All Purpose NYC ILX Film Snob Thread

Sometimes I regret living here; too much, too much...

Youngest MoMA audience I've ever seen last night for Night of the Living Dead, maybe 35-40. And the 8pm screening looked younger still.

I'm pretty sure I've never seen Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (BAM for the next week).

But you probably DID see the Madonna video that ripped it off.

If it was after '86, don't bet on it.

7pm Germi tnite? (i won't be online, off today)

Like to, but no can do.

I have tickets for the MOMI Todd Haynes thing that night, but David Gatten is programming an evening of films about water (including JJ Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign) at the WORK Gallery in Red Hook on November 10th.

i'm not seeing any movies until after the GREs

Paradjanov! I've seen that, it was about 10 years ago though.. gorgeous. The Madonna video that ripped off scenes was Bedtime Story.. I remember talking to some Armenian girls when on study abroad & mentioning this.. they were absolutely mortified..

So you gave up on ILF too, huh?

who, me? (I'm thinking this is gonna be mostly for local screenings) I didn't promise to start posting on ILF more, like SOME PEOPLE.

Tonight Paradjanov (esp if I decide not to vote), maybe tom'w Terror's Advocate, Thurs another Germi? all tentative.

I think he was talking about me. Actually I officially gave up around here. but I've started some threads over there since then, like my Germi thread, and these two:
TS Carl Dreyer vs. Victor Erice
I Don't Think He'd Have Given It To Me If I Had Hair Like EXCELSIOR Or Little Legs Like An Alligator

Can anybody figure out where the hell the link is to get tix for the FF's Evening with Norman Lloyd on Nov 26?

http://www.filmforum.org/films/norman.html

I think you can only buy 7 days in advance.

(unless it's I'm Not There)

even with Norman Lloyd cultists champing at the bit?

Maybe you can pull some strings with Bruc3 G0ldstein?

Actually I officially gave up around here.

B-b-but that was the only thread there that had any life in it. Well, that and the rockism one.

The ILF excelsior thread, however, is classsic as is.

Indeed.

B-b-but that was the only thread there that had any life in it. Well, that and the rockism one.
I can't find the thread where I stopped posting in parentheses and Morbius accused me of some Weekend At Bernie's behavior.

Memories.

'S'all I got, and the few that remain are fading fast.

I got ticket to 9:30 Germi tomorrow, Thursday, which I intend to use, barring the not unlikely work, home or health emergency.

ah, 5:30 for me.

Anyone seen any Marc Recha?

http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=161

I'll take that as a no.

More Brakhage at Antholgy Sunday (Pittsburgh Trilogy)

There's a big Max Ophuls retro coming to BAM at month's end; don't see anything on their site, but here:

http://tinyurl.com/2zymrj

A friend of mine is trying to get me to go see Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation at The Anthology tomorrow or over the weekend. Looks like an interesting curiosity, but I dunno.

UGH @ ophuls competing w/ sembene!!

the brief clip i watched of the adaptation looked awesome. i suggest you get on line REEEEEAL early if you end up seeing it, tho

in my GRE-prompted cinema ban i didn't realize i missed ALL of the germis (except for divorce, italian style which i've already seen)

I am suspicious of Raiders Adaptation. For one, I haven't watched ROTLA 20x like everyone else has, apparently.

Also, Sembene v Ophuls v Pasolini.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/pasolini/program.html

I would focus on the otherwise unavailable OS & MO.

Jiri Menzel is at BAM tonight w/ his latest, but I know nothing about it.

I'm suspicious too, but I may have to go out of a social obligation.

the ophuls stuff is up on the website now, btw

Why is Summer With Monika in the Times today? New print?

yes. haven't seen it in eons.

Anyone seen/seeing the Albert Ayler doc at AFA?

I was sposta review it. They sent me a European DVD.

If anyone has MIX tips, speak:

http://www.mixnyc.org/index.html

Maybe I'd go to the 11pm Friday shorts, if I'm up.

after today, Divorce—Italian Style is only playing 9:20 pm at FF.

Get your Norman Lloyd tickets yet?

no, but I see they're available.

Yes, that's what I was trying to tell you.

o i c

Divorce was cute. Why anyone thinks it's GREAT, I'm not sure.

Saw it years ago, didn't make much of an impression. Wasn't he Oscar nominated?

yes, it got several; Germi too?

I hv my N Lloyd ticket.

Hoberman on Sembene (and Ophuls, briefly):

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0748,hoberman,78462,20.html

If I go to see Salo, should I bring someone to hold my hand?

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/pasolini/program.html

I would recommend any NY snob to see Letter from an Unknown Woman on its last night @BAM tonight; it fulfilled all of my expecs.

I would recommend any NY snob EVERYONE ON THE PLANET to see Letter from an Unknown Woman

fixed

Salò makes an even more problematic date movie than Jeanne Dielman!

Ophuls and Sembene have taken over my December.

wish i went with ya! i need to see banshees still.

We can always go see MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM. Oh wait. Please kill me first.

kill me in the bathroom

Heh. Reminds me of Adam Roth’s routine about Johnny Thunders.

Something about imaging or actually seeing the boots of a nodded-out Thunders peeking out in the CBGB’s bathroom like the Wicked Witch of the East’s ruby red slippers under the house of Dorothy Gale. Then a riff about people saying when he did die that it was a conspiracy. “Yeah, a conspiracy that he didn’t die soon.”

But I digress.

Sooner

Anyway NYC ILX film snobs should run don’t walk to The Film Forum and see THE RUNNER, which goes right up there to the top of of the list of films involving cute precocious kids and trains along with PATHER PANCHALI and THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE.

Really want to see the new Polish donkey movie.

andale andale mama EI EI EOoooooooooo

love this sign, love this story, love this banana bread
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/jacques-derrida-loves-banana-bread

My wife and I are making a rare trip to NYC this weekend and are supposed to see Welles' The Trial at Film Forum. Will be my second time there in my life.

(At FF, not New York)

get the bundt cake AND the banana bread imo
also an egg cream

Karen Cooper stepping down at the Film Forum?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/movies/karen-cooper-film-forum-new-york-director.html

She will still be around in an advisory capacity. Sonya Chung, who I am unfamilar with, will be taking over her role. Mike and Bruce will still be around so it sounds like a smooth transition.

https://www.artforum.com/news/karen-cooper-who-led-new-york-s-film-forum-for-fifty-years-to-step-down-89958

looks like minimal drama

pretty cool silent series here:

SILENT FILMS / LIVE MUSIC at Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey Street in Manhattan
Curated by John Schaefer
No RSVP is required. Seating is first come, first served. Free popcorn while supplies last.

https://bfplny.com/event/electric-appalachia/
ELECTRIC APPALACHIA on Jan 25 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by Mary Lattimore and William Tyler.
The Acclaimed Silent Films/Live Music series is back in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place!
Experience the first evening of the Silent Films/Live Music series with the New York premiere of “Electric Appalachia.” Using found archival footage, the film offers a meditation on electricity and modernity in East Tennessee. Compiled by Eric Dawson (director at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound – TAMIS) with score written and performed by guitarist William Tyler and harpist Mary Lattimore.

https://bfplny.com/event/the-kid/
The Kid on Jan 26 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by Yasmin Williams
The acclaimed Silent Films/Live Music series is back in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place! Join us for the second evening to watch the world premiere of Yasmin Williams’ new score set to the 1921 Charlie Chaplin classic, “The Kid.” This funny and deeply humane film stars a young Jackie Coogan in his first role and was Chaplin’s first full-length film as a director.

https://bfplny.com/event/passionofjoanofarc/
The Passion of Joan of Arc on Jan 27 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by David Cieri.
Join us for the finale of the Silent Film/Live Music series in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place with a film that is widely regarded as a landmark of cinema, “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” The finale is scored and performed by composer David Cieri with his ensemble of instruments and vocalists.

Thanks!

Came to post: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-regal-movie-theater-in-union-square-is-closing-012023
Have been there in ages so reallly don't care, maybe I should. Just so long as the Regal UA Kaufman Astoria stays open.

my snob note is that i havent seen a movie in a mainstream megaplex since gravity

Film at Lincoln Center announces Unspeakable: The Films of Tod Browning, a retrospective of the pioneering filmmaker’s career consisting of 17 films presented almost entirely on 35mm, running from March 17 through 26.

Tod Browning (1880–1962) ranks among the most original and enigmatic filmmakers of his time. Born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., son of a middle-class family, he ran away from his Kentucky home at age 16 to join the circus, where he took jobs as a barker, a contortionist, a clown, and a somnambulist buried alive in a box with its own ventilation system. Following a stint in vaudeville and adopting the moniker Tod (German for “death”), Browning eventually found a home in cinema as an actor until a life-altering car accident placed him behind the camera. He went on to direct a series of underworld melodramas, including nine films starring Priscilla Dean (Outside the Law and Drifting), before making some of the most bizarre and eerily atmospheric films of the silent era with Lon Chaney (in a 10-film collaboration including The Unknown, widely considered Browning’s masterpiece). Chaney’s death in 1930 coincided with the director’s transition to sound, notably with his genre-defining version of Dracula starring Bela Lugosi and his transgressive, career-tarnishing Freaks, later reappraised by Andrew Sarris as “one of the most compassionate films ever made.” Browning has been described as one of cinema’s thorniest humanists as well as “the first diabolist of the cinema,” whose influence can be seen in the work of David Lynch, John Waters, Guillermo del Toro, and David Cronenberg. Though Browning’s films retain complex moral ambiguities, a glance at this transgressive body of work reveals a visionary with an eye for stylization and memorable performances from Hollywood stars and non-professional actors. His groundbreaking achievements in horror and underworld melodramas were typified by incisive manifestations of beauty, alongside lifelong personal obsessions with the sideshow milieu, criminality and retribution, and psychosexual innuendo.

The series will almost entirely be comprised of 35mm screenings of Browning’s films, including the beloved Dracula, considered the director’s only true horror film and an understated and elegantly stylized masterpiece of the uncanny; Freaks, a transgressive, unnerving work pitched somewhere between daringly compassionate and—despite its infamous “one of us” chant—charged with the very horrors it denounces; The Unholy Three, an unsettling melodrama that stars Lon Chaney as a ventriloquist and follows a trio of swindlers and former sideshow castmates who impersonate a respectable family of shopkeepers; and the rarely screened Dollar Down, a partially lost morality tale pertaining to a different kind of horror: that of a middle-class family living beyond their means and falling prey to moneylenders. The series will also feature a new restoration of The Unknown—a Freudian pile-up of repressed desires, castration anxiety, and Oedipal subtext, and widely considered Browning’s crowning achievement—including approximately 10 minutes of previously lost shots and sequences.

Select screenings of Browning’s silent films will feature live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin, one of the foremost silent film composers in the world, with 49 years of performing at major film festivals and archives, joined by Joanna Seaton for Outside the Law (1920).

Tickets go on sale on Thursday, February 23 at noon, with early access for FLC Members beginning Wednesday, February 22 at noon. Tickets are $15 for the General Public; $12 for Students, Seniors, and Persons with Disabilities; and $10 for FLC Members. See more and save with a 3+ Film Package (discount automatically applied in cart). Limited $79 All-Access Passes and $39 Student All-Access Passes also available.

Cool. Dave Kehr is wild about OUTSIDE THE LAW.

If I had nothing going on, an $80 all-Browning fortnight sounds good.

RIght. No doubt you will be at IFC during some of that, wearing your Carpenter(s) tee.

Sorry, that was coming from a place of camaraderie, but feel to FP me if you must.

tee's long since worn out but i likely will be at this during that
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/midnight-run/

just checked my schedule and it's a busy calendar block... i think i'm out every night on that run already!

https://shuckedmusical.com/
https://roulette.org/event/rafael-riqueni-flamenco-guitar-master-rba/
https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/la-mezcla-255
https://roulette.org/event/lucie-vitkova-pieces-from-darkness/
https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/ecstatic-music-william-tyler-yasmin-williams/
https://roulette.org/event/string-theories-2-the-string-orchestra-of-brooklyn-and-andrew-yee/
https://ra.co/events/1658764
https://www.targetmargin.org/pericles/
https://roulette.org/event/john-zorns-new-masada-quartet-2/

i am terrified of what shucked is gonna be but i love brandy clark so

TS Jean Moreau vs. Tod Browning

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/movies/lumiere-an-actress-destined-to-be-in-the-light.html

https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/flc-and-janus-films-welcome-you-to-the-dirty-stories-of-jean-eustache/

How did I miss this thread?

Anybody catch the Béla Tarr films screening at Lincoln Center?

Finally saw The Mother and the Whore all the way through. Amazing. It feels like the last and best new wave film.

Josefa otm. But came to post that I am intrigued by Winter Kills at the Film Forum.

It's not bad.

But not as good as you might be led to think it is

Stoked to get tickets for the Oct 9 showing of Wiseman's Menus-Plaisirs les Troisgros at NYFF

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-long-strange-trips-of-wojciech-jerzy-has/

^Annette Insdorf will introduce THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT this evening

Still holds up

And the intro was entertaining and useful

Powell Pressburger at MoMA with some intros by Thelma (and Marty too, I think):
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5707

Thelma was also be at the Film Forum with Kent Jones to discuss THE SMALL BLACK ROOM: https://filmforum.org/film/the-small-back-room

Melville retro on at the Film Forum this week.

Recommended! Seems like a miniature do-over of their 2017 retrospective, when I had the time and gusto to see probably five or six of his for the first time.

Been going to a lot of different series this spring and summer but so far not the 70mm films at MoMI, which is almost over, but may go to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY this weekend.

Every year, I get big plans for the MOMI 70mm series. If it were just a little easier to get there from where we live, I'd clean up. So many great-looking things! Paris Theater has started their own version, which kicks off next week...

Meanwhile at FF: Blaxploitation series, soon to be followed by Spielberg retrospective!

It’s easy for me to get there, just not easy for me to remember to go to MoMI. Last time I went was for Terence Davies’s hard-to-see HOUSE OF MIRTH, thanks to a reminder on this borad.

Jordan Belson abstracts at e-flux on March 25. If I was in NYC I'd totally be there
https://www.e-flux.com/events/658274/cosmic-cinema-jordan-belson-and-the-vortex-concerts/