September 17th 2013. Pick Of The Day.
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Selections for the cinematically obsessed in our fair metropolis include melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's last collaboration with leading man Rock Hudson, a battle of wills between Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, and a classic example of Japanese Yakuza crime cinema.
Ongoing series today include MoMA's Auteurist History of Film Reprise and Anthology Film Archives' John Zorn Selects. The list as follows;
Film Forum
CONTEMPT (1963) Dir; Jean-Luc Godard
MoMA
THE TARNISHED ANGELS (1958) Dir; Douglas Sirk
SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959) Dir; Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Anthology Film Archives
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) Dir; Irving Lerner
PALE FLOWER (1964) Masahiro Shinoda
Today's Pick? Well, I've recently chosen the Mankiewicz and the Sirk, I've never seen the Lerner and it takes a mighty cold day in Hell for me to choose Godard. So I'll go with Masahiro Shinoda's PALE FLOWER at Anthology Film Archives, if for no other reasons than it's a significant work of postwar Japanese cinema, I don't feature enough foreign films, and it's about hookers, killers and gambling. I believe I've made my case?
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-Joe Walsh
