction of the film because Nick was so strung out at the time.

Will try to see at least one of the double features next week. After that they are bringing in a Brit Noir series that looks pretty good.

can't remember which ones are playing as the double bills - i wish i'd caught the one with humphrey as a lawyer. this series has been fun. brit noir's kind of a turn off for me but the carol reed picture looks o k.

probably headed to Ray's Party Girl at 5:30.

anyone seen Loren Cass?

Nope.

Nick Ray's daughter introduced the 9:30 yesterday. In the audience were such luminaries as piano player/movie lover Anthony Coleman and film critic Gavin Smith.

RIP Cinemaniac Roberta Hill

oh no. Roberta obit? she seemed full-tilt bozo but i never imagined she was mortal.

Party girl was nice. Cinemaniac Bill was there.

oh no! RIP roberta. she would sometimes just come in to the AFA building when i worked there, before they even opened the box office, and just hang around. i'll always remember her complaining about the air conditioning in that downstairs theater

and her acccordion folder full of movie passes.

once spied her eating Spam out of a can.

Brit noir series is on now at FF. Would have liked to have seen The Small Back Room yesterday, but didn't make it.

The Criterion edition is excellent.

So bummed--almost checked out The Small Black Room from the Flushing Library, but went with multiple Chaplins instead. In the summer time, I just don't feel like spending so much time in movie theaters. As a type this, it sounds strange, as many people go just for the ac.

Two technicolor Brit Noirs tonight look kind of interesting.

They didn't do much for me (well, Valerie Hobson was a standout -- but the Stewart Granger wife-killer one was directed by the guy who helmed most of "Mr. Ed").

James Mason noirs prob at 7:50 for me, when it's barely cool enough to leave the house.

I probably liked them a little more than you did, but I think you've got it about right.

why is there separate admission for tonight's single Mason feature AND Edward Dmytryk's Obsession? Not very recession-friendly, Film Forum.

Headless Woman.
classic or dud?

might see today

might see tommorow

the Anonioni comparsions making me curious.
though i'm not one of Antonioni's biggest fans - films from the pov of a mentally unstable character are always interesting, at least from the technichal aspect of directing.

"Holy Girl" is one of my fav films of the past 10 years (and La Cienega is excellent too), so I have high hopes for this one.

dug headless Woman! Need to see it again, I know some stuff got by me. It's like Haneke without the bullshit, ie not that much like Haneke.
Antonioni comp mostly due to mystery/ambiguous-reality element, her film doesn't look like his.

liked La Cienaga a lot, Holy Girl not so much.

If yer interested in next Thursday's single screening of Brit whatzit No Orchids for Miss Blandish at Film Forum, I advise buying an online ticket now:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/britnoir.html#orchids

i liked Headless Womam, though it looks more like an exercice in directing style than an actual "film". she uses the same shooting ideas most of the film over and over again, so you kinda get the point after a while,
(till of course the twist in the end, a-la Bunuel, which wraps everything nicely).
regardless, it's a good,original exercise in the combination between the camera use and the riddley storytelling,which together makes the viewer think,digging deep into the movie,trying to understand it - story and "message" wise.after all, thats the power of great cinema.

from the NY Times:

HILL-- Roberta, died on July 18, 2009 shortly after her 73rd birthday. Roberta was born in Washington, DC to Dorothy Dyar Hill and Robert Lindsay Hill. She was a consummate collector and animal lover. When she moved to New York in 1983, her love of cinema took center stage. She has been a fixture at almost every film festival and movie house in the City ever since, as captured in the film Cinemania (2002). She was a true New York character and will be missed by many.

A friend was told she had known her illness was terminal for months, but continued going to films.

400th-best film of all time (per TSPDT) showing @ Reade tonight:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/watershed/thecloudcappedstar.html

i don't know how much of this i can make but i would see everything i could. w/andersson in person:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/990

Daaaamn, that's hot.

Think I'll finally see this Monday:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/mason.html#pandora

also, NYFF tix on sale to gen public tomorrow. Only 2 films for me, pending increase in income.

AFA's fall schedule is up: directed by jerry lewis retro in november!

also roger corman, ulrike ottringer, warhol (inc. chelsea girls)

Last day of Odd Man Out.

Fat City and Claire Denis this week.

35 Rhums is one I've liked more than any of hers in years.

Did you like Nenette and Boni back in the day?

yes (google review of the recent disc)

Ah. Did you know that VBT was J4ck 4nstr31ch's ideal woman? At least back then.

(Misspelled his name anyway. Doubly g00gleproofed)

You don't have to G-proof him as long as he's doing stuff like this:

http://1linereview2.blogspot.com/2009/06/jack-angstreich.html

Still haven't made it to the FF this week. Wen to see Paradise at MoMA last night instead.

I'm trying to get to that when I'm twiddling my thumbs @temp sinecure.

35 Rhums is easily the best movie of the year.

it's hard to find something negative to say about it, which is another way of saying it's a masterpiece.

Denis is the best user of imageries in current movie making, and her subtle,silent humanity here ranks high as Ozu, (more than Koreeda in Still Walking - which look more like an Ozu film,but falls apart at the end of his movie with banality and over-written dialouges),with other influences as wide as The Dardenne brothers,

the rare,complex combination between abstract,realism and humanism is what make the film so great,along with the quiet and assured pacing which avoid social problems almost entirely,cause "they closed anthropology" (as oppose to what the Dardenne Brotehrs would have make with such a story - another clear influence on Denis here)

the Commodores dancingnsequence, the father-daughter horse riding on the train tracks, and the pots at the end are things to cherish.

I like it fine -- but I thought the depressed metro retiree subplot didn't quite work.

Still haven't seen it- it was held over so hopefully can go soon- so trying not to read about it on this thread.

i think it worked fine as a cmparison to the father soon-to-become-state, and how to deal with it.
the sequence that didnt work for me is the ellipse sequence in Germany. the film did rush in the end, with his sudden lapses of time, but it's a minor fault i think.

the best surprise about this film:
inserting yet a new blood for the we've-seen-it-all-family-drama movies

anyone seen Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die? Two-plus hours of John Gavin seems dicey! At BAM tom'w, I may go to the 3pm because of baseball.

Saw it back at the Public many years ago. You gotta go!

Tarr-nation!

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-10-20/film/s-aacute-t-aacute-ntang-oacute-turns-15-moma-throws-serious-party/

I recommend that you all see LOOT today (Monday) at IFC: http://stfdocs.com/films/loot/

It's a fantastic, strange, emotional, eery documentary...

OK, doubt anyone went, but you can still catch it:
LOOT opens for a week at IFC starting on Nov 20th!

http://www.hammertonail.com/monologues/loot-at-stranger-than-fiction/

Shatner in Corman's astounding Intruder tom'w night

http://www.villagevoice.com/events/the-intruder-1460597/

Jerry Lewis retro @Anthology. I'll be at Three on a Couch either this Sat eve or a week from Thursday.

Three on a Couch is pretty fantastic, imo.

Sylvia Prieto at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday.

Tonight at 7:00, FF has special members only screening of My Dog Tulip and special Swedish Consulate screening of Mauritz Stiller's The Saga of Gosta Berling. Think I'm going to try to go to the Stiller.

Three on a Couch is pretty fantastic, imo.

Jeez, you and comedy! It had its moments (about 3).
I saw the Marker doc Le Joli Mai before.

Looks like I'm skipping Garbo at FF tonight for Police, Adjective at MoMA.

Morbs, you missed something pretty spectacular.

what can I tell ya, this time of year seeing new releases for free takes precedence.

I overheard the following conversation as I was walking out:
"That one character, how did she fit in?"
"She was the MacGuffin."

that was My Dog Tulip?

No Gösta Berling. It had a long involved plot and lots of young women were in love with the title character. In fact the the third line of that conversation was "She was the second love of his life."

Jeez, you and comedy! It had its moments (about 3).

Do you not find any of Lewis's previous six movies funny, either? Because afaic they share the exact same pulse.

No. He didn't write 3oaC, and its relatively conventional narrative tendencies clash with his abstractions and protractions (ie, the 200 people exiting an elevator scene).

I mean, Fritz Feld is in it and he doesn't even pop his mouth!

He didn't? To the trash heap with it!

(Fritz Feld is from the '30s)

Sacrilege. When they had a guy on Lost In Space and on the Odd Couple doing that trick, was it actually Fritz Feld at that point or someone just copping his shtick?

Guess it was still him.

Today is last day of The Red Shoes. Might try for 7 or 9:30 show.

I just went to the 1pm, it was almost sold out.

The central ballet really makes the film.

OK, just reserved for the 7PM.

You are right, the central ballet really does make it. I always enjoy having seen this film but the actual sitting and watching it can be a little exhausting.

It's great as dance films go, but I heard ppl pooh-poohing the fatalism re marriage/art on the way out. (Powell = Lermontov?)

Fans of DR. MORBIUS can catch him in Jersey City tomw night at the Loews (Perspecta sound is great):

http://loewsjersey.org/alt/calendar-mainmenu-27/details/24-forbidden-planet.html

(Powell = Lermontov?)
Like that movie where Lou Castel = Fassbinder?

just for Eric: Fritz Feld was in Bringing Up Baby AND The Sunshine Boys!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270915/

Wow. 196 films/TV shows from 1917 to 1989. Not quite as many as Ian "Mr. Atoz" Wolfe or Paul "The Third Man Hotelier" Hörbiger, but still.

including Sternberg's The Last Command... and Barfly!

Should get one of the young 'uns to make an animated gif of one of those 'pops.'

I don't remember if he popped in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie.

I sometimes get him confused with the guy from the Preston Sturges movies, the guy on the ship with the pictures of the card sharps, Torben Meyer.

What about the Week of Whale at the FF?

no idea if I can catch the Sunday twinbill yet, wd like to see Waterloo Bridge.

via Rolling Doc:
Dear NYC,
You should seriously see LOOT and BIG RIVER MAN: http://www.ifccenter.com/

http://www.lootmovie.com/trailer.php?page=trailer

Ignore the reviews of LOOT, which seriously piss me off. Here's Karina Longworth on it:
"Darius Marder’s feature debut, which debuts on HBO in May, tracks two WWII veterans in their longshot quests to recover pillages valuables hidden since the end of the war. As much a film about the vagaries of memory and post-traumatic stress as it is a portrait of the charismatic car salesman-turned-treasure hunter who guides the veterans (one legally blind, the other blinded by his own hoarding habit), what’s most impressive about Loot is the way the narrative unfolds so effortlessly, with impeccable timing. It’s absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime story, which is not to say that the filmmaker simply got lucky: Marder doesn’t appear in the film or offer narration, but his presence, patience and diligence, his innate understanding of how to hook an audience, is felt in every frame."

And AJ of Alll These Wonderful Things:
"A thoroughly surprising, beautifully rendered look at loss and discovery that is as fresh and unexpected as the great, lost, no-star, indie narratives of the 1990s. Its provocative hook - a documentary about a treasure hunter - could almost overwhelm the simple, low key and alternately devastating and satisfying pleasures of this under-the-radar film. Despite its jury triumph in Los Angeles (and the check that came with it), the film has kept a low profile through the fall but it deserves full exposure as a fresh and provocative take on the nonfiction genre. A huge debut for director Marder."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce432_JmdB8
Manohla on BIG RIVER MAN: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/movies/04bigriver.html?hpw
Robert Koehler: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939358.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

fellow screwballs, shd I see If You Could Only Cook today?

http://www.filmforum.org/films/madcapmanhattan.html#if

You should. I would like to, but I think I am sticking to Queens today.

Playtime at MoMA at 8pm! I can't do it...

My Dinner w/ Andre Redux on Wednesday!

At Lincoln Center.

My first response was who's Andre Redux?

It's an Outkast side project tribute to John Updike.

(Sorry)

Missed the whole FF Madcap Manhattan series. Tonight is the final night with Taking Off and A Thousand Clowns. Milos Forman will be there.

Did you go see A Thousand Clowns? I liked it when I saw it a long time ago.

Nope. Didn't make it.

anyone feel like Stray Dog at 7?

Ha, I just came to post that I might try for the one before that.

I did Stray Dog on Monday!

i'm thinkin about getting a Film Forum membership and seeing as many of the films in the Kurasowa fest as possible

You won't regret it.

WGW, I somehow didn't know you lived here.

I do! i'm gonna do "Hidden Fortress" today!

I figure I have to see 13 movies for the membership to pay off, so i'm gonna get crackin

Houzu (House), the japanese cult movie was a pretty well spent 12.5$ i'd say.
idiotism made to perfection, if youre a fan of the genre.

will try to hit some Wiseman:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1028

i'm probably going to one of the shows tomorrow depending on what time i wake up

i went to their our hospitality/sherlock jr double feature on wednesday and had the best time ive had at the movies in a while

and that film forum documentary series theyre starting next week looks really good. basically moma is on fire right now

anyone seen this?

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/house/

Any weekend MoMA doc recommendations? Several I might be interested in, like Karl May, are also on DVD -- which aren't?

THE MIRROR and NOTICIAS are awesome

thx TS

also 45365 is great and AGRARIAN UTOPIA is one of the most gorgeously shot films I've seen this past year. CONSTANTIN AND ELENA is a lovely film, though I just saw a Mexican doc that is EXACTLY like it and I prefer it

by 'prefer it,' i mean the Mexican doc, which still hasn't screened in the US

I'm really happy MOMA is picking up these films, wish we had room in our program for some of them

oops, NOTICIAS = NEWS

I wonder if anyone is at the FF seeing Thelma S introduce The Red Shoes?

saw the last run

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-02-23/film/the-films-of-william-e-jones-at-anthology/

Victor Fleming Festival is one week in and have seen nothing.

Also: Limited Tickets Remain For Select Rendez-Vous Screenings

saw Lonelyhearts -- much too slow bowdlerization of Nathanael West's "Miss L" -- in the Monty Clift retro at BAM; the reel went askew in the last 5 minutes, then the celluloid burned twice. (It was a 16mm print from some archive, acc to the theater apologist.)

Eddie Muller is introducing 7:40 show tonight of The Prowler.

OK, I got a ticket.

too tired, will see next week

I'll tell Eddie Muller you said hello.

I do not know the fella

early advertising:
one of my top three documentaries of last year (along w/ 45365 and BECAUSE WE WERE BORN), BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO, comes to Film Forum in May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO9vCcQsrZ4

AFA just released their april-june calendar; '45365' is getting a weeklong run (i tried watching it online but wandered off after about 20 mins, would like to give it another go)

also: kucharmania in april (i'll be missing most of it probably), pierre clementi, alain teller, 'punishment park'....

On Friday at the FF Bruce G was pushing the special screening tonight of The Docks Of New York. Would love to go but probably can't make it.

catching last night of Losey's Prowler at 7:40

donna rouge or ian going to go with?

dont think so