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

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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. This month's Big Dawg, however, must go to Film Forum, and their exceptional upcoming Warner Brothers: Tough Guys, Tough Dames...Tough Pictures, which offers ample evidence of why the studio came to prominence in the depression-era 30's with tales of harsh social reality, anti-heroes and -heroines, and rat-a-tat-tat both verbal and leaden. Double features include leadoff two-fer from Mervyn Le Roy, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG and LITTLE CAESAR; Howard Hawks' THE BIG SLEEP and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT; Jimmy Cagney in THE LADY KILLER and THE PUBLIC ENEMY; Humphrey Bogart in KEY LARGO and THE MALTESE FALCON; and Bette Davis in THE LETTER and A STOLEN LIFE. The grand festivities run from September 22nd through October 5th. Unmissable.

 

New and ongoing series this week include Modern Matinees: Directed by John Cassavetes and 3-D Funhouse: Recent Restorations from the 3-D Film Archive at MoMA; Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z at that new beautiful venue Metrograph; Paris Stripped Bare at that even newer beautiful rep venue the Quad Cinema; See it Big: Spielberg Summer! at the Museum of the Moving Image; Jane Campion's Own Stories at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; the eternally elegant Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum; and the hook-'em-while-they're-in-Pre-K Film Forum Jr. at, well, the Film Forum. The shuttering shenanigans be thus;

 

Friday September 8th

 

IFC Center

THE GOONIES (1985) Dir; Richard Donner

 

MoMA

Modern Matinees: Directed by John Cassavetes

HUSBANDS (1970 Dir; John Cassavetes

 

Metrograph

Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z

TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990) Dir; Charles Burnett

TAXI ZUM KLO (1980) Dir; Frank Ripploh

 

Quad Cinema

Paris Stripped Bare

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973) Dir; Bernardo Bertolucci

EXPOSED (1983) Dir; James Toback

 

Tudor Park, Queens

GREASE (1978) Dir; Randall Kleiser

 

Museum of the Moving Image

See it Big: Spielberg Summer!

JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg

 

Anthology Film Archives

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein

 

Rubin Museum

Cabaret Cinema

THE EXORCIST (1973) Dir; William Friedkin

 

Today's Pick? Mostly repeat fare on the scene this day, so let's just go with the lone outdoor classic screening. Randall Kleiser's GREASE at sunset, in Tudor Park, Queens. Summer love, indeed.

 

Saturday September 9th

 

IFC Center

THE GOONIES (1985) Dir; Richard Donner

 

Nitehawk Cinema

THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970) Dir; Daniel Heller

 

Anthology Film Archives

THE FUNKADELIC 70'S MOVIE MARATHON (Various dates) Dir; Various

 

Quad Cinema

Paris Stripped Bare

FRANTIC (1988) Dir; Roman Polanski

THE TENANT (1976) Dir; Roman Polanski

LA BALANCE (1982) Dir; Bob Swaim

QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY (1970) Dir; Jens Jorgen Thorsen

 

Metrograph

Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z

THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974) Dir; Joseph Sargent

TAXI ZUM KLO (1980) Dir; Frank Ripploh

 

MoMA

3-D Funhouse: Recent Restorations from the 3-D Film Archive.

SEPTEMBER STORM (1960) Dir; Byron Haskin

 

Roxy Hotel Cinema

THE RED SHOES (1948) Dirs; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

FLASHDANCE (1984) Dir; Adrian Lyne

 

Film Society of Lincoln Center

Jane Campion's Own Stories

SWEETIE (1989) Dir; Jane Campion

 

Today's Pick? Hard to go against my fave NYC film ever, Sargent's PELHAM, as well as the glorious Pandora's Puma sneakerbox that AFA's 70's Funkadelic marathon promises to be. But I wanna shine some light on the work the programmers have been doing at the Roxy Hotel Cinema, and single out their screening of one of my all-timers; Powell & Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece THE RED SHOES. The world needs some Technicolor and passion right now. Look no further.

 

Sunday September 10th

 

IFC Center

THE GOONIES (1985) Dir; Richard Donner

 

Film Forum

Film Forum Jr.

THREE KEATON CLASSICS (1921-2) Dir; Buster Keaton

 

Nitehawk Cinema

THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970) Dir; Daniel Heller

 

Metrograph

Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (1975) Dir; Michael Cimino

THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974) Dir; Joseph Sargent

TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990) Dir; Charles Burnett

TAXI ZUM KLO (1980) Dir; Frank Ripploh

 

RUMBLEFISH (1983) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola

 

Quad Cinema

Paris Stripped Bare

LA BALANCE (1982) Dir; Bob Swaim

QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY (1970) Dir; Jens Jorgen Thorsen

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973) Dir; Bernardo Bertolucci

THE TENANT (1976) Dir; Roman Polanski

 

Film Society of Lincoln Center

Jane Campion's Own Stories

AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (1990) Dir; Jane Campion

 

Anthology Film Archives

OCTOBER (1925) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein

IVAN THE TERRIBLE PARTS ONE & TWO (1942-46) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein

 

Museum of the Moving Image

See it Big: Spielberg Summer!

JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg

 

MoMA

3-D Funhouse: Recent Restorations from the 3-D Film Archive.

GOG (1954) Dir; Herbert L. Strock

 

United Palace of Cultural Arts

CITY LIGHTS (1931) Dir; Charlie Chaplin

 

Jackie Robinson Park, Manhattan

MAHOGANY (1975) Dir; Berry Gordy

 

Today's Pick? Summer has long claimed one continuous refrain, from all who love or even like the season, especially as time wears on; that it sped by so much faster this year than last. And the one before. And the one before that. In that spirit I will take advantage of a rare screening, in 35mm no less, of Francis Ford Coppola's last masterpiece, 1983's monochrome, mercurial RUMBLEFISH, unspooling at Metrograph. If you were ever young but older than your years, no film will ever remind you more of that condition.

 

Once again, there you have it, my picks and pontifications regarding your next 3 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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