All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

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/

Pervert.

Keir Dullea followed 2001 by starring in the awful De Sade. In imdb rating terms that's going from an 8.3 to a 3.4

I think I've seen 22 of those Rated X's

Of course most of those X films don't deserve the rating

yes. many of them = not hot

Is The Servant on there?

The Servant predates the MPAA by at least 5 years. Are you thinking of a different Dirk Bogarde vehicle?

It was X-certificate, sorry, different thing

Tourneur tomorrow?

7pm for sure for Experiment Perilous.

might stay for Night of the Demon, but I've seen the earlier two already this time

MoMA's To Save and Project starts Friday

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5036?locale=en

Henry James adaps at the Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/pictures-of-polite-society-henry-james-at-the-movies/

Kay Francis: Queen of Pleasure at Metrograph

http://metrograph.com/series/series/202/kay-francis-the-queen-of-pleasure

NY Jewish Film Fest in progress at FSLC

https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/new-york-jewish-film-festival/#films

'far-out' 70s comedies at FF

https://filmforum.org/series/far-out-in-the-70s-a-new-wave-of-comedy-19691979

really stoked for that one, have had a bunch of it scribbled in my calendar since it first got announced. gonna fill in some gaps!

RIP Jonas Mekas
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/23/jonas-mekas-titan-of-underground-filmmaking-dies-aged-96

Hou and Selznick ongoing at Metrograph

i was startled and momentarily tempted seeing Gone With The Wind pop up in screenslate over the weekend. four hours.... might have to save that one for retirement or something.

well worth seeing projected once, if the print is good.

Lee Chang-dong at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5043?locale=en

Yorgos Lanthimos at FSLC

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/yorgos-lanthimos/#films

Film Comment Selects at Linc Ctr

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

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6187-film-comment-selects-2019

Marlon Riggs at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/race-sex-cinema-the-world-of-marlon-riggs

Doc Fortnight at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5044?locale=en

Somebody tell me if Arcadia is any good!

slow days in filmland so far but i'm looking forward to seeing Birds of Passion at Film Forum tomorrow. Embrace of the Serpent was a fave and though the plot of this one looks tired (do not care about drug cartel movies), I'll try anything they do after that.

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/black-mother-review-khalik-allah-field-niggas-1201949049/

started watching the first film by khalik allah; it's heavy heavy stuff... slow mo explorations of black faces and black bodies with too real conversation in background; all filmed in harlem. looks like avedon studies. give it a peek:
https://vimeo.com/312790511

btw, Birds of Passion is spectacular; see it if you can.

I loved Embrace of the Serpent, looking forward to Birds of Passage

Couldn't be more different than Serpent in terms of approach and storytelling, but both are heavy on magical realism and both give deep credence and agency to the indigenous people that are at their stories' centers. Passage is a Shakespearean epic with spectacular music, stunning acting, masterful cinematography and probably seven to ten gasp-inducing visual moments; definitely going to be one of the best films I see this year.

anybody got the stomach/chutzpah to take one for the team and report back?

[CONTENT WARNING: These films contain scenes of explicit sexual contact, mutilation, rear female nudity, violence, frontal male nudity, dark humor, disembowelment, castration, nihilism, decapitation, suicide, Nazi imagery, deviant sex, depictions of murder, frontal female nudity, ejaculation, mental illness, rear male nudity, criminal mischief, on-screen urination, sexual perversion, blood, and adult language.]

Rendezvous with French Cinema begins Friday

https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema/#films

^Thursday, in fact

For most of March at MoMA,

William Fox Presents: More Restorations and Rediscoveries from the Fox Film Corporation

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5049?locale=en

George Romero at BAM

https://www.bam.org/film/2019/living-with-the-dead-the-films-of-george-a-romero

William Fox Presents: More Restorations and Rediscoveries from the Fox Film Corporation

If they are dipping into the Borzage and Ford boxes, "Rediscoveries" is a bit strong. But the other titles tempt me.

yeah, I have the Ford box, but they're showing some in 35mm, and there are some 4K restos.

I had heretofore missed this Criterion Top 10 by NYC film snob Georgia Hubley, who includes some excellent commentary on theaters past and present ("MOMA, popular dinner spot of many of NYC’s finest moviegoers"):

https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/132-georgia-hubley-s-top-10

Just confirmed or relooked up that she is related to, the daughter of those other Hubleys.

Oh wait, it's at the top of that link. D'oh!

Yes, as a child she's even on the soundtrack of a couple cartoons.

Okay, just read that properly. Really well-written and chosen.

Bertrand Blier at the Quad

https://quadcinema.com/program/amour-or-less-a-blier-buffet/

New Directors/New Films at MoMA and FSLC

https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/new-directors-new-films-2019/##films

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/new-directors-new-films-2019-full-lineup-1202045664/

https://www.screenslate.com/articles/87