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

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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:

 

Friday August 11th

 

IFC Center

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Dir; John Frankenheimer

 

ROAD GAMES (1981) Dir; Richard Franklin

 

Film Forum

Summer Double Features

BLESSED EVENT (1932) Dir; Roy del Ruth

EMPLOYEES ENTRANCE (1933) Dir; Roy del Ruth

SCARFACE (1932) Dir; HAWKS!!!

SCARFACE (1983) Dir; de palma

 

Jeanne Moreau

ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957) Dir; Louis Malle

DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1964) Dir; Luis Buñuel

 

MoMA

Modern Matinees: The Impeccable Deborah Kerr

THE KING AND I (1956) Dir; Walter Lang

 

Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction

INVASION (1968) Dir; Hugo Santiago

THE YEAR OF THE PLAGUE (1979) Dir; Felipe Cazals

 

BAM Cinématek

Jonathan Demme: Heart of Gold

SWING SHIFT (1984) Dir; Jonathan Demme

LAST EMBRACE (1979) Dir; Jonathan Demme

 

Metrograph

On Fire Island

STICKS AND STONES (1970) Dir; Stan Lopresto

LAST SUMMER (1969) Dir; Frank Perry

 

Film Society of Lincoln Center

'77

THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977) Dir; Luis Buñuel

OPENING NIGHT (1977) Dir; John Cassavetes

THE LAST WAVE (1977) Dir; Peter Weir

 

Quad Cinema

The Beguiling Bujold

THE WAR IS OVER (1966) Dir; Alain Resnais

ISABEL (1968) Dir; Paul Almond

TROUBLE IN MIND (1985) Dir; Alan Rudolph

 

Museum of the Moving Image

See it Big: 70mm!

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) Dir; David Lean

 

Anthology Film Archives

GREENWICH VILLAGE STORY (1963) Dir; Jack O'Connell

 

WNYC Transmitter Park

GREASE (1978) Dir; Randall Kleiser

 

Rubin Museum

Cabaret Cinema

BARTON FINK (1991) Dirs; Joen & Ethan Coen

 

Today's Pick? Against all the great series this night, the Film Forum's double Feature bargain, and several other makeshift double- or triple- or quadruple- features you'd need to shell out extra dough for but with great reward, series dedicated to the luminous Genevieve Bujold, the recently departed Jonathan Demme, and that year that leaft us too soon, 1977, I am compelled to pick a Top Tenner, screening in the format is was designed for, in a venue not only prepped fully for its proper present, but magic in its own right. David Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARIABIA will screen multiple times over the course of this weekend, all in 70mm, at the golden Museum of the Moving Image, as part of their awesome See it Big: 70mm! series. But why wait, really? For the zealous film lovers amongst us, there is only the desert.

 

Saturday August 12th

 

IFC Center

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Dir; John Frankenheimer

 

ROAD GAMES (1981) Dir; Richard Franklin

 

Metrograph

Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z

TRAFIC (1971) Dir; Jacques Tati

THAT DARN CAT! (1965) Dir; Robert Stevenson

TUCKER (1988) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola

 

On Fire Island

LAST SUMMER (1969) Dir; Frank Perry

PARTING GLANCES (1986) Dir; Bill Sherwood

 

Film Forum

Summer Double Features

RAGING BULL (1980) Dir; Martin Scorsese

THE SET-UP (1949) Dir; Robert Wise

 

Jeanne Moreau

ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957) Dir; Louis Malle

DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1964) Dir; Luis Buñuel

 

Quad Cinema

The Beguiling Bujold

SWASHBUCKLER (1976) Dir; James Goldstone

THE TROJAN WOMEN (1971) Dir; Michael Cacoyannis

ACT OF THE HEART (1970) Dir; Paul Almond

ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS (1969) Dir; Charles Jarrot

 

MoMA

Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction

THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966) Dir; Hiroshi Teshigahara

SHIVERS (1977) Dir; David Cronenberg

VIDEODROME (1983) Dir; David Cronenberg

 

Film Society of Lincoln Center

'77

WIZARDS (1977) Dir; Ralph Bakshi

ON THE SILVER GLOBE (1977) Dir; Andrzej Zulawski

ERASERHEAD (1977) Dir; David Lynch

THE CAR (1977) Dir; Elliot Silverstein

 

Museum of the Moving Image

See it Big: 70mm!

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) Dir; David Lean

PATTON (1970) Dir; Franklin J. Schaffner

 

BAM Cinématek

Jonathan Demme: Heart of Gold

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) Dir; Jonathan Demme

 

Willowbrook Park, Staten Island

BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (1989) Dir; Robert Zemeckis. He alone is to blame.

 

Today's Pick? I now must relenquish all control to the ethereal beauty and imposing talent that summed up the late great Jeanne Moreau, and implore your forking over of separate admission prices to two of her all-timers, breakthrough perf ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS, and signature turn DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID, from auteurs Louis Malle and Luis Buñuel respectively, at that venue most sympathetique to the Francophile, the beloved Film Forum. No more appropriate venue exists within our glorious rep circuit to lay a flower at her feet. Pay your respects.

 

Sunday August 13th

 

IFC Center

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Dir; John Frankenheimer

 

Metrograph

Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z

THAT DARN CAT! (1965) Dir; Robert Stevenson

TRAFIC (1971) Dir; Jacques Tati

TUCKER (1988) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola

 

On Fire Island

PARTING GLANCES (1986) Dir; Bill Sherwood

STICKS AND STONES (1970) Dir; Stan Lopresto

 

Film Forum

Summer Double Features

EMPLOYEES ENTRANCE (1933) Dir; Roy del Ruth

BLESSED EVENT (1932) Dir; Roy del Ruth

TOP HAT (1935) Dir; Mark Sandrich

SWING TIME (1936) Dir; George Stevens

 

MoMA

Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction

INVASION (1968) Dir; Hugo Santiago

THE YEAR OF THE PLAGUE (1979) Dir; Felipe Cazals

 

Quad Cinema

The Beguiling Bujold

THE MODERNS (1988) Dir; Alan Rudolph

TIGHTROPE (1985) Dir; Clint Eastwood

THE WAR IS OVER (1966) Dir; Alain Resnais

DEAD RINGERS (1988) Dir; David Cronenberg

 

BAM Cinématek

Jonathan Demme: Heart of Gold

MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980) Dir; Jonathan Demme

 

Film Society of Lincoln Center

'77

HIGH ANXIETY (1977) Dir; Mel Brooks

AIRPORT '77 (1977) Dir; Jerry Jameson

CEDDO (1977) Dir; Ousmane Sembene

HOUSE (1977) Dir; Nobuhiko Obayashi

 

Museum of the Moving Image

See it Big: 70mm!

PATTON (1970) Dir; Franklin J. Schaffner

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) Dir; David Lean

 

Anthology Film Archives

GREENWICH VILLAGE STORY (1963) Dir; Jack O'Connell

 

Today's Pick? I'm gonna go with a left-field toss toda, with so many great series and programs on the dock, and choose a single film; Francis Ford Coppola's TUCKER, unspoling in glorious 35mm at the wonderful Metrograph as part of their series inventively entitled Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z! It's a feel-good flick with perhaps not the happiest ending, it might be FFC's last great movie, it trumpets the talets of stalwarts like Jef Bridges and Joan Allen, heralded the rise of Christian Slater, and birthed the recently passed Martin Landau his 2nd and perhaps finest act. It's a wondrous, whip-pan of a flick, one in which he strong-armed the financing from buddy/bitter little bro George Lucas, who talked the elder filmmaker out of making it a musical even though those blueprints still show through in the final product! It might just serve as a sober tonic to the truly optimistic amongst us still, that while some dreams may not make it all the way they might serve as inspiration for the next set of dreamers. Coppola's still my guy.

 

Other notable screenings this upcoming week include Big Al's NORTH BY NORTHWEST, unspooling this Monday night at Bryant Park as that fest slowly winds down; Charles Burnett's groundbreaking, ceiling-fracturing KILLER OF SHEEP, at the Film Society this Tuesday as part of their celebration of the cinematic year '77; Tim Burton's still-unique BEETLEJUICE, screening outdoors this Wednesday at Pier One, Riverside Park; and the too-many-directors-to-waste-time-naming CASINO ROYALE, the first 007 film to be made outside the EON tent, with not one not two but 3-COUNT-'EM-3 actors playing James Bond, and serving as the basis for the Austin Powers franchise. It's a unique artifact of its time period, an oddity within the Bond franchise, but more importantly an exceptional opportinty for a bloody brilliant cameo from one Deborah, in whose name this series, The Impeccable Deborah Kerr, unspools. At MoMA.

 

Once again, there you have it, my picks and pontifications regarding your next 7 days' worth of rep filmgoing! We'll check in again a week from now, in the early days of a whole new spin 'round the sun, for the purposes of once more rummaging through the reels and making the tough yet wonderful choices regarding our chosen love. Til then be sure to follow me on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, and be SURE to catch my new YouTube channel, Nitrate Stock TV, where I'll be checking in at screenings all over the city and giving my 2 cents on the film, the venue, the audience, any damn thing that comes to my mind. Which, as some of ya know, can be quite entertaining. Til next time Stockahz, remember: be safe, be sound, and make sure the next guy and gal are too. Excelsior!

 

- Joe Walsh

 

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