All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Film Comment Selects begins Feb 17: the T Davies, Akerman's Golden Eighties, Jacquot, Bellocchio, spotlight on Andrzej Żuławski etc

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/lineup-announced-for-16th-edition-of-film-comment-selects/

Akerman's Tomorrow We Move tonight at Reade, the doc about her before it

https://www.filmlinc.org/films/tomorrow-we-move/

New rep house at Canal and Ludlow opens next month:

Metrograph, New York City's new two-screen indie movie house, has announced its first season of programming, and it can only be described as cinephile heaven. The theater, which is officially opening at 7 Ludlow Street (at Canal Street) on Friday, February 19, will be hosting several must-see retrospectives and special programs throughout March and April, some of which enticingly include Fassbinder's top 10 films all projected on 35mm.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/new-york-new-indie-movie-theater-unveils-stellar-first-season-of-programming-metrograph-20160120

niiiiiice

and on the other side of the ledger, RIP Ziegfeld

https://www.thewrap.com/ziegfeld-theatre-to-close-within-weeks/

(other news orgs seem to have been fooled into suggesting that the old legit/vaudeville theater of the same name was in this building, which opened in '69)

Self Styled Siren: "Real estate killed the Ziegfeld's audience." Amen amen amen.

http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.de/2016/01/in-memoriam-ziegfeld-theater-1969-2016.html

man holy shit at the metro prgmming

the Eustaches have arrived

https://twitter.com/MetrographNYC/status/689933459268222976

Film Forum is open today. Showing Fargo, of course.

Ziegfield article otm

Damn I'll be in France of all places when the Eustache retrospective is going on. I shouldn't complain but I am a big fan so ... dommage.

based on the first 20 minutes of Mother and the Whore, i'd rather be in France.

Wish you'd get past your boredom/indifference, Morbs, and watch the thing. It's his best and the praise is well deserved.

someday

a last visit to the Ziegfeld

The first movie to play in this theater, back in 1969, was Marooned, a space-age thriller....

We hear Thursday may be the last day.

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-ziegfeld.html

My dad most definitely took me to see Marooned in Manhattan in '69, so I have to think it was here.

Anthology does AIP part 3

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45275

new weeraseethakul, opening in early march
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-new-us-trailer-apichatpong-weerasethakuls-cemetery-of-splendour-20160127

http://nypost.com/2016/01/28/the-ziegfeld-theatre-will-close-tonight/

RIP

on the current Friends with Benefits group retro at FSLC (i saw Fort Buchanan last night, it's funny and French alright)

http://brooklynrail.org/2016/02/film/boys-to-men-friends-with-benefits-at-film-society-of-lincoln-center

nyc snob adjacent - yale is counterprogramming the sb by showing last yr @ marienbad in 35 mm
http://its.yale.edu/sites/default/files/imce/Marienbad_2.pdf

no schedule yet, but MoMA does Jerry Lewis's 90th, March 1-15

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1621?locale=en

JL sked up now.

Starting today, Argentinian postwar noir! Richard Wright in Native Son (1951) included.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1616?locale=en

Pinkerton on the A-noir

http://artforum.com/film/id=58064

LA: cinefamily's getting its own version of the indie '80s series

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/underground-usa-indie-cinema-of-the-80s/

http://www.fiaf.org/events/winter2016/2016-03-cinesalon.shtml

And while I'm here - let me point out the silliness of including the O in your "MOMI" (it was AMMI, but I guess is Un-American now?) but not "FSLC" (I go with the filmlinc webmanteau, which is at least pronounceable). Even MoMA drops the case, mami.

p horrendous program cept for V Suicides

also, eat shit

I really liked Girlhood, have a lot of time for Drive (soz Morbs). Eden was my cinematic disappointment of 2015.

Also good job on not screening Oblivion. Points off for no Electroma.

Curious what you would think of Love at First Fight. It has some good imagery of landscape and weather.

FC Selects underway tonight, with Zulawski spotlight now an in memoriam (the long scifi thing scares me)

http://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/film-comment-selects/#films

i saw 'on the silver globe' - my brain just shut down sometime around the second hour

the NY library has it, so that's my out

witches at BAM

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/witches-brew

nice. they end with the best one, too.

i have strangely never seen Bell, Book and Candle except for a few minutes on broadcast TV

it's a good movie, but i was referring to Day of Wrath!

i have seen it

"bell, book, and candle" is a great title btw. almost a better title than a film.

full ND/NF sked out

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/complete-lineup-announced-for-45th-new-directors-new-films/

silent witches w/ piano tnite

http://www.bam.org/film/2016/haxan

The Mask of Satan/Black Sunday/whatever it's called was really good

From ND/NF there is one film that has been a triumph throughout Europe, and which is a must-see or whatever, and that is Lost and Beautiful. It was at Locarno, at CPH:DOX everyone agreed it was by far best in comp - except the judges who gave the two awards to two rubbish American indie-crap - and then it won best debut at Gothenburg. Really, it's a great debut!

Behemoth is pretty cool as well. Film geeks should check out 5+ hour japanese film Happy Hour. It has some pretty unique sequences, but it wasn't quite the great film I'd hoped it would be.

there's this diagnosable guy who goes to every rep theater in NY who desperately tries to engage total starngers, alone or in groups, in conversation, and i am going to physically attack him very soon. Recognize him by his plastic knapsack, and tendency to ask if you're reading the Times "HOW"S THE GREY LADY TONIGHT?"

If it is the same guy I am thinking of, I believe someone I know sort of befriended him and told me his real name once. I remember his catchphrase as being "How did you like the MOVIE?" or "What did you think of the MOVIE?" He would sort of linger or lurk right outside the theater lobby and then kind of run up to somebody of his choosing on the way out to pose his exit interview question.

tonight he was muttering (after 1922's Haxan) "1903, year of the Red Line."

It's not the 30-(40-?)something krishna-ish dude, is it?

""HOW"S THE GREY LADY TONIGHT?""

now i know my opening line with morbs.

"i am going to physically attack him very soon."

you might want to work on that issue.

yeah, not serious, you troglodyte

I also think I have run into this guy

Btw I meant to post about how much I hated mustang, just seemed unjustifiably exploitative and manipulative and utterly disregarding of characterization or depth. Kind of offensive portrayal of some very disturbing issues imo