All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Silent Clowns' new season launches Saturday with W.C. Fields in "So's Your Old Man" (1926)

special guest speaker: Dr. Harriet Fields, granddaughter of W.C. Fields

http://www.silentclowns.com/nowshowing.html

was phffft worth it?

i like this idea for a play, $20 tix:
https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/the-conversationalists

James & Jerome create an original movie that plays only inside the audience's minds. This live "movie" is an international melodrama about the triangular friendship (and sometimes enemyship) between a Colombian-born Mexican-raised pop-ranchera star, her teenage son, and a Palestinian-born Jordanian-raised owner of a chess shop in Greenwich Village. The Conversationalists is experienced at once as a theater piece, a concert, a radio play, a night of storytelling, and a movie dreamed together.

Phffft! was! I'd always wanted to see it and he and Judy Holliday are real good in it.

To Save and Project

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5188

I've seen a lot of these, but you should if you haven't

BLACK WOMEN
Trailblazing African American Performers & Images, 1920 – 2001

https://filmforum.org/series/black-women-trailblazing-african-american-performers-images-1920-2001

yeah, that's a good looking lineup!

American Indies, 1980–1989 at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5190

I've seen all of these except Bless Their Little Hearts.

“Now We Think as We Fuck”
Queer Liberation to Activism

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5186

https://www.screenslate.com/features/1584
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6360
LA Plays Itself and Sex Garage tonight
didn't we have a guy/sock on here at one point who was "into" tailpipe fucking?

wish I had planned better to make it up for the Come and See premiere at FF (right?) but it's in a couple weeks and it'll come here sometime this year

weeklong Angela Schanelec retro at LincCtr... entirely unknown to me, but i aint asking Fred

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/dreamed-paths-the-films-of-angela-schanelec/

If anyone else is interested, the best three imo are Passing Summer, The Dreamed Path and I Was at Home, But...

more, by Pinkerton

https://www.artforum.com/film/nick-pinkerton-on-the-films-of-angela-schanelec-82115

Television Movies: Big Pictures on the Small Screen (Fassbinder, Rossellini, Penn etc)

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5197

Preferred adjacent bar by NYC rep venue:

Anthology- KGB
BAM- Frank's I guess?
Film Forum- n/a
Quad- Spain
Metrograph- Clockwork
Lincoln Center- Ugh Malachy's
MoMA- Subway Inn but usually wind up at the nearer Judge Roy Bean or unbelievably atrocious Whiskey Trader

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My choices would be

Anthology - Lucien
BAM - Frank's or Olea
Film Forum - good question, I dunno
Quad - Gene's
Metrograph - Kiki's
Lincoln Center - Bar Bouloud? Not ideal though
MoMA - St Regis Hotel, cuz you only live once

nice to see spain’s still kickin’

hi!

Makavejev at Anthology

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/52088

http://movingimage.us/programs/2020/03/04/detail/philip-k-dick-film-festival-2020/
March 4 to March 8

Black heroines at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5194

The Women Behind Hitchcock -- ie, films involving producer/writer Joan Harrison, and/or Alma Reville, with and without Hitch -- begins at Film Forum tomorrow. Weirdly, the FF site has been unreachable for hours, am I right?

it is back

https://filmforum.org/series/the-women-behind-hitchcock

Daniel Craig retro at MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5201

as well as Biograph/Edison restorations

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5199

Film Forum still opem, limiting capacity to 50%.

IFC and BAM still seem to be open.

I think that's it, among rep/art houses.

Quad and Metrograph and Angelika are open.

Everyone is doing the 50% crowds thing; I guess that's what the mayor's office is demanding at the moment.

Yes, got an email from local restaurant about implementing this policy as well.

Nitehawk and Alamo are open. Spectacle has shut down.

Nitehawk is cancelling all screenings. MOMA and MOMI out too.

BAM doing 50% for now.

(Siff in Seattle is closing, staff furloughed unfortunately)

dang, nitehawk JUST wrote me with their schedule. shit's still moving fast.

not so film snobby, but, AMC theaters nationwide going to 50%, and max 250 seats.

AMC Uptown (DC) just closed for good. My sister was constantly repeating rumors that AMC wanted to drop the place.

IFC is closed through end of the month at least

Alamo's out.

Worth noting that the first screening to be cancelled by the Anthology shut-down was Robert Longo's Johnny Mneumonic (1995), which begins thusly. pic.twitter.com/bWKYO5ehYF

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So has the Quad made a permanent decision to cut way back on their repertory screenings? They don't even print a monthly guide anymore. Was this because of the ownership change I read about a while back?

that happened months ago, and yes, it seems

bummer, their programming used to rule. i basically stopped going for financial reasons - member price at FF or student price at Anthology just clobbers $16 for a not-super-great viewing experience.

I had been looking fwd to this rarity in their scheduled Sellers sampler

https://quadcinema.com/film/mr-topaze/

i like the quad! but its not as good as ff or anthology, i agree.

BAM cinemas now closed, with no timely notice on their site til mid-afternoon to save me a trip. I shan't be renewing my membership anyway.

Film Forum now closed too.

well, I might as well be living in a basement in Sandusky now. Making a better living.

Quad is closed now too; I think they were the last.

Sorry snobs :(

I had no use for them but RIP anyway

ScreenSlate, Light Industry, and others have started a fundraiser to support NYC movie theater employees out of work because of COVID-19. I know one or two affected folks and I'm sure y'all do as well. Consider kicking in, say, what you might have spent on movies and concessions this week, and share in your networks!

Spectacle is doing Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/spectaclenyc