It was kind of fascinating to see with an audience tbh. The laughter at, to me, not-at-all-funny things was maybe more depressing than anything in the film. But yeah I wouldn't need to see em all in that fashion, and living a couple of blocks from the BPL has been a real boon to me trying to catch up on miscellaneous films. (In that vein, I also finished MASH yesterday...)
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 16 April 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
you mean the series?
week from Sat at the Loews Jersey, organ concert + His Girl Friday, free:
http://loewsjersey.org/come-celebrate-the-jersey-journals-150th-anniversary-with-free-movie/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
anybody been to quad city cinemas yet?
― 龜, Monday, 17 April 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
In Iowa or Alabama?
― stet, where is thy Zing? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 April 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link
I believe the one in Alabama was where Jonathan Rosenbaum got his start- it was owned by his family- as well as Arthur Alexander's recording career, along with the Muscle Shoals Sound.
― stet, where is thy Zing? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 April 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
i have not even been to the reborn 13th St Quad
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
no, the film! Somehow had managed to see 5-6 other Altman flicks before getting to this one. Just trying to use my library card to help me cover some canonical ground. Last night was Steamboat Bill, Jr.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:09 (seven years ago) link
And thanks for the Jersey tip - been meaning to get out to that space, the only one of the five Wonder Theaters I've not yet ogled, and I'd certainly see HGF again.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:14 (seven years ago) link
xpost
I've seen probably 2/3 of Altman's films and yet I still have never seen MASH.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
It's... something. Kind of "Sexual Harassment: The Movie!" Sometimes it's easy to perceive that as deliberate and thematically interwoven with what the doctors aren't letting themselves deal with. But since none of the female characters are really treated as people, and the whole thing winds up with an endless wacky football game, it kinda just feels like the film identifies with its lovable rascal protags (surely, to its box-office benefit). The "fairy" sequence also plays VERY differently now than I imagine it did at the time...
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
MoMA's series on black stardom
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/making-faces-film
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3817?locale=en
strongly recommend the Robeson/Micheaux Body and Soul tonight
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Saturday night... this doesn't pop up too often in 35mm
https://quadcinema.com/film/the-day-of-the-locust/
(Probably my fave Schlesinger film, but then I read a lot (all?) of Nathanael West in college.)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
Melville centennial retro at FF
http://filmforum.org/series/melville-series
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/jean-pierre-melvilles-cinema-of-resistance
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Oh these all look good!
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 April 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link
I loved Le Doulous in the French gangster series last year and was bummed I couldn't follow up y'all's recommendations for Army of Shadows and Breathless (also here with not much explanation on the poster). I also remember finding something fascinating in the original book of Silence de la Mer so that'd be interesting...
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 April 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
Have liked everything I have seen by him quite a bit, but haven't seen all of it yet.
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 April 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
A couple essential Melvilles - both starring Belmondo - missing in that FF retro, though: L'Ainé des Ferchaux / Leon Morin
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 28 April 2017 03:12 (seven years ago) link
Leon Morin has been restored by 11 minutes and gets its own run in 2 weeks.
http://filmforum.org/film/leon-morin-priest-film
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 April 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
In an hour Annette Insdorf introducing The Saragossa Manuscript at MoMI and signing her new book.
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Jiang Wen retro at BAM
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/jiang-wen-rising
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 May 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
will check a few of those out
― 龜, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link
ban james redd for announcing anything is at momi ........... in an hour
― schlump, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:50 (seven years ago) link
I ban myself for living about a half hour away from MoMI and not being able to make it to that event.
― ... Monkey Man or Astro-Monkey Man? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
will you be attending the Caan Film Festival?
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/05/19/detail/the-caan-film-festival/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
nigerian director moustapha alassane mini-retro at MoMA
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3819
― donna rouge, Friday, 5 May 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Oh, wow, I want that one brought to Copenhagen! Will anyone go and tell me what is good?
― Frederik B, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/lLohfqb.gif
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 5 May 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Metrograph Mother's Day program next weekend includes the 1976 body-switcheroo Freaky Friday starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster.
http://metrograph.com/series/series/91/mothers-day
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
Linc Ctr showing 2 Demme films, $5 each on Sunday
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/demme-x-2-married-mob-stop-making-sense/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 May 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link
Been having a ball with the Melville series btw. Even the really dry and slow ones aren't exactly boring. Saw Silence de la Mer and Army of Shadows today - the latter was incredible and possibly my favorite, though aspects of Bob might stick with me just as much.
So interesting to see the French resistance/underground stuff rendered so much like his gangster films - not surprising in itself since obviously the way he thinks about gangsters, gangster-movie codes of ethics and brotherhood, and the preoccupation with the fate of informants, come from his Resistance experience. But more that this is a film about the underground where you see almost nothing in the way of killing Germans or sabotaging things, except where it has to do with escaping, or reaching an imprisoned resistance member. That stuff is hinted at but basically off-camera, so we just get the army of shadows dealing with issues of the army of shadows. Totally fascinating.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 May 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
Whereas Silence, in sticking very very closely to the original resistance novella - to a degree that renders it pretty stodgy and clumsy in its unfolding - is very much about the confrontation between French and the occupying German force, but not in a conventional guerilla/resistance way. For me it had startling resonances with the James Baldwin doc just now wrapping up its run, where Baldwin identifies moments like Sidney Poitier jumping off the train in The Defiant Ones as revealing the oppressive power's desperate, pathetic need to be reassured that the oppressed really like them, love them, redeem them. The Nicest Possible German in Silence is clearly in agony that he just cannot get this family to tell him he's a really great guy and they don't blame him for the whole invasion-and-occupation thing. Hrm.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 May 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link
weekend BAM fest of Twin Peaks cast members
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/peak-performances
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
No "The Wraith," surely some mistake.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 13 May 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
i have a ticket for the George C Scott desert-isle incest movie at the Quad Thursday. "Agonizing!" said Pauline Kael.
https://quadcinema.com/film/the-savage-is-loose/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
gonna be juggling Caan in Astoria w/ Marcello at FSLC
https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/marcello-mastroianni/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 May 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
https://nypost.com/2017/05/18/lower-east-sides-landmark-sunshine-cinema-to-close/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 20 May 2017 07:36 (seven years ago) link
must admit i haven't gone there in awhile, i could see whatever they were showing uptown or at BAM
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
Dietrich at the Metrograph
http://metrograph.com/series/series/85/marlene
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 12:02 (seven years ago) link
Miracle Mile showing at the Metrograph with Steve De Jarnatt, Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham in person
http://metrograph.com/film/film/856/miracle-mile
Unbelievably pissed that I'm not going to be in NYC for this, but I hope that someone on this thread goes.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 May 2017 03:00 (seven years ago) link
monthlong Filipino retro at MoMA -- Lav Diaz and others in town for it
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3843?locale=en
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 May 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
BAM doing Varda in California
http://www.bam.org/film/2017/varda-in-california
Frank & Eleanor Perry @ Quad
https://quadcinema.com/program/desperate-characters-the-cinema-of-frank-eleanor-perry/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link
monthlong filipino retro ............. lav diaz in person ....................... program is just 1x lav film, duration 1 month
― schlump, Thursday, 1 June 2017 02:01 (seven years ago) link
I guess i never posted the FF Lubitsch link. A twinbill of blind spots for me tonight.
http://filmforum.org/series/the-lubitsch-touch
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 June 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link
NYAFF slate
https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/full-lineup-16th-new-york-asian-film-festival/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
Suffering of Ninko is one of the weirder films I've seen recently.
Someone go see the new Sabu and tell me if it's good.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
btw Spielberg Summer is well underway
http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2017/06/03/detail/see-it-big-spielberg-summer/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
bummed i already missed the jaws screenings / momi should screen jaws every weekend
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
i think you mean 1941!
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Recommending Moka.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 June 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link
Aw man, I would have been totally down to see Duel in 35mm! Haven't seen Jurassic Park in a theater since its original run and I'm pretty sure I've never seen Jaws on the big screen (or with an audience). There's not a lot left that I'd really jump out of my seat for... hrm.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 16 June 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link