September 12th 2013. Pick Of The Day.
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It is with great and effusive glee that I recommend, after so mild a summer 2013, that you duck out of the heat and humidity and catch a classic screening today if only to bask in the modern 21st century miracle known as air conditioning. Mid-80's with a good chance of rain! Woo hoo! Today's ongoing series include MoMA's Auteurist History of Film and Auteurist History of Film Reprise, BAM's Marlene Goes West, and Anthology Film Archives' John Zorn Selects. The full shindig as follows;
Film Forum
CONTEMPT (1963) Dir; Jean-Luc Godard
MoMA
YOJIMBO (1961) Dir; Akira Kurosawa
WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957) Dir; Ingmar Bergman
THE BROTHERS RICO (1957) Dir; Phil Karlson
BAM Cinematek
TOUCH OF EVIL (1957) Dir; Orson Welles
Anthology Film Archives
THE CONVERSATION (1974) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) Dir; Irving Lerner
Bowtie Chelsea Cinemas
THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS (1970) Dir; Arthur Hiller
Nitehawk Cinema
VICE SQUAD (1982) Dir; Gary Sherman
Today's Pick? I'm going to painfully turn down two masterpieces of the cinema of paranoia, Welles' TOUCH and Coppola's CONVERSATION, for a character who thrives on causing said jittery suspicion. Kurosawa's YOJIMBO, the maestro's transposing of Dashiell Hammett's RED HARVEST to feudal Japan, features the great Toshiro Mifune as the iconic title character, a masterless samurai who employs his wiles to cause confusion among two warring clans for his own profit. Need I say he ultimately employs his sword for the final TCB? I heart AK tremendously.
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-Joe Walsh
