September 8th 2013. Pick Of The Day.
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So what if the Yankees are the first team to lose three games in a row while simultaneously scoring 8 or more runs in each of those games? So what if the Red Sawks sit comfortably atop the AL East? So what if there's an 11 game gap between our struggle and Boston's success. Here's today's real takeaway from this mess;
None of this nonsense has anything to do with the classic film screenings happening about our movie-mad metropolis this day.
Ongoing series this day include the resumption of Film Forum Jr. at the Rep Church of West Houston St., MoMA's Auteurist History of Film Reprise, programmed exclusively for those alternately too employed or too lazy to attend their regular weekly afternoon series, and Museum of the Moving Image's exhaustive tribute to the Complete Howard Hawks. The full rundown as follows;
Film Forum
THE THREE WORLDS OF GULLIVER (1960) Dir; Jack Sher
CONTEMPT (1963) Dir; Jean-Luc Godard
Museum of the Moving Image
FIG LEAVES (1926) Dir; Howard Hawks
THE CRADLE SNATCHERS (1927) Dir; Howard Hawks
FAZIL (1928) Dir; Howard Hawks
MoMA
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
MR. ARKADIN (1955) Dir; Orson Welles
Today's Pick? Orson Welles' MR. ARKADIN, the filmmaker's imperfect yet remarkable and intriguing rethink of his earlier masterpiece CITIZEN KANE, wherein a still-living tycoon employs a would-be shamus to investigate a chunk of his past he claims to have no memory of. Creative opportunities for the once boy-prince of Hollywood grew fewer and fewer as the decades passed, and this effort proved one of the rare situations where he was afforded creative control. At least until the footage hit the editing room, as was sadly the case with all of his post-KANE output. Still, a gem is here to be gawked at despite its flaws. Head up to MoMA for said gawkery.
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-Joe Walsh
