April 27th 2013. Pick Of The Day.
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F. W. Murnau's FAUST serves as perfect brunch fodder at the Nitehawk Cinema today. Them breakfast tacos'll be roasting hot! Trust me!
William Wyler's ROMAN HOLIDAY is afforded a communal BluRay viewing at the Film Society ampitheater up there somewheres on the UWS. Hepburn's a dish. Not my Pick.
The Landmark Jersey Loews serves up the final fare of its anti-war film weekend. Stanley Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY and DR. STRANGELOVE, which merrily co-exist in the filmmaker's CV, share screen space today in the Overlook Hotel of movie palaces. Tempts. But no.
Anthology Film Archives' series dedicated to the Middle Ages on Film offers up a doozy today with Andrei Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV. Haven't seen it, wanna see it, ain't gonna see it today. My Pick is that coldly decisive.
Midnight offerings include IFC Center's screening of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL and Nitehawk Cinema's DUNE. You can't go wrong with either comedy.
Finally over at MOMA the museum's excellent retrospective dedicated to the influence German expressionist cinema had on Hollywood immediate and ongoing wanders into its last days. Orson Welles' THE STRANGER and Jacques Tourneur's BERLIN EXPRESS both screen as part of The Weimar Touch bill this evening. Great flicks, undoubtedly. But they pale in comparison to a movie I've long felt unabashed love for, a not unchampioned film but still a work too often overlooked, and from a bona fide autuer, no less. Anyway it screens tonight at MOMA, and if you wanna cling to a shred of yer Cinegeek cred, attend, brothers and sisters, attend!
Max Ophul's perfectly composed LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN WOMAN screens at MOMA tonight as part of their Weimar Touch series. Let's just be frank and admit Weimar touched us all, okay? Even in our bathing suit areas. Has the statute of limitations run out?
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