i heard mixed things on quinquin; anybody see it?
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Too much of his usual shit. Done with him.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 January 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
lauded Ukraine doc Maidan at MoMA tnite 7:30
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
It's great.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Goodbye to Language sold out for tonight :(
― 龜, Friday, 16 January 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/evolution-of-a-criminal/^this suffered from a lot of first-time director problems and the guy is really still too close to his own experience to get perspective of just WHY he did this and this is maybe 20 minutes too long but there's some worthwhile work going on
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 January 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Gordon Willis retro at MOMI... the print of his first film, End of the Road, looked great yesterday.
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/01/30/detail/see-it-big-gordon-willis/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 February 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
The Widow Altman does a Q&A after California Split on his 90th birthday, Friday the 20th:
http://filmforum.org/events/event/altmans-california-split-event-page
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 February 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
also it's the last day at MoMA for the bananas-looking 1934 puppeteering melodrama I Am Suzanne!
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1539
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09jJM29BJc
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 February 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Thanks. Could not figure out at all what that was from photo in the calendar. It first thought it was variant English language version of similarly titled Buñuel film.
― Sweet Melissus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 February 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
morbs, you got me excited about "hard to be a god" so i'm going thursday... did you see it?
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 February 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
nope
2-week run i think
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 February 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Where's it at?
― Sweet Melissus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 February 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=02&year=2015#showing-43705
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 February 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
John Carpenter @ BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/john-carpenter-master-of-fear
(one of his music-based rep selections is Forbidden Planet)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 07:19 (nine years ago) link
Timbuktu was pretty great and very affecting
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 07:20 (nine years ago) link
Meant to go last weekend
― Sweet Melissus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 10:37 (nine years ago) link
I was a bit dissapointed. Liked loads of stuff, but the central characters were pretty two-dimensional, I thought, and the cinematography was hit-and-miss as well. But some really really strong scenes, especially that one shot of the lake at sunset.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
Timbuktu was selling out last weekend; i like to wait for elbow room
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
this NYC black independents of '68-86 series at Lincoln Ctr will most definitely reward
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/tell-it-like-it-is-black-independents-in-new-york
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/tell-it-like-it-is-black-independents-in-new-york-1968-1986
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
and 3 weeks of Charles Laughton at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/charles-laughton-series
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
i wasn't really drawn to timbuktu for character development, was more taken with the bumbling murderous ignorance of the sharia lawkeepers and the generally gorgeous shots. i've seen a lot of criticism that goes overboard though so i can see where some Ida-esque backlash is called for. it reminded me of Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar stories in some ways.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link
Brody, Melissa Anderson on the black indie series:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/lost-found
http://www.villagevoice.com/2015-02-04/film/indie-black-cinema-lincoln-center/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Hard to Be a God was monotonous and somewhat devoid of narrative and still kind of a knockout; the visuals are like Jodorowsky (but less psychedelic and more nihilistic) or Fellini (but without boundaries) and yet even more so. I'm inclined to think I would've liked it twice as much if it had been half as long but my god some of the images are never going to rattle out of my skull. Film Anthology didn't have the theater heated, i had gotten like three hours of sleep the night before and we misjudged the hour the film was starting so we got into the story 20 minutes in progress and even so i would recommend giving this a spin just as an experience. I've never seen anyone play quite so effectively with planes of space; there's often a separate story going on in the foreground. Exhaustingly in your face and so fully realized that it surpasses fetish.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 07:52 (nine years ago) link
the Rendezvous slate:
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015-festival
The week of John Boorman starts today at FF, and obviously you should see Point Blank in 35mm if you never have. (I might prioritize, among my blind spots, Beyond Ranbgoon.) The trailer for his new one looks mighty bland, though.
http://filmforum.org/series/boorman-series-page
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
which of these should i be seeing?http://www.ifccenter.com/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015/
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
and please note i am prejudiced against french film from the start
forks, i just asked in the French s/d thread. Techine is pretty reliable but of course that will be released anyway. I may go for that and Honore, plus Fidelio for the twin hunk factor.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
(oh yeah, Fidelio is not playing at IFC -- fest is shared with FSLC and BAM)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
also before that, FC Selects -- looking fwd to another Michael Almereyda Shakespeare update, as Hawke was actually good in M.A.'s Hamlet 15 years ago:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/film-comment-selects-2015
Don't know much about that Danish auteur tho.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
on the above; i'm going to the new Petzold and two in the Malmos retro
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-film-comment-selects-2015
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
wow that's so cool there's a malmros retrospective in nyc! he's from my hometown! "Tree of Knowledge" is surely his masterpiece, but I can also recommend "Facing the Truth" and "Pain of Love". Quite a controversial figure because of his "auto-fictional" control over other peoples' lives - the way he portrays his father in FtT, the way he depicts a young actress in Sorrow & Joy. The earlier films are beautifully shot on film by Jan Weincke too, you'll enjoy.
― niels, Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
ToK and PoL are the ones I've bought. Unsure how widely Malmros previously been exposed in the US, but I don't recall ever reading about him before this.
Two rarely screened NYC early '70s entries in the Gordon Willis MOMI series on Saturday afternoon: Ashby's The Landlord (Beau Bridges buys a building w/ black tenants in Park Slope, moves in, appreciates Diana Sands) and Irvin Kershner's Loving w/ George Segal and Eva Marie Saint.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
visiting old high school friends and one of them wanted to tell me about the most winceworthy scene ever in a horror movie and it was a part in the most recent final destination movie and he asked have you seen it and i said um i've heard of them, probably not for me and he says well you're a little bit of a FILM SNOB aren't you and then i told him about hard to be a god and he ended the night by saying how i only liked things that aren't narrative like hey that lemonade isn't NARRATIVE let me try some of THATanyway.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 February 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
full ND/NF slate
http://newdirectors.org/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
B&W in scope... shame The Hustler is digital, but planning to finally see Lonely Are the Brave. Maybe The Haunting too:
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/black-and-white-scope
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/04/10/detail/tsai-ming-liang/
― 龜, Friday, 27 February 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen the documentary, Boys, and two others
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 February 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen the latter but the former is a lot of fun, /very/ late-60s mix of political correctness and incorrectness.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 27 February 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Two-week Wenders retro begins today at MoMA, with WW introductions / discussions
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1557
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
Handke will be there with him on Wednesday for Goalie's Anxiety.
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 March 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Morbs, which is the best MOMI membership to get if you just want to see all their retros etc.
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
the one i have? "Film Lover" takes care of all the film/exhibit admissions
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Real howler from Ian Buruma during tonight's Q&A.
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 March 2015 04:55 (nine years ago) link
You can watch here if you wanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVE-VjC_ME
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 March 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
This is interesting and brief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IZPpkI32pc
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
Blacklisted screenwriters part 3 at Anthology; Walter Bernstein in person Saturday:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/43900
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 March 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
George Romero is introducing the Archers' Tales of Hoffmann tonight at 7 at Film Forum, just cuz he loves it.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 March 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Wow. Didn't see his name amidst the list of all the other introducers.
― Cartesian Dual in the Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
it's showing here all week too - hope to catch it but not sure how likely that'll be
― donna rouge, Monday, 16 March 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link