All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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Alain Delon at Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/lhomme-fatal-alain-delon/

"1968" and...

http://metrograph.com/series/series/172/everything-was-now-1968-circa-1968

Jack Smith at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/173/jack-smith

starting Friday at the Quad, a series I didn't know I needed -- the anthology film. Godard was part of a lot of them.

https://quadcinema.com/program/some-are-better-than-others-the-curious-case-of-the-anthology-film/

hip hop movies at FF

https://filmforum.org/series/hip-hop-on-film-1979-1986

up at Columbia, a two-weekend series honoring NY indie booster Ira Deutchman.

i esp recommend the Aussie new-wave musical Starstruck

oh cool, i was looking at that one! looks great. if i can compel myself to be that far uptown at that hour i might just make it.

Make the trip... Starstruck is great.

yeah wow that was great! thanks for the recommendations, y'all, they helped push us over the top and we had a ball.

the theater (one floor up, in columbia's new, quasi-dystopian manhattanville campus) is a nice room too, more of a wide black box theater than just a dinky little screening room. screen felt big, could really dive into the colors. sound was kind of painfully loud a few times, not sure if that was specific to the film, the settings in the control room, or the acoustics. but i'd def see a movie there again.

wish i had been able to go, but i was uptown early and wd've had to kill 5 hours

Unknown Jerry at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5019?locale=en

Hammer Frankenstein at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5010?locale=en

some worthy retro doings at FF

https://filmforum.org/film/orphans-of-new-york

https://filmforum.org/film/abbott-costello-in-who-done-it-plus-a-tale-of-two-kitties-ffjr-fall-2018

Shaw Brothers at IFC Center

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/shaw-brothers-spectaculars/

whyyyy must all of IFC's interesting repertory be midnight series? there are nerds in this city besides NYU first-years, people!!

NY Architecture/Design Film Festival just started up: https://adfilmfest.com/site/ny2018 (annoyed that the Dieter Rams documentary is sold out already)

lots of horror, mostly not for me cept Vincent Price

http://metrograph.com/series/series/180/shaw-brothers-horror

https://quadcinema.com/program/tres-outre-the-sinister-visions-of-jean-rollin/

https://quadcinema.com/program/victoria-price-presents-vincent-price-x-3/

Some of those Jean Rollin films are quite interesting - The Iron Rose and The Nude Vampire for example

Karpo Godina, auteur of Yugoslav cinema (unknown to me til now)

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5011?locale=en

MoMA's "The Contenders" series in Nov/Dec, including appearances by Steve McQueen, Paul Schrader, Spike Lee, Paul Dano, Tamara Jenkins etc.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5025?locale=en

what, orson welles is too busy to show up?

looks great, in all seriousness.

protip: the popular films all sell out quickly when they go on sale (14 days in advance).

I need to figure out if there's a way for me to advance-book the free student tix I get cause it's such a huge huge resource of which I've almost utterly failed to take advantage.

radical Catalan cinema '68-78

https://www.archynety.com/entertainment/the-catalan-cinema-of-the-end-of-the-franco-regime-arrives-at-the-moma/

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5012?locale=en

At some point I want to see the Portabella one.

almost over, but some choice Japanese postwar horror remains the next 2 nights at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2018/ghosts-and-monsters

(maybe just tonight? have never seen Mothra)

Margarethe von Trotta at Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/margarethe-von-trotta-the-political-is-personal/

Women at Work at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2018/women-at-work-domestic-is-not-free

Scorsese in NY at MoMA (just a few in 35mm)

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5024?locale=en

ooh thanks, missed that. is this the week I finally see Goodfellas and KoC??

thanks to netflix we are all NYC film snobs today

Ida Lupino (acting and directing) at FF

https://filmforum.org/series/ida-lupino-100

thanks to netflix we are all NYC film snobs today

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Darlings, I'll believe that when I can stream all those recently restored Fox Films titles. One at AFI and two at Capitolfest does not make the grade.

Claude Lanzmann at Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/claude-lanzmanns-cinema-of-remembrance/

next Saturday night, The Big Parade and The Great Dictator at the Loews Jersey in J.C.

http://loewsjersey.org/calendar/

tix now on sale for the FF run of the Aretha concert doc Amazing Grace

https://filmforum.org/film/amazing-grace

Bill duke at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/185/bill-duke

some new titles in MoMA's Contenders series, incl b.o. dud First Man on the 26th

Wang Bing all over the place this weekend

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6043-wang-bing-in-new-york

Darius Khondji at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/186/darius-khondji

Ten days of Silent Comedy International at MoMA ... many shorts that have barely been seen in a century.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5021?locale=en

The Quad is too loud, says a kvetch who lives upstairs. Eviction in the works?

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/nycs-quad-cinema-may-be-evicted-due-to-noise-complaints/

In response, the indie theater stopped using its subwoofers and turned down the default volume of its flicks to a “Level 4” out of 10

this may explain why viewings there are often mildly derailed by the honking chatter of people ascending the staircase to the apartments above

Petzold at FSLC

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/christian-petzold-the-state-we-are-in/#films

Ugo Tognazzi retro underway at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5023?locale=en

Is Barbarella in there?

i don't see it.

Orson Welles, actor-for-hire

https://quadcinema.com/program/actor-for-hire-the-other-side-of-orson-welles/

3 weeks of Jacques Tourneur begins Friday at FilmLinc... I think they've got just about everything, including shorts.

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/jacques-tourneur-fearmaker-film-society-of-lincoln-center-trailer-1202027048/

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/jacques-tourneur-fearmaker/#films

Rated X at the Quad (I've seen nearly 20 of these)

https://quadcinema.com/program/rated-x/