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Intermission.

For the bulk of my life I've found myself the resource amongst friends and fellow film fanatics when it came to the doings on NYC's repertory film scene. In the days before smartphones I'd carry a notebook around with me, where I'd handwritten each month's upcoming sked at the usual suspects like MoMA, the Walter Reade, and my friendly neighborhood Film Forum. I kept these listings for my own edification, having pored over each institution's mailed catalogues or, sometimes, visiting the brick & mortar to inquire personally. I started doing this, sadly, once I'd moved into Manhattan properly, after the closures of the great old school venues, places like the 8th st. Cinema, the Thalia, the New Yorker, and the venue that once proudly sat just across the street from where my home of 22 years would be, the Bleecker Street Cinema. We'd lost that circuit, to be sure, but the stalwarts remained, mostly subsidized by corporate and public donations and a still-healthy film school population. And new players like the recently-christened Angelika Film Center were still offering up midnight screenings of cult classics. For the most part, though, it seemed like that particularly romantic sub-section of NYC film culture had begun to subside, on its lurch toward memory, and perhaps rumor.

October '17: Overview and Weekend Picks! Miyazaki, Anna May Wong, and Mizoguchi! Let's Face East!

Hale and Hello, Stockahz! I'z back once more to ring the alarm regarding NYC's busy rep film skematitazz! We got a lot going on this month, so let's get to the new monthly quickie-overview and weekend selections.

September 22nd-28th: Feeding on Irony, Starved for Technicolor, and HAWKS!!! Proceed with Enthusiasm, Stockahz!

New and continuing series this week include Warner Brothers: Tough Guys, Tough Dames...Tough Pictures at Film Forum; Modern Matinees: Directed by John Cassavetes at MoMA; the sadly timely Also Starring Harry Dean Stanton at the Quad Cinema; and Sam Fuller's War Films at Museum of the Moving Image. The flickering foofaraw be thus;

September 15th-21st: Geek Tragedy, War is Hell, and The Touch Boasts Light Fingers. Read On, True Believer!

New and continuing series this week include Modern Matinees: Directed by John Cassavetes at MoMA; Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z and UCLA Festival of Preservation at Metrograph; Sam Fuller's War Movies at Museum of the Moving Image; Jane Campion's Own Stories at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; and the hook-'em-while-they're-still-in-knee-pants Film Forum Jr. at ya guessed it Film Forum! The lenticular licenciousness be thus;

September '17! The Mini-Overview, Plus: Summer Love, Vicky's Shoes, and Rusty James' Black & White Phase. The Stock Shenanigans Be Thus;

Hallo, Stockahz! I'z back to give you a look at the monthly mishegoss on NYC's rep film circuit. We'll begin with a quick overview of what the month promises in the upcoming weeks. The options have expanded, and September '17 offers upcoming series like Metrograph's UCLA Festival of Film Preservation from the 15th to the 20th, MoMA's celebration of auteur John Cassavetes as part of their Modern Matinees series, and The Whole World Sings: International Musicals at the newly reminted Quad Cinema. My runner-up this month is the retro of grizzteur Sam Fuller, one of the most magnificent bastards who ever yelled ACTION!, unfolding at that temple of temples Museum of the Moving Image.

August 25th-31st: Yates Burns Rubber, Schultz Karate Chops Evil, and Solntseva Melts Iron. Peruse On, Peeps!

New and ongoing series this week include Summer Double Features at Film Forum; Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z and Antonioni x 6 at Metrograph; Modern Matinees: The Impeccable Deborah Kerr at MoMA; Boxing on Film, Part One and The Films of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade at Anthology Film Archives; and See it Big: 70mm! at Museum of the Moving Image. The Kino kerfuffle be thus;

August 18th-24th: Heists Gone Wrong, Kung Fu Done Right, and Double LP Concept Albums Turned Movies Gone Well You Tell Me??? Read on, Rep Film Raver!

Still trying to make fewer excuses for the decrese in service and provide more content for the NYC rep film symbiote. The scene is changing, the tech is changing, dear god even my voice is changing, and I even recorded a song with Greg, Marcia, Bobby, Cindy and Jan to commemorate! I didn't intentionally put Jan last, it just seemed like where she'd wanna be. So if you're a regular follower of all things Nitrate Stock, there has definitely been a halt to some services, like my Twitter feed and the Facebook page. but if ya stick with, I promise to repurpose these and all other outlets for a more streamlined experience for you, the pale-skinned movie fanatic whose popcorn butter is 2% blood!

 

New and upcoming series this week include Summer Double Features at Film Forum; Modern Matinees: The Impeccable Deborah Kerr and Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction at MoMA; Disasterpieces at the Quad Cinema; the bent knee to the year '77 at the Film Society; Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z and Old School Kung Fu Fest at Metrograph; and the pugilistic pontifications of Boxing on Film: Part One at Anthology Film Archives. The spledindiferous spocketry be thus;

August11th-17th: Lean's Desert, Coppola's Cars, et Belle Jeanne. To Le Snack Counter!

New and ongoing series this week include Summer Double Features at Film Forum; Modern Matinees: The Impeccable Deborah Kerr and Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction at MoMA; Jonathan Demme: Heart of Gold at BAM Cinématek; On Fire Island and Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z at Metrograph; '77 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; The Beguiling Bujold at the Quad Cinema; See it Big: 70mm! at Museum of the Moving Image; and the swankily surreal Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The unctuous unspool be thus:

July 21st-27th: Sayles' Brother, Wright's Heists, and Bava's Blood! Let's Go To The Artificially-Cooled Darkened Indoor Environments!

New and continuing series this upcoming week include "Ford to City: Drop Dead!" NYC in the 70's! at Film Forum; Modern Matinees: The Impeccable Deborah Kerr and Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction at MoMA; Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z at Metrograph; Mondo Bava at the Quad Cinema; and Edgar Wright presents Heist Society at BAM Cinématek. To the dark auditoriums!

July 14th - 20th: Freddy's Dead, Our Shark, and The Motorcycle Boy Reigns. Vroom On, True Believers!

New and continuing series this upcoming week inlcude "Ford to City: Drop Dead!" NYC in the 70's at Film Forum; Modern Matinees: The Impeccable Deborah Kerr at MoMA; Edgar Wright Presents Heist Society and Notes on Camp at BAM Cinématek; Mondo Bava at the Quad Cinema; and the effortlessly swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum of Art. The tomfoolery be thus;

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